Unpopular Opinions

[templar1138a]

The fact of the matter is, people have kids for themselves.

You are correct. That said, I still intend to have kids Because a lot of idiots keep giving birth without intending to. I'd like to counter that with kids who will be raised by parents who actually care about the process and have a shred of intelligence. So my reason is one part selfish and one part idealistic. I figure if we're going to go extinct anyway, I may as well get some enjoyment and satisfaction out of my life. Otherwise, I may as well just kill myself because my life won't have any direction.

As for an unpopular opinion I have: I am against affirmative action. I'm white. I'm male. Go ahead, call me racist. Call me sexist.

...Got it out of your system yet? Good.

Now, the reason I'm against affirmative action is this: Entitling someone based on race is racism, and entitling someone based on sex is sexism. This also applies when the previously-oppressed are being entitled. Affirmative action is racist and sexist.

The path to true equality is not more inequality in retribution for past inequalities. That leads to anger from those who aren't entitled, which then leads to more retribution. Instead of a balanced scale, we get a swinging pendulum. The kind from a certain Edgar Allen Poe poem.

No, the only way to bring true equality is to practice true equality. Affirmative action should only be brought in as a final resort if all other factors are equal (which is extremely rare).

 

[Gypsybob]

Got a few more unpopular opinions.

I like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

The star wars prequels were quite good.

I have no quarrel with KFC chips (fries for the benefit of americans and other non-brits who say 'fries')

KISS are the most overrated band in history. (but still not bad, I like some of their songs)

Nutella fucking sucks, hate hazelnut things and none of you are going to tell me that you don't taste the hazelnut because you do and it is horrible.

We should bring back the dunce hat in schools and the cane.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

so you find everything about gayness to be wrong? I dont get that..even if your religion says so it doesnt matter what other people do...it doesn harm me or anyone

Yes - I do.


If you don't believe in Jesus and what the Bible says, it's pretty difficult for me to argue my point.

Anyway, it may not directly hurt me, but God is still against it; therefore, so am I.

I assume you're also against haircuts and never wear clothes with polyester blends.

Do you yell at girls for having "braided hair" because it isn't proper and biblical enough?

And fortune telling, do you refuse to eat/open fortune cookies?

Hopefully you don't wear any pearls or gold(like say a wedding ring) because Timothy asserts how unchristian that is.

There's a lot of non-virgin women around dude, havent you read the bible? "But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you." (Deuteronomy 22: 20-21)

You'd better get out there and throw some rocks at women, unless of course you aren't a good Christian.

except of course you also have to be a pacifist at the same time "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." (Matthew 5:39)

And I hope you don't have tattoos, because the bible explicitly forbids those.

And you've never masturbated, or used a condom, or pulled out during sex, or had sex with a woman on her period I assume?

And while we are on that vein: "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:28) I sure hope you have never looked at a woman and thought she was attractive if she wasn't your wife, because that would make you an adulterer.

Do you have a brother? Because if he dies, the bible says you're supposed to fuck his wife.

Have you ever picketed outside of restaurants that serve oysters, crabs, shrimp, lobster, prawns, clams, pigs, rabbits and told them they are going to hell? I assume you don't eat those things either, right? Because God hates people who eat those.

Oh and if you cut off a child's balls, they are going to hell and may no longer become a Christian. Which makes perfect sense, how dare an infant let itself be overpowered and abused, it deserves to burn in eternal hellfire.

Oh and don't forget female teachers, they are condemned to hell as well, for having authority over men. You should write some letters to your congressmen to get teachers to be exclusively male, lest too many women be sent to hell for their sins.

Oh and while you're at that, be sure to ask them to reform the justice system to cut off the hands of thieves like the bible says.

But of course after you cut off their hand, make sure you give them all your stuff because: "And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also." (Matthew 5:40)

Have you been keeping track of your mother? I certainly hope she has never prayed without wearing a hat or shawl because if so you should fear for her eternal soul. "But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head..." 1 Corinthians 11:5

Oh and don't forget retards or just plain weird people:
"For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God." (Leviticus 21:18-21)

Oh here's another good one: "For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him." (Leviticus 20:9)

I hope you've never cursed your parents. You were never like 11, and said "i hate you mom you're the worst. I wish you would just go away" right? Because if you ever did that... man you should kill yourself. And if your parents didn't kill you they must be pretty big sinners.



Man you know that like 70% of Swedish people are unbelieving atheists/agnostics who reject God?: "If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters."(Leviticus 26:27-30)

1. The book of Acts repeals laws regarding things that are unclean. This is considered part of that. This reference is going to be coming up a lot.

2. That comes from Timothy, a book largely of advice from one preacher to another. It is very cultural and should not be taken as absolute in any way.

3. There's a difference between fortune telling and reading a fortune cookie.

4. Timothy wrote nothing, Paul wrote that book. Once again, a book largely of advice and it is good advice at that. People really should focus more on doing good than worldly goods.

5. A book of law that Christians do not have to follow to the letter as far as punishment is regarded, but rather as far as not doing the bad things that require the punishment.

6. This is therefore not a contradiction.

7. Acts

8. I really take no issue with this one. Despite my own weaknesses in this regard, I don't think of this rule as bad. You have to realize that most Christians don't actually think they can accomplish many of these goals, but rather should always be aiming to do so.

9. That was a very specific biblical story pal, regarding a very specific individual. Looking at the era the story was about, it did make sense though. Infant mortality was high at the time.

10. Acts. MOTHERFUCKING ACTS.

11. New Testament has no problem with Eunuchs.'

12. Timothy, again. You really need an understanding of context.

13. See 5

14. I believe that was part of a metaphor and not to be taken literally. Yes it was part of a metaphor.

15. Acts

16. Ha! See 5. I seriously didn't think I'd end up using that one more than Acts. You proved me wrong.

17. I can't believe you didn't realize he was talking about the Israelites specifically there. God did that a lot. He would often punish his own people especially hard so that they would learn their lesson and because they knew better. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Swedish.

I find the absolute ignorance of context within all of your citations hilarious. Though I don't necessarily agree with the individual you are quoting (the exact NT verse could be specifically referring to male prostitutes), I find myself annoyed by your know-it-all behavior combined with an absolute lack of understanding of context. Try again some other time.

 

[Dr. Whorrible]

The fact of the matter is, people have kids for themselves.

You are correct. That said, I still intend to have kids Because a lot of idiots keep giving birth without intending to. I'd like to counter that with kids who will be raised by parents who actually care about the process and have a shred of intelligence. So my reason is one part selfish and one part idealistic. I figure if we're going to go extinct anyway, I may as well get some enjoyment and satisfaction out of my life. Otherwise, I may as well just kill myself because my life won't have any direction.

As for an unpopular opinion I have: I am against affirmative action. I'm white. I'm male. Go ahead, call me racist. Call me sexist.

...Got it out of your system yet? Good.

Now, the reason I'm against affirmative action is this: Entitling someone based on race is racism, and entitling someone based on sex is sexism. This also applies when the previously-oppressed are being entitled. Affirmative action is racist and sexist.

The path to true equality is not more inequality in retribution for past inequalities. That leads to anger from those who aren't entitled, which then leads to more retribution. Instead of a balanced scale, we get a swinging pendulum. The kind from a certain Edgar Allen Poe poem.

No, the only way to bring true equality is to practice true equality. Affirmative action should only be brought in as a final resort if all other factors are equal (which is extremely rare).

I agree 100%. I understand AA was in response to unfair, racist and sexist business practices, but fighting racism with racism and sexism with sexism just makes the problem worse IMO. AA is just treating the symptoms instead of the disease.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

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Why would a god who is supposedly infallible just change his mind after a while? Why would one thing be against god at one time then not after a while. Surely a perfect god would know what is right and wrong at the start?

In some ways I suppose it isn't mine to ask, but if I had to answer, I would say it is people that changed. Cultures progressed, prisons became a viable option, and it was no longer necessary for God's followers to make themselves seperate as their purpose became an inclusive one. Right and wrong are not as absolute as we in our more western mindset would like it to be. There's a reason the majority of the Bible is stories and advice rather than rules.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

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Why would a god who is supposedly infallible just change his mind after a while? Why would one thing be against god at one time then not after a while. Surely a perfect god would know what is right and wrong at the start?

In some ways I suppose it isn't mine to ask, but if I had to answer, I would say it is people that changed. Cultures progressed, prisons became a viable option, and it was no longer necessary for God's followers to make themselves seperate as their purpose became an inclusive one. Right and wrong are not as absolute as we in our more western mindset would like it to be. There's a reason the majority of the Bible is stories and advice rather than rules.

If you were christian then right and wrong would be absolute.

Right would be what god tells you is right and the same for wrong.

You have no right to tell me what I believe. I believe they are less absolute than we would like to think. For one man it is meaningless to drink, for another damnation. Do the right you know you ought to do. That is my only absolute law. What I ought to do is not the same as what you ought to do. What God would have me do is not the same as He would have you do. If that isn't less absolute than what most would like to think I don't know what is.

 

[Seneschal]

Directly inspired by this same thread:

On the Escapist, I and a friend of mine always check the profile of any posters that post ignorant, bigoted, amoral and reprehensible opinions. Then we laugh haughtily because their nationality is the same 90% of the time. Hint, it's not Canada.

 

[Chunga the Great]

Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas.

Atmosphere in 3 was superior in every way.

*Flameshield... UP!*

Absolutely correct.

OT: I'm not sure if I want to do this, but here it goes:

Mass Effect 1 was absolutely fucking awful.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Children with 'special' needs and disabilities don't need all the respect they deserve.

Resident Evil 5 was actually a good game.

There are way more girls on Xbox Live that just want to show off there tits than real girl gamers who just want to play a damn game

H.P Lovecraft was some sort of god, and the necronomicon really existed.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas.

Atmosphere in 3 was superior in every way.

*Flameshield... UP!*

Absolutely correct.

OT: I'm not sure if I want to do this, but here it goes:

Mass Effect 1 was absolutely fucking awful.

This. Totally. fucking. agreed

 

[A Raging Emo]

We should unify each National Space Program, and then fund that single organisation. Spaaaaace!

Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas.

Bad Company 2 was better than Battlefield 3.

Halo 3 was good, and better than Halo: Reach.

I liked the ME3 Ending.

Morrowind was the best of all Elder Scrolls (And yes, I've played each and every one of them).

Portal was better than Portal 2.

Harry Potter sucks.

Suicide doesn't automatically make one cowardly/pathetic, such as is the stigma.

Edit: Mass Effect 1, both story and gameplay wise, rocked.

 

[eevangoh]

I don't usually reply to these "unpopular opinion threads" since by definion I'm not going to agree with what most people say here but as someone who was diagnosed with Asperger's aged ten, I need to clear up a misconception about the disorder. It's not impossible for Asperger's people to "learn any social skills", yes we find it difficult to read body language and understand what other people are thinking which makes it harder to learn social skills but it's definitely possible to make improvements, even if we'll never reach the standard of your average typical person. Since the beginning of my teenage years up until now, I have painstakingly first learned how not to insult people accidentally or seem weird, then learned how to make basic small talk, all by a conscious effort. Over the last year and a half since I went to university I've managed to make quite a few friends and a lot of this is down to what I learned about socialising in school, even if it was a pain at the time. I therefore disagree with your assessment that Asperger's people aren't benifitted by attending a regular school.

All of the above applies to me and everyone else socially awkward. So either all of us have Asperger's, or neither of us actually has Asperger's. I'm going to go with the latter, because, like I said, this is a diagnosis that gets thrown around way, way more often than it should be. Asperger kids don't "find it difficult to read body signals", they just flat out can't do that, at all. Of course, there's a pretty big chance that I just made a half-assed assumption based on a little post, but ever since Asperger's syndrome's existence got known to the general public, and everyone suddenly "got" it, I take statements like "I have Asperger's" with a grain -- nay, a whole damn bowl -- of salt. Even if it's based on an actual professional diagnosis.

 

[Joshey Woshey]

I think the Scottish have absolutely fuck all to be complaining about. The Scottish nationalist movement is nothing more than thinly veiled Anglophobia. I think we should kick them out of the Union.

A good quote from Scottish writer Shena Mackay

'I want Scotland to be Scottish through and through. I hate to hear English accents in the shops there'

I'll rephrase that.
'I want England to be English through and through. I hate to hear Pakistani accents in the shops there'

Makes me sound like a member of the BNP, don't it?

Oh and self determination is a pointless concept. Most Irish people I have spoken to fully support kicking the unionists out of Northern Ireland and reuniting it with the Republic. Most Argentinians would support retaking the Falklands against the islanders wishes . Self Determination is only used as a reason when it supports you.

 

[Jesse Willadson]

Personally I think marriage of all kinds, gay or straight, need to stop being recognized by any government

 

[JoJo]

I don't usually reply to these "unpopular opinion threads" since by definion I'm not going to agree with what most people say here but as someone who was diagnosed with Asperger's aged ten, I need to clear up a misconception about the disorder. It's not impossible for Asperger's people to "learn any social skills", yes we find it difficult to read body language and understand what other people are thinking which makes it harder to learn social skills but it's definitely possible to make improvements, even if we'll never reach the standard of your average typical person. Since the beginning of my teenage years up until now, I have painstakingly first learned how not to insult people accidentally or seem weird, then learned how to make basic small talk, all by a conscious effort. Over the last year and a half since I went to university I've managed to make quite a few friends and a lot of this is down to what I learned about socialising in school, even if it was a pain at the time. I therefore disagree with your assessment that Asperger's people aren't benifitted by attending a regular school.

All of the above applies to me and everyone else socially awkward. So either all of us have Asperger's, or neither of us actually has Asperger's. I'm going to go with the latter, because, like I said, this is a diagnosis that gets thrown around way, way more often than it should be. Asperger kids don't "find it difficult to read body signals", they just flat out can't do that, at all. Of course, there's a pretty big chance that I just made a half-assed assumption based on a little post, but ever since Asperger's syndrome's existence got known to the general public, and everyone suddenly "got" it, I take statements like "I have Asperger's" with a grain -- nay, a whole damn bowl -- of salt. Even if it's based on an actual professional diagnosis.

You got that part right mate, could you kindly explain how you know more about me by one paragraph of text than trained medical professionals using well-established tests who met me several times in real life?

No offence but it's pretty clear to me that you don't really understand Asperger's syndrome, it's not just social awkwardness, there's other symptoms including particular types of obsessive behaviour, over-formal speech and physical clumsiness for example. I also don't get where you got this "we can't flat out read body signals" from because it's clearly defined as a "spectrum disorder" which means the strength of symptoms can vary widely between sufferers. If every Asperger's person found it completely 100% impossible to read body language then it wouldn't be a spectrum!

I don't blame you for not-knowing everything about a complicated disorder since there's no reason for you to know the ins and outs, but me and my fellow Asperger's would appreciate it if in future if you did the research before making claims about what's right or wrong for us.

 

[Don Savik]

We should unify each National Space Program, and then fund that single organisation. Spaaaaace!

Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas.

Bad Company 2 was better than Battlefield 3.

Halo 3 was good, and better than Halo: Reach.

I liked the ME3 Ending.

Morrowind was the best of all Elder Scrolls (And yes, I've played each and every one of them).

Portal was better than Portal 2.

Harry Potter sucks.

Suicide doesn't automatically make one cowardly/pathetic, such as is the stigma.

Eh, I liked Vegas better, and Battlefield 3 and Reach. But opinions are opinions. But about suicide, I totally agree. I hate that stigma with a passion. Whoever says that has clearly no idea what they're talking about when it comes to mental conditions.

 

[shrekfan246]

The Hangover sucked.

And that is the only unpopular opinion I can think of right now that I have.

Praise Jim. I've never seen the appeal of that movie and never understood why it got a sequel. But then, I've also always been amazed that Sacha Baron Cohen keeps getting work.

OT: Hell, this thread is at 21 pages now. My post won't be read. My unpopular opinion is that people shouldn't get so goddamn worked up and angry over such little things as video games, movies, books, comics, music, or television. It's a waste of energy to spend every waking moment proclaiming how you're going to boycott this or how you hated that, and quite frankly it's been devaluing all of those words as well. Hate has no meaning in American-English anymore, because it's used to describe everything that a person so much as mildly dislikes. And it's just a subconscious thing too:
"Hey, you wanna go see Anchorman II?"
"Nah man, I hate Will Ferrel."

Honestly, if you actually have such a seething hatred for the man that you'd wish physical harm on him, you've got bigger problems. If you just dislike his films because you don't think he's funny, then say that. "Oh, no, I don't care for Will Ferrel. I've never found him to be funny." If you get a visceral kick out of using such strong feelings for such a minor thing. . . again, I think you probably have bigger problems.

I don't know, maybe I'm just as emotionally stunted as the rest of the males in my family (though I seem to be the emotional one), but I've never seen the point in getting angry over this stuff. Yeah, I get mad at games. While I'm playing them, if I'm stuck on a particular part or if the game is openly mocking how bad I might be at it. I'll get angry, I'll yell, I'll throw petulant little hissy fits and flail my arms around. But after I close the game, I'm done. I don't feel the need to brandish my pixel sword and ride off to the internet forums, attacking everything remotely related to the game. If I were a video game critic, then maybe. . . but as it stands it just makes no difference.

I don't know about everyone else, but it's very rare that I'll actually return to a game that I've finished. Unless it really encourages replay value or is just a really excellent game, once I'm done with it, I'm done with it. And I don't even understand how someone could literally play the same game for weeks on end, multiplayer or not. I'll do multiple play-throughs of Mass Effect or Deus Ex, but not back-to-back. There's likely to be a month or two, maybe even longer, between each game. I play other games in that time. I move on. I don't get emotionally scarred and feel that the game developers betrayed me personally because of a sub-par bit of writing that was contrived and stupid. I don't feel like they've engineered combustible lemons to burn my house down. I feel like their publisher put the pressure on them and they needed to rush, so they couldn't put in all of the context that would've allowed for the sub-par bit to feel natural and in-place.

You know what has made me angry? Ubisoft accusing their entire PC fan-base of being lying, thieving pirates. Toying with them by floating out rumors of countless titles they'd cancel for the PC and release only on consoles because of piracy. EA's endless cycle of buying a developer, letting them release a game or two, and then crushing them so they're never heard from again. Activision buying Blizzard. Publishers who have no way of proving anything having press releases that are meant purely for scaring the developers, investors, and public, saying "OUR GAEM HAS BEEN PIRATED FORTY-EIGHT BILLION TIMES!!!!" No it hasn't. Bitorrent or whatever it's called is even cocky or stupid enough to release the numbers of how many times so-and-so's game has been downloaded, and the highest number is something like eight million for a Call of Duty game. I don't even know, I don't pay attention to that stuff, all I do know it that the big corporations are trying to use fear-mongering and that makes me angry.

But those have nothing to do with the games themselves. Those have to do with the companies behind the games. Get mad at the companies, sure. "Oh, Bioware sold out when EA bought them." Sure, sure, that's fine. "Mass Effect sucks, I hate Bioware, I'm never going to buy from them again!" Now see, that's how EA manages to justify crushing a game studio. It's not explicitly Bioware's fault that Dragon Age 2 was mediocre or that Mass Effect 3 has a horribly contrived ending. They shoulder a lot of the blame, yes, but EA shoulders almost an equal amount for being the driving force that has the final say of what gets put into the game and what gets pulled out. But have two lackluster games really been enough to make you swear off the entire studio forever and hope that they turn out like the next Pandemic Studios?

I fear that I've strayed away from my original point, but I suppose it does all fit within the over-arching "Unpopular Opinions" thing this thread is about, so there you have it.

 

[fogelmir]

I Think Hatsume Miku (Vocaloid) Is the Antichrist.

Man has created an literal idol in his image. She is new Golden Calf Folks.

 

[Jodah]

Jon Stewart > Steven Colbert
Some people don't deserve to live.
ALL drugs should be legalized.
Law abiding citizens should be allowed to possess any firearm they want.
I DO want to live on this planet and feel the fuckwads should be the ones to leave.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

I don't consider religious people to be utter delusional fucktards. I think they're wrong, but they don't get automatic unperson status, which seems to be the general reaction on these forums.

I completely hate extroverted people. The absolute last thing I need when I'm sitting in a corner trying to read is some bubbly maniac sitting down and trying to strike up a conversation about their favorite bands because they pity me.I'm here because I wanted to get away from your inane drivel, dear heart, now piss off, will you?

The word "creeper", which is insanely popular slang right now, at least where I'm living, makes me want to break jaws. It's not so much the word itself as the fact that it gets applied to literally everyone, because apparently "a sideways glance as you pass someone in the street" is the new "a quick grope while they're unconcious".

I think people are way too quick to demonize the use of physical violence. Shooting someone in the face because you don't like the way they're looking at you? Criminal behavior. Punching someone out because they've been harassing you? Perfectly reasonable, yet still treated as criminal behavior.

And finally, I absolutely despise John Lennon. The man's music just sound like crap to me. And I know I'm not the first to point this out, but he sang the line "imagine no posessions" while playing a white Steinway.