Civil Rights & Lifestyle Choices

This dimension measures how much you think the state should step into personal decisions that don't directly affect others: whom to marry, what to consume, how to live one's sexuality, how to end one's life or how to dress.

Toward more freedom

Each adult decides about their own body and life as long as they don't harm others.

Toward more control

The state protects certain moral or social norms and limits behavior it considers harmful.

Debates it touches

Drug legalization
Euthanasia and assisted dying
Abortion

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The other dimensions

01 Freedom of Movement & Migration
02 Fiscal & Tax Policy
03 Free Speech & Press
04 International Trade
05 Privacy & State Surveillance
06 Property Rights & Contracts
07 Freedom of Religion & Conscience
08 Financial & Monetary System
09 Civil Rights & Lifestyle Choices
10 Labor & Market Regulation
11 Criminal Justice & Due Process
12 Government Spending & Subsidies