Edited by author 06-30-2002 02:22 AM
We are pretty close, aren't we? Your score puts you two squares to the right and one square up from my chart. That's closer than Hitler and Thatcher are to each other, so we must be very similar indeed! :-)

There are elements of free trade I like, but I too am troubled by a free market economy and the ethical concerns it raises. I do not think these are contradictory nor hypocritical, despite what some free-marketeers might claim. It would be like saying a retail establishment is improperly discriminatory if it requires patrons to wear shoes in the store. The proper response is "We just need to establish a baseline of safety. We do not want you stepping on broken glass and hurting yourself. Once that is satisfied, everyone is welcome." Such a policy is significantly different from a sign which says "no gays" or "no whites". So if the rule is "no torturing children", that is a far more reasonable rule than "we don't want anything from Peru (or China, or Norway, or Tuvalu....)"

I am assuming you expected your score to be more free market-leaning?