The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.

I am indeed a moral realist.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

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

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

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

Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.