Pretty much all of us are massive hypocrites when it comes to Eugenics: it is a taboo subject when applied to populations, yet everyone apart from the insane is looking for a genetically fit partner.
Everyone is inherently racist/biased but isn't willing to admit it<p>If you aren't, you probably make a lot of poor decisions or never lived/worked around ghetto areas. You can be inherently biased and still give people benefit of the doubt though.
People scoff at my idea that US state borders should be eliminated and redrawn in a much more efficient and sensible manner, so that no metro areas cross state borders and states are more equal in population.
Baby Boomers are going to die at a much faster clip than their parents (due to sedentary lifestyles/fast food/general excess), and that will cause a lot of unplanned destabilization. I'm willing to put $20 on both my parents (currently 69 and 63) kicking it in the next 5 years.
Monsanto and Roundup in the modern era are obviously good for the world.<p>Advertising and marketing are tools, not inherently good or bad.<p>Being cookied online for the purpose of tracking advertising effectiveness doesn't hurt the end user.<p>It's so unlikely for obese people to permanently lose weight without extreme surgical or therapeutic intervention that its unethical for doctors to recommend diet and exercise alone as if that recommendation is efficacious.<p>That should do it.
States rights should be more powerful than the federal government, the decentralization across states allows for greater freedom and experimentation. The 10th amendment should be emphasized more.<p>Taleb, echos some of this in Antifragile.
Genetics and Evolution is way overestimated. Environment and individual decisions play a much bigger role in someone's life than "thought to be" born features.
Based on down-votes here, probably the idea that "taxation is theft".<p>I also generally disapprove of the idea of nation-states in general, don't believe in borders, and think that private organizations (which could include non-profits, worker owned co-ops, etc.) can (and should) fill most of the roles which are currently filled by "government".<p>Basically, being a Market Anarchist / Voluntaryist puts me at odds which a lot of people.
Question 70: What is justification?<p>Answer: Justification is an act of God’s free grace unto sinners, in which he pardons all their sins, accepts and accounts their persons righteous in his sight; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone.
Nobody really <i>deserves</i> to suffer or die. In some situations it may be that inflicting suffering or death on someone is the best way to minimize it for others, but people are rarely good at figuring out when this is the case.
That I'm actually getting myself well when doctors claim that cannot be done. It routinely gets really, really ugly reactions of the "You are batshit insane" variety.
That climate science isn't very advanced, as far as making reliable predictions is concerned, and places far too much faith in complex and incomplete simulation models.
Okay, this is a hard one to decide between. Probably one of the following:<p>1. That populism and extremism was basically inevitable, and without a major shake up, future equivalents of Trump and Brexit and what not are going to get more and more common (and extreme).<p>2. That the focus on identity politics over economic inequality came from the left's shift in focus away from the working class to the middle/upper one. Easier to blame a new scapegoat than look in the mirror at the source of your own lifestyle.<p>3. As well as that transhumanism and tech are the solution to issues like global warming, not changing lifestyles. The latter just won't happen without a planetary dictatorship of some kind, whereas the former may fix or reduce the effects enough to be manageable.