How Many Questions In 'news' Can One Ask?

[buildersmate]

How many questions per week is one able to ask in this section per week before one gets permanently excluded for abusing AnswerBank?

I do hope the answer is around 12, then we'd all be put out of our misery for ever.

[chrisgel]

JTP --- //some denationalisations like the Rail Network have been less than successful//
I'm struggling to think of any instance where nationalisation has been successful TBH.

[China Doll]

I think I'm near Gandhi...

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.56

[bednobs]

@lazy gun, firstly apologies for my terrible typing - i have new fake nails and it's so hard to type with them.
I don't really know anything about the DL, let alone his politics but i would say i'm naturally a liberal, with a few right wing thoughts every now and then. I didn't really understand 1/2 the questions - they had lots of big words

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

/// Right wing politics nomally strongly supports a social hieracrchy - In the UK far right politics is usually associated with Nationalism - the strong identification with the nation or tribe to the extent that descrimination of others outside of that group is strongly encouraged. ///

May I remind everyone that is a definition presented by AnswerBank's dedicated (no I cannot attach him to any political way of thinking) enough to say that he is never slow to attack anyone who fails to agree with his incorrect views.

[LazyGun]

@Bedknobs and China - 2 saints in the room :)

That political compass tends to add a more rounded interpretation of someones political outlook.

There is another one that offers a similar process of positioning yourself on the political spectrum, but i have not tried it myself yet...

http://www.moralcompass.org/

[China Doll]

Ooooh... now I'm a New Libertarian.

'When making decisions involving people close to them, New Libertarians tend to act self-interestedly, using their own needs as a point of reference. With others, they tend to act selflessly, using the needs of others as a point of reference.

We've called this quadrant the New Libertarians because it advocates maximum freedom economically and socially. While in terms of individual freedom this may seem the most attractive option, it is difficult, however, to see how a society composed of self-interested individuals could exist without some sort of external coercion. This can also result in trying to live by two opposing moral philosophies.'

^^^ I think that's fair enough.

[jno]

that does seem rather a contradiction, doesn't it... maximum freedom economically means you build houses and hotels everywhere and loot the Community Chest, and drive everyone else out of business; it's hard to square this with maximum social freedom for the other players you've just put into the poorhouse.

[China Doll]

Aye. But I can see how it could be applicable to me. I'm pretty much a lefty, yougurt knitter (or whatever we're calling outselves these days) but I'm also impatient by nature, and there are certain things I'm extremely intolerent towards.. and those latter two things don't really fit in to the lefty persona.

Similarly, while I like to do a job that does have some meaning and a feeling like I'm doing 'something to help' behind it, I also expect to be appropraitely renumerated. So in that sense I probably can be brought.

I can see that I might be living with 'opposing moral philosophies' :c)

[andy-hughes]

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