Unpopular Opinions

[Gypsybob]

People should STFU about companies just being money-grabbers. Companies exist to make money, it is their function. A company is not a service, you are entitled to fuck all from that company. If you are dissatisfied then don't buy the company's products and stop bitching that they owe you more.

Women who go to parties and have drunk sex with someone who is also drunk should also stop trying to say it is rape. Consent for sex is not void when you come to regret it.

People shouldn't whine about taxes, they are ultimately a good thing. Complain about how governments spend tax money, don't complain about the concept of taxation. Taxes pay for roads and railways maintained, they pay for the country's defence, the National Health Service, the Postal service, welfare for the elderly, disabled and poor.

I believe all welfare (except pensions and national health) should be means tested and there should be more benefits given to people who do hard working weeks but still struggle to pay bills. Not a very unpopular opinion, but an opinion which is not often voiced for unknown reasons.

I like bands such as Green Day, get over it.

I have no problem with homosexuals and homosexuality but I DO have a problem with camp people. Honestly, it is annoying, weird and probably a big reason that homophobia exists.

 

[Meight08]

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Rape is never someone's fault but the rapists.
I honestly can't believe some people think like this. And nobody ever says anything.

I know this is `unpopular opinions`, but your opinion is provably wrong. If there were no rapists, there would be no rape. It's not a force of nature. It's not something that `just happens`.

Our community is such a shiny happy place to be. I want to be sick.

Rape is always the rapist fault.
Making yourself an appealing target is your own.
What i mean is making yourself a target is your own fault.
the rapist is always bad and is always a scumbag but if you made yourself the target for the rapist by doing allot of stupid stupid stuff Then that is your own fault.
Who is a bigger target for a rapist?
1:A Drunk or sober girl wearing good jeans a shirt and a coat. walking home with a sober friend
2:A Drunk shitfaced girl wearing clothes that would make a stripper blush walking to home alone.
Seriously who is the bigger target.

If someone tried to rape 1 she has friends to fight back and is sober enough to call for help.
If someone tried to rape 2 she is helpless and cant do anything because she is alone and too shitfaced.

You see what im getting at?

 

[Phasmal]

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Raping someone is a choice. It is 100% the rapist's fault.
End of.

Guys like you are the reason rape victims don't come forward very often, and when they do they are blamed.
Victim blaming is not cool.

Instead of telling people what to do to not be raped, we should be telling people not to rape

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I think we shouldn't be giving Indians (Native Americans) ANY special treatment at all, we conquered them, we took their land, the fuck are we giving them special treatment (I live in Canada) they should just be treated like everybody else.


EDIT: I also think people like that guy who did the stuff in Norway should be put to death but tortured first so they can feel the pain of all the people they killed.

 

[Agent Larkin]

I firmly believe Ireland should never have become a fully independent nation. We cocked up and took Independence too early and wound up with a nation who's politics became determined by sides taken in a civil war while being corrupted by the influence of more malicious elements of the Catholic Church.

At most we should have had Home Rule and become a dominion. At most.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

It's a Woman's own fault EDIT: IF SHE MAKES HERSELF THE TARGET DELIBERATELY if she dresses like a hooker,shows more flesh then a slaughtered pig ,and gets drunk without planning a safe way to get home or friends to bring her home and gets raped on the way home. I have difficulty sympathizing with her.
RAPE IS STILL BAD.

Except that rape is more about power and humiliation than sex, and it's a myth that most rapists are strangers. Many rape victims are actually known to their rapists, whether it be family, friends, colleagues, etc.

I DO have a problem with camp people. Honestly, it is annoying, weird and probably a big reason that homophobia exists.

I think it depends. If it's someone like Louis Spence, who does put it on (he seems to compulsively dance unprompted, and I remember when he was on an episode of 8 out of 10 Cats or some other panel show, where he was literally dryhumping some guy), then yes, it's annoying.

But if it's someone like Dale Winton, who just happens to be camp and doesn't seemingly go out of his way to make that clear, then it's fine. Campness isn't a big reason of why homophobia exists (it's the homophobes themselves; clue's kinda in the name), and not all camp people are necessarily homosexual (e.g. Simon Cowell). That's just a stereotype. That's like saying gangsters are a big reason that racism against black people exists.

I don't necessarily like people who are overtly masculine or feminine, regardless of gender. It can feel like they're trying too hard. For example, your typical buff jock dudebro that brags about how many women he nailed last night, or your typical materialistic, make up-laden ditz wearing everything pink who can't stop talking about Cheryl Cole.

 

[Nikolaz72]

I dont hate Christainity. But neither do I hate Islam, Shinto, Judaism Buhdism, Hunduism and that sorta thing. . . I dont really actively hate any religion, I sometimes hate some of the people who follow said religions, but the religions are an ideal (If you are 'really' kind. I dont think its worth being called that in the end as it cant really be used politically to achieve success even theoretically) And I dont go around hating on Capitalism for the same reason. I can disagree with it, I can even hate capitalists. But I cant hate capitalism. Its pointless to do so as capitalism doesnt have feelings and as such it will neither insult nor help anyone (With the exception of those following the ideology maybe). And it will only serve to breed more hate.

Again, those who hate all religion are probably more worthy of being deemed Anti-Theists. The opposite of those spreading religion, they want to destroy religion. As such it is merely logical to hate it. I want to see religion gone aswell, however I think it is merely something that will come on its own as people get smarter. It is not something we should actively condemn, people have never succesfully been forced to adobt another ideology and or sexuality. So I find it utter pointless.

And no.. Im not trying to be cool and edgy by being an atheist. I simply dont believe in a religion. I honestly cant be bothered to, I dont see much reason to either. As such I ended up as an atheist by default. I started out without a religion and have yet to have anyone tell me why I should get one... Apart from some lunatics on the street but when the guy tried to force a book down my throat and insulted me when I left I merely took it and tossed it into a barrel-fire in a nearby alley. With him watching. No im not an anti-theist. But those guys seriously need to be reprimanded, blocking traffic and shit to push your ideals on others... Its not like I stand infront of the doors to a bus-stop holding a sign saying (GOD DOESNT EXIST!) So why should they have a sign saying (GOD HATES NONBELIEVERS!)

And yea, you read right. I didnt convert to Atheism, my parents were Christian but never took me to a church. I was taught religion in school but we started from Greek Mythology and worked out way up through Norse and then Christianity before going to other major religions of the world. I simply figured out that there was so many idea's of why we were here, they must obviously 'all' be wrong. In the end though if I had to choose it would either be Shinto or Roman Polytheism. Religions that mix stuff to be more politically correct is less likely to get anyone killed.

I don't understand your point. My comment wasn't directed at all people that don't believe in a god or higher power just the vocal ones that roll their eyes and scoff loudly every time someone talks about god, or takes to the internet with a fire in their belly to mock someones religion. My good brother for example. But you don't sound like such a person. I have no problem in people that believe in nothing, just when they do it with a vitriolic fervor that makes them more annoying then the Jehovahs witnesses.

Sorry. It seemed to me you were greatful to a guy who said that Atheists on a forum were the scourge of the internet. I've been called many things but scourge is like my least favourite thing to be called.

 

[The Crazy Legs]

*Puts up flame-shield, flame-proof armor, and gets into a flame-proof bunker* Oh, boy. Here we go.

I don't necessarily think that Hitler was as evil as people make him out to be. (Ooh, genocide! Genocide! He's not the first person in the world to do it, but this guy sure is evil because he is doing it!)

I believe that public executions would make the world a happier place.

People who can't spell or use punctuation should be rounded up and tortured with sleep deprivation until they learn to write like human beings. ... Twitter is an exception, for obvious reasons.

I think that the "Illuminati" ruling everything just makes way too much sense to be invalid.

I hate Mass Effect.

Youtube commenters (those really dumb ones that we all give a thumbs-down on their comments for) deserve to be rounded up and forcefully integrated into the Amish culture, so we never have to deal with them again.

 

[Phasmal]

Oh so all men are sexual predators that need to be kept on a leash to stop them from raping woman?
Fuck off.
I hate woman like you who treat men as serial rapists waiting to happen 'better start learning them to not rape woman they don't know better.'

Is that what I said? No. No it's not. Don't try and put words in my mouth. I didn't say `men` at all during any of my posts. Nor did I suggest normal men would do such a thing. I don't think that at all. Stop trying to deflect by making shit up.

My post was about victim blaming being wrong.

If someone rapes someone, they are a rapist, and it is their fault.
No matter what their victim did or what their fucking gender.*

EDIT: Changed it to SOMEONE to make things PERFECTLY CLEAR.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

People who can't spell or use punctuation should be rounded up and tortured with sleep deprivation until they learn to write like human beings.

What about dyslexics? It's not their fault.

 

[Knusper]

Quite a few:

- Eventually legalise all drugs
- Ban faith schools
- Make a United States of Europe
- Religious marriages should not legally count
- Elected House of Lords
- Have a codified constitution
- Abolish the monarchy
- Tax breaks for the rich are a stupid idea
- All religions that I can think of are dangerous. Some more than others.
- Immediately withdraw from Afghanistan
- Share oil reserves in Falklands with Argentina
- Seek to have the UN place sanctions Israel for the international crimes it is committing.
- Let prisoners have the vote. In fact, make a prison sentence only applicable for criminals who are actually a danger to society. Let the rest work to give back to society and understand what it means to be a citizen and its benefits.
- Private healthcare should be abolished

 

[TheTrojanBadger]

Capitalism is the best economic system for the modern world.

Marxism and all of its derivatives will never work in the real world, they are too ripe for corruption and give workers no incentives.

Abortion is tantamount to the killing of babies.

Zimmerman should not be charged.

The Modern Warfare franchise is successful due to its tight game play, and happens to be one of my favorite game series.

Minecraft is overall a mediocre game.

*edit* thought of more

Christianity and the philosophies it entails are a legitimate way to live your life.

People blame way to much on straw men "corporations"

I believe in the death penalty

Israel has a right to defend itself from and respond to Islamic radicals.

Green energy can not yet provide the required output to replace oil and other fossil fuels.

Global warming is a load of shit.

Government funded healthcare is extremely inefficient and can never be implemented in a way that will provide better service than a private market.

 

[oneeyemug]

Summer vacation is an outdated concept and should be replaced with the year-round system that schools in other countries have.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Joss Whedon is one of the WORST writers the world has ever seen, and Nathan Fillion isn't all that great.

When someone tells me that they are any sort of theist, I immediately decide that they are a moron.

People who only get tattoos that "mean something to them" are the most boring and pretentious people on the fucking planet. Why do I have a 2-headed bald eagle tattooed on me? Because it's a motherfucking 2-headed goddamned bald eagle, that's why. That trumps your child's birthday, the portrait of your grandmother, your dead dog's paw prints, random game iconography, or your favorite "insert stupid shit here". Grow a pair. Do something cool, or don't do anything at all.

Racial stereotypes are fucking hilarious.

Make-up makes girls look like whores, no matter how much or how little. That shit is nasty.

The LGBTQQZMNDKSJNFH community needs to stop adding letters. As a matter of fact, they need to remove all of them and quit segregating themselves. Everyone should just realize that everybody is a little bit straight, a little bit gay, sometimes feminine, sometimes masculine, and that these balances are a little different in everyone. We are all just people, and the fact that your brain is telling you that you "belong" in some categorized box is fucking stupid.

Scott Pilgrim sucks.

Your taste in music is incredibly shitty.

Star Wars is boring, Chewbacca is a miserable character that adds nothing to the story, and I don't understand how people can overlook the plot holes and inconsistencies.

Cannibal Holocaust is the greatest film ever made.

It is, in fact, possible to survive without Facebook.

 

[Luca72]

I think medical marijuana is waste of time, and marijuana should be sold, taxed, and regulated like alcohol. That opinion seems to be accepted by about half the country.

But I also think all drugs should be legalized. Yep - morphine, amphetamines, you name it. Studies have shown that current policy doesn't reduce the tendency of people to get addicted to them, and that the major health problems people have as a result is because they're getting low-quality chemicals off the street.

Woo Another crazy person like me, I agree legalize all the drugs. No matter what we do its going to happen they are going to do the drugs. Right now its illegal to be drunk in public or while driving or to harm anyone else while you are drunk, why not make it the same for all those other drugs... especially when very few or harsher than alcohol to begin with. http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/28 There are links on that site to studies and other great information about everything they don't stiff out on Heroin, nutmeg, Datura, being the three deadliest drugs .

I also think that Mentally handicapped (to the point that they can't learn to behave in modern society at a functioning and productive level), should not be cared for and pampered on the tax payers dollar, either their parents do it or at 18 they are done getting care just like every other child.

I have other thoughts that people find unpopular but I don't want to piss off everyone right now.

Wow, interesting link. I know nicotine is addictive, but didn't think it surpassed all the others. Here's another interesting number - the total deaths caused by hard rugs (that means deaths caused by ALL illegal drugs combined) comes in annually at about 14-15k. Compare that with alcohol poisoning - 35k die from cirrhosis of the liver due to alcohol poisoning, and 40k die from car crashes due to drunk driving. And don't cigarettes come in at something like 350-400k every year? The F?
Again, not saying that people should do hard drugs. I'm not even really trying to defend the right of people to do them. I'm just looking at numbers. Spending the amount of money we spend on the "drug war" is almost the definition of insanity. I've known too many people who got sent to JAIL because of marijuana, and came out with much worse habits than they had going in.

 

[Chunga the Great]

*ahem* born and raised in California and still live there. It is the proper spelling of the words. My mum got on my case about it the other day when she looked at the recipes that she had me type up for her. Because Microsoft Word told her it was wrong and I told her that Word was wrong. I got told that a lot in high school too.

Doesn't matter. Anyone who spells those words like that is a Brit, regardless of where they were born .

Welcome to the family.

Fish and Chips......
So fucking delicious with ranch dressing........

 

[DYin01]

Okaaay, after seeing a few pages of this tumblr, here's an unpopular opinion:

all other languages should envy German for the existance of the word fremdschämen. (holy fuck)

Isn't there an English word for it? There's a Dutch phrase for it..

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

Anime and rabid anime fans annoy me.

Oh, and dumbass bronies do too.

 

[Severin90]

Probably not so valid here but i give it a go:
Whats the friggin deal with hugs nowaday. What happend to a solid handshake? Appereantly it has become a custom to give eachother a hug when you meet or leave, even though they are not even close friends. I value my hugs pretty high, I use it as real deep affection for people and i feel like im whoring out everytime someone i know and their mother tries to hug me.
Silly i know but i always get to sound like a heartless prick everytime I bring it up..

 

[Dr. Whorrible]

I think that universal healthcare is a good idea.
I think that the price of college in the U.S is too high.
I believe that all first world countrys should bring in a 1-child law and stop all child allowance, untill a small and self sustaining population has been achieved in those countrys.

The first 2 are not unpopular opinions, when thinking globally, the last one however...

As Inhumane as that last one sounds, It would actually bring our planet's population to a manageable size (if you applied the 1 child law to every country, not just the first world ones.) At this moment, however, things are getting a bit overcrowded.

There are several benefits to a lower population size: More food to go around, reducing the amount of pollution added to our air (and, thus, slowing down Global Warming), and, quite possibly, more jobs to go around, just to name a few.

There are some downsides to it, as well, but in my opinion, they are greatly outweighed by the benefits.

I would have to disagree. Not because the idea of a one child policy is inhumane (though it can be handled inhumanly), but because a world-wide measure is not needed and, in some cases, would be hurtful. I agree the over population is a problem, but only in certain places in the world (South East Asia, India, and Africa) where the birth rate far exceeds the death rate. This can result in lack of food and jobs like you mentioned and I would totally be in favor of a one-child policy for these regions.

However, regions like Europe, which are experiencing population decay, already have to use guest worker programs to make up for the depleted job market and pronatalist policies to increase the birth rate. Adding a one-child policy to these regions would simply not make sense. Adding a one child policy to a country, like the US, which is experiencing a relatively slow growth, would cause them to suffer the same problems as Europe.

OT:
I like Fallout 3 more than NV and KOTOR 1 more than KOTOR 2

I thought E.T. kind of sucked, even when I was a kid

I think the Red Hot Chile Peppers are overrated

I liked Digimon more than Pokemon (the first couple of seasons anyways)