Moral Status Survey

Moral Status Survey, part 1

Give me some information on yourself in Question 1, and then rate how much you agree with the statements in all the subsequent questions

Q.1

Your background (choose one) *

I am taking this survey as a part of a class
I just wandered in here from the internet.
Other:

Q.2

It is wrong to eat meat that has been raised in inhumane factory farm conditions.

Q.3

It is wrong to house the severely mentally disabled in hospitals with inhumane conditions.

Q.4

Aborting a fetus is equivalent to killing a normal adult human being, and should only be done in circumstances that would justify killing a normal adult human.

Q.5

Killing a normal chimpanzee is equivalent to killing a normal adult human being, and should only be done in circumstances that would justify killing a normal adult human being.

Q.6

The African practice of eating “bushmeat”, jungle animals including monkeys and chimpanzees, is cruel and unnecessary.

Q.7

Someday humans will make a robot that will legitimately demand that we respect its basic rights.

Q.8

If we encountered a planet full of of space aliens similar to us in their intelligence and society, there would be nothing morally wrong with exterminating the local population and taking the planet's resources back to Earth.

Q.9

Once someone falls into a permanent vegetative state, they are basically dead. The only thing being kept alive is their body, which is not significant for moral purposes.

Continue on to part II