Unpopular Opinions

desertsun

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : You just want my DH to come and build you a kitchen.  Hmpf. 
Posted by TheMutleys[/QUOTE]

Nah. It's all about me wanting to move in to YOUR house, play with your cute babies, attend your fabulous parties, etc.  :)

misikes

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[QUOTE]I think that driver's licenses should be harder to obtain than what we have now.  There are TOO many people on the road that literally don't know how to drive.  And to that if you DON'T have car insurance then you get your license taken away and your car impounded. 
Posted by motoLyn[/QUOTE]

Agreed. Car insurance is mandatory, but if you don't have it and you hit someone? Nothing. They end up paying for their own car and you get a slap on the wrist.

SKP82

I find it interesting that people who are "pro-life" tend to advertise that more than those who are "pro-choice" (I agree with PPs statements that the terms are not equivalent).  For example, I see many a bumper sticker proclaiming "Pro-Life!" or even license plates that let everyone know that this particular person is against abortion.

Do you ever see "Pro-Choice!" bumper stickers?  I'm certain that no state has an option for pro-choice license plates...

And for good reason.  How many people would experience vandalism on their property when proclaiming they're "pro-choice" vs. those who tell the world they are "pro-life"?  I'm not saying everyone who is "pro-life" is crazy, but it seems that group of people voice their opinions and try to sway others from being "pro-choice" much more than vice versa.

UO:  I believe the government should provide abortion assistance instead of paying for the hospital bill for the birth of a child.  In SC, the government (if you're on welfare) will pay for 80% of your 1st birth and 100% of your 2nd birth.  The government then (most likely) is going to support those children for 18 years.  Wouldn't it be better for us taxpayers if we provided abortion assistance instead?  

ETA:

All "Choose Life" license plates:

SKP82

Also, I side-eye anyone who has a vow renewal without having gone through something with his/her spouse or after a significant amount of time.  I basically see it as one of the following 2 things:

1) You never had a PPD and want one now.
2) You want to relive your PPD right now.

Edited for an ebarrassing spelling mistake. 

SKP82

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions :<strong> Like that ridiculous thread on JE?  It's making me so so so so so angry.  I can't even pull my thoughts together to write a coherent response.</strong> Posted by yaga13[/QUOTE]

Uhm, yeah...  I'm definitely not throwing puppies and rainbows at the OP or this WannaBe chick over there.  That crap is getting out of control.

TheMutleys

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[QUOTE]Also, I side-eye anyone who has a<u> vowel renewal</u> without having gone through something with his/her spouse or after a significant amount of time.  I basically see it as one of the following 2 things: 1) You never had a PPD and want one now. 2) You want to relive your PPD right now.
Posted by SKP82[/QUOTE]

How does one renew vowels?  <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" title="Tongue out" />

I think that vow renewals can be very touching in certain circumstances.

1.  The couple has reached a milestone anniversary and would like to have a party to celebrate. 

2.  The couple has been through a very trying time in their marriage and truly do want to renew their vows to each other.  Personally, I think this should be private and just between the two people involved. 

In any circumstance where the couple is just trying to have the wedding they didn't have the first time, it is gifty grabby and AW-y. 

TheMutleys

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[QUOTE]UO:  I believe the government should provide abortion assistance instead of paying for the hospital bill for the birth of a child.  In SC, the government (if you're on welfare) will pay for 80% of your 1st birth and 100% of your 2nd birth.  The government then (most likely) is going to support those children for 18 years.  Wouldn't it be better for us taxpayers if we provided abortion assistance instead?  
Posted by SKP82[/QUOTE]

OMG. So because my husband and I have jobs and health insurance, we had to pay $8500 for our son's birth/pre-natal care.  However, someone who is ON welfare gets to have a kid for free.  Lovely. 

It is crap like this that makes me FOR what many consider socialized medicine. 

PaigeMcC

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : OMG. So because my husband and I have jobs and health insurance, we had to pay $8500 for our son's birth/pre-natal care.  However, someone who is ON welfare gets to have a kid for free.  Lovely. <strong> It is crap like this that makes me FOR what many consider socialized medicine. </strong>
Posted by TheMutleys[/QUOTE]

<div>Free babies all around!  Come to Canada ;)</div>

Swazzle

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : I COMPLETELY agree. And I don't smoke it either. In fact, I can't stand the stuff. BF was pulled over with a bag of weed in his car when he was 19. He now is, forever and always, a felon. I think it is ridiculous that someone as mature and responsible as he is, who takes care of his life and is a contributing member of society, can now never pass a CORI, apply for certain jobs, own a handgun, or a multitude of other things that he now cannot do beacuse of a minor stupid thing that he did as a teenager. It's not as though the stupid thing he did in his youth was steal a car or break into someone's home or hit and hurt someone while he was drunk.
Posted by csousa1[/QUOTE]

<div>That is absolutely ridiculous.  Some of the laws & punishments for certain crimes disgust me.  In NY, they have the Rockefeller Laws which means if you're caught with something like 2oz of weed (don't quote me on that amount exactly) you automatically go to prison for a minimum of 15 years.  It doesn't matter if it's your first offense or not.  15 years. In prison. For weed. INSANE! </div>

thejucheidea

I don't like it when people refer to their fetuses by name. To me, it's like someone speaking in third person and it's very unsettling.

SKP82

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : How does one renew <strong>vowels</strong>?  I think that vow renewals can be very touching in certain circumstances. 1.  The couple has reached a milestone anniversary and would like to have a party to celebrate.  2.  The couple has been through a very trying time in their marriage and truly do want to renew their vows to each other.  <strong>Personally, I think this should be private and just between the two people involved.</strong>  In any circumstance where the couple is just trying to have the wedding they didn't have the first time, it is gifty grabby and AW-y. 
Posted by TheMutleys[/QUOTE]

Haha.  Wow.  Can't believe I missed that one. 

And I agree with your 2 circumstances for vow renewals, especially the bolded part.

SKP82

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : OMG. So because my husband and I have jobs and health insurance, we had to pay $8500 for our son's birth/pre-natal care.  However, someone who is ON welfare gets to have a kid for free.  Lovely.  It is crap like this that makes me FOR what many consider socialized medicine. 
Posted by TheMutleys[/QUOTE]

Not only have the kid for free, but then get assistance for those children until they're adults.

It became very apparent to me how messed up this system is when I was volunteering as a Guardian ad Litem.  One of my cases was a family with 5 children (the woman was 26 at the time).  She had never graduated from high school or held a steady job.  She was also a single mom.  Her social worker found assistance to house her and all her children for free and provide enough assistance that she didn't have to work.  In fact, if she HAD gottena  job, she wouldn't have received as much assistance. 

Who's paying for it?  My FI and me, you and everyone else shelling out 1/3 of our paychecks to taxes.  Messed up, huh?

jorja86

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : This is exactly what happened to my dad.  He went to Catholic school through high school and never went to church again after that (except my parents did get married in the Catholic church because my dad's mom wanted them to).  We never grew up going to church (except when we stayed the night at my grandma's of course) and I've never been baptized and it pisses me off to no end that some people have told me I'm going to hell because I'm not baptized.  I'm sorry, but any religion where good, honest people go to hell because <strong>some pedophile old man</strong> didn't splash water on my head, but a rapist can go to heaven as long as he confessed doesn't sound like a religion I want to believe in... I always tell people, I believe in God, just not religion.  To me, religion is made up by man and I believe in having a more personalized relationship with God that is what I think it should be, not what a bunch of men wrote down 2000 years ago.
Posted by jemmini6[/QUOTE]

I guess my UO is that I find this is to be a gross over generalization and pretty disrespectful. I disagree with A LOT of what the Catholic Church teaches (ex: their stance on reproductive rights), and find the way they handled that specific issue to be reprehensible, but I still identify as Catholic.

I've found a lot of peace and spiritual growth through the church. To each their own. In my opinion, you are being just as disrespectful of my beliefs as someone who would tell you that you are going to hell for not being baptized is being of yours. 

Respect and tolerance of others beliefs (or lack thereof) should be a two way street.

This is a P&R because I'm going to bed.

thejucheidea

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : Respect and tolerance of others beliefs (or lack thereof) should be a two way street.
Posted by jorja86[/QUOTE]

Agree. My boyfriend and I may have met protesting a religion (if that's what you want to call Scientology), but we respect the ability for people to practice that religion through supporting non-paying Scientologists called Freezoners who have broken away from the Church of Scientology to practice freely (literally and figuratively). We have problems with the upper echelons of Scientology because of their behavior and the human rights abuses that they so freely commit, but that does not make us hate on those who choose to practice Scientology as a religion.

You can be Catholic and not approve of the decisions of the Pope -- it's not an all-inclusive thing. The practicing Catholics in a congregation do not think that pedophilia is okay because someone ordained by the church chose to practice pedophilia. Baptisms and christenings are meaningful to them because they have made a conscious choice to follow the teachings of the church. That may not be what you want to do, but respect that others do.

I'm Mahayana Buddhist and Tyler is Zen Buddhist. It's kind of uncomfortable being a Buddhist in the South, but I'm willing to talk openly about my beliefs and have had several people have very meaningful, deep conversations with me in which they find that there are a lot of parallels between their religions and mine. I was raised to believe that all gods are the same, just different interpretations. There is no right or wrong religion, and thinking that there is a set one that only those adherants are eligible for a peaceful afterlife is, in my opinion, a very horrible and rude idea to have.

jemmini6

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : OMG. So because my husband and I have jobs and health insurance, we had to pay $8500 for our son's birth/pre-natal care. <strong> However, someone who is ON welfare gets to have a kid for free.  Lovely.</strong>  It is crap like this that makes me FOR what many consider socialized medicine. 
Posted by TheMutleys[/QUOTE]


Don't even get me started on my sister then.....

jemmini6

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : I guess my UO is that I find this is to be a gross over generalization and pretty disrespectful. I disagree with A LOT of what the Catholic Church teaches (ex: their stance on reproductive rights), and find the way they handled that specific issue to be reprehensible, but I still identify as Catholic. I've found a lot of peace and spiritual growth through the church. To each their own. In my opinion, you are being just as disrespectful of my beliefs as someone who would tell you that you are going to hell for not being baptized is being of yours.  Respect and tolerance of others beliefs (or lack thereof) should be a two way street. This is a P&R because I'm going to bed.
Posted by jorja86[/QUOTE]

Sorry, I didn't mean that to offend, it was more to show the correllation of one blanket statment (all unbaptized people are going to hell) to another (all Catholic priests are pedophiles).  Obviously, the latter is completely untrue and I think the former is completely untrue as well, but they are both ridiculous which is the point I was getting at.

deburnin

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[QUOTE]I think that if you are on welfare, you should be drug tested and given the depo shot (obviously, only if you are a woman, haha.)  If you don't want to agree to those terms, then don't be on welfare.  The government should not be supporting you in any way while you continue to be irresponsible. 
Posted by TheMutleys[/QUOTE]

<div>I'm late and just starting to read though this thread now, but I'm curious to see your take on this article, Mutley and others: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/98-welfare-applicants-pass-drug-test">http://www.theroot.com/buzz/98-welfare-applicants-pass-drug-test</a>.</div><div>
</div><div>ETA: Crap... Just saw that Audige beat me too it... I hate not having time to be on the internet... :(</div>

deburnin

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[QUOTE]ETA: Another one. I don't understand super long engagements. Like, 2+ years. If you're engaged that should mean you're ready to marry. I don't understand people who say, "Oh, we're engaged, but we have so much we want to do first!" You could do that stuff when you're married. Conversely, if it's that you don't have the money to get married, maybe you should put off engagement until you're READY to get married.
Posted by LivLeighton[/QUOTE]

<div>Boo. :P We're waiting two years, but that's because we need to save money. We bought a house instead of worrying about a wedding, so bye-bye savings. lol I don't mind the longer engagement. More time to just enjoy being engaged. And unless we wanted to elope or JOP (which FI is totally against), it's the only way to go.</div><div>
</div><div>I do give the side eye to my sister and her FI who just got engaged and are waiting until 2015.... So maybe I'm a hypocrite? *shurg* But they also broke the getting engaged until 20 rule (he's only 19, she's 21).</div>

heyimbren

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : Free babies all around!  Come to Canada ;)
Posted by PaigeMcC[/QUOTE]

We should advertise this.

"Move to Canada; get a free baby!"

Keehleena

By definition I am pro-choice but here is what I think about that:  Abortion is not birth control! I think it should be legal for those outlying cases where bringing a child to term may be near impossible or cause a lot of harm to the mother (rape, incest, body rejects infant, etc).  The reason I say it is just because it is illegal doesn't mean it won't happen, and at least this way it can be controlled and is safer (I think late-term should be completely illegal).

I also believe abstinence only education is stupid.  Just like any other education if you tell someone not to do it they're going to do it anyway just to see what it is like, and if they are going to do something "irresponsible" they might as well be as careful/safe as possible! We protect our children all of the time (helmets, driver's ed, coats in the winter, etc), why don't we teach them safer ways to have intercourse?

I would love for people to need a license to get married or have children, but like many things in the world, power is abused and someone would figure out a way to abuse the system. People would/do judge others based on situations they do not fully understand.  A "perfect" wife and husband may actually end up being terrible parents, and the single unwed mother may end up raising an angel in comparison.  

I think the drinking age should be lowered to 18. Or even better why don't we follow the European model and control it while they still live in their parents' households.  Americans only go nuts when they turn 21 and binge because it was forbidden before then.  It's like being denied candy on Halloween, they're going to go overboard when they finally get the chance.  If we educate them and make it less of a big deal (not make it socially acceptable to get hammered), then people won't be as crazy. (I also believe that if you can be a battle vet at 18 then you should be able to have a drink to fuzzy the memories a bit)

I personally hate the idea of people smoking Mary Jane, but after seeing people going through chemo, I think that it should be legalized...chemo kills you faster than pot ever would. Also, you don't have to smoke it, you can eat it...That way you don't have to push your habit on others (secondhand smoke). Oh, and tax it like everything else!

Driving - I agree with a previous poster about the driving restrictions on young people.  Just because you are young doesn't mean you are irresponsible behind the wheel. I see plenty of middle aged parents trying to control their kids while driving (or putting on makeup, having breakfast, or other tasks), and a lot more older people who's reaction times and sight are too poor to drive.  They cause just as many accidents.  The whole breathalyzer idea is a good one (even though there are loopholes), it would cut down on the drinking and driving a little bit (you do have to have someone sober start the car, and if we exhibited our strong influence of peer pressure to make that totally unacceptable then it wouldn't happen as much).

Marriage while "young" - who decides what is "young?" There are plenty of 30 year olds who have the mental abilities of a 15 year old, and some 15 year olds grew up in the school of hard knocks.  I do think there are plenty of entitled youngsters who don't think before they act and think they deserve everything given to them, but not everyone is like that.

Being engaged "too long" - I would love for my SO to pop the question, but according to a lot of you he shouldn't.  We promised each other to wait to marry until we both graduated college and had steady jobs because there is a possibility that something may happen between now and then.  Two years seems like a long time, but a lot can happen between now and then.  He wants to be a teacher and will go where the work is, but it may not be possible for me to follow him if he has to pack up every few years.

Other marriage things - I think same sex marriages should be legal.  I am a Christian, but I also see plenty of heterosexuals break that same "covenant" that they deny homosexuals...by getting divorced.  So why is sanctity of marriage such a problem? We can bend the rules for ourselves but not others? What BS. (I also love my homosexual friends to death, I have found they are usually less hypocritical and nicer since they have been on the receiving end of a lot of bad things and so they don't do it to others)

College and other expenses - I think parents should make their kids earn a living on their own, and if they struggle....then help them out. Too many parents just pay for their kids' expenses and let them run wild.  I have to pay for everything except car insurance on my own (but I more than made up for that in the past by helping my parents support their bills, and I will have to buy my own insurance in December anyway) and I will say I have learned a lot from it.  

I would love to do this to my kids: Let them work their way through college and pull out any loans they need to, and on graduation day present them a check for all expenses so they don't have to worry about student loan debt eating them alive... Saying that would happen? Probably not (unless I strike it rich early and can put it away for them), but it is a nice dream.

Also make trade schools more prominent, not everyone needs a traditional college degree. I would rather employ a Master Electrician instead of a B.S. in Biology to rewire my house.

I also personally think everyone should have to work customer service.  Too many people think people who work in those jobs are retards (yes, really...mentally handicap) or losers.  This is not the truth, most of them are students, trying to better their lives, or they just got laid off, or just had a baby and are trying to bring in more money through a second job.  People treat other people so poorly, and it isn't right. If you don't understand their situation, how can you cast such harsh judgement upon their job choice? Someone has to do it.

Political parties - abolish them and vote for who is going to do the best job, not who can lie the best and pretend to follow a bunch of beliefs while furthering a political agenda.  I know for myself I lean hard left and right depending on the subject, and I know I am not the only one. So why even have a system in place that just thwarts people from voting in people who will actually represent us?

Jail - Quit making it so great.  It is sad when a guy has to rob a bank for $1 so he can get healthcare because he can't afford it, but being in jail means it is "free" (aka paid for by taxpayers). [Google the article].  Real life is a lot more unpredictable and scary than prison (except for the whole "you might get stabbed today" part). They get a bed, three meals a day, free healthcare and more.  I wish I got that!

Welfare - Drug testing should be mandatory! The system is broken.  There are plenty of people who bad things happen to and they need the temporary assistance, but there are too many people who milk the system for all it is worth because they are lazy.

Government - abolish the "use it or lose it" policy.  It invites waste and corruption.  Let people reduce, reuse and recycle.....especially schools and the military.

I think if I post any more it would be like dividing by zero