It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.

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.

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

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

I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while.

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

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