How do your values shape your view?

An Axiological Framework for Understanding Ethical Disagreement

How Values Impact Your Views

Complex issues rarely have simple answers. By revealing the ethical foundations underlying different viewpoints, this tool helps you understand how your values shape your views—and why others reach different conclusions.

Assess Your Values

Takes 3-5 minutes · Discover your ethical profile across multiple themes

The Four Ethical Objectives
Everyone weighs these values differently, leading to different policy preferences

Minimizing Human Suffering

Eliminating harm, protecting vulnerable populations, and preventing worst-case scenarios. The negative utilitarian mandate.

Maximizing Human Happiness

Fostering flourishing, creativity, innovation, and individual liberty. The positive utilitarian mandate.

Creating an Equitable Society

Ensuring fair distribution of opportunities and outcomes. The Rawlsian mandate for distributive justice.

Preserving Institutional Stability

Maintaining trust in core institutions, social cohesion, and cultural continuity. The communitarian mandate.

Themes We Explore

Your assessment will reveal how your values shape your views across these domains

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AI Labor Displacement
Which jobs should be automated, preserved, or augmented?

Explore how your values influence views on workforce automation across 70+ occupations like nurses, truck drivers, judges, and artists.

Physical RiskEmpathyCreativityHigh Stakes
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Economic Policy
Where do you stand on taxes, housing, and healthcare?

Understand how your ethical priorities shape views on 50+ policies including wealth taxes, single-payer healthcare, housing regulation, and financial innovation.

Wealth InequalityBasic NeedsInnovationTrust

How It Works

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Discover Your Values

Answer pairwise comparison questions to reveal how you weigh the four ethical objectives. No right or wrong answers.

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See Your Perspective

View scores for jobs or policies based on your values. Understand why you favor or oppose specific options.

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Understand Others

See how people with different value profiles reach different conclusions. Build empathy across disagreement.

About This Tool

This tool uses an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to quantify ethical trade-offs. By making value weights explicit, it reveals the hidden foundations of disagreement.

The goal is not to change your mind, but to establish a common framing for understanding why thoughtful people reach different conclusions on complex issues—enabling more productive dialogue and negotiation.