The political compass

[Pukko 0]

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Economic Left/Right: -3.75

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.62

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Hello there all pinko commies

[Assault (CAN) 1]

Wow, only two 'right wingers' so far, I thought that there would be more.

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But you guys are all a bunch of reds! Of course the forum average would look worse on me when I'm paired up with you all. Me? Authoritarian? God no.

If we really want some debates, we should pick some individual questions from the survey and put them on another topic.

I nominate the 'should a gay couple be allowed to adopt children' question.

Just a thought.

Tyler

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">'should a gay couple be allowed to adopt children' <span id='postcolor'>

No, cos you can debate this with scientific proof (it does exist) and therefore you wouldn't really see someone's political orientation

I'd much rather have a discussion on immigration/illegal immegration/asylum seekers etc. to be quite honest, that is bound to be a hot topic

And if anyone disagrees, well, I have a huge, red nuke button sitting here

[Renagade 0]

/me pokes ronin in the eyes then presses the button muahhahah

[cybrid 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Economic Left/Right: 1.50

Authoritarian/Libertarian: 3.33

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I'm surprised, I thought I'd be more to the right and maybe up alittle higher.

[ale2999 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Economic Left/Right: -0.62

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -1.33<span id='postcolor'>

I am not too bad

[WhoCares 0]

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.88

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.00

No big surprise. However, especially one question, I didn't really knew how to handle:

Scientists will develope a method to 'cure' homosexuality.

While I can imagine, that something like this might happen in the future (I believe in the power of science), I am not sure, that it is something we should do(I am liberal in this point)...

[Frisbee 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WhoCares @ Dec. 05 2002,11:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.88

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.00

No big surprise. However, especially one question, I didn't really knew how to handle:

Scientists will develope a method to 'cure' homosexuality.

While I can imagine, that something like this might happen in the future (I believe in the power of science), I am not sure, that it is something we should do(I am liberal in this point)...<span id='postcolor'>

It states that homosexuality is a disease,an abnormality that can be cured.Extremely conservative pov I think.

[Bordoy 0]

i dont consider myself to be facist.

[Sadico 1]

Hmmm, forum commie... I like that

Hey denoir, can you put that in my member title??

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Here's mine:

Economic Left/Right: -2.62

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -0.46

[quickdraw_01 4]

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -1.75

Authoritarian/Libertarian: 1.08

[cybrid 0]

I actually think that the test is biased towards the left. I've taken the conventional left/right tests and always end up about 75% or so to the right.

[E6Hotel 0]

Joe Average (on this forum, anyway) checking in.

Economic Left/Right: -4.25

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.67

Note to self: Check windage/elevation on political ideology -- shooting low and to the left.

Semper Fi

[cybrid 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Note to self: Check windage/elevation on political ideology -- shooting low and to the left.<span id='postcolor'>

Exactly, pay closer attention to windage though

[IsthatyouJohnWayne 0]

Hi again (some of you might actually remember me) Ive been travelling for a couple of months (Turkey now) so not much forum browsing but anyway...

This test might be somewhat biased to the left but it still provides some kind of gauge.....interesting.

Economic Left/Right: -4.75

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -7.44

Unless im mistaken according to this test that makes me the most libertarian. I suppose it makes sense when i think about it... i rushed a little bit cos im in an (expensive) internet cafe but mostly accurate.

The economic questions were easier for me, i found one of the hardest to answer to be the gay adoption question.. a large part of me feels i >should<(and already does) tolerate somewhat alien lifestyles or things i might not wish for myself (single sex parents) but im not sure if deep down i really >want< to tolerate it. Children always tend to complicate things somewhat.

In the end i decided that my lack of good feeling towards single sex adoptions was due to remaining barriers of societal conditioning and thus i should give such adoptions the benefit of the doubt (i have no statistics to hand)

I guess others might have found this question simple and others more complicated... ?

[Hit_Sqd_Maximus 0]

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Authoritarian/Libertarian: 2.10<span id='postcolor'>

[Bart.Jan 0]

My results :

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Economic Left/Right: -4.50

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.21<span id='postcolor'>

I would like to know what means to be on right wing ? I'm asking because I'm for free market without goverment control, but with strong goverment audit* (or it means same ?), and compas sent me to left side.

*goverment doesn't dictate what to produce/buy/sell, but it controls companies if they are not breaking laws and treaties.

To IsthatyouJohnWayne :

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Children always tend to complicate things somewhat.<span id='postcolor'>

I don't think there is problem with children. Problem is with adults. They are teching their children what is good/bad. In my opinion, single sex parents are ok for adopted children but there will be problems with other children from "normal" families that will complicate their live in school. And only because their parents. When single sex pairs with adopted children will be common (nothing unusual) there will be only minor problems.

[Assault (CAN) 1]

Well, that might be true.

But the relationship would still be difficult in a gay parent family, how will the other biological mother or father have a relationship with the child? Even if the child is adopted, it might still want to know who his or her biological parents are. In the end the child might feel alienated for not being raised in a normal family.

I've got nothing against gays, but they should never be allowed to raise children legally.

IMO, that was one of the hardest questions on the test.

Tyler

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I see no problem with gay people adopting children. Since if there are no conditions for parenting for straight couples I don't see a need for double standards.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">But the relationship would still be difficult in a gay parent family, how will the other biological mother or father have a relationship with the child? Even if the child is adopted, it might still want to know who his or her biological parents are. <span id='postcolor'>

This goes for all adopted children, not just the ones raised by gay parents.

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Updated graph:

Relative forum average

[Supah 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -5.88

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.38<span id='postcolor'>

How very dutch of me

[Oligo 1]

Economic Left/Right: 0.25

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.79

The funniest thing in the Forum Average -graph is that there seems to be a correlation between being a commie and an anarchist (e.g. libertarians are more likely to be economic left). Denoir, our official statistician, maybe you should calculate whether this correlation is significant or not.

[Pukko 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ Dec. 09 2002,10:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Denoir, our official statistician, maybe you should calculate whether this correlation is significant or not.<span id='postcolor'>

Well, if the data vary as much as it has from earlier figures to this graph - its quite unlikely to be be statistically significant, what ever you look at

Guess denoir was a little tired last night, but the anarchist axis is quite buggy.

Damn, I dont post much here anymore - just these pointless shitty comments at times. Guess that I mostly have discussed US foregin policies here earlier (which has been most interesting), but both I and the forum in general seems to be quite done with it for now - it has just become empty routine to present the usual arguments. Maybe times will change and this forum once again can be a creative way to get rid of rage and sorrow of the kind that I felt during the last autumn and winter.. In the meantime I will continue to visit this forum as often as I can, since it is (or at least was) a great news source

[Cloney 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: 1.00

Authoritarian/Libertarian: 3.38

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Interesting...