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Well, I drew some cash out of the bank, asking for smaller bills rather than 20s so I could squirrel some money into my desk drawer for a month from now when my professor forces me to buy ANOTHER book, or maybe I want to eat real food or something foolish. So I go to stick the 10, plus a 5 I randomly found as I was going to do laundry earlier, into the envelope I had gotten over the summer after getting paid by camp/mommy insisting I take money to get into the school year. There, in the envelope, was a nice $20.00 that I had already hidden from myself. Yesssssssssssssss.
In other news, I was walking by this bar on Fulton Street Wednesday night, Exchange Bar. I walk by Exchange Bar every night, as it is on the way between the subway and my bedroom. Well, usually, there's a sporting event on, or maybe some Jay-Z. But Wednesday, glory of glories, they were BLAAAAAAAASTING "My Name Is" by our dear Eminem. I almost went in for a drink.
Other things I got from today:
NEST (a gifted school) boy #1: (emerging from subway in front of me) Look, snow!
NEST boy #2: (looking NOT at the white stuff falling on him, but across the street at a flock of pigeons) Joey those are birds.
Professor: What's my last name? Square! And what do squares do? GO OFF ON TANGENTS!!
Male student: Is Square REALLY your last name?
Professor: Well, not my ancestor's when they came to Ellis Island. The people there were really into shapes. The family online before mine became 'isocolese triangle'
Female Student: ...REALLY!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!
Blog napped from pleh
http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/morality_play.htm
Analysis
Your Moral Parsimony Score is 57%
What does this mean?
Moral frameworks can be more or less parsimonious. That is to say, they can employ a wide range of principles, which vary in their application according to circumstances (less parsimonious) or they can employ a small range of principles which apply across a wide range of circumstances without modification (more parsimonious). An example might make this clear. Let's assume that we are committed to the principle that it is a good to reduce suffering. The test of moral parsimony is to see whether this principle is applied simply and without modification or qualification in a number of different circumstances. Supposing, for example, we find that in otherwise identical circumstances, the principle is applied differently if the suffering person is from a different country to our own. This suggests a lack of moral parsimony because a factor which could be taken to be morally irrelevant in an alternative moral framework is here taken to be morally relevant.
How to interpret your score
The higher your percentage score the more parsimonious your moral framework. In other words, a high score is suggestive of a moral framework that comprises a minimal number of moral principles that apply across a range of circumstances and acts. What is a high score? As a rule of thumb, any score above 75% should be considered indicative of a parsimonious moral framework. However, perhaps a better way to think about this is to see how your score compares to other people's scores.
In fact, your score of 57% is slightly lower than the average score of 65%. This suggests that you have utilised a somewhat wider range of moral principles than average in order to make judgements about the scenarios presented in this test, and that you have, at least on occasion, judged aspects of the acts and circumstances depicted here to be morally relevant that other people consider to be morally irrelevant.
Moral Parsimony - good or bad?
We make no judgement about whether moral parsimony is a good or bad thing. Some people will think that on balance it is a good thing and that we should strive to minimise the number of moral principles that form our moral frameworks. Others will suspect that moral parsimony is likely to render moral frameworks simplistic and that an overly parsimonious moral framework will leave us unable to deal with the complexity of real circumstances and acts. We'll leave it up to you to decide who is right.
How was your score calculated?
Your score was calculated by combining and averaging your scores in the four categories that appear below.
Geographical Distance
This category has to do with the impact of geographical distance on the application of moral principles. The idea here is to determine whether moral principles are applied equally when dealing with sets of circumstances and acts that differ only in their geographical location in relation to the person making the judgement.
Your score of 51% is significantly lower than the average score of 73% in this category.
This suggests that geographical distance is a relevant factor in your moral thinking. Usually, this will mean feeling a greater moral obligation towards people located nearby than towards those who are far away. To incorporate geographical distance within your moral framework as a morally relevant factor is to decrease its parsimoniousness.
Family Relatedness
In this category, we look at the impact of family loyalty and ties on the way in which moral principles are applied. The idea here is to determine whether moral principles are applied without modification or qualification when you're dealing with sets of circumstances and acts that differ only in whether the participants are related through family ties to the person making the judgement.
Your score of 35% is a lot lower than the average score of 54% in this category.
It seems then that family relatedness is an important factor in your moral thinking. Normally, this will mean feeling a greater moral obligation towards people who are related to you than towards those who are not. To the extent that issues of family relatedness form part of your moral thinking, the parsimoniousness of your moral framework is reduced.
Acts and Omissions
This category has to do with whether there is a difference between the moral status of acting and omitting to act where the consequences are the same in both instances. Consider the following example. Let's assume that on the whole it is a bad thing if a person is poisoned whilst drinking a cola drink. One might then ask whether there is a moral difference between poisoning the coke, on the one hand (an act), and failing to prevent a person from drinking a coke someone else has poisoned, when in a position to do so, on the other (an omission). In this category then, the idea is to determine if moral principles are applied equally when you're dealing with sets of circumstances that differ only in whether the participants have acted or omitted to act.
Your score of 67% is a little higher than the average score of 60% in this category.
However, it is not high enough to rule out the possibility that the distinction between acting and omitting to act is a relevant factor in your moral thinking. More than likely you tend to believe that those who act have a slightly greater moral culpability than those who simply omit to act. If this is what you do believe, it decreases the parsimoniousness of your moral framework.
Scale
This category has to do with whether scale is a factor in making moral judgements. A simple example will make this clear. Consider a situation where it is possible to save ten lives by sacrificing one life. Is there a moral difference between this choice and one where the numbers of lives involved are different but proportional - for example, saving 100 lives by sacrificing ten? In this category then, the idea is to determine whether moral principles are applied without modification or qualification when you're dealing with sets of circumstances that differ only in their scale, as in the sense described above.
Your score of 76% is not significantly different to the average score of 73% in this category.
Nevertheless, you have scored highly in this category, which suggests that scale, as it is described above, is not a particularly important consideration in your moral worldview. To the extent that it is important, it decreases the parsimoniousness of your moral framework.
India and Australia
In Question 13 you were asked the following: You see an advertisement from a charity in a newspaper about a person in severe need in India. You can help this person at little cost to yourself. Are you morally obliged to do so?
However, fifty percent of people undertaking this activity are asked a slightly different question, where the country Australia is substituted for the country India. The idea is to determine what kind of impact "culural distance" has on the moral judgements that people make. The important point here is that the vast majority of people who visit this web site are from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Consequently, in a comparison of the lives and lifestyles of TPM Online visitors, residents of India and residents of Australia, there will be bigger cultural differences between TPM Online visitors and residents of India than between TPM Online visitors and residents of Australia. Of course, whether a perception of cultural differences will enter into moral judgements, and if so, what its impact will be is entirely a matter of conjecture at this point. Indeed, whatever results we find here, they will only ever be suggestive of further avenues of enquiry. This aspect of the activity is simply not rigorous enough that it will be possible to draw definitive conclusions. It will nevertheless be interesting!
The Results
- 26% of respondents who were asked about a person in severe need in Australia responded that they were stongly obliged to help. This is exactly the same as the percentage who responded this way when asked about a person living in India.
- 43% of respondents who were asked about a person in severe need in Australia responded that they were weakly obliged to help. This is exactly the same as the percentage who responded this way when asked about a person living in India.
- 31% of respondents who were asked about a person in severe need in Australia responded that they were not obliged to help. This is exactly the same as the percentage who responded this way when asked about a person living in India.
This cannot wait!
Guess who got the job!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Drug test on May 3rd (I'll pass, because I passed the drug screen for an insomnia study last week), last day at MC (suckahs)W on May 5th, one week of not having to go to work, and BAYAM! I start as a Children's employee on May 15th! I'm seeeeeeeeeeew hoppy!!!! (Princess Bride)
Yaaaaaaaaaaaayuh!
Only drawback? You guys won't see me online as much, butt-hey. What can I say. Let's make these two weeks count, my fellow beeayeyatches!! WOOOOOOOOOOOT!
alright, so if you dont know i go to college! yay me!! haha!! okay, so outta last year and so far this year, its been kinda rough, but thats okay im managing. school sucks, as if no one didnt already know, anyone that goes to school knows it sucks. but thats not my point. so monday, i took a math test that was prolly the easiest test of my life. before this test i have taken many other tests(college tests that is) and i never done as hot as i did this time. dont get me wrong, ive done very good for myself and done very poorly.i have recieved anything from a "B" all the way to an "F" on some tests. not that im bragging, b.c thats totally something not to be bragging about getting an "F" haha. oh well. but okay, so back to this math test i took.okay so ive never gotten anything higher than a "B" on any test ive taken since ive been in college so i thought it a "B" was good enough for me.. well i got my math test back today, and by golly by gorge i got a freakin "A" on it. man i was soo happy!! i broke my slump of not getting an "A" haha. i though their were some impossible problems that i werent going to get, but i got them and the those easy problems that always kick my ass, by gorge i got those too!! i only missed 6 points on my test!!! score!!!!! i never said i got a perfect score, but damn near it!! i was like humping for joy!! hehe!! yes i did say humping!! so after all was said and done, i was on a roll, i got my homework back that was worth 60 points and i only missed 4 points on that!! so damn it, im a on a roll right now, starting off this new quarter! with 160 points possible and i have 150points! thats the best start to any quarter of college ive taken! so i was happy! now lets see if i can keep this pace up and not start to slack off!! woohoo!!! i guess studyin helps to some extent as does procrastinating to do homework the night before its due, hell i dont care, i did awesome and i dont care what anyone says! im happy as hell about that, and prolly the only thing im happy about! i know its sad but its true. haha, anyway, off to do some more homework!!! 
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