The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers.

I am a left winger, thought.

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

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

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 have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on murder. In that case, a few executions save not only some people from being murdered but also some people from becoming murders.

Global governance need not take a democratic form.