Quiz: What Do Your Morals Say About Your Politics?

[ashling]

http://billmoyers.com/content/what-do-your-morals-say-about-your-politics/

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt theorizes that a person’s position on the political spectrum is a reflection of his or her moral matrix. We’re all guided by the same moral foundations, he posits, but we weigh them differently. Liberals value compassion, or care, over all else, while conservatives assign equal weight to values including care, liberty, fairness, loyalty, authority and sanctity. It’s not that liberals don’t believe in the others, but when faced with a moral dilemma, care (or avoidance of harm) trumps everything else.

Much of Haidt’s analysis is derived from a series of surveys available on his website, YourMorals.org, that ask thought-provoking questions about everything from romantic love to business ethics. Visit his site to explore your own moral values and find out how they relate to your political inclinations. Or start with this 28-question survey, adapted from Haidt’s, about the morally complex and politically divisive issue of criminal justice.

[HopeHoops]

1. It's simple. If you care about other people you vote for those that also do.

Generally that means Democrats (not exclusively), but it is a matter of values not money. Voting for an asshole like Rmoney is outside the boundaries of any moral discipline, religious or not. I'm not religious, but I know the central tenants of every religion are founded upon the treatment of others and the GOP is so far out of touch with the subject that it disgusts me when one of them even mentions "God" or uses quotes to justify their slaughter of humanity and the earth in general.

[Little Star]

2. Here's where I landed...

How traditionall are your attitudes on crime and punishment?
Your results: 3.6
Liberals: 3
Conservatives:4.4


How progressive are your attitudes on crime and punishment?
Your results: 5.4
Liberals: 5.4
Conservatives: 4.3


That was fun! Thanks!

Where did you land Ashling?

[WCGreen]

5. 3.5, 5.0 is where I landed..

I agree, it was fun because it was interesting and educational.

[ashling]

27. Me?

2.4 on the traditional sub-scale and 5.7 on the progressive

[ablamj]

3. Here's mine:

How traditionall are your attitudes on crime and punishment?
Your results: 2.4
Liberals: 3
Conservatives:4.4


How progressive are your attitudes on crime and punishment?
Your results: 5.6
Liberals: 5.4
Conservatives: 4.3

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. 2.7 Traditional. 6.1 Progressive. n/t

[Auntie Bush]

6. 5.2 for me (Makes me progressive...but not to the extreme)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. 2.4 Traditional, 5.6 Progressive

It should be noted I am extremely opposed to the concept of the death penalty (probably the one issue which I do see it as a matter of black and white) and I have a strong adversion to the notion of vigalantism and the concept of making an example of transgressors or de-humanizing (literally) them as "monsters."

[FedUpWithIt All]

23. Mine came closest to your numbers @ 2.4 and 5.4

I feel the same about the DP and the other punishment issues in your post.

[MerryBlooms]

8. 2.4,6.5 n/t

[SteveG]

9. 2.9 traditional - 5.8 progressive

I guess I ain't no conservytive.

[slackmaster]

10. 3.4 traditional, 5.4 progressive

[jp11]

11. 3.1 / 6.5 nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My results:

My attitudes on crime and punishment: 2.6 (3 for liberals, and 4.4 for conservatives.)

How progressive am I? 5.9 (5.4 for liberals, and 4.3 for conservatives.)

An interesting and fun test!

[JonLP24]

13. 2.6 Traditional - 6.9 Progressive

I'm a far left wacko.

[vaberella]

20. Progressive wise you're almost off the scale. n/t

[tech3149]

14. Thanks for that

I think the best part is when you really do the self -examination to answer the question honestly. My scores weren't perfect or even exemplary but I do think they were honest.

[HappyMe]

15. Intersting!

Harm
Mine -- 4.2
Blue --3.7

Fairness
Mine -- 3.8
Blue -- 3.8

Loyalty
Mine -- 3.2
Blue -- 2.1

Authority
Mine -- 2.3
Blue -- 2.1

Purity
Mine -- 1.2
Blue -- 1.4

Crime -- 4.1, Libs was 4.2
Punishment -- 4.5, Libs was 5.4

[ashling]

38. Took that one too

On these type of tests I am always conflicted by nuance, wording, etc. Sometimes I could easily go another way just by the way the wording was inflected in my head. i.e., "decency - purity" ?? "decency could refer to religious bigotry or obscene wealth. Anyway here are my results:

Harm - 4.7

Fairness - 4.3

Loyalty - 2.0

Authority - 1.5

Purity - 1.7

[HappyMe]

39. Yeah, I know.

All of those were things that I consider important in my personal life as well as politically. Like any poll, change a couple of words, and it means something a little different to every person answering.

[ashling]

41. Its an interesting construct nevertheless

I post things like this and the political compass for my government students just to get them thinking (which is sometimes something they work hard to avoid)

[Comrade_McKenzie]

16. 2.5 traditional, 5.5 progressive

[benld74]

17. 3.6 and a 4.4 but some I'm not locked into any one,,,,,,,,,,,

[vaberella]

18. Traditional: 2.6 and Progressive: 5.9

I'm lower than a normal liberal on the Traditional scale and higher than a normal liberal on the Progressive field.

[RC]

19. 3.1 - 6

[frogmarch]

21. 2.4 Traditional, 5.4 Progressive nt

[sinkingfeeling]

22. 2.8 and 5.7

[JoePhilly]

24. 2.8 Traditional / 5.6 Progressive

[Nye Bevan]

25. Traditional 3.7, Progressive 5.4 (nt)

[ohheckyeah]

26. 2.2/5.9 n/t

[ceile]

28. 2.2, 5.4 n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

29. 2.9 Traditional. 4.9 Progressive

Harm
Mine -- 4.0
Blue --3.7
Red -- 3.1

Fairness
Mine -- 3.7
Blue -- 3.8
Red -- 3.1

Loyalty
Mine -- 2.2
Blue -- 2.1
Red -- 3.1

Authority
Mine -- 2.7
Blue -- 2.1
Red -- 3.3

Purity
Mine -- 0.5
Blue -- 1.4
Red -- 2.9

[frylock]

30. 1.9 traditional, 5.7 progressive

[tledford]

31. 1.9 traditional, 6 progressive eom

[Motown_Johnny]

32. 2.6 Traditional 6.1 Progressive, but there is another Quiz

linked to on the same page


http://www.yourmorals.org/5f_new2_process.php




I found this one very interesting too. I ended up scoring higher in each category than the Liberal average and higher on three and lower on two than the Conservative average.


4.2 Harm, 4.7 Fairness, 3.7 Loyalty, 3.0 Authority and 2.3 Purity.

[MrScorpio]

33. 1.9 Traditional - 5.5 Progressive

This is how I turn out after spending four years in Europe.

[raouldukelives]

34. 3 Traditional. 6.3 Progressive. nt

[surrealAmerican]

35. 3 and 5.9

Some of the questions were not very well worded, which may skew the results here.

[PotatoChip]

36. 2.3 and 5.7 (nt)

[Odin2005]

37. Traditional: 4.0, Progressive: 5.7

[pampango]

40. 2.6; 6.4. Interesting how the results are interpreted. n/t

[hunter]

42. 1.4 / 6.4

Some of the questions seemed irrelevant to any reality I've lived in. Life's not a television crime show. The story doesn't end when the bad guy is caught or the court reaches a verdict.

A few times I simply voted by smell. The questions about vigilante justice and amputations were real stinkers, and civilized nations do not allow a death penalty. The U.S.A. is not a civilized nation.

I suspect my personal views are more radical than this test can gauge. Crime is a big business in the U.S.A., from prisons to television, to insurance, to banking and corporate fraud. Thus crime is promoted here.

Our masters in this plutocracy would like us to focus on the street crimes, and make criminal things that are not crimes such as drug addictions, thus diverting our eyes from the high crimes and treasons committed in their own board rooms.