Private exercise
THE MIRROR
A standard is not consistent if it changes whenever we become its subject.
Your choices are not stored or transmitted.
What the mirror is—and is not
The exercise does not supply a score, diagnose your character, or force a conclusion. It asks whether sympathy, distance, loyalty or embarrassment quietly changes the principle you apply.
Consistency is not rigidity. New facts may properly change a judgment. The question is whether the same kinds of facts receive the same weight when you are involved.