Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense hes a universalist. – Peter Singer
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. – Peter Singer
I dont think nationalism is alone holding the field its in contention with a lot of different things. – Peter Singer
I honestly dont know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it. – Peter Singer
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. – Eliot Spitzer