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Magnus Vinding
“... wild animals suffer from a wide range of harms regardless of their reproductive strategies, including hunger, disease, parasitism, and natural disasters. These harms often cause intense suffering, and we should not disregard this suffering merely because the sufferers happen to live in the wild, or because they happen to have non-human bodies. We rightly acknowledge a moral duty to relieve intense suffering experienced by humans, including when it is due to natural causes, and there is no justification for restricting this moral duty to humans only ... .”
Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics

Magnus Vinding
“... this is, I believe, the great blindspot of most vegans: the absence of a perpetrator leads them to neglect the suffering of the majority of the beings they claim to care about.”
Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

Magnus Vinding
“The challenge of reducing suffering for all sentient beings can admittedly feel overwhelming. But the truth is that we can take real, incremental steps toward betterment and toward reducing the risk of worst-case outcomes. Our task is to ensure that we take the right such steps.”
Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics

Magnus Vinding
“The anthropocentrism of most political philosophy is, to put it mildly, a massive failure.”
Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics

Magnus Vinding
“Perhaps one of the best things we can do to entrench better values in our institutions and in society at large is to promote sentiocracy — working to gradually increase the concern for and representation of non-human beings in the political process, and thus to make sentiocracy the future of democracy.”
Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics

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