1. There should be no central governments, only private dispute resolution organizations.
2. The American Medical Association, and any other cartel for labor, should be dissolved.
3. Taxation is robbery and theft.
4. Equality is illogical.
what are some of your radical but controversial opinions
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@Athias
4. Equality is illogical.
This is meaningless. The problem in wealth equality is that our system of reward is more or less arbitrary. Whether I'm better than you, or you me, has nothing to do with it. Elon Musk is not worth 50 million dollars an hour where another is worth 3 cent.
If you like, taxation is a band-aid fix where we have allowed our system of reward to develop organically.
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@badger
Someone is ALWAYS going to be better than you Badger :(
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@Greyparrot
It doesn't matter. Money is a game that's played on us. Anyone who thinks it's a vote, is deluded. We're left no option but to buy into this farce.
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@badger
We always have the option to feel sorry for the people who have become slaves to their possessions.
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@Greyparrot
What is socialism? We miss the boat if we say it's the agenda of those left-wingers and Democrats. According to Marxist doctrine, socialism is a stage of society between capitalism and communism where private ownership and control over property is eliminated. The essence of socialism is the attenuation and ultimate abolition of private property rights. Attacks on private property include, but are not limited to, confiscating the rightful property of one person and giving it to another to whom it doesn't belong. When this is done privately we call it theft. When it's done collectively we use the euphemisms: income transfers or redistribution. It's not just left-wingers and Democrats who call for and admire socialism but right-wingers and Republicans as well.
Why are you posting absolute nonsense at me? Libertarianism is retarded and you're on here because you don't like black people.
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@badger
I'll let you in on a little secret. There are no black or white people.
You have been lied to your whole life to believe various shades of pink and beige is white and various shades of Brown and yellow are Black.
In fact, every single person on the planet is a unique color and the same as no other in the world. There exists no Albinos that are actually 100% white and there are no people that are 100% Black on the color spectrum.
Think about that the next time you ponder the meaning of the universe.
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@Greyparrot
Is it this deep thinking that sustains you in your unemployed, post romantic life?
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@badger
Employment is a state of mind. Romance is just a bunch of evolutionary chemical reactions.
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@Danielle
@oromagi
Getting rid of the Electoral College might be considered radical policy-wise.I don't think that should even be controversial- as much a unnecessary holdover from agrarian thinking as daylight savings or pickup truck subsidies
Crazy how the notion of one person one vote is "controversial"...
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@Double_R
Crazy how the notion of one person one vote is "controversial"...
Crazy how the notion of a collection of sovereign states is "controversial"
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@Greyparrot
#40
I'm loving this realism.
Lemon party.
I believe that cancel culture can only ever be countered by further cancel culture.
I thusly understand and surrender to the idea of censorship on any platform and hope to wage war against one side of cancel culture by pressuring it to censor itself and be weary of the other side's wrath.
I see it as a balanced tug of war, not a pendulum, in its optimal state.
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@RationalMadman
I believe that cancel culture can only ever be countered by further cancel culture.I thusly understand and surrender to the idea of censorship on any platform and hope to wage war against one side of cancel culture by pressuring it to censor itself and be weary of the other side's wrath.I see it as a balanced tug of war, not a pendulum, in its optimal state.
There could also be a social norm developed of essentially canceling the cancelers. As in, if someone tries to get someone fired or otherwise socially sanctioned for expressing the “wrong” beliefs on something…they’re the one who faces social punishment instead of their intended victim
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@thett3
Did you hear the news story about a lesbian bar that got canceled for being capitalist?
My most radical opinion, maybe controversial. Is that i believe everyone is God.
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@thett3
That is actually what I meant.
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@thett3
America and Canada should just form some sort of EU lite organization then.
1) Deporting anyone who enters the country illegally and ending any chance at citizenship forever for doing so.
2) Banning for life the ability to work for, do business with or collect benefits from the govt for defrauding the govt.
3) Death penalty for convicted pedophiles
4) Audit all govt agencies and the Federal reserve.
5) Limit all govt entitlements to $1500 per household and no benefits for legal non citizens for 10 years upon arrival. I already covered illegal aliens.
6) Expand slander laws to include all media and politicians.
I could literally go on for days.
Religious private schools should be afforded the same taxpayer benefits as their public school counterparts.
In fact, given that public schools regularly teach material harmful to religious communities, the only way to avoid violating the Establishment Clause is to eliminate the public-private school distinction, with all schools being private but supported by key public infrastructure and quality controls. The sectarian/nonsectarian nature of a school will reflect what the parents of that local area want; if most want a nonsectarian school then that's fine. If a sizable minority wants, say, a Catholic school, then one would be erected with funding proportionate to the size of its student body. If there are too few parents to justify their own school, then they could homeschool/outsource the homeschooling job to an instructor, and it wouldn't cost them substantially more than for the school option.
We shouldn't treat people like monsters merely because they were born pedophiles.
If a pedophile is not known to have personally exploited or abused children, but he is found to be in possession of child pornography, regardless of how graphic or disturbing, the first emphasis should be on his rehabilitation as opposed to his punishment.
Rehabilitation should generally mean chemical castration. Similarly, however, we should not place any stigma on eunuch status. It should be a widespread option in society, especially for religious people who want to curb their sexual urges which they interpret to be sinful. There should be strong support networks to help the castrate, be they pedophiles, religious, for medical reasons, or other, to live fulfilling lives.
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@Double_R
Crazy how the notion of one person one vote is "controversial"...
It is kinda crazy if you think about it.
Most people can’t even make good, informed choices regarding their own lives. Then that is applied to a system letting them impact hundreds of millions of other peoples’ lives on the sole basis of having not died in their first 18 years of living.
Voting is nice an all, but I can’t help but feel that uninformed voting is worse than uninformed people not voting. Some vetting would be nice, but I am going to wager a guess that expecting that voters should be able to read at an 8th grade level or pass high school or speak English is the “controversial” position
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@bmdrocks21
Most people can't even make good, informed choices regarding their own lives.
A tad arrogant me thinks.
Maybe it's just that "most" people don't always agree with you.
As "most" does suggest that you are few.
Nonetheless:
In an election, your preferred candidate wins 51% to 49%.
In this instance 51% is "most" people.
So relative to your opinion, would this be a worthless, uninformed result?
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@Ehyeh
Perfect clones eventually breed monsters.
Upon reflection, a bad choice of words.
And the eye thing makes for interesting reading.
As I understand it, genes are obviously responsible for outcomes, though eye colouration does not necessarily effect eye development and visual function.
Though lighter eye pigmentation is more likely to lead to some degenerative problems over time.
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@Swagnarok
We shouldn't treat people like monsters merely because they were born pedophiles.
Nobody was born a paedophile. It's reasoned the same as any other paraphilia or fetish. That's the most obvious truth that nobody seems to know. Funny that the wires get crossed so often where it comes to sexuality, but we seem to work just fine otherwise. It's because it's down to individual circumstance and gaming that circumstance. I mean, what genetic fluke makes you want to fuck kids anyway? Nature ideas never made sense.
Paedophiles are predators. They're preying on the helpless and they know it. Every last one of them.
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@Swagnarok
You made a lot of posts about cutting off penis in this thread and that's fun.
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@zedvictor4
So relative to your opinion, would this be a worthless, uninformed result?
Maybe, maybe not. In this hypothetical election, did voters know what the key issues of each candidates’ platform was? Are they literate?
I’m not right on everything. I might vote for someone who does worse. I’m speaking about the process more so than the result: do the people voting at least have the capabilities of making a good choice.
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@Swagnarok
Religious private schools should be afforded the same taxpayer benefits as their public school counterparts.In fact, given that public schools regularly teach material harmful to religious communities, the only way to avoid violating the Establishment Clause is to eliminate the public-private school distinction, with all schools being private but supported by key public infrastructure and quality controls. The sectarian/nonsectarian nature of a school will reflect what the parents of that local area want; if most want a nonsectarian school then that's fine. If a sizable minority wants, say, a Catholic school, then one would be erected with funding proportionate to the size of its student body. If there are too few parents to justify their own school, then they could homeschool/outsource the homeschooling job to an instructor, and it wouldn't cost them substantially more than for the school option.
To add to the school subject another radical (but actually controversial) opinion I have is that school is pretty much just actively harmful, especially for boys. Sit down and shut the fuck up for 8 hours isn’t always the easiest thing for a seven year old, and drugging them if they have issues with this is asinine, but around 1 in 5 boys have to take drugs (adderral, Ritalin, etc) as children to cope with schooling. On top of that children spending most of their waking life in a social system that’s never replicated again—everyone being exactly the same age and competing for the attention of one authority figure—probably isn’t good preparation for life. And homework must be abolished. Whenever I think about how my elementary school teachers would send us home on break with bullshit “packets” of worksheets I wanna go postal lol. It’s not controversial to say the system is really getting long in the tooth and is showing it’s age by now
I know that not everyone is like me, but I had a pretty positive school experience, good behavior and grades at truly excellent schools, especially high school, absolutely amazing teachers by public school standards (two even had PhD’s in their field and also taught at a local university)…. But I truly don’t think I remember a single thing I actually learned in school. I remember almost everything I learned on my own time. Even random childrens books I read twenty years ago if they happen to cross my mind I can remember them vividly but school is like a black hole.
The best thing that can be said about the system is that it if it’s done well it truly does prepare you for the academic life of college and the twelve years of boring and humiliating grind prepares you for boring and humiliating office jobs, but if you don’t go down that track as most don’t I’m not convinced it was worth anywhere near twelve years of your youth