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New Mon 19 Dec 11 12:33

Check your morality - Crankcase

As if it were possible. However, the quiz is quite interesting, but wordy.

58% for me.

www.philosophyexperiments.com/moralityplay/Default.aspx

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 12:48

Check your morality - Roger.

.........and me - surprisingly.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:12

Check your morality - madf

62%..

Underwhelmed by the questions. Life is rarely so black and white..

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:09

Check your morality - -

58% here too.

Some quite ludicrous questions there, and some that should have been posed to certain recent and current PM's.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:13

Check your morality - madf

>> 58% here too.
>>
>> Some quite ludicrous questions there, and some that should have been posed to certain recent
>> and current PM's.

Ah but if you are doing God's will anything is acceptable and right...

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:14

Check your morality - Roger.

I was hoping to score: no morality!

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:17

Check your morality - Zero

>> I was hoping to score: no morality!

Were that the case I would be morally obliged to kill you to save 10 others.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 15:29

Check your morality - zippy

>>>I was hoping to score: no morality!

Very funny. I think many of us have that jovially wicked side to us and it comes out on a night out with the lads.

70% here.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:16

Check your morality - Zero

58% here too,

This smells fishy.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:19

Check your morality - CGNorwich

58% too. Is it immoral to fix quizzes?

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:22

Check your morality - Focusless

Ha!

'Your Moral Parsimony Score is 73%'

Kiss my halo.

Although 'any score above 75% should be considered indicative of a parsimonious moral framework'.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:23

Check your morality - Bagpuss

41%. Don't understand the explanation at the end about moral parsimony.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:26

Check your morality - Number_Cruncher

75%

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:29

Check your morality - John H

You need to read the questions carefully and answer logically, with the mind of a forensic QC.

Follow the links at the end of each page, and you will get a fuller explanation and comparison of your answers to others. You will also discover whether you got asked about India or Australia in one of your questions.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:37

Check your morality - madf

Anyone over 70% kills 10 babies to save 100 and then forgets about the "saving" bit...

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 13:51

Check your morality - Duncan

66%

Stupid questions, many of them reworded repetitions.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 14:02

Check your morality - CGNorwich

Is there any such thing as morality? If you are of non religious disposition who tell you what is moral?

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 16:23

Check your morality - Crankcase

Funnily enough, CG, you've asked the question that is addressed in the article from which I culled the link to the quiz.

You might find it interesting. I did anyway.

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/good-minus-god/

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 17:08

Check your morality - CGNorwich

Interesting but he doesn't address the fundamental question. Is there such a thing as absolute morality and where does it come form if you don't believe in a god.

He makes the statement:

"judgments that seem to me to be obviously true:

It is wrong to drive people from their homes or to kill them because you want their land.

• It is wrong to enslave people.

• It is wrong to torture prisoners of war.

• Anyone who witnesses genocide, or enslavement, or torture, is morally required
to try to stop it."

Well they might seem to be obviously true to him but there are plenty of people around today who would make an argument justifying any of them and historically plenty of people saw nothing wrong or immoral in enslaving others or torture.

I suggest our inbuilt "morality" is no more than enlightened long-term self interest. It is not good to live in society where you are free to kill and rob simply because others will do the same to you. There is no absolute morality. It is just a set of rules that we choose to live by for our own self interest and those rules change from year to year and century to century

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 21:16

Check your morality - Crankcase

Well, now you've baffled me entirely CG, because I would have said she did indeed address exactly those points, but it's too late for me to check it again tonight, so I'll re-read it tomorrow. Perhaps I misunderstood what she was saying.

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New Tue 20 Dec 11 00:24

Check your morality - Dutchie

Thats how we used to live free to kill.And people still do it is called war and often with a God blessing.We are close to a primate no matter how we cover it up.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 14:03

Check your morality - John H

>> Stupid questions,

Not so. Designed to make you think what you think is moral or immoral to your way of thinking. There is no "correct" answer, the questions just test your belief and then tell you where you stand compared to others who have done the test. The final page compares your answers to each question to others and also gives a breakdown in terms of male/female responses.

>> many of them reworded repetitions.

as they said so before the the test, that is by design. You would have found the reasoning if you followed through the links at the bottom of each page for the analysis of the questions and your answers.

Some people will think it is moral to save 10 babies even if it means other 100 babies die, other will think it is moral to save 100 babies if to do so means you have to kill 10 other babies.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 14:08

Check your morality - Focusless

Instructions also say your answers needn't reflect what you would actually do in any of the proposed scenarios.

EDIT: 'You should respond with what you think is the morally right thing to do, which may not be the same as what you would actually do'

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 14:11

Check your morality - movilogo

Started but lost interest when 3 questions were repeated.

On a different note, is it moral for publishers to charge more for ebooks than printed books? Mind that your e-purchase is license to read and you can't re-sell your ebook.

Last edited by: movilogo on Mon 19 Dec 11 at 14:13

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 14:23

Check your morality - devonite

cant get past Q8!!! the submit button has stopped working!! - its immoral!!

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 14:23

Check your morality - Dog

I started it but it siezed up on question 12 and I ain't blimming doing it again!

:)

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 14:26

Check your morality - rtj70

I tried selecting all of the first answers.... 62% (yes basically). Then did it again for all the last answers (no's basically) and got 91%.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 15:05

Check your morality - Duncan

> You would have
>> found the reasoning if you followed through the links at the bottom of each page
>> for the analysis of the questions and your answers.
>>

I simply couldn't be bothered.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 15:17

Check your morality - madf

Most normal questionnaires give the instructions BEFORE the questions...

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 15:25

Check your morality - Cliff Pope

54%

To me there is a fundamental difference between a general moral obligation, say to humanity, and a personal moral obligation. I am answerable only to myself - I'm not much bothered about what the rest of the world would think.
I don't think the questionaire makes this distinction, so I find many of the questions unanswerable.

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 16:03

Check your morality - Iffy

75%

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 16:56

Check your morality - Mike Hannon

If we're talking morality - I wonder how many people will do this quiz while actually being paid to do something else?

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New Mon 19 Dec 11 17:01

Check your morality - madf

>> If we're talking morality - I wonder how many people will do this quiz while
>> actually being paid to do something else?
>>

Other people pay me to do nothing.. so I guess I'm guilty..

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