1. Nagel believes (on page 233), "the application of the death penalty or the possession by the military of nuclear weapons cannot be left to the private conscience of each individual citizen: the state must decide" for the reason that "these issues are poor candidates for liberal toleration because they are not matters of individual conduct". How about abortion or abortion law, is this also a poor candidate for liberal toleration? Does the state have to regulate this field?
2. Nagel claims (page 236), "the appeal to truth in political argument requires an objective distinction between belief and truth that can be applied or at least understood from the public standpoint appropriate to the argument in question. Disagreements over the truth must be interpreted as resulting from differences of judgment in the exercise of a common reason." What happens if we apply his idea to the one-child policy in China - can the policy be justified?