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April 04, 2006
What're your moral politics?
How many internets quizzes does it take to get to the chewy center of my moral political compass?
Probably several. But this one tries to quantify one's political morals and lay it out on a grid. Here are the results of my whack at it:
Your Score
Your scored -2 on the Moral Order axis and 6.5 on the Moral Rules axis.
Matches
The following items best match your score:
System: Socialism
Variation: Economic Socialism
Ideologies: International Socialism
US Parties: No match.
Presidents: Jimmy Carter (69.94%)
2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (69.94%), John Kerry (62.18%), George W. Bush (40.50%)
The Moral Order dimension defines your view of the world's order:
It measures whether you believe certain things have moral authority over others.
It ranks notions such as God, race, humans, nature, men, women, lifestyles...
You can visualize your personal moral order as a ladder where items with the most moral authority appear on the higher steps and those with the least authority appear on the lower steps.
People on the right of the Moral Matrix have a structured moral order (i.e. many steps on their moral ladder).
People on the left of the Moral Matrix have a flat moral order (i.e. few steps on their moral ladder).
The Moral Rules dimension defines your view of the world's rules.
It measures which actions you believe individuals should be rewarded for in society.
It defines whether you believe that society should primarily reward actions that benefit society as a whole first (and individual members eventually) or reward actions that benefits each member first (and society eventually).
People on the top of the Moral Matrix believe that society and each of its members benefit the most if the priority is given to collective initiatives.
People on the bottom of the Moral Matrix believe that society and each of its members benefit the most if the priority is given to individual initiatives.
(Thanks to Mathew Pruitt for emailing this to me)
[update--Jeez. I'm just not adjusting to daylight savings time well at all. I've now added the link (thanks, kev) so you can take the quiz for yourself.]
Posted by Carla at April 4, 2006 12:25 PM
