Are You A Kantian Or A Utilitarian?
Understanding a person's ethical viewpoint can be challenging. We suggest you take this "Are You a Kantian or a Utilitarian?" quiz to uncover more about your personality. Kantian ethics states that an action by an individual can be moral if motivated by a sense of duty. While on the other hand, Utilitarian is a form of consequentialism that determines right from wrong. The questions in the quiz are carefully designed to help us get a better idea about your personality. Let's go!
- 1.
How would you describe the world?
- A.
Self-sufficient
- B.
Free
- C.
Unpredictable
- D.
Unjust
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- 2.
What do you believe is most important?
- A.
The greater good
- B.
Human rights
- C.
Being a good person
- D.
Not sure
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- 3.
How would you describe yourself?
- A.
Determined
- B.
Caring
- C.
Impulsive
- D.
Confident
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- 4.
Example: Your plane has crashed into a deserted island, and you have five minutes before the plane's oil causes a massive explosion. You have the choice of saving a pregnant woman and an elderly man. Who would save first?
- A.
Pregnant woman
- B.
The man
- C.
Attempt both
- D.
Not sure
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- 5.
A serial murderer is finally caught and sentenced to death by lethal injection. He believes he has been set up, and there is minimal evidence. How would you feel about this?
- A.
Comforted
- B.
Troubled
- C.
Uncertain
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- 6.
A car crashed and rolled over a man who was walking down the street. It also hit another car and pushed it across to the edge of a bridge. This car is carrying three children. The man who is hit by the car requires medical attention immediately, but the children are at risk of falling off the edge. Who would you save first?
- A.
The three children
- B.
The man
- C.
Attempt both
- D.
Not sure
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- 7.
A pregnant teenage mother has decided to have an abortion because she is not emotionally and financially ready to have a baby. How would you feel about this?
- A.
Relieved
- B.
Sympathetic
- C.
Unsure
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- 8.
A perfectly healthy man who has undergone minor surgery for an infection on his leg. Turns out, he is deathly allergic to the anesthesia. He also has no family, and the doctors have nobody to call. Within one hour, he is in an irreversible coma from the shock. Meanwhile, a bus has crashed, and there are two children who have been badly injured and require an organ transplant, or they will die. Would it be right for the doctors to give the man's organs to the children, as he has no family and is in an irreversible coma?
- A.
Yes
- B.
Maybe, as long as doctors are sure his condition is irreversible
- C.
Unsure
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- 9.
If you were the lead astronaut and an asteroid (which is predicted to be so big, it would destroy Earth) was coming towards Earth, and the quickest way you could stop it would be to fly your space shuttle into the asteroid, killing you and your workmate, would you do it?
- A.
Definitely
- B.
No, unless both individuals agreed
- C.
Depends if this was the only solution
- D.
Not sure
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- 10.
Your country's two religious groups are fighting for land. The condition has been worded to war, and your whole family is at risk. Due to cultural reasons, you are seen as the head of the family and must decide on behalf of everyone. Would you take the risk and travel by boat to another country illegally?
- A.
Yes, if there is a greater chance for the family's safety
- B.
No, unless all family members make their own decision
- C.
Maybe, depends on how bad the situation is
- D.
Not sure
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