What Extremist Views Do You Admit To Having?

I'm all for revising the "three strikes" law several states have from prescribing mandatory life sentences to mandatory summary executions with no appeals.

I also think the following should be made illegal qualifying offenses:
Having a cellphone with an obnoxious ringtone go off during a broadway show.
Wearing a ballcap at an angle as opposed to forwards or backwards.
Producing or buying "spinner" style rims.
Producing car audio equipment with more than 45 watts of power.
Taking young children or babies out with you to a bar and grill or rated R movie.
Hounding after a flight attendant for a first class upgrade as if bugging the shiznite out of her will help.
Peeing on the roll of toilet paper in a public john.
Taking a violent foaming dump in an airplane john and leaving a pungent miasma that reeks five rows away on a short flight.
Taking a violent foaming dump at work and not washing your wands.
Greenlighting a reality TV show or any film based on a video game.
 
-I believe that cigarettes should be banned under consumer product safety laws, just for consistency... there are plenty of less dangerous products that have a blanket ban on them.

-I also understand this will never happen and have no interest in pushing it as an agenda.

-I believe there should be some kind of qualifying exam for the presidency, with emphasis on reasoning skills. I'd love to test their ability to understand others' basic motivations, if there is a test for that.

-I'd rather have a smart, logical, practical President/Congressman/Governor/Boss/authority figure than one who agrees with me but lacks those qualities.

-I believe there are significant numbers on the extreme left and right that are secretly totalitarian. I worry that those totalitarians on the right are more likely to get support from voters.

-I fear that Americans would embrace a totalitarian government if sufficiently frightened.
 
Batman Jr. said:
I guess this is just a semantic difference, but I feel that you're really just objecting to a miscalculation of strategies with the aim of achieving happiness rather than the actual pursuit of happiness. Hedonism, when not tamed by a rigorous logic to guide the compulsion to experience pleasure, can be dangerous; however, this danger is arguably not the fault of hedonism but instead the methods chosen to satiate the ethic. You could be hedonistic and conclude that since getting drunk can feel good temporarily, you should drink. Conversely, you could be hedonistic and examine the situation and realize that the emotional burdens of excessive drinking will eventually outweigh the emotional benefits and decide not to drink.
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Yes, it seems were are probably arguing semantics. You could say I'm against, irrational hedonism, but it's very hard to be rational over the long term about pleasure.

Hedonism, to me, implies that your life should be focused on maximizing pleasure. Most people can't be rational about it, like most people can't avoid be addicted to crack. So, promoting it is dangerous, this is of course my opinion.

I'm not against pleasure, but as a side effect of your actions, not the primary goal. I would suggestion looking into "flow" states, as an alternative to hedoism, it underlies much of the positive psychology material I have been reading over the years.

I appreciate your comments.
 
I don't think I have any extreme views. I think I prefer things the way they are:

I think we should continue paying huge amounts of money in military foreign aid. Spending tax payer's money to arm another country's military is smart because we make them spend it on our countries private defense industry. Sure it would be more efficient to just send the tax payers money straight to the military industrial complex, but by introducing a foreign middle man we spend even more money by having a war later. Absolutely brilliant.

I think we should continue enforcing our pyramid retirement scheme (social security) on the poor at gunpoint. Why reform social security when it works so well? The payroll cap on social security tax is $88,000 (last time I looked). This way a family with a combined income of $89,000 a year pays more social security tax than someone who makes $500,000,000 a year. Taxing the poor to pay for the poor makes sure they stay poor.

We should continue to protect the status quo by copying the methods used in paying out the Federal death benefits to the relatives of the 9-11 victims. Payment was based on your potential income (which is based on your current income at the time of your death). The result was a clear message that a wealthy person's life is worth many times as much as a poor person's life. We must insure that none of the untermensch accidentally become wealthy because of the death of a loved one.

We should continue to fund education based on the income of the neighborhood the school is in, instead of giving poor children the same opportunities as the wealthy. If we were to offer children an equal education, some mendicant might actually rise up and ask for a fair shake.

I’m also in favor of the current “Cult of the Child”. Any and all civil rights and/or liberties should be surrendered because their existence might be somehow detrimental to a child somewhere.

LLH
 
Howdy,
As you can see I have just joined this board. I think this will be a good thread to introduce
myself.
1.Public summary execution for those who confess to the crimes of murder-1 or child rape.
2.Corperal punishment in public schools.
3.The abolishment of affirmative action.
4.The withdraw of the United States of America from the United Nations.
5.Profiling.
6.The expulsion of all illegal immigrants from the USA.
7.The rights of American workers to earn a decent wage.
8.A flat 17% income tax / no sales tax.
9.Term limits on all politicians, and Judges.
10.All articles of The Bill of Rights, as written.

Just a few of the many things I believe in.

Cat
 
Welcome to the board, Cat217!

Oh, here's one for you guys. Cat reminded me.

Pedophilia.

Sure, sure, everybody gets worked up about pedophilia. So that doesn't put me in the extreme. But I mean that I cannot talk rationally about the subject at all.

For instance, sometimes someone will raise the point that not all kids who consensually submit to a pedophile necessarily end up suffering trauma from the incident(s). Way, way down inside somewhere, I know this is a good point for discussion. But a red film descends over my vision and I just can't do it. I know I will end up losing it.

People who raise this discussion point probably are scared someone is going to think they are a defender of pedophiles or a pedophile themselves. I imagine it takes some courage to raise the issue.

But still. I know I will freaking lose it. I tried to participate once and I did lose it. Lost all control of my temper.

So I avoid those topics. Like the plague. Because I know sooner or later I will say something really, really ugly to somebody and any and all future conversations I have with that person will be colored by it. It would be a seed of enmity.

For those of you who have raised such a topic, don't worry. I honestly do not remember who you were. So you are safe. :)

Maybe it is because I am a dad. I was not sexually mishandled in any way as a child.
 
Luke T. said:
Oh, here's one for you guys. Cat reminded me.

Pedophilia
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Working in the UK videogames industry, I knew Ken Lockley. I feel your pain :(

The thing is, some paedophiles (no idea about Lockley) were abused themselves, and the trauma they suffered is what tipped them over the edge and turned them into perverts. Do you feel sorry for these people as victims, or hate them as perpetrators? Damned if I have an answer... :(
 
I think child rapists should be castrated.

I don't like the idea of gay couples adopting children, because I think young children really need a mother. (This opinion might not be extremist in the US, but in Holland it's a politically uncorrect thing to say.)
 
Dr Adequate said:
I think that pretzels should be slightly larger.
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You've not been to Disneyland, then. They've got such mofo huge pretzels that some kids actually use them as play-gyms. But they do taste like salted styrofoam...
 
Luke T. said:
Welcome to the board, Cat217!

Oh, here's one for you guys. Cat reminded me.

Pedophilia.

Sure, sure, everybody gets worked up about pedophilia. So that doesn't put me in the extreme. But I mean that I cannot talk rationally about the subject at all.

For instance, sometimes someone will raise the point that not all kids who consensually submit to a pedophile necessarily end up suffering trauma from the incident(s). Way, way down inside somewhere, I know this is a good point for discussion. But a red film descends over my vision and I just can't do it. I know I will end up losing it.

People who raise this discussion point probably are scared someone is going to think they are a defender of pedophiles or a pedophile themselves. I imagine it takes some courage to raise the issue.

But still. I know I will freaking lose it. I tried to participate once and I did lose it. Lost all control of my temper.

So I avoid those topics. Like the plague. Because I know sooner or later I will say something really, really ugly to somebody and any and all future conversations I have with that person will be colored by it. It would be a seed of enmity.

For those of you who have raised such a topic, don't worry. I honestly do not remember who you were. So you are safe. :)

Maybe it is because I am a dad. I was not sexually mishandled in any way as a child.
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This reminds me of something I believe you and I both posted on an old thread back on the JREF community forum, maybe before the forums "split up." It was about listing your fears, and I said my biggest fear is outliving any of my children. Your post was along those same lines. That really stuck with me, because I could relate to what you were saying.

Not sure how this adds to the discussion of "extreme" or "irrational," except I guess it affects my parenting skills.

Oh, and that reminds me. I hate how our planet is becoming overpopulated and worry about how we can't allow ourselves to become the bugs eating the frog in the plastic box in school. We keep having babies and babies and we talk about world hunger and the need to feed all these people and cure poverty and disease and such and I think, "But we have too many people already! Is anyone paying attention!?!?"

...and I eagerly await the birth of my fourth child next month! :o Yep, on that I am a hypocrite.

(If you don't know what I mean about the frog, in 7th grade we saw how bugs multiplied and thrived in this box with a frog carcus to eat, but eventually the bugs died out when the food was gone.)

typo
 
Dredred said:
I think child rapists should be castrated.

I don't like the idea of gay couples adopting children, because I think young children really need a mother. (This opinion might not be extremist in the US, but in Holland it's a politically uncorrect thing to say.)
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Your avatar is giving me an extreme headache! :D
 
luchog said:
Anyone caught seriously using terms like "proactive", "implementize", "core competencies", or "rearrange paradigms", without a shred of detectable irony, should be hauled out into the streets and summarily executed as an example to all.
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I add synergy to the list and any mention of "the box".
 
I believe that you all should return your library books on time. This means you. I'll wait while you go check under your bed.



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I believe that women over fifty are extremely sexy and attractive.

Budgies rule!

Hugh Laurie is the sexiest man on television at the present time.


And on the serious side.

Child abuse of any way shape or kind. I become speechless. (and for me that's extreme). The thought of intentionally injuring a child who is too little to fight back in any way just sends me completely over the edge. I've witnessed it in my work and in two cases, I think I actually helped the situation, but usually I can't do a damned thing.
 
I dont think attempted murder or any crime should carry a lesser penalty than if you pulled it off.

I dont think intent should matter during sentencing only the effect on the victim.

That being said I think all drunk drivers should be charged with murder. I have a drunk in my family that has been through the revolving door for years. He will kill someone before they stop him I would rather see him in jail.

I dont believe in sex offender registration. If they are still dangerous then keep them in jail. I realize the recovery rate is about zero and I have no problem with giving all sex offenders the death penalty on the first offense. Sacrificing innocents to rehab a few of them is a no go. Thats real sex crimes and not some guy that pee'd in an alley or pulled a Pee Wee Herman.

Prisions should not be allowed to operate businesses that compete with the private sector.

Prisoners should not get a free college education.

I dont think anyone should get early release for any reason, you serve your time. Parole should be mandatory for 5 years after release.

A HS degree should be required for jury duty.
 
LibraryLady said:
I believe that you all should return your library books on time. This means you. I'll wait while you go check under your bed.
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I still have a book about plumbing from my high school library and I dont feel bad about it at all.
 
1. I'm strongly anti-censorship. I wouldn't mind if the FCC suddenly evaporated along with all the laws that they enforce. I'd only keep the laws regarding speech that incites violence and the "yelling 'fire' in a theater" type.
2. Legalize all drugs, and regulate them like other vices.
3. Legalize prostitution, distribute free condoms and demand all prostitutes be tested bimonthly, or be thrown in jail for being a public health hazard.
4. I'd like sport hunting to be done away with, I find it to be a useless activity. I have irrational sympathy for animals and think it is "unfair" to kill them for entertainment, it's almost disgusting, really.
5. Population control, starting with doctor-assisted suicides and abortions, and stretching to mandatory euthanasia (I plan to do myself in at 75) and reproductive limits. Couples interested in becoming parents should be required to take (and pass with a C or better) a course in child/adolescent psychology, they're eye-opening.
6. Legalize gay marriage and polygamy.

7. I want the "Department of Homeland Security" to be renamed because... because the word "homeland" just sounds stupid, jingoistic, and childish to me. Ach, kill it with fire!

8. The mandatory sentence for sexual abuse and rape should at least include a daily kick in the nuts (or ovaries?). And maybe some kind of psychological trauma, I hate, hate, hate, hate sexual abusers. :mad:

9. I'll admit there's some sort of emotional comfort, a sort of warmth of having a big government. I'm kind of scared of having a small government, yet I know rationally there are laws and portions of the government I could do away with and a small government has its upside.
 
Jas said:
And don't forget, apparently I give it out to everyone. You can't lose!
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Yeah, well...I wasn't gonna mention that other thread. ;) Did you like my suggestion in that thread, BTW? I'm sure it would work!


(although, I will admit, that the haircolour changes a fair amount)
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I can identify with that. Not too long ago, my hair was dyed black, with occasional temporary blue in the spikes. It is now back to its natural color, which is far from being either black or blue. :)
 
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