Jester;809441 wrote: Using my opinons in life in the following catagories please tell me if you fall to my left (more liberal) or my right (more conservative)
1. Marriage: Between a man and woman only, no exceptions, no domestic partnerships allowed.
2Military/Diplomacy: Kill every terrorists in every country regardless of international law.
3. Total and open free trade based on product desire and let the consumer drive the economy.
4. Total balanced budget, no borrowing ever.
5. No government entitlements. (no social security, no healthcare, no welfare).
6. Legalize all substances, make laws regarding the negligent use of any product.
7. Penelties for lawbreakers are severe, and swift punishment is carried out but when your are done paying you are done, no more system to track you or stigmatize you.
8. Inact the death penelty by public hanging.
9. Outlaw all forms of abortion, its murder and is punishable by the death penalty.
10. Parents can legally spank thier children.
11. Flat Tax, no more than 4%. With 2% of your total tax payment going to the agencies of your choice.
12. Public education is driven by testing to move to the next level, private education is optional. Parents are responsible either way.
13. Seperation of Church and State shall be claryfied and defined to mean that no one denomination or sect shall at any time assume a role of lawmaking power in the government, but that the traditions and symbols of our founding influencial religions (Judeo-Christian) shall be permissable in public areas. The use of the generic term 'God' attributes to tradition of long helf belief and does not constitute a government recommndation to follow 'God'.
1) Nope civil partnerships should be allowed-it's up to people to make those kind of decisions.
2) It took 911 for the US to finally realise that the IRA were terrorists and take steps to stop funding them. You wouldn't allow extradition because of fears they might not get a fair trial. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. It would be nice if the US got round to ratifying the extradition treaty between the UK and the US which we signed in 2003 and actually adhere to and you don't.
http://dih-itim.blogspot.com/2006/08/uk ... rtain.html
If you have no respect for international law then you should withdraw from the international scene altogether. Stop interfering in other countries woul;d be a better tactic.
3) yes would agree with you there very much. But not unregulated you still need sanctions to prevent monopolies and other anti-competitive practices. Course if you have no respect for international law no one will trade with someone that will brak agreements when they feel like it.
4) Yes. Most government borrowing starts as a means to finance war.
5) No. Government is there to serve the people children should have as a minimum entitlement to free schooling and healthcare. There is something obscene about a society that let's a child die because the parents happen to be poor. How about law enforcement or ambulance and fire services? Are you entitled to expect protection and help when your house burns down?
6) Yes I would agree-always suspected you were a closet hippy.:sneaky:
7) No-certainty of conviction is a better deterrent than severe penalties. The jury system came about so that the motives and circumstances could be taken in to account when deciding guilt or innocence. What you propose sounds like totalitarianism and a police state.
8) No, It's not a deterrent and too many innocent people get executed. Out 7 & 8 together and you have a lynch mob rule or a police state.
9) Nope-it's the woman's choice no one else's. That is the same kind if reasoning that bans the use of contraceptives because it interferes with nature.
10) No-there is something wrong with people who think it's OK to hit children. Although a wee smack sometimes, maybe.
11) You are perhaps a closet anarchist?
12) there's more to education than training children to pass tests.
13) Oh yes definitely, also keep religion out of mainstream education except as a subject that covers ALL religions to appreciate others belief system.
You're fairly liberal in some of your views there aren't you. If you believe in individual freedom and liberty you are a liberal. It comes from the latin for free man liber.
liberal
• adjective 1 willing to respect and accept behaviour or opinions different from one’s own. 2 (of a society, law, etc.) favourable to individual rights and freedoms. 3 (in a political context) favouring individual liberty, free trade, and moderate reform.
Ostensibly from a country that supports liberal values. But most people are liberal about something and very right wing about others. You come across as a confused, right wing fascist with anarchistic tendencies. You can't preach individual freedom and no government interference and then forbid people from making their own lifestyle choices, execute and imprison without a fair trial and advocate interfering in other countries and still claim you respect the rights of others to make their own choices when you are really saying hey can make a choice so long as it is one you agree with.
) No
