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.
Takes 3-5 minutes · Discover your ethical profile across multiple themes
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
Explore how your values influence views on workforce automation across 70+ occupations like nurses, truck drivers, judges, and artists.
Understand how your ethical priorities shape views on 50+ policies including wealth taxes, single-payer healthcare, housing regulation, and financial innovation.
How It Works
Answer pairwise comparison questions to reveal how you weigh the four ethical objectives. No right or wrong answers.
View scores for jobs or policies based on your values. Understand why you favor or oppose specific options.
See how people with different value profiles reach different conclusions. Build empathy across disagreement.
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.