Has The Backroom Increased Your Understanding of The World

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

So I always wondered, EMFM, how is it that you are so authoritarian? Only KukriKhan and me are less libertarian in this whole Backroom. And I am not even completely certain if Kukri was serious...

I think it's the test. If you're on the right-wing of the spectrum, it appears to be easier to be more authoritarian. I came to the conclusion that it's because of issues like abortion (just an example). I see my stance on abortion as guaranteeing freedom for the child, whereas the test appears to see it as opposing freedom for the mother. I don't recall if it asks about gun control at all. Regardless of that, however, my stance has shifted even more to libertarianism in the past year. On more recent political compass tests I fit somewhere between 31, 24, and 47.

I certainly was an authoritarian conservative at one point. My stance shifted from authoritarian socialist/social democrat to authoritarian "conservative" to libertarian-leaning conservative. Interestingly enough, I have retained traits of nationalism/patriotism at all points in that movement. Right now I would describe myself as a national libertarian conservative.

[Beskar]

I bet you didn't answer "We're citizens of the World" in the test, like I did. In that other thread rating about 'opinion'

[Furunculus]

i know i certainly didn't ;)

[Ice]

Yes/no. The old backroom did (the one that I joined back in May of 05) most likely because I was a noob and young the older/more senior members whipped me into place. That's not really occurring so much anymore because I'm now 22 and not 17 (I hope!!! I could still be a noob!)

[Rhyfelwyr]

I bet you didn't answer "We're citizens of the World" in the test, like I did. In that other thread rating about 'opinion'

I did, although I don't exactly agree with the connotations, it was just the least bad option there.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Yes/no. The old backroom did (the one that I joined back in May of 05) most likely because I was a noob and young the older/more senior members whipped me into place. That's not really occurring so much anymore because I'm now 22 and not 17 (I hope!!! I could still be a noob!)

Don't worry, Kush, you are still "that noob" to me

On a more serious note, a folly it is to consider oneself proficient enough in anything so that nothing else has yet to be absorbed. Especially when you consider the wide range of Backroom threads as well as the nature of politics, or the skill in the art of debates.