What is your emotional flashpoint?

[Sofus]

I wouldn't exactly call these emotional flashpoints, but these are by far the thingss I dislike or disagree with the most. And I will gladly continue arguing my points for as long as people decide to eangage me in the discussion.

1. Corrupt government employees. All types of corruption is bad, but a corrupt government employee is simply not acceptable (they should be the pinnacle of what a citizen should be).

2. People who get angry when discussing a subject.

3. People who are against free will. Every human being should always be free to choose for themselves. Even if they risk endangering themselves.

4. People who attempt to force their views upon someone else.

5. People who are against equality. I don't care what gender, race or religion someone has, it simply doesn't matter to me. What does matter is that we are all being treated the exact same way, without exception.

 

[Not Gabe Newell]

My emotional trigger is when people outright insult and attack religion and religious people.

Nobody is obligated to believe in anything, nobody has to believe in a higher power if they don't want to. But don't go around talking about how dumb religious people are, and don't belittle their beliefs.

 

[Angie7F]

I dont really have one.
Wait, people posting about marriage and kids.
I think it is those menial stuff that people take for granted that really make other people feel bad about them selves.
So anyone who does not think twice about posting about their pregnancy/ marriage/ promotion pisses me off.

 

[MammothBlade]

Let's just say I go ballistic at the sight of injustice, corruption, police brutality, and anyone who treats other people like shit. Or when the system has failed someone so badly it has actually succeeded in the goal of alienating them. Politics today makes me furious.

Also, whenever an older, bitter person suggests that if people don't share their cynical, selfish, usually conservative world-view they must be immature, naive, and that they'll grow out of it.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

People who think the law can do no wrong, especially when there's not even two sides to it. For example, when a guy reveals to the american public that the government is wiretapping and monitoring their phones and internet in secret, and someone says something like "I hope they find and arrest that guy!" Abuse of authority and power on its own bothers me but I can at least have a discussion about it. When people defend those actions using argument from authority it's just not even worth debating.

 

[game-lover]

Infidelity. Adultery. Cheating.

First thing that comes to mind. I will lose my shit in less time than it takes to say those three words in succession.

Probably there are others in here somewhere. But the main one is that little dealie right there.

 

[Ratties]

When people believe in Karma. There is no such thing as fucking Karma. Lets say I break into your house and steal all of your shit. Then 3 months down the road, I stub my toe on a rusty nail. Thats not fucking Karma. Bad shit is going to happen regardless of what we do. When people use it as some kind of magical weapon, I want to punch them in the face.

 

[Ratties]

I dont really have one.
Wait, people posting about marriage and kids.
I think it is those menial stuff that people take for granted that really make other people feel bad about them selves.
So anyone who does not think twice about posting about their pregnancy/ marriage/ promotion pisses me off.

This shit runs rampant on Facebook. The only time it pisses me off is when they constantly have to update it. If they just post one comment on there along the lines of "my boyfriend proposed today, so happy." Then I can let it slide. When they go on the warpath with it, posting comment after comment about it, I just want to scream. Nobody really gives a fuck in the first place, just accept it and move on.

 

[McKinsey]

Anti-abortion movement. People who cry "Abortion is murder!" and want to MAKE you have children even if you are not ready yet. When someone says "A fetus has a soul!" and tries to turn a woman into a living incubator against her own will.
Man, this gets me mad real quick.

 

[Norithics]

The whole "alpha male" movement that talks glibly about emotionally manipulating women to get laid, then passively bullying others into the same practice to reinforce their misguided belief that they're entitled to this. I've never met somebody like this iRL, but I just cannot imagine any conversation with them that wouldn't end in fists. Granted, I never win fights, but it's almost not the point.

 

[Tacticity]

One of them is when people start anti-vaccination discussions, because all it shows about the person is that they're uninformed about the effects of a vaccine, and those who choose not to get their children vaccinated create risky situations for the peers of their children.

The other one is a little hard to explain, but it's the extreme feminism that doesn't seek to only gain equal rights for women, but to actually belittle men's rights. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for gender equality, and although historically women have gotten the underside of the boot (so to speak) it's poppycock to imply that women don't get preferential treatment in certain cases. My blood almost instantaneously begins to boil whenever I see that sort of "femenazism" (crude, but it gets the point across) so much so that I physically find it difficult to even read any discussion that tries to belittle the male gender in a sort of pseudo-empowerment for women. Even typing out this reply angered me a bit.

 

[Smiley Face]

People who are verbally aggressive to the point of... I don't quite have the right word for it, rudeness, spitefulness, etc. - when people go beyond making their point to cowing others. For instance, your stereotypical shout-tastic drill sergeant. It enrages me, and I have a tight enough control on my anger that it's only specific push-buttons like this that bring it out, and there's not many of them.

 

[knight steel]

I FUCKING HATE censorship of fiction/fictional work makes me rage so much-especially when it comes from hypocrite's I got so mad at it that I even wrote a whole page and a bit about-here it is:

Spoiler: Censorship of Fiction Is FUCKING Wrong.

Censoring fiction is one of the most disgusting/vile acts out there implemented by corrupt governments and pathetic cowards who seek to control and subjugate other for their own wants and desires using pretentious-belittling reasons designed to guilt/shame people into silence.

Reasons why censorship is evil and how arguments for it are wrong:

It does not hurt anyone as fiction is not real due to the fact that it is made up with information/events that are not factual, but rather, Imaginary and theoretical?that is, invented by the author. Therefore it is a victimless and causes no harm to people, it is the laws job to prevent harm to people however seeing as there is no harm occurring it is not the governments job to regulate/control it.

Fiction does not cause real life incidents-Many people will argue that it does but this factually incorrect, because we as Human beings have the ability to distinguish Fantasy and Reality and keep the two separate and those who do crimes mostly do so because of their own thought and wants not that of a fiction any connection that they have with a fiction is a coincidence [similar to all criminals have eaten food ect ect].

For the few who can?t distinguish reality from fantasy would commit crimes/snap regardless of if they read/watched fiction as their minds was already unstable at said point. Also it is not fair to censorship work just because of such a tiny minority thereby disadvantages the majority of law abiding citizens, and if you did how much would you censor as if we are doing this to stop the already unstable all work would have to be censored.

It prevents growth of culture-understanding-knowledge by banning the forming of ideas and expression that is fiction you prevent one of the key elements of humans as a civilisation from fully forming by needlessly putting limitations and conditions the work of fiction cannot grow naturally and as such becomes less as a whole prevented from reaching it limit.

This applies even to the most obscene/horrible/disgusting works- to which many might say that it adds nothing to our culture-understanding-knowledge and as such is fine to ban/censor, this is incorrect you see Human nature has extremely dark parts it only by examining and exploring these elements in fiction that we can begin to better understand them and get a glimpse into a person?s mind thus making these work valid for consumption suppressing them would only make these elements worse.

Yet despite all this the government still force their will on us through Obscenity laws which state:
?The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value?

However there are a number of significant problems with this:
1. The courts and the legislature/the Government cannot define this term because it is paradoxical, and thus impossible to define.
2. Because the term "obscenity" is not defined by either the statutes or the case law, this law does not satisfy the Vagueness doctrine, which states that people must clearly be informed as to the prohibited behaviour.
3. Because the determination of what is obscene (offensive) is ultimately a personal preference, alleged violations of obscenity law are not actionable (actions require a right).
4.Because no actual injury occurs when a mere preference is violated, alleged violations of obscenity law are not actionable (actions require an injury).

To summarise the government and the law is basically saying ?FUCK YOU WE DECIDE WHAT FICTION IS ALLOWED ANYWAY WE WANT WITHOUT HAVING TO DEFINE WHY-IT DOSENT HURT ANYBODY?-FUCK YOU WE STILL BAN IT BECAUSE WE CAN BECAUSE OUR SUBJECTIVE MORAL VIEWS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU?. This is a stupid narrow minded view where a select few define what harmless/victimless ?crime? offends them and then punishes innocent harmless people thereby crippling us all by wasting the courts time and money-removing our freedom of choice/expression and preventing any true form of discussion/exploration of humanity/the world.

 

[MetalDooley]

Anti-abortion movement. People who cry "Abortion is murder!" and want to MAKE you have children even if you are not ready yet. When someone says "A fetus has a soul!" and tries to turn a woman into a living incubator against her own will.
Man, this gets me mad real quick.

You'd love it here at the moment.There's anti-abortion posters everywhere with such delightful slogans as "Abortion doesn't save lives...it only kills babies"

 

[Abomination]

Any attempt to force morality on another - be it religious, ideological or philosophical. The moment someone tries to make their morality manifest in a practical manner against someone else's will we will have a problem.

The only subset of "morality" I tolerate is ethics and the "golden rule" (do unto others as you wish done unto yourself). Everything else has a habit of becoming hypocritical.

 

[EeviStev]

When people complain about equal rights activists making people reluctant to speak up about their opposition of gay marriage. I equate it to how the South must have felt about Lincoln.

 

[sparkyk24]

I guess religious debates is one of mine, too. They're just stupidity from both sides.

A guy earlier posted about how he will verbally assault people who "preach" in front of him, attack them, and with pride said that he made a guy cry. He even admitted that he abandoned notions of mercy and decency.

Being an agnostic of sorts, I don't have anything against atheists. But I despise this sort of mentality. It drives me nuts. If you're pushing your views on other people, you're generally wrong, but this includes people who hate religion just as much as it includes religious people. From the indecisive and cowardly "I don't know" stance that I'm floating in right now, the angry atheists and the preachy religious people all look alike to me. And I'm so sick of listening to them argue -_- If you say that all people that believe/don't believe in X religion (perhaps a few less popular ones aside maybe?) are stupid and deserve your abuse, I probably don't like you.

 

[Lynx]

Quack science. Particularly in medicine, and even more so health products for athletes.

I have had to work (still am) very long and very hard to learn the art of not snapping and blurting out a sassy comment every single time a person starts advocating for protein powder, amino acid pills, energy bracelets, or any bullshit diet with more than three capital letters in it that basically just says "cut out [insert nutrient 1] entirely and stock up only on [insert nutrient 2]." The fact that people make hideous amounts of money bullshitting people like this by using fancy, made up "science words" makes me hiss like a wet cat.

A lumberjack that works his body every day and eats decent meals doesn't need a frickin' POWDER to get ripped, so why the hell should anyone else?

 

[Kanova]

Feminists, homos and people who always yell "RACIST." Like that Zimmerman trial, someone said "If it was a black guy who killed a white kid, would he be acquitted?" Basically implying that the judge and jury was racist.

 

[JokerCrowe]

When parent's neglect/abuse/don't love their children.
That makes me so angry and so sad I actually tear up thinking about it. Children love their parents unconditionally, it's biology, they should be that way. Likewise, a parent should love their child unconditionally back; unfortunately there are cases where that's just not true, and that almost literally breaks my heart.

Honestly I feel like that's almost the worst thing human beings can do to each other, because even if you have been through some shit (like serious shit, don't want to be specific to not trigger anyone) you can always take comfort in the fact that at least your parents love you.
It's such a basal need, it should be a fucking Human Right.
But they'll let anyone be a parent...

(I know, I know... It's not like anyone can stop people from having children. I just hate that this actually happens)