(February 14, 2011 at 12:45 am)padraic Wrote:(February 13, 2011 at 10:11 pm)theVOID Wrote: What is your political ideology?
Your Result: Libertarian
This quiz has defined you as a Libertarian. Keep in mind, this ideology can be applied to the right or left in the social sense. You believe in a minimal role of the government in solving problems and believe that the "Free market" can handle almost all economic situations.
Really? Libertarian? Thank thank goodness you don't live nearby; I'd have to kill you.Not for being Libertarian per se you understand, but for being a highly intelligent ideologue, a very dangerous animal.
Libertarian no but close to it, but with a reserve for governance so far as as law and order, infrastructure, defence etc are concerned. I think the only laws that need exist are the types of laws that forbid you to force others into situations that they do not desire, coerce people into undesirable situations and decisions, act fraudulently and neglecting those under your responsibility - essentially as long as the actions you take do not thwart the desires of others you are free to do them.
Not sure where I stand on public medicine, I'm tempted to classify it as a social essential but only to a limited extent so as to cover care for those who cannot afford private insurance, but Ideally I'd like everyone to be able to get their own insurance so the government doesn't need to get it's inefficient clumsy paws on the funds.
As for the economy I'm more of a true Libertarian, The government shouldn't have shit to do with the markets beyond policing them, and based on the same standards set for general law, the aim of preventing the thwarting of desires - that's all that should be necessary, so long as people remain vigilant and the free market is allowed to account for the bumps and bruises we should be able to get a far more balanced global economy after a rather nasty cleansing period - That's not going to happen while governments around the world keep borrowing to spend.
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