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Originally posted by bbarr
My political compass:

Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

Hooray for Humane Liberalism!
Damn, you are very VERY left economically. I would not have guessed that. I'm not even sure how to answer the questions to make the graph do that! 😉

TheSkipper

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Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
Holy smokes! Somebody is more socially liberal than Bbarr the Compassionate?

Will Bbarr be able to locate the source of this lingering moral flaw and correct it?
You are being contradictory. The center of the moral compass corresponds to my coordinates on the political compass. Deviation from these coordinates constitutes a moral defect. You need to do some serious soul-searching (that is, if you economic troglodytes have souls).

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Originally posted by TheSkipper
I'm not even sure how to answer the questions to make the graph do that! 😉

TheSkipper
It requires a certain magnaminity of spirit, and direct insight into necessary truth.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

D
I guess I'm in good company, although I still believe the poll is cooked. It is comforting to be huddled with Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi, and Ragnorak in a corner opposite George W and the Iron Maiden (Maggie).


Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

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What the hell? I'm almost smack bang on the Pope, despite saying that I would definitely not send my kids to religious school (or similar)!!
Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.31
😠

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Libertarian (-6.25)
Left (-5.23)
By the way, Bush is a liar and a war monger. Bush, and those who support him, are a threat to the security of the world.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
I guess I'm in good company, although I still believe the poll is cooked. It is comforting to be huddled with Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi, and Ragnorak in a corner opposite George W and the Iron Maiden (Maggie).


Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90
I thank you. I was going to register as the Dalai Lama, but I didn't want to use my real name. 😛

; D

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Originally posted by TheSkipper
Damn, you are very VERY left economically. I would not have guessed that. I'm not even sure how to answer the questions to make the graph do that! 😉

TheSkipper
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.72

Did not spend to much time trying to figure out what this means. 🙂
Kelly

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Originally posted by KellyJay
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.72

Did not spend to much time trying to figure out what this means. 🙂
Kelly
The more I think about the questions, the more I think it does not mean to damn much. Fun though...

TheSkipper

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Originally posted by TheSkipper
The more I think about the questions, the more I think it does not mean to damn much. Fun though...

TheSkipper
I agree, mainly because the choices were to restrictive. The questions
themselves didn't leave much room for someone to really express
themselves. I believe you almost have to ask the same question
almost several ways to really get an idea how far a person would
go along with their position, and then average those questions
that are basically the same and average it with maybe some weight
to the exstreme versions of the same question. I suppose there is
some science to this, but did not feel this really captured much outside
of being fun.
Kelly

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Originally posted by bbarr
Deviation from these coordinates constitutes a moral defect.
I challenge you to take the test again and report the results. If they differ from the previous results, it is you who is being contradictory, for you would be either morally perfect then or now, but not both.

I have a soul, one that is sufficiently compassionate to not view the rest of the moral plane as defective, and sufficiently generous to share my particular lattice point with anyone.

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Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
I challenge you to take the test again and report the results. If they differ from the previous results, it is you who is being contradictory, for you would be either morally perfect then or now, but not both.

I have a soul, one ...[text shortened]... iently generous to share my particular lattice point with anyone.
Since I remember how I answered the questions, taking the test again would be a trivial excercise. I don't view the rest of the moral plane as defective tout court, merely defective in relation to the moral center. As it happens, the moral center is located at:

Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

You can't argue with math!

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Originally posted by TheSkipper
Damn, you are very VERY left economically. I would not have guessed that. I'm not even sure how to answer the questions to make the graph do that! 😉

TheSkipper
I'll tell you how. You have to be soooooooo generous that in order to commit a single act of generosity, you are willing to fall off the high end of the generosity spectrum, invisibly warp straight around to the low end, steal from several people, invisibly pop back in at the top, and hand out the money as if you were King Generosity himself. Until you are willing to commit such an act of great generosity, which some would call deception and theft, you will never attain the same magnitude along that axis as BBarr.

I think the more interesting question is how someone surpassed him on the other axis. I'm guessing it was something on the sex page that bbarr wasn't comfortable with.

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Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
I'll tell you how. You have to be soooooooo generous that in order to commit a single act of generosity, you are willing to fall off the high end of the generosity spectrum, invisibly warp straight around to the low end, steal from several people, invisibly pop back in at the top, and hand out the money as if you were King Generosity himself. Unti ...[text shortened]... other axis. I'm guessing it was something on the sex page that bbarr wasn't comfortable with.
First, the economic axis of the political spectrum goes from correct on the left to troglodytic on the right. It does not go from bottom to top. Obviously, you and your foppish company have only partially sublimated your class consciousness. I suspect your view is askewed by your blood-diamond encrusted monacle.

Second, only a boot-licking corporate toady or running-dog capitalist would characterize taxation as deception and theft. On your favored vertical characterization of the economic axis, the correct analogy is this: True generosity requires constant vigilance of those at the top, who, after stealing the pensions of several people, breaking the back of local labor, exploiting the third world for their resources under the guise of benevolent globalization, funnel the resultant wealth to penthouse apartments and upstate summer homes, where the decadent drink in chilled glasses the tears of the impoverished. These are those the generous tax, and thereby allow for those at the bottom, the victims of your rapacious hunger, to achieve some paltry dignity and happiness.

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LOL. It sure is fun to be back at RHP butting heads with you.

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