jay: (data-gathering)
jay ([personal profile] jay) wrote2003-06-23 09:38 am

frozen chicken, mmm

This is an amusing philosophical game, better than most of its online companions... my results:

Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.04. (mean = 0.30)
[more permissive than average]
Your Interference Factor is: 0.00. (mean = 0.18)
[less likely to recommend societal interference in matters of moral wrongdoing]
Your Universalising Factor is: 0.00 (mean = 0.46)
[less likely than average to see moral wrongdoing in universal terms]

But I'm not a utilitarian, really... (chuckle)

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yet another way in which we are similar. I came up with the same results.

I had to object slightly to the guy about the deathbed promise, but not for any of the reasons that the put forth. I think it was, in fact, wrong for him to promise something like that in the first place, and I'd be concerned about what it meant about his ability to keep his word in a general sense. But having promised that and failed to live up to it, well, who really cares, anyway? If it were a promise to someone LIVING, I'd just say it was grounds for renegotiation of the agreement. She's not around to do that, so there we are.

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Which results seem to place us slightly toward the "moralizing" end, relative to some of friends, even if we're far to the left compared to their broad averages.

Likewise, the deathbed promise bothered me... it was an agreement, after all. And the older girl pushing off the younger one *and hurting him* ... the other scenarioes seemed pretty harmless to me.

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed about the kid pushing the other. Yep, that's wrong. Should there be some societal consequence for that behavior? No, not really. But there should be some PERSONAL consequence. I mean, if my kid did that, I'd be all over her in a hot second to go apologize at least.

And I agree with the question posted downthread--what does "-1" mean?

[identity profile] cathouse-blues.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Results

Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.38.

Your Interference Factor is: 0.25.

Your Universalising Factor is: 0.50.

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting... certainly a broad philosophical difference between us, although you're pretty close to the broad averages in all of those areas.

[identity profile] x-mass.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
i got here by reading a friends friend page

I've just posted this on my LJ

Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.00.

Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.

Your Universalising Factor is: -1.

Personally I think of myself as highly moral for example I think torture is wrong any culture - they just used examples which were consensual and were not about removing power and control from another living creature

I wonder what the result would be for a test with a LJ grouping

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
One can be morally permissive without being *amoral*... I think that one can be highly moral, yet generally permissive of others' judgements and decisions.
rosefox: Me with raised eyebrow, skeptical and mischievous. (wiseass)

[personal profile] rosefox 2003-06-23 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
0.00, 0.00, -1. Big surprise there.

[identity profile] patgreene.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Me, too.

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You didn't have a problem with the older child shoving out the younger one? Interesting. I wonder what the -1 means, instead of a zero there...
rosefox: Green books on library shelves. (Default)

[personal profile] rosefox 2003-06-23 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I did. I didn't have a problem with anything else, though.
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[personal profile] geekchick 2003-06-24 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Your Universalising Factor of -1 compares to an average Universalising Factor of 0.34. Your score of -1 indicates that you saw no moral wrong in any of the activities depicted in these scenarios, which means that it is not possible for this activity to determine the extent to which you see moral wrongdoing in universal terms (i.e., without regard to prevailing cultural norms and social conventions)."

[identity profile] wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com 2003-06-23 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
My scores exactly.

Incidentally, this didn't show up on my friends page. LJ's acting up again.
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[personal profile] geekchick 2003-06-24 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.00.
Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.
Your Universalising Factor is: -1.