What's your controversial opinion?

[Naso]

Many people give me wierd looks when i state that i support Religion and Laws pulling off the wings of Science. My view is that many people are unaware that anything good that might come from that prospect of unrestrained Science is overshadowed by the abominations that labs will belch forward for military or personal gain.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Yeah, sorry about that first thing, I forgot to mention that my more militant beliefs are more directed at Christianity and Islam. I havn't learned enough about the far eastern religions to make any decisive judgement on how bad/good/whatever they can really be deemed, my apologies. I didn't put a lot of thought into my post now in retrospective, which is definitely not good in an argumentative thread.

But yeah, in regard to your point, we don't know what is right or wrong here. But this whole thing seems kind of like a fairy tale to me. "There's an invisible pink unicorn somewhere in this galaxy with god-like powers!" - There would no way of disproving or proving that and I would say the same for god. Atheism seems like a better choice than, say, Christianity because in atheism you don't let this thing that you don't really know whether it exists or not dictate your life, while you do so within religions. I don't see any reason to believe in something that could very well be completely made up.

That's why I'm Agnostic

 

[Abengoshis]

I agree, anyway my controversial opinion?
Free will is a delusion, but fate/destiny don't exist.

So are you suggesting that Free Will is more of a social constraint rather then a Omni benevolent one?

I don't know.

 

[SleepingDragon]

I'm a Christian

I strongly support gay marriage. The government has no right to force Christian morals on people who don't agree with them.

Women should have abortion rights even though I don't agree with it in most cases.

Science and Religion don't conflict in my eyes. In fact, studying the natural world God created can be a form of worship.

I don't think ending religion will make the world any better. If there is one thing humanity is good at it's finding reasons to kill each other. Something else will replace it.

Being a nontheist doesn't automatically mean you have good critical thinking skills.

I'm a Dynasty Warriors fan.

Superman is better than Batman

I'm waiting till I marry before I have sex.

I don't like chocolate.

Everyone is a hypocrite.

Women should register for the draft even if they only have supporting roles in the military.

 

[Yassen]

My controversial opinion that often pisses people off would be that I don't consider pedophiles to be evil people. Don't get me wrong, a rapist especially a child rapist is an extremely evil person in my eyes but that's not the same thing as a pedophile. A child rapist is a pedophile yes, but only because they acted on their urges. Would you call a person who thought about killing someone a murderer? Because if so then you should probably lock up about 90% of the population.

A person is judged for their actions, not their thoughts.

A pedophile is a mentally ill person who is a danger, but the same can be said for anyone with a mental illness. A pedophile needs treatment, not to be publicly excluded when they haven't done anything. And most don't get treatment because they're terrified of the public. People have such an overreaction to these people they're doing more harm than good.

But remember, I do not, under any circumstances, condone an adult having sex with an underage child. That is wrong. Extremely wrong. And anyone who rapes a child can have their dick cut off as far as I'm concerned about those scum. But if you want to reduce the number of pedophiles in the world, you can't label someone as evil if they haven't done anything yet. Get them treatment.

 

[Mastercylinder]

Mine?

-Politics is a waste of time. We need people to be in charge, absolutely. All the baloney around elections and electoral colleges and the lies and the terrible empty promises plus laws like the Patriot Act . . . It just makes things WORSE. NOTHING HAPPENED DIFFERENT.

END OF LINE!

I can't exactly propose a fix to this problem either, it brings my piss to a boil.

-Criminals should be eliminated, not a death penalty, but some sort of transport or something that ensures they can't keep the taxes skyrocketing.

-Oh and the government should have no right to keep anything secret, especially experimental aircraft and other military B.S. Less weird reports and wikileaks on UFO's if you'd just admit it was a plane.

 

[The Funslinger]

America deserved 9/11 and America and Israel are the biggest threats to world peace

Israel should be destroyed

the moderators on this site suck

Some of us are pretty okay >_<

 

[clipse15]

Mine would be that all immigrants who actually ruin my day or life (even in terms of bullying) should be kicked out of the country.

Im not racist, its not because theyre a different race, its because there are so many families wanting to get in, and they probably deserve it more if your just going to come over here and ruin peopls day/lives/etc

Then again, same goes ffor racist people.

I did have a way better one thats always on my mind, but for the love of the escapist I just cant remember it

But wait what about non-immigrants who ruin they're day hmmm?

 

[LightningBanks]

Mine would be that all immigrants who actually ruin my day or life (even in terms of bullying) should be kicked out of the country.

Im not racist, its not because theyre a different race, its because there are so many families wanting to get in, and they probably deserve it more if your just going to come over here and ruin peopls day/lives/etc

Then again, same goes ffor racist people.

I did have a way better one thats always on my mind, but for the love of the escapist I just cant remember it

But wait what about non-immigrants who ruin they're day hmmm?

Thats what I meant with the 'Then again, same goes for racist people' Now that I look at it, its not that clear

but yeah, thats what I meant

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

Frankly, I just don't give a shit.

Oh, and I also dislike Donkey Kong Country.

 

[SonicKoala]

-Snip-

See, you don't know the effects of rape are "roughly the same level of severity" as a heavy beating because you have never been raped. Is it really necessary for me to repeat this? You haven't been raped, and therefore you do not know what it is like, nor can you even begin to speculate on the emotional ramifications of such an experience because, once you again, you haven't been raped. You seem to just be comparing your experience with a few similar comments you might have seen written in some article about rape victims - what those articles don't cover, however, is the irreparable long-term damage that will undoubtedly occur as a result of that traumatic experience.

I'm not trying to downplay your experience - what happened to you is terrible, and I'm sorry about that. However, it seems to have been so horrible for you that you're convinced you can compare it to one of the most horrific acts a human being can commit, when you can't. Why? You haven't been raped, and therefore, it makes no logical sense for you to compare your experience to another experience that you objectively know nothing about. You know what rape is, but that's about it. What rape does to a person psychologically, emotionally, or even physically is something that only rape victims can elaborate on.

And, just in case you forgot, I've actually been trying to reinforce how horrible rape is - rape, being one of the most appalling and despicable types of violence out there, means that I was not downplaying the effects of violence at all.

 

[Womplord]

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OK then I guess your right. I suppose you can't really know what any type of psychological trauma is like unless you have experienced it. And there are countless types out there... and I guess how each individual will react is unique as well... What I said was based more on intuition than anything else.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I think loli should be legal...

 

[SonicKoala]

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OK then I guess your right. I suppose you can't really know what any type of psychological trauma is like unless you have experienced it. And there are countless types out there... and I guess how each individual will react is unique as well... What I said was based more on intuition than anything else.

Which makes perfect sense, considering what happened to you. However, as you said, trauma (psychological or otherwise) is simply one of those things that you have to experience in order to truly understand. Furthermore, I have a lot of women in my life who I'm very close to (family, girlfriend, friends), which is probably part of the reason I felt compelled to push my point across.

 

[Plinglebob]

While Child Abuse/Child Molestation is bad, Paedophilia is not.

Men and Women are not equal and the world should stop acting like they are. If we were, I'd be able to squeeze out a baby. Men are better at some things while Women are better then others.

If someone has a baby, one of the parents should stay at home to care for it until it is of school age. I'm not saying which parent, but having a kid then paying someone else to look after it is to me a little stupid.

Religion in all its forms has been a greater force for good in the world then bad. Also, there is nothing wrong with being religious as long as you don't try and impose it on others.

At this moment in time, Computer Games are at the same artistic level as Porn. While it is still improving, Games will not be considered art until the majority of people play and enjoy games, and the culture (critics, fans etc) surrounding them improves considerably.

 

[IamQ]

I don't quite know how controversial my views are, but I'll say two of them:

I believe religion in the modern society should go away, or, if not, at least be removed the right to have a say in anything ever.

I don't believe that every person has a unique personality. I think we're actually all the same. If one person can like football, then everyone can like football. I'm never fully convinced that we really think that different in the end.

 

[Farseer Lolotea]

While my opinion on fan fiction in general isn't the highest (Sturgeon's Law applies), I've never seen a statement against its creation that wasn't incredibly irrational, sadly misinformed, or both. With that in mind, I think noncommercial derivative fan works should fall under fair use. (Note "noncommercial." No selling fan fiction, unless you're being paid by the creator to write a tie-in.)

However, the rights to the fan work should revert to the creator of the original work. (In short, if I write a Rift fanfic, it should legally be the property of Trion Worlds, even if they do nothing with it.)

 

[Deleted]

That karma doesn't exist and is still believed in because it makes unfortunate people feel good.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Mine would be that I'm a christian and a lot of people seem to dislike us (at least on this site) for various reasons but I've learned to deal with it. I also listen to christian metal and that is like taboo in the metal world and on almost every christian metal youtube video there are always debates about religion in the comments, another reason I've learned to never read the youtube comments.

Other then that I don't really have any hugely controversial opinions on anything, most of my opinions I have a good reason for thinking that way and if I don't I won't bring it up.

You are no longer part of the metal community. Please pick up your Dio horns on the way out. You fool!!!

 

[eggmiester]

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.

he beleives in god! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!

eh, we won't hold it against ya dude.

my controversial opinion? i reckon that anyone who has committed rape,murder, or any kind of torture or brainwashing ( and , depending, drugs) should be shot on sight should be killed on sight. theft, a bit of violence, bending of rules(such as alchie limit) is ok, but anyone willing to destroy to a precious life, whether literally or figuratively, doesn't deserve the chance to live.

and i don't mean crap like ' she was attacked and defended himself' or 'killing in defense of others ie: soldier, police-man', i mean proper, sick and depraved acts of violence or torture.