What's your controversial opinion?

[Mute52]

Abortion, they spelled "killing babies" wrong.

The definition of marriage is a partnership between a man and a woman, nothing else.

A kid can get himself killed in war but can't have a [alcoholic] drink legally?

In the few years we have left with natural gas/oil and with food problems combined with overpopulation. And we decide to abandon space exploration? We should be looking into that, like now.

 

[Tentickles]

If you're going to advocate the execution of handicapped children, could you not quote me to do so? Thank you.

You're asking someone to limit what they are saying in a thread about controversy?
Hypocrite.

 

[noxymoron19]

I don't think you should feel bad or pity people who commit suicide. I don't feel bad for those people at all. Its cool to feel bad for the family members and such. But if they were depressed all the time, the family would't really be losing that much.

 

[pigmypython]

I think the psychological effects of being raped are no worse than a violent beating.

Have you been raped lately?

 

[pigmypython]

I think that everyone who writes in forums should proofread their posts...

 

[Womplord]

I think the psychological effects of being raped are no worse than a violent beating.

Have you been raped lately?

No. Have you? Have you been violently beaten lately? I just can't see a logical reason why rape would do worse than a violent beating... maybe a very violent beating would be a more appropriate term but still. I mean the kind of beating when someone has you pinned against the ground and you are dreading the next punch, but you can't move you hands because their knees are pressed on your arms with all their body weight and you have to keep enduring the seemingly endless incoming punches. By the end, you are a bloody, teary mess lying on the ground. It takes a long time to get over something like that.

 

[eternal-chaplain]

All I can say is The Zeitgeist Movement.
I've gotten some hate for my desire to remove money from the world and unite nations under technological management.

 

[pigmypython]

I think the psychological effects of being raped are no worse than a violent beating.

Have you been raped lately?

No. Have you? Have you been violently beaten lately? I just can't see a logical reason why rape would do worse than a violent beating... maybe a very violent beating would be a more appropriate term but still.

No my ass is fine thank you.

However, I do teach martial arts and have talked to many people who have had severe beatings and/or have been raped. From them I gather the difference is pretty fucking big.

(Beatings can obviously be mentally scaring so I am certainly not arguing that; only that there is a difference)

 

[spartan231490]

My controversial opinion? Probably concealed carry on campus. I think our universities here in the US would be much safer if students were allowed to carry weapons concealed while on campus. I also think we should lower the drinking, voting, military sign-up and ect. ages all to 16. I think our culture would benifit from a single coming of age, as opposed the the current system of gaining your legal rights at half-a-dozen points, and I think anyone who isn't ready when they turn 16, won't be any more ready when they turn 18. I also think that age of consent should have a loophole for people close in age. Someone shouldn't be guilty of statiatory rape because they turned x age a few months or even a year or two before their significant other. I'm all for stem cell research, and I'm pro-choice. Basically pick one.

 

[spartan231490]

If every human being died, it would only be a good thing. I include myself in that.

Please contest this opinion, as I would love to change it.

I think our potential for future goodness outweighs the destructiveness of our present, even how unlikely it is that we will fulfill that good potential.

 

[somonels]

I'm an anti-theist who opposes: equal rights, the notion of human rights, democracy, currency, and would sell out my race in favour of machines or aliens.
Please note that these are just things I am comfortable to admit and does not include things I consider petty or irrelevant.

 

[SonicKoala]

I think the psychological effects of being raped are no worse than a violent beating.

Have you been raped lately?

No. Have you? Have you been violently beaten lately? I just can't see a logical reason why rape would do worse than a violent beating... maybe a very violent beating would be a more appropriate term but still. I mean the kind of beating when someone has you pinned against the ground and you are dreading the next punch, but you can't move you hands because their knees are pressed on your arms with all their body weight and you have to keep enduring the seemingly endless incoming punches. By the end, you are a bloody, teary mess lying on the ground. It takes a long time to get over something like that.

I don't really see how you can come to such a conclusion unless you have been raped yourself. Have you been raped? If not, how can you even begin to speculate on the psychological effects that would come from such a traumatic event?

 

[MrGalactus]

I think there should be no law but one:

Do literally whatever you want, so long as you don't get in the way of anyone else doing whatever they want.

Also, there should be no one in charge, education is pointless, all religions are incorrect, capitalism is evil, and communism has never existed.

 

[Grand_Arcana]

Large banks and corporations should be controlled by the government and run non-profit, or forcibly be split apart and heavily regulated. A pizzeria going bankrupt is no problem, small businesses failing is as natural as sunrise and the world moves on. But, when wealthy men who have complete autonomy over their companies, and no obligation to be held responsible, can send the entire world spiraling to hell because of their poor decisions, it's no longer private.

 

[Celtois]

I despise the USA. just flat out hate the country and most everything about it.

(I strongly suggest not responding to this. I'm not baiting or anything, just answering the OP, completely honestly.)

 

[Xifel]

I honestly think I'm worth more than most of the people around me.

I pretty unusual as I am 24 and from a country that had conscription for the last 250 years, but in the recent years only a handful every year have been selected for mandatory military service (finanicial cutbacks). As I have given one year more for this country than most people I know, I believe I'm worth more, and sort of believe that they do not have the right to vote. Why should they be allowed to say anything for a nation that they haven't done anything for?

Also, I am a royalist. And that is controversial here!

 

[Slenn]

I honestly don't know what to put down. I just like reading all the responses that people give. And most of them have to do with either reforming religion or getting rid of it entirely.

I feel like DeviantArt needs a makeover. Because there's always this dichotomy between the newb artists who draw bad anime and Sonic fanfiction and the very talented artists who actually deserve the comments they get. And there's a majority of people out there that are stuck in the middle getting no recognition because they're developing their own techniques, and they're not given credit where credit is due. Also the whole "pageviews" and "number of watchers" just makes the site more of a popularity fight. In retrospect, it's not the most developed art site despite the fact that it's been around for 5 or so years. That site is bittersweet to me, I've gotten a lot more comments on a lot of my artwork than on my geocities account, but I still dislike it a bit.

 

[MisterShine]

I don't support same race relations.

No black people with black people, no european with european, no eastern asians with eastern asians..

I could say some stuff about how I think it'll reduce racism and cultural ignorance and shift focus away from programs looking to boost certain races from poverty and let us focus on helping everyone impoverished but...

It's really just mixed people are better looking. Plain and simple.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I believe sex is a special, meaningful act that you should share only with the person you are married to. I get some really weird looks from people when they first ask if I'm a virgin and I say yes, then they ask why and I give them that answer.
The fact that I believe in God also seems to be rather controversial, at least on this site.

I'm very glad someone else on this site thinks like this. I don't feel so alone now. Yay.

 

[Harlief]

I believe sex is a special, meaningful act that you should share only with the person you are married to.

I kinda feel the same way, but I feel that marriage requires more trust than sex (and that's saying a lot). I've not met someone I know that well and trust enough to share everything that I am with.