Unpopular Opinions

[Black Arrow Officer]

I really, really dislike people who smoke weed and am totally against weed legalization. In fact, I think we need to destroy every single weed garden with a flamethrower. Stop smoking your fucking brain cells away and go be useful. And no it's not a "harmless relaxer," it actually impairs your memory and makes it harder to learn and concentrate. No wonder all of the stoners I've met just seem like completely clueless people.

I don't like indie games

really...with their "cute artsey ness" I just dont care

I like my guns, my set peices, my cutscenes, my AAA games thats what I like

I agree with you x100000. I'd take Modern Warfare Michael Bay setpieces any day over an indie game where the entire game is about rolling a duck into a hole. Give me big guns, big swords, big explosions and big overdramatic death scenes and I'll be happy. Maybe it's the fact that indie games seem really "hasty". I know that's because the budget is definitely low, but that doesn't change the fact that most of them look and play like something you'd find on Newgrounds from 2005. Am I the cancer that's killing the gaming industry?

 

[Chunga the Great]

I have 2 that I can think of at the moment:

1. ADD and ADHD are incredibly over-diagnosed. "Oh my god, why wont my 6-year old boy sit completely still and focus on his schoolwork for 7 hours a day? HE HAS ADHD OBVIOUSLY!"

2. Every person who opposes gay marriage is a complete fucking idiot. Every. Single. One.

 

[Drudgelmir]

I hate most Bronies. Not all of them, but most of them
I enjoy Runescape.
Nathan Drake isn't a tosspot, and I don't see why people hate him.
The 2008 Prince of Persia game wasn't crap.
Loading Ready Run isn't as funny as most people make it out to be. However, Unskippable and Feed Dump are highly underrated.
Dubstep is my least favorite genre of music.
The only good Oasis album was Morning Glory.
America is overrated (Coming from a Kiwi).
The Starwars prequels weren't that bad, and Jar-Jar Binks was kind of funny-ish.
I find nothing wrong with the use of Comic Sans. It's a nice and friendly font.
The Clash are the best band.

How many fan groups have I pissed off?

With the exception of The Clash being the best band, I agree with you.

Runescape is a good game.
Now that's almost certainly going to get me some hate.

 

[Double A]

I don't think preexisting medical conditions should be covered by healthcare. Would it make sense if you were uninsured and some punk hit your car with a rock, and then you went out and got Geico, expecting them to cover it? Insurance is for accidents, not a magic wand to make all problems go away. If the companies had to cover preexisting conditions, they'd all be out of business by the end of the week.

Now, if they should cover preexisting conditions under nationalized healthcare is a different story, and a bit of a moot point for a capitalist country.

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.
If only cleanly made drugs were sold (and all these drugs have medical uses, so they ARE all produced cleanly by regulated companies as well) I think it would reduce fatalities and take a lot of money out of the black market. It's juvenile for politicians to think that restricting availability will stop people from using. There's really very little different between what we're doing now and what happened during Prohibition, whose only significant lasting effect was to strengthen the black market beyond belief.

Why bother fighting it when you can tax it? Sheesh, it's not like the drug war is actually getting anywhere. If it was, it'd be over by now. Plus social darwinism, for all those naysayers. What's not to like?

Incidentally, I'm a libertarian. It's also 3:30am, my first argument prolly has a hole in it I'm not seeing. Will fill later.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

I am a Libertarian.

Everyone one of my political opinions is unpopular to one side of the political spectrum or the other (others are unpopular to both).

 

[Vault101]

I don't like indie games

really...with their "cute artsey ness" I just dont care

I like my guns, my set peices, my cutscenes, my AAA games thats what I like

I agree with you x100000. I'd take Modern Warfare Michael Bay setpieces any day over an indie game where the entire game is about rolling a duck into a hole. Give me big guns, big swords, big explosions and big overdramatic death scenes and I'll be happy. Maybe it's the fact that indie games seem really "hasty". I know that's because the budget is definitely low, but that doesn't change the fact that most of them look and play like something you'd find on Newgrounds from 2005. Am I the cancer that's killing the gaming industry?

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HAHAHAHAHA..hahaha oh dear god...that image

but yeah, also theres nothing wrong with enjoying asthetically pleasing games (or you know "graphics whore") <- but I havnt heeard that term in a while

 

[EclipseoftheDarkSun]

Ah, but there is the beauty of reducing the population, there are many, many ways to do it. Not all humane, and I would certainly not back them, but they are there. If we could change everyone's consumption over night, if there was a way to do it, even if it meant some sacrifice (economic probably) had to take place, I would rather that. But if faced with the over-consumption of resources, which means the end of the world as we know it and millions of people dying of starvation or some other related consequence, and we cannot change our consumption in time, there is always violence. Which would suck, suck big donkey cohones.
There are plenty of viruses out there which can be modified to have a 2/3 mortality rate, and its distribution would not be hard. A small deposit here, another there. TA DA! half the world is infected. It's wrong to even consider it a possibility, but it is one.
My approach would need it to be politically accepted however, and I would stick to it to my death. Violence would not be my resource, but it might be someone else's. In comparison, I find reducing the population my way to be humane, even if impractical.

Spreading a virus with a 2/3rds mortality rate (like bird flu, which has recently been modified in a lab to spread between mammals (ferrets at least) and is the subject of great interest to bioterrorism experts, but which has provided some critically important data) is pretty retarded. You're not going to be able to control its spread and it'll probably end up shutting down countries almost entirely, as it rages through some areas, disproportionately wiping out some groups of people critical to a functioning society e.g. medical professionals, food transport and mass transit, petrol station and power station managers/workers etc.. Not to mention the dangers of people panicking and acting like asshats to each other out of mortal fear. No, while we're doing great damage to our environment, we have to learn to work together more cooperatively with a longer term viewpoint, not act completely chaotically. The 1918 swine flu epidemic was ~2% lethal and it caused major issues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

The global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died. With about a third of the world population infected, this case-fatality ratio means 3% to 6% of the entire global population died.

It is said that this flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.

Even in areas where mortality was low, so many were incapacitated that much of everyday life was hampered. Some communities closed all stores or required customers to leave orders outside. There were reports that the health-care workers could not tend the sick nor the gravediggers bury the dead because they too were ill. Mass graves were dug by steam shovel and bodies buried without coffins in many places.

 

[Terrara]

I generally like people, and genuinely want to trust them.

I think kids in third world countries are inspiring

I think all those who use gay/whore/virgin as insults are dickheaded (pardon my 'french')

 

[sean360h]

Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas.

Atmosphere in 3 was superior in every way.

*Flameshield... UP!*

thank you very much I think people who say fallout 3 sucks compared to new Vegas are mentally retarded

I think ME3 had a good ending and i am ashamed to be a bioware fan at the moment

I support abortion and the death plenty

I dislike the way people treat others on the internet just because there are no repercussions and i would support a bill that made it so you have to have your name or identifying factor on any username you have on the net

I think humans have gotten too lazy in the last 20 years why are we not on the moon why are we not advancing the world is virtually the same as it was 20 years ago just some things have gotten better

 

[Tyler47]

1.Religion really, really sucks. My opinion of religious people is that of believers in horoscopes and any other superstition. I think they're freaks and hardly take their bullshit seriously.

2.I loved COD before it was cool in 2004. I loved it after it became everyone's favorite shooter in 2007. And I still love after it became the game everyone loves to hate in 2010.

3.The Uncharted series sucks. Sure, the graphics and story telling are great. But they're too scripted and too boring. The shooting and climbing mechanics are really shitty.

4.(Outdated) Rebecca Black is bad, but isn't the worst artist out there by any means. Most pop shit nowadays is equally, or more, bad. I think most of the negative reaction is stemming from conformity and need to jump in the orgy of any bad internet joke.

5.PSV>3DS. Coming from someone who has both.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

- Democracy is a fucking joke.

What should we have instead then?

OT:
I think in very severe cases, death penalty is good. Sometimes nothing you can do without torture is bad enough for them

Everytone against gay rights are dumb, i've never seen any valid argument against it. In fact, I just derailed the comments section of a youtube video with about 60 000 views into an argument about it. Was pretty funny, since most people arguing against me were saying things about how they would like to curbstomp gay people, so instantly I could just see they were insane.

 

[DugMachine]

>I feel really uncomfortable around mentally challenged people or the paralyzed to the point of only being able to move your eye balls. Like really really uncomfortable and I know a lot of other people feel the same but nobody ever says anything. I will walk out of a room if someone like that enters.

>I think college should be free (impossible but I wish it was)

>High school should be abolished or at least revamped

>Marijuana and other drugs should be legal. Let people smoke/inject/snort whatever. It's their body.

>Funerals should be done away with, everyone should be cremated.

>We should really look more into advancing cloning.

>You can love your family without loving to spend time with them. (cause I fucking hate hanging out with my family).

>Legal age for sex should be 16

>I think the ME3 ending was fine (lol :3)

edit: 400 posts huzzah

 

[Neverhoodian]

-Many liberals that preach religious tolerance are hypocrites. They claim that they're open-minded and embrace all religions. Mention you're a Christian however and they'll start railing about the Crusades and the Inquisition as if you're somehow personally responsible for such events. At least intolerant conservatives tend to be up front about their prejudices.

-Nine out of ten "Medicinal marijuana" claims are just people wanting to smoke pot and get high without getting busted by the police. If the substance is the miracle drug proponents claim it to be, isolate the beneficial compounds and get the FDA to legalize the sale of said compounds in pill form at pharmacies. You would get all the medical benefits without the side effects of smoking the stuff, including the godawful smell of pot smoke (I'd rather smell cigarette smoke if given the choice).

-It's advisable to hold off on sex until marriage. Having said that, I don't pass judgment on those that don't. Whatever happens in someone's bedroom is their business, not mine.

-I can't stand rap and hip-hop music. Most of it sounds the same to me, and I dislike its endorsement of such things as drug abuse, violence and objectifying women.

-I believe the reasons for the U.S. going to war in Afghanistan were entirely justified...I just don't think the war itself has been handled very well.

-College fraternities and sororities should be abolished. Most of them no longer serve their original purpose of intellectual and social development and helping out the community. Nowadays they're just a place for insufferable pricks to get shit-faced and behave like twats (at least that's what most fraternities and sororities are like where I live).

-I support Israel over Palestine. Yes there have been incidents where the Israeli military has mistreated Palestinian civilians, but they usually aren't the ones using innocents as human shields or bombing school buses.

-I think interstellar space travel is unfeasible, at least as long as Einstein's theory of relativity is still regarded as correct. Colonizing other worlds (particularly ones outside our solar system) would require a colossal expenditure of time and money that would be better utilized to help people here on Earth. Stick to sending unmanned satellites and probes out to gather information about the cosmos instead.

-I think the two-party system in the U.S. should be done away with and replaced with a parliamentary form of government instead.

-The United States' status as a superpower is starting to come to an end. The sooner it realizes this and learns to accept it, the easier the transition will be.

 

[Auron225]

Clubs (as in, "umzte umzte" clubs) suck ass. I imagine I'm not the only one here who thinks so but its an unpopular opinion among almost everyone I know between the ages of 14 and 30.

 

[eevangoh]

People with very poor living standards and income should not be allowed to have children. Not like the bottom 25% of income, I'm talkin' the lowest 4-5% of people that have their lives out of control and can barely support themselves, let alone a child. You should be able to prove that you have your shit together before taking on the biggest possible responsibility in life.

I also think that countries that have too many people should just ship a couple thousand over to Japan, one of the only first world countries that has a decreasing population. Japan seems to have their stuff in order and could give people better opportunities than a place like India or China.

The death penalty should be legal for confirmed criminals and the process should be sped up so people like Charles Manson don't sit in their cell and burn government money awaiting execution.

There should be a cap on money people make, lets say around 500 million or something else completely ridiculous, where anything after that goes directly to charity. I think that's actually something almost everyone can agree with.

And for the last thing, I think that the world powers should just bum rush North Korea and destroy every trace of government there, handing power over to South Korea. The people in North Korea would benefit in the long run even if they're too brainwashed to know it.

Sorry, I just can't go past this.

Your income has zero impact on your parenting abilities. Also, shockingly, even if there is a standard by which the worth of a human being can be measured, it isn't fucking money. Also, having a child isn't "the biggest possible responsibility in life".

Surely you are aware than Japan is among the most densely populated nations in the world?

This point I can sort of agree with.

That is totally not how economy works.

Man is the measure of all things. What divine power has been vested in you that gave you the right and ability to decide which ideology is wrong and which one isn't, and the right to make such a big decision without the consent of its object?

Oh, by the way, can we do away with all the "you disagreed with an unpopular opinion in an unpopular opinions thread" bullshit already? Unpopular opinions can still be wrong or stupid.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

SNIP-

Actually the thread title isn't "Unpopular opinions that are actually generally accepted by most people," it's just unpopular opinions. No shit my ideas don't seem likable. I stand by these ideas 100% no matter how ignorant because I have a little something called stupidity, uh I mean integrity.

People who can't care for themselves have no business to care for children, I know that this doesn't directly correlate with economic income, but it's a damn good indicator. And yes, for the majority of people on this Earth, caring for the children is the most important thing.

I don't really know if I can convince you that India is WAY more overpopulated than Japan other than just saying to google "Japan declining population." The evidence and population trends should be proof enough.

On North Korea, who says we can't make a big decision without the consent of the populace, people have been doing it since the dawn of time. The quality of life in North Korea has to be abominable. People are starving to death regularly and just when the government almost makes a trade of food between them and the US, they conduct yet another illegal missile test and screw it up. Yea, there are different acceptable ways of running the countries, and then there's North Korea. A hereditary dictatorship that blinds their people from what's going on around the world in order to control them. So yeah, FUCK THE NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT.

 

[Oly J]

I am in full support of genetic engineering, I heard (I don't know if this is reliable) that you can modify a child's DNA before it is born to eliminate certain genes, like the one that causes Downs Syndrome, having been born with Cerebal Paulsey, good god what I wouldn't have given to have been modified to turn out better, everyone else I talk to on the subject says it's inhumane, though I fail to see how, ok it's not exact;y natural, but it still seems ultimately beneficial

 

[Mild_en_Snakz]

Welp, here's mine I guess.

I don't understand why people hate consoles, I love my consoles and my PC equally.

I think we (U.S.) need to perform a hard restart on Congress aka nuke them.

I think every state east of New Mexico and south of Delaware and Virgina should secede from the union. I'm sick of sharing a country with a region seemingly dominated by these backwards-ass, willfully-ignorant bigots.

I liked Starfox Adventures.

EA is bad, but they are not worse than Bank of America, AT&T, Apple, or anything Rupert Murdoch owns.

Puerto Rico should be a state.

School grades 1-12 should get rid of summer vacation and have school year-round with a week break every 3 or 4 weeks.

I think Bioshock was 95% forgettable and boring.

We should treat sex and nudity in our movies, games, etc. the same as violence. Clearly we make way too much of a deal of sex. Fetishes though, that's a totally different story.

Open-mindedness is extremely underrated by society as a whole.

I think discussions like this should be done more often (not really unpopular, just an observation ).

 

[Desmond_Field]

Thought of crazy idea involving the United States... Ahem... We completely cut ties with the rest of the world. I'll say, ten years would be good. We buy great amounts of resources that go to make factories and farms that would allow us to independently run the country from inside. There are all those jobs we need.

No one can get in or out. Border security is taken much more seriously. For this to work, all media that transmits to other countries would have to be regulated. After a while, there would be little to no actual info on whats happening in this country.

Has many holes, I mean, you would need the best computer people in the world to somehow allow us Americans to view the outside world, but not be able to communicate with it.
A lot of other holes but the premise sounds structured. Only until you look at it from a different angle can you notice an odd ooze coming out of some cracks on it's sides.

The final day we did get back on the grid would be so funny. We'd be like "Did you miss us?" And after the first roll of eyes, we would turn to China be like "BAM!" "All that money we owe you." Of course, where THAT money came from would be a mystery...

 

[Gentleman Adventurer]

I don't like hippies. Can't stand them in fact. Even when I agree with them I want to punch their teeth down their throats. Smelly, uncouth, free loaders the lot of them. (This is only unpopular in some areas.)

That said. I would like to see the United States broken up into more nations. I don't like to be in the same political system as ignorant Southerners and bloody hippie Californians. I just see the United States as too big with too much diversity to get the consensus needed for a democracy to work. The smaller successor states would be less likely to dick around in other peoples business around the word.