The Robin Hood Morality Test

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MM, LJ, RH, SN

Maid Marion - saves everyone, demonstrating positive moral action
Little John - doesn't save anyone, but at least he harms none
Robin Hood - is unreasonable, but it's his prerogative to be an ungrateful SOB.
Sheriff of Nottingham - actually imprisons people, he can't use the defence of 'acting under orders', since he corrupts the law of the land to get laid. He is supporting the tyranny of Middle Ages England.

Do I have to go to hell (I probably have some ancestors who belonged to a Germanic tribe)? I'm a bit of a mongrel, see.

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Little John
Maid Marion
Robin Hood
The Sheriff

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.

Men: Perhaps you tend to idealize women and credit them with virtues they don't possess.

I feel like a judgmental bastard from looking at all the other results

I do too!

I was using the literal translation for Saeson(Welsh) and Sasannach which is Saxon, what the Celts call England. lol am a mongrel too by been a Welsh Irish Scouser with German & Scottish ancestry. With saying to hell with the Saxons I was been diplomatic, I could of said Twll din pob Sais which is literally translated as The English are all a***holes (Please note I am not Anglophobia).

I had my fill of Cymrophobia, Hibernophobia & Scousephobia (if there such a word) while members of my own family from Canada (there of Welsh and Irish ancestry too ) visited the UK & Ireland last year. After that visit I now have lost my respect of Canada.

MM, LJ, RH, SN

Why do you identify so strongly with being 'Celtic'? I am mostly of English ancestry (my dad traced the family tree back to the 17th century, we were in Manchester before the industrial revolution). The rest is Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Italian. I'm not a Celt or a Saxon. I was born in England (like you were). I don't speak a Celtic language (you probably don't speak one as your mother tongue). 'Saxon' isn't a meaningful ethnicity when we're talking about modern England, anyway. I don't get why so many of mixed English/Celtic ethnic origin go in for identifying with the Celtic side alone.

I don't get this obsession with the past that Celtic nationalists have, anyway. I agree that the English historically destroyed the culture of Celtic nations and that in a sense, English culture was imperialist from the get-go (and that's very bad). I'm all for people speaking Welsh and Gaelic and having their little festivals. What I don't get is why other Sassenachs with a bit of Celtic ancestry are so obsessed with that stuff. Even some honest-to-god born-in-the-motherland Celts think that stuff is irrelevant to the modern world.

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*sorry for going off-topic

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That was my choice too.

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.

Men: You are sexually uninhibited, more romantic than you may appear, and more dependent on the approval of others than you care to admit.

Most of this is true, although I don't think I consider myself superior since I have such strong beliefs in equality. Then again, I may be hiding it from myself...
The only thing I'm not sure of is if I'm "more romantic" than I appear. I hope I am!

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.

Men: Perhaps you tend to idealize women and credit them with virtues they don't possess.

Well. I have to admit that's a fair summary. And that last part has definitely been my downfall a couple of times.

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.

Men: You are sexually uninhibited, more romantic than you may appear, and more dependent on the approval of others than you care to admit.

Lol sexually uninhibited...k. More romantic than I appear? Have not had a chance to test those.

I guess I try to make sure that I get good presents for my family at christmas. Otherwise yeah

why no poll of what answers we got? not enough options?

i tried... i entered all of the choices... and got an error massage that it was too many options.

Yup.

I noticed that objectively it's impossible to for me to know how to rank them. I ranked them LJ,MM,RH,SN on the assumption that RH and LJ were not justly imprisoned, or if they were it was for neutral or easily forgivable offense. If RH was in fact a violent criminal then I can't as easily see the story in a romantic light. MM freeing RH could have been done out of selfish infatuation rather than genuine love. On the other hand, if it was really unconditional love for a flawed person who possibly committed a reprehensible act I don't think she would have abandoned him so quickly for words said in a brief fit of jealousy. SN is really the only unambiguously slimy character. All the others require more information to judge, but could be even worse depending on the untold back-story.