13th August 2010, 6:16 PM
Well this quiz still has options that don't quite line up (my thinking on immigrants for example, that I don't think "dilution of culture" is actually a problem, even if it does happen (since in that scenario, the majority is still speaking a common language), and further that I still think illegal immigrants are taking jobs without paying taxes, HOWEVER I am perfectly willing to simply open the gates and allow any illegal to become a legal so long as they start paying taxes, and if not, then they can leave, my sympathies end at the point they reject that national responsibility).
I think objectivists wrote this. I mean, just read the "lead ins" to each question. It seems clear they put the "correct" answer last in every case. In the case of employee discrimination, yes certain laws need to be in place to help this issue. No, the free market is not going to "punish" infringers, and really, wouldn't that be a horribly uncaring way to go about it even if there was some evidence it worked like that? While the market is "correcting itself", that woman is still being sexually harassed, that black person is still being treated like a potential thief. Considering the "me me me" attitude of objectivists, you'd think they'd appreciate that justice deferred to a later generation isn't justice at all. Eh, there's at least an option close enough to what I think on it... (Yes, I do acknowledge that some people can blow something way out of proportion, and certain legal solutions to those abuses of the law should be brought to bear.) Oh, and yes the one-sided draft registration should be changed in some way. Making it fully voluntary just to sign up for a draft except in emergencies is a start. Huh, I've never thought of military training electives at school. That's... certainly a vivid image. "Any country using a draft to defend itself deserves to lose."? Really? That's about the most idiotic white washing of every other factor I can think of...
I also love the general weirdness of how so many of those, from retirement to school, assume that people can't currently pick their own solution to these things. They're free to, they just can't get out of taxes. Boo hoo. If I'm not going to excuse an immigrant, why would I excuse a native-born?
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Apparently I'm more socialist in this run-through... I guess... I don't really feel that way. They really didn't ask about the myriad of ways I think government should stay OUT of business affairs, so that's probably why I got weighted down that way. I know I get on the case of big businesses making stupid decisions sometimes, and often mock objectivists, but I really do consider communists just as deluded and harmful, if only in the opposite direction. It's just that, contrary to what Fox News would say, there really aren't any big communist speakers these days. Show me one and I'll get on their case.
I think objectivists wrote this. I mean, just read the "lead ins" to each question. It seems clear they put the "correct" answer last in every case. In the case of employee discrimination, yes certain laws need to be in place to help this issue. No, the free market is not going to "punish" infringers, and really, wouldn't that be a horribly uncaring way to go about it even if there was some evidence it worked like that? While the market is "correcting itself", that woman is still being sexually harassed, that black person is still being treated like a potential thief. Considering the "me me me" attitude of objectivists, you'd think they'd appreciate that justice deferred to a later generation isn't justice at all. Eh, there's at least an option close enough to what I think on it... (Yes, I do acknowledge that some people can blow something way out of proportion, and certain legal solutions to those abuses of the law should be brought to bear.) Oh, and yes the one-sided draft registration should be changed in some way. Making it fully voluntary just to sign up for a draft except in emergencies is a start. Huh, I've never thought of military training electives at school. That's... certainly a vivid image. "Any country using a draft to defend itself deserves to lose."? Really? That's about the most idiotic white washing of every other factor I can think of...
I also love the general weirdness of how so many of those, from retirement to school, assume that people can't currently pick their own solution to these things. They're free to, they just can't get out of taxes. Boo hoo. If I'm not going to excuse an immigrant, why would I excuse a native-born?
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Apparently I'm more socialist in this run-through... I guess... I don't really feel that way. They really didn't ask about the myriad of ways I think government should stay OUT of business affairs, so that's probably why I got weighted down that way. I know I get on the case of big businesses making stupid decisions sometimes, and often mock objectivists, but I really do consider communists just as deluded and harmful, if only in the opposite direction. It's just that, contrary to what Fox News would say, there really aren't any big communist speakers these days. Show me one and I'll get on their case.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)