…to the Moral Sense Test I linked to in my previous post: “The scenarios you judged in this test pit means against ends, which is a common philosophical contrast. Each of the characters must choose whether to use bad means to acheive good ends — for instance, whether to harm a single person in order to help many others. The statistic provided is an indication of the choices you made about means versus ends. The closer it is to 1, the more heavily you appeared to weight means (the rights of one); the closer it is to 7, the more heavily you appeared to weigh ends (the benefit of many). Your statistic is 5.3. So far, the average statistic for subjects on this test is 3.9″.
Yeah. I’m a cold-hearted SOB it appears.
Incidentally this is one of the topics of philosophy-lite Shantaram: doing good things for bad reasons.
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Umm « Julian @ Empedocles // July 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm |
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