What are you on the Political Spectrum?

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

Do you believe in the death penalty?

How could he not? I think what you mean is 'approve', not 'believe'.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Do you believe in the death penalty?

Tough question....I am wishy-washy on it -- neutral.

I don't think I would want to make the call whether a guy was innocent or guilty. I have to make a life-changing decision with incomplete information.

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

How could he not? I think what you mean is 'approve', not 'believe'.

Good point, here's an argument i make against the liberals who are anti- DP and pro-choice.

"So, you want to kill a life before it even has a chance, but save a life after it's been given a chance?" I know there can be arguments made, but it's a pretty big double standard I think.

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I'm a bit on the conservative side, as I'm a fan of more conventional values. However, while I think more traditional values are ideal, I don't think these rules should be enforced by the government; they should be a personal choice.
Also, I hate a huge gov't. It should be there to protect the people from themselves and others. Not to regulate every aspect of our lives. Leave the free market be!

Don't you see the contradiction?

If you want to promote "conservative and traditional values" you cannot be "free market". The market has a tendacy to continually evolve. I don't see the point of "hoping for a traditional and conservative" values while pushing the merits of a free market.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Good point, here's an argument i make against the liberals who are anti- DP and pro-choice.
"So, you want to kill a life before it even has a chance, but save a life after it's been given a chance?" I know there can be arguments made, but it's a pretty big double standard I think.

I don't believe it's alive. It only has the capability to be alive under a specific set of circumstances.

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

Economic Left/Right: -2.75

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21

 

[95ZJ 10+ year member]

Economic Left/Right -3.38

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -1.38

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Economic Left/Right: 2.00

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.59

How did I do?

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

Economic Left/Right: 2.00Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.59

How did I do?

You passed.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

Some of these questions are horrible. The fact that they are even questions (and that the more conservative mind might vote in support of them) scares the shit out of me.

It also needs to provide a "neither agree nor disagree" section. For example, the question "Is controlling inflation more important than controlling unemployment?" What if you believe we shouldn't (or can't) directly control either of these?

Or suppose the argument "The freer the market, the freer the people." I could easily argue that you are freed from a collective government, but you're still not free of the market or society (which can behave in a very similar manner). But I suppose I'm taking it too seriously.

Economic Left/Right: 0.88

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

Centered economically, libertarian socially.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Yes!

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

i hate liberals. i hate their lazy, empire killing thinking. that's where i primarily sit politically. i don't care about republican or democrat so much. anyone but a liberal, is my political stance. most people are in the middle overall, and are evolved enough to realize what compromise is. most liberals have 0 ability to do that.

 

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

Economic: -.12

Social: -3.95

Pease, love, freedom.....but not too much, now.

 

[PaulThompson229 10+ year member]

I got just barely into the red section from the very middle, I don't know how to do screenshot though so I can't post it up