The Political Compass test!

[Lt._nefarious]

Um... Yay?

Although compared to what I read of the rest of you guy's(?) results I am a horrible person and, it would seem, rather boring...

 

[dudycat1]

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turns out i am politically similar to Nelson Mandela (and everyone else on this forum), who knew.

 

[Launcelot111]

Mine's about as close to the middle as I would expect

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Although the spectrum that I learned and appreciate more back in the day looked a little more like this.

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Getting rid of left/right designations makes things a little better.

The best I've seen (which I can't find a picture of) is just the top right quadrant of an XY graph where (0,0) is pure freedom, your x is your willingness to sacrifice freedom for order, and your y is your willingness to sacrifice freedom for equality.

 

[Azeal]

So I'm economically right, which doesn't surprise me at all. The reason so many people are so far left here is because that's just the general opinion of the younger generations. I am socially left (libertarian) though, I don't feel like restricting other socially is a good idea at all.

Also, there were a ton of liberal slanted questions. Disagreeing would make you sound like a terrible person, even if you don't agree with that idea. There were some blatant conservative ones as well, pretty glaring when I got to 'em. But I felt annoyed that some of these questions were a bit biased.

 

[Ljs1121]

Why not, I'll bite. It's been awhile since I've took one of these.

Spoiler: yay

Yeah, that's about the same area I got the last few times. A bit skewed toward the left, but overall no major leanings one way or the other. I'm pretty apathetic when it comes to most things.

 

[Kopikatsu]

What's with all the Liberals? Hot damn.

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I have a feeling all the Escapists being so close together is an indicator of our ages and economic levels. I am in my twenties and don't make much money. How about all of you?

I'm in my twenties as well, but I have a considerable amount of money.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.

I agreed with this. It just seems unfair to the child that it would have to live with it's parents disabilities. And a bit less so to tax payers that will probably have to support the child.

I'm sorry but your argument seems a bit off to me. If you went ahead and asked people with an inheritable disability that they got from one of their parents such as a dangerous heart condition whether or not they would like to exist I'm sure most if not all of them would say yes. In fact now that I think about it I find your stance rather offensive. Surely no inheritable disability is bad enough to warrant preventing the person who has it from ever being born? Isn't it better to live with your parents disability than to not live?

We're talking about an enormous restriction on the lives of a statistically relevant portion of the population. A violation of basic human rights. Imagine the goverment forcibly detaining and castrating you because you have an inheritable heart condition. Your argument is hardly convincing enough to warrant something like that, and even if it was enforcing such a law would be horrible for your countries morale, not to mention extremely impractical.

 

[A Satanic Panda]

People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.

I agreed with this. It just seems unfair to the child that it would have to live with it's parents disabilities. And a bit less so to tax payers that will probably have to support the child.

I'm sorry but your argument seems a bit off to me. If you went ahead and asked people with an inheritable disability that they got from one of their parents such as a dangerous heart condition whether or not they would like to exist I'm sure most if not all of them would say yes. In fact now that I think about it I find your stance rather offensive. Surely no inheritable disability is bad enough to warrant preventing the person who has it from ever being born? Isn't it better to live with your parents disability than to not live?

We're talking about an enormous restriction on the lives of a statistically relevant portion of the population. A violation of basic human rights. Imagine the goverment forcibly detaining and castrating you because you have an inheritable heart condition. Your argument is hardly convincing enough to warrant something like that, and even if it was enforcing such a law would be horrible for your countries morale, not to mention extremely impractical.

I'm not talking about plain old heart conditions or normal inheritable diseases. I'm talking about the more extreme stuff. Disabilities that would normally kill the child before it reached adolescence. Diseases that occur in say 1 in 300 million. Diseases that make the said child's life just one long visit to the ER again and again. And with no practical treatment.

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77

Not too surprising. I was more surprised to see that Barrack Obama, and most liberal American politicians aren't even considered on the left side.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

I think I was further to the left last time I did this.

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

So in the third (green) quadrant with almost everyone here. I wonder what that means...

 

[Seef]

Well, there doesn't seem to be much of a surprise here, I'm in the "young liberal" camp with the rest of you. Not very deep in, but that's because I was channeling Ayn Rand on half the test for some reason.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

While the test isn't that well written (with it's clear bias) I'm firmly in the lower-left quadrant as I'd have expected. Probably closer to the center if the wording wasn't slanted in such a way.

Totally unsurprised by the Escapists results in general, having seen your responses to thousands of news stories over the years.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.

I agreed with this. It just seems unfair to the child that it would have to live with it's parents disabilities. And a bit less so to tax payers that will probably have to support the child.

I'm sorry but your argument seems a bit off to me. If you went ahead and asked people with an inheritable disability that they got from one of their parents such as a dangerous heart condition whether or not they would like to exist I'm sure most if not all of them would say yes. In fact now that I think about it I find your stance rather offensive. Surely no inheritable disability is bad enough to warrant preventing the person who has it from ever being born? Isn't it better to live with your parents disability than to not live?

We're talking about an enormous restriction on the lives of a statistically relevant portion of the population. A violation of basic human rights. Imagine the goverment forcibly detaining and castrating you because you have an inheritable heart condition. Your argument is hardly convincing enough to warrant something like that, and even if it was enforcing such a law would be horrible for your countries morale, not to mention extremely impractical.

I'm not talking about plain old heart conditions or normal inheritable diseases. I'm talking about the more extreme stuff. Disabilities that would normally kill the child before it reached adolescence. Diseases that occur in say 1 in 300 million. Diseases that make the said child's life just one long visit to the ER again and again. And with no practical treatment.

Well you could have specified that. Now you just had me confused. Still wouldn't be worth the political hassle you'd create by enforcing something like that, not by a long shot. Especially when cases like that are so rare.

 

[Strazdas]

Well, there is a reason why america is called a facist state now.

mine:

sadly i cannot give you non-boredom. Though i wodner where lenin would fit? certainly not next to stalin.
altrough i queztion thier methods. i got a questions: "Astrology accurately explains many things." "You cannot be moral without being religious." seriously? is this the question that is supposed to weed out idiots?

P.S. capcha: know your paradoxes. They have gotten some mindreader for capcha or something?

 

[Nietz]

Spoiler: Oh wow

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.36

... I guess that kinda makes sense. I've never seen myself as such an extremist though. In my social group I'm kind of "middle of the road".

 

[jacob97900]

It seems that a large majority of the escapist are like minded people. I think thats why i generally like the people on this website.

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Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

 

[albear]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.50&soc=-2.00

hmm, thought id be closer to the centre of the graph, oh well

 

[GraveeKing]

Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.44
Looks like I got the average too.
So basically... everyone who got this kinda view is your average working-class guy from what I gathered?

 

[smithy_2045]

Roughly -2, -2. I'm more centrist than I used to be, but since the last time I did it I've drifted slightly down and slightly left.