What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?
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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
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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
id argue those incentive programs are, themselves, eugenics policies, but I also think ending them is complicated, as doing so in one jurisdiction and not in others is, you see, eugenics.
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Thinking that Trump and your shitty country is the only one in the world is pathetic to say the least. Nothing will work in your country (and I'm not talking just about kids but in general) but that doesn't mean it won't work in other countries as well
️Challenge: USAns not be the dumbest nation on this planet for one day (impossible)
Lmao, not an American, but let's use.... Germany as an example. In the 2025 elections, the AFD (hard right fascists) doubled their seat count in parliament. I don't think you have a solid understanding of how bad eugenics can get, or how it actually would take effect in a modern world. Actually, it seems you don't understand much of anything.
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The Lemmy users who call themselves "Leftists" are garbage human beings. Shitty, hostile, unnecessarily combative, will disagree with you about anything you say even when you're on the same page.
And most of them aren't really that left. Trying to talk about abolition of police and prisons is something they would never agree to, even though it's a fundamentally leftist ideal. They're just bad people.
The Lemmy users who call themselves “Leftists” are garbage human beings
And most of them aren’t really that left. Trying to talk about abolition of police and prisons is something they would never agree to
wait, is this a roundabout way of calling yourself a garbage human being?
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OMG IM SO SHOCKED A BUNCH OF SUPER POPULAR OPINIONS ON LEMMY!!
the trick is of course to look for the most disliked comments. Here's a couple
All humans are basically pure evil.
You are probably cruel and violent to vulnerable individuals more than three times a day.
Older men having sex with sexually mature teen girls is fine
DUI laws are too strict. It shouldn’t be all or nothing at .08 BAC but more severe punishments for more severe inebriation. .08 is pretty low and people who drink regularly can function fine at that level.
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Protecting children from been born into terrible families is not social control.
If you want to have a system which determines which people will or won't make terrible families, only permitting the former to reproduce, you want a system of social control. If children were delivered randomly by storks it would be something else. Aviation regulations? Avian regulations? Something like that I guess.
Not all social control is bad. Society and its institutions often limit what people can do. But of late we've mostly determined that restricting reproduction should be used sparingly, not defaultly, and I tend to agree.
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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...
Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible
"Eugenics" was a term decades before "genes"
Even if the etymology was different, you'd still be very wrong
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- Black is a color!!
- Dolphins are fish!!
These threads always attract a variety of reactionary opinions
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Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible
"Eugenics" was a term decades before "genes"
Even if the etymology was different, you'd still be very wrong
Eugenics is the action of preventing it. Saying someone shouldn’t isn’t advocating for its forceful eugenics.
