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[Kamiko Hautala]

Here's hoping we can remain civil about this, but I know we can. After all, we're roleplayers. Also, I know there are a variety of political beliefs (communism, socialism, fascism, anarchy), so in order to pinpoint what you're political standing is, take this test: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test and show us your answers on your post. Maybe you can explain why, and we can have some healthy discussion. No flaming, please.


My political beliefs are a mix of social democracy and left-wing economic policies; regulations mixed with a large amount of social freedoms (though I support very strict gun control; there's a reason for our police officers and military):

[Havohej]

No flaming, please.

Bears repeating.  Politics and religion have a high potential for interesting discussion, but even higher potential for horrible arguments; let's all try to stick to interesting discussion!

That said, wishing the thread well and taking the lil' test now (I expect I'll come out center-right but we'll see)!

[Lillith Blackheart]

On that chart, last I took it, I sat absolutely dead center of the left/right chain (which is fitting, I'm a moderate), and on the Authoritarian/Libertarian (which I think Libertarian is a poor term to use), I was halfway up towards Authoritarian.

It's been a while since I took it though, it may have changed.

Lemme take the little testy thing and see. . .

[Misan]

Some of the questions are very polarizing as usual, but it's a decent test. I know I've taken it several times before. Not surprised at all with the results, though perhaps a bit further left would have been expected.

[Casiella]

The test had some flaws, like any test, and I wish there was a "neutral" or "don't know" in a few places. But overall, I found it useful and decently accurate (if imprecise, for the reasons I just stated).



My economic views have moved steadily left, though perhaps not quite in all things. Various events in the US (not necessarily the ones you might think) have changed my views, and I call myself a "rabid civil libertarian" to distinguish myself from self-professed "libertarians" focused on economics rather than civil rights.

Essentially, and here I'm going to mix religion AND politics, if you read what the Sermon on the Mount actually says (not necessarily what today's religious leaders claim about it), then that's pretty much my views on things. Help your fellow man as much as you can, and do the best you can to take care of your family, but worry about your own morality rather than anyone else's.

[Havohej]

Unsurprised by the results

I agree with Misan about the questions being polarizing and about that being the norm for questionnaires like this; entertaining all the same.

[Kamiko Hautala]

I thought the one question that asked if the painter was more important than the corporate worker needed a neutral, because I'm artistically inclined and a major patron of the arts, yet businessmen and businesswomen are important as well. Without culture, there is no inspiration to do greater, and vice versa.

[Lillith Blackheart]

As I am taking it some of these questions have changed. And I frankly don't like them.

Therefore I'm going to stop taking it and just stick with where I used to be before they changed it. These questions are loaded beyond belief. Also too many of them are forcing too much black and white thinking in order to typify people falsely.



So just go with where I was, because it's fitting. Constitutional Monarchy 4tw.

[Natalcya Katla]

Unsurprising (and quite in tune with mainstream Norway), though maybe a little bit further left than I had expected.

Also, there are questions they didn't ask which would have placed me considerably higher on the authoritarian scale. For example, I believe firmly in the banning of so-called "alternative medicine", and I also believe that theology is too important to be left entirely to religious people, and that secular governments should withhold monetary support for organized religion as well as refuse them the right to perform certain functions that have implications for how people are affected by secular law (namely, marriage ceremonies) unless said religious groups agree to certain theological "minimum standards".

I also believe that kids should be taught more discipline than they apparently are, but not that it's the most important thing for them to learn. Children must learn both to listen to and to challenge their teachers in order to progress.

[Casiella]

The question about public broadcasting bothered me, because I'm a huge supporter of NPR and associated public radio stations in the US, which already get <10% of their funding from the government. I'd like to eliminate that last bit just so my friends on the right will quit griping. Subscriber-funded "public" radio >> commercial broadcasting, for sure.

Not to mention the death of old media, but that's definitely a different thread.

[Akikio L]

I'd like to put myself even further down and further to the right. Also made one for Akikio:



As you can see Aki is quite opposite of me  But over time she's definitly moved closer to my RL views. In 10 years they might meet in the lower right corner 

[Mizhara]

We'll just have to wait and see once I rule the world, won't we?

[scagga]

The poll has too few options! (and if you would like to talk politics, I suggest a new forum section, we have one on the CVA forums that is soon going to eclipse any other single section).

The RL me:

[Sofia Roseburn]

Did the questions in a half sick stupor, but I think it's pretty accurate.

[Nakatre Read]

Woop.