Unpopular opinion thread

[LoiteringClouds]

Pushing myself to the limit on a treadmill is more pleasant than a stay in a seaside resort.

Edit: running along the beach is as pleasant as a treadmill.

 

[NumbItAll]

Naps are not enjoyable, more of a regrettable necessity sometimes.

 

[Silent_cries]

I hate to admit it, but I feel like pro-choice is an unpopular opinion and I'm pro-choice so...

Also I'm a bit of a misanthrope so I guess that counts too. Don't hate people themselves though, but I hate humanity.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Children should be taught sex-ed and consent, and I mean children as young as primary school-aged children. A lot of people are against teaching little kids about sex but I feel like doing so actually does more good than harm. By giving children knowledge on the subject it can help to allow children going through SA to understand what is happening to them and report it. It can also help to prevent children from being SAed by making them less desirable targets for sexual predators and by making it so that they more likely to establish their boundaries and report to someone when they feel like their boundaries have been violated. By constantly sheltering children, we are only making them more vulnerable to being SAed and experiencing prolonged sexual abuse. Along with that, a lot of younger kids end up learning about sex through the internet, which is incredibly dangerous and harmful. It's better to allow children to learn about sex in a safe environment rather than to hide it from them and have them found out about it through more dangerous and harmful means.

Beyond this, learning about their sexuality can make things like puberty less scary and shameful for them. I remember feeling ashamed for a long time during childhood because I didn't realize that masturbation was normal (I started doing it before puberty, lol). I didn't even realize that what I was doing was even masturbation. I viewed it as this bad habit I had all my life and thought of it as something I needed to stop. I felt gross. Children shouldn't ever feel gross or ashamed for going through normal things.

We have this tendency to overly shelter them, not realizing that we are doing more than good by doing so. It's not about keeping children pure and innocent, it's about teaching them things in a manner that is appropriate depending on their stage of development. We have seen over and over again how sheltering them things, from sex to death, negatively impacts them yet we still do it. Knowledge is empowering, especially for vulnerable demographics like children. It's what can help them better learn to navigate the world around them and better understand themselves.

 

[mrnob0dy]

It should be possible to purchase a way out pill at the pharmacy.

 

[thickly_settled]

The internet was a mistake.

 

[Gangrel]

sushi is meh

 

[enduringwinter]

I think the Covid vaccine doesn't work lol. I've not taken it because they require health insurance that only permanent residents can get where I live and I was too lazy to travel to the clinic that didn't ask for that shite. That and the side effects are too much trouble for something that's experimental and has no proof of working.

 

[Kavka]

It is silly to say you love animals when you are not vegan.

 

[Steff1337]

I think that absolutely every drug that exists should be legalised.
Who wants to use drugs should have them more accessible.

 

[Holu]

I think that absolutely every drug that exists should be legalised.
Who wants to use drugs should have them more accessible.

I perfectly and 100% agree with this, but with a heavy contingency. It must be made by a company which is federally owned or approved. This way the government gets their money and people get safer and better drugs(even if it costs more). Otherwise you end up with what happened to Vancouver and the rest of BC, where fent laced drugs are absolutely destroying them.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

I'm skeptical of the idea of Maladaptive Daydreaming. Especially when some of the things commonly associated with it, such as creating these big fantastical storylines that you try to make this sort of continuous thing sounds pretty normal to me. Maybe it's because I've been doing stuff like this since childhood, but I don't do anything abnormal about it. I'm aware that this might just be because of my own biases maybe and my tendency to sometimes overquestion things, but I can't help but feel incredibly skeptical towards it.

 

[AuroraB]

i despise this global culture of killing/eating animals.

 

[Alexei_Kirillov]

I'm skeptical of the idea of Maladaptive Daydreaming. Especially when some of the things commonly associated with it, such as creating these big fantastical storylines that you try to make this sort of continuous thing sounds pretty normal to me. Maybe it's because I've been doing stuff like this since childhood, but I don't do anything abnormal about it. I'm aware that this might just be because of my own biases maybe and my tendency to sometimes overquestion things, but I can't help but feel incredibly skeptical towards it.

Agreed. It's part of a general trend of narrowing what's considered "normal" to such an extent that even relatively common behaviours become pathologies.

 

[vanillamilkshakes]

human emotions are a mistake

 

[avoid_slow_death]

Antinatalism isn't so much about extinction as it is about doing the right thing.

 

[newave3]

For many years, I've considered college to be a complete misallocation, even worse, a waste of four of the best years of your life and a lot of money to have your head filled with incorrect ideas, which are hard to wash away.
One can thrive no matter which way the economy evolves. And for 90% of the people, it's not sitting at a college desk for four years listening to a woke professor drone on about politically correct topics.

 

[yellowjester]

it's not sitting at a college desk for four years listening to a woke professor drone on about politically correct topics.

Lmao! Tell me you've never set foot on a campus without telling me you've never set food on a campus.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I believe it is never helpful to say "skill issue" at someone, even if that's really truly what's going on. Let's say someone struggles to count to three. Now sure it would be immensely satisfying to just shout "skill issue" and be done with it knowing you are superior to them in said skill but how is that supposed to help them ever actually overcome this gap in ability?

Now don't get me wrong, that's not to say there aren't sometimes people who don't deserve it, but still. Don't pretend like just telling someone they're bad at something is going to be enough to actually help them get better at it. If your goal is just to make them feel inadequate or inferior then at least have the integrity to own the fact that you don't care about their improvement and just want to lord your superiority over them.

 

[newave3]

Lmao! Tell me you've never set foot on a campus without telling me you've never set food on a campus.

No I never set food on a campus. Learn to proofread.

 

[yellowjester]

No I never set food on a campus. Learn to proofread.

Then how would you know what colleges are like?

 

[newave3]

Then how would you know what colleges are like?

I have bachelor's degree in finance but I got it probably well before you were born. We sat behind desks or tables or just sat in chairs in large lecture halls.
Stop nitpicking. You're annoying.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I consider efilism to be the dissection of life and pro mortalism to be the solution. I think that anybody who cares about mitigating suffering but isn't a pro mortalist (at least philosophically) are hypocritical.

Also, an earlier death is always better than a later death for any sentient being. Though of course the best thing would have to never been born at all

 

[Thisisnotaname]

When you know, you know. After it's too late

 

[yellowjester]

I have bachelor's degree in finance but I got it probably well before you were born. We sat behind desks or tables or just sat in chairs in large lecture halls.
Stop nitpicking. You're annoying.

What's your point then, old man? You think students nowadays are talking about their favorite pronouns in finance class?

 

[yellowjester]

My point is to tell you to go fuck yourself.

Right, you don't have a point. I figured.

 

[newave3]

Right, you don't have a point. I figured.

To me your opinion is about as important as the last time I burped.

 

[dazed.daydreamer]

I'm skeptical of the idea of Maladaptive Daydreaming. Especially when some of the things commonly associated with it, such as creating these big fantastical storylines that you try to make this sort of continuous thing sounds pretty normal to me. Maybe it's because I've been doing stuff like this since childhood, but I don't do anything abnormal about it. I'm aware that this might just be because of my own biases maybe and my tendency to sometimes overquestion things, but I can't help but feel incredibly skeptical towards it.

It's the amount you do it and why you do it, not just vivid daydreaming in itself. I can do it for hours a day, sometimes for the majority of the time I'm awake in a day. It gets to the point where I either can't come out of it or strongly resist doing so. It's a strong part of my general dissociation from reality when I get overwhelmed; I cope by getting lost in a fantasy world, centered around fictional characters I relate to so I can feel catharsis without having to think about myself.
I totally get the skepticism though! I was also skeptical of the idea myself until mine got worse and I really thought about it in my own life. I'd say it's more of a symptom or a bad coping mechanism though, rather than a syndrome. I'm not an expert on it in any way though

Also want to clarify I could be wrong, and this isn't something I'm diagnosed with (do you even get diagnosed with it?). It just described a pervasive coping mechanism I use that interferes with my life.

 

[emilyissad]

I dont like rap or anything hip hop

 

[guitarsteve]

Hey thought it might be interesting to hear everyone's unpopular opinions.

I'll start:

I don't like anime or manga

pls don't hate me...haha

what is magna?