The Robin Hood Morality Test

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MM, LJ, SN, RH

You are essentially a contented person, even if you consider yourself a little superior. You are moral by your own standards, for you believe that morality is what best suits the occasion.

Women: You like being a woman, you understand what love is, and frankly enjoy sex.

The only problem I had with the test was that we didn't find out if Little John was true to his word. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but he might be just wanting to have his wicked way with Marion, now that Robin Hood is out of the picture. He hasn't done anything immoral yet, but Robin and the Sheriff did. Marion was given a choice and decided she wanted her man to be freed above anything else. I don't see her as immoral and she's definitely honest. Although infidelity is not something I would readily support, her reason on this occasion was selfless. The Sheriff was also true to his word, as he freed the guys. In my opinion, Robin is the real villain - Marion only slept with the Sheriff because she loves you, Robin!

Lol, I agree with this assessment to an extent, and actually I am regretting the order I picked. I think there are really only 4 moral possibilites that can be considered. MM and LJ are the most moral and SN and RH are the least moral. However, the first two and the last two are somewhat interchangeable, depending on your specific points of view.

On the other hand, their assessment of you that you frankly enjoy sex is kind of ridiculous.

Obviously the test is silly, but I could make a hard case if I truly wanted to that there are really only 4 logical possibilites that are moral.

I have a hard time defending the morality of any other possibility, unless the person has not thought through the problem sufficiently.

I know, how could they possibly tell that from my analysis of the story.

I got the same as you Mummy_of_Peanut
I don't think I'm superior
I don't know what (romantic) love is
I don't frankly enjoy sex (or all the complications)
but
I do apply morals to the situation.
I can't see how anyone would pick Robin Hood as the most moral and honest. I thought he was a jerk.

I got the same as you its total bs! Also many I add speaking as a Welshman now (via blood my father is Welsh by birth) I find it
highly immoral and offensive to the Welsh people to talk about English mythological propaganda on Saint David's Day.

Happy St David's Day. Nice avatar.

^^ Sorry my dragon's blue and not red. I think I'll go look for another pic (just for today).

Thank my fellow Celt, to hell with the bloody Saxons

I'll count the act of speaking a truth as good, even though it seems neutral to me.

The sheriff arrests two criminals. He is doing a good act, two really.
Marion attempts to free two criminals, and sells her body to do so. Bad, bad, and bad. (another possible bad, if her plead of love was false, which if is isnt, she breaks her self integrity here, bad, but if she is lying, well, bad)
The sheriff made the proposition, and folows through with his end, and releases two criminals. Bad, good, bad, bad.
Robin acts like a twat, bad.
Marion tells the truth, good.
Lj and Marion hook up, nuetral, but confirming the above ( ) as either a lie, breaking self integrity, or possibly out of spite to Robin.

Sum
Sheriff good, good, bad, good, bad, bad. Nuetral.
Marion bad, bad, bad, bad, good. +3 bad
Robin bad. +1 bad
Lj Nuetral

Order:
Lj/Sheriff then Robin then Marion

Marion was the primary character, she initiated a disruption in the system, and her choices perpetuated the chain of events, primarily.

Honesty is kind of a misleading category to base this on, as no one in the story displayed deception.

All that really remains is morality. And her acts of degrading her own integrity is the strongest moral wrong I see here. Second by her attempt to get two criminals released, and the sheriff releasing them, followed by Robin being a prick.

Any way I read it, she is the most morally compromised in this story. And Lj the least.

edit; The trick is to be non biased by what you know about the characters, it says to judge only by what we read in the story. To assist, replace the names with other names/people. Sheriff Rogers, Rachael (mm), Gerald (rh), Mike (lj)

lol thats ok if I can't find a Welsh ale in the pub today then I'll go for a Scottish brew
Harviestoun and Caledonain do brew great Scottish beer.

You are fairly broadminded romantic and reasonably contented. You value kindness greatly and try to live by your ideals. You do not conceal from yourself, or from others, your strong need for security, which may be either emotional or material.

Women: Your experiences of men have not all been happy, perhaps because you hope for a little too much?

LJ,MM,RH,SN

Reasoning:

It was a toss up between LJ and MM as most moral. LJ shouldn't have taken advantage of the discord between MM and RH. MM was willing to make a sacrifice for love, but I don't think MM showed love toward RH, first by agreeing to SN's proposal when she surely knew how he would feel about it, and then by being so quick to ride off into the sunset with LJ. RH is an ass, and ungrateful, but he is acting according to his morality. SN is just an unscrupulous, immoral jerk, first by making the condition and then by accepting her agreement to go through with it when he's put her under duress.

I pretty much agree with the summary, although I wouldn't say I'm contented. I think it's very possible that I hope for a little too much from men, but I don't think that my standards are unreasonably high-- and I've learned my lesson about setting them too low.

LJ, MM, RH, SN

Not a great description of me, although I do try to live by my ideals. The the part about idealizing women seems a little bit off considering I'm gay.

LJ, RJ, MM, SN

loool I'm suspicious of people in general, but yes I am cautious and insecure. Here's my reasoning for the order I chose:

The sheriff is a corrupt bastard who will break the law just for some action while Maid Marion is willing to not only spread her legs (It kinda defeats the whole purpose?) for someone else but arbitrarily put Robin Hood above the law just because she loves him. Robin Hood is understandably mad about her spreading her legs for another man but he is still ungrateful for his freedom since with that freedom he can find another woman rather than be butt buddies with Little Johnny in his cell. Little Johnny is an opportunist but not nearly as much as the sheriff and Maid Marion.

Here is my order. LJ,MM,SN,RH

Little John, The Sheriff, Maid Marion, Robin Hood.

According to the next page:

Not sure about this analysis. Morality, indeed, I consider of relative rather than absolute value.
My feeling for security is, indeed, strong.
I would not rate reliability as one of my virtues.
I do not estimate women as the inferior sex, as they have seemingly achieved legal and moral superiority (more rights, less expectations) where I live.

Little John is the only person relatively consistent throughout the story, but that is mainly because the only time he does so much as speak out is at the end of the story.
The Sheriff, for the villainous type he is, has chosen to imprison Robin and John instead of simply having them killed or exiled, as would have made more sense in the time and place where Robin Hood stories are usually set.
Maid Marion is rather inconsistent, uses sex as a means to achieve any of her goals and manipulate the men around her, and seemingly dishonest to an extent where I understand where Robin Hood was coming from.
Robin Hood benefits from Maid Marion's manipulation of the Sheriff, then leaves her to pursue what I assume is a longer career in crime.

interesting answers. the analyses seem to be mostly crap, but interesting to read. i agreed a little bit with mine - i was using too many criteria in assessing morality so my resulting list was based on a messy mixture of ideas.