OT:authoritarian or libertarian was Re: [Gllug] Whitelist-only spam filtering

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 12 Sep 2002, Sean Burlington wrote:
>David Damerell wrote:
>>On Thursday, 12 Sep 2002, Sean Burlington wrote:
>>>libertarian: a beliver in free will, a person who believes in the 
>>>maximum amount of free thought, behavior etc
>>That is _not_ what the word is used to mean these days.
>given that it is hard to gather a reprentative sample of people and ask 
>them how they use the word libertarian - what do you actually have 
>against me using it in this way ??

1) I think you run the risk of being mistaken for an American-style
   properatarian.
2) I think "liberal" says what you mean - except to the subset of
   Yanks for whom it's a swearword along with "socialist", but they're
   insane anyway.

>>>an interesting site on this topic is
>>>http://www.politicalcompass.org/
>>Oh, they have the survey that claims you're a libertarian almost no
>>matter what answers you put in, doesn't it?
>are you sure ??

Moderately, yes. If it's the one I remember (and I see someone else on
GLLUG thinks so) we tried the "What would Hitler do?" approach and
were still told we should consider that we might be libertarians.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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