Thread: Which Way Do You Lean

Originally Posted by earcutter

At least I know to stay on topic lol... Of course, espousing how tall you walk, next to Attila with your firearm with its large magazine speaks volumes as to what kind of man you think you are. Of course we all judge differently lol.

Am I supposed to be concerned? I'd recommend that if you have an issue with me, take it to the PM's.

Have a nice day.

Radicalism69.25
Socialism25
Tenderness68.75

These scores indicate that you are a tender-minded moderate progressive; this is the political profile one might associate with an animal rights activist. It appears that you are moderate towards religion, and have a balanced attitude towards humanity in general.

Your attitudes towards economics appear capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as libertarian.

To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, an egalitarian with few strong opinions.

Left or Right: Do unto others as you would have them do to you; and don't make promises that you can't or won't keep.
Only thing that matters.

Originally Posted by Johnus

Left or Right: Do unto others as you would have them do to you; and don't make promises that you can't or won't keep.
Only thing that matters.

I think this is where we go wrong 9 times out of ten. We judge others by our high moral standard(left or right it doesnt matter) and we judge ourselves by our good intentions. Secondly we allow the govt, media and pollsters to boil us down into statistics that create a divided constituency that is too easily manipulated once its hot buttons are pushed.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I think this is where we go wrong 9 times out of ten. We judge others by our high moral standard(left or right it doesnt matter) and we judge ourselves by our good intentions. Secondly we allow the govt, media and pollsters to boil us down into statistics that create a divided constituency that is too easily manipulated once its hot buttons are pushed.

The fact of the matter is as far as I can tell, is that we all want the same things. Why we forget that, as we debate how we get to the same place we all want to go to... is another matter all together.

For example - say my wife and I both want to get a salad at fast food restaurant "A." That's easy. Which route we take getting there is always up for debate lol. She likes highway - I like back road.

Take the gun debate. Everyone wants a safer America. Some want that believing arming everyone is the way to go, others believe no guns, means no gun violence.

Fighting about how to get there usually blinds us to where we were going in the first place.

It's like I stated earlier. There is nothing wrong in taking this servery and discovering that how you want society to progress may be considered by some as right wing or left wing. Understanding the route you want to see to get to that point everyone wants (short of hating your fellow man) and understanding others approach as being just another way of getting the same thing, could be considered the most important part of any journey in order to get those things we all want.

That's why when someone says surveys like this are "crap," I just laugh knowing that that person still has a long way to go before giving up that primal part of themselves that leads to war rather than solutions.

This is where you are wrong, the survey is "crap" and is intended to categorize you and then stick you in to someone elses pocket. They will use your opinions to further their goals, why else do the survey or take the poll. They are not after facts but rather usable statistics.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

This is where you are wrong, the survey is "crap" and is intended to categorize you and then stick you in to someone elses pocket. They will use your opinions to further their goals, why else do the survey or take the poll. They are not after facts but rather usable statistics.

Who says you have to answer the survey truthfully ?
The last survey I took said I was like either Jack Sparrow or Spiderman depending on my answers.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

This is where you are wrong, the survey is "crap" and is intended to categorize you and then stick you in to someone elses pocket. They will use your opinions to further their goals, why else do the survey or take the poll. They are not after facts but rather usable statistics.

You mean this survey was not to benefit me, by accessing my core values & helping me to grow as a productive individual?

I've been used ??

These surveys can be fun, but really do any of you think a complex individual can be categorized accurately in the space of 20 or 30 questions on something as complicated as political, social, and ethical viewpoints? Even if that were possible, most people change over time so at best these things are a temporal snapshot anyway.

You know who really has the important data about you? Data that can pinpoint where you belong to within a gnat's gonad on the political, social, environmental, moral, and ethical spectra? Shopping corporations and Google. Behaviours (shopping and browsing) speak louder than self-proclaiming on a political survey. And we are all part of the Matrix.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

These surveys can be fun, but really do any of you think a complex individual can be categorized accurately in the space of 20 or 30 questions on something as complicated as political, social, and ethical viewpoints? Even if that were possible, most people change over time so at best these things are a temporal snapshot anyway.

You know who really has the important data about you? Data that can pinpoint where you belong to within a gnat's gonad on the political, social, environmental, moral, and ethical spectra? Shopping corporations and Google. Behaviours (shopping and browsing) speak louder than self-proclaiming on a political survey. And we are all part of the Matrix.

James.

Hey, answer that survey anyway you want to skew the results. Publicly say whatever you want ......... The N S A knows your name and they know your real game ....... you can't fool 'em.

Remember what Winston Churchill said ......... "If your not a liberal when you're young you have no heart, if you're not a conservative when you're old, you have no brains." That is the real tip AFAIC.