We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us to transcend our own narrow cultural horizon.

The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers.

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

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.

I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while.

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

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.