The political compass

[jerith]

Recently, there has been a spate of people taking the Political Compass test. Much of this has been spawned by the Political Compass graph generated by Michael Gorven.

More recently, Jonathan mentioned that while the scores are interesting (note particularly the leftist libertarian clustering of most of CLUG) it would be far more interesting to

Comments

[kazriko]

I agree largely with many of your answers, with some caveats. :)
I'll have to go through and answer those differences in detail sometime.

# There is now a worrying fusion of information and entertainment.
Agree
When it becomes difficult to tell truth from fiction, there's a problem. On the other hand, we should always be thinking critically about news sources.
This one though really bugs me about this quiz. Why would it be worrying? I think that the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment is a great thing so long as you pay attention and are willing to research things before you take them as gospel. For the most part the shows that I've seen are very easy to tell the bits apart from the facts.

# If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.
Agree
Humanity as a whole beats the subset of it that is corporate culture. Large corporations aren't necessarily bad, but they aren't the only part of humanity that matters.As written, this question is

[xanayalupu]

* Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified.
Agree
Not very often, though.

The statement is ambiguous since it uses an ambiguous term: "sometimes". When you say "sometimes justified" it could also means "sometimes unjustified". Looking at your answer I'd say you rather don't agree with the international law.

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