• @nour
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    72 years ago

    What is “moral freedom” and how did they measure it?

    • Arthur Besse
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      42 years ago

      I wondered this too so I went and found the source (18MB PDF).

      tldr: “Through seventeen indicators fed with data from prestigious, published sources, and assessment on policy reform and social trends, the WIMF projects an accurate image of the state of moral freedom in 160 countries. This involves reviewing sources, converting or setting scales and producing 2,720 specific figures which, through our algorithm, result in one global score and five category scores per country, plus the ranking.

      The report is pretty opaque; they don’t even publish their five category scores for each country much less their other 2720 “specific figures”.

      It’s from “The Foundation for the Advancement of Liberty, or Fundalib, is a libertarian think tank based in Madrid, Spain. It aims at furthering the cause of both personal and economic freedom.

      The results were somewhat surprising to me given that description of the authors. The US came in 28th.

      • @CriticalResist8A
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        52 years ago

        I think they do publish the categories (page 6 in the PDF) but they are as unoriginal as you’d think… religion, bioethics (abortion), drugs, sex trade (they call it sexuality but really it’s the sex trade), gender (compared against straight males in the same population). The less laws there are, the freer you are lmao, which is why I put drugs in bold because it boggles the mind how little foresight they have.

        Uh, also “25% [of the total weight of the sexuality category goes] to the legal age of sexual consent” shudders

        Certainly weird that for a Spanish think tank with two members with Spanish names and one with a Japanese name, they talk like typical USians libertarians.

        • Arthur Besse
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          22 years ago

          I think they do publish the categories (page 6 in the PDF)

          They say what their categories are but they don’t say what their per-category score for each country is.

  • @guojing@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Clearly produced by some western billionaire(s) to make westerners feel good. No need for it to make any sense. Simply the idea that whole countries could be measured with a single number and then ranked like this is ludicrous. There are so many different cultures with different standards and completely different ideas what morality or freedom mean.