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This paper is one of a series of essays in Honor of Franz Ferschl's seventieth birthday. The classification of private decisions is described. Some evaluation processes are modeled through certain measures defined as the mathematical expectation of punishment, the intermediate economical advantage, the economical horizon size, moral evaluation, etc. They are used for evaluating the moral effect of decisions. The consequences of the assumptions of the decision maker are discusssed. A Markov chain permits to evaluate the relations among individuals and philosophies. A system of equations is derived for describing the moral evaluation of a decision. The procedures proposed allow the computation of the morality rate of a society with respect to a certain problem, the evaluation of public issues by the individual, the reaching of a consensus and of other similar measures. Their links with the morality associated with philosophies are analyzed. The implications of the reasoning supporting the models discussed in this paper are very interesting both for mathematicians and for persons related with ethical issues. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00096].