"Whatever else our ethical commitments and specific constraints are, we can and should certainly all agree that, in principle, the overall amount of conscious suffering in all beings capable of conscious suffering should be minimized."
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Thomas Metzinger, Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (2003), p. 570
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