"The point of the term “suffering-focused ethics” is ... not to be a novel or impressive contribution to ethical theor…"

"If humanity is to minimize suffering in the future, it must engage with the world, not opt out of it."

"[C]onsider the practical implications of the following two moral principles: 1) we will not allow the creation of a s…"

"Being forced to endure torture rather than dreamless sleep, or an otherwise neutral state, would be a tragedy of a fu…"

"The bias against small beings seems closely related to another bias we have, namely the bias to believe what is most …"

"... we rarely think from first principles, even first principles we ourselves sincerely endorse, but rather from sent…"

"We should give equal priority to equal interests in general, and to equal suffering in particular. Indeed, it is the …"

"... this is, I believe, the great blindspot of most vegans: the absence of a perpetrator leads them to neglect the su…"

"There is, to be sure, a risk that interventions to help wild animals will end up making things worse, which highlight…"

"... wild animals suffer from a wide range of harms regardless of their reproductive strategies, including hunger, dis…"