What type of Libertarian are you?

[minionofmidas]

About half the questions on here made me think the man who authored it would come out more intelligent if you whacked his skull off (though I would disagree with such a remedy on moral grounds ), but still my result is:

1 Center-North Libertarian
2 Neolibertarian
3 Left-Libertarian
4 Mainstream Libertarian
5 Non-Libertarian
6 Anarchocapitalist
7 Paleolibertarian
8 Right-Libertarian

[minionofmidas]

About half the questions on here made me think the man who authored it would come out more intelligent if you whacked his skull off (though I would disagree with such a remedy on moral grounds ), but still my result is:

You bitched after the first two of these, why bother to continue?  Do you like to do things you find stupid?  Or do you just enjoy complaining about things on the internet? (I certainly do)

Who doesn't!?

My comment in the silly Socialist test is years old, btw and anyways this test was better than the Conservative one. At least this guy had the first clue about the obvious what-not-to-dos on a test like that.

[minionofmidas]

About half the questions on here made me think the man who authored it would come out more intelligent if you whacked his skull off (though I would disagree with such a remedy on moral grounds ), but still my result is:

1 Center-North Libertarian
2 Neolibertarian
3 Left-Libertarian
4 Mainstream Libertarian
5 Non-Libertarian
6 Anarchocapitalist
7 Paleolibertarian
8 Right-Libertarian

Depends on your viewpoint. I just thought it would be interesting to see where non-libertarians would place on the libertarian spectrum. I think it's an interesting concept.

...as a concept. The problem is with the loaded questions and the test designer's unquestioned assumptions... as with every one of these tests, of course. In the case of Libertarians, the issue is usually a warped and stunted definition of "liberty" unquestioningly treated as the term's only definition.

[minionofmidas]

No, you read me wrong. Try again. (if at first you don't succeed, try and try again...)

Oh, and: Any state is as evil as the people of which it is made up and the actions they commit.

[minionofmidas]

I was harsher than was strictly necesary in my first comment, btw. That may make for comprehension difficulties.

"Free markets, economic interaction and profit motives are indispensable to liberty." What exactly is a "free market"? The thing as theoretically described in economics 101 books is not something that ever has existed or even ever could. "Economic interaction"? Between whom? What kind of economic interaction? Highway robbery is an economic interaction. Some forms of economic interaction are obviously indispensable to any human society, but "liberty" hardly enters the picture. Maybe he meant the unlimited right to economic interactions? Or to economic interactions approved of by all concerned (but those are very many - far more, in major economic transactions, than are given a hearing right now)? Similarly, "profit motives" are just a part of human nature. Acceptance of the fact that most people are in it with a profit motive is a necessary precondition to designing a working, sensible government program. "Liberty" has little to do with it.

Now how the hell do I answer the question with options like "I agree" or "I disagree" or "No opinion"?