{"id":684,"date":"2004-03-11T17:34:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T01:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/11\/libertarian-purity-test\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:23:03","slug":"libertarian-purity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Purity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks have been taking this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcaplan.com\/cgi\/purity.cgi\">Libertarian Purity Test<\/a>. I&#8217;m oddly proud to say that I scored a six out of a possible 160 &#8211; which is to say, I&#8217;m less than one-fourteenth the libertarian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crescatsententia.org\/archives\/week_2004_03_07.html#003301\">Will Baude <\/a>is, and less than a third as libertarian as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewyglesias.com\/archives\/002740.html\">Matthew Ygelsias<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would have scored a bit higher if there had been more questions designed to appeal to left-wing libertarian impulse. Not a word was asked about reproductive rights, for instance, nor much about gay rights. The questions towards the end of the test, designed to weed out all but the really hard-core libertarians, are frightening to contemplate (do you want a privatized judiciary?).<\/p>\n<p>As it is, though, I&#8217;m glad to see that I&#8217;m one of the very lowest scorers so far (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangelicaloutpost.com\/archives\/000490.html\">Evangelcial Outpost<\/a> is keeping a tally).<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=cialis-oral-jelly-price-safeway\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks have been taking this Libertarian Purity Test. I&#8217;m oddly proud to say that I scored a six out of a possible 160 &#8211; which is to say, I&#8217;m less than one-fourteenth the libertarian Will Baude is, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=684\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-libertarianism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15902,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/15902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}