Agree with no. 8 but in regards to 7, is that mostly physical or mental as well?
Humans are not probabilistic learning machines.
And yet they each had a style that’s easily recognizable, right?
Lots of newsletters I’m missing out on, apparently.
I liked Batman v Superman and the Amazing Spider-man 2.
I believe that liberals are the worst thing to ever happen to blacks and even if they don’t realize it they are passively racist.
Adams, for sure, despite his other faults as a writer. Vonnegut, I wouldn’t describe as having a “recognizable style” so much as a repeated M.O.
Liberals are not as free of hatred as they think they are. They just hate different categories.
Socialism is the political equivalent of a perpetual motion machine. Capitalism can be a harsh taskmaster; but, overall, in general, in the long run, it does a better job of feeding people than the bleeding-heart, touchy-feely stuff.
People who tell me to check my privilege usually have parents significantly wealthier than mine.
The people most eager for me to embrace multiculturalism, usually seem rather contemptuous of my culture.
I believe we should legalize drugs. Because I am a darwinist.
I believe that a fetus is as human as a three-year-old.
I believe that an embryo is as human as a ten-year-old.
I believe in abortion on demand, up to and including the ninth month.
I am not a nice person. If I wanted to be nice, I would oppose abortion.
There are six billion human beings on this planet.
It is not possible to feed that many people without the internal combustion engine.
Unless one is willing to commit genocide, schemes to fix global warming are nothing but empty theatrical gestures.
I do not advocate genocide. I advocate skipping the empty theatrics.
I believe the default behavior in the corridors of both public and private buildings should be:
Walk on the right.
Pass on the left.
If everyone did this, I wouldn’t have so many near collisions and sidesteps involving people who don’t know how to walk in and make turns into corridors. Since so many people violate this basic expectation, it must be an unpopular opinion of mine. 
While there are other reasons why an abortion might be understandable, the only moral reason for an abortion is that the fetus has an incurable/catastrophic disease or is so severely malformed that their life will be nothing but pain.
The good of the majority should supersede the needs of the few. In other words, the wants of tiny special interest groups should not dictate policy change, merely influence it. Sucks for me in some ways, but as an example I’m not going to encourage my fellow left-handers to demand we be catered to in preference to the majority.
Texting and driving should be at minimum punished by a public caning. If you injure someone while doing it, hanging.
Air conditioning was a terrible idea.
Kindness is the only virtue.
Asparagus tastes bad, no matter what people might say.
California has the right idea politically but environmentally is so fucked up it makes me sick.
They’re the same people who expect you to step off the sidewalk because BABY!
I’m assuming it’s against the spirit of the thread to argue over the issues raised. But I’m not seeing how there’s any controversy here.
If you’re talking probability, I think most people would agree that if Romney had been the incumbent in 2016, he would have been renominated and there wouldn’t have been an opening for Trump to run in.
If you’re saying the idea that Romney might be President instead of Trump would be unpopular, I think you’re really misread the board.
You boil sweatsocks?
The valuable thing about this thread, is that in the future you can get it out and respond "Of course, the opinion of someone who thinks that . . . "
OK, here’s some of mine:
- Nobody strives for power without the intent to abuse it.
- Nobosy has a handgun without a lust to shoot a human being with it.
- Nothing happens without someone imagining to profit from it.
- A fetus is a parasite, and carrying one is optional and voluntary.
- It is less humiliating to beg for a meal, than for a job.
- A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- It is better to be born with an unfair advantage than to have to struggle to attain one.
- Physical courage is much more common than moral courage.
- Closure is a euphemism for revenge that people can feel good about.
- Modern economics was creatred when there was more work than men, clung to by economists who never imagined otherwise.
Oh, I think a fetus is human. I also think a gangrenous limb is fully human. I just think neither has an individual personhood.
However, I also think abortion should be a private matter between a woman and her doctor, and I think this for what is probably an unpopular reason. If a doctor knows her patients, she will know when someone has not had the opportunity to seek an abortion until very late in pregnancy, due to whatever reason; when a woman with a wanted pregnancy that she has just discovered has anencephaly is making a reasoned decision to have a late abortion; when a woman who has just been diagnosed with cancer and wants to start chemo right away is making a considered decision that she can’t care for a very premature baby while she is on chemo; and when a woman who has carried an intended pregnancy for 8 months is freaking out, and needs to be reassured. I know, because while I didn’t say anything to anyone because I had enough insight to know I was freaking out, I had a wild idea that when I was eight months pregnant, I’d made a huge mistake, and should back out.
I think probably lots of women get a little crazy toward the end of a pregnancy, and OBs can probably deal with it. Which is why a woman should be able to go to her OB with a problem pregnancy. Every woman should have an OB/gyn, and every one should be able to do abortions without worrying about being picketed or shot.
I also don’t think Kurt Vonnegut’s books are very interesting either. I haven’t read Douglas Adams. Additionally, I don’t think Hemingway, Steinbeck and Faulkner were all that special. And I have tried very hard to like Hemingway, because Dorothy Parker liked him, but it isn’t happening. The Old Man and the Sea is stupid.
I totally, totally agree with this.
There are no (or hardly any) free marketers. Every business wants to be a monopoly and will do anything–legal or not–to prevent serious competition. The only free marketers are the ones trying to break in and, if successful, get to be like all their competitors.
I think businesses should not be taxed, but their owners should pay much higher taxes than currently. Full tax on capital gains, but only net of inflation. And a 99% tax on capital gains held less than one day, 98% after two days,…,93% after one week, 92% after two weeks, down to the max tax rate.
You should be able to import your meds from anywhere. Of course, some will be dangerous or useless, but the market can decide.
Copyright should go back to 14 years with at most one renewal. And then enter the public domain.
Douglas Adams was a very good writer, Vonnegut less so and The Handmaid’s Tale stunk.
Drunk drivers who kill should be charged with Murder 1.
Abolish drug laws.
Unless the state provides IDs free for everybody, voter ID laws should be abolished.
I think we have these threads too frequently, that they function as a kind of perverse virtue-signaling (vice-signaling?) and that most Dopers aren’t half as clever or shocking with their edgy aphorisms as they think they are.
This is you, right? Who did you stab and how much time did you do?