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

The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.

I am a left winger, thought.

Global governance need not take a democratic form.

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

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.

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.