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Supporting the death penalty.
Rape is worse than murder; murder can be justified in some cases, e.g self defense, but rape never can. Therefore on average, rape is more evil than murder (it's a question of 100% versus like 98.5% on the evil scale)
I think the first one is more contentious - yes it's mainstream but it genuinely gets people riled up. The second one sounds shocking but is mainly just hard to articulate.
The placement of pineapple on pizza is subjective
Humans don't deserve pets.
The Maginot Line wasn't a waste. It did exactly what it was designed to do: Make the Germans go around to the west. The failure was political, in that the 2nd part of this defense was that France and Belgium would coordinate to set up a proper line in Belgium, but this never happened when Germany invaded.
And Chamberlain had no choice but to accept Hitlers claims on Sudetenland (part of then Czechoslovakia). Any other treaty would've required an enforcement mechanism, and Britain was in no shape or form ready for even a limited war at that time.
William Shakespeare was a pseudonym adopted by Sir Francis Bacon whom was also Queen Elizabeth 1st’s son.
Voting requires citizenship. But citizenship itself should require more than just existing.
If we look back to Greek and Roman democracy, it was true that every citizen got a vote. But the people who were citizens was much more stringent.
The basic idea of the ars liberalis or Liberal Arts translates literally as "The work of freedom". Exercising your right to partake in a democracy required that a person be knowledgable about history, civics, rhetoric, politics, philosophy. Without that knowledge, you were not allowed a vote in how things are run.
Essentially, you had to know what you were voting on.
Unfortunately, that meant that in essence only the rich landowners could be citizens because they were the only ones with the time and money to get educated while the underclasses were too busy working to suvive.
But in the modern age, where public schooling is a thing, we should be able to figure out a way to make such a thing work. Nowadays, the only thing keeping people ignorant is choice. And if you make the choice to be ignorant, you should forfeit your right to have a say in the governing of your nation.
I am very, very progressive. Here are my hot takes:
Transgender participation in sports can lead to unfair advantages. I hate that I believe this, as I do not want anybody to feel ostracized or as if they are discriminated against. But I think it’s true nonetheless :(
Reading smut does not count as reading. Listening to audiobooks does not count as reading.
The US was never the land of the free.
Music needs to broadly adopt alternative musical scales.
State-sanctioned suicide is essential to a developed nation.
Pinball is grossly under-appreciated, and its progression is a great example of doing new things with old ideas.
Any nation that wants nukes should be allowed to develop them.
Luigi’s Mangione’s eyebrows are off-putting.
Eating breakfast is stupid if you have a job that isn’t physical.
I’m sure there are more. FIGHT ME!
No one should feel obligated to be an organ donor. And telling someone they must because they "aren't using their body anymore" is fucked up. If a person has to be coerced, guilted or bullied into giving the "gift of life" they aren't doing so freely. If they have to be manipulated into it then it's not a gift. It's theft. Nevermind the fact that corporations make big bank off the organ and tissue trade by piecemealing out donors and sellings the parts, but no one talks about THAT because lives are being saved.
(I'm not against organ donation. I just don't like that we use manipulation tactics to procure body parts and that there isn't transparency about who is profiting).
My controversial opinion is, everyone should benby default an organ donor, unless stated otherwise.
COVID-19 was a lab leak.
Now let me be clear I think Fauci is a god damned saint and national hero for putting up with the shit he did. We don't deserve someone like him.
You can't support Ukraine and other victims of military aggression, without having a strong arms industry yourself.
Everyone who can should live vegan. If you don't live vegan and call yourselve an animal-lover, you're a hypocrite.
I love animals and I love eating meat. Controversial take on your take- nobody should be vegan. Look in your mouth for proof. Humans are evolved omnivores. We are to eat meat AND vegetables. Not only one or the other. This is biology. Don't get this as me saying you shouldn't be vegan or it's wrong- just pointing out facts about evolution that I'm sure some won't see eye to eye with. This is all in good jest!
I think all land should be returned to my county's indigenous people. I'm descended from the colonizers.