# Online libertarian purity test: I'm "soft-core"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 22, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312 "2002-12-22T03:10:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/1 "2002-12-22T03:10:20Z")
I took the Libertarian Purity Test and scored a 21. That means that I’m “a soft-core libertarian. With effort, \* may harden and become pure.” Neat. How’d you score?
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/2 "2002-12-22T03:45:54Z")
I got a 28…though seeing as all the questions had only two choices, and given the way they were worded, I often had to pick a choice I didn’t really want in the form it was written, but kinda distorted a little, so I came off more so than I really am.
Did that sentance make any sense?
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### Author:  [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/3 "2002-12-22T03:46:14Z")
Only 16. Still soft-core.
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### Author:  [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/4 "2002-12-22T03:57:45Z")
11! I’m more libertarian than I’d hoped.
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### Author:  [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/5 "2002-12-22T03:58:55Z")
Got a 39! Come give me a kiss, **Lib**!
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### Author:  [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/6 "2002-12-22T04:14:25Z")
I got a 14.
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### Author:  [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/7 "2002-12-22T04:23:48Z")
WTF? I took the quiz at [http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html](http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html) and I’m on the border of centrist and authoritarian, and I’m left of central! I’ve always considered myself pretty conservative, but it looks like I’m just confused.
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### Author:  [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/8 "2002-12-22T04:23:51Z")
1.
Wow shit, that’s a **lot** higher than I expected when taking the test.
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### Author:  [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/9 "2002-12-22T04:24:26Z")
1.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/10 "2002-12-22T04:28:15Z")
I’m a medium-core (score 63), though I think a lot of the questions are not very fair.
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### Author:  [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/11 "2002-12-22T04:33:09Z")
OMG, I got an 83. Who knew? I just thought I was kind of an average person who thought government had gotten too big.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/12 "2002-12-22T04:49:31Z")
24 here.
Soft core libertarian… hmmmm.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/13 "2002-12-22T05:06:31Z")
As noted above, and as with many such tests, the wording of the questions and the limited range of answers are such that my true opinions were not expressable, and I bailed mid-way.
While I tend to describe myself as politically conservative, I’ve been told on this board that I sound more Libertarian. I did read _Reason_ for a while.
P.S. Hey there, **as\_u\_wish**! Where’ve ya been?
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### Author:  [@Carcosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carcosa)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/14 "2002-12-22T05:13:05Z")
104 - just biding my time 'til the revolution 🙂
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/15 "2002-12-22T05:32:43Z")
I got a 16.
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### Author:  [@AbsolutelyStark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbsolutelyStark)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/16 "2002-12-22T05:41:34Z")
I got 107. Wow.
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/17 "2002-12-22T05:56:51Z")
1. About what I expected.
I think that govenment should be seriously reduced (but still maintain control of roads/highways/police/fire/courts etc. )
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/18 "2002-12-22T06:11:30Z")
1. Amazing. I am getting less Libertarian as I age.
Haj
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### Author:  [@Sdrawkcab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sdrawkcab)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/19 "2002-12-22T06:17:15Z")
30 here. Down from 50+ when I took the test nine months ago.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/20 "2002-12-22T07:17:19Z")
Err…um…I scored a 5.
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