What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
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Sentience in humans begins at 4 years old (mental age). I don't consider humans younger than that to be people. I also firmly believe that you have to have some form of consciousness, self identity, and clear cognition to count as a person.
A human corpse is not a person, a brain-dead patient is not a person, and a human with severe mental disorder should not be held to the same standards as other people.
Similarly, anything that does have sentience is clearly also a person, and should be treated as such. Animals such as crows, parrots, octopi, dolphins, whales, and some monkeys and apes are demonstrably as or more intelligent than some human children. They should not be treated the way they are.
As a side note, I agree with that other guy. Polycules should be allowed to marry.
Also, names in this day and age are useless, at least official ones. We have computers, we already use government issued ID for everything, having a name just makes things confusing. Just use nicknames, either created by the person or by agreement from peers and allowed by the person. The concept of a parent forcing a name on their child is archaic and cruel.
And finally, real life security is horrifying. I expected things to be like in the movies, where you need a special skill or training to do those spy shit. But no. In comparison to real life, Google actually has good security and privacy. WTF people? Everytime I receive mail with my name and a description of what's inside just written on the box I cringe and go back to lurking online again.
having a name just makes things confusing.
Yeah, best to have a nice and orderly government-generated ID value, like "ALL80 AFAHSC NFF6".
Just use nicknames, either created by the person or by agreement from peers and allowed by the person.
You are describing a situation that creates infinitely more confusion. Your opinion is not "unpopular", is nonsensical.
The concept of a parent forcing a name on their child is archaic and cruel.
How do you want the person to be called? "Hey, you"?
But I agree that if parents apply to you a name that's ridiculous, strange, antisocial or likely to provoke social consequences, the person should be the ability to change it (legally) to something else.
Also changing your name when you're adult should be normalized - just so, without ressons.
Without reasons? I don't agree with that. That would give con artists more tools to evade justice.
Amen! I’ve always said that a right to life requires an entity to be able to benefit emotionally from having that right.
In essence that means:
- It knows it can die
- It knows what a “right to life means”
- It can recognize whether it has or doesn’t have a right to life
And an additional rule is: any entity that attains a right to life keeps that right until it dies even if it drops below the threshold cognitively. This is to prevent anxiety around the thought of losing one’s right to life when in a coma or asleep.