RMQ
Role-Model Quotient
A reflective tool on responsibility and justice
Scores are self-attributed, based on
your own understanding of the
definitions provided.
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Your results help you reflect on the
alignment between your values,
your actions, and your life conditions.
Role Model
We are all someone’s role model, whether we see it or not. An person who influences others is therefore a role model for them. His attitude is a collage of his own selection of attitudes of the individuals who are role models for him.
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His notoriety determines the impact that his influence has on his entourage and environment. However, simply being seen for a few seconds by another individual can have dramatic consequences. On this basis, the slightest irresponsible gesture can, due to imitation, have catastrophic consequences. A celebrity who commits an irresponsible gesture multiplies the impact by the extent of his notoriety. A person who endorses an irresponsible celebrity contributes to perpetuating unhealthy conditions for the world.
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If the goal of each and every one is to be happy, to achieve our goals, we need access to what gives us pleasure. However, life in society requires moderation. An exemplary model of behavior must therefore know how to responsibly dose its consumption (healthy and necessary selfishness) and its distribution (reasonable altruism). The dosage must be done according to any good or service having the slightest value.
Definitions
Role-Model
An exemplary role model is a hypothetical reference figure who demonstrates maximal responsibility, altruism, and coherence of values.
This figure is not a real person and serves only as an ethical benchmark.
Altruism (Necessary Altruism)
Actions or intentions primarily directed toward the well-being of others, including acts that may involve personal risk or sacrifice when such sacrifice is necessary and justified.
Necessary Selfishness
Any action or intention primarily directed toward one’s own well-being that is necessary to maintain one’s capacity to act altruistically (e.g., eating, resting, protecting one’s health).
Unintentional and intentional harm
Excessive Altruism
The act of risking or sacrificing one’s own well-being for a cause that does not require such sacrifice, resulting in avoidable harm to oneself.
Stupidity
Any thought or action that is careless, negligent, or lacking consideration, resulting in harm or risk of harm, without intentionality.
Maliciousness
Any act of carelessness or negligence committed intentionally and with full knowledge of the facts, resulting in harm.
Assessment
Give yourself a grade for each of the parameters below. For every second slider ("Their" slider), do the same for the person you choose as your comparison.
Behavioral
Necessary Altruism
Rate your effort in developing your habit of doing things for the benefit of others first and foremost (if you are exemplary in terms of courage (i.e. risking or sacrificing your own well-being for the good of a cause that is of necessary altruism) and extreme altruism, you should give yourself 100% of the points).
Necessary Selfishness
Evaluate your effort to develop your habit of being reasonable and not excessive in taking care of yourself (necessary selfishness: any necessary gesture or thought for primarily personal benefit (Necessary selfishness ensures the ability to practice altruism (e.g.: eating)).
Stupidity (Towards self)
Rate your level of stupidity (any thought or action that is careless or negligent) toward your own well-being over the past year.
Stupidity (Towards others)
Rate your level of stupidity (any thought or action of carelessness or negligence) regarding the well-being of others over the past year.
Excessive Altruism
Rate your level of excessive altruism (risking or sacrificing one's own well-being for the sake of a cause that is not needed) over the past year.
Maliciousness
Rate your level of maliciousness (any act of stupidity committed intentionally and with full knowledge of the facts) over the past year.
Net Worth
Compare your net worth with that of the person you are comparing yourself to, as 10 points represents the wealthiest magnate in the world today.
Make sure that the 10 points on the slider corresponds to the wealth of the richest magnate in the world today.
Domains
This is how I rate my effort at...
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Defending and promoting the well-being of all living beings (respect for the environment and nature) by giving priority care to the future (your Ecological Quotient);
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Defending and promoting the well-being of every human being;
Taking care of myself
Defending and promoting the well-being of social groups that I consider to be worthy and responsible, giving priority to the most altruistic social groups;