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Title: Libertarian Purity Test
Post by: tnu on February 01, 2013, 11:10:25 AM
http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi

I found this when searching information about the influence of libertarianism in video games. I figured I'd post it here. I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of this community as well as what, if any, questions you answered "No" to. My score was a 160.
Title: Re: Libertarian Purity Test
Post by: MrBogosity on February 01, 2013, 11:56:11 AM
I scored 130. I have a lot of problems with this one. Aside from the conflating of anarcho-capitalism with libertarianism, there are some nonsense questions like, "Should the law itself be privatized?" If it's privatized, it's not the law. I would also have liked a "maybe" or "I don't know" response for several of them.
Title: Re: Libertarian Purity Test
Post by: tnu on February 01, 2013, 01:07:12 PM
Quote from: MrBogosity on February 01, 2013, 11:56:11 AM
I scored 130. I have a lot of problems with this one. Aside from the conflating of anarcho-capitalism with libertarianism, there are some nonsense questions like, "Should the law itself be privatized?" If it's privatized, it's not the law. I would also have liked a "maybe" or "I don't know" response for several of them.

To be fair Shane, libertarianism is a pretyt broad term. It can encompass minarchist, anarchist, propritarian, Non-propritarian, consequentialist, and natural rights distinctions among others.
Title: Re: Libertarian Purity Test
Post by: MrBogosity on February 01, 2013, 03:51:36 PM
Quote from: tnu on February 01, 2013, 01:07:12 PM
To be fair Shane, libertarianism is a pretyt broad term. It can encompass minarchist, anarchist, propritarian, Non-propritarian, consequentialist, and natural rights distinctions among others.

Yes, but this quiz seems to use it exclusively to mean anarcho-capitalist.
Title: Re: Libertarian Purity Test
Post by: Travis Retriever on February 04, 2013, 05:21:12 PM
Red flag alert--a picture of Ayn Rand as if she is an example of a libertarian:  placed along pictures of Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard.