I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

I am indeed a moral realist.

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

People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA.

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

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

We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty to kill ourselves (regardless of the consequences of others), we are not allowed to kill others, not even if this means that there we be fewer murders in the future, totally speaking.