22 Dec 04
Originally posted by bbarrDamn, 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! 😉
My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38
Hooray for Humane Liberalism!
TheSkipper
22 Dec 04
Originally posted by DoctorScribblesYou 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).
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?
22 Dec 04
Originally posted by RagnorakI 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: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41
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Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90
22 Dec 04
Originally posted by WulebgrI thank you. I was going to register as the Dalai Lama, but I didn't want to use my real name. 😛
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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22 Dec 04
Originally posted by TheSkipperYour political compass
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
Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.72
Did not spend to much time trying to figure out what this means. 🙂
Kelly
22 Dec 04
Originally posted by KellyJayThe more I think about the questions, the more I think it does not mean to damn much. Fun though...
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
TheSkipper
22 Dec 04
Originally posted by TheSkipperI agree, mainly because the choices were to restrictive. The questions
The more I think about the questions, the more I think it does not mean to damn much. Fun though...
TheSkipper
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
22 Dec 04
Originally posted by bbarrI 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.
Deviation from these coordinates constitutes a moral defect.
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.
23 Dec 04
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Originally posted by DoctorScribblesSince 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:
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.
Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38
You can't argue with math!
23 Dec 04
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Originally posted by TheSkipperI'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.
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 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.
23 Dec 04
Originally posted by DoctorScribblesFirst, 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.
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.
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.