Contributed
• Source of Human Rights
Left: government
Right: the Creator
• Human Nature
Left: basically good (Therefore, society is primarily responsible for evil.)
Right: not basically good (Therefore, the individual is primarily responsible for evil.)
• Economic Goal
Left: equality
Right: prosperity
• Primary Role of the State
Left: increase and protect equality
Right: increase and protect liberty
• Government
Left: as large as possible
Right: as small as possible
• Family Ideal
Left: any loving unit of people
Right: a married father and mother, and children
• Guiding Trinity
Left: race, gender and class
Right: liberty, In God We Trust, and e pluribus unum
• Good and Evil
Left: relative to individual and/or society
Right: based on universal absolutes
• Humanity’s Primary Division(s)
Left: rich and poor; strong and weak
Right: good and evil
• Ideal Primary Identity of an American
Left: world citizen
Right: American citizen
• How to Make a Good Society
Left: abolish inequality
Right: develop each citizen’s moral character
• View of America
Left: profoundly morally flawed; inferior to any number of European countries
Right: greatest force for good among nations in world history
• Gender
Left: a social construct
Right: male and female
• Most Important Trait to Cultivate in a Child
Left: self-esteem
Right: self-control
• Worth of the Human Fetus
Left: determined by the mother
Right: determined by society rooted in Judeo-Christian values
• Primary Source of Crime
Left: poverty, racism and other societal flaws
Right: the criminal’s malfunctioning conscience
• Place of God and Religion in America
Left: secular government and secular society
Right: secular government and religious society
• American Exceptionalism
Left: chauvinistic doctrine
Right: historical reality
• Greatest Threat to the World
Left: environmental catastrophe (currently global warming)
Right: evil (currently radical Islamist violence)
• International Ideal
Left: world governed by the United Nations, and no single country is dominant
Right: world in which America is the single strongest entity
• Primary Reason for Lack of Guns
Left: ideally universally abolished, except for use by police, the armed forces and registered sportsmen
Right: ideally widely owned by responsible individuals for self-protection and the protection of others
• Race
Left: intrinsically significant
Right: intrinsically insignificant
• Racial, Ethnic and Gender Diversity at Universities
Left: most important
Right: far less important than ideological diversity
• Black America’s Primary Problem
Left: racism
Right: lack of fathers
• Greatest Playwright
Left: entirely subjective; there is no greatest playwright
Right: Shakespeare
• War
Left: not the answer
Right: sometimes the only answer
• Hate
Left: wrong, except when directed at the political
Right: wrong, except when directed at evil
• Cultures
Left: all equal
Right: some are better than others
• America’s Founding Fathers
Left: rich white male slave owners
Right: great men who founded the greatest society
• Purpose of Judges
Left: pursue social justice
Right: pursue justice
• National Borders
Left: a relic of the past
Right: indispensable for national survival
• View of Illegal Immigrants
Left: welcomed guests
Right: illegal immigrants
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