Scrotie's single-question political compass test

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ScrotieMcB написал:

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deathflower написал:

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.

WOuld you prefer I break it in three so nobody could use it?

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deathflower написал:

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ScrotieMcB написал:

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deathflower написал:

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.

WOuld you prefer I break it in three so nobody could use it?

No. I'd insist it be given to B; from there, I'd hope B could be convinced to voluntarily sell it to A, perhaps in exchange for some number of performances. I'd admittedly be quite disappointed if A didn't get the flute eventually.

I didn't mention C because I don't give a fuck about C.

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鬼殺し написал:

Why we don't share flutes.

fuuuuuck I got outmemed by Charan. Sad!

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鬼殺し написал:

Why we don't share flutes.

It is a terrible analogy. The other two can't play the flute. I hope they don't... play the flute... in that way...

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ScrotieMcB написал:

No. I'd insist it be given to B; from there, I'd hope B could be convinced to voluntarily sell it to A, perhaps in exchange for some number of performances. I'd admittedly be quite disappointed if A didn't get the flute eventually.

I didn't mention C because I don't give a fuck about C.

Nope... B don't share. We establish that a flute has other purpose. After that, we establish that you should not share nor touch it.

Answer key was on previous page, btw.

There's no such thing as a government that always gets the flute. Black markets, smuggling, theft, etc. And even when a government simply seizes property, it faces the same issues: let it remain with those who stole it, redistribute to those seen as most able, or give it to whomever needs it most.

This absurdly stupid. Option B does not represent capitalism at all. You have taken the "according to his needs" WAY out of context. For starters according to Marx the means of production and the production itself belongs to the workers, so by definition the according to the communist manifesto the flute belongs to the second kid, without anyone having to actually give it to him. The option of us having the power to give the flute to anyone else as a higher power, be it govemerment or the CEO of the company that the child works points to a capitalist way of thinking.

And still is out of context. Ideal communist society, all 3 would have a flute, and the 3rd kid would not be the "poorest" anyway.

I would pick b then a

I'd take the flute for myself, they can use leaf flutes. Kids need to learn to cope with loss.

Where did I score? I don't want to accept any of the offered solutions, government already tells me what to do or not do.

Not a good political test imho.
Child A just feels entitled, child B is the most deserving because of the starting conditions - he had the materials and worked - and option C is charity more than anything else.

[In my ideal society, they'd share the flute willingly; child A would teach the others how to play it if they wanted to; child B would build 2 more, given materials; child C would not be nor even think of himself as poorest]

Semantics matter.

In this case the flute is a tool to create music and pleasure.
A says B and C can't play it, so even though B created it, A should have it since she is the only one who can use it.

If B had planted a huge forest, and A said "I'm the only one who can cut those trees and make houses and toilet paper out of it which we all need and want", it should still remain the property of B and up to her decision what to do with the forest, since there are optional reasons for purposing a forest;
like leaving it as a habitat for animals, which you can hunt and eat.

If A said "I need the flute, because my magic hands can crush it into tiny dust that gives anyone who snorts it immortality" then fuck B and C to oblivion. Like no question.


The question is a bit meh, requires a lot of specifications.
But generally I would answer that purpose over ownership.
You just can't let anyone do whatever they want, just because they *can*,
like someone buying the entire planet, burning down every tree and filling every ocean with oil till nothing is left alive.

Purpose, reason and result trumps everything else.
The best ideas should be enforced.