blacktrance

rich countries are very rarely militarily aggressive

Is the US a counterexample?

I'm partial to My Beautiful Bubble, it resonates with me on a personal level.

Edit: Although the most awesome single quote comes from Statistics is Not Right-Wing, But It is Elitist -

If we took the message of Super Crunchers to heart, we would lose our respect for the common man and the politicians who pander to him. Of course, if you are as elitist as I am, this is not a bug of Super Crunching, but a feature: As I told my lazy 12th-grade English teacher, "I'll give you all the respect you deserve."

You've written that you're a moral intuitionist. Given that people have different intuitions, doesn't this collapse into relativism? If you have libertarian intuitions and someone else doesn't, what can you say to convince him if he bites the bullet and says that beating people up is acceptable if it's done to (for example) reduce inequality?

In "The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason" you write, "[N]ormative reasons are independent of our present desires, wants, and beliefs... We can have normative reasons for action, irrespective of whether we like them, agree with them, or desire to act in accordance with them." How do you ground normative reasons, if not as ultimately following from the agent's desires?