The Future Holds Hope for a World Without Suffering
The Future Holds Hope for a World Without Suffering
Welcome to the Compassionate Future Initiative.
We work to find compassionate and thoughtful interventions against the horrors of suffering in the near and distant future. We want to reduce the prevalence and risk of unbearable suffering for all sentient beings while fostering greater well-being and sustainable bliss.
To better understand suffering and well-being we explore the underlying conceptual, biological and psycho-social mechanisms of sentient experiences.
Our vision includes building a thriving community of suffering abolitionists and establish a productive and collaborative community-culture among goal-oriented people. We believe addressing the complex challenges of suffering requires diverse, resourceful, and ambitious groups working across various cause areas.
Through this website, we share insights into suffering cause areas and promising initiatives for people to get involved. We attend conferences to expand our networks and advocate for the most promising interventions, and organise online and in-person events to foster collaboration, networking and community growth.
Hopefully, together we will be able to apply thoughtful and effective problem-solving methodology and reduce suffering not just in the near but also distant future.
If you want to support this mission and are interested to see and learn more, follow us on Discord and the Effective Altruism Forum.
Further readings on why to care for suffering the most:
On the seriousness of suffering by Brian Tomasik (one of the most influential activist/writers in the broader community)
The veil of ignorance considerations by John Rawls
On the relevance of sentience and antispecisiem see Effective Altruism Foundation
or Animal Ethics
The Ethics of Wild Animal Suffering by Ole Martin Moen
General resource page on suffering-focused ethics
This page was first published on 04 Mar 2022.