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Old 07-11-2007   #4 (permalink)
nbound
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Default Re: The purpose of societal systems

Being left or right has nothing to do with personal freedom, thats just your bias. Left or right is economic freedom (left - highly controlled, right - mostly uncontrolled), that will affect some things like taxes of course.

Personal freedom is more of a libertarian/authoritarian scale. You can get lefties and righties that think drug users should be shot, you can also get the same who think that drugs should be legalised.

I am a left winger (though i have nothing against any policy [even from the right] if i can see it will help), but Im also VERY libertarian (id say im a libertarian foremost and a lefty second). My preferred social system would not fit into any of yours. In that other thread i was the most left and most libertarian there last i checked
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