Please refer to the political compass.

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Re: Please refer to the political compass.

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brimstoneSalad wrote:
miniboes wrote: Agreeing moves you leftward, disagreeing moves you rightward. It's, if I interpret it correctly, that you think it's a bad thing that people need to pay for water while it's such a fundamental requirement of living.
I took it to mean that people are idiots for buying water when it comes free from the tap. :shock:
Fair enough. Sometimes you don't have access to a tap though, so it's either expensive water or soda.
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Re: Please refer to the political compass.

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miniboes wrote:
brimstoneSalad wrote:
miniboes wrote: Agreeing moves you leftward, disagreeing moves you rightward. It's, if I interpret it correctly, that you think it's a bad thing that people need to pay for water while it's such a fundamental requirement of living.
I took it to mean that people are idiots for buying water when it comes free from the tap. :shock:
Fair enough. Sometimes you don't have access to a tap though, so it's either expensive water or soda.
That would be a pretty bizarre question in a political spectrum quiz. :P

Yeah, I think it's basically the same as that question about land being bought and sold: Is it wrong that basic necessities are commodities?
Land isn't really a basic necessity, I guess, but it's a similar concept.
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