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Agathon -
You mean debates where you don't tell others why you're so smart? Nope, I just read the debates I'm involved with, and you've consistently used appeals to authority - your alleged credentials.
You started this thread to tell us about your job or to take a test?
In other words, you were once again touting your alleged expertise before us.
I've seen a number of these tests offered by apolytoners and you're the only one who felt the need to announce what an expert you are.
And yet you said this:
And then you accused some right wingers here of being "welfare liberals" based upon the test results. So make up your mind...
And what was my objection? That you claimed the test exposed some right wingers as welfare liberals. You want it both ways... telling us the test doesn't describe a person's political ideology and then accuse some right wingers of being welfare liberals based upon the test.
There are always some issues ideological opponents agree on, my only 2 critiques of the test are that #7 (universal law/morality) has a "no" option that basicly affirms the proposition. And where is an analysis of the questions and answers in how they relate to these philosophers? I'd like to see why Mill and Rand are so close together. I understand that Mill was a quasi-socialist in his later years, but more of a libertarian in his younger years.
Obviously, you haven't been reading much.
I put that in at the beginning because it's my professional opinion regarding the subject of my job.
If there was some quiz or statement made that some Apolytoner was reasonably expert about, I'd want to hear their views.
Trying to turn this into anything else is just silly.
I already explained this.
It doesn't commit you to any of their normative beliefs (say their views on the state).
There is no ironclad logical connection between the latter and the former. In other words it is possible to agree with someone like Rand about what form moral arguments and justifications have to take without agreeing with the positions she takes on things.
Given that people on this forum are often surprised when they find themselves agreeing on points with their usual enemies, I think this was a test worth taking. For example, Obiwan18 expresses surprise that he occasionally agrees with me. The test shows that he shouldn't be surprised since our metaethical views overlap to a considerable degree, even though I'm not a theist.
I'm sure there are leftists here who took the test but you didn't say they were exposed as right wing free marketeers... 
Translation: "My name is Agathon, kneel before me as I look down upon you with disdain from my ivory tower."
But where's Wittgenstein? Russell? Hmmm?
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