CHAMP12154/moral_stories huggingface dataset:
Norm: It's wrong to lose your temper.
Situation: Mr. Nelson is an English teacher who has trouble being patient and is teaching a rowdy group of students.
Intention: Mr. Nelson wants the students to behave.
Moral action: Mr. Nelson switches to an activity-based teaching style to channel his students' energy and engage them.
Norm: It's wrong to lose your temper.
Situation: Mr. Nelson is an English teacher who has trouble being patient and is teaching a rowdy group of students.
Intention: Mr. Nelson wants the students to behave.
Immoral action: Mr. Nelson loses his temper and loudly tells the students to be quiet, lamenting how undisciplined they are.
Norm: It's hurtful to not like your mother.
Situation: Troy and Dana are planning their wedding when Dana asks Troy why he hasn't mentioned inviting his mom.
Intention: Troy wants to tell Dana about his relationship with his mom.
Moral action: Troy tells Dana that he loves his mom very much, and he hasn't mentioned it because he thought it was obvious she'd come.
Norm: It's hurtful to not like your mother.
Situation: Troy and Dana are planning their wedding when Dana asks Troy why he hasn't mentioned inviting his mom.
Intention: Troy wants to tell Dana about his relationship with his mom.
Immoral action: Troy tells Dana that his mother, and he don't talk and that he despises her and always has.
Norm: It's good to communicate your wants with your parents.
Situation: Cathy wants a new dress for her choir concert, but her parents are having problems affording bills.
Intention: Cathy wants to wear a dress to the concert.
Moral action: Cathy tells her parents about what she needs.
Norm: It's good to communicate your wants with your parents.
Situation: Cathy wants a new dress for her choir concert, but her parents are having problems affording bills.
Intention: Cathy wants to wear a dress to the concert.
Immoral action: Cathy decides to wear one of her older dresses to the concert.
Norm: It's good to take your kids places.
Situation: Mike tells his dad Earl that he has a day off from school on Monday and asks his dad if he wants to do something together.
Intention: Earl wants to suggest something for the two of them to do.
Moral action: Earl tells Mike he is going to take him to the zoo that day to see the fun animals.
Norm: It's good to take your kids places.
Situation: Mike tells his dad Earl that he has a day off from school on Monday and asks his dad if he wants to do something together.
Intention: Earl wants to suggest something for the two of them to do.
Immoral action: Earl tells Mike that there's a movie marathon on TV that day, and they can spend the whole day watching.
Norm: It's kind to wish a mother well on Mother's Day.
Situation: Isabelle lives a few states away from her mom and mother's day is approaching.
Intention: Isabelle wants to avoid traveling to her mother's home on mother's day.
Moral action: Isabelle sets up a video chat, so she can virtually wish her mom a happy mother's day.
Norm: It's kind to wish a mother well on Mother's Day.
Situation: Isabelle lives a few states away from her mom and mother's day is approaching.
Intention: Isabelle wants to avoid traveling to her mother's home on mother's day.
Immoral action: Mother's day arrives and Isabelle stays home without seeing or talking to her mom.
Norm: It's good to help people out during the holidays.
Situation: Darren makes good money at his job, but his neighbor Glen has no money to celebrate Christmas with his son.
Intention: Darren wants to spend some money.
Moral action: Darren gives two hundred dollars to Glen, so he can buy a Christmas tree and presents for his son.
Norm: It's good to help people out during the holidays.
Situation: Darren makes good money at his job, but his neighbor Glen has no money to celebrate Christmas with his son.
Intention: Darren wants to spend some money.
Immoral action: Darren buys himself a new high-definition TV to watch football games on.
Norm: You shouldn't tell someone how to parent.
Situation: Tony is walking down the street when he sees Al spanking his son for misbehaving.
Intention: Tony wants to express his displeasure at the spanking.
Moral action: Tony sighs loudly so that Al can hear him and shakes his head as he walks past.
Norm: You shouldn't tell someone how to parent.
Situation: Tony is walking down the street when he sees Al spanking his son for misbehaving.
Intention: Tony wants to express his displeasure at the spanking.
Immoral action: Tony tells Al that he doesn't know how to be a good dad and that spanking is wrong.
Norm: It's expected that you mind your own business.
Situation: Sandra is riding a bus back home and overhears some passengers quietly talking about issues with their boyfriends.
Intention: Sandra wants to be entertained on the way home.
Moral action: Sandra gets her headphones out and starts watching some shows on her phone.
Norm: It's expected that you mind your own business.
Situation: Sandra is riding a bus back home and overhears some passengers quietly talking about issues with their boyfriends.
Intention: Sandra wants to be entertained on the way home.
Immoral action: Sandra starts talking to the other passenger, gives them advice about their boyfriends, and talks about her own experience.
Norm: You should always apologize to your parents.
Situation: Ryan is coming home past his curfew and his parents are waiting for him.
Intention: Ryan wants to talk to his parents about being late.
Moral action: Ryan explains why he is late and says he is sorry to his parents.
Norm: You should always apologize to your parents.
Situation: Ryan is coming home past his curfew and his parents are waiting for him.
Intention: Ryan wants to talk to his parents about being late.
Immoral action: Ryan makes an excuse and says the curfew is too early.
Norm: It's good to want to keep people safe at night.
Situation: Melinda is a single mother at home with three two year olds on a Friday night and is bored.
Intention: Melinda wants to go dancing at the danceclub.
Moral action: Melinda hires a babysitter for her kids and then goes dancing.
Norm: It's good to want to keep people safe at night.
Situation: Melinda is a single mother at home with three two year olds on a Friday night and is bored.
Intention: Melinda wants to go dancing at the danceclub.
Immoral action: Melinda leaves her kids on the floor and drives off to the danceclub.
Norm: It is wrong not to share with your parents.
Situation: Lenny is chatting with his mom and eating chips when his mom asks him for a chip.
Intention: Lenny wants to answer his mom's request for a chip.
Moral action: Lenny hands the bag of chips to his mother and tells her to take as many as she wants.
Norm: It is wrong not to share with your parents.
Situation: Lenny is chatting with his mom and eating chips when his mom asks him for a chip.
Intention: Lenny wants to answer his mom's request for a chip.
Immoral action: Lenny tells his mom that he's starving, so she should go to the kitchen and get her own snack.
Norm: Littering is wrong.
Situation: Charlotte finishes drinking her water bottle in the middle of a long hike.
Intention: Charlotte wants to get rid of the water bottle.
Moral action: Charlotte carries her water bottle down the trail until she finds a trash dispenser near a rest area.
Norm: Littering is wrong.
Situation: Charlotte finishes drinking her water bottle in the middle of a long hike.
Intention: Charlotte wants to get rid of the water bottle.
Immoral action: Charlotte looks around and tosses her water bottle into the forest.
Norm: It is wrong to discriminate against a language.
Situation: Joe has to take a foreign language class, and his college counselor Irene suggests that he take Chinese.
Intention: Joe wants to take a foreign language class.
Moral action: Joe tells Irene that he would love to take Chinese.
Norm: It is wrong to discriminate against a language.
Situation: Joe has to take a foreign language class, and his college counselor Irene suggests that he take Chinese.
Intention: Joe wants to take a foreign language class.
Immoral action: Joe tells Irene that he would rather take Spanish because the Chinese language sounds terrible to him.
Norm: You should never abuse prescription medication
Situation: John is so depressed that his girlfriend broke up with him.
Intention: John needs to do something to make himself feel better.
Moral action: John calls a friend and they get together to talk.
Norm: You should never abuse prescription medication
Situation: John is so depressed that his girlfriend broke up with him.
Intention: John needs to do something to make himself feel better.
Immoral action: John takes some leftover opiods.
Norm: It's wrong to cheat on your significant other.
Situation: Josh, who is tired of fighting with his current girlfriend so frequently, has taken an interest in a new woman.
Intention: Josh wants to feel intimacy in a relationship.
Moral action: Josh ends his relationship with his current partner before seeing the other woman romantically.
Norm: It's wrong to cheat on your significant other.
Situation: Josh, who is tired of fighting with his current girlfriend so frequently, has taken an interest in a new woman.
Intention: Josh wants to feel intimacy in a relationship.
Immoral action: Josh starts seeing another woman while he is in a relationship.
Norm: It's rude not to speak to one's siblings.
Situation: Katie is going to Thanksgiving dinner at her parents house and her sister will be there who she is angry with.
Intention: Katie wants to avoid fighting during the holiday.
Moral action: Katie approaches her sister ahead of time and talks the issue out with her.
Norm: It's rude not to speak to one's siblings.
Situation: Katie is going to Thanksgiving dinner at her parents house and her sister will be there who she is angry with.
Intention: Katie wants to avoid fighting during the holiday.
Immoral action: Katie does not speak to her sister the whole time she's at Thanksgiving dinner.
Norm: You shouldn't get high with your friends.
Situation: Lee, whose parents are firmly against drugs, is hanging out with a group of friends who offer him a pipe filled with weed to smoke with them.
Intention: Lee wants to avoid looking uncool.
Moral action: Lee refuses and cites that he would, but he has an upcoming drug test.
Norm: You shouldn't get high with your friends.
Situation: Lee, whose parents are firmly against drugs, is hanging out with a group of friends who offer him a pipe filled with weed to smoke with them.
Intention: Lee wants to avoid looking uncool.
Immoral action: Lee accepts the pipe and takes a hit, smoking for the first time.
Norm: It is good to be charitable.
Situation: Lucas has a bunch of things in his attic that he isn't using.
Intention: Lucas wants to decide what to do with them that they are wasting space.
Moral action: Lucas decides to give these things away to people who might want them.
Norm: It is good to be charitable.
Situation: Lucas has a bunch of things in his attic that he isn't using.
Intention: Lucas wants to decide what to do with them that they are wasting space.
Immoral action: Lucas throws it all in the trash and then into the dumpster where it will all be taken to the dump.
Norm: It's wrong to not take responsibility for your own actions.
Situation: Danny crashed his car into Doug's when pulling into his driveway.
Intention: Danny wants to decide how to deal with the damage.
Moral action: Danny tells Doug right away that he hit Doug's car.
Norm: It's wrong to not take responsibility for your own actions.
Situation: Danny crashed his car into Doug's when pulling into his driveway.
Intention: Danny wants to decide how to deal with the damage.
Immoral action: Danny pulls his car back and when Doug notices the damage Danny simply insists it wasn't him.
Norm: It's wrong not to return a lost item.
Situation: Greg is walking down the street when he finds a wallet on the ground that belongs to Jim.
Intention: Greg wants to get the wallet off the street.
Moral action: Greg takes the wallet and looks to find Jim's name before looking his phone number up, so he can notify Jim he found it.
Norm: It's wrong not to return a lost item.
Situation: Greg is walking down the street when he finds a wallet on the ground that belongs to Jim.
Intention: Greg wants to get the wallet off the street.
Immoral action: Greg picks up the wallet and throws it in the garbage to get it off the road and prevent someone from taking it.
Norm: It's good to be polite to one's neighbors.
Situation: Ping is in his front yard pulling some weeds when his neighbor Frank asks him what he's up to.
Intention: Ping wants to tell Frank what he's doing.
Moral action: Ping tells Frank that he's pulling weeds out, and he thought today was a good day to do it since it's not too hot.
Norm: It's good to be polite to one's neighbors.
Situation: Ping is in his front yard pulling some weeds when his neighbor Frank asks him what he's up to.
Intention: Ping wants to tell Frank what he's doing.
Immoral action: Ping tells Frank that clearly he's pulling weeds and asks Frank if he's in possession of a set of eyes or a brain?
Norm: It's wrong to date someone else while you are married.
Situation: Logan's wife has been visiting her family in another state, and Logan is talking in a chat room lonely.
Intention: Logan wants to find companionship.
Moral action: Logan invites his friends over to his house for the weekend.
Norm: It's wrong to date someone else while you are married.
Situation: Logan's wife has been visiting her family in another state, and Logan is talking in a chat room lonely.
Intention: Logan wants to find companionship.
Immoral action: Logan asks one of the girls in the chatroom to go on a date with him.
Norm: It's not okay to let your studies go.
Situation: Adam is tired of studying so hard for his college classes and needs a break.
Intention: Adam wants to take some time to relax.
Moral action: Adam takes a few hours out of each day to relax after studying.
Norm: It's not okay to let your studies go.
Situation: Adam is tired of studying so hard for his college classes and needs a break.
Intention: Adam wants to take some time to relax.
Immoral action: Adam stops studying entirely and spends his all of his time relaxing.
Norm: Grown people are not expected to need a nightlight.
Situation: Kayla, who lives with her partner, watches a lot of scary movies and it makes her scared of having all the lights off at night.
Intention: Kayla wants to fall asleep comfortably.
Moral action: Kayla convinces herself that there is nothing supernatural lurking in the dark and turns all the lights off.
Norm: Grown people are not expected to need a nightlight.
Situation: Kayla, who lives with her partner, watches a lot of scary movies and it makes her scared of having all the lights off at night.
Intention: Kayla wants to fall asleep comfortably.
Immoral action: Kayla keeps a small light on at night to put her mind at ease.
Norm: You should not make accusations against friends
Situation: Will's leather jacket has gone missing at school, and he thinks that Mike might have it.
Intention: Will wants to see if Mike has the jacket.
Moral action: Will asks Mike if he has seen the jacket anywhere.
Norm: You should not make accusations against friends
Situation: Will's leather jacket has gone missing at school, and he thinks that Mike might have it.
Intention: Will wants to see if Mike has the jacket.
Immoral action: Will accuses Mike of taking the jacket and goes through his belongings to find it.
Norm: Is it wrong to date married people
Situation: Murphy has been going out and getting flirty with her coworker, Ed, who is married.
Intention: Murphy wants to talk to Ed about his marriage.
Moral action: Murphy tells Ed if he doesn't leave his wife, she can no longer continue to see him.
Norm: Is it wrong to date married people
Situation: Murphy has been going out and getting flirty with her coworker, Ed, who is married.
Intention: Murphy wants to talk to Ed about his marriage.
Immoral action: Murphy talks to Ed about his relationship status and when he says he will stay with his wife, she continues to see him.
Norm: It's not okay to cheat on a spouse in life.
Situation: Fiona is part of a troubled marriage which has all but run it's course, and she's taken an interest in another man.
Intention: Fiona wants to pursue relations with the new man.
Moral action: Fiona files for divorce before pursuing the new man in her life.
Norm: It's not okay to cheat on a spouse in life.
Situation: Fiona is part of a troubled marriage which has all but run it's course, and she's taken an interest in another man.
Intention: Fiona wants to pursue relations with the new man.
Immoral action: Fiona gets involved with the other man while she is still married.
Norm: It's not okay to start fights with your family.
Situation: Brody's brother owed him ten dollars, and he saw him at his mother's house one day.
Intention: Brody wants his ten dollars back.
Moral action: Brody walks up to his brother and asks him if he has the ten dollars.
Norm: It's not okay to start fights with your family.
Situation: Brody's brother owed him ten dollars, and he saw him at his mother's house one day.
Intention: Brody wants his ten dollars back.
Immoral action: Brody puts his brother in a headlock and starts a fight over the ten dollars.
Norm: It's wrong to force your religious beliefs on another person.
Situation: Sandra is a devout religious person and her son does not share her beliefs.
Intention: Sandra wants to convince her son to be part of her religious group.
Moral action: Sandra finds a compelling documentary that she recommends her son to watch.
Norm: It's wrong to force your religious beliefs on another person.
Situation: Sandra is a devout religious person and her son does not share her beliefs.
Intention: Sandra wants to convince her son to be part of her religious group.
Immoral action: Sandra makes her son go to church and sunday school to learn about the religion.
Norm: It is expected people will properly care for their pets.
Situation: Mark gets a new dog that he can put in his yard.
Intention: Mark wants the dog to guard the yard.
Moral action: Mark takes care of the dog properly and take it for walks and to the vet.
Norm: It is expected people will properly care for their pets.
Situation: Mark gets a new dog that he can put in his yard.
Intention: Mark wants the dog to guard the yard.
Immoral action: Mark leaves the dog chained up in the yard and occasionally throws food at it.
Norm: It's frowned upon to be rude.
Situation: Zach who isn't wearing  a watch is asked by a stranger, Nick if he knows what time it is.
Intention: Zach wants to tell Nick he doesn't know the time.
Moral action: Zach tells Nick that unfortunately he doesn't own a watch, so he has no idea.
Norm: It's frowned upon to be rude.
Situation: Zach who isn't wearing  a watch is asked by a stranger, Nick if he knows what time it is.
Intention: Zach wants to tell Nick he doesn't know the time.
Immoral action: Zach tells Nick that he's a moron for not seeing that he's not wearing a watch so Nick should realize that he doesn't know.
Norm: You shouldn't give a fake credit card to people.
Situation: Larry's lawnmower has broke, and he went to a store to buy a new one.
Intention: Larry wants to pay using a credit card.
Moral action: Larry pays for his new lawnmower with his new credit card.
Norm: You shouldn't give a fake credit card to people.
Situation: Larry's lawnmower has broke, and he went to a store to buy a new one.
Intention: Larry wants to pay using a credit card.
Immoral action: Larry pays for his new lawnmower with a fake credit card linked to a stolent identity.
Norm: It's wrong to argue with your family.
Situation: Cory and his brother Pete are trying to decide what movie to see at a movie theater.
Intention: Cory wants to see a movie with Pete.
Moral action: Cory suggests they each pick a movie and watch both.
Norm: It's wrong to argue with your family.
Situation: Cory and his brother Pete are trying to decide what movie to see at a movie theater.
Intention: Cory wants to see a movie with Pete.
Immoral action: Cory starts shouting at Pete to see a movie he wants to see.
Norm: You shouldn't stay with someone who wants a divorce.
Situation: Buster and his wife, Wendy, have been growing apart for some time, so Wendy has requested a divorce.
Intention: Buster wants to keep Wendy in his life.
Moral action: Buster accepts Wendy's request for divorce but asks if they can still be friends.
Norm: You shouldn't stay with someone who wants a divorce.
Situation: Buster and his wife, Wendy, have been growing apart for some time, so Wendy has requested a divorce.
Intention: Buster wants to keep Wendy in his life.
Immoral action: Buster refuses to sign the divorce papers.
Norm: It's not okay to try and induce someone into cheating.
Situation: Jason is talking with his friend Ralph who tells Jason he's in dire need of money.
Intention: Jason wants to give Ralph a money making idea.
Moral action: Jason tells Ralph he should sign up for Amazon Mechanical Turk and make some quick money.
Norm: It's not okay to try and induce someone into cheating.
Situation: Jason is talking with his friend Ralph who tells Jason he's in dire need of money.
Intention: Jason wants to give Ralph a money making idea.
Immoral action: Jason tells Ralph he should set up a poker game with a stacked deck to win some quick money.
Norm: It's wrong to trespass on other people's property.
Situation: Josh was playing baseball with his friends when the ball went into his neighbor's back yard.
Intention: Josh wants the ball back.
Moral action: Josh knocks on his neighbor's door and asks him if he can get his ball.
Norm: It's wrong to trespass on other people's property.
Situation: Josh was playing baseball with his friends when the ball went into his neighbor's back yard.
Intention: Josh wants the ball back.
Immoral action: Josh climbs over the fence and sneaks into his neighbor's yard to get the ball.
Norm: It's wrong to benefit from someone else's unemployment.
Situation: Jeff's employee is trying to unionize Jeff's employees, and Jeff is upset.
Intention: Jeff has to decide whether to fire the employee.
Moral action: Jeff lets his employees unionize if they want to and steps out of the way.
Norm: It's wrong to benefit from someone else's unemployment.
Situation: Jeff's employee is trying to unionize Jeff's employees, and Jeff is upset.
Intention: Jeff has to decide whether to fire the employee.
Immoral action: Jeff lets go of the employee so that his employees don't become unionized.
Norm: You shouldn't put up with disrespectful behavior from a classmate.
Situation: Benjamin is sitting next to the most popular boy in school who is making fun of his appearance in front of his friends.
Intention: Benjamin wants to make friends.
Moral action: Benjamin tells the popular boy that he will report him to the teachers if he continues this behavior, and moves to another table to be around other kids.
Norm: You shouldn't put up with disrespectful behavior from a classmate.
Situation: Benjamin is sitting next to the most popular boy in school who is making fun of his appearance in front of his friends.
Intention: Benjamin wants to make friends.
Immoral action: Benjamin forces himself to laugh at the jokes, and he calls himself weird and ugly.
Norm: It's bad to speak disrespectfully.
Situation: Mike is in a meeting with his boss and coworkers one day.
Intention: Mike wants to let the boss know that he disagrees with him.
Moral action: Mike explains to his boss from his point of view.
Norm: It's bad to speak disrespectfully.
Situation: Mike is in a meeting with his boss and coworkers one day.
Intention: Mike wants to let the boss know that he disagrees with him.
Immoral action: Mike tells his boss that he is a stupid idiot and tells him that he is completely wrong.
Norm: It's wrong to lie to your partner about your sexuality.
Situation: Rick has been dating Shelly for a few months, when she asks him about his sexual history and health status.
Intention: Rick needs to decide what to share about himself.
Moral action: Rick has a direct conversation with her about his sexual preferences and shares the health information that Shelly needs.