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Know your political compass!

Epic Beard Man

Bearded Philosopher
Inspired by @Father Heathen it has occurred to me lately that some who comment are unaware of their political leans and/or have issue differentiating political leans and ideologies with reality. One of the first things I did was do a political compass when I took political science in undergrad. Here is a helpful website to show where you stand from an economic and social scale. Please share your results!

The Political Compass
 

Rival

se Dex me saut.
Staff member
Premium Member
We already have a pinned Political Compass thread on here in the politics section :)
 

M83

Too busy staring at my shoes
Economic Left/Right: -1.5

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.8
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
We already have a pinned Political Compass thread on here in the politics section :)
Here's one thread....
Political Compass Results

Thanx to @Laika for this chart....
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We can see who the oddball is....that @Tumah in the upper left quadrant all by himself!
 

Aldrnari

Active Member
Lawful Good

Sorry... :D

Left/Right: -5.25
Lib/Auth: -3.38

This is actually kind of interesting for me, since I've always just brushed my political views off as "Independent." At least now I know exactly what that means. :)

Edit: On spekr I ranked at -35 economic, -34 social. I'm a libertarian socialist, apparently.
 
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sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I see @Revoltingest stands alone as an extreme right/libertarian. @Tumah is actually on the edge of the "pack" albeit just over the line.

I'm with the pack as a moderately left/moderately libertarian.
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51
 

illykitty

RF's pet cat
Well, you can see my results on the other threads, however, since you posted the spekd one, my result came out as libertarian socialist. Economic -59, Social -55. I'm not surprised at all. I very much respect individual rights but on an economical level I think things need to be regulated.

I could be wrong, of course, on the economics at least. I don't think there's anything good that comes out of stifling individual rights though. The only things I can think of is that it depends on what one means by not infringing on others' rights, because it's not as clear of a line as a lot of people think. Take climate change... It's your individual right to drive the car you want, but what if most people drive heavily polluting ones? Then that causes lots of problems for people who do not want pollution and for future generations.

So it depends on definitions and how you see things. I personally think it could count as an infringement on someone else's right (to life, to health, etc.), but I'm sure one could disagree, however I don't know how one would defend that position. I think you would need to weigh things out. I mean, the car scenario is the right to chose a heavy polluting vehicle and it's mostly an aesthetic and personal preference. The other is the right of life, health and future generations being in the balance. I don't know about you but the latter seems more important to me.
 
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