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• People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA.

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  Thinking, Russia, Usa

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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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• 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 even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in the area of killing, we are not allowed to say that it has been finally vindicated; it has to face other challenges in other areas, in particular in situations of distributive justice.

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  Rights, Justice, Challenges

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• There comes a time where next to everyone will resort to techniques that enhance cognitive, mental including emotive, physical, and other capacities. When this has happened, if not before, the ban on doping in sport will have been lifted.

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  Sports, Next, Technique

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• The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.

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  Reality, Temptation, May

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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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• You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it to cognitive psychotherapy; in some cases you have to reject it even if it does indeed stay.

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  Intuition, Doe, Treats

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• You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

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  Psychological, Reactions, Should

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• I am indeed a moral realist.

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  Moral, Realist

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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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• It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve it, I haven't promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.

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  Strong, Pain, Thinking

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• Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

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  Nihilism, Moral

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• We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

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  Strong, Nihilism, Moral

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• Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

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  Thinking, Nihilism, Moral

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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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