Friday
(0)I took the quizilla test and the results were hardly unexpected:
Libertarian - You believe that the main use for government is for some people to lord it over others at their expense. You maintain that the government should be as small as possible, and that civil liberties, "victimless crimes", and gun ownership should be basic rights. You probably are OK with capitalism. Your historical role model is Thomas Jefferson.
Which political sterotype are you?
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Dale,
I have never bothered with these wretched tests before but I have just taken this one and got the same result as you. Not really surprising though!
Posted by David Carr at March 14, 2003 02:25 AM
No surprise to me either.
I am also Libertarian. OK with capitalism and my role model is Thomas Jefferson. :)
I should get my communist friend to take this quiz.
hmmmm...
Posted by Elizabeth at March 14, 2003 02:51 AM
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Australian Libertarian Society
http://www.libertarian.org.au
Our meagre attempts at creating a samizdata down under...
Posted by 24601 at March 14, 2003 04:25 AM
Give us a plug! Give us a plug!
Australian Libertarian Society
http://www.libertarian.org.au
Our meagre attempts at creating a samizdata down under...
Posted by 24601 at March 14, 2003 04:26 AM
I came out as Margo Kingston.
Just kidding - the Samizburo knows me better than that. Viva Jefferson!
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at March 14, 2003 07:32 AM
I toned down some of my answers to make the computer think a bit. It seems, though, that I'm still a libertarian!
Posted by David Farrer at March 14, 2003 09:10 AM
I too toned down a few of the answers and was kind of upset that their wasn't a federalist line of thinking to some of the questioning (drugs, prostution & gambling for example) but I too came out as T.J. You gotta dig the dude from Monticello.
Posted by Russ Goble at March 14, 2003 03:18 PM
A less than expected result, I'm apparently a Republican. I still think the description of Jefferson resembles me closer than Reagan but perhaps I should get in touch with my true conservative self.
Posted by Tim at March 14, 2003 03:57 PM
I imagine most of us found at least one of the questions to lack an important option; e.g. the vice question ought to have the option ``legal but socially disapproved''.
Posted by Anton Sherwood at March 14, 2003 06:24 PM
...crap, I was first a Democrat! :-O I re-did it and then I was a Republican.....now I'm Libertarian....shoot...who am I?
Posted by Johan at March 14, 2003 06:35 PM
aye, no surprise i came out as a libertarian, although i consider myself slightly more centrist than many... it's also just a wee bit cool to come out in favor of the dude who founded my alma mater.
-- brendan
Posted by themic at March 14, 2003 10:05 PM
I don't like the opening line of their "Libertarian" description: "You believe that the main use for government is for some people to lord it over others at their expense."
It's not that this description is wrong, necessarily. It's just that for readers who don't know much about libertarianism, it almost sounds like this "lording over" is what libertarians advocate.
Posted by Tripp at March 15, 2003 06:03 AM
Why is there no way to self-classify as an anarcho-capitalist (ideological models Murray Rothbard, David Friedman)? I note that the anarcho-syndicalists have their piece of the pie; why no pigeonhole for the other important family in the anarchist clan?
Posted by Francis W. Porretto at March 15, 2003 09:10 PM
Based upon this, "You believe that the main use for government is for some people to lord it over others at their expense" and this, "You probably are OK with capitalism", it is obvious that the quiz was written by someone who doesn't have a f*cking clue about what libertarianism is about.
Posted by Rossz at March 15, 2003 10:30 PM
