Anybody prefer their toilet seats cold than warm? I feel violated when I sit on a warm toilet seat 😬
That's part of the problem is that no one is concerned about the national debt but everyone loves watching TV. I see that I'm unpopular here. But that's okay, because that's sort of the basis for this thread. Being unpopular and connecting relevant objective facts that others aren't willing to do or admit and then calling my facts opinions. So in a way, I never really got off topic. I'm "unpopular" here and others are calling my facts "opinions".
@Sheena123 cuteness is highly subjective your cats are safer than you think. Though properly prepared they are a quite serviceable meal.
"...a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it." --from The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich
I think it's reprehensible to dissuade a person from committing suicide.
@UltimateChungus Pretty unpopular opinion there. Why do you believe that?
I actually agree with that one @UltimateChungus there are situations I feel one should absolutely be able to check out of permanently.
@00JohnnyTsunami
I think that if a person wants to die that they should be able to take their own life in whatever manner they see fit. Trying to dissuade a suicidal person from committing suicide seems cruel to me, like saying "My enjoyment of your existence is more important than your suffering."
All nonfictional lives matter.
Television is America's Hitler.
@kyguy7834: All lives matter in a sense. My life matters to me. Your life (I assume) matters to you. Even a cow's life presumably matters to the cow. But we're all going to end up dead anyway—every last one of us. Ultimately none of us will matter to anyone.
@UltimateChungus What if someone is dissuading someone because they truly believe they are temporarily suicidal? I do not have a problem with your opinion other than there are too many situations to make a blanket statement. History is rife with people who attempted suicide and were later glad that they didn’t—Walt Disney, Mike Wallace, and Clark Gable are classic examples.
Most fictional lives don't matter.
@UltimateChungus I can see where you're coming from. I agree that it's taking away personal autonomy from an individual but many studies have shown that many people who do attempt suicide end up regretting it. I think it's worth stopping the majority of attempted suicides.
The exception can be made for those who are truly in deep pain and have suffered for so long that no longer wish to prolong it anymore. I'm talking about those afflicted with disease or physical pain. In those cases I find it justifiable. I think we ought to legalize assisted suicide for these individuals.
@kyguy7834: Most fictional lives matter to their creators (and to the people who enjoy their stories).
@kyguy7834 what do you mean “Most fictional lives don’t matter”? Which ones do?
I guess I was considering the bigger picture. I could care less about how fictional lives matter to their creators or to those who enjoy their stories. That's like saying subjective opinions matter to those who hold them.
@kyguy7834 You do know that some of the most influential ideas in history were advanced through fiction right?
There are sometimes when the fate of fictional lives might have an impact on the behaviors of people within an audience. Like the cook in Michael Mann's Heat from 1995 or Idella the TV critic from Driving Miss Daisy. Those are two examples.
That's why I said "most" fictional lives don't matter. Not all.
@kyguy7834: Oh, you were considering the bigger picture. Well... in the bigger picture, no lives matter. All life is temporary, and only important to itself. Once no one cared. Eventually no one will care again.
All importance is subjective.
Whew! Man, those are some whoppers there. No lives matter? All importance is subjective? My goodness.
@FunCartel
This is a good question.
First of all, I think that one person truly believing that another person shouldn't commit suicide doesn't amount to much. The individual doing the dissuading clearly has biases that they're imposing upon the suicidal person. Furthermore, they can't accurately know what the suicidal person is going through—they'd be operating on assumptions. This isn't to say that what the suicidal person is going through is unique, or unfathomable, however. Simply: one attributes a positive value to continued existence, and the other does not. These views are irreconcilable.
If the "suicidal" person is having doubts, or if they're usually inclined to placing a positive value on existence, then any successful dissuading would indicate that they are, in actuality, not suicidal. Of course, these sorts of people would be glad that they didn't commit suicide later on in life.
Depression and a desire to end one's life intermix, naturally. But I feel that there's a marked contrast between being depressed and being thoroughly unconvinced of our species' injunctions to live, multiply, and be happy.
@kyguy7834: Well, think about it. "Important" always carries an implication—if a thing is important, it's important to someone or something. Is it possible for a thing to be important, but not to anyone or anything?
My life is important to me. It matters to me. But does it matter to you?
All lives matter to (at the very least) the ones living them. But once everyone my life mattered to is dead—who cares? Who or what does my life matter to now? In the end, no one will even exist to whom any life could possibly matter.
Edit: Anyway, those are some of my opinions—and based on the reaction I think it's fair to say that they're fairly unpopular!
Let's get it back on topic, or take the discussions to PM. Thanks. [-Sid]
Unpopular Dislikes: I think the Beatles and AC/DC are totally overrated.
Horoscopes and anything related.
Not a fan of most Tarantino movies. Or gore/horror movies. Ooor romcoms. Or Star Wars. Or Harry Potter. Or Marvel Universe. Basically not a fan of fantasy books or movies. Hate “reality” tv shows and most tv really. Celebrity culture. 🤮 The movie Elf makes me want to drive off a bridge.
Christmas shopping and commercialism.
I think theme parks including Disneyland are overrated.
Also hate shopping, and anything associated with being a typical and/or high-maintenance woman: Purses (I only have 1), makeup (wear it a few times a year), hair products or appliances (only use mousse sometimes to help my curls), piles of shoes and clothes, gossiping, drama, nagging, high pitched voices, magazine subscriptions, fake nails, fashion, fads, having to buy new stuff all the time, etc.
Unpopular Likes/loves: Reading at all, apparently. Cleaning. Olives. Sea salt and vinegar chips. Old movies and music. Unsweetened Kefir. Shoveling and driving in the snow. Israel. Minimalism. Being confrontational. Reading academic literature and research journals. Waiting to buy things/delayed gratification. And my two favorite films are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Tree of Life.
I like the multiple directions this thread has gone...
I like waking to songs/sounds I'd otherwise find grating...
I like cheese on apple pie...
Hollandaise is gross and so are poached eggs...
Meat, not thoroughly cooked/with any degree of rareness, is disgusting...
@EGio I am with you on soooo many of those! I’ve actually lost friends from disliking Beatles and Rolling Stones. It’s nice to see likeminded people ☺️
@quixotic_life wow so you're not quite perfect after all a good rare steak is one of life's great pleasures lol
@NightShift39 ~lol ~ I've had to ask for the menu back, to prop up as a way to block my view of seeing someone eating a rare steak. I just can't... 😖 [shutters]