The hobgoblin of little minds

[qatarperegrine]

Justin pointed me at The Philosophers' Magazine. Check it out: philosophical games and tests! Here are my favorites, and my results:

• The Do-It-Yourself Deity: how internally consistent is your conception of God? (My god is 90% plausibile; I lost points for claiming that "if God ceased to exist so would everything else," given that there is no possible evidence that would support this.)


• Battleground God is like a game of battleship, in which you take a hit every time you make an inconsistent statement. (I took one hit, for saying it's OK to believe in God without evidence when I'd said it's not rational to believe in other beings without evidence. But God isn't a being, so that's OK with me.)


• Philosophical Health Check: how many tensions are there in your beliefs? (Oddly, zero. Not a very insightful test, then!)


• Morality Play: how parsimonious is your moral framework? (84%; the only distinction I made was between acts and omissions.)


• Taboo: how much do taboos and "the yuk factor" affect your moral judgements? (Very little: .13 moralizing, 0 interference & universalizing.)