View the Desmond Tutu ethical assessment profile
This assessment does not reduce the subject to one moral ranking. Each dimension is scored separately from −100 to +100 and must be read with its evidence and uncertainty.
Scorecard status: Recalculated under multidimensional system
Opposition to apartheid, nonviolent social change, truth, reconciliation and equal human dignity.
The score evaluates documented public conduct during the stated period. It does not measure inherent human worth, does not constitute a legal verdict and remains open to correction when stronger evidence becomes available.
An exceptionally positive record combining justice, courage, reconciliation and opposition to retaliatory violence.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
| Domain | Score | Intensity | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consequences | +85.0 | 85.0 | B — high |
| Rights and duties | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high |
| Virtue and character | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high |
| Intentions | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high |
| Care | +85.0 | 85.0 | B — high |
| Justice | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high |
| Wisdom and judgment | +75.0 | 75.0 | B — high |
| Baseline ethics | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high |
| Positive pole | Negative pole | Score | Intensity | Confidence | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human dignity | Dehumanisation | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Human dignity and Dehumanisation. |
| Care | Neglect | +85.0 | 85.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Care and Neglect. |
| Benefit | Harm | +85.0 | 85.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Benefit and Harm. |
| Benevolent intention | Malicious intention | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Benevolent intention and Malicious intention. |
| Justice | Injustice | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Justice and Injustice. |
| Respect for rights | Violation of rights | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Respect for rights and Violation of rights. |
| Integrity | Corruption | +90.0 | 90.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Integrity and Corruption. |
| Wisdom | Ignorance | +75.0 | 75.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Wisdom and Ignorance. |
Courageous nonviolent resistance to apartheid and sustained defence of marginalised people.
Conditional amnesty in the reconciliation process limited full criminal accountability.
TUT-1
Contribution to ending apartheid peacefully.
TUT-2
Defence of equal civil and political rights.
TUT-3
Integrity and courage under repression.
TUT-4
Nonviolent liberation and reconciliation.
TUT-5
Concern for victims and social healing.
TUT-6
Truth and conditional accountability.
TUT-7
Prudence in a dangerous transition.
TUT-8
Universal human dignity.
Attribution and interpretation remain disputed; the assessment follows documented public conduct.
Unverified private allegations and conduct outside reasonable responsibility were excluded.
No corrections have been recorded.