Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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While I think this is an unpopular opinion, I don't think it's entirely false.
The average person doesn't have the time or knowledge to fact check every new discovery that happens, so they place their trust in certain sources that they believe will summarize it accurately and factually. At some point in the chain, there will most often be an aspect of belief or taking it on trust rather than "I've ran this down to earth to definitively prove it to myself firsthand".
Like, I don't have the tools or skills to trace the electrical signals in my computer. It's possible to do so, but I haven't. I trust that it works how I understand it to work based off external information sources.
It's not blind belief or blind trust, but there is an element of belief and trust there.
Slightly controversial opinion regarding religion
This is why I've never been able to look down on those with religious belief simply due to them having religious belief. I'm Christian now, but wasn't one for a good long stretch of years.In super short: In life, you have to accept that there are going to be large swathes of things that you don't know and can't confirm, but you have to rely on them working as you understand them to. That doesn't require a level of fully blind faith that religions often ask of there adherents, but it is a lot closer to it than I feel most people are comfortable admitting.
There is this river of sensations and there is also this body of knowledge. They are 2 different things.
There is this common desire to hold a body of knowledge that is without contradiction, with itself or any sensation. Airtight.
Such a body of knowledge is useful, efficient.