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

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

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

The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world, will suffer the same fate as the Swedish monarchy did before. The democracy is beeing emptied of all power political content at the same time as the forms remain, treated with reverence and preservasion.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.