I’m suprised we have so many 30s & 31s without ANY 2s. How’s that work?
Thanks for all the responses so far.
I’m going to do one more round of this with better questions. Please feel free to suggest any.
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By the way, for the second round: ray20 – must our responses be posted publicly? Is that an important part of the study? Will it be possible to have somewhere we can e-mail responses?
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- ?? No clue what this means
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- Agree with first part——»close prisons, i’m for banishment like on “No Escape”
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- Don’t Know (I think I agree, if it reduces pollution or something)
- Agree if you meant: Companies should not be allowed to bill people for time spent on hold
- Agree, only if they need it, not mandatory
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- Agree only that: Communism has some promise in a perfect world
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- Agree only that: Anarchism has some promise in a perfect world
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- Disagree: because evil should be resisted, by force if necessary
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- Disagree, you should help those in need
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- somewhat agree
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For your reading pleasure, Jerry Pournelle, Ph.D. (with degrees in political science and engineering as well as being a best-selling author) provides you with the Pournelle Axes. (The article is excerpted from a Baen-published book and was written by Pournelle)
I agree on only 4.
7,11,26,41
This is pretty fun. I had to stretch myself to give answers to some of these, but a few of these issues are just too complex or not specific enough as stated to reduce to a binaristic resolution, which is an inevitable consequence of polling and comparative studies. Of course I’m sure you recognize all that.
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- D; but raise your number here and I’d agree, anything over 1/4 billion, say, off the top of my head
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- Issue is too complex to reduce to D/A
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- Put a gun to my head and ask me to choose, and I’ll say “D,” but I’m more comfortable with “it depends”
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- D, but clearly some exceptions, e.g.: Michael Milken’s digs.
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- A; but more than a few tweaks
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- A; but “efficiency” is not on the top of my priority list, at least not when it runs rampant and amuck and tramples on other values, such as ecology, care for the individual, justice, etc.
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I agree with only 1, 7, 11, 23, 25, 26, 28, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, and 43.
Well, I’ll give it a shot.
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- People shouldn’t automatically have the right to reproduce <-- disagree with reservations
- Abolish private ownership of income-generating property <-- disagree with reservations
- Most prisons should be closed; give the inmates jobs and counseling <-- agree with reservations
- Armies should be replaced by lightly armed border guards <-- disagree with complicated reservations
- Fortunes over a million dollars should be confiscated <-- disagree with reservations
- National forests should be offlimits to logging <-- agree
- Move to a hydrogen economy <-- agree with reservations
- People should be allowed to bill companies for time spent on hold <-- depends on circumstances
- Kids of convicts should receive mentoring, tutoring, scholarships, etc <-- agree
- Low income seniors should get free drugs <-- agree
- The world’s institutions are patriarchal (based on male authority) <-- agree and oppose it
- There is no such thing as “mental illness” <-- agree
- There’s no need for a hierarchy of people having authority over others <-- agree
- We are weakening our species by allowing defective specimens to survive <-- disagree with side notes and acknowledgement of good points on other side
- Spend $ on expansion (into space, oceans) not internal problems <-- disagree
- Reach out toward the stars before the earth is rendered unlivable <-- disagree
- Guns should be encouraged, and shooting skills should be taught in schools <-- neutral
- Property tax should be abolished <-- disagree
- Intellectual property laws hurt humanity as a whole <-- disagree with many reservations
- I enjoy riding on public transportation <-- agree
- It’s valid to not want to work <-- disagree
- God exists <-- define “God”
- Homosexual behavior is a sin <-- disagree
- Heaven and Hell exist <-- define “Heaven” and “Hell”
- Underage drinking is wrong <-- disagree
- Prisons are too luxurious - make them do more hard labor <-- disagree
- Affirmative Action is racist <-- disagree with many reservations incl. acknowledgement of good points made on other side
- There is no place for guns in a civilized society <-- disagree
- Communism has some promise with a few tweaks here and there <-- disagree unless its critique of capitalism counts as “promise” in and of itself
- Socialism has some promise with a few tweaks here and there <-- disagree see above
- Ararchism has some promise with a few tweaks here and there <-- agree
- Libertarianism has some promise with a few tweaks here and there <-- agree
- There should be one world government <-- agree with lots and lots of disclaimers and reservations
- The government shouldn’t mess with the market <-- unable to answer as worded
- Industrial development, oil rigs, highways, etc aren’t ugly <-- agree (we’re talking aesthetics here, right?)
- We should exploit energy reserves in the ANWR <-- disagree
- No cause justifies violence <-- disagree but accept lots of limitations
- No cause justifies vandalism <-- disagree but accept lots of limitations
- We should all leave each other completely alone as much as possible <-- agree (if by “leave alone” you meain “refrain from coercing”)
- Limiting our individual freedoms will not stop terrorism <-- agree loudly
- Laisse-faire capitalism is the most efficient possible economic system <-- define “efficient” (for whom or what?)
- Society shouldn’t starve people into productivity <-- agree
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- fallacy of the excluded middle
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- A, but it’s not valid to expect to be compensated for that desire.
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Maybe the problem is the inadequacy of the concept of summing up opinions according to a left/right spectrum. Are you familiar with the idea of using a diamond pattern instead? Also called the Nolan chart?
Fascinating! Thank you, Polycarp!
This is similar to the Nolan chart, but perhaps better. I need to delve into it more.
And before reading this, it never occured to me that some people might want to hang on to the inadequate left/right spectrum out of a desire to render murky their actual position.
I’m trying to get away from all of those we-know-the-predefined-dimensions type models of opinion space, and create something more open ended.
In other words I’m not making a map of what political space SHOULD be according to some meaningful classification scheme, but what it is (here anyway), even if that puts socialists in the center next to fascists and anarchists.
One thing that’s really interesting so far is the structural importance of religion, universalism (#34 & maybe 20) and libertarianism as bridges between the left and right.
So far (and this interpretation reveals my bias), the right seems divided into sortof the rhetorical whatever-sounds-the-meanest right (the anti-emotional right? questions 1+15+18+27) and sincere free market / religious conservatism (these two are surprisingly close, which reminds me of Tom Frank’s hilarious little essay “The God that Sucked.” http://www.thebaffler.com/gts.html)
My turn.
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All other questions lacked enough data to express an opinion on.