Post your unpopular political views

Post Reply New Topic

The fact that he committed the crime for which he is now serving time in prison doesn't prove his guilt for the murders in 1994.

BTW I am not expressing admiration for him as a person. He impresses me as quite unintelligent (possibly due to concussions sustained during his career) and a generally unappealing person.

I'm just saying I am not convinced of his guilt as it was never proven and I am dubious he could have killed two healthy people in the prime of their lives with just a knife (or whatever the murder weapon seems to have been). It might have been possible for two people to have done it, but there is no way to know if that happened due to the lack of good forensic evidence. And of course he was the only person ever charged (or seriously considered as a suspect IIRC).

I am quite ready to believe in his guilt if I could see some more compelling evidence, as I would consider him capable of a violent act like that. But I believe the same of millions of others, as well.

Speaking of which, if you are familiar with the Adnan Syed case from 15 years ago in Baltimore (Series One of the Serial podcast), it seems to me that Mr. Syed is as good a suspect as any although it is debatable how good a case was made against him. But in his case, many people seem willing to believe he might be innocent. I don't really see much of a difference in the circumstances, but public opinion is dramatically different.

My unpopular views:

1. I believe in mixed economies. Pure ideologies look good on paper, but are shite in real life.

2. Socio-political issues are not black and white, but nuanced and complex; therefore, they require more than simplistic solutions and sound-bite answers.

3. Humans are not in 100% control of all factors affecting their life, and they don't deserve to starve because they run into bad luck.

4. Evolutionary psychology is bullcrap and based on cherry-picking and speculation. "Human nature" has yet to be definitively defined by anyone whether psychologist, biologist, scientist, or philosopher.

5. The U.S. isn't a bad country. It has its problems, but show me any country that has completely clean hands. I'd rather live here than almost anywhere else in the world.

6. I served in the military. I believe violence has its place. I do not apologize for it.

7. All political discussions are essential a bunch of monkeys throwing poop at each other while fighting for the best place in the fruit tree.

8. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was a good movie.

That is all.

I actually agree with almost all of these things. Of course, I still think Canada's a better place for me because of our free healthcare and social programs, but I wouldn't mind living in the US if they had these things as well. In fact, I'd probably end up prefering to live in the US if they had these things. *THAT* is my unpopular opinion, and I'd probably get beaten to death with a bunch of hockey sticks if I told most Canadians that.

With the bit on evolutionary psychology, well, the way I see it, humans are just naked apes. We have advanced social structures and language, sure, but at our core we're still animals. And we're no better than the other animals either. Our primary inner drives are to feed ourselves, mate, and just otherwise survive.

Yea it will

Not all cultures are equal, thus multiculturalism is not a good idea in this day and age, especially with the influx of those coming to Canada and not adapting to how things are here.

I don't mind multiculturalism, and I think it's kind of neat seeing all sorts of different cultures around me, but honestly, I think it should be a requirement that people who enter the service industry here be able to speak FLUENT ENGLISH (or French in the case of Quebec). Not trying to single out any particular groups here, but if you speak with customers as part of their job, and you have trouble understanding or speaking their language, you should probably consider some different career options.

This is a two way street though, because this also means that there needs to be a greater emphasis on ESL education, as well as more opportunities for immigrants that don't merely involve taking orders at McDonalds.

Another thing, I think Canada should open its borders to disabled immigrants seeking better social programs than the ones they have back home. The state of healthcare and social programs in the US is appalling to say the least, and a I think a lot of disabled individuals there would benefit from our programs. Some people may cry foul about this, and say that people are going to steal our tax dollars and try defrauding us, but I think there is a legit humanitarian argument to be made here. Plus, disability fraud happens everywhere, and I think that as long as cases for immigrants are well vetted, it shouldn't be much more of a problem than it is now. CBSA agents do a pretty good job of turning away people who come here to work illegally, so I think their vigilance would work for disability immigration cases too.

any business/corporate entity that initiates a SLAPP action against protesters of said entity's misdeeds, in addition to having civil rights lawsuits filed against it, needs to be permanently barred from doing business in the states pertinent to its SLAPP.

SLAPP? The heck's that?

My thoughts exactly.

Strategic
Lawsuit
Against
Public
Participation

usually filed by big corporations in response to public criticism of their actions, to punitively [with malice aforethought] sue the protesters into silence.

I believe that a human fetus depends on the mother, but grows independently of her personal will and has the value of a person in that it carries the promise of being a person soon.

Thus, I believe in heavy restrictions on abortion, because it is immoral to put nine months' comfort ahead of a human life.

That being said, I support contraception. A sperm and egg might make a person, but they are not a whole being yet, with predestined characteristics and consciousness. A fetus is a whole being that grows in complexity. A sperm is a sperm, an egg is an egg, and their complexity stays the same whether or not they are in ovaries/testes or being blocked by contraception. They remain as complex and growing as they ever were.

Basically, I believe when it heavily affects a woman's physical or mental health, she should be allowed to have an abortion. I value the life of the mother over the life of a fetus. I do think it's fair for a woman to abort a child by rape, it's not her fault. Incest, unless coupled with rape, should not be grounds for abortion. The child will have difficulties, but difficulties are not, according to our medical and mental health ideals, a reason to never have been born. Frankly, don't have sex with a close relative. I didn't think that was hard to understand.

Amen sister.

I don't like abortions either, but if history is anything to go by, people are willing to go to unsafe, and often fatal lengths to have illegal abortions performed when legal ones aren't available. In this case, the lesser of two evils would be to provide legal abortions, since ultimately less people would die this way. While it would be nice if people quit expressing a desire to abort their fetuses, it's pretty much impossible to make this happen. I'm not FOR abortions, I'm just saying that legal ones performed by medical professionals are the lesser of two evils.

For the record, I also support the legalization of assisted suicide, because I am morally opposed to forcibly prolonging people's suffering. If someone is suffering from a painful terminal illness and they know that their life isn't going to get any better, why force them to remain in pain? Of course, in such a situation, I also believe that the consent of the patient needs to be taken VERY SERIOUSLY, because there have been a number of cases where people who have asked for assisted suicide have had the button pushed for them before they had a chance to give a final OK. Some of these patients may have decided at the last minute that they wanted to back out, so pushing the button for them without getting that OK is no different than murder. I believe this is the reason why Jack Kevorkian was sent to prison.

why does it seem that anti-abortion/anti-birth control people value the life of the unborn over the life of the born?

Campaign for more NTs in power positions, including explanation why there is a dominance of Aspergers in certain professions and why this is bad, in particular in the juridic professions and in medical and mental health professions.

More attention drawn to the very obvious links between ASD and theories of fascism (Hannah Arendt: lack of power of judgement, lack of empathy, Frankfurt School: reified thinking/instrumental rationality, authoritarian personality), and ASD and eugenic or racist policies (e.g. Thilo Sarrazin and his "high-giftedness gene").

Mental health issues should be an important part of the curriculum from primary school on, neurodiversity from kindergarden on.

Nice exposition, CryingTears, and I agree abortion should only be permissible under restricted circumstances, which is quite an unpopular view especially where I'm from (Western Europe). However, it's pretty difficult to come up with a cutoff point. For example, would you say the morning after pill should also be prohibited? Maybe the restrictions should become increasingly strict the more the fetus has grown.