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.

Global governance need not take a democratic form.

You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it to cognitive psychotherapy; in some cases you have to reject it even if it does indeed stay.

I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.

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

There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.