Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87
While entertaining I thought the questions were poorly worded and the answers to limited. None of the above definitely needed to be included.
"I would not wish to send my child to a school that did not instill religious values."
Double negative...
"Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged."
They both have important roles to play and it's apples and oranges to compare them in the sense of which is better.
"The businessman and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist."
I'd like to put a check in the "they're both important category."
"Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried."
This question bothers me because it's very one sided. I see the potential for definite abuses of electronic surveillance. However I don't see it in the window of being official surveillance, anyone can use it. Governments are the target of electronic surveillance just as often or more than citizens. A great example of this being the election in Sri Lanka that was over turned by a person recording a government official admitting privately that the election had been rigged.
"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."
A one party state is not a democracy.
"People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce."
This is far to vague of a question, that is left up to the readers interpretation to such an extent that a agree/disagree answer is rendered useless.
"A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies."
Does anyone else see this as a contradiction?
"Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care."
Again this is to vague. The reality is that people with the ability to pay do have access to a "higher" standard of medical care. There's nothing from stopping my Dad from going to a hospital any where in the World and getting corrective knee surgery, other than the ability to pay. I assumed them to be asking if I thought this was inherently unethical but hey that's just my guess.
"The rich are too highly taxed."
WTF!! Who are the "rich?" Rich people in Canada? North Americans compared to the rest of the World? Was this put together by someone from an esl class?
"The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders."
That's not a social responsibility last time I checked.
Anyway I could go on.
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