The Political Compass test!

[Insanely Asinine]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-2.88&soc=-5.59

 

[Adventurer2626]

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Sounds about right to me. Felt half the questions were leading as hell but I read between the lines as much as I could. I like people to be free but with so many people around there are some realities of regulation to accept and companies provide the lion's share of jobs but I don't want them taking over the world. Basically what I feel is the "common good."

If red tape could be cleared away, execution would become less of a drain on the public coffers. Furthermore, If potential killers knew the swift retribution of the needle awaited them should they be caught, it might cause them to think twice. Some folks will do what they want no matter what. We can't do anything about them. Others just need to see there is a line they can't cross. We can keep a larger portion of this group out of trouble by drawing that line and making it clear we're serious.

Maybe we nationalize the Gom Jabbar test? XD

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

This is about where I expected to end up. I am not too surprised everyone here is similar.

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[Knight Captain Kerr]

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I'm so original. I took this test about a year ago. I'm much further into the same box no. That is probably because I actually know where I stand on political issues now. Last time I just voted agree or disagree on something I had no real opinion on.

 

[james0192]

Yay for being different to everyone else!

Expected to be that far right (only if you consider left-right an economic scale, which I'm not sure is the best way to look at it) what with me being an economics student and everything.

Would have thought I'd have been more socially liberal than that though.

 

[00slash00]

its interesting that almost everyone seemed to get basically the same result. and by interesting i mean extremely boring

 

[BENZOOKA]

I love the idea, but too bad it's an awful test. Not quite even the equivalent of "Which Winnie The Pooh characters do you resemble the most" -themed quiz for kids. You'd need to be a neo-nazi with a bunch of silver spoons in your mouth to get a result largely differing from what most are getting.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-7.38&soc=-5.23

 

[Starik20X6]

Spoiler: Well, here we are...

 

[Vuxul]

Not sure how to post images, however i was quite well on the right/libertarian side, 3.62 left/right and -4.92 up/down. Must say, fits pretty well.

 

[Pharsalus]

Not gonna waste my time. Don't the two dimensions seem way to similar? What kind of test place the Dali effing Lama so close to the center, it's jive.

 

[Jodan]

i found that survery atrouciously worded but here it is

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

 

[Quazimofo]

Huh... and I thought I was being pretty harsh in some ways. Weird.[/QUOTE]

yeah, for some of those so did I, but i wound up rather extremely on the left, and right on the line between authoritarian and libertarian. (because while people are inherently good and well meaning for the most part, they really need direction and control because they make COLOSSALLY bad decisions FAR too often when left to their own devices.)

 

[ScaryAlmond]

Personally disagree with their famous estimates.
They are missing several different people
A bit shifty if you ask me

Much better
Here is my score seem pretty similar to what i expect bend to AUTHORITY!!!
[img src="http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=0.75&soc=9.38"]
Pretty similar to some other guy but can't put my finger on it

 

[creatorx2]

The word-choice has an inherent bias, as far as I can tell.

"It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society."

How precisely does one disagree with this? Does anyone legitimately believe that people who do not contribute should be given nicer things than people who contribute?

 

[MrGalactus]

^
The effects of a life of punk music and activism, ladies and gentlemen

Not sure how to post images, however i was quite well on the right/libertarian side, 3.62 left/right and -4.92 up/down. Must say, fits pretty well.

Right click the image, copy the image URL, paste it in the comment box. Put (img) before it, and (/img) after it, replacing the round brackets with square brackets.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Mother of All Snips

Good lord! I was going to make some [footnote]not very[/footnote]witty remark about how it took you three days to respond, but when I saw that you responded to my relatively short post with a bloody novel, so all I'll say is "dude, you care WAY too much about this."

And now for some responses:

False dichotomy? False in what way?

I'll let you speak for yourself.

You say we cannot continue the death penalty. I say murderers cannot walk our streets.

See, there's a third option you don't seem to understand. We can keep them in jail. It is a false dichotomy that our choices are "kill them!" and "just let them walk the streets!"

Murderers have to go somewhere upon release, which means innocent people have killers living next door. You might have a released murderer -- not one who simply was never caught, but one who was caught, convicted, and then released -- within 100 feet of you right now. You may never get to read this post because your next door neighbor might decide it's been WAY too long since he last tasted raw human kidney.

Dude. Not suggesting that we should let crazy people just do whatever they want. Not suggesting we should let unrepentant psychotic murderers go nuts. Never suggested that. Stop it, for the love of all that's holy.

Oh and mostly because you asked,here are the statistics on recidivism,

Spoiler: Magical Justice Department Link Go!

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/reentry/recidivism.cfm [Linky link!]

You have expressed great concern over 3-4 people per year being wrongly sentenced to death. Forgive me if I sound callous, but that's a drop in the bucket next to the guilty who escape punishment entirely. Going from 35.29% failure to 35.31% failure doesn't seem all that horrible, especially if the overall murder rate, or the rate of recidivism, could be reduced to the point where we'd have a net gain of human life. I believe this would happen if there were more executions.

This is a myth.
The[footnote]http://www.deathpenalty.org/downloads/RadeletDeterrenceStudy2009.pdf][/footnote] death [footnote]http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-about-deterrence-and-death-penalty[/footnote] penalty [footnote]http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=82[/footnote] doesn't[footnote]http://www.acadp.org/contents/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41:deterrence&catid=14[/footnote] deter[footnote]http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000983[/footnote] crime[footnote]http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/death-penalty-may-not-impact-murder-rate/[/footnote]. Also, how is the number of people who escape punishment relevant to this discussion?

Forget release, forget up close and personal, if you found out a convicted murderer had killed two guards and a fellow inmate while still in jail -- three more lives that could have been saved -- would you still feel you had the right idea?

It was a question, not a statement. You ask me to think of the 141 death row inmates who had their convictions overturned due to innocence. Have you thought of the inevitable casualties involved in allowing convicted killers who definitely did it to stay alive in prison, or even walk among us?

There we go! Now we're starting to move towards something resembling a reasonable conversation slash debate![footnote]Not sarcastic, I actually mean that and am excited about that.[/footnote]
I also really appreciate you pointing out the (as far as I can tell) only hole in my argument.

Now to respond. In short because I'm tired, that's why we need to restructure our prison system, that's what solitary and such was designed for, and we frequently don't know that someone who has been put in prison is without a doubt a murderer. We've had people go all the way to being put to death before the system realized "oh wait, whatever evidence proves that this person is innocent".

TL;DR I think two things, and I'll put them nice and separate so that it's totally clear:

1: We should not continue the death penalty in the United States for a number of moral, ethical, and economic reasons.
2: We need to reform our prison system from being a "retributive" system to a "rehabilitative" system.

 

[BrotherSurplice]

This doesn't come as a suprise:

Spoiler: viva la revolution!

 

[Bostur]

I'm as boring as most other it seems.

Spoiler

Maybe gamers have some anti-commercialism in common. Also I think politicians may be trending towards the authoritarian due to their job. They are in the business of authority after all. I don't think I would like to have leaders that are as libertarian as I am.

I did miss an option that said "I don't know", or "Undecided". I also felt like disagreeing with all the questions since I tend to disagree with any statement that is so simplified.

 

[Bestival]

Not very surprising to me. What made me chuckle though was that I only really had 'strong' feelings on the last two pages. Sex for everyone! Religion for no one! MUAAHAHAHA.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Not really at all surprising. Thought I would be a bit more authoritarian, though. This is not at all becoming of Templar...