<p>[Libertarian</a> Purity Test](<a href=“http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi]Libertarian”>Libertarian Purity Test)</p>
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<p>Sigh. Can’t you tell this test is clearly biased, and tries to tell everyone they’re some flavor of libertarian in an obvious effort to promote the philosophy?</p>
<p>Look at the possible results, for Christ’s sake, and don’t get sucked in by every little online scam that happens to use the same labels you like to use.</p>
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<li>I feel the questions are highly biased. I found myself saying “it depends” on multiple questions, but that option wasn’t available. The choices should have been “yes”, “maybe” and “no”.</li>
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<p>AHH AYN RAND!</p>
<p>ugh</p>
<p>ok, here are my questions for believers in objectivism, copied from a PM to Taggart …</p>
<p>In Ayn Rand’s “every man for himself, every man for his own desires” philosophy, where is the line drawn?</p>
<p>For example, if a man had the desire to murder another man, would that be fine according to Ayn Rand?</p>
<p>What if man’s choices have indirect influences on, impede, or harm (though not to the extent of murder) another man? What that be okay with Ayn Rand?</p>
<p>If man decides to force another man into minimum wage (yes, FORCE, study the cycle of poverty), is that okay with Ayn Rand?</p>
<p>What about environmental factors? Did you know that MAN’S SELF-INTEREST (greed) is what keeps Africa lacking in nitrogenous soil, in essense, poor and malnutritioned?</p>
<p>Ultimately, what I am trying to ask is this:
Does Ayn Rand’s objectivism take into consideration the interconnected nature of man’s choices?</p>
<p>I know it’s biased - it’s just that I’m curious about relative degrees of magnitude</p>
<p>Remember though, one of the core tenets of anything I say online is “don’t take anything I say too seriously”. I don’t really even subscribe to anything. But I feel like making all sorts of untraditional statements just to test what would happen - that’s all</p>
<p>Ah, but many of your statements seem to point in the same direction – after a while you start to notice patterns. It’s not all random.</p>
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<p>But when it comes to the context of libertarianism, I know full well that I don’t really subscribe to many of the central tenets of it anyways. Actually to be honest, the only reason why I even occasionally say I’m libertarian is that I’m not particularly fond of the American system as it is right now (but really, another governmental system could be fairly effective - I just don’t know of one right now)</p>
<p>(especially with this quiz, my main desire was really just to see what other people would say about this)</p>
<p>when it comes to political issues, I really don’t have much passion. and i haven’t even read all that much yet - most of the books i read are pro-free market (although the majority of books on econ are probably pro-free market, considering the biases of econ departments). patterns occur with other things - but as you’ve said many times, none of us really are that qualified to know what are the best policies to achieve a desired outcome (even if we have a desired outcome in mind)</p>
<p>but really, no one really takes online tests that seriously anyways (just like the other tests we tend to post on forums and facebook).</p>
<p>65 points, take it with a grain of salt.</p>