Libertarian Purity Test

[jlaker]

I scored a 94.

 

[ChickenHawk]

It is human nature to think. You can continue to think of people as being a group and I will see them as individuals. Groups do not think, people do. Peoples can agree and often do. That does not unite them.

So how are you going to get everyone to think the way you want them to? I just don't see everyone deciding that we are all individuals therefore a government is not necessary. I'd probably be okay with no government but I don't think most people would go for it. In fact many people would probably take advantage of it in a negative way. I'd like to know about a successful prosperous society that exists or existed in the past that did not have any sort of government. I've never heard of one so I have no example to look at to judge the feasibility of it.

 

[RonRules]

70: Will I get banned form this forum ?

 

[TurtleBurger]

Serving your government/society in ways other than military. ie peace corps or working in a free clinic, etc

I read this question as implying a kind of draft but not necessarily for military service, like Israel has. All citizens would be required to be government slaves for 2 years.

 

[nf7mate]

99

 

[Paulitician]

Your score is... 0

0 points: You are not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination. You are probably not even a liberal or a conservative. Just some Nazi nut, I guess.

Just answered no on all of them

 

[forsmant]

So how are you going to get everyone to think the way you want them to? I just don't see everyone deciding that we are all individuals therefore a government is not necessary. I'd probably be okay with no government but I don't think most people would go for it. In fact many people would probably take advantage of it in a negative way. I'd like to know about a successful prosperous society that exists or existed in the past that did not have any sort of government. I've never heard of one so I have no example to look at to judge the feasibility of it.

Government is a legal fiction. Only people are real. Some people are mean.

 

[Laughingcow]

55

 

[Kludge]

I managed to finish it...

78

 

[The Tao Of Bill]

I got a 40. Which makes sense. I'm a libertarian but I don't buy into like the super crazy libertarian stuff that everything should be privatized and stuff like that.

 

[mjp1025]

I'm in at 80.

 

[Fozz]

Bump

I got an 87

 

[__27__]

160

 

[youngbuck]

145

 

[Fozz]

By the way, for part 1, I answered yes to every question except immigration.

However, for part 3, I only answered yes to abolishing the Federal Reserve and privatizing roads.

 

[jmlfod87]

160. Rothbard FTW.

 

[Alawn]

This test is total bullshit. It is an anarchist purity test. Anarchism is not the same thing as libertarianism,

 

[__27__]

This test is total bullshit. It is an anarchist purity test. Anarchism is not the same thing as libertarianism,

Actually, anarchism is libertarianism taken to it's logical conclusion.

 

[almantimes2]

116

 

[Fozz]

Actually, anarchism is libertarianism taken to it's logical conclusion.

It depends on what kind of anarchism it is. Many socialists are anarchists (more specifically, anarcho-syndicalists), but libertarian anarchists like Murray Rothbard and David Friedman are anarcho-capitalists.

I greatly admire Murray Rothbard, but I am definitely not as extreme as he was.