Are you an immoral bastard? BBC online test

[Dr. Manhattan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbo...urveys/morals/

36/44

I'm almost a scumbag lol

 

[Deleted member 1424]

42.5/44

better person than I thought I was apparently

 

[Dormouse]

43/44

This seems unlikely.

 

[dark]

Results

You scored 36.5 out of a total of 44.


I only scored low on the breaking the law and children obeying parents... Or essentially anything that dealt with authority I responded in opposition to the authority.

 

[Adamastor]

You scored 31.5 out of a total of 44.

Kinda liked this test, I've wondered about many of the things put there, but for some, especially those at the beginning I was forced to put harder thought in it.

 

[walfin]

35

 

[EyeSeeCold]

41/44

 

[Anthile]

42

 

[aaaw]

40.5 out of a total of 44.

 

[pjoa09]

You scored 29.5 out of a total of 44

I was slightly dodgy with suicide and law

 

[kinetickyle]

35/44

 

[Yet]

39/44

 

[Fukyo]

35.5 out of a total of 44.

 

[terraxceles]

32.5 out of a total of 44.

How morality is being defined here, I'm not really sure.

 

[crippli]

34,5

 

[Zmaster]

34/44

 

[Minuend]

34

I found the questions and answers way to rigid. On some questions the alternatives didn't even resemble my reasoning so I just had to pick something.

 

[Anchorite]

42.5 out of a total of 44.

 

[Taniwha]

You scored 42 out of a total of 44.

Your score puts you in the highest category of social reasoning. You will see ethical and moral values as important to the needs of society and will appeal to basic rights or values. You might say "Honesty is a standard which everyone should accept" or "Life is sacred."

There's something wrong with this...

 

[Cavallier]

37.5

However, you will want to see an adjusted case-by-case application of standards for the sake of fairness to all people. Lastly, you are very likely to appeal to standards of individual or personal conscience, as well as of honour, dignity or integrity.

This is very much how I operate though I know it's not really feasible in a society of any large size at all to function on a case-by-case application of standards. That's why I live under a rock. :/

 

[Hadoblado]

37.5
I like this test more than others I have taken, as it seems a little more comprehensive than most. I normally score rather low on morality tests, even though I study ethics quite a lot.
I obey laws to set an example to idiots (which imo are bloody everywhere), and to present myself as a responsible, trustworthy member of society. If nobody is watching I am quite different in my behavior, and don't care about laws at all.

 

[Introspective]

32. I answered "morally" on everything except suicide, obeying parents, obeying laws, stealing, keeping promises, ad nauseam...

 

[Madoness]

You scored 41.5 out of a total of 44.

 

[ℜεмїηїs¢εη¢ε]

This test was stupid, nothing is objectively important. We are just little bugs on this damp piece of rock we call Earth, thinking that the choices we make in our lives will make a difference.

I got a 27 by the way. So yes, I am an immoral bastard, not that it matters.

 

[redbaron]

42/44

But I don't really understand how it works. Some of the questions I don't agree with any of the reasons. They seem to assume that you've picked Very Important/Important and don't really have any explanations that fit with Not Important.

 

[Etheri]

Test is pathetic. Voted non-conformist on pretty much everything, then the text ended up saying I expect people to conform with me, that laws are important in order of stability and so is trust...

(I can live with trust, the rest of it... oh boy)
Scored 33.

 

[H1N1]

40.5/44

 

[skip]

42.5/44

 

[Solitaire U.]

Results

You scored 40 out of a total of 44.
Audience's Scores

1 % 1 % 32 % 66 %

0-11 12-22 23-33 34-44 My Results

Your score puts you in the highest category of social reasoning...blah blah blah.

 

[Felan]

49

 

[DreamMancer]

39. It's an interesting quiz, since most quizzes do not allow you to select a reasoning behind your decision. Sometimes I find it is the reasoning behind the decision that is more indicative of personality than the decision itself.

Having said that though, my reasoning was usually not represented by one of their choices; for example the question about prisons doesn't allow one to point out the biases and injustices inherent in many prison systems (the US being an excellent example); nor does it differentiate between different types of crime. There's a great difference in my mind between the importance of imprisoning a violent serial murderer and somebody who's been caught with a large quantity of marijuana.

The quiz also claimed that "conformity to ethical norms is important to you [me]." This is hardly the case. I have very clear ethical principles I try to live by, but they aren't always the same as "ethical norms".

 

[C.J_Finn]

This was alright, but I think being able to tick multiple boxes would make this better since I had problems deciding which answers to give.

I got 34.5 out of 44.

 

[Ionosphere]

30/44

I disliked the questions, and how they were all assumed to directly affect a person's morality. Also how you can only choose a positive to zero opinion on things, e.g a person could not choose they think it's very important to lie or say it is important to not help strangers. It was good that you could present reasons but once again they were very limited.

 

[nexion]

I can already guess what my results will be like, I just can't believe I haven't taken this test before...

You scored 29.5 out of a total of 44.

The "reasonings" for the first section reeked of trivial rationalizations. Interesting, however, that most of the rest of them focused mostly on one of three things: mutualism, legality, and personal [a]morality. I do feel sorry for those who favored the law side. As in most tests of this type, the usual bias is there: morality and acting within the constraints of society good, acting in one's own self-interest bad. Silly ideas that should have long since dissolved. Concepts which arose out of the basest levels of man's mind. Of course, who am I to say, I quite adore chaos. I'm afraid the same cannot be said for many.

Mutualism is an idea I do and have always endorsed, but blind adherence to outdated moral and societal conventions has always been what has held humanity's evolution back.

My results are quite inaccurate by the way, perhaps a result of me marking every question as "important" and providing more of a middle-ground approach for most answers considering sufficient choices did not exist for any of them.

 

[Niclmaki]

You scored 35.5 out of a total of 44.

Interesting, I was expecting a lower score haha.

EDIT: I was expecting a lower score because I am normally described as "Serial-killer-like"

 

[own8ge]

38.5 /44

If it was up to me, I would have a score of 100 percent. But that's just a matter of perception, like all these kind of tests are. All my intentions are always good, but aren't others? If a person kills another, his intentions could have been good but misunderstood.
I myself, am always misunderstood. Therefor I'm in general seen as a jerk. If everyone would argue that I'm a jerk, and even though my own judgement tells me otherwise, I would still be a jerk. Words are just words. -And I'm a Jerk/Scumbag/Idiot

 

[bambistark]

35/44

Hmm. Although if I were a dictator, I'd probably shoot half the population. Good thing I'm not one.

 

[Duxwing]

I got 36.5 out of 44. It took a lot of therapy to get to this point, but the idea that moving towards social expectations and universalism is an example of maturation tells me that the world needs a little less Aquinas and a little more Nietszcshe; we should see our moralities simply as arbitrary, artificial constructs designed to keep society in order rather than some sort of holy law to be hollered down the throats of other people. Hence, I answered via my conscience and feelings rather than thought simply because I can't justify any sort of moral code via logic and therefore use Fe in order to survive.

-Duxwing

 

[Wolf18]

Mildly interesting test. 31.5/44

SW

 

[Nezaros]

37.5 out of 44. That doesn't seem right at all.

I'm not sure what it was, maybe the answers were just phrased poorly, but I feel like this test pushes more toward the side of "good" than it really ought to.

 

[InvisibleJim]

Nope, I'm a moral bastard.

 

[TheScornedReflex]

32.5/44

 

[Amagi82]

39.5/44

The test was very well made. I saw a strong influence from Kohlberg's stages of moral development, which is something INTPs tend to score highly on. I would probably have scored higher had I not been as much of a cynic concerning the ways society currently operates. As much as we all probably wanted to score "evil bastard", I think we tend to be pretty moral in our own ways.

 

[valiums]

You scored 30.5 out of a total of 44.


You don't even know the stranger.

 

[gedanken]

You scored 30.5 out of a total of 44.

 

[Arc.Demi]

You scored 37.5 out of a total of 44

 

[EditorOne]

40 out of 44.

Those wondering why they scored high: INTP has a tendency to look to the largest possible context, I think, so we tend to root decisions in universals. The test designer seemed to rank that as the top of the maturity hierarchy or whatever psychobabble they were using.

We may all occasionally come across as cold or serial killers, but a lot of our thinking tends to break in ways that support a functioning society.

Let's not read too much into it. I'm just winging it with a half-assed analysis of why those of us with a healthy skepticism about law, society and authority scored high despite ourselves.