Suffering in detail
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First lets find out what suffering even is. Suffering is different from pain. Suffering is a bad experience you actively want to avoid. Pain tho is just physical. For example if people enjoy the pain of getting a tatoo or if people go to the gym and endure the pain then it is not suffering but pain leading to a subjective greater good. Everyone suffers but some suffer more than others. Most of you reading this are obviously in an extremely privileged position. But 99.99 percent of sentient beings have to go through extreme suffering and thats what the pro - extinction social justice movement mainly focusses on. Extreme Suffering experienced by the huge majority of all individuals.
On this page we will show different forms of this extreme suffering in detail.
Lets start with the biggest group of victims:
Wild animals
Nature is undenieably brutal. There are so many ways wild animals suffer extremely:
Starvation
Wild animals starve because food is unpredictable and competition, injury, or harsh conditions can prevent them from getting enough to eat.
Predation
Predation causes extreme suffering for prey, but it’s an inevitable part of how animals survive in the wild. The basic design of nature is built on Suffering.
Diseases and injuries
Wild animals suffer from diseases and injuries because illness, parasites, accidents, and environmental pressures are natural parts of ecosystems, and unlike humans they have no access to healthcare to treat or prevent these conditions.
Harsh weather conditions
Harsh weather conditions such as extreme cold, heatwaves, wildfires, or storms can cause animals to freeze to death, burn, or suffer from exposure without any shelter or care.
Farm Animals
Farmed Animals suffer by the enslavement and exploitation of Humans.
Forced breeding and separation of offspring
Animals are impregnated through forced insemination and newborns are taken away from their mothers shortly after birth, causing extreme stress and distress behaviors.
Confinement
Many animals are kept in cramped cages, stalls, or crowded sheds where they cannot turn around freely
Mutilations
Procedures such as castration, tail docking, beak trimming, and dehorning are routinely carried out, often without proper anesthesia.
Harsh transport conditions
Animals are packed tightly into trucks and transported for long hours or days, often without sufficient food, water, or rest, leading to exhaustion, injury, and sometimes death.
Murder
Animals are restrained, often poorly stunned or not fully rendered unconscious, and then killed by cutting their throat in fast industrial lines, causing intense fear, panic, and suffering.
Humans
Humans are the smallest and most privileged group of sufferers. But still there are many ways of extreme suffering for at least some of them that are worth mentioning.
Sexual violence
People are subjected to sexual assault and abuse, often resulting in severe psychological trauma, fear, and long-term emotional damage. Estimates suggest that over 5000 children get raped per day.
War
Families are torn apart as people are killed, injured, or forced to flee, with loved ones screaming, grieving, and being separated, while survivors endure constant fear, loss, and trauma.
Natural disasters
Individuals can be trapped, injured, or buried, lose their homes and loved ones in moments, and are left in shock, fear, and desperation without basic necessities like shelter, water, or safety.
Starvation and malnutrition
People suffer from lack of access to proper nutrition, leading to hunger, weakness, and death, while others experience obesity and related diseases caused by poor diets, both resulting in serious physical and psychological harm.
Disease, chronic illness, and mental suffering
People endure conditions like cancer, leprosy, and other serious diseases, along with depression, anxiety, and trauma, leading to prolonged pain, isolation, and lasting psychological distress.
Even this overview represents only a small fraction of the total suffering that exists in the world, and no amount of happiness can outweigh the fact that even a single individual is forced to suffer. What is shown here also focuses mainly on land animals, while the number of fish alone reaches into the trillions every year, adding an even larger, often overlooked scale. In total, this means that among roughly twenty quintillion wild animals, over eighty billion farmed land animals each year, and eight billion humans, suffering exists on an immense and undeniable scale.
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