Civics quiz
POSTED BY: Khyron
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 06:30
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"Although there's two slanted questions in that test, mind you."
There's more than two IMHO.
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Oh, btw, 100%. Not that I agreed with all the questions or all the answers, but I know what answer one is 'supposed' to give.
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"But they can march around with others lately chanting "Yes We Can!". Oh you can? Can you?
They're full of Go-See."
I got 100% and, apparently, I can do both.
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WHO'S full of go-se ?
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Quote:I got 69.70 %...
Originally posted by rue:
I got 100% and, apparently, I can do both.
me & 6ix have to go to Summer School....
Yes I can learn!
The 'I can' Chrisisall
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Eh, what can I say ?
The quiz highlighted several specific areas of interest (Lincoln, 'public good', Roe v Wade, evolution), plus well, I'm old enough to have clear memories of Sputnik, the Cuban Missile Crisis, MLK and the Civil Rights Movement ... AND I've gone through enough school to guess the slant of the questions (and thus the answers) even when they're wrong.
I think it would be interesting to debate the questions. 
PickyIsAll
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Silence is consent.
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Quote:13) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:
Originally posted by rue:
I think it would be interesting to debate the questions.
(I ANSWERED THIS ONE)
A. all moral and political truth is relative to one’s time and place
(BUT THE ANSWER WAS THIS ONE)
E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
Those dudes weren't idiots. NOTHING'S permanent, and CERTAINLY nothing political or moral!!!
Is this really something that they'd say?? Human reason is BASED on perception of available data, and then filtered through cultural bias & personally prejudiced interpretation!!! There may be 'lasting' moral and/or political truths, but really, 'A' still seems the better answer to ME.
Am I gonna have to take my telephone booth back to collect these guys to write a paper on the subject? Whoah, Rufus might think further timeline disruption was bogus...
The Plah-toe & So-crates Chrisisall
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Don't feel bad Chris, thing was rigged.
First, create alarm: "Our Fading Heritage" (insert picture of wailing Dust Bowl Mother), then shame "Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions." And then say there's a test, wanna try and help? Like some kind of huckster at the fair, like one of those games of "skill" where you try and stand the coke bottles up with a cane and a ring on a string. At first it looks easy, then:
31) International trade and specialization most often lead to which of the following?
A. an increase in a nation’s productivity
B. a decrease in a nation’s economic growth in the long term
C. an increase in a nation’s import tariffs
D. a decrease in a nation’s standard of living
Sprinkle enough of those ringers in with the underhand lobs and it's hard to see it. The average tester is left with waves of guilt, self loathing, "what can I do to feel better? If only there was something I could do!" "Why you can DONATE and make everyone bettersmarter."
http://www.isi.org/donors/donate.aspx
I only feel foolish because I didn't see their game sooner.
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
There may be 'lasting' moral and/or political truths, but really, 'A' still seems the better answer to ME.
Chris,
Did you ever take a philosophy class in College?
'A' implies that if you are living in Nazi Germany, and are aryan, it is perfectly ok to violate the human rights of those deemed unacceptable by the state.
Answer 'E' establishes the very existance of what we know of as human rights. Rights that are universal and perminant.
Do not fear me. Our's is a peaceful race and we must live in harmony.
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Did YOU ever take a college philosophy class ? There's no evidence that 'human rights' as such were formulated as an idea before the 'enlightenment'.
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Quote:Don't know about them, but in mine we studies Heraclitus & such.
Originally posted by rue:
Did YOU ever take a college philosophy class ?
The fire-atoms Chrisisall
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Quote:
'A' implies that if you are living in Nazi Germany, and are aryan, it is perfectly ok to violate the human rights of those deemed unacceptable by the state.
Answer 'E' establishes the very existance of what we know of as human rights. Rights that are universal and perminant.
So "A" implies that if you are living in the USA, and aren't Muslim, it is perfectly okay to violate the human rights of those deemed "enemy combatants" by the state?
And you claim that there are rights that are universal and permanent - except that for an awful lot of rightwingers, those rights are neither universal nor permanent, as applicable to other people. They're expendable, as long as you really WANT to torture somebody, and that somebody is generally some shade of brown in color, and not a citizen of the United States. In other words, those "universal and permanent" rights only extend to those of us who are, you know... better than the rest of the world.
Neither of those answers seem quite right to me...
Mike
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