negative utilitarian

— Although, along with many so-called negative utilitarians, his emphasis is on reducing pain, rather than increasing pleasure.

— Notice, however, that a single-minded emphasis on eliminating pain would seem to imply that hunting a population of sentient creatures to extinction would be a good thing, because this would prevent an infinite amount of pain. Although the hedonistic utilitarian principle as usually formulated involves potentially inconsistent goals (minimize pain and maximize pleasure), it is thus far preferable to a negative utilitarian principle of simply minimizing pain.