Simple Morality Questionnaire

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You have been selected to take this simple morality-based questionnaire. Please note that these questions are written to address morality on the most basic level, with full awareness of the relativity of moral standards across the spectrum of humanity. Please be honest with your answers.

*Disclaimer*: If your answers are unsatisfactory, you will forfeit your citizenship to the country in which you currently reside for the sake of its greater population, and you will be declared persona non grata in that country, for life. If your answers are satisfactory, you will remain a citizen, or be granted official and legal citizenship.

Answer the following:

1. You brought your toddler with you to the store, and it's hot outside. Do you:
    a. Leave the toddler in the vehicle with the doors locked and the windows rolled all the way up.
    b. Not do answer "a".

2. You are at a national park with your friends and you come across a natural phenomenon, such as a spectacular rock formation. Do you:
    a. Look at it.
    b. Destroy it with your friends.

3. You're on a drive with your friend when another person drives their car in front of you on the same road. Do you:
    a. Follow the car until it pulls over, then grab a baseball bat with the intent to attack the driver.
    b. Continue to drive with your friend.

4. You see an unarmed person with a different skin color than you. Do you:
    a. Assume they are a threat and treat them as such.
    b. Do nothing.
    c. Greet or acknowledge them.
    d. Kill them, or leave them for dead after shooting or mercilessly beating them.

5. It's apparent that someone is not in their living space at a given moment. Do you:
    a. Not care.
    b. Enter their vacant home, maybe forcibly, and remove their possessions.

6. Someone disagrees with you. Do you:
    a. Approach them, if it is of consequence, intending to find common ground.
    b. Openly attack their viewpoints in a way that they can't effectively defend themselves.

7. You are consuming natural resources more quickly than the Earth can replenish them. Do you:
    a. Consume more natural resources.
    b. Consume fewer natural resources.

8. You believe in your personal salvation after death. Do you:
    a. Focus on whether or not you deserve salvation.
    b. Focus on whether or not others deserve salvation.

9. You don't believe in your own sentient existence after death. Do you:
    a. Live your own life to its fullest while you're alive.
    b. Live your own life in misery and seek to make others feel miserable.

10. You make a mistake. Do you:
    a. Cower away from it and blame everyone but yourself.
    b. Own up to it, and fix it, if you can.


Thank you for your participation. You will be notified by mail when your answers have been reviewed and evaluated.

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