Who says that pro-life and pro-choice are opposites?
That’s the old ploy from the anti-choice crowd.
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On Sat May 27 2023 06:45:09 GMT-0700 (PDT), Katie Hingle katie.hingle2@gmail.com wrote:
I wish the pro-life vs pro-choice wasn’t about babies. I am pro-life way beyond babies.
On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 3:45 AM Starchild sfdreamer@earthlink.net wrote:
That’s a very good point, Jeff. Thank you for bringing it up. I still think the Libertarian Party keeping info about people’s political/philosophical beliefs on file and up to date for paid staffers and people with roles setting party policy is desirable from the standpoint of maintaining the party as a sustainably libertarian organization, as well as modeling the kind of governance we want to see in the world so that the public and voters will have reason to trust us, by being able to see that we’re already practicing what we preach in our own groups. “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
But I should have thought about people posting their answers to these surveys with regard to data harvesting, especially by big institutions trying to track and manipulate, if not outright control people in the case of government. Perhaps I’ll make a new version of the graphic with a warning at the bottom about disclosing your information. That could help raise awareness of the big data/surveillance problem. I’m actually quite aware of the issues that you mention, but somehow overlooked them in this context.
There’s definitely a conundrum though. In a global information society, where we may interact with large numbers of people we don’t know well, especially online where there can be all manner of deceptions, trust mechanisms are needed, and that means having some kind of assurance about the people you’re dealing with, which usually means information about them. But the collection of this information has real risks and dangers. I’d like to see each of us have a lot more control over our information, from our medical records to our shopping habits to our fingerprints, facial images, and genomes, and limits on institutional access to and use of this information on a mass basis.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
On May 27, 2023, at 1:44 AM, Jeff Chan webmaster@rkba.org wrote:
On Friday, May 26, 2023, 5:05:14 PM, Starchild Starchild wrote:
An interesting "survey" I just came across… I changed the
title to focus on the ideas – the original (?) version I saw asked
“which side are you on?” and was titled “libertarian infighting”
which didn’t seem super helpful, but I like the survey itself. You
don’t have to identify as libertarian to fill it out, and some of
the positions are arguably not libertarian, but this seems like a
fair survey of philosophical issues on which there does tend to be
some degree of disagreement among self-identified libertarians:
This survey may be totally innocent, depending on who’s doing it and
for what purpose, but be aware that surveys in general can be used for
psychometric profiling to figure out how to market to you more
effectively, and the result can be sold on indefinitely. It can
become sort of like a personality fingerprint associated with your
identity. That can end up being more data about you for marketers,
governments, spy agencies, credit bureaus, law enforcement, etc.
Some of the puzzles, questionnaires, surveys, tests, contests, etc.,
in online ads are for such purposes also.
Cheers,
Jeff C,