… 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 accepta… - Richard D. Ryder

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

Just as nobody pursues happiness in order to find anything other than happiness, so nobody strives to reduce pain to reduce anything other than pain. Pain is always at the end of the track: it is the ultimate and essential badness. 'Painful' and 'bad' are synonymous in the mind of the child and, at a basic level, in all our minds.

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.