{"id":18452,"date":"2013-01-05T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T17:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18452"},"modified":"2013-01-05T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T17:58:04","slug":"bryan-caplans-libertarian-purity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/bryan-caplans-libertarian-purity-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Caplan&#8217;s &#8220;Libertarian Purity Test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m nowhere near as doctrinaire a libertarian as I used to be: I scored only 79 (out of a possible 160) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcaplan.com\/cgi-bin\/purity.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">this test<\/a>. It&#8217;s clearly my minarchist tendencies that kept me in the bottom half of the scoring (I prefer the &#8220;nightwatchman&#8221; state with police, courts, and military still being valid activities for the government: to a true anarchist that makes me a splitter if not an actual traitor).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the Libertarian Purity Test, which is intended to measure how libertarian you are. It isn&#8217;t intended to be any sort of McCarthyite purging device &mdash; just a form of entertainment, hopefully thought-provoking. I like it a lot better than the more famous &#8220;World&#8217;s Shortest Political Quiz&#8221; because I haven&#8217;t stated the questions with any intent to give an upward bias to a test-taker&#8217;s score, and because it gives a clearer breakdown between hard and soft-core libertarians. Enjoy, suggest your friends try it out, and see how you compare to other test-takers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>A note on meaning: The word <strong>privatized<\/strong> as used throughout the survey means that a given government service is henceforth supplied by the free market and paid for by consumers. It is distinguished from <strong>sub-contracting<\/strong> in which the government uses tax money to hire a private firm to provide a government service.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m nowhere near as doctrinaire a libertarian as I used to be: I scored only 79 (out of a possible 160) on this test. It&#8217;s clearly my minarchist tendencies that kept me in the bottom half of the scoring (I prefer the &#8220;nightwatchman&#8221; state with police, courts, and military still being valid activities for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,53],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-18452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-libertarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4NC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18454,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions\/18454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}