What is a moral dilemma test?

A moral dilemma test puts you in situations where two reasonable values pull against each other, such as honesty against loyalty, and asks what you would do. This one gives 15 everyday scenarios from work, close relationships and the wider community, and shows which of five ethical lenses you reach for most often.

Are there right and wrong answers?

No. Every option in every scenario is a defensible ethical stance, and nothing is scored as correct or incorrect. The test measures which way of reasoning you lean on, not how moral you are. Most people use several lenses, and the result shows the one you chose most often across the scenarios.

How is this different from the Moral Alignment test?

The Moral Alignment test places you on a Dungeons & Dragons style grid, from lawful to chaotic and from good to evil. This test does not rank you on good or evil at all. It describes how you reason through everyday dilemmas: through outcomes, principles, character, care or fairness.

Is it based on a scientific model of morality?

It is an original JobCannon reflection tool, inspired by five long-standing traditions in moral philosophy: consequence-based ethics, duty-based ethics, virtue ethics, the ethics of care and justice as fairness. It is not a validated psychological measure, and it does not measure moral development, judgement ability or character.

Is this the trolley problem?

The trolley problem is one specific thought experiment, introduced by the philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967, about choosing between harms. Our scenarios are everyday situations, not life-and-death puzzles, and none of them reproduces it. What they share with it is the idea that how you resolve a conflict says something about how you reason ethically.

Why does a scenario sometimes not offer my exact view?

Each scenario offers four of the five lenses and leaves one out, and the lens left out rotates, so each one sits out three of the fifteen scenarios. If no option matches your real view exactly, pick the closest one. Across fifteen scenarios the pattern still shows, and no single answer decides your result.

PersonalityFramework-based· Normative ethics (consequentialist, deontological, virtue, care, justice)

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What is the Moral Dilemma Test?

The Moral Dilemma Test presents fifteen everyday situations from work, close relationships and the wider community. In each one you choose the response closest to what you would actually do, and each response reflects one of five ethical lenses: outcomes, principle, character, care or fairness. The result shows which lens you reach for most often and how often you used each of the others.

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The five lenses come from five long-standing traditions in moral philosophy: consequence-based ethics (Mill), duty-based ethics (Kant), virtue ethics (Aristotle), the ethics of care (Gilligan) and justice as fairness (Rawls). Each one asks a different question of the same dilemma: what produces the best result, which principle you could defend for everyone, what a person of good character would do, who is relying on you, and whether the process is impartial. The test does not rank you on good or evil, has no right answers, and does not measure moral development.

That is what separates it from the Moral Alignment test, which places you on a Dungeons & Dragons style lawful-to-chaotic and good-to-evil grid. This test asks a different question: not where you sit on a moral compass, but how you reason through a hard choice when two reasonable values pull against each other.

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What you get

What You'll Discover

Which of five ethical lenses you lean on most

Your score on all five lenses, showing how often you used each

Careers and well-known figures that share your dominant lens

What your dominant lens says about your decision-making strengths

The blind spot your dominant lens can create

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