Opinions you have that most people don't agree with.
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That there is no God, humans are not the centre of the universe. That homosexuality, abortion and allowing euthanasia are not only ok but might be necessary for the continued existence of the human race. That global warming is not entirely the fault of humans and has more to do with the ice age we're still coming out of, weather cycles, solar activity and cloud activity.
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Infanticide can be morally permissible.
Birds are scarier than sharks.
Biological/evolutionary determinism is never an excuse for dickish behaviour. I.e. "I'm just wired to do X" does not mean that you can get away with doing X if X is wrong. In fact, even if any kind of determinsim is true, it does not excuse dickish behaviour.
Written English is more beautiful and more accurate than spoken English.
Infanticide can be morally permissible.
Birds are scarier than sharks.
Biological/evolutionary determinism is never an excuse for dickish behaviour. I.e. "I'm just wired to do X" does not mean that you can get away with doing X if X is wrong. In fact, even if any kind of determinsim is true, it does not excuse dickish behaviour.
Written English is more beautiful and more accurate than spoken English.
Really? the only alternative was ground invasion?harmonic said:
Japan was willing to surrender in May on the condition that the Allies would not touch Emperor Hirohito or the Japanese constitution. Truman and Roosevelt were dead set on unconditional surrender, which in the end amounted to the speech were he rejected the godhood of the emperor.
America destroyed two cities full of civilians and caused several of the greatest scientific minds of the time to suicide so they could get a man to make a speech.
That Venetian Snares is bloody awesome. Most of my friends either hate it and/or deny it's even music.
How is this an opinion? It's just plain wrong. Get your facts right. Sure, we're coming out of an ice age but we have seriously fucked over our planet like nothing else in history. Look it up. I think Al Gore has a really good presentation on it, if I remember right.ThisIsSnake said:
This one is particulary unpopular:
Call of Duty is FUN!
Yes, sometimes it can be bad (MW2 storyline, you haven't been forgotten), but there's so much that is good that gets thrown out the window and forgotten about as soon as you mention CoD.
I don't get the hate for the series (although Jimquisition did quite correctly state that on the Internet, popular = shit), it's a good way to waste away a few hours with either the story mode (once-through play-through usually though), some multiplayer and sometimes Zombies.
Go ahead, raise your flaming swords and hack'n'slash away.
Call of Duty is FUN!
Yes, sometimes it can be bad (MW2 storyline, you haven't been forgotten), but there's so much that is good that gets thrown out the window and forgotten about as soon as you mention CoD.
I don't get the hate for the series (although Jimquisition did quite correctly state that on the Internet, popular = shit), it's a good way to waste away a few hours with either the story mode (once-through play-through usually though), some multiplayer and sometimes Zombies.
Go ahead, raise your flaming swords and hack'n'slash away.
While I respect your opinion, I personally believe that it was the Soviet invasion of Manchuria that really led to the Japanese surrendering. The U.S was ready to nuke even more cities, simply because Hirohito had adamantly said that the Japanese would NOT surrender, even under threat of more of those bombs.harmonic said:
And the problem with the nuking is that it literally made cities vanish. And the after effects of the bombings shook the foundations of Japanese society for decades afterwards.
I've never quite gotten why abortion is considered less controversial than euthanasia, based on the number of countries where the first is legal but the latter isn't. While I'm in favor of the freedom for both, I do find abortion a harder one to defend, and I have more sympathy for it's opponents. Without the intervention of the abortion, the fetus would most likely turn into a living being. I think it's still a pretty big decision to take for a future-being without any input. Euthanasia on the other hand is a choice about life by the owner of said life. While there are next of kin to be considered, the choice to live or die should ultimately be your own. Oh, and I lose every ounce of sympathy for opponents of euthanasia who are simultaniously in favor of the death penalty. So a fallible judge and/or jury is allowed to decide if a life is void, but the person himself is not? Screw that.
Every country should institute population control measures.
Governments should all be democratic socialists - with a ratio of 300:1 with pays between CEOs and execs and workers the government should cap salaries and see it all shared around.
Governments should control more industries with government institutions/firms/organisations.
Every country needs a carbon tax ASAP.
Tobacco should be outright banned - Australia gains roughly $1.2b in revenue from sales per year but then ends up forking out $5b in health care per year.
Mining companies should have their super profits tax - they're windfall gains.
These are a few political views i hold which aren't popular in some circles.
Oh and i agree with the person above me, USA should just ban all fire arms.
Governments should all be democratic socialists - with a ratio of 300:1 with pays between CEOs and execs and workers the government should cap salaries and see it all shared around.
Governments should control more industries with government institutions/firms/organisations.
Every country needs a carbon tax ASAP.
Tobacco should be outright banned - Australia gains roughly $1.2b in revenue from sales per year but then ends up forking out $5b in health care per year.
Mining companies should have their super profits tax - they're windfall gains.
These are a few political views i hold which aren't popular in some circles.
Oh and i agree with the person above me, USA should just ban all fire arms.
I don't think the new Silent Hill games are bad. I mean, Homecoming was OK; and Origins 'n' Shattered Memories weren't that bad. And I really enoyed ORPHAN. I think people just can't put the past behind them.
I personally thought Bioshock had pretty terrible writing, and not just near the end. I can appreciate the ambitiousness of what it was trying to do, but it just didn't do it well. In particular, I'm not certain whether they just didn't do the research or if all the extremely non-objectivist things Andrew Ryan does was some sort of statement about how Objectivism is impossible because people will always be too corrupt to stay true to those ideals, but if that's the case, it wasn't made as clear as it should have been.
I don't think everyone should have the automatic right to vote in this country, or anywhere for that matter. The fact that uninformed retards can still vote is the cause that elections around the world basically devolve into some American Idol-like travesty.
Mass Effect 2 was horrible and the first one was mediocre at best. On the subject of Bioware, Dragon Age 2 was fucking awful too exept for the combat.
Almost all heavy metal is boring, plain and unimaginative. Also, Pendulum and Avenged Sevenfold are two of the worst bands out there.
George Carlin is not funny. Though I still have major respect for the guy as he shares most of my views.
I'm a liberal leftist atheist which seems to be a sight seldom seen where I live.
Lady GaGa deserves respect, she's like a new David Bowie of pop. Or atleast she used to be.
Almost all heavy metal is boring, plain and unimaginative. Also, Pendulum and Avenged Sevenfold are two of the worst bands out there.
George Carlin is not funny. Though I still have major respect for the guy as he shares most of my views.
I'm a liberal leftist atheist which seems to be a sight seldom seen where I live.
Lady GaGa deserves respect, she's like a new David Bowie of pop. Or atleast she used to be.