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Result: https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=-6.88&soc=-6.31

Please respond to each of the following statements with one of "Strongly disagree", "Disagree", "Agree" or "Strongly Agree" and nothing more.

1. If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

Strongly Agree

2. I’d always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.

Disagree

3. No one chooses their country of birth, so it’s foolish to be proud of it.

Agree

4. Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.

Strongly Disagree

5. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Disagree

6. Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified.

Disagree

7. There is now a worrying fusion of information and entertainment.

Agree

8. People are ultimately divided more by class than by nationality.

Agree

9. Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment. 

Disagree

10. Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.

Agree

11. “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is a fundamentally good idea.

Strongly Agree

12. The freer the market, the freer the people.

Disagree

13. It’s a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product.

Agree

14. Land shouldn’t be a commodity to be bought and sold.

Agree

15. It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.

Strongly Agree

16. Protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade.

Agree

17. The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.

Disagree

18. The rich are too highly taxed.

Disagree

19. Those with the ability to pay should have access to higher standards of medical care.

Disagree

20. Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public.

Agree

21. A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.

Agree

22. Abortion, when the woman’s life is not threatened, should always be illegal.

Strongly Disagree

23. All authority should be questioned.

Agree

24. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Disagree

25. Taxpayers should not be expected to prop up any theatres or museums that cannot survive on a commercial basis.

Disagree

26. Schools should not make classroom attendance compulsory.

Disagree

27. All people have their rights, but it is better for all of us that different sorts of people should keep to their own kind.

Strongly Disagree

28. Good parents sometimes have to spank their children.

Disagree

29. It’s natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.

Agree

30. Possessing marijuana for personal use should not be a criminal offence.

Agree

31. The prime function of schooling should be to equip the future generation to find jobs.

Disagree

32. People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.

Strongly Disagree

33. The most important thing for children to learn is to accept discipline.

Disagree

34. There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures.

Strongly Agree

35. Those who are able to work, and refuse the opportunity, should not expect society’s support.

Disagree

36. When you are troubled, it’s better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.

Disagree

37. First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.

Strongly Disagree

38. What’s good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us.

Disagree

39. No broadcasting institution, however independent its content, should receive public funding.

Disagree

40. Our civil liberties are being excessively curbed in the name of counter-terrorism.

Agree

41. A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.

Strongly Disagree

42. Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried.

Disagree

43. The death penalty should be an option for the most serious crimes.

Disagree

44. In a civilised society, one must always have people above to be obeyed and people below to be commanded.

Strongly Disagree

45. Abstract art that doesn’t represent anything shouldn’t be considered art at all.

Disagree

46. In criminal justice, punishment should be more important than rehabilitation.

Disagree

47. It is a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals.

Disagree

48. The businessperson and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist. 

Disagree

49. Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers. 

Disagree

50. Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries. 

Agree

51. Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity.

Disagree

52. Astrology accurately explains many things.

Disagree

53. You cannot be moral without being religious.

Disagree

54. Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged.

Disagree

55. Some people are naturally unlucky.

Disagree

56. It is important that my child’s school instills religious values.

Disagree

57. Sex outside marriage is usually immoral.

Disagree

58. A same sex couple in a stable, loving relationship should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption.

Agree

59. Pornography, depicting consenting adults, should be legal for the adult population.

Agree

60. What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state.

Agree

61. No one can feel naturally homosexual.

Strongly Disagree

62. These days openness about sex has gone too far.

Disagree