gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Default)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2003-12-27 07:43 am

Do what thou will...

so long as it harms none. That shall be the whole of the Law.





Results

Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.04.

Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.

Your Universalising Factor is: 0.00

You see very little wrong in the actions depicted in these scenarios. However, to the extent that you do, it is a moot point how you might justify it. You don't think that an act can be morally wrong if it is entirely private and no one, not even the person doing the act, is harmed by it. Yet the actions described in these scenarios are private like this and it was specified as clearly as possible that they didn't involve harm. Possibly an argument could be made that the people undertaking these actions are harmed in some way by them. But you don't think that an act can be morally wrong solely for the reason that it harms the person undertaking it. So even this doesn't seem to be enough to make the actions described in these scenarios wrong in terms of your moral outlook. It is a bit of a puzzle!
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[identity profile] eleri.livejournal.com 2003-12-27 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's a cute puzzle, but hugely biased in it's outlook. Instead of coming from a nul-state for it's statements, it starts with the assumption that the actions described are moraly wrong, and goes from there.

[identity profile] isomeme.livejournal.com 2003-12-27 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Let me know how that whole "harming none" thing works out, okay?

Oh, by the way, what did you have for dinner last night?

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2003-12-27 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
A peanut-butter sandwich. But it threw the first punch!