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Painism
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Animal rights
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Greg Avery
David Barbarash
Steven Best · Rod Coronado
Barry Horne · Ronnie Lee
Keith Mann
Ingrid Newkirk
Alex Pacheco
Robin Webb
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Animal Aid
Animal Liberation Front
BUAV
Great Ape Project
Justice Department
PETA · SPEAK
SHAC
Viva!
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Animal rights · Animal testing
Covance
Declaration on Great Apes
Factory farming · Fur farming
Huntingdon Life Sciences
Speciesism · Vivisection
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Steven Best
Jeremy Bentham
Stephen Clark · Tom Regan
Richard D. Ryder
Peter Singer
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Painism is a moral theorypopular with animal rightstheorists. It states that moral action should be based on reducing the painof individuals, and furthermore, that pain cannot be aggregated; that is, painism rejects utilitarianism. Painism also rejects evaluations of pain based on intelligence, rationality, or degrees of consciousness. The capacity to feel pain is regarded as the only morally relevant factor.
The term was first used by British psychologist Richard D. Ryder, who also coined the term speciesism.
See also
- Animal rights
- Speciesism
- Peter Singer
- Tom Regan
- Steven Best
- Richard D. Ryder
References
- Ryder, Richard D (2001): Painism: a modern morality. Centaur Press.
- Ryder, Richard D (1998): Painism in Ruth Chadwick (ed): Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Academic Press. 3, 415 - 418.
- "All beings that feel pain deserve human rights"by Richard Ryder, The Guardian, August 6, 2005
- "Painism", Animal Ethics Clarifier, Wolf Trust, retrieved August 7, 2005
Categories: Philosophy stubs| Ethics| Animal liberation movement
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It uses material from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painism Wikipedia article Painism.
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