# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/621 "2013-07-23T23:34:32Z")
> [@d1a1s1](#): > > This is the counter argument I always get. I guess one day when/if I have a family I’ll switch sides. Goodness, now your viewpoint makes a little more sense. If I was single, I’d carry just enough insurance for my burial, so I don’t inconvenience anyone else. And I might not even carry that if I had enough savings to take care of the costs. But it’s an entirely different ballgame when you’re married with children and the family’s primary breadwinner. Life insurance is primarily about income replacement. ---
**Author:** ![d1a1s1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@d1a1s1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d1a1s1)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/622 "2013-07-24T00:03:04Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Goodness, now your viewpoint makes a little more sense. If I was single, I’d carry just enough insurance for my burial, so I don’t inconvenience anyone else. And I might not even carry that if I had enough savings to take care of the costs. > > But it’s an entirely different ballgame when you’re married with children and the family’s primary breadwinner. Life insurance is primarily about income replacement. Finally, a sympathizer! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Bragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stealth\_Bragg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Bragg)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/623 "2013-07-24T13:51:42Z")
n/m sorry got wrong end of the stick ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/624 "2013-07-24T13:55:46Z")
> [@elisabeta](#): > > I think Vladimir Putin is the hottest man on the planet, J K Simmons being a close second. I love love love Russian’s legislation towards gay “propaganda”. And many many more… What are you? KGB? However, I will admit some of your other ideas are better. Maybe I will post about those soon. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/625 "2013-07-24T14:58:59Z")
Don’t see the attraction to John Legend, Jay-Z, Beyonce, or Lady Gaga. Especially Lady Gag-a. Atheist living in the south, I am seriously outnumbered. I think most “foodies” are full of shit. Food is food. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/626 "2013-07-24T16:31:49Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Public building worker here… the urgency to knock them down and replace them is because many were built in the 50s and the 60s on the cheap. So in the last decade, the ones that haven’t been replaced are quite literally falling apart. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > And many of them do not meet current building codes, especially regarding handicapped accessibility. Good reasons, and I do understand the accessibility issue (I was involved in ADA retrofitting in the last place I worked). I work in a field where “getting a new building” is considered a valuable bit of resume-padding, and it’s often justified in vague, nonspecific terms like “the building is outdated.” In fact, I’ve even heard people in my field say, “The day after you move into a new building, start planning for the next one.” All of this has made me cynical about the whole building-replacement process, particularly when the reasons aren’t articulated clearly. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/627 "2013-07-24T16:37:37Z")
> [@d1a1s1](#): > > But…I’m dead. Who cares what you do with me. > Don’t you see it?? People pay these companies tons of money for a service they will never see. > I understand auto insurance; accident happens, it gets fixed. Home insurance, same deal. But life insurance only pays when you’re dead and when you’re dead you’re not worrying about ANYTHING. The funeral isn’t for you, it’s for your family. Let them figure out what they want to do with you. > > I’ve had this argument many times and I’ve yet to gain a single supporter 😛 My life insurance has nothing to do in any real sense about my funeral. It’s so my kids can go to college and my family can keep our house minus my income. Once my family is grown and past all that I will reduce the amount of life insurance I carry, but I will carry enough to not burden my family with paying funeral expenses. It’s my final gift to my family so, even using your argument that the funeral is for them, they don’t have to modify what they need based on what they can afford. Anyway, life insurance is really cheap for what you get. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/628 "2013-07-24T16:41:24Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Apparently, my opinion that restaurants should let me use their bathroom even if I don’t buy anything there, is an unpopular opinion. You think that’s an unpopular opinion? I used to work for a business that didn’t have restrooms for customers. At least once a day I’d have the following conversation: Customer: Where are the restrooms? Me: We don’t have any. Customer: That’s illegal! I’m reporting you to the city! [Or the state or the police or whatever civil authority popped into the customer’s head.] Evidently, the opinion that taking money for goods and services doesn’t obligate one to provide a place to pee was very, very unpopular. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/629 "2013-07-24T16:45:55Z")
> [@steveroo](#): > > You think that’s an unpopular opinion? I used to work for a business that didn’t have restrooms for customers. At least once a day I’d have the following conversation: > > Customer: Where are the restrooms? > Me: We don’t have any. > Customer: That’s illegal! I’m reporting you to the city! [Or the state or the police or whatever civil authority popped into the customer’s head.] > > Evidently, the opinion that taking money for goods and services doesn’t obligate one to provide a place to pee was very, very unpopular. Was this a restaurant or some other kind of business? ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/630 "2013-07-24T16:52:30Z")
I hate hate hate the sanctimonius feel-good site [Upworthy](http://www.upworthy.com/) ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/631 "2013-07-24T17:01:02Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > My life insurance has nothing to do in any real sense about my funeral. It’s so my kids can go to college and my family can keep our house minus my income. Once my family is grown and past all that I will reduce the amount of life insurance I carry, but I will carry enough to not burden my family with paying funeral expenses. It’s my final gift to my family so, even using your argument that the funeral is for them, they don’t have to modify what they need based on what they can afford. > > Anyway, life insurance is really cheap for what you get. I am reminded of those TV commercials for life insurance that say, “The average funeral costs $6000” (or a figure close to that). I have no idea how they’re coming up with that number … maybe if you just go with cremation and pick up the ashes in a coffee can like in _The Big Lebowski_. What people think of as a “real” funeral–a casket, flowers, a gravesite with a headstone, a service with a clergyman saying comforting words, a post-service luncheon, etc.–can easily run $20-30 grand. Not having enough life insurance to cover a funeral is hugely inconsiderate. If you don’t want an elaborate, expensive funeral, make pre-arrangements and pay for it in advance, but have some life insurance anyway because there will still be some expenses you can’t anticipate. $30K in life insurance is pretty cheap anyway. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/632 "2013-07-24T17:04:33Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Was this a restaurant or some other kind of business? It was a video/pinball arcade (this was back during the heyday of Pac-Man and Space Invaders). We didn’t sell food; there wasn’t even a soft-drink machine. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/633 "2013-08-13T02:53:59Z")
Early voting is a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/634 "2013-08-13T03:09:55Z")
> [@steveroo](#): > > I am reminded of those TV commercials for life insurance that say, “The average funeral costs $6000” (or a figure close to that). I have no idea how they’re coming up with that number … maybe if you just go with cremation and pick up the ashes in a coffee can like in _The Big Lebowski_. What people think of as a “real” funeral–a casket, flowers, a gravesite with a headstone, a service with a clergyman saying comforting words, a post-service luncheon, etc.–can easily run $20-30 grand. I would come back and haunt my loved ones if they spent $30k on my funeral. ---
**Author:** ![NotDeadYet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotDeadYet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotDeadYet)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/635 "2013-08-13T03:58:32Z")
Hate is a strong word and a waste of energy, but I do have a significant disdain for Wayne Dyer, Dr. Oz, motivational speakers people who try to impose their views on me. I smoke cigars and get annoyed when someone goes out of their way to sit down-wind of me when there are plenty of places to sit where they won’t even get a whiff of my smoke and then cause a stink. O.K. there is one thing I hate – when someone calls my MINI Cooper “cute”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fluke54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@Fluke54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluke54)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/636 "2013-08-13T05:57:02Z")
I’d say my political views are extremely unpopular, so unpopular I don’t tell anyone what they are. I do not like children and I like babies even less. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/637 "2013-08-13T09:15:31Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > The best film in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three Colors” trilogy was “White.” You mispelled Blue. Seriously, I was surprised to find your statement in this thread since it doesn’t seem there are many people who care about Kieslowski one way or the other. But your opinion indeed won’t get much support amongst those who care. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/638 "2013-08-13T17:54:42Z")
I think dead people should be treated as property with no special rules governing them except for hazardous waste storage/disposal. ---
**Author:** ![Fluke54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@Fluke54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluke54)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/639 "2013-08-13T18:32:57Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I love M. Night Shyamalan movies. Yes, really. > > Putting children in lab goggles and doing “ooh cool” scientific so-called experiments doesn’t foster an interest in science, it fosters an interest in watching cool tricks. > > Crafts and decorating and recreational baking are not housekeeping. They are playing house. They’re a lot of fun, but they are _playing_ house. Another M.Night fan here. I love his movies and I love him. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645/640 "2013-08-13T19:36:02Z")
The vast majority of the time, one’s chromosomes should be a legitimate and uncontroversial determiner of someone’s gender and the pronouns used to describe them. If I took a cheek swab and cloned you and your little baby clone has a penis, you’re a male. If it has a vagina, you’re a female. If it has a penis and I call you “he”, “him”, “that guy”, etc then there shouldn’t be an uproar about it. Those are words we use to refer to males. What anyone else wants to call you or what you want to call yourself is up to you but, biologically, you’re a male and anyone treating you as such isn’t in the wrong for it. Whatever scant side cases there are involving chromosomal abnormalities where gender can not be determined can be decided on separately. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-most-unpopular-opinions/655645.md?page=33)