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*** <u>NOTE:</u> Okay. This cut 'n pastedidn't exactly turn out the way I had hoped the first time around. This time around it should be fine now. There were little squares beside each of the four answers on the right hand column you could click on to register your vote, but there is too much unknown text attached to them so it's not working the way I wanted. Instead, please cut 'n paste the question along with your answer beside it.
Sorry for the inconvenience. ***
I hope to see all participate in this threadto give us a better understanding of one another and what we value and-orprioritize (or not) within our political views and livelyhood.
Thank you.
The Political Compass
Just a few propositions to start with, concerning - no less - how you seeyour owncountry and the world:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">If globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">No one chooses their country of birth, so it's absurd to be proud of it.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Our nation has many unique virtues.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The enemy of my enemy is my friend.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Jews surely have to take some of the responsibility for their persecution over the past 2000 years.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The growing fusion between information and entertainment is a worrying contribution to the public's shrinking attention span.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
Now, the economy. We're talking attitudes here, not the FTSE index:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">Class background determines peoples' consciousness more than their membership of a particular nation.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily respect the environment.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is a fundamentally good idea.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a consumer product.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Land shouldn't be a commodity to be bought and sold.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Protectionism is sometimes a necessary element in trade.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The rich are too highly taxed.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care and education.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">We'd be better off if companies simply told the truth, rather than spending a fortune on manipulative consumer advertising.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The freer the market, the freer the people.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
Now a look at some of your personal social values... :
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">Abortion, when the mother's life is not threatened, should always be illegal.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">All authority must be questioned.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth...it its boldest term</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">All theatres and museums that can't survive on a commercial basis deserve to perish.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Education should involve enabling children to develop their own personality.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Everyone has their rights, but it is better for all of us that different sorts of people should keep to their own kind.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Good parents sometimes have to spank their children, to teach them right from wrong.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Marijuana and hashish should be legalised.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Schools pay too much attention to the arts and not enough towards their real function - equipping the future generation to find jobs.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Significantly physically disabled people should not be allowed to reproduce.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The most important thing for children to learn is discipline.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Those who are able to work and do not should not expect to eat.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">When a person is troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">What's good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">No broadcasting institutions should receive public funding.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
..and how you see the wider society:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">A government must give its citizens as much social freedom as possible.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">A one-party state is better because it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, people who haven't done anything wrong shouldn't be worried.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Capital punishment should be a judicial option.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">In a civilised society, one must always have people above to obey and people below to command.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Abstract art, because it doesn't represent anything, shouldn't be considered art at all.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">In criminal justice, punishment is as important as rehabilitation.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Social workers waste their time trying to rehabilitate those who are simply born bad.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The businessman and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's fine for women to have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">On environmental issues, thinking globally and acting locally is a basically good idea.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Young people may have some rebellious ideas, but it's normal to grow out of them and settle down.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
If you got through that okay, you'll find these propositions on religion a breeze:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">Astrology can explain many more things than most people presently realise</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Religion and morality are inseparable.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Sex outside marriage is a sin.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Some people are naturally unlucky.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Faith-based schools have a positive role to play in our education system.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
Finally, the one you've been waiting for. SEX:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">A same sex couple in a stable, loving relationship, should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Pornography, depicting consenting adults, should be legal for the adult population.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">One day, science may be able to cure homosexuality.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's fine for society to be open about sex, but these days it's going too far.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagre
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
V.
Sorry for the inconvenience. ***
I hope to see all participate in this threadto give us a better understanding of one another and what we value and-orprioritize (or not) within our political views and livelyhood.
Thank you.
The Political Compass
Just a few propositions to start with, concerning - no less - how you seeyour owncountry and the world:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">If globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">No one chooses their country of birth, so it's absurd to be proud of it.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Our nation has many unique virtues.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The enemy of my enemy is my friend.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Jews surely have to take some of the responsibility for their persecution over the past 2000 years.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The growing fusion between information and entertainment is a worrying contribution to the public's shrinking attention span.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
Now, the economy. We're talking attitudes here, not the FTSE index:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">Class background determines peoples' consciousness more than their membership of a particular nation.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily respect the environment.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is a fundamentally good idea.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a consumer product.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Land shouldn't be a commodity to be bought and sold.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Protectionism is sometimes a necessary element in trade.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The rich are too highly taxed.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care and education.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">We'd be better off if companies simply told the truth, rather than spending a fortune on manipulative consumer advertising.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The freer the market, the freer the people.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
Now a look at some of your personal social values... :
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">Abortion, when the mother's life is not threatened, should always be illegal.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">All authority must be questioned.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth...it its boldest term</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">All theatres and museums that can't survive on a commercial basis deserve to perish.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Education should involve enabling children to develop their own personality.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Everyone has their rights, but it is better for all of us that different sorts of people should keep to their own kind.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Good parents sometimes have to spank their children, to teach them right from wrong.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Marijuana and hashish should be legalised.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Schools pay too much attention to the arts and not enough towards their real function - equipping the future generation to find jobs.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Significantly physically disabled people should not be allowed to reproduce.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The most important thing for children to learn is discipline.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Those who are able to work and do not should not expect to eat.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">When a person is troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">What's good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">No broadcasting institutions should receive public funding.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
..and how you see the wider society:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">A government must give its citizens as much social freedom as possible.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">A one-party state is better because it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, people who haven't done anything wrong shouldn't be worried.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Capital punishment should be a judicial option.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">In a civilised society, one must always have people above to obey and people below to command.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Abstract art, because it doesn't represent anything, shouldn't be considered art at all.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">In criminal justice, punishment is as important as rehabilitation.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Social workers waste their time trying to rehabilitate those who are simply born bad.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">The businessman and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's fine for women to have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">On environmental issues, thinking globally and acting locally is a basically good idea.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Young people may have some rebellious ideas, but it's normal to grow out of them and settle down.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
If you got through that okay, you'll find these propositions on religion a breeze:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">Astrology can explain many more things than most people presently realise</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Religion and morality are inseparable.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Sex outside marriage is a sin.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Some people are naturally unlucky.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Faith-based schools have a positive role to play in our education system.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
Finally, the one you've been waiting for. SEX:
<table border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td width="60%">A same sex couple in a stable, loving relationship, should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">Pornography, depicting consenting adults, should be legal for the adult population.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">One day, science may be able to cure homosexuality.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr> <tr> <td width="60%">It's fine for society to be open about sex, but these days it's going too far.</td> <td width="40%">Strongly disagre
Disagree
Agree
Strongly agree</td></tr></tbody></table>
V.
