morality play

A good moral framework, like a good scientific one, is parsimonious: it explains the most with the fewest principles, and it applies them evenly. Most of us think we reason this way. We rarely do. Mark each statement true or false; we will look for the places where your principles quietly make exceptions for the cases you happen to care about.

1. 01

   It is wrong to cause an animal to suffer unnecessarily.

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2. 02

   There is nothing wrong with eating meat from a factory farm.

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3. 03

   Moral judgements are never objectively true; they only express the values of a particular culture.

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4. 04

   Slavery was a moral evil even in societies where almost everyone accepted it.

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5. 05

   What consenting adults do in private, harming no one, is no one else’s business.

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6. 06

   The state is right to stop people taking recreational drugs even in the privacy of their own homes.

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7. 07

   If you can prevent something very bad at little cost to yourself, you are morally obliged to do it.

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8. 08

   You have no real duty to give money to distant strangers; charity is admirable but optional.

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9. 09

   Every human life is of equal moral worth.

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10. 10

    You owe far more to people of your own country than to foreigners in greater need.

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