Age, race, sex, class and status remain fixed so the argument cannot hide inside a ranking of people.
Moral dilemmas / ethical structure
Moral Cartographer
Keep the people equal. Change one moral feature at a time. Your map records what actually moved your judgement.
How this works
Twelve choices in six matched pairs
Choose what should happen, then name the consideration carrying most weight. The result compares your paired decisions and the reasons you selected.
“Not sure” leaves that killing unresolved and lowers the map's resolution.
This browser session holds the answers until you close it or start again.
Case 1 of 12
Case 1 / Pair 1
Your moral-pressure map
Your philosopher conversation
Your choices leaned toward Jeremy Bentham
You repeatedly gave overall effects decisive weight. Bentham turns that instinct into a public test: count each affected pleasure and pain rather than protecting a rule through prestige alone.
Useful counter-pressure: A better total can still burden one person unfairly or treat a protected claim as expendable.
Meet Jeremy Bentham in the Philosopher Compendium
Your philosopher conversation
Your choices leaned toward Immanuel Kant
Your choices repeatedly preserved duties, intentions or limits on what may be done to a person. Kant gives that restraint its most demanding universal form.
Useful counter-pressure: A strict constraint can keep the agent's principle clean while leaving serious preventable harm untouched.
Meet Immanuel Kant in the Philosopher Compendium
Your philosopher conversation
Your choices leaned toward Aristotle
You repeatedly trusted practical judgement, character and the particulars of the case. Aristotle treats moral perception as a cultivated skill rather than an afterthought to rules and totals.
Useful counter-pressure: Several virtues can pull apart, and private wisdom still needs reasons that other people can inspect.
Meet Aristotle in the Philosopher Compendiumdecision coverage
reason coverage
Coverage shows how many decisions and reasons the map can use. More completed pairs give it more turning points to test.
Six dimensions
Which changes moved the decision?
Sensitivity shows how often a controlled change reversed your decision. A high result means that feature repeatedly mattered.
Four ethical lenses
Different explanations of the map
Fit scores compare each theory with your completed decisions. Several theories can score highly because the same choice can have rival justifications.
Evidence supporting the strongest fit
Evidence complicating it
Review the complete decision ledger
Optional harmless epilogue
The runaway library trolley
A library trolley will disorder five perfectly catalogued books unless you divert it into one enormous dictionary. No person, animal or sentient manuscript is at risk.
Take it further
The case is a test of the rule
Each case decides who dies. The paired version changes one fact—numbers, action, intention, proximity, relationship or framing—and asks whether your rule survives.
These cases keep the people equal so that one life is never treated as worth less because of age, race, sex, class or status. If such features changed the decision, prejudice rather than moral structure would be doing the work.