[Buddha-l] Political views of Buddhists

[castanford]

x = -6.00, y = -5.79. But then I have extensive earth sciences' exposure 
prior to my enlightenment!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence K. Starner" <l.k.starner at larc.nasa.gov>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:47 AM
Subject: RE: [Buddha-l] Political views of Buddhists


>
> Economic Left/Right: -3.50
> Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31
>
> -- Just to the right, of Ghandi
>
> -- Larry Starner
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> Richard Hayes
>> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:59 PM
>>
>> If you visualize a standard two-axis graph and imagine four
>> quadrants, here is
>> where some well-known figures would fall according to these political
>> scientists:
>>
>> NW (authoritarian communist): Pope Benedict, Stalin, Kim Jongil,
>> Fidel Castro,
>> Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chavez.
>>
>> NE (authoritarian free-market liberals): Hitler, Olmert, Bush,
>> Chirac, Blair,
>> Thatcher, Howard, Harper and Merkel.
>>
>> SW (libertarian communist): Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Dalai Lama XIV.
>>
>> SE (libertarian free-market liberal): Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Thomas
>> Freedman.
>>
>> Denizens of buddha-l, your assignment if you should choose to
>> accept it, is to
>> take the short political quiz at http://www.politicalcompass.org/ and to
>> report your score back to the rest of us. (This will help Benito do his
>> research into the political orientation of Western Buddhists.)
>>
>> My score: -8.63, -7.13 (This means I'm about 87% communist and
>> 71% libertarian
>> and therefor in the same sector as Gandhi, HHDL and Mandela, although
>> consideraby more to the left than any of them.
>> -- 
>> Richard Hayes
>> Department of Philosophy
>> University of New Mexico
>> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
>
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