To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.

Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong.

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.

To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.

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.

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.