13th August 2010, 1:05 AM
Some of those questions were idiotic. What does astrology have to do with my political ideas? That one's more a test on whether or not I'm rational.
In the end, it felt more like a magazine's "personality quiz".
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Yes, some of them were rather skewed. In general, I'm for corporate freedom up until a certain limit, since individuals are simply more important to me. Further, libertarian thought isn't exactly my thinking. The general flaw with that whole thing to me is they seem to think that a free market wouldn't ALLOW bad things to happen, that all high level executives making decisions always make enlightened ones that consider consequences to them in the long run, that no one ever rips anyone off, and heck, that no one CAN be ripped off as though everyone always has perfect knowledge of every transaction. Every time I see the sales of homeopathic medicine, that's all I need to see to realize that's simply not true. Something can be completely ineffective and still dominate in a free market. Controls are needed to at least make sure a product does what it claims to do. Ayn Rand was a moron.
In the end, it felt more like a magazine's "personality quiz".
<img src="http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.50&soc=-5.49">
Yes, some of them were rather skewed. In general, I'm for corporate freedom up until a certain limit, since individuals are simply more important to me. Further, libertarian thought isn't exactly my thinking. The general flaw with that whole thing to me is they seem to think that a free market wouldn't ALLOW bad things to happen, that all high level executives making decisions always make enlightened ones that consider consequences to them in the long run, that no one ever rips anyone off, and heck, that no one CAN be ripped off as though everyone always has perfect knowledge of every transaction. Every time I see the sales of homeopathic medicine, that's all I need to see to realize that's simply not true. Something can be completely ineffective and still dominate in a free market. Controls are needed to at least make sure a product does what it claims to do. Ayn Rand was a moron.
"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)