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What's a socially unacceptable opinion you hold?
Like, something you feel or believe deeply but never feel comfortable saying aloud because you know people will judge you negatively?
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Not so much and opinion, but a socially unacceptable thing I want to do sometimes is tell someone to reign in their kids. Like, if the kid is running around causing havoc at the store or something. I know it's hard to be a parent, and that kids are kids and you can't always force them to do anything, so I try to be as understanding as possible and just ignore it, but that's not always easy and sometimes it gets to me.
I totally hear you on this one. I mean I get it, kids are like that. But sometimes I see things that scream "bad parent" to me. I try to be understanding though because maybe it was just an off moment or maybe something is going on for Mom or Dad so their complete attention isn't on the situation at hand.
Yeah, I'd feel pretty shitty if I yelled at someone about their son only to find out they just got news their mom died or something.
Exactly! We do not know what's going on so it is not for us to judge. However if I ever felt something was dangerous I would call the authorities to deal with it.
Meat eaters are waaaay more obnoxious than vegetarians or vegans. I've never had a vego question or make fun of me for eating meat, but a huge proportion of meat eaters love to comment or question me when I choose to avoid it.
Im not even a vegetarian or a vegan I just try to aim for a low meat diet.
My one brother is vegan, my other brother is meataholic. The meataholic is constantly giving the vegan shit. It never happens the other way around. It got so bad that the rest of us siblings called him out and told him to knock it off.
On just the right kind of day, if I'm in the right kind of mood, I will tell people exactly what I think with no filters. Sometimes this is unacceptable. But sometimes I just can't hold it in. Like if a mother is being mean to her daughter or something, and it's just the right day: I might say something about it. I know there might be some reason for it happening. But I also know that it may be some outer symptom of deeper abuses. There have been occasions where listening with the right ear and asking the right questions has helped people in an abusive situation, I have seen. If I see someone directly emotionally, verbally, psychologically (and obviously physically) abusing somebody, I have to say something-- or plan to say something or help them, if I see them on a regular basis. I guess what I'm saying is, I like to get involved and/or put my nose in places it might not belong.
I will stay anonymous on this one because although I do not believe in capital punishment sometimes I feel like killing the worst of the worst would benefit society.
It's a tough call sometimes.
I'm definitely of two minds about it. It seems hypocritical to say "killing is only okay when we say it is", but at the same time, there are some awful awful people out there.
Yeah.... in that film The Interpreter they mention some culture where the punishment is like, the murderer (or other serious criminal) gets bound and thrown in a river, and it's up to the victim/victim's family to decide whether or not to save them. I always found that deeply interesting-- whether or not it was true!
I learned a strange viking-era cultural norm about killing this morning: in a world where death and violence is an everyday occurrence, if you own up to killing someone and pay the blood money to their family, things go not terribly -- but if you try to hide from an act of murder, you face execution or exile. Makes me wonder how that kind of morality could apply to current day western culture.
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Neato!
That there is no such a thing as evil or death.
I'd like to be able to hold those opinions too!
Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
Life, as I experience it is a sharing. The food I eat and the food I become is all connected. The water the sun the earth. One thing. Life is not my body or my mind, I am part of life and so far it is eternal. Maybe the cycle will stop. Not yet.
Hugs. Big hugs.
I agree with you on the whole evil thing!
Not sure I do.
Omg. Finally. Hugs.
Most don't.
So many things I am uncomfortable saying. :/ Here's just one: I hate going outside because wage slavery gets on my nerves. Worked my ass off to get to a point where... I am still technically a wage slave, but can do less money-work if I want, choose when/where to do it, and am well off compared to most people around me. I don't like obeying orders, and don't like when people serve me because they're obeying orders, rather than out of inner drives to mutually help fellow lifeforms. Even worse, the truly poor don't even get to obey a boss's orders, so they can't threaten to refuse their jobs. No one needs to be poor, but they're held up to scare wage slaves with what's one level down.
Don't get me wrong, I try to work with people and do something about it. We're not powerless here. I have to believe one day we'll win and end it.
Wow, I hadn't thought about it to this extent, but I feel the same way. I always make extra effort to be friendly with cashiers, food service workers, and other people likely not making great money because I know what a miserable experience that is. I always feel slightly guilty for being there and making them work, like I think I'm better than them or something.
I don't think human life is intrinsically more valuable than animal life. There's been a lot of conversation lately about the death of Harambe the gorilla, and I don't understand why so many people think that little boy's life was more valuable than the gorilla's, just because the boy happened to be of the human species. I haven't dared express that opinion out loud, because I'm sure most people would brand me a monster, but I don't understand why human life is somehow always the most important.
From a human standpoint, it's us vs them. Objectively, humans are higher functioning creatures, so you could approach it that way. Could also approach it from the aspect of no life really being of any real value.
Objectively, humans are also aggressive, destructive, irresponsible, and neurotic.. I fluctuate between thinking human and animal lives are equally valuable to thinking humans are, in fact, usually the inferior species when compared against other mammals.
Again, not something I say aloud very often.
Not exactly an opinion. More of something I refuse to do. I don't donate blood, hair, organs, ect.
This isn't because I think there's anything wrong with doing so. I really wish I could. I just get really skeeved at the thought of someone I don't know having parts of my body. Really, really skeeved. Panicked, really.
If I knew the person though, I'd totally give a kidney.
That's interesting! I've donated all sorts of stuff and thought it was kind of weird, too, but not to the level of not wanting to do it. Thanks for sharing! I'm feeling slightly less judgmental of people who aren't organ donors now, and being less judgey is always a good thing. :)
I don't believe the theory of evolution is correct. At the very least, the current model is deeply flawed.
I'm not a biblical fundamentalist, the theory just isn't convincing.
As in you don't believe evolution occurs? Or that our theory of it is wrong?
I'm nonreligious and believe in most scientific models, and I agree. Not because I think God created everything and so it can't possibly be natural selection, but because we just don't have that much evidence for the current model of evolution. Same thing as when people claim the age of the universe like it's a fact. That theory is actually based on some pretty big assumptions, and if one of those assumptions is proved wrong, our understanding of the earth's age will change dramatically.
I guess that's why I love science so much. There's never a final answer.