Ethical assessment
Subject: Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
View the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. 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
The assessment covers economic recovery, infrastructure and diplomacy, continuation of drug-related killings, accountability for past abuses, historical revisionism, media freedom and cooperation with international justice.
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.
Marcos has delivered some economic and diplomatic stability and ultimately permitted a major international accountability step. His record remains negative because unlawful killings and impunity continued while historical truth and domestic accountability were weakened.
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 | +10.0 | 10.0 | B — high |
| Rights and duties | -40.0 | 40.0 | B — high |
| Virtue and character | -25.0 | 25.0 | B — high |
| Intentions | -15.0 | 15.0 | B — high |
| Care | -30.0 | 30.0 | B — high |
| Justice | -35.0 | 35.0 | B — high |
| Wisdom and judgment | -10.0 | 10.0 | B — high |
| Baseline ethics | -40.0 | 40.0 | B — high |
| Positive pole | Negative pole | Score | Intensity | Confidence | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human dignity | Dehumanisation | -40.0 | 40.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Human dignity and Dehumanisation. |
| Care | Neglect | -30.0 | 30.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Care and Neglect. |
| Benefit | Harm | +10.0 | 10.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Benefit and Harm. |
| Responsibility | Irresponsibility | -15.0 | 15.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Responsibility and Irresponsibility. |
| Justice | Injustice | -35.0 | 35.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Justice and Injustice. |
| Respect for rights | Violation of rights | -40.0 | 40.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Respect for rights and Violation of rights. |
| Integrity | Corruption | -25.0 | 25.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Integrity and Corruption. |
| Prudence | Recklessness | -10.0 | 10.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Prudence and Recklessness. |
The strongest positive evidence concerns economic recovery, infrastructure, external security cooperation and the eventual transfer of former president Duterte to the International Criminal Court.
The score is reduced by continuing drug-war killings, weak domestic accountability, attacks on critics and efforts to rehabilitate the Marcos family legacy without full acknowledgment of dictatorship-era abuses.
MAR-C1
Growth, investment and infrastructure created benefits, while drug-related killings continued to impose grave preventable harm.
MAR-R1
The administration failed to end drug-war killings or secure effective protection and accountability.
MAR-V1
Public rehabilitation of the family legacy occurred without full acknowledgment of dictatorship-era corruption and abuse.
MAR-I1
Economic and diplomatic goals were constructive, but continued lethal enforcement showed insufficient commitment to lawful accountability.
MAR-CA1
The state did not provide adequate truth, remedy and protection to people harmed by anti-drug operations.
MAR-J1
Very few perpetrators were convicted, while international accountability advanced only after prolonged resistance.
MAR-W1
External relations and economic management were comparatively measured, but continuation of lethal policing was strategically and morally damaging.
MAR-B1
The continued pattern of killings denied due process and reduced marginalised people to targets of security policy.
The administration states that its anti-drug policy prioritises treatment and lawful enforcement. Monitoring organisations report that killings and impunity continued despite a change in rhetoric.
His father's dictatorship was not attributed to him as personal conduct, but his own public treatment of that history was assessed.
No corrections have been recorded.