Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

 

[ Track This Topic :: Email This Topic :: Print this topic ]

reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: Libertarians: Better than everyone else< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
 Post Number: 1
TheCatt Search for posts by this member.
Top 2%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 22951
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 29 2012,08:27  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

Article

QUOTE
Compared to self-identified liberals and conservatives, libertarians showed 1) stronger endorsement of individual liberty as their foremost guiding principle, and weaker endorsement of all other moral principles; 2) a relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional cognitive style; and 3) lower interdependence and social relatedness.
...
Results.
Table 3 shows that libertarians scored lower than the other two groups on agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion. They scored low (similar to conservatives) on neuroticism, and they scored quite high (similar to liberals) on openness to experience....
...
Results.
Table 3 shows that libertarians score the lowest of any group on empathizing, and the highest on systemizing (also see Figures 3 and 4). In fact, libertarians are the only group that scored higher on systemizing than on empathizing.


--------------
It's not me, it's someone else.
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 2
GORDON Search for posts by this member.
90%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 36125
Joined: Jun. 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 29 2012,08:34 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

I self identify as libertarian, but I keep it to myself because then people say YOU DONT WANT FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND SOMALIA IS LIBERTARIAN'S PARADISE SO U R CRAZY!

It just isn't worth the aggravation, and nothing is going to change, anyway.


--------------
I don't give a fuck!
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 3
Malcolm Search for posts by this member.
I disagree.
Avatar



Group: Privateers
Posts: 27168
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 29 2012,09:19 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

I stopped reading at the Ayn Rand quote at the intro.  Screw her.

--------------
Diogenes of Sinope:

"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."

"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."

Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:

"Better dead than smeg."
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 4
TPRJones Search for posts by this member.
I saw The Fault in our Stars opening night.
Avatar



Group: Privateers
Posts: 12384
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 01 2012,07:05 Skip to the previous post in this topic.  Ignore posts   QUOTE

Indeed.  There's a difference between being a Libertarian and just being a raging bitch.

Not a fan.


--------------
Vidi Perfutui Veni
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
3 replies since Sep. 29 2012,08:27 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track This Topic :: Email This Topic :: Print this topic ]


 
reply to topic new topic new poll

» Quick Reply Libertarians: Better than everyone else
iB Code Buttons
You are posting as:

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code