Protect animals from fear and distress
Manage handling, housing, transport, and environments to reduce avoidable fear and distress.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease
Prevent suffering and provide timely veterinary care, treatment, or humane relief.
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
- 2/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 4/41
- Represented systems
- 6/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/6
3.8%
9.8%
6.5%
16.7%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Prevent suffering and provide timely veterinary care, treatment, or humane relief.
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 6.4 · recomputed 6.4516
Evidence, mapping by mapping
6 selected mappings
Earth Charter Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Earth Charter principles of respect, ecological integrity, justice, democracy, nonviolence, and peace
Open original source ↗ earthcharter.org
Official framework-level anchor · Global ecological and social ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify the exact principle or article, affected community, legal status, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10259. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Humanists International - Modern Humanism · Official framework-level anchor
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Amsterdam Declaration 2022 / Declaration of Modern Humanism
Open original source ↗ humanists.international
Official framework-level anchor · Modern nonreligious ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact wording, institutional status, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10260. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Maimonidean 613 Mitzvot Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvot and Mishneh Torah, with Torah source texts
Open original source ↗ www.chabad.org
Official framework-level anchor · Abrahamic / Jewish
Jewish commandments may be ritual, civil, agricultural, Temple-specific, group-specific, or universally ethical; mapping does not erase those distinctions.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10261. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Red Cross and Red Crescent Humanitarian Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Seven Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Open original source ↗ www.icrc.org
Official framework-level anchor · International humanitarian ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact article, doctrinal context, historical setting, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10262. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Soto Zen Buddhist Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Soto Zen official precept and practice framework
Open original source ↗ www.sotozen.com
Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Verify the exact translation, ritual context, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10263. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
World Organisation for Animal Health Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
WOAH Five Freedoms: freedom from pain, injury, and disease
Open original source ↗ www.woah.org
Specific primary/official anchor · International animal-welfare ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact article, section, context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10264. 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.
Use humane methods when animals are killed
Minimize fear, pain, and distress through competent, appropriate, and regulated methods.
Allow normal patterns of animal behavior
Provide sufficient space, social conditions, and environments for species-appropriate behavior.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 487 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 420 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 286 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 38 |
| Religions Sharing | 2 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 3.8 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 4 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 9.8 |
| All Systems Sharing | 6 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 6.4 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 16.7 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 38.8 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | -6 |
Specialized or emerging teaching