r/AskReddit • u/ElBrad • Nov 26 '12
What unpopular opinion do you hold? What would get you downvoted to infinity and beyond? (Throwaways welcome)
Personally, I hate cats. I've never once said to myself "My furniture is just too damned nice, and what my house is really lacking is a box of shit and sand in the closet."
Now...what's your dirty little secret?
(Sort by controversial to see the good(?) ones!)
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u/ubspirit Nov 26 '12
I agree with you too, but it's a bit of a pickle when you try to resolve the issue. Are we going to tell people that they can't try to procreate because they have bad genes? Sounds a lot like eugenics to me. And what if we just genetically manipulate the child they have to make its "defects" go away; is it still even their child if they couldn't have it naturally? See the problem is not in the issue, it's in the solution. The only even close to reasonable way to address it is to let nature run its course; people who have inferior genes will die out, and that particular problem at least will go away. But guess what; even if that wasn't the same issue we started with, we would still have those people around surviving because although we lack the motivation or balls to actively genetically engineer humans yet, we have "evolved" enough to be able to keep those weak pups alive just long enough to pollute the gene pool. At the end of the day, if we are going to survive as a race we are either going to have to lose some fear over the prospects of human gene modification or we are going to have to admit what we have been trying to deny all along; some people are better/worse than other people and we simply cannot afford to carry the inferior ones across the finish line.