Pedophilia is ok in the united states and we all just collectively agreed to pretend it isn't. It's clearly not a crime or we'd make more of a deal out of prosecution. It's certainly not a deal breaker when your favorite politician or famous person does it. I used to think it was a coincidence that everyone I know was molested as a child, that maybe we gravitate to each other as an unspoken solidarity. The Epstein situation has made that hard to believe.

Mandatory homework needs to be done away with for students. Studying after school is one thing, but assignments that can't be finished during school hours shouldn't be given out. Give them 1 free hour a day at school to work on assignments if you need to.

Not every student has a home environment set up for being able to concentrate. Plus it's just training kids to work off the clock and having no separation of home and work life, something people already struggle with. We should be teaching them boundaries about these things.

I think cars should be outlawed in population centers with exceptions for product deliveries, mobility scooters and e-bikes. If you want your ikea furniture into your apartment you need to either fit it into a cargo bike setup or get it delivered by a company with a delivery license.

I hate cars

Political violence is acceptable.

When the actions of a dictator or party directly worsen the lives of citizens, I believe it should be a legal right for the citizenry to execute those in power.

Oh I have a good one for this

I am an introverted loner who enjoys time spent solitary.

But I do have a social life, date, work. So I am aware that there are other people who spend every day doing something social with others and get frustrated if they have to spend any amount of time by themselves just in their own company.

I believe(d) that time spent alone with yourself and your thoughts is psychologically healthy, helps you figure out who you really are and lets you sort out your beliefs and desires.

So I thought society should change in such a way that there was a mandatory month out of every year where we all spent the entire time locked away in our homes getting essentials delivered.

Now imagine my surprise in 2020 when I actually got what I wanted and it drove a significant chunk of the population absolutely insane.

Dogs are incredibly annoying and a not insignificant number of people that want them actually subconsciously want children, but either can't afford them, or don't have a partner to have them with so they adopt a permanent child.

I think it's rather coincidental that 90%+ of women's dating profiles in my area (very high cost of living) all mention some form of "I'll steal your dog. I love your dog more than you. Dogs are life. Live love dog" etc etc...

The proper way to eat salad is with chopsticks. Ever tried to pick up a flat piece of lettuce with a fork? A chopped carrot? A crispy crouton??

I think many dv situations (definitely not all) amount to kidnapping and you should legally be allowed to kill the person holding you against your will in order to escape.

The Abrahamic Religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) aren't "religions of peace".

Socialist economic systems are also easily corruptible.

People are perfectly fine with letting strangers suffer so long as it doesn't inconvenience them.

I always expect something intense from these threads like "blind people should be culled" but it's always boring trite stuff that 80% of gen pop already believes in. No one is going to get executed for saying homework sucks.

Robert A. Heinlein like to throw out different ideas to improve politics.

Two of my favorites. "Starship Troopers." In order to vote you have to do two years of service. In the book it's explicitly stated that most people are physically/mentally unsuited for actual combat and that they spend their time cleaning streets while being harassed by tough bosses. If a blind person in a wheelchair wants to serve they'll find them a job commensurate with their abilities.

In "Double Star" all representatives are elected by self identified groups. Instead of representing New York or London, they represent 'farmers' or 'small business owners' or 'gamers' or whatever group has enough members to qualify. And the same way you can move from California to Idaho you can change your group.

This is bait. I'm tired of these bait posts.

They're bait posts because they're preying on people to drop some really spicy unpopular opinion that nobody, even including the OP, will handle. It'll create a scuffle, arguments and there will be calling for post removals and report wars will happen.

Also, it reeks of Reddit too, including to the last line.

Most single people are single for a reason

Plenty are unlucky (they live somewhere full of backwards hicks, like 'Murica) or some other misfortune, but there are so many people who deserve to die alone and lonely, and they're blind to the fact that they're single because they're just shitty people

You guys are wimps. (Dog guy gets partial points though, people are psychotic about their dogs). Here's an actual hot take:

Sex drive, while a strong biological impulse in most people, is nowhere NEAR as powerful or persuasive as we are conditioned to believe. Its almost entirely cultural and formed from Movies, Porn, Advertising and just about every other media artificially elevating it.

Everything, from lighter fare like niche fetish communities, to dark shit like rape, sexual violence and, in some cases misogynistic violence aimed just at women in general, is escalated and enabled by a mass permission structure where we all are just told, and to some extent believe, that Sex is SO powerful. Men become easily manipulated puppets to demonic seductresses. Sexuality can damage reasoning ability. Without sexual release men inevitably become violent brutes. A million other stupid, widely believed things. They have a kernel of truth obviously but they are exaggerated in the extreme, usually to excuse poor behavior by men who are trained from a young age that they not only can, but should turn into a drooling gorilla at the sight of tits.

The internet isnt horny. Men aremt primarily sex-driven. Its all an artificial cultural construct designed to promote bad behavior.

Representative democracy was specifically designed to have oligarchs be in charge of society and it should be abolished in favor of smaller, direct democracies.

Gods very likely do not exist. For all we know, we could be a simulation and there is no way to know for sure beyond dying.

This makes every and all religions, sects, beliefs all fake, frauds, and human made.

Religions are for population control, nothing more nothing less and it pisses me off that we live in 2026, we can see other planets around other stars, we know mostly how the universe started, we understand DNA and evolution, we understand physics and yet the majority of Earth's population still believes in stone age fairytales used to control them.

there are some truly incredible works of art that would have been worse if not for the people in charge of them being abusers (see: crystle castles, stanley kubrick).

i don't say this as a matter of defense or to claim "the ends justify the means". just that if these people weren't monstrous pieces of shit, their creations would be less raw and emotionally moving.

per the examples above alice glass and shelley duvall gave incredible, gutwrenching performances and they were driven by their mistreatment and pain.

Alex Jones was partially correct, they are in fact turning the frogs gay, and this extends to people as well.

Specifically, endocrine disrupting chemicals, which are commonly used as plasticizers and flame retardants, disrupt your endocrine system. I.e. they fuck with your hormones.

Exposure to environmental stimuli, including such chemicals, can cause changes in sexual behavior and characteristics. This was the driving force of the plot of Jurassic Park.

This cannot be proven without seriously unethical human trials, but exposing a every other animal to EDCs during development can and does cause changes in sexual development.

Edit: other pollutants are causing societal effects as well, there was a study on crawfish out of NC a while back that found significant behavioral changes (less aggression, more foraging) among males that lived in a stream which was exposed to sewage, and therefore low level antidepressant medication.

Okay, here we go...

The term "larper", more often than not, makes discourse worse

You're pathetic and stupid for not being vegan.