What we should be concerned about is the happiness of indiv… - Richard D. Ryder

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What we should be concerned about is the happiness of individuals. Applying rights may be a rough and ready rule of thumb for doing this, but painism would be a far more accurate approach. It might require more detailed research into the consequences of policies on individuals but that, in principle, could be done. Indeed, to base public policy upon scientific findings would be a considerable step forward.

Richard D. Ryder

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Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder (born 1940) is a British writer, psychologist, and animal rights advocate.

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Alternative Names: Richard Ryder • Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder • Richard Dudley Ryder • Dr. Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder

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… it is less imperatively my duty to give pleasure than it is to alleviate pain. If someone else is not actually suffering then it seems more acceptable to leave to them … the provision of their own pleasures.

Idealism itself can become dangerous. But going too far in the other direction, towards relativism, amoral expediency and opportunism, is equally perilous.

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.

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