3.When something is unnecessaryexcept for our trivial pleasure or convenienceandthat thing causes some being (for example, a nonhuman or human animal) to experience pain, fear or other kinds of suffering, thenthe harm being done to that being’s interest in their continued survival, freedoms, ...
In a 2004 account of a Midwestern surgical intensive care unit, anthropologist Joan Cassell found that physicians, male and female, tried to avoid thinking about their patients' personal stories. Not so the nurses. "The nurses always know the patients' stories: the accidents, tragedies, and sorr...