You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
There comes a time where next to everyone will resort to techniques that enhance cognitive, mental including emotive, physical, and other capacities.… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
