Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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    1 year ago

    Euthanasia should be available for anyone at any age. You don’t choose to be born, life has no inherent value, suffering is strictly personal. Suicide is a terrible option with lots of drama, an extremely high failure rate and lifelong treatments or medication that are seen as the solution by society is a conservative convulsion of keeping people alive under any circumstances.

    We could set up three sessions with a therapist, to keep people from losing loved ones too fast. But honestly, to me that would feel patronizing. That other people find it important someone stays alive is their problem. If it hurts them too much they can do the same.

    There is joy in life and that’s beautiful, but on a scale suffering has the possibility to be more intense. Let people die without drama, let them say goodbye if they want with a ceremony, let them choose.

    That’s the next step in the mentality of a modern civilization. It will fix the drama of wars, hunger and pain as you always have a simple painless solution if the suffering gets too heavy. Just end it, peacefully, whenever you want.

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      It’s a very brave take, but I don’t think I can agree with you 100 percent. Some people have depression (we think of it as a disease), and younger people tend to be… immature that they make decisions impulsively and regretted their decisions later. Euthanasia is a one way road, there is of course no going back after you’re dead.

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    1 year ago

    Bernie would have won had he not been blatantly cheated in the 2016 DNC primary. We’d be in a MUCH different timeline had he won.

    Edit: Corbyn was done dirty in the UK too.

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      1 year ago

      I find it weird that I support Bernie wholeheartedly, even though I am a Trump supporter (yeah, I can hear them coming)

  • qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Remember to sort by controversial. Top comments are always going to be the popular opinions.

  • theragu40@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A lot of things around the world were better before the Internet. And they were definitely better before smart phones reached ubiquity.

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      1 year ago

      I’m a web developer by trade, but I say “the Internet was a mistake” all the time. It pays my bills, but mass adoption and social media have done horrible things to the minds of people. And yes, I realize the irony of posting to social media about this lol.

  • Today@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We could reduce a lot of issues if you had to do a calculus problem to get an erection.

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    1 year ago

    No word is inherently bad, it’s all about what you mean and how you use it. Most people have a no-tolerance with a few words though.

    For example, all words would be ok in educational purposes.

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    1 year ago

    I could probably do a better job running your country than the guy you elected since I know when to give the problem to someone more qualified.

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      9 months ago

      I depends on the country, but definitely yes. And this is even more the case if you said “your city”. Most local politicians are just straight up bad.

    • cum_hoc@lemmy.world
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      I used to think like this but now I realise that being in power is much harder than I thought, especially in the context of a democracy. Inevitably, in order to get something done, you usually need the cooperation of your political opponents, which usually requires to make compromises that you’re uncomfortable with or make you go back on campaign promises.

      That said, I think I could do a better job than Trump since I think I could at least manage to not put myself in so much legal trouble.

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    I find it insane that the same people who are anti-fossil fuel and want only green energy is also anti-nuclear power. I also want fossil fuels gone, but nuclear is the only way we are able to get to where we need to.

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    1 year ago

    Too many people conflate the evils of corporatism and corruption with the general concept of “capitalism”/a market economy.

    Now, I’m hardly an advocate of laissez-faire economics. But I’m not a full-on socialist either. I think the majority of problems people attribute to modern market economies can be corrected with aggressive anti-trust and pro-consumer regulation.

    (The keyword here is majority. I’m sure it makes sense to socialize some things, but those details are best left to people smarter than me.)

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    1 year ago

    Dismissing social norms because they’re “only social constructs” is ridiculous, because all social constructs are a product of our biological brains. Gender norms exist because sex chromosomes affect brain chemistry, not because some evil global patriarchy cabal in 200,000 B.C decided they should.

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    1 year ago

    Not having kids because of climate change is stupid. You are leaving the world in the hands of people who care less than you.

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      1 year ago

      I’ll be dead before then and if I don’t make offspring then so will anyone I care about. Y’all have fun destroying the planet lol

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      1 year ago

      But the leading cause of climate change is overpopulation.

      There were 3 billion humans on this planet in 1960. There are 8 billion humans right now. And all those humans are producing waste, using energy, etc.

      Even if we reduce the per-capita ecological footprint, we’re outbreeding the gains we make.

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    1 year ago

    In order to actually fight climate change, we should start by trying to reduce the population in the future. Less people = more resources per person.