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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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