What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?
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Who decides who can pro-create? What is the criteria?
I don't see a scenario where this works out well.
I laid out some bare minimums: knowledge about how to take care of and raise a healthy human child and the financial means to do so.
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This is an extremely popular opinion among those who've not unpacked that what you're describing is eugenics
It is not, at all, eugenics. Nothing in my unpopular opinion has anything to do with genetic traits
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Wow. .08 is ridiculously lax IMO. I agree punishments should scale by inebriation level but I never expected people to think .08 was too strict.
It's a slight buzz. People are substantially more dangerous when they are sleep deprived but no laws or severe punishments for that because the system needs its slaves to get to work whether they've rested well or not.
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Fair enough. In the Elon one there are probably some people that would want to hear more. It was hard for me to come up with an example.
We shouldn't downvote the unpopular opinion, we should upvote it. It's counterintuitive but we're actually asking for unpopular opinions. I see a lot of truly interesting unpopular opinions in here that are getting downvoted and I'm not sure everyone is on the same page.
The "unpopular opinions" that should be downvoted are the opinions that aren't really unpopular opinions and are just trolling. You know them when you see them.
Agreed, I find it speaks volumes about the person voting whether they're genuinely interested in discussions that may challenge their views or if they lean more towards validation from strangers on the internet.
I'm not sure what the optimal practice would be for encouraging honest and healthy discussion and debate other than creating spaces where rules and conduct are strictly enforced. Like how /r/gaming and /r/games differed on reddit.
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Me and my GF both agree that Beatles songs are fantastic... when performed by people who aren't the Beatles.
I enjoyed the music in the film "Yesterday" muuuuuch more than i enjoyed the original versions.
Maybe it's the 60s style of it, idk. I just don't really get along with it
Agree in principle. Haven't seen Yesterday, but Across the Universe soundtrack is my go to Beatles cover album.
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I realize they're not really for the dead, but the living decide that their dead bodies are entitled to more space than some living. Plots cost thousands of dollars. We ostracize the unhoused. Our priorities are broken, and graveyards are yet another thing for those "with" that those "without" will not have.
I don't know. Personally I don't need a "place" to go visit someone that is deceased, but I have very close family that needs that place in order to grieve. Pets or human family, they need to be buried and have a marker.
When I lived in a more urban environment the only way to achieve that was through graveyards/pet cemeteries. With some land and the option I'd rather bury people at home now, but lots of people don't have that luxury, but still have the need to "visit" deceased loved ones, and know where they "are."
I'm not one of those people, sounds like you aren't either, but that doesn't mean that a graveyard doesn't serve a useful purpose for the majority of people.
Could they be more efficient? Sure, maybe. But honestly do they really take up THAT much space?
Definitely fits the unpopular opinion tag, but I think you've got some blinders on your empathy if you don't see their value.
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But where would we scrape up the funding?
That's a good argument for including very late term abortion. Inheritance tax.
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- Black is a color!!
- Dolphins are fish!!
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It's insane how many removed call lots of the ideas here "Eugenics". Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible, while a lot of the replies here say that bad parents should not be allowed to make kids. Nobody talked about stopping people who aren't so "perfect" (biologically-wise) to make kids. Just not have more kids suffering by growing in abusive and broken households or been poor and have it very hard in life.
People are Lemmy are not much smarter that those on Reddit, it seems...
your semantic understanding of eugenics doors not seem to understand why people opposed eugenics and eugenics policies.
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Thank the both of you for summing up my point better than I did.
I'd love to take credit for the summary, JuxtaposedJaguar did the work.
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- Black is a color!!
- Dolphins are fish!!
I don't see a problem
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It is not, at all, eugenics. Nothing in my unpopular opinion has anything to do with genetic traits
whatever metrics you use to decide who gets to procreate, you will certainly bias the gene pool. That's eugenics
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Desktop computers are way better and more fun than using phone for browsing, wikipedia, news, and Lemmy
I rarely use my phone for anything other than texting. I like using my desktop computer to browse and post.
not necessarily more fun, but definitely much, much, much more usable and convenient
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Small personal project, like a console app that searches a directory for files of a specific type and produces a json output? I think you are incorrect sir
python. does c++ even have json support in std?
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python. does c++ even have json support in std?
there's a LOT to unpack there.
but python is an alternative to c++.
you're saying that alternatives shouldn't exist? because you personally prefer one option over all others? you're selfish and stupid.
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COD sucks. The only good ones were world at war and the original modern warfare series. That's it. All others aren't worth a shit.
Now before you respond, yes I know there are many people that agree with this, but with people I know in real life this is unpopular.
I have great memories of the first Call of Duty solely for its sound design. It elevated it above Medal of Honor.
The franchise has been trash since after the OG Modern Warfare.
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I'm frustrated more people are complacent with the state of the world, including myself.
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I laid out some bare minimums: knowledge about how to take care of and raise a healthy human child and the financial means to do so.
In the United States, political violence has ensured overrepresentation of minority populations below the poverty line. Requireing the financial means to have a child thereby limits minority procreation.
To address this, a universal basic income as well as a stipend for parents would be necessary. In the US, this is far away from ever happening, eere actively moving in the opposite direction. Mandatory birth control in this country is eugenics.
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not necessarily more fun, but definitely much, much, much more usable and convenient
Fair point! Fun is def not the correct word I should have used. "Practical" is the better choice.
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any policy you can implement to address "overpopulation" is eugenics. so there is nothing (ethical) to do about it.
maybe start with not incentivizing the production of children with all the tax cuts and loans and whatnot. and revise the pension system so that it finally does not rely on working like cancer
