Humanity can’t be fixed, will always be selfish, greedy, discriminating against other people who differ enough, since a bunch of these things are pretty much hard coded. You might not be, some people you know might not be - but statistically, the majority of humanity will happily watch others get oppressed (or worse) for various reasons. There will always be people who manipulate others for power/wealth, disregarding law, morals or the environment, and there will always be a fuckton of gullible/dumb/mean people who happily buy the propaganda for reasons above.

Therefore, no matter what kind of society you try to form, with enough time we will get back to where we are now, and humanity will never be able to break out of this downward spiral, due to its inherent fault.

…which leads to my main controversial opinion, based on the above: the only cure to the mass extinction and the worsening climate happening today is the eradication of the human species. Yes, it would be such a shame saying goodbye to all the great things we have achieved, dad jokes, poetry, the Backstreet Boys; all this means nothing if everything dies on a scorching/freezing planet. At least if we take out humanity, other forms of life could survive, and life as we know it isn’t really found on every other planet.

Obviously there will be nothing wiping the human race off of the face of the Earth, and if it somehow ever disappears, it will be by its own doing - but chances are that will also take all other forms of life with it.

Looking at all the awful things humans have been doing to each other, all the pollution, all the ignorance, all the destruction, I wouldn’t hesitate a bit if there was a red button in front of me that could magically make them disappear (including me, of course). In the blink of an eye. I would slam down on it as fast as I can.

7-11 was a Part Time JOB!

If we allow people with significant dark tetrad personality traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism) or social dominance oriented people to have any meaningful amount of power over others, including the ability to run for office or vote, they will eventually turn societies into… well, what we see now.

Unsurprisingly conservatism overlaps with those traits.

So, ironically, to be able to run a functioning democracy, you’d have to exclude a fairly sizeable chunk of the population from participating in it

Edit: and this includes directorial or managerial positions in any kind of organisation, because corporate psychopaths are common scarily common and very harmful

Children should be treated as human beings and deserve autonomy.

“I don’t like how it looks”, “it scares me” or “it’s annoying” aren’t a good enough reasons to kill an animal. No, not even that one.

It’s controversial in countries like Australia…

We need to standardise English, and we need to accept the US won in spelling.

Conversely, the US needs to accept they lost the metric/imperial war and start changing their shit to be less stupid.

What the fuck is 90 stone? How long is 2.5 miles? Pounds = lbs? How? (Okay US doesn’t use stone)

Don’t get me started on the “19 hamburgers is equal to 5 eagles” memes.

Also, everyone needs to accept the ISO date format.

YYYY-MM-DD

You’re objectively wrong if you think any other format is comparable.

Also also, you can keep using feet and inches for your own height as long as you’re between 5-6 feet.

Otherwise I get confused.

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.

I both think people have a right to dignity, which by extension means they should have a say of how to live their lives. I also think that the general population shouldn’t vote. Against Democracy is a really good read if you haven’t read it.

For the record, I literally will drive people to the polls (since our current system creates better outcomes if more people vote) but I do really wish that most of them wouldn’t XD.

Because with time, this light is also putting an end to not just itself but every other form of life around it.

Whether the positives outweigh the negatives doesn’t really matter when there’s nobody left around. Once we get to the point where the climate disaster is bad enough and irreversible (it might have happened already), it doesn’t even matter if humanity suddenly falls back into the middle ages and gets primitive enough to not do any harm anymore: certain processes won’t just suddenly stop.

I think you should be able to hit any able bodied person once, without being charged with a crime.

You can’t just beat someone to hell. You’re still on the hook for any civil damages for serious injuries that occur. But if we just let anybody hit anybody else just that one time, I believe society would be a kinder place.

Communal anarchy is as valid a political orientation as any other

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We should riot and K!ll all billionaires

It’s pronounced “gif”

According to my employer that workers rights are important.

Bloodmouths and cheese breathers should be factory farmed