Interesting - I don't think I agree with the "socially permissive" axis though. That is, I've seen at least as many attempts to legislate morality from the left as the right - smoking bans, weapons bans, fatty food bans, and other nanny-statism of all sorts.
Now granted relabeling that axis to something more meaningful like "using the State to enforce ethics" or alternately "traditional religious vs modern secular ethics [regardless of the desire to put them into law or not]" doesn't let one comfortably lump a party to each side of the "freedom" axis, but then, well... people are complicated.
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Interesting - I don't think I agree with the "socially permissive" axis though. That is, I've seen at least as many attempts to legislate morality from the left as the right - smoking bans, weapons bans, fatty food bans, and other nanny-statism of all sorts.
Now granted relabeling that axis to something more meaningful like "using the State to enforce ethics" or alternately "traditional religious vs modern secular ethics [regardless of the desire to put them into law or not]" doesn't let one comfortably lump a party to each side of the "freedom" axis, but then, well... people are complicated.
'ts why life is so interesting. :)
I took it and I'm apparently a centrist. I wonder if that's another word for self-centered?
I don't think so, brother. I think it means you're just...average.
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