How wide your moral vocabulary is. A higher percent means you keep the word 'wrong' for a narrower set of harms.
About this test
Moral foundations research (Haidt, Graham, Nosek, and the Moral Foundations Questionnaire) finds that people differ in how many kinds of facts they treat as moral: harm and fairness, but also loyalty, authority, and sanctity. A parsimonious or minimalist morality keeps the moral category small — mostly harm, coercion, and cheating — and uses other words for disgust, tradition, and self-regarding mess. That is a descriptive difference, not a score for being good. These items are original. They do not copy foundation items or famous vignettes. A high score is a narrower morality, not a kinder or a colder person.
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What this test asks
If nobody is harmed or coerced, a private habit is not a moral issue.
Disgust is a poor reason, by itself, to call something morally wrong.
Breaking a long tradition is a moral failing even when the break hurts no one.
Loyalty to my group is not, by itself, a moral duty. It depends on what the group is doing.
Disrespecting a legitimate authority is wrong even when the order was harmless and nobody suffered.
Wasting one's own talent is a pity or a mistake. It is not, by itself, a moral wrong.
A silly rule or a superstition can be broken without anyone having done something immoral, if no one is hurt.
Some acts are morally dirty even when everyone involved is willing and unhurt.
I save the word 'wrong' for harm, coercion, and cheating, and I use other words for the rest.
Purity of the body is a moral duty, not only a health preference or a religious practice I might decline.
People turn too many disagreements of taste into moral accusations.
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