What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.

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

I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

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.

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

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

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.