# What are your most unpopular opinions? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645 "2013-04-14T00:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/281 "2013-04-19T02:16:20Z")
…as these are _facts_ (as distinguished from _opinions_), but here goes. Oysters are not food. The same is true of anchovies, the livers of mammals, and sheep (at all stages of growth). Coffee beans that have had the caffeine removed prior to brewing are actually a form of mulch. Anything brewed from them is swill. Teams that make use of Designated Hitters are not actually playing baseball. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/282 "2013-04-19T02:51:56Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > If I have to explain, you won’t get it… 😃 I’m a lifelong athlete, I _get_ sports; at least _playing_ them. It’s the ‘watching’ that I evidently lack the gene for. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/283 "2013-04-19T03:27:32Z")
Lacking the couch potato gene isn’t such a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/284 "2013-04-19T03:34:45Z")
Jesus Christ is not God. Dead people have not gone to Heaven. Human life begins with the first breath. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/285 "2013-04-19T03:59:20Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > I’d say most liberals are fairly pro-Israel-hence why most Jews vote for Democrats. BTW what do you mean by “support Israel” because it can mean anything . . . Fairly moderate support; closer to your last example than to your first. > [@Sam\_I\_Am](#): > > I believe repressed memories are often true. Not always true, but I am more inclined to believe them than the average person is. As in repressed memories that have subsequently been recovered? I know there are repressed memories – there are some episodes in my life that others remember, but which I cannot remember at all. (And no alcohol is involved! Not that kind of memory blank!) So far, though, I’ve never been able to get those memories back. > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I am a liberal an I don’t get the outrage about drones. War is hell. Me too… > [@UncleRojelio](#): > > More nuclear power plants. Nuclear waste disposal? Drop it in a deep ocean trench. Not so good, as there is still water circulation at the bottom of the trenches. The waste would end up spreading to all the seas. If you could find an active subduction zone, and drop in waste that has been securely encapsulated, you might have a point, but even the most active subduction zone might “erode open” again, exposing the capsules. So…Nuclear Power, yes! But wastes should go in deep caves, not in the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/286 "2013-04-19T05:29:23Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > \ > > I stand by my opinion that nuclear power is what we should be working hard on improving and implementing on a larger scale, however. I agree with this. I do agree that this is an unpopular opinion (unfortunately, since we’re going to need lots of power and nuclear plants don’t get built overnight and research into making them better and safer is probably suffering from the lack of public support for them). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/287 "2013-04-19T07:35:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > The same is true of anchovies, the livers of mammals, and **sheep** (at all stages of growth). Hey now. That’s just crazy talk. You don’t like lamb? Admittedly I come from New Zealand, where sheep are literally\* key to its economy, and grew up on the stuff, but it is utterly inescapably, most assuredly delicious, which even vegetarians agree on. \*yes, literally ---
**Author:** ![Doggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Doggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/288 "2013-04-19T07:41:08Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I think marriage is a scam perpetuated by women and ‘society’ and there are vanishingly few men that actually benefit from it. Homosexuals, especially the men, are retarded for fighting for marriage rights at a time when the whole oppressive idea should start being phased out. Hey, the joke is on them. Be careful what you ask for. > > Rush (the Canadian band) is musically talented but also amazingly boring. > > The world is vastly overpopulated by people and has been for a few centuries. It is well past time to start culling the herd and squashing some reproductive ‘rights’. Environmentalists should be the first people advocating that but they won’t because suburban curbside recycling bins are a lot easier and more politically correct. > > People that can’t drive or won’t drive can never be viewed as full adults. They are developmentally disabled and it is best to stay as far away from them as you can if you have a car. > > Superhero action movies are unwatchable and should be banned just like the comic books that inspired them. It is a horrible waste of brainpower for both the creators and the audience. The same is doubly true for the vast majority of science fiction. I agree with most of what you wrote, though I like some superhero movies, and most SF. Paris Hilton and Linsay Lohan should never be allowed in front of a movie camera though. I think all PC should be banned and anyone advocating anything PC should be put in stocks and have small children hit them with sticks. PS I have never heard anything Rush made, so can’t comment. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/289 "2013-04-19T11:17:41Z")
You always hear servers say something to the effect of “Everyone should have to wait tables for a year, then they’d know how hard it is and would never be rude to a waiter/waitress and would always tip at least 37%.” I think all waitstaff should have to put in 60 hour weeks working 3rd shift loading packages into semi trailers for 6 months, so they know what a hard job actually is. Also, the first day of training should begin with a module called “Check Splitting 101 - It’s Really Not That Fucking Hard” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/290 "2013-04-19T12:32:19Z")
As long as we’re veering into “if I ruled the world” territory: Anyone who protests against nuclear energy should have their electricity cut off; and then when they demand it be turned on again have to specify exactly how they expect the electricity to generated. If they name solar or wind they get charged the special “non-subsidized” rate that represents how much it actually costs. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/291 "2013-04-19T13:04:09Z")
Tipping should be eliminated. Gas stations and other merchants shouldn’t be allowed to price their products with 9/10 of a cent or some other non-existent unit of currency. Police roadside license/DUI/whatever checkpoints should be ruled unconstitutional as a violation of the 4th ammendment. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/292 "2013-04-19T14:08:26Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Drug prohibition needs to go, totally. You should be able to order ampules of heroin if you’re over 18, if thats what you want to do have at it. Medical help is available should you want it. > > End result is that things will be just like they are right now, a small minority will be users or addicts and the rest of people won’t be interested. But millions of people would be out of prison and organized crime would take a enormous hit, this would be the biggest destructive force organized crime would ever encounter. Yep , we are and will keep losing the war on drugs, I’m with you here. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/293 "2013-04-19T14:24:00Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Anyone who protests against nuclear energy should have their electricity cut off; and then when they demand it be turned on again have to specify exactly how they expect the electricity to generated. If they name solar or wind they get charged the special “non-subsidized” rate that represents how much it actually costs. I’m very cool with that, as long as all generating methods are similarly unsubsidized. For example, no more use of public lands, waters, or air for the disposal of any dangerous byproducts. No more public monies to secure or transport fuel supplies. So forth. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/294 "2013-04-19T14:34:11Z")
Possibly the most unpopular opinion ever: I hate _Game of Thrones_. I call it Game of Rape. It’s the most ridiculously misogynist piece of crap show I have ever seen. Watching it makes me feel physically ill. Also, it’s shit. On every possible level. It literally makes me embarrassed for humanity that it this show is so well liked. I once voiced my opinion aloud in a room full of people. I don’t think I will do that again. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/295 "2013-04-19T15:20:34Z")
Oh, I thought of another unpopular opinion of mine - dogs should be outlawed as pets in large communities. They’re far too intrusive on everyone else, since we rely on the dog owners to not let their dogs affect other people, and dog owners suck at that. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/296 "2013-04-19T15:35:36Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Oh, I thought of another unpopular opinion of mine - dogs should be outlawed as pets in large communities. They’re far too intrusive on everyone else, since we rely on the dog owners to not let their dogs affect other people, and dog owners suck at that. Obviously, you’ve never lived in a community: 1. That’s infested with feral cats, and/or 2. Where cat owners allow their cats outside to roam, killing birds and other animals. In my humble, (and unpopular), opinion, housecats should be banned and eliminated. At least dogs don’t kill 1.4-3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals every year in the US. [The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States | Nature Communications](http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n1/full/ncomms2380.html) That guy in [New Zealand](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/24/170191917/new-zealand-environmentalist-wants-to-eliminate-cats-to-save-birds) obviously has the right idea. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/297 "2013-04-19T16:11:51Z")
Pot should be legal and treated like alcohol. (eg. no toking in public, no driving while high.) ADD/ADHD is highly over-diagnosed and over-medicated and is a problem simply because kids aren’t allowed to just go out and play like we were back in the day. Staring at screens all day have overstimulated their little brains and they don’t know what to do with themselves so they act out. I actually think there’s no such thing as ADD/ADHD and that it’s a cop-out for shitty parenting - not actually teaching your kids how to behave. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/298 "2013-04-19T16:24:41Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > Well, poor choice of phrasing on my part, but is _any_ decision made by the POTUS while in office minor? Yes. For instance, choosing one time of day for a ceremony over another is considered by most to be a minor decision. Saying “Sagittarius is on the cusp so today is a good day to nuke the Russkis” would be a major world affecting decision. Do you have any examples of major world affecting decisions like that Reagan made based on astrology? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/299 "2013-04-19T16:30:17Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Rush (the Canadian band) is musically talented but also amazingly boring. I’ve never heard anything by Rush, but I will say the same thing about Brahms. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/300 "2013-04-19T16:40:42Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Yes. For instance, choosing one time of day for a ceremony over another is considered by most to be a minor decision. > > Saying “Sagittarius is on the cusp so today is a good day to nuke the Russkis” would be a major world affecting decision. Do you have any examples of major world affecting decisions like that Reagan made based on astrology? No, but any adherence to such utter tripe that it reflects poor reasoning skills and a total lack of respect for logic, evidence, and science. Neither you, nor I know how many decisions Regan based on the stars; the admission that some were is evidence of a disconnect with reality. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645.md?page=16)