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

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

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

Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives) and blameless wrongdoing (such as when you don't push a big man onto the tracks in order to save five lives), then utilitarianism all of a sudden appears to give the right answers.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

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.