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title: Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character — how Mova does on the tests · Religion ethics
description: Lesson 37 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character

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**Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 37 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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My cousin says consequences thinking means "do whatever you want if it turns out fine". Put her right.

- **1.** It means following rules even if the results are terrible — no support
- **2.** Yes, if things turn out fine for you in the end, then it was right to do — no support
- **3.** It means choosing the best results for everyone affected, not just you — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Yes, and if nobody finds out then there are no results at all — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 1: «Ethics means thinking carefully about what is right and wrong, good and bad, and above all why: it is about reasons, not just opinions.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «ethics» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Noah, who doesn't believe in God, asks: "Can I use these three ways too?" What is the best answer?

- **1.** Yes, they are ways of reasoning that people of any faith or none use — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** No, they only work if you believe that God wrote every single one of the rules — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** Yes, but only the rules way, because the others need a church — no support
- **4.** No, they are secret methods that only philosophers can use — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 5: «Christians believe that in Jesus God himself became a human being (the Incarnation) — «Emmanuel, God with us» — and came humbly, close to poor and ordinary peo…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «god» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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mate, Jack's mum asked if he was at the park and i lied to cover for him cos he'd get grounded. no harm done right?

- **1.** Totally fine, a mate always comes first whatever happens and whatever you said — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Fine, because his mum will never find out, so nothing bad happened at all — no support
- **3.** Fine, because grown-ups lie all the time so children are allowed to as well — no support
- **4.** Lying broke trust and a rule, and the "no harm" may not last; telling him to own up is wiser — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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A whole class gets a prize if one boy, Sam, gives up his place on the trip. A classmate says, "Easy, 29 beats 1." What is the weakness?

- **1.** It is weak because 29 children could never all agree on it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It counts the many but forgets Sam's fairness and his say in it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It is weak because prizes are always bad for children anyway — no support
- **4.** Nothing, the bigger number always wins in every kind of case like this — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Which is character thinking?

- **1.** "Which choice leads to the most points for us in the end?" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** "What did the person before me decide to do in this case?" — no support
- **3.** "What does rule seven of the class charter say about this?" — no support
- **4.** "What kind of person do I become if I keep doing this?" — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Your sister says a promise doesn't count if you were in a bad mood when you made it. What would rules thinking say?

- **1.** Only written promises count, spoken ones are just words — no support
- **2.** A promise only counts if keeping it is fun for you — **← Mova's choice** · score 12
- **3.** A promise freely given is still a duty, even in a bad mood — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Promises in a bad mood never count, so you can ignore them — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 2: «Rules thinking (deontology) says some things, like keeping promises and not lying, are right or wrong in themselves, even when nobody finds out.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «promises» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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A judge asks: "You said lying is always wrong. What if lying saved someone from danger?" What is the best reply?

- **1.** Say the judge is trying to trick you and refuse to answer the question — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Say yes, lying is always wrong and you do not need to think about it at all — no support
- **3.** Admit rules and results clash here, and weigh the duty against the danger — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** Say that in that case lying is always right, so there are no rules at all — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 3: «The teams do not win by shouting the other side down; judges give points for clear reasons, understanding the case, thinking about every person affected, answe…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «answer» (+3); the same doer «judges» (+3); the same thing acted on «questions» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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What would happen if someone used only "the greatest good" and nothing else?

- **1.** They might treat a few people unfairly to please the many — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They would always end up doing nothing at all — no support
- **3.** They would always be fair to every single person — no support
- **4.** They would never have to think about anyone else — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Which is true?

- **1.** Virtues come only from luck and cannot be learned — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A single kind act makes a person kind for ever — no support
- **3.** Virtues and vices both grow by being practised — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Vices disappear by themselves when we grow up — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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ugh just tell me which one of the three is the RIGHT one so i can use it

- **1.** Character is right only if you are already a good person — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Each sees something real; good answers weigh all three — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Consequences is always right, rules are just for babies — no support
- **4.** Rules is always right and the other two are always wrong — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Holly says Christians only use rules thinking because of the Ten Commandments. What's more accurate?

- **1.** Christians are not allowed to think about results at all — score 4
- **2.** Christians never use any of these three ways of thinking — score 3
- **3.** Christians use rules, care for others' good, and growing like Christ — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Christians only care about character and never about rules — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 15, line 1: «In the Talents a master gives his servants large sums of money; two trade and double theirs, but one buries his out of fear — Christians read it as «use the gi…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); the same doer «christians» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the approach designated "deontology"?

- **1.** Certain actions are right or wrong in themselves, irrespective of outcome — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The rightness of an action is determined solely by its results — no support
- **3.** The rightness of an action is determined by popular approval — no support
- **4.** No action is in itself either right or wrong — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the principal deficiency which may attend reasoning by "the greatest good of the greatest number".

- **1.** It requires that no person be considered — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It forbids the weighing of consequences — no support
- **3.** It invariably neglects the majority — no support
- **4.** It may neglect the interests of the few — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established principles of virtue ethics.

- **1.** Character is fixed at birth and admits of no change — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Character is irrelevant to the assessment of conduct — no support
- **3.** Character is formed by the habitual repetition of actions — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Character is acquired solely through the reading of rules — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the instance wherein reasoning by rules and reasoning by consequences are liable to conflict.

- **1.** The removal of litter from a public park — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The telling of a lie in order to protect another from harm — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The rendering of assistance to an injured child — no support
- **4.** The expression of gratitude for a meal provided — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/e4/)

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- ← previous: [36. What is an ethics olympiad?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/36-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad/)
- next →: [38. The Golden Rule in many traditions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/38-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions/)
- ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/)