Online libertarian purity test: I'm "soft-core"

26…softcore.

I got 70, and that was with missing out the questions that related specifically to the US.

  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.

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I also agreed with most of the earlier questions but disagreed with most of the later ones.

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.

  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.

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.

42 Your libertarian credentials are obvious. Doubtlessly you will become more extreme as time goes on. Yeah Right :rolleyes:

55 - medium core.

Hmm, actually my friends do encourage me to quit talking about my views so much.

  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.

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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.

I got a 500.

It came complete with a 404.

Perhaps a different computer connection will allow me to get an actual score.

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.