Yourmorals.org survey

[steve_dash_o]

Pic and Obs took the morality survey mentioned in one of the articles I linked yesterday, so I thought I would take it and show mine, too. It's the "Moral Foundations Questionnaire" at their site, if you want to try it out.

Comments

[picard42]

"I don't consider heeding authority to be a moral issue; it's a practical one. So I answered somewhat affirmatively on, for example, "children should be taught to respect authority". But not because I think authority is intrinsically important... simply because it is an invaluable social shortcut for evaluating expertise."

That's exactly what happened with me. I happen to have very little trust in authority. The willingness to abuse authority makes it all the more important to avoid pissing off the wrong person (especially where the police are concerned).

In other words, the survey is flawed in places. A question along the lines of, "The police should be given the benefit of the doubt" would better get at the true purpose of the question.