User:Sam Spade/Theoretical Biases

Pro (what I favor)

 * God
 * Efficiency
 * Logic
 * Meritocracy / Hierarchy
 * Eudaimonia / distributism / Integralism (Free education, mandatory Universal medical care, minimum needs met thru a single tax, allowing for a vibrant market, Sustainable charity and the organised rewarding of excellence)

Anti (what I oppose)

 * Free will at the expense of Righteousness
 * Neglect, waste and abuse
 * Equality, Bureaucracy, and the rewarding of failure
 * Corporate abuse and pollution
 * genital mutilation, and excesses of sadism, Infanticide, and paraphilia

Pro

 * Full employment
 * Division of labour
 * Taxation and regulation of pollution, vice and trusts
 * No taxation and minimal regulation of small and family business
 * Fair trade

Anti

 * Unemployment
 * Starvation / stagnation of the people or their markets
 * Trade barriers
 * Regulation or restrictions of charitable NGO's
 * Monopoly / lack of competition

Pro

 * Sustainable, environmentally conscious hunting, mindful of animal rights and prevention of cruelty
 * Paramilitary youth programs
 * Gun Rights
 * Imperialist Internationalist Paternalism
 * Non-Lethal weapons, espionage, unconventional / Special forces, and other revolutionary military innovations.

Anti

 * Prison
 * Affirmative Action / Govt. sanctioned Racism
 * Conventional war and WMD
 * Particracy
 * Political Correctness / Censorship

Pro

 * Interdenominational Inclusionist Universalism


 * (Non-Roman) Catholicism


 * Perennial Philosophy


 * Karma, Qi, Tao and Vedanta


 * Monism

Anti

 * Fire and brimstone
 * Atheism, Iconoclasm, and pathological skepticism
 * Involuntary Damnation
 * Inquisition
 * Blasphemy

Religious

 * Jesus
 * Krishna
 * Martin Luther
 * René Guénon
 * G. K. Chesterton

Secular

 * Niccolò Machiavelli
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * Adam Smith

Politics

 * Independent Radical centric Populist

Ancient Greek Philosophy

 * Eudaimonia
 * Virtue ethics

Philosophers I oppose

 * Kant
 * Nietzsche

Weltanschauung
[http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=23320 What is Your World View? (updated)]

94%     Cultural Creative      81%      Fundamentalist      50%      Existentialist      44%      Postmodernist      44%      Modernist      44%      Materialist      31%      Romanticist      31%

Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.33 That means I'm a slight left, slight authoritarian centrist, according to politicalcompass.org

Most people just call me unclassifiable, or even right wing, however ;).

according to This incredibly long and thorough quiz:

You scored 59 out of 100 on a scale of Individual vs Social. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to value the need for group actions and group benefit over individual enterprise and benefit.


 * 58% of test takers were more individual than you.
 * 40% of test takers were more social than you.

You scored 18 out of 100 on a scale of Theist vs Materialist. This means that politically you are less likely to believe that religion and spirituality are superstitions that should not inform political debate.


 * 3% of test takers were more theist than you.
 * 96% of test takers were more materialist than you.

You scored 39 out of 100 on a scale of Big Government vs Small Government. This means that politically you are less likely to believe that government should keep out of legislating social policies, leaving such decisions to individuals.


 * 11% of test takers were more big government than you.
 * 89% of test takers were more small government than you.

You scored 79 out of 100 on a scale of Nationalist vs Internationalist. This means that politically you are more likely to favour international bodies over national ones.


 * 88% of test takers were more nationalist than you.
 * 11% of test takers were more internationalist than you.

You scored 96 out of 100 on a scale of Protectionist vs Free Trader. This means that politically you are more likely to favour free trade over protectionist policies.


 * 95% of test takers were more protectionist than you.
 * 4% of test takers were more pro free trade than you.

You scored 51 out of 100 on a scale of Absolutist vs Non Absolutist. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to believe that there is an absolute truth that may guide your ideological beliefs.


 * 27% of test takers were more absolutist than you.
 * 70% of test takers were more non-absolutist than you.

You scored 39 out of 100 on a scale of Controlled Market vs Liberal Market. This means that politically you are more likely to believe that there is need for government regulation of industry.


 * 51% of test takers were more controlled market thinkers than you.
 * 47% of test takers were more liberal market thinkers than you.

You scored 40 out of 100 on a scale of Marxist vs Non-Marxist. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to follow the philosophies of Marx.


 * 26% of test takers were more Marxist than you.

Alignment

 * Neutral Good

Tested here and elsewhere, they all gave essentially the same result (Lawful Good is the runner up) but thats the best test IMO

Quotes

 * User:Sam Spade/Quotes

Me

 * User:Sam Spade/Contact/pic