From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 18:26:57 MDT
From: "Mike Linksvayer" <ml@gondwanaland.com>
> I agree. It's unfortunate, for example, that basic tolerance is
> associated with left wing ideology. Libertarians and friends are
> partially to blame, giving too much emphasis to laws, not enough
> to social practices.
Hmmm... just to keep things balanced, perhaps extropians/transhumanists can
divide our self-applied labels evenly, so whenever there appear to be too many
lefties, some of us can volunteer to assume the role of right-wingers, and
when the majority seems too conservative, we can jump in with some progressive
communitarian liberalism. OK, bad idea. (A politically capricious person made
me say that.)
> I'm a sucker for this sort of thing. On a scale of -10..10 (I think):
> Economic Left/Right: 4.13
> Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.79
>
> Based on the above, JR's score was something like 0/-2.
Yep, that's the way I see it too. No strong political sentiments in J.R.
(I'm neither for nor against apathy.)
> Quite an interesting test actually, coming from a non-US/non-libertarian
> perspective. Many of the questions concern attitude more than
> "there should [not] be a law", a la the libertarian-biased World's
> Shortest Political Quiz.
Some of the questions are quite personal, so it's nice that they offer
anonymity.
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From: "Charlie Stross" <charlie@antipope.org>
> About as far to the left as, but a tad more libertarian than, Tony Benn.
Hooray! Good to know that libertanianism has two healthy wings.
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