# Online libertarian purity test: I'm "soft-core" **URL:** \ **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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Qixotica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@Qixotica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qixotica)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/61 "2002-12-23T09:20:05Z")
26…softcore. ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/62 "2002-12-23T13:25:50Z")
I got 70, and that was with missing out the questions that related specifically to the US. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/63 "2002-12-23T13:27:47Z")
1. If I recall correctly, I disagreed with most of the “extreme” views, seeing them as over-generalizations. I agreed with a lot of the earlier questions (probably more of the social ones than the economic ones), but tried to play the devil’s advocate in my mind, thinking of every conceivable exception. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/64 "2002-12-23T13:35:21Z")
46 I also agreed with most of the earlier questions but disagreed with most of the later ones. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/65 "2002-12-23T14:08:16Z")
**51-90 points** : You are a medium-core libertarian, probably self-consciously so. Your friends probably encourage you to quit talking about your views so much. Heck of a lot higher than I actually thought. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/66 "2002-12-23T14:51:57Z")
1. “Starting to have libertarian leanings.” Mmm, I don’t think I am, actually. I like my government like I like my coffee: Dark, bitter, and with a skim of sludge at the top. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/67 "2002-12-23T15:26:45Z")
15 for me. I find it interesting (though predictable) that the Libertarians have the same sort of concept of ideological purity that the Communists and Nazis did. Different criteria, of course, but the same belief that everyone has to think the same way. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/68 "2002-12-23T16:52:12Z")
**42** Your libertarian credentials are obvious. Doubtlessly you will become more extreme as time goes on. Yeah Right :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Young\_Mr.Grace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e47c2d/32.png) [@Young\_Mr.Grace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Young_Mr.Grace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/69 "2002-12-23T17:09:24Z")
55 - medium core. Hmm, actually my friends **do** encourage me to quit talking about my views so much. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/70 "2002-12-23T19:01:27Z")
1. Some of the questions seemed to have no answer to me. I know the stuff that got me was Zoning laws and stuff like that, yeah I really want to live next to a factory. ---
**Author:** ![HomeSlice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HomeSlice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomeSlice)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/71 "2002-12-23T19:33:50Z")
45 ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/72 "2002-12-25T05:46:56Z")
I only got an 80. That’s probably because I was being pragmatic on many of the questions. For example, while I think that private mail delivery would be better, I answered no to privatizing the Post Office, because I figured that the cost of actually switching wouldn’t be worth it. If I went for “in a perfect world” sort of answers, I’d probably be well over a hundred. As far as I can tell, I’m at the extreme leftist end of anarcho-capitalism. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/73 "2002-12-26T22:28:22Z")
I got a 500. It came complete with a 404. Perhaps a different computer connection will allow me to get an actual score. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312/74 "2002-12-26T22:44:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Edward The Head \* > \*\*52. Some of the questions seemed to have no answer to me. I know the stuff that got me was Zoning laws and stuff like that, yeah I really want to live next to a factory. \*\* Zoning is one of those things that libertarians want to accomplish in a different (non governmental) way. In a libertarian system, you would not be free to build a factory or open a bar or establish a hog farm in a residential neighborhood. Instead of zoning, there’d be binding agreements among property owners. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-libertarian-purity-test-im-soft-core/144312.md?page=3)