No. When I saw you as a 12-year-old, the way you looked at the time, I had no clue.
The Rolling Stones are vastly over-rated; they are a mediocre band at best
The Kinks are one of the best bands ever
Mustard is a vile substance and should be treated like a poison
Ketchup is awesome on hot dogs
Congressmen (and women) should not be elected but rather should be chosen at random from registered voters. They would receive training on their role and responsibilities prior to serving their term. They can elect to serve another term but must be approved to do so by a simple majority of the voters in their district.
Senators and the President must have prior government experience before they are eligible to seek election
Drivers licenses should also indicate driver skill levels with appropriate privileges and restrictions being granted depending upon the level.
There’s no such thing as a purely rational opinion. We are deeply emotionally invested in our arguments, however logically sound they seem to be, and much as we would love to believe it, we did not arrive at our conclusions through the process of reason. It’s the exact opposite – we made up our reasons to support our conclusions. My opinion, is, ironically, based on stuff I’ve learned about neurobiology and social psychology and other sciences of the human mind. So I’ve used rationality to arrive at my own irrationally supported conclusion and the dissonance is a bit crazymaking.
I’m not sure there is any such thing as an unpopular opinion anymore. What might be repugnant to those in my social circle might make perfect sense to another group. But I will say that a lot of highly intelligent people believe they are truly rational and I don’t see any evidence to support that belief. It’s much like the illusion of free will – not really a thing, but also probably irrelevant. (I concede there’s probably some kind of spectrum… someone arguing for, say, a flat tax with a well-’‘reasoned’’ argument is probably more rational than someone arguing for a flat earth. But emotions play an enormous, often-understated role in cognitive processing, moral reasoning, and decision-making.)
Trump is not, but I’m pretty sure the Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee supporters ended up voting for Trump and not Clinton. What they really crave is authoritarianism, and Trump is giving them that in spadefuls.
No, I don’t think it’s that kids don’t know they’re transgendered. It’s that I don’t like the idea of putting pre-pubescent children on such serious drugs that can have long term consequences. If little kids want to dress like their chosen gender, that’s one thing. But starting taking hormones and stuff – that should wait until they’re teenagers. I’m reading about kids as young as four or five taking puberty blockers and hormones. I don’t think anything permanent should happen at that young an age.
I wouldn’t consider that an unpopular opinion.
A lot of people oppose capital punishment in general. I’m guessing even more would oppose capital punishment that involved feeding people to animals.
Reading this thread and see people debate whether the democrats or republicans
are more racist reminds me of one of my pet peeves:
Just how many people seem to forget that 40% of people in the US don’t even vote.
Since 1972, neither the Democrats or Republicans have ever had more than 38%
of the voting age population actually vote for them in a presidential election,
The turnout is even worse for midterm elections.
I’m a rebel with a ton of unpopular opinions.
[proceeds to list boilerplate liberal rhetoric]
That was my main point, though when I think back to my 10-13 era, I genuinely didn’t know anything about myself, hence my opinion on gender identity.
“Dirty Dancing” wasn’t that great of a movie either.
Maybe we will have to go that way as long as the Europeans keep blocking companies from selling lethal injection drugs to us states.
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I’d make a bet that the usefulness of physical therapy varies a lot with the kind of issue being addressed, the severity of that issue, and other characteristics of the person being treated. I’ve found it incredibly useful, but I would make a bet that what I needed and what you needed from it were very different things.
That and a lot of folks don’t do their “homework” when it comes to PT. (I know I didn’t)
I believe that vandals, especially graffiti “artists,” should be punished very severely. I’m talking about a mandatory one-year prison sentence and fines of at least $20,000. Screw the “misdemeanor charges and costs of clean-up” approach!
I’m a lot more sympathetic towards a drug addict who steals to support an addiction. The addict belongs in a rehab program.
But a person who deliberately gets a couple cans of paint and intentionally goes out to deface public or private property gets absolutely NO sympathy from me. It’s not a victimless crime, and I can’t imagine too many ways in which a perpetrator could do such a thing by accident.
Animals might not *like *steak sauce, though. (I’m not being sarcastic.)
I feel like its often something that has to be attempted before more invasive (or “effective”) therapies are administered.
I guess that’s my unpopular opinion. If you don’t care enough to vote, then I don’t want you to vote. (And I vote in every election.) I do, however, think voting should be made as easy as possible and would support multiple day voting or a voting national holiday to help with maximum enfranchisement.
I’m with ya on this one.
The current standards of care in WPATH7 do NOT propose giving hormones to pre-pubescent children. I have never met a child who is actually taking hormones who was not already well beyond puberty. I know many people who mis-report (including transgender families themselves) that their kids are “on hormones”, when in fact they were on puberty blockers. Which are NOT the same as hormone therapy.
I don’t doubt that somewhere some child is being treated by a rogue physician or has doctor-shopped enough to find someone willing to give them transitioning hormones. But it simply is not common practice, nor accepted under the WPATH7 guidelines, to give hormones to very young children (excepting too unless there is some other highly unusual medical condition that might warrant it, which I could not even guess at).
All of this has been discussed in numerous threads on here. If you’ve missed this, you haven’t been paying attention to the issue. Which then implies your “unpopular opinion” is based on a misunderstanding.
Correct. It’s an issue that doesn’t even affect me, so I have paid almost no attention to it, except when it occasionally is in the news or is the topic du jour. I wasn’t going to say anything at all about this issue, knowing full well my ignorance is part of my problem with it, but as Guinastasia brought up something akin to my own thoughts I chimed in. Maybe I shouldn’t have, but I thought this thread would be a safe environment for it.