--- title: "13 Ifs Quotes By Torbjorn Tannsjo" description: "13 Ifs quotes by Torbjorn Tannsjo. Plus more from Torbjorn Tannsjo and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_conflict_if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutual_3078831.jpg" --- > [If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutually-inconsistent-then-at-least/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_conflict_if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutual_3078831.jpg) > [I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-wanted-to-know-what-it-means-to-know-something-whether-we-can-know/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/035/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_ifs_i-wanted-to-know-what-it-means-to-know-s_2903484.jpg) > [We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/we-can-be-certain-that-if-there-are-conflicting-views-in-different/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_certain_we-can-be-certain-that-if-there-are-conf_870432.jpg) > [Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/utilitarianism-condones-killing-of-innocent-human-beings-even-murder/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8b/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_better-place_utilitarianism-condones-killing-of-innoc_1659907.jpg) > [You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/you-are-only-allowed-to-treat-the-content-of-your-intuition-as/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_cases_you-are-only-allowed-to-treat-the-conten_2390122.jpg) > [I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-have-now-come-to-the-conclusion-roughly-that-capital-punishment-is/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_becoming_i-have-now-come-to-the-conclusion-roughl_1898496.jpg) > [It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/it-is-of-note-that-even-if-utilitarianism-has-proved-to-be-superior/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_areas_it-is-of-note-that-even-if-utilitarianis_1336605.jpg) > [There comes a time where next to everyone will resort to techniques that enhance cognitive, mental including emotive, physical, and other capacities.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/there-comes-a-time-where-next-to-everyone-will-resort-to-techniques/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c19/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_bans_there-comes-a-time-where-next-to-everyon_707136.jpg) > [It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/it-is-hard-to-tell-if-capital-punishment-has-such-an-effect-and-even/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_capital-punishment_it-is-hard-to-tell-if-capital-punishment_3016583.jpg) > [We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/we-own-ourselves-this-is-the-core-of-a-libertarian-theory-of-rights/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_consequence_we-own-ourselves-this-is-the-core-of-a-l_1016240.jpg) > [I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-was-conscripted-to-military-service-and-my-gut-feeling-was-to/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_feelings_i-was-conscripted-to-military-service-an_1839677.jpg) > [It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/it-is-true-independently-of-our-conceptualisation-that-it-is-wrong-to/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/490/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_accepting_it-is-true-independently-of-our-conceptu_3141031.jpg) > [My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/my-conjecture-is-that-most-people-will-refuse-to-let-go-even-when/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c8/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_better-world_my-conjecture-is-that-most-people-will-r_3117600.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Torbjorn Tannsjo > [Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/being-a-moral-realist-i-see-normative-ethics-as-a-search-of-the-truth/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-do-believe-that-what-i-have-called-populist-democracy-is-to-be/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/it-is-true-that-it-feels-very-differently-to-enjoy-a-good-meal-taking/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/it-is-obvious-that-humanity-faces-existential-threats-of-a-global/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/to-kill-or-not-to-kill-that-was-the-question-that-haunted-me/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/are-there-any-good-arguments-in-defence-of-moral-nihilism-i-think-not/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/according-to-deontology-it-is-wrong-to-kill-an-innocent-human-being/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/how-could-it-be-that-i-had-a-legal-obligation-to-kill-people-i-did/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-want-to-think-that-there-are-better-ways-of-obviating-murder-than/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/even-where-people-in-different-cultures-agree-they-may-all-have-gone/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/the-chinese-are-generally-speaking-much-more-reluctant-than/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-am-indeed-a-hedonistic-utilitarian-i-have-defended-hedonistic/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/what-we-need-is-legislation-not-negotiation-for-the-entire-globe/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [There comes a time where next to everyone will resort to techniques that enhance cognitive, mental including emotive, physical, and other capacities. When this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/there-comes-a-time-where-next-to-everyone-will-resort-to-techniques/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) > [I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-believe-that-one-basic-question-what-we-ought-to-do-period-the/) [Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/torbjorn-tannsjo/#itemlist", "name": "13 Ifs Quotes By Torbjorn Tannsjo", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutually-inconsistent-then-at-least/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_conflict_if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutual_3078831.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_conflict_if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutual_3078831.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_conflict_if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutual_3078831.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.” — Torbjorn Tannsjo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-wanted-to-know-what-it-means-to-know-something-whether-we-can-know/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/035/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_ifs_i-wanted-to-know-what-it-means-to-know-s_2903484.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/035/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_ifs_i-wanted-to-know-what-it-means-to-know-s_2903484.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/035/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_ifs_i-wanted-to-know-what-it-means-to-know-s_2903484.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.” — Torbjorn Tannsjo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. 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When this has happened, if not before, the ban on doping in sport will have been lifted.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/there-comes-a-time-where-next-to-everyone-will-resort-to-techniques/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c19/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_bans_there-comes-a-time-where-next-to-everyon_707136.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c19/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_bans_there-comes-a-time-where-next-to-everyon_707136.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c19/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_bans_there-comes-a-time-where-next-to-everyon_707136.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There comes a time where next to everyone will resort to techniques that enhance cognitive, mental including…” — Torbjorn Tannsjo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/it-is-hard-to-tell-if-capital-punishment-has-such-an-effect-and-even/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_capital-punishment_it-is-hard-to-tell-if-capital-punishment_3016583.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_capital-punishment_it-is-hard-to-tell-if-capital-punishment_3016583.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_capital-punishment_it-is-hard-to-tell-if-capital-punishment_3016583.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. 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But on this theory, while we are at liberty to kill ourselves (regardless of the consequences of others), we are not allowed to kill others, not even if this means that there we be fewer murders in the future, totally speaking.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/we-own-ourselves-this-is-the-core-of-a-libertarian-theory-of-rights/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_consequence_we-own-ourselves-this-is-the-core-of-a-l_1016240.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_consequence_we-own-ourselves-this-is-the-core-of-a-l_1016240.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_consequence_we-own-ourselves-this-is-the-core-of-a-l_1016240.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. 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This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/i-was-conscripted-to-military-service-and-my-gut-feeling-was-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_feelings_i-was-conscripted-to-military-service-an_1839677.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_feelings_i-was-conscripted-to-military-service-an_1839677.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_feelings_i-was-conscripted-to-military-service-an_1839677.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. 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We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/it-is-true-independently-of-our-conceptualisation-that-it-is-wrong-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/490/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_accepting_it-is-true-independently-of-our-conceptu_3141031.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/490/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_accepting_it-is-true-independently-of-our-conceptu_3141031.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/490/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_accepting_it-is-true-independently-of-our-conceptu_3141031.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature…” — Torbjorn Tannsjo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). 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Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Torbjorn Tannsjo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/my-conjecture-is-that-most-people-will-refuse-to-let-go-even-when/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c8/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_better-world_my-conjecture-is-that-most-people-will-r_3117600.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c8/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_better-world_my-conjecture-is-that-most-people-will-r_3117600.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c8/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_better-world_my-conjecture-is-that-most-people-will-r_3117600.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least…” — Torbjorn Tannsjo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/torbjorn-tannsjo/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/torbjorn-tannsjo/", "name": "Ifs Quotes by Torbjorn Tannsjo", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/torbjorn-tannsjo/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/torbjorn-tannsjo-12405_conflict_if-two-norms-conflict-if-they-are-mutual_3078831.jpg" }, "description": "13 Ifs quotes by Torbjorn Tannsjo. 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