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Political Survey

Some of you (OK so like... three of you) may remember the last time I ran a survey on political values; I was really happy with the responses everybody gave me at TheMotte, and now a few other people I know who post on Substack are wanting to use the results to answer some questions of their own. So long story short, here's another poll:

PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY HERE

Don't worry if you think you're unusual and might skew the results - in fact we'd very much appreciate your perspective, whatever it is.

Thanks guys!

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The primary reason I've turned down sex is not in the list: I don't trust the motives of the other party.

I very much agree; in fact, I never have sex even at my own parties.

But why did you cared about those motives at all?

To give a bad example, "I worship Ebola-chan, have deliberately infected myself with ebola, and am trying to infect random people with it via sex" would be a motive most people would care about.

To give a better example, there are various forms of badger games or pseudo-badger games, only some of which are highly CW-loaded in one direction or another.

The first example falls in the case of fearing sexually transmitted diseases. I'm not sure Ebola is officially one of them but in practice it is.

Badger games fall in the case of unwanted social consequences.

So it seems to me you don't need another case. But perhaps I'm missing something

"Unwanted social consequences" is actually not in the list for "If you did decline one or more offers to have sex, what was the reason?". It's listed in a later question, but not that one.

I'm also not sure I'd consider some forms of pseudo-badger-games to be "social" consequences. Most obviously, the one where you literally just lure the guy in for a robbery.

Ok I didn't remember it correctly. I think economical consequences (losing money or things) are a special kind of social consequences, at least in a poll where you can't have infinitely many options