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http://politicalcompass.org

Surprising nobody, I rated -1.62 / -2.13

I'm less liberal and more anarchist than. . . . Ghandi.

Comments

[etcet.livejournal.com]

what actually bothered me most was the lack of a fifth, completely neutral, option. I found myself, at many turns, not agreeing or disagreeing with any of the statements, or holding two equally-weighted opinions on the statement at hand, and wanting not to express a preference.

i agree with the questionable ratings, though - i'm well aware that my relative lack of wealth relative to previous periods has shifted my opinions slightly leftwards, but i'm still, by most accounts not held by religious fundamentalists, i'm decidedly right of center, and the relative moderation of the anarchism it professes i exhibit isn't truly accurate. . . i am absolutely pro-death penalty, but there wasn't an option to say "by posse."

of course, i'm pro-anarchy, but also hold an incredibly low opinion of people [and, by extension, corporations] and their ability to not actively fuck the other guy over for negligible personal gain, so i've resigned myself somewhat to the fact that anarchy would be nice, as long as we could kill people who were acting like assholes immediately.

and here's dave, with the sports. . .

[apotheon.livejournal.com]

I found that in many cases I wasn't undecided or neutrally oriented, but rather there was a third option that was essentially diametrically opposed to both options presented, and that's the one I would have chosen. The whole thing is just broken.