Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Defending the US-a Questionaire Message-ID: <3531@alice.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 13:49:15 EST Article-I.D.: alice.3531 Posted: Fri Apr 5 13:49:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Apr-85 03:14:02 EST Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 96 First there are two rules: 1) I will separate your name from your data upon receipt (meaning after I read my mail). I will keep a list of those who respond. Second responses will be deleted. The list of respondants will be deleted when the survey is scored. 2) All flaming responses (i.e. more than yes/no answers) will be trashcanned, and your name put in the respondant's file. If you want to write me about the survey, say so in your subject line. In order to not cause gargantuan loads, please make sure the mail does NOT go to alice. Please be brief: give me a list of the numbers 1-14, with yes or no afterwards. Long answers will be regarded as flames. ------------------------ Answer all questions yes or no, as you feel is most accurate. This is an opinion poll, so there are no right or wrong answers. ------------------------- 1) Does the word "liberal" often describe your personal political ethos? 2) If the United States were attacked on its own landmasses (50 states or possessions), would you take up arms to protect the US? (When I say taking up arms, I include other actions of a defensive (of the US) nature for those who would be better suited to things other than armed combat.) 3) If Western Europe were engaged in a war with the USSR or a satellite nation, would you be willing to aid their war effort in whatever way seemed most effective to you? 4) Are you best described as PRO (answer yes) or ANTI (answer no) nuclear weaponry of the sort usually referred to as "tactical"? 5) Does the word "conservative" often describe your personal potitical ethos? 6) Are you best described as PRO (answer yes) or ANTI (answer no) nuclear weaponry of the sort usually described as "strategic"? 7) If the US were threatened by direct military action from one of the nations in the "western alliance", would you support or engage in the use of arms? 8) Does the word "libertarian" often describe your personal political ethos? 9) If the US were threatened by direct military action from one of the nations in the "third world", would you support or engage in the use of arms? 10) Does the word "pacifist" often describe your personal political/moral ethos? 11) If two nations of the "Western Alliance" were at war, would you expect or support US intervention via use of ARMS? (i.e. a conflict of the Faulklands variety) (Note that I do NOT care whose side you would be on.) 12) If there were a conflict anywhere in the world that involved either the supply of essentail materials (i.e. oil, manganese, etc) or the chance of the use of fissionables/fusion weapons, would you support or engage in the use of arms to prevent the perceived catastrophe? 13) Does the word "independant" often describe your personal political ethos? 14) Can you imagine that a situation such as that described in question 12 could actually arise? ============================== Again: Yes or no, ONLY. Please answer all questions. If you find that you have a particular moral or ethical dilemma with a question, flip a coin using heads==yes. I regard no combinations of yes/no answers in the above questions as unlikely or unrealistic. Please answer each question independantly, and as a separate and individual issue. This survey is for the interest/discussion of/on usenet only. It does not represent any other interest or organization, and all data under my control will be destroyed upon the posting of results to usenet. The last day for responses to ARRIVE at icarus will be 4/14 midnight 4/15. Please address all replies to {ihnp4,allegra}!icarus!jj -- TEDDY BEARS NEED SECURITY BLANKETS, WRAP YOURS TODAY! "I think I'm going to regret this!" ihnp4!icarus!jj