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

These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth.

According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.

I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

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

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

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.