Unchained Preppers
General Category => News & Politics => Topic started by: Deathstyle on May 18, 2013, 01:28:17 AM
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-physically-strong-likely-right-wing-political-views.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-physically-strong-likely-right-wing-political-views.html)
Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views
Weaker men more likely to support welfare state and wealth redistribution
Link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in our ancestors
Strength was a proxy for ability to defend or acquire resources
There is no link between women's physical strength and political views
Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim.
Their study discovered a link between a man?s upper-body strength and their political views.
Scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark collected data on bicep size, socio-economic status and support for economic redistribution from hundreds in America, Argentina and Denmark.
The figures revealed that men with higher upper-body strength were less likely to support left-wing policies on the redistribution of wealth.
But men with low upper-body strength were more likely to put their own self-interest aside and support a welfare state.
The researchers found no link between upper-body strength and redistribution opinions among women.
Professor Michael Petersen said: ?In all three countries, physically strong males consistently pursued the self-interested position on redistribution.
?However physically weak males were more reluctant to assert their self-interest ? just as if disputes over national policies were a matter of direct physical confrontation between individuals.
?While many people think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has, in a sense, always been with our species.
?Political views are designed by natural selection to function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history.?
The findings were published in the journal Psychological Science.
Professor Petersen added: ?Many previous studies have shown that people's political views cannot be predicted by standard economic models.
?This is among the first studies to show that political views may be rational in another sense, in that they're designed by natural selection to function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history.?
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"But men with low upper-body strength were more likely to put their own self-interest aside and support a welfare state."
"However physically weak males were more reluctant to assert their self-interest ? just as if disputes over national policies were a matter of direct physical confrontation between individuals."
Talk about an agenda... So right wingers are just selfish men only worried about their own self-interest? If anything, supporting a welfare state is putting your own self-interest first.
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Regardless of how its worded its spot on. The weak fucks had to share their dinner while the stronger ones ate everything.
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Yeah but this article is saying that Conservatives are some how being greedy by not wanting to give others their money. Bassically according to this article right wingers wish to steal from welfare recipients by trying to take back their own money. Welfare is OWED to anyone who wants it. Right wingers are THEIVES for not wanting to pay up. The lefts amazing with their play on words.
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Funny, I thought it all came down to penis size. The bigger you are the more manly and dominant you'll be. Wait, maybe that was beard size? :-\
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Funny, I thought it all came down to penis size. The bigger you are the more manly and dominant you'll be. Wait, maybe that was beard size? :-\
I have heard a rumor about an inverse correlation between pistol caliber (9mm vs .45) and penis size.
*stirring the pot*
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Funny, I thought it all came down to penis size. The bigger you are the more manly and dominant you'll be. Wait, maybe that was beard size? :-\
I have heard a rumor about an inverse correlation between pistol caliber (9mm vs .45) and penis size.
*stirring the pot*
No wonder i rock a glock with a .17 HMR conversion ;D Everyone said i was an idiot.. now it all makes sense.
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As ya'll have pointed out the article hits it's agenda pretty hard. It's not even subtle about it... dude should invest in a thesaurus.
Otherwise I would put the article in the "well duh" category.
Written with my agenda would read like this...
"weaklings want to have the government force the strong to give them their shit"
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