Unpopular opinions?

[Deleted member 134556]

Being indifferent or apathetic to a political topic doesn't make you a bad person necessarily. Everyone on Earth is apathetic to at least a few political or social subjects and it's wrong to shame each other for it.

 

[Kit H. Ruppell]

People's rage about off-color nicknames for COVID-19 versus their silence on the greedy wildlife trade and sadistic wet markets that kicked off the pandemic tell us all we need to know about such people's stance on animal welfare. While I'd love if they'd prove otherwise, I won't hold my breath.

 

[Deleted member 134556]

People's rage about off-color nicknames for COVID-19 versus their silence on the greedy wildlife trade and sadistic wet markets that kicked off the pandemic tell us all we need to know about such people's stance on animal welfare. While I'd love if they'd prove otherwise, I won't hold my breath.

My dad once called it the Flu Manchu. My sister did not approve.

 

[Kit H. Ruppell]

My dad once called it the Flu Manchu. My sister did not approve.

To be fair, while we need to acknowledge that a lot of the GOP uses such language to deflect from Trump's responsibility for the dismal conditions in America right now, we also need to take a stand against the Chinese wildlife trade. It's driving whole species to extinction. Silence on this matter is a bad look, at best.

 

[Deleted member 134556]

To be fair, while we need to acknowledge that a lot of the GOP uses such language to deflect from Trump's responsibility for the dismal conditions in America right now, we also need to take a stand against the Chinese wildlife trade. It's driving whole species to extinction.

Absolutely.

 

[hara-surya]

People's rage about off-color nicknames for COVID-19 versus their silence on the greedy wildlife trade and sadistic wet markets that kicked off the pandemic tell us all we need to know about such people's stance on animal welfare. While I'd love if they'd prove otherwise, I won't hold my breath.

What the Chinese and other Asian nations call "wet markets" the United States calls "Farmer's markets" and the only difference is wet markets are permanent and open every day, while farmer's markets tend to be more temporary.

Wet markets tend to have fresh meat, which is more rare but not unheard of at a Western farmer's market. Either way, most of what's sold at both of them is produce.

 

[Fallowfox]

The wildlife trade industry is unethical anyway...it just so happens that the fact it can provide novel opportunities for nasty viruses to evolve provides even more reason to get rid of it.

 

[Deleted member 134556]

The wildlife trade industry is unethical anyway...it just so happens that the fact it can provide novel opportunities for nasty viruses to evolve provides even more reason to get rid of it.

I doubt that's an unpopular opinion

 

[Kit H. Ruppell]

I doubt that's an unpopular opinion

Generally not, but there's always those asshats who like to charge in and screech "BUT YOU EAT [INSERT SPECIES HERE]!!!" If they're vegan, it's understandable, but a lot of the time they aren't. Makes one wonder what they're trying to accomplish.

 

[Deleted member 134556]

Another unpopular opinion: These never get old ===>

(If you don't like them, too bad. I'm not gonna stop)

 

[MaelstromEyre]

There is nothing wrong with cutting an addict out of the family, if that addict has proven through their actions that they have no intention of going through rehabilitation or changing their ways.

And an addict who has had a child taken from them is not entitled to see their child, nor should their child be burdened with a parent who is an addict. If that addict intends to recover, they need to do it without involving their child.

 

[Xitheon]

The wildlife trade industry is unethical anyway...it just so happens that the fact it can provide novel opportunities for nasty viruses to evolve provides even more reason to get rid of it.

Made me think of my unpopular opinion: parrots don't make good pets. I used to keep parrots but it's impossible to keep them happy in the average household. My birds now live with their own kind in a huge sanctuary aviary.

 

[Firuthi Dragovic]

The wildlife trade industry is unethical anyway...it just so happens that the fact it can provide novel opportunities for nasty viruses to evolve provides even more reason to get rid of it.

....okay, I was just going to sit on this question but I can't any longer - why is there a part of me that keeps thinking some "traditional medicine" thing is one of the biggest reasons the wildlife trade still survives to this day?

 

[ThatProtoBoi]

"traditional medicine"

I think Traditional "Medicine" is just crap. As a man of Science, Unless It's scientifically proven to be useful, It's just the placebo effect scamming you out of your money. While acupuncture does actually have science behind the stimulation of the nervous system through sharp probes, Chakras? CRYSTALS!? ITS A **** ROCK DUDE!

 

[Firuthi Dragovic]

CRYSTALS!? ITS A **** ROCK DUDE!

Tempted one of these days to get six of those and claim the green one has a soul. Either I'll fool a bunch of traditional medicine "experts" or I'll cause comic nerds to freak out.

Going to admit I HAVE some of this pseudoscience stuff on my tablet. Maybe useful one of these days for story generation, but the app stores are justified in calling it "entertainment" at best.

 

[Kuroserama]

There is nothing wrong with cutting an addict out of the family, if that addict has proven through their actions that they have no intention of going through rehabilitation or changing their ways.

And an addict who has had a child taken from them is not entitled to see their child, nor should their child be burdened with a parent who is an addict. If that addict intends to recover, they need to do it without involving their child.

Hm, I don't think addiction is quite that black and white. Having been an 11 year old watching a mother in addiction, I can say that addicts are not who they really are. It's a Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde situation. But I can agree children should not have to go through that. So much fear... It tears apart any family.

But that person was not my mother.

 

[Kit H. Ruppell]

....okay, I was just going to sit on this question but I can't any longer - why is there a part of me that keeps thinking some "traditional medicine" thing is one of the biggest reasons the wildlife trade still survives to this day?

Because you're exactly right. Rhino horns are a great example. Some quacks claimed keratin is an aphrodisiac and nearly got an entire species wiped out as a consequence (It never ended, by the way). The TCM industry is a plague on vulnerable wildlife.

 

[MaelstromEyre]

Because you're exactly right. Rhino horns are a great example. Some quacks claimed keratin is an aphrodisiac and nearly got an entire species wiped out as a consequence (It never ended, by the way). The TCM industry is a plague on vulnerable wildlife.

And they cannot be convinced otherwise. They do the same for tiger parts, bear bile, whatever other odd ingredients. They've been convinced through religious/spiritual beliefs that these animals have some sacred power to cure them or give them some added power, and that belief is more important to them than preserving the species.

 

[Kit H. Ruppell]

And they cannot be convinced otherwise. They do the same for tiger parts, bear bile, whatever other odd ingredients. They've been convinced through religious/spiritual beliefs that these animals have some sacred power to cure them or give them some added power, and that belief is more important to them than preserving the species.

And all who step in to make excuses for it are just as cold and callous. I can almost guarantee we have such people lurking around this very forum.

 

[Fallowfox]

And all who step in to make excuses for it are just as cold and callous. I can almost guarantee we have such people lurking around this very forum.

I'd be kinda surprised if anybody really though rhino horn was a medicine.

 

[Kit H. Ruppell]

I'd be kinda surprised if anybody really though rhino horn was a medicine.

Oh, I mean people who would make excuses for the trade and the superstitions driving it.

 

[Deleted member 134556]

I'd be kinda surprised if anybody really though rhino horn was a medicine.

Evidently people in some countries believe it to be a potent aphrodisiac.....

 

[ben909]

Evidently people in some countries believe it to be a potent aphrodisiac.....

... would not doubt it, and sense its so rare its hard to disprove


there are much safer sugar pills

 

[ManicTherapsid]

Battlefield Earth is a better movie than Rise of Skywalker.

 

[VeeStars]

I personally prefer calmer single player games over action packed multiplayer FPSes