Saturday, February 03, 2018

How Moral Are You?

Is it just as wrong to fail to help someone as it is to actively harm them yourself?A group of philosophers and psychologists from Oxford University have created a scale to evaluate utilitarianism, one of the theories of morality. This theory’s focus on consequences states that it’s morally acceptable to actively hurt someone if it means that, overall, more people will benefit as a result.

Take the online test It's tougher than you think.

Via Quartz

1 comment:

  1. Utilitarianism
    38 out of 63
    for whatever that is worth. posted to my FB & lost the explanation of the scoring so who knows what that actually means. usually love quizzes but this one was not posting friendly so... as to what it means..now not so sure. still interesting.

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