Unpopular Opinions

[MysticToast]

Oh snap, I just remembered another one. A lot of people are gonna get mad after I say this.
Ahem...I think dubstep sucks.

Now would this be wubwubwub electro house fake-"dubstep"?
Or real dubstep which uses 2-step drum rhythms?

Because if it's the latter, we have a problem
Anyway this is precisely the reason I hate the misconceptions that have risen around the term "dubstep".

Anything remotely close to Skrillex, Deadmau5, and Blackleg is what I hate. I listened to dubstep, I disliked it, but what got me to hate it was when I'm listening to my Nightcore/Trance albums and someone says "Hurr durr, I like dubstep too." It happened on several occasions.

Skrillex and Deadmau5 are not dubstep.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Hitler and his boys would've LOVED the 300.

First of all, in reality there was a lot more than 300 Spartans, and secondly, Hitler and his party would have despised them--they are Greek. Greek is not German. The Nazi's didn't give a fuck about your skin colour or how great of a warrior you are. They saw every single race on Earth as inferior and in need of extermination so the German people could take over.

If you want it spelled out then he is saying they would have loved the idea of it.

He would have loved the idea of an (in his eyes) inferior race fighting another (in his eyes) inferior race? I don't think you understand what the Nazi Party and Hitler were trying to do.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

That's just pathetic, really fucking low.

you're astoundingly immature and incapable of arguing without falling back on personal insults

I bet your harsh and unfulfilled life has made you incredibly wise though.

The irony is strong in that post.

My intention was to insult, not argue. Well done on picking up on what was said, your analytical skills truly are something to marvel.

 

[Spectral Dragon]

You don't really have the right to opinion, you have the privilige. I think we should all just be entitled to an INFORMED opinion.

Let's see... What else?

Atheist, though that's fairly common just around here. Mainly antitheist too.

Semi-vegetarian, and I'm for lab-grown meat, as long as nothing gets hurt, so we can scale down agriculture and overfishing. Yeah, hypocritical, I know.

Socialist, since that seems to be most effective in ensuring as many people as happy as possible.

Anti-drugs which includes alcohol in my opinion, it should be banned, but I'm grumbling since that doesn't seem to be an option due to black markets. I'll just be very anti-alcohol culture.

No islam isn't more anti-women than most major religions, but it's depicted as such due to the few wackoes that make any noise.

We might feel overpopulated, but it's actually sustainable if we're sensible. We're not though.

I'm pro-choice, and the only way to be pro-life is to be pro-choice. Otherwise you're merely anti-choice.

I don't mind anyone's sexuality - as long as no one who doesn't want to be gets hurt, it's all fine with me.

We're all idiots. Including me.

I think that's it for now. Oh, I don't like most sports either, but like electronica music, and don't like pop-tarts.

And physics is cool. Just fuckin' awesome.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Oh snap, I just remembered another one. A lot of people are gonna get mad after I say this.
Ahem...I think dubstep sucks.

Now would this be wubwubwub electro house fake-"dubstep"?
Or real dubstep which uses 2-step drum rhythms?

Because if it's the latter, we have a problem
Anyway this is precisely the reason I hate the misconceptions that have risen around the term "dubstep".

Anything remotely close to Skrillex, Deadmau5, and Blackleg is what I hate. I listened to dubstep, I disliked it, but what got me to hate it was when I'm listening to my Nightcore/Trance albums and someone says "Hurr durr, I like dubstep too." It happened on several occasions.

Skrillex and Deadmau5 are not dubstep.

Someone called their band (and I use the term ever so loosely) "Deadmau5"? Oh man, that sums up the quality of the artistic vision right there, lol.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

They would'nt have given

Hitler and his boys would've LOVED the 300.

First of all, in reality there was a lot more than 300 Spartans, and secondly, Hitler and his party would have despised them--they are Greek. Greek is not German. The Nazi's didn't give a fuck about your skin colour or how great of a warrior you are. They saw every single race on Earth as inferior and in need of extermination so the German people could take over.

That wouldn't matter in the context. If the 300 came out as a film in Nazi Germany, Hitler would've adored it. Would've deemed it required viewing. Any film that portrays one entire race of people as monsters and promotes giving your life against them as-I don't even know why I'm arguing this! THIS JUST PROVES THIS IS AN UNPOPULAR OPINION! FUCK!
*Ahem*
You're entitled to whatever you wanna bloody think, but I still stand firm on this. You ever wanna provoke a nation into intense patriotic rage and hatred of another race, pen something like the 300 that's written bloody well and find some way to stick it into the hearts of the men and women of your nation. Then you'll have a country full of "patriots" waiting to give their lives for you against the supposedly common threat.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

That's just pathetic, really fucking low.

you're astoundingly immature and incapable of arguing without falling back on personal insults

I bet your harsh and unfulfilled life has made you incredibly wise though.

The irony is strong in that post.

My intention was to insult, not argue. Well done on picking up on what was said, your analytical skills truly are something to marvel.

But wouldn't that mean, in your own mind and with your own logic, you are "immature," "pathetic" and "childish"? If you are one for logical consistency, that is. I think that's a bit harsh. I might disagree with you, but calling yourself any of the above is a tad extreme.

 

[Rowan93]

I don't just disapprove of religious people, I think Deists are silly too. Also, agnostics are really annoying.

No belief deserves any respect, except perhaps the respect it earns. Respect can be earned by being right.

I see you fail to mention atheists, the ones who think that they are the only ones with higher cognitive functions. Agnostic at least acknowledges that NO ONE has any proof whatsoever of anything, so we should all shut up about it.

Well, obviously I didn't mention atheists, because the atheists are right. That's my point. Religious people are wrong, deists are wrong, agnostics are in a funny ying-yang state of rightwrong which makes them annoying, and all of that is because atheistm is correct.

The belief in a creator god violates occam's razor, and when you get right down to it, is just patently silly.

Well, actually, being silly is just another way of saying something violates occam's razor, but I think it carries more weight, and gets the point across better for what "violates occam's razor" actually means. The idea of god is silly, and agnostics consider the belief in a creator god to be worth considering, but not worth trying to analyse, or even decide whether they think one exists or not, which makes them in many ways worse than ordinary theists.

I don't understand your point about agnosticism. Agnosticism is saying that you don't know if there is a God or not, because there is no proof either way. It's not a belief, in fact I'd call it the most rational of the bunch. We don't say that it's not worth trying to analyse the belief (I say we, but I can obviously only talk for myself, sorry other agnostics!), we just think that it is impossible to prove that God does/doesn't exist.

Agnostics believe the idea of God is worth considering because, well, the nature of our universe is something that is worth considering, surely?

Think about it, if God doesn't obey the laws of our universe, then we cannot disprove em using said laws, because God is above those laws.

ALSO: I'm agnostic, but I still don't worship any Gods, mainly because I don't think we should worship a dictator

We can't prove whether a god exists or not, but there are a lot of things we can't "prove" to similarly stringent criteria. I'm about as sure that god exists as I'm sure that Belgium is a real place. I've never been to Belgium and I don't know anyone who has.

Okay, no, bad example because of the evidence thing. I'm about as sure god doesn't exist as I'm sure that Oz, as in "The Wizard Of Oz", isn't a real place. I can't prove it, but if someone says they believe Oz is a real place, or says that they don't know whether or not Oz is a real place and that we can't know for sure, my opinion of them drops quite a bit. That's what theism is like to me.

God might be able to ignore the laws of physics, but that makes the god hypothesis significantly less worthy, because it means it violates occam's razor more. The god hypothesis is an idea in people's heads and is bound to the rules of logic like all the other ideas a human might come up with and get wrong.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

They would'nt have given

Hitler and his boys would've LOVED the 300.

First of all, in reality there was a lot more than 300 Spartans, and secondly, Hitler and his party would have despised them--they are Greek. Greek is not German. The Nazi's didn't give a fuck about your skin colour or how great of a warrior you are. They saw every single race on Earth as inferior and in need of extermination so the German people could take over.

That wouldn't matter in the context. If the 300 came out as a film in Nazi Germany, Hitler would've adored it. Would've deemed it required viewing. Any film that portrays one entire race of people as monsters and promotes giving your life against them as-I don't even know why I'm arguing this! THIS JUST PROVES THIS IS AN UNPOPULAR OPINION! FUCK!
*Ahem*
You're entitled to whatever you wanna bloody think, but I still stand firm on this. You ever wanna provoke a nation into intense patriotic rage and hatred of another race, pen something like the 300 that's written bloody well and find some way to stick it into the hearts of the men and women of your nation. Then you'll have a country full of "patriots" waiting to give their lives for you against the supposedly common threat.

Calm down, there. No need to caps lock and rage. As I was saying: Hitler wasn't too down with the idea of any race but German being portrayed as anything more than weak, inferior and worthless.

 

[Rowan93]

*snipped*

I never said a God made the universe, I just said it is unlikely that the universe just is. Plus if there is some sort of deity, it doesn't necessarily have to be all powerful/knowing/seeing.

Well, the latter implies the former. Or at least, it implies "a God probably made the universe".
Which I'm saying is wrong, because it's backwards, and it's more likely that the universe "just is" than that any physics-defying creator god exists.

Yeah, omniscience/omnipotence is just a bonus impossibility. It makes what's unlikely to begin with even worse.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

They would'nt have given

Hitler and his boys would've LOVED the 300.

First of all, in reality there was a lot more than 300 Spartans, and secondly, Hitler and his party would have despised them--they are Greek. Greek is not German. The Nazi's didn't give a fuck about your skin colour or how great of a warrior you are. They saw every single race on Earth as inferior and in need of extermination so the German people could take over.

That wouldn't matter in the context. If the 300 came out as a film in Nazi Germany, Hitler would've adored it. Would've deemed it required viewing. Any film that portrays one entire race of people as monsters and promotes giving your life against them as-I don't even know why I'm arguing this! THIS JUST PROVES THIS IS AN UNPOPULAR OPINION! FUCK!
*Ahem*
You're entitled to whatever you wanna bloody think, but I still stand firm on this. You ever wanna provoke a nation into intense patriotic rage and hatred of another race, pen something like the 300 that's written bloody well and find some way to stick it into the hearts of the men and women of your nation. Then you'll have a country full of "patriots" waiting to give their lives for you against the supposedly common threat.

Calm down, there. No need to caps lock and rage. As I was saying: Hitler wasn't too down with the idea of any race but German being portrayed as anything more than weak, inferior and worthless.

I never denied that. But I think it hardly matters with a film where the Greeks are portrayed by Anglo-saxons.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

But wouldn't that mean, in your own mind and with your own logic, you are "immature," "pathetic" and "childish"? If you are one for logical consistency, that is. I think that's a bit harsh. I might disagree with you, but calling yourself any of the above is a tad extreme.

We weren't arguing, I was just outright insulting you. If we were arguing and I fell back on insults then those three terms would apply but I didn't. That isn't to say I'm not those three, just that this case doesn't force them to apply. Don't try and make sense of how I think, though, it's rarely based on logic. My apologies for insulting you though, I just thought that the meme post was too far.

 

[JCBFGD]

I think children with severe mental deficiencies (to the point where they aren't conscious of who they are or where they are etc) should either be killed or have all medical care cut off from them.

They don't do anything and cost the government thousands before they die. That money could go to a better cause.

I agree with this. I'd wanna be dead if I was in that state. I'm assuming this doesn't cover people with even severe autism, though? My brother's got autism fairly bad, but he certainly seems to enjoy his life. I don't think killing him would be the right thing to do.

Lessee here...I think all drugs should be legalised and taxed at LOLWUT amounts, religion should slowly and voluntarily be expunged from society, private schools should be illegal, the World Food Program should be shut down, the entire world should (voluntarily and peacefully, of course) be Westernised, all of Africa except for Egypt, Libya, South Africa, and Liberia should be quarantined due to the large amount of disease on that continent, violent/sexual prisoners should be either tortured or experimented upon, American Republicans are fascist, women and blacks are completely equal in today's Western world, children's names should be picked from a government-approved list...I think that about covers it.

I'm also in a dilemma with a budding opinion of mine. I've been thinking about whether or not people with severe, life-ruining diseases should be allowed to breed. On the one hand, good for humanity, on the other hand, horridly oppressive.
By severe, I'm talking about diseases like Marfan's Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Lupus, AIDS, debilitating Panic Disorder, etc. I'm not a fan of eugenics, but it could end a lot of suffering.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

*snipped*

I never said a God made the universe, I just said it is unlikely that the universe just is. Plus if there is some sort of deity, it doesn't necessarily have to be all powerful/knowing/seeing.

Well, the latter implies the former. Or at least, it implies "a God probably made the universe".
Which I'm saying is wrong, because it's backwards, and it's more likely that the universe "just is" than that any physics-defying creator god exists.

Yeah, omniscience/omnipotence is just a bonus impossibility. It makes what's unlikely to begin with even worse.

When you think about it, isn't the likelihood of a species being so advanced as to have the technology to see the future and overcome death, pretty damn likely? I'm not religious (at all) but, given how old the universe is and how many planets are out there, it's kinda likely at least one of them has evolved and progressed past the point of human limitations, yeah?

 

[AnarchistFish]

Oh snap, I just remembered another one. A lot of people are gonna get mad after I say this.
Ahem...I think dubstep sucks.

Now would this be wubwubwub electro house fake-"dubstep"?
Or real dubstep which uses 2-step drum rhythms?

Because if it's the latter, we have a problem
Anyway this is precisely the reason I hate the misconceptions that have risen around the term "dubstep".

Anything remotely close to Skrillex, Deadmau5, and Blackleg is what I hate. I listened to dubstep, I disliked it, but what got me to hate it was when I'm listening to my Nightcore/Trance albums and someone says "Hurr durr, I like dubstep too." It happened on several occasions.

Yeah the only one of those that sounds vaguely like dubstep is Blackleg :3

 

[Vegosiux]

When you think about it, isn't the likelihood of a species being so advanced as to have the technology to see the future and overcome death, pretty damn likely?

Maybe, but I'd argue "why would they do that?"

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

everyone is entitled to healthcare and that's where my original statement comes from.

Healthcare is funded from taxes. Your argument is people who are currently in a vegetive state (not a word, but w/e, work with me here, lol) are not paying tax and are therefor not entitled to healthcare. Thus, anyone not paying taxes should also not be covered, as they "haven't paid for it."

Boy, I sure hope you work hard enough to cover any healthcare you might use in the future and pay a lotta tax. A shame the unemployed, underaged and retired can't pay tax. Ah well, fuck 'em right?

This just in: wanna live in a community? You do shit like help each other by paying taxes. Don't like that? I suggest finding a nice forest and setting up tent.

 

[dvd_72]

Let's see.... Perhaps not too unpopular, but births should be limited to one per parent, or per person. As things are in the first world, population would likely drop some, but that can be compensated for with immigration. Until a point where the worlds population stabilises and perhaps even begins to drop off. Then the restrictions should be lifted again.

Someone who doesn't respect human life does not deserve their own. This is more to do with the reasons behind a killing than the act of killing itself. A man who kills a threat to his family is alright, but a man who kills for pleasure, the thrill, sport, or out of dislike (off the top of my head) should be put down.

Polygamy isn't inherently wrong. It's a lifestyle choice made by some and it works great for the people who knowingly take part in it, and even some of those who don't! You know how some peoples relationships are fine even while one or both partners cheat on each other, and then falls apart only after one or the other finds out about said infidelity? Yea, that's polygamy in a sense. Just not exactly "willing".

Just because I do physics does not automatically make me extremely clever. Every single time I mention what I do to people who don't do a science their opinion of me instantly shifts to a normal person to a really smart one.

Generalisations are fine, useful even! As long as you keep in mind that individuals rarely conform to those. It's hard to explain, but the shape of the thought just makes sense to me.

And that's all I could come up with for now.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

When you think about it, isn't the likelihood of a species being so advanced as to have the technology to see the future and overcome death, pretty damn likely?

Maybe, but I'd argue "why would they do that?"

Do what? See the future and overcome death? Because it's fucking awesome, duh!

But seriously: why would they not? Give an entire race with the technology and ability to become godlike the opportunity to do so and at least a few peeps are gonna jump on board.

 

[Eddie the head]

Hitler and his boys would've LOVED the 300.

First of all, in reality there was a lot more than 300 Spartans, and secondly, Hitler and his party would have despised them--they are Greek. Greek is not German. The Nazi's didn't give a fuck about your skin colour or how great of a warrior you are. They saw every single race on Earth as inferior and in need of extermination so the German people could take over.

If you want it spelled out then he is saying they would have loved the idea of it.

He would have loved the idea of an (in his eyes) inferior race fighting another (in his eyes) inferior race? I don't think you understand what the Nazi Party and Hitler were trying to do.

........ IDEA! of it. Not the literal implication of it.