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

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.

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

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

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

The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world, will suffer the same fate as the Swedish monarchy did before. The democracy is beeing emptied of all power political content at the same time as the forms remain, treated with reverence and preservasion.

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