Political Compass
Bosnian_Cowboy
Join Date: 2003-06-07 Member: 17088Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-06-07 Member: 17088Members, Constellation
<a href='http://www.politicalcompass.org/' target='_blank'>http://www.politicalcompass.org/</a>
Economic Left/Right: -0.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26
I wonder if the people who made this test have any education above high school. It was probably made by a liberal because it containts too many conservative stereotypes. I only got this score because I didn't choose any anti-homosexual answers.
Ok, post your results and your thoughts.
<a href='http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/iconochasms.html' target='_blank'>http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalc...conochasms.html</a> - This is very interesting.
Re-Test Score:
Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.82
Economic Left/Right: -0.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26
I wonder if the people who made this test have any education above high school. It was probably made by a liberal because it containts too many conservative stereotypes. I only got this score because I didn't choose any anti-homosexual answers.
Ok, post your results and your thoughts.
<a href='http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/iconochasms.html' target='_blank'>http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalc...conochasms.html</a> - This is very interesting.
Re-Test Score:
Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.82
Comments
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Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05
wow, skulk, I didn't think anyone could be more left than me =P I also don't know what was so anarchical about my answers... *shrug*
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36
Nothing unexpected there.
There are definatly problems with this test though.. like "A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."... which is of course true, very little contention there. Whats important is whether or not that advantage over rules the disadvantages.
When we get enough numbers, it'd be cool to make a giant graph, showing where everybody stands.
Everyone has their rights, but it is better for all of us that different sorts of people should keep to their own kind.
First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->I'm confused. Is this supposed to be a Political Compass or a KKK Rally enrollment form? ...
anways, stupid thing rates me as this:
Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.90
Somewhere in the area of Gandhi...
I don't believe a drop of it, mainly to some very very dumb questions.
I got:
Economic Left/Right: 0.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.13
Has me leaning toward Hitler...
Whatever.
Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97
But given that the questions are rather open to interpretation, it's a rather fallacious test.
I think that some criminals are beyond rehabilitation and should be executed.
I also think that the job of the prison system is to rehabilitate, not punish.
I think my race IS superior to others. That's because I'm a human, and despite their endearing qualities, I've yet to see dolphins launch a satellite into LEO.
I don't think people with serious congenital issues should have children. Why? Because it screws society over and there's no environmental pressure to weed genetic defects out otherwise.
I resent the constant implication by a lot of people that my political views have to fit into some neat little box. Most people's do, but personally I like to think for myself.
Usage Note: The notion of race is nearly as problematic from a scientific point of view as it is from a social one. European physical anthropologists of the 17th and 18th centuries proposed various systems of racial classifications based on such observable characteristics as skin color, hair type, body proportions, and skull measurements, essentially codifying the perceived differences among broad geographic populations of humans. The traditional terms for these populationsCaucasoid (or Caucasian), Mongoloid, Negroid, and in some systems Australoidare now controversial in both technical and nontechnical usage, and in some cases they may well be considered offensive. (Caucasian does retain a certain currency in American English, but it is used almost exclusively to mean “white” or “European” rather than “belonging to the Caucasian race,” a group that includes a variety of peoples generally categorized as nonwhite.) The biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes, and the groupings indicated by these factors seldom coincide very neatly with those put forward by earlier physical anthropologists. Citing this and other pointssuch as the fact that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in anothermany cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I consider all other humans to belong to the human race, just like me. A racist is someone who espouses the concept of racial divisions. Just like you did in the post above.
Funny what you can do with language eh? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Uh... that is undeniably an advantage of a one-party state. Without question. That doesn't mean it's a good thing!
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Our civil liberties are being excessively curbed in the name of counter-terrorism.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is a question of perception, not of opinion. In my daily life I don't find my civil liberties being compromised by government agencies <i>at all</i>, never mind excessively. Whether I notice them doing so or not is a different thing to whether they <i>are</i> doing so or not, or whether I agree with it.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Religion and morality are closely linked.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This doesn't say anything at all. Religious doctrine always covers morality in some way; they are inextricably and undeniably linked. That doesn't mean that all or religion is moral, and it doesn't mean that all or morality is religious.
Anyway...
Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67
Funny what you can do with language eh? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
But see, that's the problem. We don't know if the person writing the quiz meant by that question.
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race. Dictionary.com
1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3. A genealogical line; a lineage.
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We can say we are the 'human race' but we are also of the human species. When someone asks "What is your race?", you aren't likely to respond "HUMAN!", aren't you? Most people, when they think of race, think of the above points. Now, you are right in the fact that it can mean the humans in general, as Dictionary.com states in the fourth point:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->4. Humans considered as a group. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
But notice how that is the FOURTH point.
My point is that it is more likely the question meant to imply that my race (of the first three points) was superior, rather than my race (of the fourth point) was superior.
Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.56
Not surprised by being in the Libertarian side.
Then again, polotics confuse me anyway and I try to avoid them as best as possible.
With that in mind
Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.23
Which I'd agree with, in the sense that I prefer a collectivist communist society that embraces certain capitalistic ideals in order to promote growth.
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38
Interesting. I'm a rather moderate guy apparently (I actually have voted Libertarian too, mind you). Who knew? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69
I'm apparently nearly identical to the Dalai Lama according to the chart.
This isn't really a surprise to me, I've always known about where I stood.