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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>
<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>
