RE: 'Morality Play'
March 4, 2011 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2011 at 8:44 pm by BlackUnicorn.)
Your Moral Parsimony Score is 59%
But I disagreed with many parts of the quiz.
"Question 4
You are able to help some people. Unfortunately, you can only do so by harming other people. The number of people harmed will always be 10 percent of those helped. When considering whether it is morally justified to help does the actual number of people involved make any difference? For example, does it make a difference if you are helping ten people by harming one person rather than helping 100,000 people by harming 10,000 people?"
Thus I answered yes, overall though I was thinking of medical trials and numerous other actions which could result in the deaths of 10% or above, most of which are out of your control. I think it would have been better to give an option like 'in some circumstances'.
Though regardless of score I don't believe you are 'morally obliged' to do anything you don't want to do, unless of course your actions have resulted in harm to others and thus make you partly/totally responsible for their plight enough that you are 'morally obliged' to help them, but even in those cases if it was out of your control then you wouldn't be morally obliged at all to help.
Those were just my thoughts, you might think differently.
But I disagreed with many parts of the quiz.
"Question 4
You are able to help some people. Unfortunately, you can only do so by harming other people. The number of people harmed will always be 10 percent of those helped. When considering whether it is morally justified to help does the actual number of people involved make any difference? For example, does it make a difference if you are helping ten people by harming one person rather than helping 100,000 people by harming 10,000 people?"
Thus I answered yes, overall though I was thinking of medical trials and numerous other actions which could result in the deaths of 10% or above, most of which are out of your control. I think it would have been better to give an option like 'in some circumstances'.
Though regardless of score I don't believe you are 'morally obliged' to do anything you don't want to do, unless of course your actions have resulted in harm to others and thus make you partly/totally responsible for their plight enough that you are 'morally obliged' to help them, but even in those cases if it was out of your control then you wouldn't be morally obliged at all to help.
Those were just my thoughts, you might think differently.
