How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.

In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

I am a left winger, thought.

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

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

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.