lessdazed comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: lessdazed 07 December 2011 05:10:28PM *  5 points [-]

Let the next survey have the same definitions for communism, conservatism, and liberalism.

Define "socialism" as "Sending children to cigar making factories and sugar making plantations instead of school, like in Cuba; sending suspected dissenters to a KGB prison in Siberia for torture, like in Russia; or sending baby Pandas to reeducation camps for torture, like in China."

Define "libertarianism" as "Rule by corporations, like in the United States; or beating chimney-sweeps to death with a cane while wearing a bowler hat and monocle, like in Britain."

I predict similar responses. You can't expect people to comply with redefined political labels.