Hey Pandas, What Is Your Unpopular Opinion? (Closed)

I absolutely hate avocados...and sushi 🤢

Some drugs should be illegal to sell but all drugs should be legal to take.

The criminalization of drug dependency gets in the way rehabilitation.

In college, I started graduate school for biochemistry (with an emphasis on genetic research). Cancer runs in my family and I felt driven to try to be at the forefront of researching a cure. In one of my classes we were studying epidemiology and the Spanish Flu. Part of our discussion was how much larger the population would have been if it never occurred (and this was 12 years ago or so). As population grows, the rate of growth is exponential (this is common sense to most people). However, what most people don't consider is that because of this, as population grows, things like resource-shortages and chance of global pandemics grow exponentially as well. The more I studied the figures, the more I felt conflicted. Probability-wise, cancer predominantly affects older people (I know there are exceptions depending on type), but famine, drought, and pandemics tend to have a higher probability of being fatal to the young as well. I realized that if you could cure cancer, the majority demographic to be better off would be the elderly. This would also mean that infrastructure (like medicine, social security, and care) would become extremely taxed, and that burden would fall on younger generations. The real critical point though is that when I looked at the numbers, it seemed most likely that if you saved "X"-amount of cancer patients, it would eventually lead to a lot more deaths than "X", as well as a lower quality of life for everyone in general. I began to become convinced that if we cure cancer before we tarraform and colonize Mars, it would likely be the greatest contributing factor to the essential breakdown of society and an abrupt stagnation of tech and science development (with most resources having to be used just to slow down pollution, funding care for people who can no longer contribute to society, and finding/gathering food/water). I won't say that curing cancer is the wrong move, but I just couldn't argue it was the right move without more information or accounting for unknowns. So I quit my program, because I realized I couldn't be the person to potentially make that call. I've tried to explain my logic to people, but most don't understand, or just disagree and call me a monster. I'm not sure what's right, but I am utterly confident that the biggest issue humanity will face in the next century will be an unsustainable population, and all the complications that result from that.

Unpopular opinion: We're all hoping our comment will get a bunch of upvotes and/or worried that a troll will leave a nasty comment.

Dark mode is horrible.

Eat cereal dry then drink milk.

See, I grew up drinking a glass of milk with every breakfast. I also grew up eating cereal dry. When I heard about the milk first or after debate, I was so confused but there's my answer.

Drinking milk as a small kids was ok, however as an adult, makes you vomit.

I think that WataWatachi is great! Why do people hate WataWatachi?

The Princess Bride is overrated. It is incredibly boring.

Gay Rights...

I LOVE DESTRUCTION!

Chocolate takes horrible. It is bitter. What people like is the fat and the sugar. If not for the sugar, they would not like that horribly bitter terrible substance called chocolate. When you are eating chocolate, you are just covering up the shitty bitterness with the whole lot of sugar. If you like sugar so much, just say so! but no, people pretend that they like chocolate, but they would never eat it without sugar now, would they?

My unpopular opinion is: when you have a chronic disease you don't have to kill yourself. I learn that in this thread. It is an unpopular opinion. I didn't knew it.

My opinion is that the SCP Foundation needs more D-classes.

Ancient Greece have too much in common with Indian civilization(The South Asian one, not the America) and the european prechristan civilizations as well.

The Beatles are trash, and were in the right place at the right time.

Creepypasta related one. I personally think that each of the Proxies has a different element.

Your name is not important. I think people who go like "My name is Sarantulapagodopulofski and you should pronounce it as Geriandrimysuperiofskaya" are narcissistic. A name is a just a label, and if it it difficult for other to pronounce, make it simple. When people say things like, "Well, if you can learn to pronounce Chaikovsky and Michelangelo, you can pronounce Geriandrimysuperiofsky", I think to myself "When your achievement are comparable to those of Chaikovsky and Michelangelo, I am sure we will learn to pronounce it. In the meantime, I would like to call you Bob".

Best regards,
Yaroslavna Vladimirovna Kadulina,
aka Yara or whatever you feel like calling me, it does not change who I am.

The death penalty should be more common and there should be no "life sentence" in prison. Death is a part of life and perhaps after death a new life will come. Regardless, "life" in prison is helping no one. To those that will argue the expense, a bullet is cheap. To those who argue of the personal growth for which life in prison gives the opportunity; I say that growth happens quickly in a time crunch, and that lots of time and no hope for anything better is more likely to foster degeneration than growth.

I don't things dogs should walk on leashes. There should be an other type of device or thing that you could use to walk your dog but leashes sometimes the human can pull and it could hurt the dog so I just don't agree with that.