I ran across an interesting forum post on the Richard Dawkins website. It points to a morality quiz and a video of Jonathan Haidt talking about a way of thinking about morality that he has developed that helps him understand how different people (specifically conservatives) think about morality and why someone who is liberal has a hard time understanding where they come from.
Before I tell you where the video and the forum thread is at, let me ask you to take the morality quiz at yourmorals.org. The quiz will probably be more accurate before you see the video and start thinking about it too much. Go ahead, take it. I’ll wait.
Okay, welcome back.
Now you can watch the video, which is part of the New Yorker magazine’s 2012: Stories of the Near Future conference. The video is about 24 minutes long, if I remember correctly.
The forum post itself is interesting as well.
Finally, my scores for the Moral Foundations Questionnaire:
Harm: 2.7 Fairness: 2.3 Loyalty: 1.5 Authority: 1.0 Purity: 0.7
What did you get?
Ciao!
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Here is an article linking morality and the way the brain is wired.
Here are my scores:
Harm: 3.1
Fairness: 2.8
Loyalty: 2.5
Authority: 3.0
Purity: 2.0
I guess that qualifies me as “mostly harmless.”
Nick
Mine…
Harm: 2.6
Fairness: 3.6
Loyalty: 1.8
Authority: 3.1
Purity: 2.5
I guess I’m a heartless conservative libertarian..
Tweeks