Tell me about your beliefs
Tell me about your beliefs
a Walt Right community survey
I want to learn more about my audience. My last surveys measuring temperament and intelligence were quite enlightening, and this time I’d like to ask about your beliefs.
Please answer these questions in the comments, and be as detailed as you’d like.
How would you describe your current religious worldview? If nonreligious, describe the metaphysical / epistemic principles to which you subscribe.
From where do you derive your sense of right and wrong? Do you subscribe to any particular ethical or meta-ethical system?
How would you describe your current political beliefs?
How do you determine who is an ally you can collaborate with politically?
Which political propositions are outside your personal Overton Window, such that you couldn’t collaborate with someone who held such beliefs?
Do you support Biden or Trump and why? How much do you care about the election?
1. Lapsed Eastern Orthodox. I think philosophic matters are intractable, and you can dedicate your entire career to disputing one premise of one argument for the existence or non-existence of God. Therefore, I think people should just choose whether or not to believe and run with it
2. Human nature entails a level of dignity that confers a basic right not to be treated as a means involuntarily. This is my basic starting point, and virtues and vices should shape us within the bounds of what human nature confers
3. Conservative in the sense of opposing radicalism and accepting the limitations of reality. Classical liberal in the sense of viewing knowledge as individually dispersed and consequently favoring decentralized decision-making mechanisms, such as free markets and federalism, over centralized bodies such as the UN or presidency
4. Whether the person prioritizes the same issues in the current political moment. Coalitions form and fracture since politics is dynamic, so alliances should be based on what's the paramount issue now. if the person is so optically poisonous that it stops my coalition from expanding or becomes a PR liability, I believe in disassociating from them
5. Anything whose optics are so repulsive to every vehicle for mass political action that anyone associated with it would be reputationally stained. If every organization with the ability to affect public policy and elections finds a certain idea (or someone associated with it) to be cancelable, it's a waste of political capital to try shoving it into the Overton window and will only lead to ghetto-ization. I also think any political cause that isn't tempered by humaneness must be actively opposed. As noted above, human dignity is the basis of my ethics
6. Getting Trump back in is hugely important because he'll end the Russo-Ukrainian War and appoint better people to the judge-ocracy. The world's currently on fire (Russo-Ukrainian War, Iran-Israel, record number of DPRK provocations), and the Philippines and China seem to have become a tinder box that's dangerously close to being lit. Furthermore, most of the institutionalized wokeness can be undone via executive action, and Trump is highly likely to do so if he's back in since he began to do so at the end of his first administration. That'll enable us to move on from this phase of the culture war
1. Atheist materialist sublimated by Greco-Roman pantheon idolatry.
2 As an atheist I can't subscribe to an objective or universal moral framework. My moral sense is derived largely from Northwest European culture and tradition as that is my ancestry and the normative cultural paradigm of my country (USA).
3. In a state of flux right now. Went from a normie Democrat when young (11-17) mostly colored by being involved in the New Atheism movement -> Alt-right (18-22) -> ???
4. If they have my back and can be trusted.
5. Anti-White haters, Pro-transitioning children, LGBT propagandists/pushers, Lunatics.
6. Neither, but if I had to choose, I guess Trump. I'm not voting, nor do I care about whoever wins.