In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place.

The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.