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[Avis-Mergulus]

For the politics thing, how about three sliding scales, like this:

Economics: Liberal ----------- Pro - regulation
Social policy: Liberal ---------- Conservative
External policy: Stick to internal affairs and hope everybody forgets us --------- Show them foreigners who's boss

[penguinofhonor]

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[Avis-Mergulus]

Aren't liberal economic views pro-regulation?

It was my opinion they weren't... at least here, decreasing regulations is called "liberalization of the economy" and the people who push it are called liberals. I thought "liberal economic views" means you're in favor of "liberating" economic agents from regulation. I may have been dreadfully wrong/region-specific here, so sorry.

[Tack]

Actually, just a though - if you're asking about both sex and gender, it might be prudent to ask both in the one question. That way we can see any overlap a lot more easily than if the questions were separate.

So Gender: Male/Female/Mantrans/Femtrans/Other?

The Other I assume would be the blank line where you can put whatever.

[Orange Wizard]

Aren't liberal economic views pro-regulation?

It was my opinion they weren't... at least here, decreasing regulations is called "liberalization of the economy" and the people who push it are called liberals. I thought "liberal economic views" means you're in favor of "liberating" economic agents from regulation. I may have been dreadfully wrong/region-specific here, so sorry.

Left-wing economics is pro-regulation, pro-taxes, etcetera; whereas right-wing economics is anti-regulation, anti-taxes, etcetera. It's backwards to social policy because reasons.

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So Gender: Male/Female/Mantrans/Femtrans/Other?

The Other I assume would be the blank line where you can put whatever.

Something like that, yeah.

[mainiac]

"If you were at burger king, how much would you spend right now?"

[a1s]

Aren't liberal economic views pro-regulation?

"Liberal" means "more freedom" (implicitly it also means less order and/or security)
"Conservative" means "keep things the way they are now" ("If it's not broken- don't fix it")
This often gets coopted by various political groups, who like the names but don't really represent them.
f.e.:
If you want more security for the poor, you're not liberal (since freedom would be decreased,) nor are you conservative (since things would change) you're (in this one issue) socialist.
If you're a member of a new parliament and want to repeal a recent law limiting free (or, on the other hand "obscene") speech, you are both liberal (freedom) and conservative (technically "reactionary").

[Tack]

What is it they say? "The perfect society is one where all have the freedom to commit crime and the common sense not to".

[Orange Wizard]

What is it they say? "The perfect society is one where all have the freedom to commit crime and the common sense not to".

I always preferred "liberty is a precious resource - so precious that is must be carefully rationed."

[penguinofhonor]

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[Orange Wizard]

If people decide to troll with the blank box then their answer gets thrown out, like any other survey.

How do you tell the difference between trolling and not trolling?

[a1s]

If people decide to troll with the blank box then their answer gets thrown out, like any other survey.

How do you tell the difference between trolling and not trolling?

Ancient texts say that one of great spiritual purity and determination may develop a sixth sense in addition to the other five, which would allow one to see through trolling, marketing and political ads. As powerful as all the other senses combined, it is called the 萬事感 (YīqièGǎn literally "all sense"), usually rendered in English as "Common Sense".

So, yes, that requires you to read over 100 entries, but you can do that in under 5 minutes.

[Orange Wizard]

one of great spiritual purity

Yeah, better get someone other than me to do it.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Maybe it's better to just not count results with only one entry under "Other"? That way we probably won't have to sort out the Apache helicopter-kin out. Unless everybody decides to be Apache helicopter-kin just to troll me, in which case shame on you.

[penguinofhonor]

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