[quote=Jannah] I disagree that human nature is the problem, but that's a whole other debate I'm currently too tired to get into. [/quote] Very much a whole other debate, and one not worth bringing up in this thread even if we were both wide awake. :gray [quote=Magic Magnum][hider=Questions I found odd] -"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a fundamentally good idea. I simply went "agree" here, but this was partly cause I wasn't 100% sure what it was trying to say. I assumed though it meant "People work where they work best, and people get helped where help is needed". So I clicked "strongly agree" the second time. -Land shouldn't be a commodity to be bought and sold. This seemed to hold a bit too many assumptions behind your beliefs depending on what you said. Honestly all I care about in terms of land is everyone has a roof over their head and no one is left on the streets. And said houses/living conditions should fit a family comfortably and not be cramped. As long as the government makes sure that's covered, I don't really care if it's sold or not. I voted "agree" the first time cause I assumed the quiz thought clicking disagree meant "everyone should be expected to buy their own house or suffer". The second time I clicked "disagree" cause ultimately, I don't care for if land is bought or sold as long as that housing situation is covered. -A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies. I looked it up, closest explanation I got was "When two companies merge into one". So I clicked "agree" the first time cause I know the abuse that can happen when a company has no competition. Second time I clicked "Strongly Agree" just cause I double looked at how big that abuse can be. -The prime function of schooling should be to equip the future generation to find jobs. Technically, yes. So I clicked "agree" the first time. But I'm not sure if it's using the literal term of Job (temporary employment) when compared to career (employment for life) or if it was referencing both. I think Education goes far beyond that as well, to make people more aware of the world, more intelligent etc. But without some way to pay the bills, or exercise their skills for society we wouldn't last very long. So Jobs are kind of important, but those Jobs should be whatever we want to be, not specific things. I'm not sure if the quiz is accounting for all this though. It could either mean find jobs as in "Find a way to get paid, get out" or "I dun ned nu educatin to wurk...". Giving it the intelligent benefit of the doubt that it's the former, I changed my answer to "disagree" the second time. -Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged. This one's not so much odd, if I understand it right. I took it literally as "what works better for society". The only thing throwing me off in thinking this is a moral rather than a technical question is the fact this was under the Religion section of the quiz. I just did "Strongly Disagree" both times. Charity is great, and can be a powerful tool. But I find it's better for support to be from a constant, reliable and dependable support system, than it is to be from an organization whose funds are dependent on how generous the public feels like at the time. Note: Every question in the Religion section I clicked "Strongly Disagree" for.[/hider][/quote] I think I can provide some insight on some of these. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a fairly well known Marxist saying, though also used in broader socialist and communist contexts. It means that those who can provide assistance to the needy (such as the rich and the able bodied) should do so, and extra resources taken from or created by these people should be given to those who need it (such as the poor and the disabled) rather than remaining in the hands of those who already have enough. The land as a commodity thing seems to be talking about another communist concept, that land should not be privately owned but rather owned collectively by everyone and for the benefit of everyone. It's definitely one of the murkier questions though, as you could get into some philosophical and economic issues if you wanted to dig deep enough, like is there really any philosophical justification for private ownership of any property or questions of how a zero-sum commodity like land ought to be managed and can it even be done in an equitable way. I would guess that it's just asking about the communist perspective of things though, given the nature of the quiz. You already seem to understand the free market restrictions question. I'm not sure of that prime purpose of education question myself, so I'm no help there. You also seem to get the charity question. I chose to view it on a broader scale, as whether voluntary donation or government mandated assistance was better for those in need of such aid, so I also went with the strong disagreement on that one because charity is so very unreliable.