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The implication of painism is that political policies should extend to individuals of all nations, races, and species on an 'equal pain equal treatment' basis.

— Richard D. Ryder Putting Morality Back Into Politics (2006)

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Our first moral concern should always be with the individual who is the maximum sufferer.

Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

It is always wrong to cause pain to A merely in order to increase the pleasure of B.

Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

Their experiences may be more simple than ours, but are they less intense? Perhaps a caterpillar’s primitive pain when squashed is greater than our more sophisticated sufferings.

Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

We have an obligation to try to reduce the pains of others, wherever they are, and however the pains have been caused.

Painism: A Modern Morality (2001)

We all, thank goodness, feel a natural spark of sympathy for the sufferings of others. We need to catch that spark and fan it into a fire of rational and universal compassion.

All beings that feel pain deserve human rights (2005)

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