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What's some really unpopular opinion you have? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Meritocracy in the US is almost entirely a myth, outside of a few sports.

Free will as it's popularly understood doesn't actually exist.

Most shoes are bad for us and cause injuries over the course of our lives .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Meritocracy in the US is almost entirely a myth, outside of a few sports.

I think that's true for any country, not just US.

Free will as it’s popularly understood doesn’t actually exist.

No one knows that for sure, though it's not some unlikely scenario.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could see those things, except what’s wrong with my shoes? I’ve never heard anything like that before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I happened to see this video recently about how shoes affect foot bones. The tl;dr is that the way most shoes are shaped is restrictive around the toes and squishes the foot in an unnatural way that may lead to long-term injury / bone deformations later in life.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The free will myth is especially damaging, as it steers people away from pragmatic solutions and towards blame and punitive policies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fully agree. Unfortunately we are a very small minority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Free will is wholly incompatible with our modern understanding of physics but nobody will listen because they simply don’t like it.