It's a series of polls/studies that you can take to evaluate your own moral decision-making process. Not the moral choices themselves, that is, so much as the grounds by which we make choices.
The first one, the "Moral Foundations Questionnaire," divides moral reasoning into five categories: Harm, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purity. It ranks your interest in each of these categories, and then generates a chart comparing it with the averages for liberals and conservatives.
I find this kind of thing compelling, because so many political conversations seem to involve people talking past each other. They're not connecting in some way; and I think a lot of our mutual frustration comes from that.
(Well, aside from the frustration that comes from not getting everything we want, of course. Which is also a big part of politics.)
Anyway. The differences are really striking. My entries are in green, conservatives' are in red, and liberals are blue. (Tsk, that's unreadable! Click on it to get a more legible chart.)
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