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

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

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

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

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

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

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

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.

There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

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

To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.

And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves