Scrotie's single-question political compass test

Ah ok since I'm forced to answer - the producer is entitled to 100% fruits of labor. Others can buy or rent it.

The only socialism that works is that of the nationalist kind

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鬼殺し wrote:

B. I'm financially/economically down and right a bit, but socially/ethically left. Assuming no creative solutions, I believe *most* people would choose B, regardless of their political leaning. Mainly because most people have made something and have been proud of it, whether they vote Democrat, Republican, Labour, Liberal...whatever. We immediately empathise with child B, whereas child A seems precocious and entitled, and Child C is a resource drain who hasn't been taught how to make their own flute.

Of course most people would.

But I asked for the second most deserving as well. If B is most deserving, who deserves it second most, A or C?

With the producer being unwilling to share and the most talented individual would be unable to achieve his/her true potential and the poorest child would have no toy. Not Sharing the flute, selling it or splitting it specifically imply that. There is no just solutions, justice come at a price.

Picking between meritocracy, property rights or humanitarianism. Picking one sacrifice the others. It isn't suppose to be loaded, somehow it feel that way.

The government gets the flute, obviously, since it is a product of Russian collusion.

Child B is thrown in prison, to break them and make them testify against you know who. The poster maker who featured only one race is also jailed. Taxes are increased to provide flutes for everyone who can't afford them, and one solid plastic tube with three lead painted holes is made and shipped to child C.

Child C tries to sue the government for a defective product, but mysteriously steps in front of a bus and is later found face down on a Florida beach with two sharks to the back of their head.

Child A is featured non-stop on every news and talk show for a week touting about how it was her turn to play the flute, and why everyone who didn't want to allocate the flute to her is a fascist ninny. Apple and Android ban flute emoticons from their phone system and fleets of buses appear out of nowhere that disgorge hundreds of protestors. The NFA (National Flute Association) is demonized and talking MSM heads discuss closing the flute show loophole. A few states ban rapid note musical equipment like xylophones and guitars.

Child A is retweeted 250 billion times when she says - "Imagine how dangerous these flutes would be if they had silencers." Next week, a few retractions and corrections are published about the flute story that no one remembers anyway.

How did I do on the Scrotie Political Compass test

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DalaiLama wrote:
The government gets the flute

This is the reality. The rest is just poppycock. Depending on who is ruling, A or C will get it. B pretty much will be last in line with governments.


Hard to say if A or C is in 2nd place imo. We don't know the financials of A. They could be little better than C after all. If that is the case, it's easy to say A. On the other hand, by that reasoning no one will ever learn a new instrument (but that doesn't matter since the dumbasses in gov't cut back on music and art classes anyway and think everyone should be a talentless tone deaf idiot).

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鬼殺し wrote:

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deathflower wrote:

With the producer being unwilling to share and the most talented individual would be unable to achieve his/her true potential and the poorest child would have no toy. Not Sharing the flute, selling it or splitting it specifically imply that. There is no just solutions, justice come at a price.

Picking between meritocracy, property rights or humanitarianism. Picking one sacrifice the others. It isn't suppose to be loaded, somehow it feel that way.

Anything that tries to simplify something inherently complex down to a single question is loaded. Why would someone do that if they weren't trying to make a certain point? It's a form of intellectual cornering.

This has been true ever since Socrates elicited so many 'yes, of course it must be so, teacher' responses out of his students, and probably from long before.

Because everybody model answer should be share the damn flute.

As most of you have guessed, B represents property rights and capitalism. Because B represents no redistribution of wealth whatsoever, it represents the libertarian notions of minimal government. However, this does not make it right-wing (despite the current position of the Overton Window); it makes it centrist, because it does not aim to wield government to achieve leftwing ideals nor to wield it to achieve their opposite.

Most people also readily recognize that C represents the leftwing option. In its purest form option C represents the "to each according to their need" of the Communist Manifesto.

However, because our Overton Window is nudged to the left these days such that center-left is falsely identified as dead center, most people don't recognize A as right-wing, even though it is. Conservatism at its core is about determining before a contest who the most able are -- whether it's Christianity for evangelocons or white people for ethnonationalists -- and giving them the resources and power instead of wasting it on the unproven. You can run this test of 4chan's /pol/ board yourself and observe a flood of As, as the far right has no love for capitalism and is unabashed in their love for (national) socialist redistribution of wealth to the Chosen. Id you don't understand the allure of the alt-right, just reread A a few times.

As such, the scoring key is:
Ac: Rightwing socialist
Ab: Traditional conservative
OVERTON WINDOW BEGINS
Ba: Center-right/extreme Republican
Bc: Center-left/modern "centrist"
Cb: Progressive/extreme Democrat
OVERTON WINDOW ENDS
Ca: Communist

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gibbousmoon wrote:

The second choice is the more interesting question, since we all seem to agree that B is the obvious best answer...

I would choose to give the flute to child A, because that would reap the maximum amount of intended joy for all parties, and because the gift would be long-lasting. Giving the flute to C would be a gift which only lasts until the money she got for selling it runs out...

OK, Scrotie, where does that put me on the political spectrum? Far left or moderate left? :P

You'd be a mouthful of redpills from wearing a MAGA hat, if you weren't trolling me.

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鬼殺し wrote:

B. I'm financially/economically down and right a bit, but socially/ethically left. Assuming no creative solutions, I believe *most* people would choose B, regardless of their political leaning. Mainly because most people have made something and have been proud of it, whether they vote Democrat, Republican, Labour, Liberal...whatever. We immediately empathise with child B, whereas child A seems precocious and entitled, and Child C is a resource drain who hasn't been taught how to make their own flute.

Of course, just making it children makes it a leading question. I'm all for analogies but this one is loaded like a potato. It is not an effective single-question political compass test. Which is fine -- something as complicated as political leaning shouldn't be boiled down to a single question or hypothetical.

Regardless of this selection, I already know where I sit on the spectrum. Right where Gandhi was, amusingly. Somewhat left and somewhat down. Ironically, the DalaiLama also sits near there, which is, I suspect, not where our own DalaiLama would be very comfortable at times.

All lefties that actually have something are right economically. You don't see them donating much. Right wingers donate because it's part of scripture (tithing/zakat) and we are more generous. And lefty certainly dont volunteer extra cash to IRS. Most lefty dont have a pot to piss in though and are just gimme gimme socialital liabilities like C. I just wish the left with cash understood you create more liabilities by enabling - e.g. social welfare - than pay them off to shut up.

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deathflower wrote:

Because everybody model answer should be share the damn flute.

I admire your dedication to equality of outcome. I've got a suggestion for you: find two other friends and share a toothbrush.