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?

  • BigNote
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    10 months ago

    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 .

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldOP
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      10 months 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.

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      10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

        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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      10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

        Fully agree. Unfortunately we are a very small minority.