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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-09-2005 00:17
A very short political compass type quiz ,only 10 questions
My score, 100 -------- edit ------------------------ the original link above had an extra http:// in it, and some people's browser got directed to microsoft because of the bad link, i would assume. when i have a bad link i just want a plain error message.  _____________________
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rinaz bijoux
is your friend!
Join date: 8 Oct 2004
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04-09-2005 00:23
I know the link says : http://http//www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
But why does it lead me to microsoft.com? Is there a sort of sign? _____________________
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Cartridge Partridge
Noodly appendage
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 999
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04-09-2005 02:53
I know the link says : http://http//www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html But why does it lead me to microsoft.com? Is there a sort of sign? There's an additional http// (without the colon...), so the default search page comes out, looking for "http". Odd, that makes www.microsoft.com come out first... The correct link is : http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html btw, i seem to be a liberal, personal issues score is 80%, economic issues score is 40% (Don't say a word about my economic score, rinaz... i am sure that it isn't an evaluation, just a way to count the responses...  )_____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
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04-09-2005 03:15
According to that pro-libertarian site and its biased test, most people are libertarians - 35%.
I'm a Libertarian too. Except I don't see anything wrong with an ID card, since we have had them forever in Portugal. _____________________
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Neehai Zapata
Unofficial Parent
Join date: 8 Apr 2004
Posts: 1,970
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04-09-2005 03:31
Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more It is odd that they still consider this a conservative ideal. I would agree that once it was but that is an antiquated view in my opinion. On a test with so few questions, I consider this a glaring error. _____________________
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Cartridge Partridge
Noodly appendage
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 999
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04-09-2005 04:26
Except I don't see anything wrong with an ID card, since we have had them forever in Portugal. Guess why i scored only 80% on personal issues... Btw, am i liberal rather than libertarian because i am poor at economy? I don't think that welfare is such a bad thing... and in some cases, even a bit of corporate welfare... retirement too should be granted... well, you all know that welfare requires some money, so i can't totally agree on that taxes cutting... _____________________
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Roberta Dalek
Probably trouble
Join date: 21 Oct 2004
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04-09-2005 04:39
personal 100%, economic 20% - left liberal (which i knew anyway..)
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rinaz bijoux
is your friend!
Join date: 8 Oct 2004
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04-09-2005 04:40
(Don't say a word about my economic score, rinaz... i am sure that it isn't an evaluation, just a way to count the responses... )Okay. I wont say a thing Anyways, like sue, I'm a centrist too Your PERSONAL issues Score is 40%. Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%. _____________________
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Ace Cassidy
Resident Bohemian
Join date: 5 Apr 2004
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04-09-2005 05:13
Personal : 100%
Economic : 40% This result doesn't surprise me. I've always liked the Libertarians positions on individual issues, but I've never been able to support them at the ballot box because of their laissez faire approach to business. I'm of the opinion that if big business was given free rein, they would stomp on their workers, pollute the environment, conspire to fix prices, and generally do whatever they can to make a buck. - Ace _____________________
"Free your mind, and your ass will follow" - George Clinton
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
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04-09-2005 08:10
Personal 70%
Economic 40% I am a left leaning Centrist. No big surprise here. _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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04-09-2005 09:33
PERSONAL issues Score is 50%.
ECONOMIC issues Score is 80% Yeah, that's just about spot-on. _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Icon Serpentine
punk in drublic
Join date: 13 Nov 2003
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04-09-2005 10:35
Personal : 100% Economic : 40% This result doesn't surprise me. I've always liked the Libertarians positions on individual issues, but I've never been able to support them at the ballot box because of their laissez faire approach to business. I'm of the opinion that if big business was given free rein, they would stomp on their workers, pollute the environment, conspire to fix prices, and generally do whatever they can to make a buck. - Ace They do do that already.  _____________________
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Meilian Shang
crass and pornographic
Join date: 22 Mar 2005
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04-09-2005 12:35
A similar and perhaps(?) less biased "test" can be found here: www.politicalcompass.org/ It's hardly short, though!
On the "world's smallest" I get 90/40, while on the above it's closer to 75/80  EDIT: Whoops, flip-flopped scales for the second, and just noticed that the Compass is already linked to. |
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Cartridge Partridge
Noodly appendage
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
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04-09-2005 15:34
A similar and perhaps(?) less biased "test" can be found here: www.politicalcompass.org/ It's hardly short, though! On the "world's smallest" I get 90/40, while on the above it's closer to 75/80 EDIT: Whoops, flip-flopped scales for the second, and just noticed that the Compass is already linked to. According to this new test, i came out a bit more libertarian (i think it would be like an 80/50 rather than 80/40 on the first compass, making me be a centrist on the edge between liberal and libertarian). EDIT: I noticed that i am in the opposite area of almost all the countries leaders... is there any meaning? (maybe that's why i am not a leader of any country?  )Anyway, i am happy to be in a good company: Gandhi, Mandela and the Dalai Lama... Did anyone notice that in the first compass, personal and economic scales form a 45 degrees angle with the statist/libertarian and left/right axis, while in the second compass the economic scale IS on the left/right axis and the social scale IS on the libertarian/authoritarian axis?  How did it come that i am almost in the same position on both the compasses? _____________________
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Tito Gomez
Mi Vida Loca
Join date: 1 Aug 2004
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04-09-2005 16:00
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 50%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 80%. Too simplistic and American biased, but I basically agree with my result. T _____________________
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James Miller
Village Idiot
Join date: 9 Jan 2003
Posts: 1,500
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04-09-2005 16:30
Teeny, I'm most similar to you. I'm a left leaning centrist. 70% and 50%.
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Olympia Rebus
Muse of Chaos
Join date: 22 Feb 2004
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04-09-2005 18:54
... You fall exactly on the border of two political philosophies... According to this quiz, anayway  _____________________
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Rose Karuna
Lizard Doctor
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
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04-09-2005 19:18
Well, no surprise here
 I'm a liberal libertarian.Your PERSONAL issues Score is 100%. Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%. _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
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Some books on the topic of the principles governing the distribution of wealth
04-09-2005 19:33
Two major works of political philosophy offer contrasting views of fundamental moral tenets that underlie one's political and economic views. One is by John Rawls, a prominent writer and academic who held assorted high positions at a number of major educational establishments such as Oxford, MIT, Harvard, and Cornell. The book is titled A Theory of Justice
If my understanding is correct, Rawls believes that goods should be distibuted in a most probably unequal manner so as to maximize the wellbeing of the least well off. The second book to look at won the 1975 National Book Award for it's author, philosopher and and Harvard University Professor Robert Nozick. The books title is Anarchy, State, and Utopia Nozicks works see humans as ends in themselves and justifies redistribution of goods only on condition of consent. _____________________
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
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04-11-2005 05:23
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 70%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%. This is about where I generally score on most tests of this type. _____________________
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Devlin Gallant
Thought Police
Join date: 18 Jun 2003
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04-11-2005 05:41
Right Conservative
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Agatha Palmerstone
Space Girl
Join date: 23 Jan 2005
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04-11-2005 09:43
I'm of the opinion that if big business was given free rein, they would stomp on their workers, pollute the environment, conspire to fix prices, and generally do whatever they can to make a buck. They do do that already. I believe that it is government interference that protects big business from labor and consumers, much more than the other way around. Without this protection, consumer skepticism, deflation and labor shortages would grind big business into the ground. As it is, the major firms in the US that aren't massively subsidized or relatively new companies are dying, unable to turn consistent profits, kept on life support by the Federal Reserve. So while they might want to do all of those things Ace was talking about, they can only get away with it as long as the financial and legal system protects them. PS: Your PERSONAL issues Score is 100%. Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 100%. |
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Lupo Clymer
The Lost Pagan
Join date: 13 Mar 2005
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04-11-2005 10:02
On this test I am 100/100. The problem is it is to small. When taking a more comprehensive test I end up more the 80s. The reason why is the questions here are to simple. I am still a Libertarian. I have a problem with the government EVER telling me what I am to do. I DO believe in helping the poor but not with government that has a 70% or more over head. Give me a privet group that can have as low as 10% over head. Also allows me to say were my money goes. I live in IL why do I want to help out people in NY when there are people living next to me that needs the help.
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Ghoti Nyak
καλλιστι
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04-11-2005 10:18
(post editing issues... mine is below)
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Ghoti Nyak
καλλιστι
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04-11-2005 10:21
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"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon." ~ H.P. Lovecraft
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