Taboo quiz - Marginal Revolution
All journalists should take this quiz and report the results to their readers. Bloggers are.
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution took the quiz and reports:
Along with my results came this interpretation: "it is interesting to note that had you judged any of these acts to be morally problematic, it is hard to see how this might have been justified. 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."
Hmmmm. Sounds like these acts all involved a double coincidence of wants: i.e., free trade.
All journalists should take this quiz and report the results to their readers. Bloggers are.
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution took the quiz and reports:
My results:My results were:Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.10.In other words, I am pretty libertarian.
Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.
Your Universalising Factor is: 1.00.
Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.00.I guess this means I'm more libertarian than Tyler? Or maybe they didn't ask the right questions.
Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.
Your Universalising Factor is: 1.00.
Fully Permissive
Along with my results came this interpretation: "it is interesting to note that had you judged any of these acts to be morally problematic, it is hard to see how this might have been justified. 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."
Hmmmm. Sounds like these acts all involved a double coincidence of wants: i.e., free trade.
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Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.07.
Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.
Your Universalising Factor is: 0.00.
Seems quite liberal too! I didn't want anyone punished, but I didn't want to see the guy screwing his frozen chicken either.
My MQ was 0.13
IF = 0.0
UF = 0.0;
I figured that if people wanted to do some of those things, it was okay, but I still felt squeamish about them.
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