The Political Compass

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Lol,  I was expecting you to be in the high positives on both as well.

One particular question was nagging me.  I believe that parents have the right to beat their kids (or whatever the PC term is), and I'm guessing that this counts as being liberal for the test (increased rights to parent), rather than authoritarian, but I would consider it authoritarian rather than liberal (decreases rights to children (... that have 'misbehaved'... i.e. not followed the 'rules'))
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I have never really seen the need to beat kids. It's the five minute fix. I know it didn't bother me as a kid, hell, I'd rather be spanked and get it over with.

I don't have kids, but I am good with kids, and I know of some really effective means of punishment. But they involve a lot of work and time on the parent / adult part. And this conflicts with people's busy lives. Or they are just to lazy to put forth the effort required to make these punishments work. I know how to make kids' lives a living hell.

My Goddaughter has a terrible fear of doing anything wrong around me. She knows that she will be punished. It's not like living with Grandpa and Grandma, who will let her off the hook if she whines and fusses enough. Doogie means bidness. And if she does something that she knows she shouldn't, she knows it's going to mean hours of horrible boring awful punishment. It means sitting on the back steps polishing the silverware for hours. Or scrubbing the stove. Washing the dishes. Washing the windows. Cleaning the cat boxes. Dusting. Yes, she is little, and she is young, but she is capable and she can be made to do unpleasant work. And she usually cries for the first hour or so as she is working, sniffling and snotting away like she is going to die or something. If everything is spotless and there is nothing to be done, I hand her a pair of pliers and tell her to pull 20 bullets out of Doogie's Angry Tree. (I spend a lot of time shooting that rotten old tree.) She hates that. Or worse, it means NO TV. And that just kills her. But she doesn't watch much tv when she stays with me. She sticks her nose in a book or goes outside and plays. She spends a lot more time reading when she stays with me. At Grandpa and Grandma's house, she doesn't read nearly as much as she should. :angry: And she watches tv for hours on end.

Oh, and by the way, don't even start calling me Doogie. Yeah, I know, it's cute and all, but it's only because she can't say my name. :P And unless you are a cute little girl with rosey cheeks, curious eyes, and dimples, you can't call me Doogie.