Richard D. Ryder

Also known as Richard Ryder, Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder, Richard Dudley Ryder, Dr. Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder

British psychologist and animal rights advocate

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“Consciousness is of paramount importance to all of us. By definition it is the universe of our awareness. On the assumption that many other species are conscious or sentient I have suggested that our morality is based upon a concern for all sentients-which I have called sentientism, although I could equally have called it consciousism (but that is even more horrible as a word!). Pain and pleasure are the two great poles of consciousness, between which all sentients swing ... .”
“Our first moral concern should always be with the individual who is the maximum sufferer.”
“It is always wrong to cause pain to A merely in order to increase the pleasure of B.”
“… 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 acceptable to leave to them … the provision of their own pleasures.”
“Their experiences may be more simple than ours, but are they less intense? Perhaps a caterpillar’s primitive pain when squashed is greater than our more sophisticated sufferings.”
“Perhaps there is too much talk of justice, equality and liberty in political philosophy, and not enough about suffering. It is suffering that matters morally …”

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