Mar 05
According to the Nolan Chart Quiz I just took at GlennBeck.com
Take it here is you like: http://www.nolanchart.com/survey.php
My desire to project American force abroad against terrorists kept me off the peak of libertarianism.
March 5th, 2010 at 11:25 am
The problem with that questionnaire is that several times the answers were not orthogonal. For instance, I want a non-interventionist policy but I am all for hunting the murderous bastards down to the ends of the Earth. But with my choices I still came out at the “peak” of libertarians.
March 5th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I agree. Exactly. My actual druthers are more libertarian than presented. I’d hunt them down, and I’d kill leaders I didn’t like.
It didn’t ask about drugs, that would have raised my quotient.
Nor did it ask about no smoking laws in restaurants, which my LOVE for would have dropped my quotient.
March 6th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I fell right in the upper middle of the point of the libertarian part of the diamond. Not sure what that means except two of my answers werent the obvious hard libertarian stance.
But as to the restaurant issue, I guess I would question your commitment to libertarianism. What could be more fundeamentally libertarian than allowing a business owner to set the standards in his place of business, then letting the market decide if that is a good business model?
March 6th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I admit it is off message… and I’d much prefer to impose the discipline with private market approaches. I may not have voted for such a law, but I do like their side effect.
March 7th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
The market approach to it was smoking/non-smoking sections. Seemed to work fine from my perspective.