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That's much better, but I can't revise the numbering system this late in, since the poll has already run. So I can leave in the OP what's there, or put in the more reasonable grid you have constructed here. I would love to hear opinions from posters on what's more sensible.
When my wife took the test, she immediately agreed with that one. I was amused. Then she agreed with "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." I was not amused.
Eye for an eye is a system designed to stop tribal warfare. Someone kills one of your men, you may kill only one of theirs. Likewise, if you lose an eye, you may only take one from them.
Social: -6.97
Ec: 1.00
Soc: -2.72
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Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.18
Just replace my original labeling grid with this one. It doesn't have numbers but people can eyeball their results so they get an idea. Maybe when I'm really bored I'll go through and manually categorize.
I like the 70/30 setup but I think it would be nice to make one more segment in the Democratic Republican section to show where Dems and Republicans fall unless we are assuming that most Dem's rhetoric is more moderate than they actually are and they would fall further towards the bottom left quadrant. Having said that I'm not a fan of guessing at politicians "real stances".
No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
Here ya go:
enc0re maybe use this one instead. Your discretion.
Which is probably true.
Or am I the only one that thinks that way?
And I suppose this is just as true of the "social" axis in that folks may disagree with the party line on abortion,gay marriage, etc.
They don't fit on the same axis the same way retributive justice and fucking astrology don't belong on the same axis. But that's what we get.
Do we perhaps have a PAer with PoliSci credentials and too much time on his hands? Such a person could make us a good test.
LOLHippies?
It's a proxy for accepting outside authority over your own judgement. Exact same reason that religion has questions on the test.
Seriously I thought, "If you answer Yes, into the bottom left you go!"
That sort of makes sense.
But then accepting authority and willingness to exert authority are two different things as well.
Or, you know, we could stop trying to put lipstick on a pig.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.28
Yeah no kidding. I always saw myself as more of a nationalist, and nowhere near Gandhi.
Nationalism generally means that you value your traditional culture over the imposition of foreign values and that you support the use of the state to maintain those values.
Some people placed in the authoritarian axis, but not many.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95
Hurray for being the second most common result!
It's not so much "corporations can do no wrong" and more about how they are regulated, either by the government or in the marketplace.
True right wing free marketeers don't believe in corporations to begin with since they are a legal construct that allows people to avoid culpability.
Exactly. I guess I'm arguing I should be even further to the right on the spectrum, because the only questions I answered that would have moved me to the left were "anti-corporation" ones.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.05
While I do agree with the results, this test is pretty fucked. I can't believe my anti free-market responses didn't have more influence on the results.
I have taken this a few times and it usually falls a few spaces up on the vertical axis. I think I would average out 1 or 2 blocks up on the vertical.
I guess that sounds about right. True Right Wing Free Marketeers don't seem too fond of greeting economic misfortune with anything less than complete destruction. Lost your job? Ha, now you're homeless, sucker! Business venture didn't work? Whoo, you're in insurmountable debt for life!
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Natural Justice, at it's finest.
Well to take the idea further in Libertopia there would be private free market mechanisms to help mitigate these things like additional insurance options to cover bankruptcy (as opposed to a legal declaration).
How is this better than the current system? Because a free market insurance response to a shady business practice would be more thorough and granular in terms of coverage or lack thereof and oversight as opposed to a broad brush of government bankruptcy protection.
Theoretically under a system like that good responsible businesses could easily get and maintain insurance to protect them from bankruptcy but if their practices became reckless or irresponsible they could lose their coverage putting them at serious risk for real financial ruin unless their behavior improved.
It put you well onto the left side of the spectrum. It clearly illustrates you are anti free-market. I'm not sure why you think that is inaccurate.