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

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.

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

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.

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.

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