[1] 'Suffering-focused ethics' is an umbrella term that includes different normative positions sharing the common feature of giving priority to the reduction of suffering.
According to suffering-focused deontological ethics, the moral duty to reduce suffering is particularly relevant.
However, on other views of this kind it will be that of the moral agent with the attitudes and dispositions of a caring suffering reducer.
One reason for this increase is that the term 'suffering-focused ethics' describes more accurately the commonalities between the wide range of different suffering-focused views that currently exist.
[8] Suffering-focused ethics can be differentiated in virtue of how much room they leave for promoting values that differ from the reduction of suffering.
Nevertheless, given that on suffering-focused ethics avoiding the creation of suffering has precedence over the promotion of happiness, these views can provide a very intuitive solution to this problem.
In contrast, a neutral absence of pleasure or any other proposed intrinsic value does not constitute an urgent problem that needs to be immediately "relieved".