Practice responsible stewardship of nature
Protect land, water, air, habitats, and future generations.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Avoid cruelty to animals
Do not cause needless suffering to sentient creatures.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 20/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 16/41
- Represented systems
- 36/93
- Specific anchors*
- 0/36
38.5%
39.0%
38.7%
0.0%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Do not cause needless suffering to sentient creatures.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Overall %: source 38.3 · recomputed 38.7097
Evidence, mapping by mapping
1 selected mappings
Catholic Christianity · Tradition-level research anchor
Avoid cruelty to animals · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Catechism and official social teaching
Open original source ↗ www.vatican.va
Tradition-level research anchor · Abrahamic
Comparative analogue only; verify exact wording, translation, school, denomination, historical context, scope, and exceptions before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 7064. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Respect life broadly
Cultivate reverence for living beings.
Protect water and food sources
Preserve the purity and availability of basic necessities.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 183 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 119 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 20 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 20 |
| Religions Sharing | 20 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 38.5 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 16 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 39 |
| All Systems Sharing | 36 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 38.3 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 0 |
| Direct Evidence % | 0 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 98.7 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | -0.5 |
Moderately shared across both spheres