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

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

I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.

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

I am a left winger, thought.

I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.