Unpopular Opinions

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Breaking Bad spoiler.

Spoiler

In Breaking Bad I think Mikes little speech before he dies is wrong.

I don't think Walter White really wanted to end up running a global drug empire in the end of breaking bad. I think if Gus had just let that thing between Jessie and the drug dealers go and not tried to kill Walter he would have happily kept making meth until he died. Walter was a reactionary force, pushed further into amorality by exterior pressures like Gus and the threat of being caught.

 

[Areani]

Spoiler

The holocaust was a hoax. No one was ever gassed to death. People died in the camps, sure, but from disease, starvation, exhaustion, etc. This alleged holocaust was and still is exploited for profit and used as a political tool to this day.

You asked for it

 

[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.

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.

Ahem oops i had something in my throat. It tasted like disgusting hypocrisy.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-killhttp://cursor.org/stories/casualty_count.htm
(I specifically like the carpet bombing of villages)

http://cursor.org/stories/casualty_count.htm

I do not think it is nessisary for me to link something about japan.

 

[Mithcha]

Meh

Zelda (every single game with that jumping green goblin) is a just dull.

For the most part short hair on women looks so very, very wrong, as does long hair on men. Something about the faces, for the most part, it just doesn't work.

Nose and lip piercings always, unconditionally make the person look like a twat.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the most mind-numbingly boring person to have ever taken to public speaking. The guy has the charisma of a dying, stamp collecting ant. I would rather argue the pros and cons of toenail clippings than listen to him.

 

[springheeljack]

I really liked Russell Crowe's performance in Les Miserables so there!
He has a good singing voice and it matched his character!

 

[McElroy]

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.

Nothing to do with religion this time around, though all the recent talk about gay marriage (the law passing here and everything around the whole thing) probably had its influence in getting me thinking, for better or worse. Rather than increase the amount of people who can "validate" their union in marriage as it now is, you could decrease it significantly instead. Love and romance exist just fine without marriage. If marriage got stripped of all the privileges that come with it there would be nothing for me to be opinionated about, I guess. But yeah, marriage for families, couples with no intention of getting children should find something else to validate their existence.

 

[DerangedHobo]

"Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan is the devil and the government is lying to us about 9/11".

Unpopular opinions? Well, "Heritage is all dead people's baggage", nations are a fucking joke, the games industry needs to crash, liberty within a society which prohibits a range of life choices (which do not infringe on the rights of others) is a pipe dream used to keep the masses complacent, Capitalism (or at least, it's application and current state globally) is a horrible system, death invalidates your existence (as well as the lack of objectivity in general), the fact that [insert minority here] triumphed over their oppressors is not uplifting in the slightest it is just depressing, consoles that aren't handheld have no reason for existing and the money from those consoles could be spent on a PC, having children is a dick move.

Oh, yeah, fuck religious nations entirely. I'm looking at you, middle east (and America).

Captcha: The Dude Abides

Say what you will about the tenants of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos.

 

[RobertEHouse]

-Walt Disney, was a horrible man.

*Disney during his rule refused to employ anyone whom looked black.
* He believed women were inferior to men and segregated them from doing any type of animation for his studio, except painting animation cells..
* He used his ability to squash an animation strike at his studio over wages by stating they were communist, during the Senator Macarthur era. Those hundred or so people were black-listed the government after he did that. Those Black-listed people could hardly find work anywhere after that in the US.

-Steve Jobs, was the worst excuse of a human being, recently.

*By using a loophole to jump the national Organ transplant system so he could cheat someone else out of a badly needed organ.
* He had a huge god complex , and thought lowly of his fellow designers whom help developed much of his Apple products.

- Star Wars is not the end all be all Sci-fiction movie.
- Facebook and other social media should be shut off automatically when someone enters a car.
- Honey Badgers are the coolest creatures around.
- Political correctness is for people whom never graduated from the "school of hard knocks" and need to get some back bone.
- One should identified themselves from their deeds as a human being first, and not by one's race, sex or creed.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

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

I find that a break from listening to people talking about games online is sufficient for me. When I just play games myself I can ignore all the stupid whining and complaints people have about 'SJWs' and 'feminist propaganda'.

 

[Malpraxis]

If a violent crime is caught on camera, that person should be executed instantly without a trial.

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

executed instantly without a trial.

Also known as murder.

 

[Malpraxis]

executed instantly without a trial.

Also known as murder.

Yup. I approve the murder of some people. Pretty unpopular, don't you think?.

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

executed instantly without a trial.

Also known as murder.

Yup. I approve the murder of some people. Pretty unpopular, don't you think?.

Of course, though approving some murders while condemning others is ridiculous. Either it's never okay or it's okay all the time. You can't cherry-pick.

 

[angryfish]

I find Monty Pithon and the Holy Grail hopelessly unfunny. Sat through the whole thing and I don't think I even smiled once. (I love Life of Brian though).

I prefer the Star Wars prequels to the originals. Jar Jar is annoying and the dude that plays anakin can't act to save his life, but the lightsaber fights are sooooo much better. And Han Solo is the only interesting character in the originals.

I'm a straight male, and I read the twilight series when I was 16 (around 6 years ago, haven't seen/read it since then) and enjoyed it.

And not sure how unpopular or otherwise this is here, but in real life it is: I don't enjoy clubbing at all (unless I'm wrecked, but everything is fun in that condition).

 

[Malpraxis]

executed instantly without a trial.

Also known as murder.

Yup. I approve the murder of some people. Pretty unpopular, don't you think?.

Of course, though approving some murders while condemning others is ridiculous. Either it's never okay or it's okay all the time. You can't cherry-pick.

Fine. In the interest of being less unpopular in a thread named "unpopular opinions" I'll rephrase my statement.
If someone is caught on video committing a violent crime, that person should be apprehended, an express jury should be selected from random nearby people, who should be shown the footage, and if deemed guilty, that person should be executed by that very same crowd in a manner they find acceptable, which you could also call lynching.
If the crowd does find the defendant guilty, but doesn't want to lynch them, that person should enter immediately in an indentured servitude program for the state, which you could also call slavery.

So I guess from being okay with murder, I went to being in favour of lynching and slavery. That kind of backfired. Still, opinions, shmopinions.

 

[Silvanus]

Nothing to do with religion this time around, though all the recent talk about gay marriage (the law passing here and everything around the whole thing) probably had its influence in getting me thinking, for better or worse. Rather than increase the amount of people who can "validate" their union in marriage as it now is, you could decrease it significantly instead. Love and romance exist just fine without marriage. If marriage got stripped of all the privileges that come with it there would be nothing for me to be opinionated about, I guess. But yeah, marriage for families, couples with no intention of getting children should find something else to validate their existence.

Out of interest, if a gay couple (or an infertile couple) were to adopt, should they be allowed to marry in your scenario?

Fine. In the interest of being less unpopular in a thread named "unpopular opinions" I'll rephrase my statement.
If someone is caught on video committing a violent crime, that person should be apprehended, an express jury should be selected from random nearby people, who should be shown the footage, and if deemed guilty, that person should be executed by that very same crowd in a manner they find acceptable, which you could also call lynching.
If the crowd does find the defendant guilty, but doesn't want to lynch them, that person should enter immediately in an indentured servitude program for the state, which you could also call slavery.

So I guess from being okay with murder, I went to being in favour of lynching and slavery. That kind of backfired. Still, opinions, shmopinions.

If a punishment is allowed, then it will be visited upon the innocent at some point. You've got to make your peace with this same set of events taking place against the innocent.

...At which point, what morally differentiates the state from the murderer? Both felt personally justified in taking innocent life.

 

[Erttheking]

Human beings are not a rational species. We are a species capable of rationality. Most of the time when it comes to debating logic and ideology, what we actually think and believe in gets bizarrely thrown out the window awfully quick. We can say how we're against harassment, yet defend it when it comes from someone "on our side". You can support petitions causing changes when it's for something you like, but when it's for something you don't support, then the people signing the petition are bullies. We say we have moral standards and beliefs. They go out the window in a millisecond when it comes to defending "Our side".

Right, I assume you want me off my high horse now.

Firefly is decent. It's a good show but it's not the second coming. And Malcolm Reynolds is a ****.

Bioshock 2 was a good game.

If you believe in stereotypes of any kind, you're weak minded. It doesn't matter how widely accepted these stereotypes are "All atheists are evil, all Americans are stupid, all Christians are brainswashed" if you accept them then that means you're too weak willed to view the world for what it is. Massive and complicated and can't be summed up with neat stereotypes.

If you view a human being in terms of how much they give to society, I'd like to know what you do that makes your life worth so much more than them. And if you view they're a waste of resources, I'd like you to kindly look at all that nice gaming equipment you have and tell me why all the resources that went into making that is justified. We can't use resources to keep people alive but we can use it to entertain you?

If you think you have the solution to a massive and complex problem, there's a 99% chance you're talking out of your ass.

Well fuck, back on the high horse.

 

[Erttheking]

-I think we actually managed to create a thought police, considering a lot of people don't dare to say what they think even when it's not hate speech.

No kidding. I want to talk about sexism in gaming but I can't bring myself to make a thread about it because I just know it's going to blow up in my face.

(I know that isn't what you meant, but it's a problem I DO have to deal with)

 

[Reasonable Atheist]

-I think we actually managed to create a thought police, considering a lot of people don't dare to say what they think even when it's not hate speech.

No kidding. I want to talk about sexism in gaming but I can't bring myself to make a thread about it because I just know it's going to blow up in my face.

(I know that isn't what you meant, but it's a problem I DO have to deal with)

Why would you want to go down down down that road? you know it leads to a burning ring of fire.

 

[Erttheking]

-I think we actually managed to create a thought police, considering a lot of people don't dare to say what they think even when it's not hate speech.

No kidding. I want to talk about sexism in gaming but I can't bring myself to make a thread about it because I just know it's going to blow up in my face.

(I know that isn't what you meant, but it's a problem I DO have to deal with)

Why would you want to go down down down that road? you know it leads to a burning ring of fire.

It's an unpopular opinion thread isn't it? If I'm gonna say things that could potentially lead to flame wars I might as well say all of them.