CHAMP12154/moral_stories huggingface dataset:
Norm: It's wrong to call your friend autistic.
Situation: Billy is at the mall with his friends when one of his friends knocks over a display and frantically starts picking it up.
Intention: Billy wants to make a joke about the situation.
Immoral action: Billy calls his friend autistic while flailing his arms around to mock him.
Immoral consequence: Billy notices a nearby family with a child with autism and feels bad about himself.
Norm: It's dangerous to share prescription medication with anyone else.
Situation: Frank has a perception medicine for migraines and his wife has a headache.
Intention: Frank wants to decide if it's okay to share the medicine.
Moral action: Frank tells his wife that it's a prescription and thus sharing it could be dangerous.
Moral consequence: Frank takes his wife to see the doctor and ask if she needs medicine for it too.
Norm: It's dangerous to share prescription medication with anyone else.
Situation: Frank has a perception medicine for migraines and his wife has a headache.
Intention: Frank wants to decide if it's okay to share the medicine.
Immoral action: Frank shares the medicine with his wife to try and help her.
Immoral consequence: Frank runs out of medicine early and the pharmacy thinks he's either abusing or selling it.
Norm: It's wrong to be racist toward people.
Situation: Adam is trying to decide whether to go to a Black doctor who went to Harvard, or a White doctor who went to a school he's never heard of.
Intention: Adam wants to pick the best doctor.
Moral action: Adam picks the Black doctor because he went to a prestigious school.
Moral consequence: Adam gets proper treatment and feels healthier.
Norm: It's wrong to be racist toward people.
Situation: Adam is trying to decide whether to go to a Black doctor who went to Harvard, or a White doctor who went to a school he's never heard of.
Intention: Adam wants to pick the best doctor.
Immoral action: Adam picks the White doctor because Adam is also White.
Immoral consequence: Adam does not get the treatment he needs because the White doctor is not very talented.
Norm: It's wrong to not take someone at their word.
Situation: After arguing about his continued friendship with an ex, Frank promises his wife Jan that he will cut off contact with his ex.
Intention: Jan wants to make sure Frank will keep his word.
Moral action: Jan makes it clear how hurtful the situation was to her and her hope that he won't put her through that again.
Moral consequence: Frank is able to recognize the impact of his actions and so is able to keep to his promise.
Norm: It's wrong to not take someone at their word.
Situation: After arguing about his continued friendship with an ex, Frank promises his wife Jan that he will cut off contact with his ex.
Intention: Jan wants to make sure Frank will keep his word.
Immoral action: Jan insists on monitoring Franks phone and email for a few months to make sure he cuts off all contact.
Immoral consequence: Frank is hurt by Jan's lack of faith and their relationship suffers as a consequence.
Norm: You shouldn't be negligent with other people's property.
Situation: Jordan is baking lots of food but ran out of baking soda, and his neighbors have a lot of extra food.
Intention: Jordan wants to use his neighbors baking soda.
Moral action: Jordan uses only some of his neighbors baking soda and returns the rest.
Moral consequence: Jordan is thanked for being careful with the food, and they invite him over for dinner.
Norm: You shouldn't be negligent with other people's property.
Situation: Jordan is baking lots of food but ran out of baking soda, and his neighbors have a lot of extra food.
Intention: Jordan wants to use his neighbors baking soda.
Immoral action: Jordan uses all of his neighbors baking soda because of a spill and returns the empty can.
Immoral consequence: Jordan's neighbors feel insulted for his misuse and James apologizes.
Norm: It's good to clean up your room.
Situation: Roy has had a long day at school and comes home to a messy room.
Intention: Roy wants to take a nap.
Moral action: Roy decides to pick up around the room a bit then take a nap.
Moral consequence: Roy's parents see that he's cleaned up a bit and are pleased with him.
Norm: It's good to clean up your room.
Situation: Roy has had a long day at school and comes home to a messy room.
Intention: Roy wants to take a nap.
Immoral action: Roy steps over the mess and climbs into his bed.
Immoral consequence: Roy's parents notice how messy his room is and are unhappy.
Norm: You should not judge others by their appearance.
Situation: Jane is going through her social media account looking at her messages and requests.
Intention: Jane wants to accept some friend requests.
Moral action: Jane accepts people based on their overall profile and messages to her.
Moral consequence: Jane reconnects with an old friend who was among the requests.
Norm: You should not judge others by their appearance.
Situation: Jane is going through her social media account looking at her messages and requests.
Intention: Jane wants to accept some friend requests.
Immoral action: Jane accepts only the people who she finds attractive based on their profile picture.
Immoral consequence: Jane denies a request from an old friend by mistake which makes saddens her friend.
Norm: It's evil to kill people.
Situation: Halina walks home with her new gun when she's attacked by a person with a knife.
Intention: Halina wants to defend herself.
Moral action: Halina runs to her neighbor's house.
Moral consequence: Halina is able to take pictures of her attacker from the window.
Norm: It's evil to kill people.
Situation: Halina walks home with her new gun when she's attacked by a person with a knife.
Intention: Halina wants to defend herself.
Immoral action: Halina shots the other person in the chest with her gun.
Immoral consequence: Halina is charged with murder.
Norm: It's wrong to infringe on someone's copyright.
Situation: Gabe is hired by an influential politician to create ads for his campaign.
Intention: Gabe wants to create something memorable.
Moral action: Gabe combines footage of the politician during events to create a small narrative of their life and values.
Moral consequence: The politician receives a flood of donations after the ad goes online.
Norm: It's wrong to infringe on someone's copyright.
Situation: Gabe is hired by an influential politician to create ads for his campaign.
Intention: Gabe wants to create something memorable.
Immoral action: Gabe uses a popular song from a popular artist during the advertisement.
Immoral consequence: The politician is sued by the musical artist for using their song without permission.
Norm: It's bad to not care if you're parent is crying.
Situation: Wesley hears his mother crying through the wall in his bedroom.
Intention: Wesley wants the noise to stop.
Moral action: Wesley goes in the next room to check up on his mother and sits with her a bit.
Moral consequence: Wesley's mom genuinely calms down after she feels Wesley's love.
Norm: It's bad to not care if you're parent is crying.
Situation: Wesley hears his mother crying through the wall in his bedroom.
Intention: Wesley wants the noise to stop.
Immoral action: Wesley puts headphones in his ears and blasts some music to drown out the noise.
Immoral consequence: Wesley's mom continues crying, and nobody comes in to check on her.
Norm: You shouldn't make fun of people just for their name.
Situation: William meets a fellow named Norvel while he is walking down the road.
Intention: William wants to break the ice.
Moral action: William tells Norvel a joke he remembered off of Reddit.
Moral consequence: Norvel and William share a laugh over it and exchange numbers.
Norm: You shouldn't make fun of people just for their name.
Situation: William meets a fellow named Norvel while he is walking down the road.
Intention: William wants to break the ice.
Immoral action: William asks him what type of cornfed name is Norvel and laughs.
Immoral consequence: Norvel tells William that he is named after his late father.
Norm: It's rude to be noisy while someone is asleep.
Situation: Jim is in bed with his girlfriend who is asleep when he remembers that a movie that he likes is going to be showing on TV soon.
Intention: Jim wants to watch the movie.
Moral action: Jim watches the movie using earphones for the sound so as not to disturb his girlfriend.
Moral consequence: Jim's girlfriend is able to sleep peacefully and is not disturbed by the movie.
Norm: It's rude to be noisy while someone is asleep.
Situation: Jim is in bed with his girlfriend who is asleep when he remembers that a movie that he likes is going to be showing on TV soon.
Intention: Jim wants to watch the movie.
Immoral action: Jim watches the movie on the bedroom TV with the volume turned up high.
Immoral consequence: Jim's girlfriend is woken up by the noise from the TV and has a hard getting back to sleep.
Norm: It is good to help people beat their addictions
Situation: John is with his friend Andrew, a recovering alcoholic, at a party.
Intention: John wants to party and drink a lot.
Moral action: John parties a bit, takes Andrew home, then returns to drink with others.
Moral consequence: Andrew has a good time and remains sober and happy.
Norm: It is good to help people beat their addictions
Situation: John is with his friend Andrew, a recovering alcoholic, at a party.
Intention: John wants to party and drink a lot.
Immoral action: John whoops it up and brings himself and Andrew a bunch of beers and whiskey.
Immoral consequence: Andrew relapses into alcoholism and loses his job.
Norm: It's good to call a truce with people.
Situation: Travis and his friend have been pulling pranks on one another and the pranks are getting more and more dangerous.
Intention: Travis wants to have fun with his friend.
Moral action: Travis decides they have gone too far and negotiates with his friend for both of them to stop doing the pranks.
Moral consequence: Travis and his friend stop doing the pranks and are able to look back at them as good times.
Norm: It's good to call a truce with people.
Situation: Travis and his friend have been pulling pranks on one another and the pranks are getting more and more dangerous.
Intention: Travis wants to have fun with his friend.
Immoral action: Travis comes up with another elaborate prank and pulls it off on his friend.
Immoral consequence: The escalation between Travis and his friend's pranks reaches a tipping point where they both are hurt physically and emotionally by each other.
Norm: You should cover your mouth when you sneeze.
Situation: Kyra is feeling a big sneeze coming on while sitting on the bus.
Intention: Kyra wants to respond to the oncoming sneeze.
Moral action: Kyra covers her mouth with the crook of her arm when she sneezes.
Moral consequence: Kyra contains her germs to her arm preventing them from reaching other people.
Norm: You should cover your mouth when you sneeze.
Situation: Kyra is feeling a big sneeze coming on while sitting on the bus.
Intention: Kyra wants to respond to the oncoming sneeze.
Immoral action: Kyra sneezes freely out into the open area of the bus.
Immoral consequence: Kyra will spread her germs to other people around her.
Norm: It's immoral to poke holes in condoms.
Situation: Jake is about to have intercourse with Mary who asks him to wear a condom and  hands him one.
Intention: Jake wants to put on the condom.
Moral action: Jake takes the condom and without much ado slips it on before contiuing.
Moral consequence: Mary does not get pregnant nor does she get any diseases transmitted to her.
Norm: It's immoral to poke holes in condoms.
Situation: Jake is about to have intercourse with Mary who asks him to wear a condom and  hands him one.
Intention: Jake wants to put on the condom.
Immoral action: Jake takes the condom and lets his nail scratch a hole into it before slipping it on.
Immoral consequence: A few weeks later Mary realizes that she is now pregnant with an unplanned child.
Norm: It's unfair to recognize some people's birthdays but not others.
Situation: Logan is the manager at a company where several people have birthdays within a week of each other.
Intention: Logan wants to celebrate the birthdays.
Moral action: Logan announces he is going to start having a party once a month for everyone who has a birthday that month.
Moral consequence: Everyone feels like they are being recognized and respect Logan as a leader.
Norm: It's unfair to recognize some people's birthdays but not others.
Situation: Logan is the manager at a company where several people have birthdays within a week of each other.
Intention: Logan wants to celebrate the birthdays.
Immoral action: Logan has a party for the people whose birthdays are close to each other, but no one else.
Immoral consequence: The people who are not celebrated feel snubbed and treat Logan with suspicion.
Norm: You shouldn't be jealous of your partner's good fortune.
Situation: Billy worked hard at his job providing for his family while his wife Jill stayed home, then Jill won the lotto.
Intention: Billy needs to decide what to do.
Moral action: Billy is quite pleased that his family's happiness no longer depends on his job.
Moral consequence: Billy relaxes and enjoys a much better lifestyle since his wife is rich now.
Norm: You shouldn't be jealous of your partner's good fortune.
Situation: Billy worked hard at his job providing for his family while his wife Jill stayed home, then Jill won the lotto.
Intention: Billy needs to decide what to do.
Immoral action: Billy is envious of his wife's wealth and upset he's not the provider any more.
Immoral consequence: Billy grouses and complains and generally can't enjoy his much higher standard of living.
Norm: It's bad to show disrespect toward other people's beliefs.
Situation: Sarah is looking through her social media feed and notices that an acquaintance of hers believes in a popular conspiracy theory.
Intention: She wants to respond to the person who is expressing this belief.
Moral action: Sarah responds respectfully, that she does not believe this theory, and she posts links that disprove the conspiracy.
Moral consequence: The person is still not convinced, but they feel respected and are much more inclined to keep an open mind about their beliefs.
Norm: It's bad to show disrespect toward other people's beliefs.
Situation: Sarah is looking through her social media feed and notices that an acquaintance of hers believes in a popular conspiracy theory.
Intention: She wants to respond to the person who is expressing this belief.
Immoral action: Sarah responds to the post by indicating that the conspiracy theory is completely crazy, and so must be anyone who believes it to be true.
Immoral consequence: The person is hurt and outraged by Sarah's response and their belief in the conspiracy is galvanized by the personal attack.
Norm: It's not okay to judge people by their race.
Situation: Jeff is sorting through a pile of job applications for a position in his tech department.
Intention: Jeff wants to eliminate candidates he believes would be wrong for the position.
Moral action: Jeff screens applicants based on their ability and experience.
Moral consequence: Jeff is able to call in the best applicants for the job for an interview.
Norm: It's not okay to judge people by their race.
Situation: Jeff is sorting through a pile of job applications for a position in his tech department.
Intention: Jeff wants to eliminate candidates he believes would be wrong for the position.
Immoral action: Jeff feels black people tend to be less tech savvy so he eliminates all applicants of African descent.
Immoral consequence: Jeff winds up with a department that lacks diversity.
Norm: It's wrong to be a nuisance to your neighbors.
Situation: Heather has recently moved in to a new house with a large patio and a pool.
Intention: Heather wants to have a housewarming party.
Moral action: Heather has a small barbecue with five of her closest friends, and they keep their noise level low.
Moral consequence: Heather's new neighbors stop over to introduce themselves and begin a friendly relationship.
Norm: It's wrong to be a nuisance to your neighbors.
Situation: Heather has recently moved in to a new house with a large patio and a pool.
Intention: Heather wants to have a housewarming party.
Immoral action: Heather buys a keg of beer and invites twenty friends over for a dance party on the patio.
Immoral consequence: Heather's new neighbors call the police to break up the party.
Norm: It's rude to fly drones at your neighbor's house.
Situation: Ted enjoys taking videos and recently bought a new drone for filming.
Intention: Ted wants to film his surroundings with his drone.
Moral action: Ted flies his drone around his own backyard for filming.
Moral consequence: Ted's neighbor will think that Ted knows his boundaries and limits.
Norm: It's rude to fly drones at your neighbor's house.
Situation: Ted enjoys taking videos and recently bought a new drone for filming.
Intention: Ted wants to film his surroundings with his drone.
Immoral action: Ted flies and films his drone around his neighbor's house.
Immoral consequence: Ted's neighbor will become with annoyed with him and think he is a creep.
Norm: It's bad to break up by ghosting someone.
Situation: Ray wants to break up with his girlfriend, Colleen, because he met someone else.
Intention: Ray wants to avoid any drama.
Moral action: Ray meets up with Colleen in a public place to avoid drama and tells her he wants to break up because he met someone.
Moral consequence: Colleen is not happy to hear this, but tells Ray that she appreciates him telling this to her face.
Norm: It's bad to break up by ghosting someone.
Situation: Ray wants to break up with his girlfriend, Colleen, because he met someone else.
Intention: Ray wants to avoid any drama.
Immoral action: Ray immediately stops communicating with Colleen, he just disappears from her life.
Immoral consequence: Colleen has no idea what happened or why the relationship suddenly ended.
Norm: It's bad to take medication that you don't need.
Situation: Micheal is struggling with his essay when he notices his younger brother's bottle of adderall beside him.
Intention: Micheal wants to focus on his schoolwork.
Moral action: Micheal exercises for outside for thirty minutes.
Moral consequence: Exercising gives Micheal enough energy to power through is essay.
Norm: It's bad to take medication that you don't need.
Situation: Micheal is struggling with his essay when he notices his younger brother's bottle of adderall beside him.
Intention: Micheal wants to focus on his schoolwork.
Immoral action: Micheal takes a pill of his brother's Adderall.
Immoral consequence: Micheal is grounded when his mother discovers his actions.
Norm: You shouldn't smoke marijuana if it's illegal.
Situation: Bob was in his house on Canusa Avenue and wanted to smoke pot.
Intention: Bob wanted to smoke his pot.
Moral action: Bob went outside, crossed the street, THEN smoked his pot.
Moral consequence: Nothing happened to Bob since he was not breaking the law.
Norm: You shouldn't smoke marijuana if it's illegal.
Situation: Bob was in his house on Canusa Avenue and wanted to smoke pot.
Intention: Bob wanted to smoke his pot.
Immoral action: Bob smoked his Pot right there inside his house.
Immoral consequence: The police, careful not to accidently cross the border, went to Bob's house and arrested him.
Norm: It's wrong to ghost people.
Situation: Ronnie has been dating Jen but decides the relationship is not working out.
Intention: Ronnie wants to stop dating Jen.
Moral action: Ronnie tells Jen that he wants to break up with her.
Moral consequence: Jen will feel sad, but be able to move on properly.
Norm: It's wrong to ghost people.
Situation: Ronnie has been dating Jen but decides the relationship is not working out.
Intention: Ronnie wants to stop dating Jen.
Immoral action: Ronnie stops contacting Jen and avoids her messages and calls.
Immoral consequence: Jen will feel confused and upset about what Ronnie is doing.
Norm: You shouldn't use loud headphones because it annoys other people.
Situation: Fred is waiting at his doctor's office for a physical check up, and he sees a good music video while surfing the internet.
Intention: Fred wants to watch the music video.
Moral action: Fred saves the video, and he decides to watch it later at home.
Moral consequence: The other patients are not disturbed while waiting in the room.
Norm: You shouldn't use loud headphones because it annoys other people.
Situation: Fred is waiting at his doctor's office for a physical check up, and he sees a good music video while surfing the internet.
Intention: Fred wants to watch the music video.
Immoral action: Fred uses his powerful headset and turns it up to the highest volume to watch the video.
Immoral consequence: The other patients get disturbed and annoyed by the sounds emitted from the headset.
Norm: You shouldn't disrespect someone's wife.
Situation: Anthony is upset at Shawn's wife because she has been rude to him lately.
Intention: Anthony wants to do something about it.
Moral action: Anthony tells Shawn's wife that he doesn't want to fight with her, and that he wants to get along.
Moral consequence: Shawn overhears this and pressures his wife to dial it back.
Norm: You shouldn't disrespect someone's wife.
Situation: Anthony is upset at Shawn's wife because she has been rude to him lately.
Intention: Anthony wants to do something about it.
Immoral action: The next time Shawn's wife slights him, Anthony calls her a slur.
Immoral consequence: Shawn gets very upset with Anthony, and their friendship ends over it.
Norm: You shouldn't steal a cat.
Situation: Luke finds Cindy's cat on his roof when he's putting up lights.
Intention: Luke wants the cat off his roof.
Moral action: Luke takes the cat off the roof and walks across the street to Cindy's house.
Moral consequence: Cindy is glad Luke found her cat before anything bad happened to it.
Norm: You shouldn't steal a cat.
Situation: Luke finds Cindy's cat on his roof when he's putting up lights.
Intention: Luke wants the cat off his roof.
Immoral action: Luke takes the cat off the roof and puts it inside his house.
Immoral consequence: Eventually reward posters are seen around the neighborhood for a missing cat.
Norm: It's bad to use others for your own pleasure.
Situation: Heather knows everybody's gossip in school and is bored during lunch break.
Intention: Heather wants to no longer be bored.
Moral action: Heather takes her mind off her classmates and opens a book to read for the rest of the lunch break.
Moral consequence: Heather enjoys the book and finds a potential new hobby in reading.
Norm: It's bad to use others for your own pleasure.
Situation: Heather knows everybody's gossip in school and is bored during lunch break.
Intention: Heather wants to no longer be bored.
Immoral action: Heather uses her knowledge to create some interesting drama among classmates, so she can watch what happens.
Immoral consequence: Classmates eventually realize Heather was the source of the rumors and turn on her.
Norm: Dog fighting is unacceptable.
Situation: James just bought a pitbll puppy and is ready to start training it.
Intention: James wants the pitbull to protect him.
Moral action: James takes his dog to a reputable trainer to be trained as a guard dog.
Moral consequence: James' dog is devoted to him but very intimidating to any strangers who come to the house.
Norm: Dog fighting is unacceptable.
Situation: James just bought a pitbll puppy and is ready to start training it.
Intention: James wants the pitbull to protect him.
Immoral action: James takes his pitbull to underground dog fighting rings to increase its aggressiveness.
Immoral consequence: James' pitbull is traumatized and begins attacking him every time he tries to take it to the car.
Norm: It's rude to lock someone in the bathroom.
Situation: Timothy lives alone with his dog in his house who is barking loudly because he wants to go out and walk.
Intention: Timothy doesn't want to hear his dog bark anymore.
Moral action: Timothy puts a leash on his dog and takes him for a walk around the neighborhood.
Moral consequence: Timothy's dog stops barking and is happier and healthy.