Lots of real people refer to themselves as liberal or conservative. Even if you consider yourself independent or what-have-you, most people are capable of recognizing where they fall in the spectrum. The survey gives more than two options though: if I remember correctly, there were 7 different options ranging from very liberal to very conservative.
I think especially now, moreso than in times past, people like to refuse to label themselves and think they're saying something meaningful (we are all unique snowflakes!). The human brain is designed by evolution to categorize, and the fact is none of us are all that special anyway. Whether we want to admit it or not, we generally know what label best applies.
Anyway, I don't want to get too far off the topic of this thread, so maybe another thread can be created if people want to discuss this other topic in more detail?
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That's really interesting inBOIL. Your Harm score doesn't seem to fit with your statement that you care about someone's rights being violated. I think it's especially interesting since Harm and Fairness are the two things it seems almost everyone can agree are important (to varying degrees). I wonder if maybe your interpretation of the questions was different than others or if you're really the epitome of moral relativism
