Moral Consistency Audit

About the audit

What this tool is actually doing

The rest of this site measures other people — states, countries, officeholders. This page turns the same question inward, and it is deliberately the harder direction. The audit asks about ordinary situations rather than political opinions, then shows you where your stated values and your described reactions line up, and where they do not.

The gap it is looking for

Most people hold their principles sincerely. The interesting question is not whether you believe in honesty, fairness, or accountability — almost everyone says yes. It is whether the standard survives contact with inconvenience: when the person who broke the rule is someone you like, when the cost of consistency falls on you, or when the group applying pressure is your own.

That gap is the same one the Index measures at scale. A society does not usually decay because people abandon their values. It decays because the values quietly acquire exceptions.

How to read your result

The score is a prompt, not a grade. A number in the middle is the ordinary human result and does not indicate a defect. What is worth attention is not the total but the pattern — which category came out furthest from where you expected, and whether you can articulate a reason for the exception that you would still accept if someone on the other side of an argument offered it to you.

If the honest answer is that you would not accept it, that is a useful finding. It is also the only finding this tool is designed to produce.

What it is not

• Not a clinical or psychological instrument. It is not diagnostic, has not been validated as an assessment, and should not be used to draw conclusions about anyone’s mental health or character.
• Not a political test. It does not place you on a spectrum, assign a party, or infer how you vote. Questions are written to work the same way regardless of political alignment.
• Not a judgment. No result on this page says a person is good or bad. Consistency is a practice, not a personality trait, and the audit is a snapshot of one sitting.
• Not a hiring, screening, or evaluation tool. It should not be used by anyone to assess another person.

Your answers

Completing the audit does not require an email address, and the brief result appears on screen as soon as you finish. Providing an address afterwards is optional and is used to send the detailed category breakdown described on the form. How that address is stored and used is set out in full in the Privacy Policy.

Where to go next

If the audit is useful, the natural companion to it is the evidence side of the project: the State and Country Index for measured social conditions, the Methodology for how those measurements are built and what they cannot show, and Insights and Analysis for the case-by-case record.

This is a reflection exercise offered in good faith. If working through it raises something you would rather talk over with a person than a web page, that instinct is a sound one — talk it over with someone you trust.