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Sep 16, 2003, 04:22 am
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| Molten Ash Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 118 | Go to this site http://www.politicalcompass.org then take the test, its a little test designed to see where you are on the political compass, whether you be a left wing libertarian or a right wing authoritarian. After you take the test go to analysis to see who you compare with, I am slightly right wing and about midway up on the authoritarian scale. Only the dead have seen the end of war - Plato |
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Sep 16, 2003, 08:02 am
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 Fyrdman  Location: Middlesbrough UK Posts: 4,152 | I'm- Economic Left/Right: -9.38 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38 placing me near mandela and the dalai lama. my kind of people. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill |
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Sep 16, 2003, 01:20 pm
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | I've already done mine as well, http://mentalspace.ranters.net/stuff/blogmap/#J2 Jonathan: -7.38, -9.03 But in fairness, I took it again: -8.88, -8.41 In a month I'll be spouting communist rhetoric with G. Adams... . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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Sep 16, 2003, 01:26 pm
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | No, never! But where do I get the cool bandoliers? . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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Sep 16, 2003, 01:33 pm
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| Fyrdman Location: Middlesbrough UK Posts: 4,152 | Same place we get our star'ed berets, cigars and ak-47's. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill |
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Sep 17, 2003, 12:23 pm
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | so everyone here is libertarian, but with ample spread to the left and right... ...and a plane ride to Cuba is far too costly. =P . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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Sep 17, 2003, 02:41 pm
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| Fyrdman Location: Middlesbrough UK Posts: 4,152 | If your from a poor community, Cuba will take you in, teach you how to be a doctor, and send you back home, as long as you promise to work in a free clinic or with poor communities. Cuba has in fact, exported more doctors around the world than the UN. And remember, Cuba has some of the best doctors and its training facilities are world class. And the US wants to end socialism in Cuba, and have burger flippers, sugar planters and 2 million unemployed instead of doctors. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill |
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Sep 17, 2003, 07:14 pm
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| Igneous Magma Location: New Zealand Posts: 309 | The main thing I like about this test (which I have done before and received similar results) is that it at least splits political orientation into two dimensions. Given how complex politics actually is, I would like to see it split into more -- but this is a good start. A quick survey of the results suggests that most of us here agree that individual freedom is important, but we disagree about the best way to enact freedom in the economy. |
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Sep 18, 2003, 12:46 am
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| Avatar of Tiamut Location: Dallas, Texas (Irving) Posts: 848 | Too assume a person is without guilt when seeking pleasure, as is implied by personal freedom, and then assume he is guilty when seeking to deal with others, as implied by market control, is hypocritical and a poor excuse for rationality. I can understand the poor paranoid fool that would ensalve us all, due to his low opinion of self, better than the man that contradicts his own philosophy...that is, btw, why I call it irrational philosophy. |
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Sep 18, 2003, 08:18 pm
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | The former, Greatwyrm, doesn't harm others. The latter can and does. It is a hypocritical and unjust society that allows chemical companies to flout emission regulations, yet imprisons people for smoking up in the privacy of their own homes. Even in Wealth of Nations does Adam Smith warn against the deception and oppression those in the 'market' are capable of. . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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