Democracy Is A Universal Value

It Seems To Me To Be Kind Of Inescapable That One Has To Be Interested In The Issue Of Gender And Gender Equality. I Don’t Really Expect Any Credit For Going In That Direction. It’s The Only Natural Direction To Go In. Why Is It That Some People Don’t See That As So Patently Obvious As It Should Be?

I Remain Instinctively Hostile To Communitarian Philosophy And Communitarian Politics.

If The Knowledge Of Torture Of Others Makes You Sick, It Is A Case Of Sympathy... It Can Be Argued That Behaviour Based On Sympathy Is In An Important Sense Egoistic, For One Is Oneself Pleased At Others' Pleasure And Pained At Others' Pain, And The Pursuit Of One's Own Utility May Thus Be Helped By Sympathetic Action.

A Society Can Be Pareto Optimal And Still Perfectly Disgusting.

Across The World, In Africa, Asia, Latin America, Everywhere, There Is A Widespread Recognition On The Part Of The Parents, Too, That The Children's Life Will Go Much Better By Being Educated. And That Applies To Girls As Well As Boys.