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.

You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

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

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

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.

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

I am a left winger, thought.