Libertarians: Better than everyone else

[TheCatt]

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Compared to self-identified liberals and conservatives, libertarians showed 1) stronger endorsement of individual liberty as their foremost guiding principle, and weaker endorsement of all other moral principles; 2) a relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional cognitive style; and 3) lower interdependence and social relatedness.
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Results.
Table 3 shows that libertarians scored lower than the other two groups on agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion. They scored low (similar to conservatives) on neuroticism, and they scored quite high (similar to liberals) on openness to experience....
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Results.
Table 3 shows that libertarians score the lowest of any group on empathizing, and the highest on systemizing (also see Figures 3 and 4). In fact, libertarians are the only group that scored higher on systemizing than on empathizing.

[GORDON]

I self identify as libertarian, but I keep it to myself because then people say YOU DONT WANT FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND SOMALIA IS LIBERTARIAN'S PARADISE SO U R CRAZY!

It just isn't worth the aggravation, and nothing is going to change, anyway.

[Malcolm]

I stopped reading at the Ayn Rand quote at the intro. Screw her.

[TPRJones]

Indeed. There's a difference between being a Libertarian and just being a raging bitch.

Not a fan.