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you own an unoccupied property. you are contacted by a refugee group which desperately needs somewhere to house a person seeking asylum who is being unjustly persecuted in a foreign country. your anonymity is assured. you have every reason to believe that no harm will come to your property. are you morally obliged to allow them to use your property?

☐ strongly obliged
☐ weakly obliged
☐ not obliged

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■ not obliged
But I'd do it
You should probably just rephrase the question
I'm not morally obligated to do anything and it wouldn't affect my decisions

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hm? it's a morality test that i was making, and you're my helpful subject!

there's a few yes or no's, and 19 questions... we're on question 6/19.

a charity collection takes place in your office. for every 1000¥ given, a blind person's sight is restored. instead of donating 1000¥, you use the money to treat yourself to a cocktail after work. are you morally responsible for the continued blindness of the person who would have been treated had you made the donation?

☐ responsible
☐ partly responsible
☐ not responsible

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■ not responsible
I have a college fund
Can't I get all the questions all at once?

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someone you have never met needs a kidney transplant. you are one of the few people who can provide the kidney. would any moral obligation to provide the kidney be greater if this person were a cousin rather than a non-relative?
☐ yes
☐ no

you can save the lives of a thousand patients by cancelling one hundred operations that would have saved the lives of a hundred different patients. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
☐ no

are your moral obligations to people in your own country or community stronger than those to people in other countries and communities (assuming no unusual circumstances - for example, suffering because of famine - in either your own country/community or other countries/communities)?
☐ yes
☐ no

you deliberately sabotage a piece of machinery in your work place so that when someone next uses it there will be an accident which will result in that person losing the use of their legs. are you morally responsible for their injury?
☐ responsible
☐ partly responsible
☐ not responsible

you know the identity of someone who has committed a serious crime resulting in a person being badly injured. are you morally obliged to reveal their identity to an appropriate authority so that they are dealt with justly?
☐ strongly obliged
☐ weakly obliged
☐ not obliged

you can save the lives of ten innocent people by killing one other innocent person. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
☐ no

you see a charity advertisement in a newspaper about a person in severe need in Australia. there is no state welfare available to this person, but you can help them at little cost to yourself. you have good reason to believe that any help you offer will make a difference. are you morally obliged to help the person?
☐ strongly obliged
☐ weakly obliged
☐ not obliged

you are required to send a person a gift, and you have bought a bottle of drink to send to them. however, you discover it is poison and if consumed will cause blindness in the drinker. to replace it with a non-contaminated bottle will cost you 1000¥. you give the poisoned drink as a gift anyway. are you morally responsible for the blindness of the drinker?
☐ responsible
☐ partly responsible
☐ not responsible

a situation arises where you can either save your own child from death or contact the emergency services in order to save the lives of ten other children. you cannot do both, and there is no way to save everybody. which course of action are you morally obliged to follow?
☐ save your own child
☐ save ten other children

you can save the lives of ten patients by cancelling one operation which would have saved the life of a different patient. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
☐ no

you own an unoccupied property. you are contacted by a welfare organization which desperately needs somewhere to house a person from a nearby town who is being unjustly persecuted. your anonymity is assured. you have every reason to believe that no harm will come to your property. are you morally obliged to allow them to use your property?
☐ strongly obliged
☐ weakly obliged
☐ not obliged

you become aware that a piece of machinery in your workplace is faulty and that if it is not repaired then there will soon be an accident which will result in someone losing the use of their legs. despite knowing that nobody else is aware of the fault, you take no action. shortly afterwards, the accident occurs, and someone does lose the use of their legs. are you morally responsible for their injury?
☐ responsible
☐ partly responsible
☐ not responsible

you can save the lives of a million innocent people by killing a hundred thousand others. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
☐ no

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someone you have never met needs a kidney transplant. you are one of the few people who can provide the kidney. would any moral obligation to provide the kidney be greater if this person were a cousin rather than a non-relative?
☐ yes
■ no

you can save the lives of a thousand patients by cancelling one hundred operations that would have saved the lives of a hundred different patients. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
■ no

are your moral obligations to people in your own country or community stronger than those to people in other countries and communities (assuming no unusual circumstances - for example, suffering because of famine - in either your own country/community or other countries/communities)?
☐ yes
■ no

you deliberately sabotage a piece of machinery in your work place so that when someone next uses it there will be an accident which will result in that person losing the use of their legs. are you morally responsible for their injury?
☐ responsible
☐ partly responsible
■ not responsible

you know the identity of someone who has committed a serious crime resulting in a person being badly injured. are you morally obliged to reveal their identity to an appropriate authority so that they are dealt with justly?
☐ strongly obliged
☐ weakly obliged
■ not obliged

you can save the lives of ten innocent people by killing one other innocent person. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
■ no

you see a charity advertisement in a newspaper about a person in severe need in Australia. there is no state welfare available to this person, but you can help them at little cost to yourself. you have good reason to believe that any help you offer will make a difference. are you morally obliged to help the person?
☐ strongly obliged
☐ weakly obliged
■ not obliged

you are required to send a person a gift, and you have bought a bottle of drink to send to them. however, you discover it is poison and if consumed will cause blindness in the drinker. to replace it with a non-contaminated bottle will cost you 1000¥. you give the poisoned drink as a gift anyway. are you morally responsible for the blindness of the drinker?
☐ responsible
☐ partly responsible
■ not responsible

a situation arises where you can either save your own child from death or contact the emergency services in order to save the lives of ten other children. you cannot do both, and there is no way to save everybody. which course of action are you morally obliged to follow?
■ save your own child
☐ save ten other children

you can save the lives of ten patients by cancelling one operation which would have saved the life of a different patient. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
■ no

you own an unoccupied property. you are contacted by a welfare organization which desperately needs somewhere to house a person from a nearby town who is being unjustly persecuted. your anonymity is assured. you have every reason to believe that no harm will come to your property. are you morally obliged to allow them to use your property?
☐ strongly obliged
☐ weakly obliged
■ not obliged

you become aware that a piece of machinery in your workplace is faulty and that if it is not repaired then there will soon be an accident which will result in someone losing the use of their legs. despite knowing that nobody else is aware of the fault, you take no action. shortly afterwards, the accident occurs, and someone does lose the use of their legs. are you morally responsible for their injury?
☐ responsible
☐ partly responsible
■ not responsible

you can save the lives of a million innocent people by killing a hundred thousand others. are you morally obliged to do so?
☐ yes
■ no

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are you male or female?
what's your nationality?
what's your religion?

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Do you not already know these answers?

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it's part of the quiz! answer them.

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Male
Japanese
Shinto
Is this still about morality?

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your moral parsimony score is 71%

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Meaning?

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moral frameworks can be more or less parsimonious. that is to say, they can employ a wide range of principles, which vary in their application according to circumstances (less parsimonious) or they can employ a small range of principles which apply across a wide range of circumstances without modification (more parsimonious). an example might make this clear. let's assume that we are committed to the principle that it is a good to reduce suffering. the test of moral parsimony is to see whether this principle is applied simply and without modification or qualification in a number of different circumstances. Supposing, for example, we find that in otherwise identical circumstances, the principle is applied differently if the suffering person is from a different country to our own. this suggests a lack of moral parsimony because a factor which could be taken to be morally irrelevant in an alternative moral framework is here taken to be morally relevant.

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So, what, I'm circumstantial-leaning moral because I don't feel beholden to anything?

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you are, that's why you kept asking about me and amami-kun!

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He's a special circumstance
Everything else I've been impartial

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he is special, you're right.
we can talk about him now.

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Nah

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don't be shy!

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I'm not!
You're the one who gets all embarrassing talking about him

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no, i don't!

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I said embarrassing, not embarrassed

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...
no i don't? i'm just honest!

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Which isn't mutually exclusive

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i know you're a liar! you said we were childhood friends, and look how that turned out.