Unpopular Opinions

[Reasonable Atheist]

The 911 attacks were justified. Being totally complacent in what your country is doing des not make you innocent.

"They hate freedom" is the stupidest utterance i have ever heard.

Everyone knows a cornered woumded animal is the most dangerous.

Justified I'd disagree with. No act like that by any group or nation can be justified with any merit.

Understandable however, you'd have me on that. I understand why they did it, I may well have even cheered if I was in their countrymen's shoes (though I'd hope not), but justified is a little too far.

So, extreme violence is never acceptable behavior? Even lashing out at an overwhelmingly powerful enemy?

for example, tearing your rapist's throat out with your teeth.

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

The 911 attacks were justified. Being totally complacent in what your country is doing des not make you innocent.

"They hate freedom" is the stupidest utterance i have ever heard.

Everyone knows a cornered woumded animal is the most dangerous.

Justified I'd disagree with. No act like that by any group or nation can be justified with any merit.

Understandable however, you'd have me on that. I understand why they did it, I may well have even cheered if I was in their countrymen's shoes (though I'd hope not), but justified is a little too far.

So, extreme violence is never acceptable behavior? Even lashing out at an overwhelmingly powerful enemy?

for example, tearing your rapist's throat out with your teeth.

There's this thing called unnecessary force; if you're defending yourself, you can only use whatever force is necessary to prevent them hurting you, any excess force is breaking the law. What you just described is excessive and kinda messed up and is not necessary to defend yourself.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

The 911 attacks were justified. Being totally complacent in what your country is doing des not make you innocent.

"They hate freedom" is the stupidest utterance i have ever heard.

Everyone knows a cornered woumded animal is the most dangerous.

Justified I'd disagree with. No act like that by any group or nation can be justified with any merit.

Understandable however, you'd have me on that. I understand why they did it, I may well have even cheered if I was in their countrymen's shoes (though I'd hope not), but justified is a little too far.

So, extreme violence is never acceptable behavior? Even lashing out at an overwhelmingly powerful enemy?

for example, tearing your rapist's throat out with your teeth.

Yeah, those totally average citizens totally deserved to be killed /sarcasm

 

[SAMAS]

Unpopular opinions? Okay:

Though I disagree with her on many things, I respect Anita Sarkeesian's opinions, and think she does make some good points.
Yes, I can say the above while still appreciating sexy female designs.
No, diversity will not kill the gaming industry. Grow the hell up.
I kinda liked the first two Transformers movies.
I enjoy Shounen anime. Some of it, at least.
To me, "Social Justice Warrior" is the 21st Century equivalent of "N**ger Lover".
I have no problem with Furries, pornographic or otherwise.
I like cute things.
I thought Iron Man 2 was about as good as the first one.
I like 'Zilla(The kaiju from the 1998 "Godzilla" movie), and think he's a cool monster.
No, Jar-Jar Binks did not ruin the Prequel Trilogy.

 

[Proto Taco]

The 911 attacks were justified. Being totally complacent in what your country is doing des not make you innocent.

"They hate freedom" is the stupidest utterance i have ever heard.

Everyone knows a cornered woumded animal is the most dangerous.

Justified I'd disagree with. No act like that by any group or nation can be justified with any merit.

Understandable however, you'd have me on that. I understand why they did it, I may well have even cheered if I was in their countrymen's shoes (though I'd hope not), but justified is a little too far.

So, extreme violence is never acceptable behavior? Even lashing out at an overwhelmingly powerful enemy?

for example, tearing your rapist's throat out with your teeth.

The problem is more a matter of escalation, especially when you're talking about groups of people, not individuals. Sure you can rip your rapist's throat out with your teeth, but then you have to accept the risk that the gang your rapist belonged to may seek retaliation against you in any number of other ways. This may or may not lead to your death and you may or may not retaliate in kind.


It's a cycle, a nasty one, and the only way to break it is to not take part. Of course that's often easier said than done, but justification does not cast a magic spell over an action to prevent the receiving party from seeking retaliation for it. That kind of maturity needs to come from the parties involved.


In short; being the second to swing doesn't make you right (morally or otherwise), simply peer to your attacker. If you can't live with that, then don't swing back.

 

[Silvershadowfire]

Let's see...

1) Forrest Gump was the stupidest movie ever made, and that includes the Star Wars prequels. That being said...
2) The first Star Wars prequel was actually pretty good if you ignore Jar Jar.
3) I liked the first Transformer movie; they went downhill after that.
4) I like Nickelback's music. Along with Linkin Park and Evanesence.
5) I am a proud Canadian who doesn't drink beer and finds hockey boring.
6) As an anime fan: Harem anime is 90% bad. Reverse harem anime is 95% bad. 'Slice of Life' anime bores me to tears.
7) 'Arthouse' movies are almost overwhelmingly pretentious garbage and the same goes for a lot of modern 'art'. (Dunno how unpopular that is, but hey, it's an opinion ^^)

 

[Souther Thorn]

...
Ok..
I didn't care for, or subsequently watch, Madmen or Breaking Bad.

 

[13e thr33]

Intolerant atheists:
1) do in fact exist.
2) unnerve me at a very visceral level, as they do not even have the excuse of faith for being douches to people not thinking the same way as they do.

That's a weird one to me, you excuse people for being douches merely on the grounds that their religion dictate so?
I don't mean you give them a free pass, but in my mind they are both equal in their douche-baggery, neither have good reasons for it.

 

[Dr. Crawver]

The 911 attacks were justified. Being totally complacent in what your country is doing des not make you innocent.

"They hate freedom" is the stupidest utterance i have ever heard.

Everyone knows a cornered woumded animal is the most dangerous.

Justified I'd disagree with. No act like that by any group or nation can be justified with any merit.

Understandable however, you'd have me on that. I understand why they did it, I may well have even cheered if I was in their countrymen's shoes (though I'd hope not), but justified is a little too far.

So, extreme violence is never acceptable behavior? Even lashing out at an overwhelmingly powerful enemy?

for example, tearing your rapist's throat out with your teeth.

Lashing out at civilians? Yes, always unjustifiable in my opinion. If they just did the attacks on the pentagon (I.E. people who presumably are related to all the woes in the middle east caused by america), then while I'd still not like the attacks at all, it is justifiable in some form. Hitting a place filled with nothing but civilians who are entirely innocent of it all is never right.

 

[happyninja42]

Let's see...

1) Forrest Gump was the stupidest movie ever made, and that includes the Star Wars prequels. That being said...

Agreed. I heard a comedian once describe it as "The last 50 or so years of history, told through the eyes of an idiot." And I couldn't agree more.

2) The first Star Wars prequel was actually pretty good if you ignore Jar Jar.

I actually liked Jar Jar a few times in that movie. Not many, but a few. And yeah, I don't really hate the prequels, I just find them disappointingly bland/mediocre.

3) I liked the first Transformer movie; they went downhill after that.

Same. I loved the first one, hated the 2nd, hated it so much, never bothered to watch the others.

4) I like Nickelback's music. Along with Linkin Park and Evanesence.

I only like 1 song by Nickleback (Figured You Out), the rest are just ok to me. Agreed on LP and Evanesence.

5) I am a proud Canadian who doesn't drink beer and finds hockey boring.

I'm not Canadian, but my favorite band is RUSH, so that makes me an honorary Canadian! I also hate beer and hockey.

6) As an anime fan: Harem anime is 90% bad. Reverse harem anime is 95% bad. 'Slice of Life' anime bores me to tears.
7) 'Arthouse' movies are almost overwhelmingly pretentious garbage and the same goes for a lot of modern 'art'. (Dunno how unpopular that is, but hey, it's an opinion ^^)

Don't really watch either, so I can't comment here. xD

 

[Dr. Crawver]

Unpopular opinions? Okay:

Though I disagree with her on many things, I respect Anita Sarkeesian's opinions, and think she does make some good points.
Yes, I can say the above while still appreciating sexy female designs.
No, diversity will not kill the gaming industry. Grow the hell up.

Are these really unpopular opinions? I mean really, has peoples childishness gotten so bad that these of all things are unpopular opinions?

 

[Yeager942]

Gamer culture is incredibly self-absorbed, immature, and ill-prepared to handle any kind of cultural criticism. The fact that gamer forums such as escapist are still talking about Anita Sarkeesian, "SJW's", and "feminist propaganda" depresses me to no end. My year away from video games to just play board games with my IRL friends was a much needed vacation

 

[elvor0]

Batman Begins is better than The Dark Knight.

I agree with that one...the idea of Batman, especially when the Joker is involved, is very silly, and not something that realy lends itself to being very deep and serious. The Joker needed to be playing on god mode the whole time to get away with all the stuff he was up to, and he can't in a serious film.

I'd also add that I liked Batman and Robin. Very silly, but it was supposed to be.

I'm actually of the opinion that Batman and Robin/Batman Forever(which actually isn't too bad, it's not as good as Batman 89 and Returns, but it's still ejoyable) are better Batman films than the Nolan trilogy. Not great films, but better Batman films. B&R is awful, but it at least enjoys its mythos, and creates a world where Batman makes sense to exist in.

Nolans trilogy is so grounded and having a hard on for realism that Batman feels massively out of place. Nolans "Batman" trilogy would've been great as a crime thriller with Gary Oldman as the main character, but as Batman films they fall massively short of respecting its comic book mythos and have no reason for Bats to exist within them because all the larger than life Supervillians are reduced to just dudes.

 

[happyninja42]

Gamer culture is incredibly self-absorbed, immature, and ill-prepared to handle any kind of cultural criticism.

How DARE you sir/madam/unspecified gender person!! I have offense! *throws offense in your general direction* Your criticism of our culture being unable to handle criticism is offensive!! I demand you retract it immediately or we shall meet with pistols at dawn!

 

[The Purple Grape]

I prefer Legend-Underworld Lara Croft, where she was a confident witty and classy archaeologist (never understood this survivor stuff) She was highly intelligent and dedicated, arguably to a fault, to finding out what happened to her parents. That is were you can pull some drama, the emotional aspect of losing loved one at a young age, and playing up the trio of Lara, Her Doppelganger and Natla. No stuff about being a victim, no whining, no pandering to being 'relatable' i.e. whiny.


Went on longer than planned.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Marriage should be for two people who are raising or will raise kids. That's it. If a couple becomes infertile they adopt or get divorced and so on.

Out of curiosity, why do you have this opinion? I don't believe I've heard anything like it before. I've heard the opinion that a married couple should stay married for the sake of the kids, but never that marriage was only for kids.

 

[Silvanus]

as Batman films they fall massively short of respecting its comic book mythos and have no reason for Bats to exist within them because all the larger than life Supervillians are reduced to just dudes.

C'mon now, the comics themselves have been the source of far greater sacrileges against the comic book mythos. Remember Mr. Freeze's wife being resurrected but eeeeeviiiiill and calling herself "Lazara"? Remember Superboy-Prime punching time in order to set the clock back? Remember Dick Grayson dolling himself up as the Joker and gaining inexplicable invincibility? Such irredeemable bollocks.

 

[envy11235]

-Firefly was not that great. It isn't terrible but massively overrated.
-To me fandoms can straight up ruin things I like. I know it is just other people's thoughts but if you can't discuss something you like what is the point?
-I am not hyped for Bethesda. Bethesda is a shitty company that releases games with barely any story, glitches out the ass. The only saving grace is the modding scene.
-While I think fandoms ruin games I don't think shit talking in competitive games ruins them. It is my favorite part.
-stalker is better then fallout and stalker Shadow of Chernobyl is the best stalker but New Vegas is better.
-I don't think people understand the realism argument in fantasy. You base most of your fantasy in reality then add fantastical items
-And last Smash bros should not be at EVO they always run long and for every hype game there is a good 2 hours of shitty defensive play. I get it is skillful to make those moves but it doesn't make it interesting to watch.

 

[happyninja42]

Marriage should be for two people who are raising or will raise kids. That's it. If a couple becomes infertile they adopt or get divorced and so on.

Out of curiosity, why do you have this opinion? I don't believe I've heard anything like it before. I've heard the opinion that a married couple should stay married for the sake of the kids, but never that marriage was only for kids.

I've heard this a lot, from Christian people. "The only reason people get married is to have children." This is a statement that exists in the world. It's usually used to justify denying non-heteros the right to marry when I've heard it used, because you know, they can't have children, and thus shouldn't marry. I have no idea what the quoted person's reasoning is, but that's the reasoning I've always heard used when this statement is uttered.

 

[suikodenstorm]

- I think 9/10 times, tattoos on women are disgusting.

- I'm all for being "comfortable in your own skin" and not having to endure body shaming or anything like that. I prefer women with some meat on them rather than a skinny. But that being said, there is a difference between being thick and morbid obesity, that is just revolting.

- Winter Soldier was the best of the Marvel Movies, and I stand with Captain America in the Civil War.

- First-person shooters are all lame.

- Playing online is stupid. I play video games to escape from reality. If I wanted to play with others, I would go hang out with my friends and have a drink on the deck in the sunshine while discussing current events and having a laugh.

- Not enough people pay attention to politics, campaigns, or goes to vote during elections but still feel they have a platform to complain about things that are changed.

- People are too attached to their phones and don't take an opportunity to just take a look around.

- People place too much importance on celebrity.