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Where are you on the Nolan political spectrum?
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Where are you on the Nolan political spectrum?
[Image: nolanchart_withindices.jpg]

According to this chart, two numbers better describe your political leanings, rather than being left-right or liberal-conservative.

I am Personal Freedom: 80, Economic Freedom 50.

But I'd also like people to comment on how incomplete a chart like this is.  For me, I feel that I have a set of values that lean towards individual freedoms.  How I interpret those values might be conservative on one issue, and liberal on the next.  Basically, I want movement forward on some issues, but if you want to change my conservative mind on a subject, you better bring evidence.  Your imagined utopia just might turn out to be a hell.

Liberal and conservative are a component of our nature.  A rational person should realize both aspects of their personality, and make choices on a per-issue basis, and be willing to change their minds over time if evidence leans that way.

I can respect people who place themselves in 4 of these 5 sections on the chart, but I cannot for the life of me understand someone who would place themselves in the authoritarian category.

What are your numbers, or do you call bullshit on the whole thing?
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Where are you on the Nolan political spectrum? - by HappySkeptic - October 2, 2020 at 4:56 pm

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