According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.

The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.

Global governance need not take a democratic form.

According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

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

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.