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• I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

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  Believe, Independent, Answers

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• I am indeed a moral realist.

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  Moral, Realist

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• Actually, I defend the right to free abortion.

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  Abortion

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• How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.

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  Father, Philosophy, Doctors

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• The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

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  Independence, Democracy, Action

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• I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.

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  Military, Practice, People

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• I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.

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  Mean, Wanted, Knows

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• The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers.

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  People, Answers, Explanation

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• I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

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  Thinking, Punishment, May

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• When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Teens, Late

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• My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.

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  Letting Go, Block, Race

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• It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

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  Thinking, Democracy, Obvious

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• Global governance need not take a democratic form.

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  Needs, Form, Democratic

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• I am a left winger, thought.

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  Left Wing, Left

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• I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

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  Believe, Democracy, Elitist

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• In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

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  Country, Party, Political Opinions

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• Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong.

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  People, May, Different

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• We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us to transcend our own narrow cultural horizon.

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  Views, May, Different

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• It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Long, Nihilism

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• I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

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  May, Trends, Today

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• Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

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  Ideas, Principles, Ethics

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• I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

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  Giving, Support, Advice

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• Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.

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  Different, Tests, Possibility

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• According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.

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  Innocent, Periods, Humans

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• We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty to kill ourselves (regardless of the consequences of others), we are not allowed to kill others, not even if this means that there we be fewer murders in the future, totally speaking.

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  Mean, Rights, Liberty

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