I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

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

We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty to kill ourselves (regardless of the consequences of others), we are not allowed to kill others, not even if this means that there we be fewer murders in the future, totally speaking.

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.

Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.

It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in the area of killing, we are not allowed to say that it has been finally vindicated; it has to face other challenges in other areas, in particular in situations of distributive justice.