Quotes from 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 with them unless we resort to global governance.

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

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.