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

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I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.

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The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

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How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.

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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.

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To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.

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Torbjörn Tännsjö

Born: December 13, 1946 (age 78)

Bio: Torbjörn Tännsjö is a Swedish professor of philosophy and public intellectual. He has held a chair in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University since 2002 and he is Affiliated Professor of Medical Ethics at Karolinska Institute.

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