[ExI] Political Relativism (was very informative)

[William Flynn Wallace]

Dave, Just sent my polquiz test scores.  The test on politicalcompass.com
is two dimensional, and on it I score libertarian liberal.

Yes, Stuart is talking about states, but they are run by people who are
hostile and uncaring about the freedoms their people don't have.

bill w



On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:08 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 10:32 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> What Stuart seems to be saying is that when one moves more to the left or
>> to the right, he becomes more hostile and uncaring towards people.
>>
>
> He's talking about states, not people. And he's saying that freedom
> suffers, not that they're hostile and uncaring towards people.
>
>
>> Hostility and uncaringness can be found abundantly in middle of the road
>> people who just want to fight someone, and will adopt any philosophy that
>> gets him there.  Amoral.  Apolitical.  Power hungry.
>>
>
> You're still stuck on the one-dimensional political spectrum. People and
> their beliefs aren't one dimensional.
>
> Bill, I asked you to take this quick quiz: http://polquiz.com/
>
> It's not perfect and it still leaves out many possible dimensions, but I'd
> really like to hear your results. It measures social and economic
> preferences.
>
> -Dave
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