That a hot dog is not a taco
That there is nothing after death. That praying is pointless. I’m not a Christian as such, and I’ve no interest in debating the topic. I just find confident absolutists slightly annoying, be they religious fundamentalist or obnoxious atheists. Not that I’m saying atheists are obnoxious, but there’s a certain angst teen attitude that will assert that there’s nothing after death and I find it slightly arrogant.
You and me both.
I disagree with the belief that all police officers are automatically bad people
One of my friends was a rural police officer, which I didn’t know. Dude is super friendly and queer. Unfortunately he had a lot of terribly sad stories of AD&D and DUIs. He finally called it quits when one woman rode up an industrial garage door to impress her friend and got lethally caught in it. Found her friend holding her legs to try and save her. Too many terrible things happened to nice but terribly misguided (or drunk) people.
I think that job hurt his heart.
A friend of mine is a cop & a nice guy. I asked him why the hell he became a cop of all things & he said “this way, I know there’s at least one cop in existence who’s not a racist asshole.”
I countered with “Oh, so you’re just a regular asshole, then?” An he said “No sir; I am an ass hat. An asshole is an ass the whole time. If people are cool, I’m cool with them, but if someone wants to be an ass, I can put my ass hat on to match their energy.”
I can respect that.
i agree with you.
My best friend is ex-police. My brother is police.
They’re not saints but they’re good people, certainly not exploring or abusing anyone.
Then again, we’re not in the USA so I can’t comment on what it’s like there.
That dogs are “good boys” or your friend.
That the cereal should be poured before the milk.
But cereral first is only sane and moral. We can’t have a floating mound. And that’s to say nothing of volumetric concerns.
You sprinkle some more cereal on the milk whenever you run out of cereal.
The whole point is to not have soggy cereal
Really depends on preference and cereal type
It’s less of an argument between milk first vs second, but people that like soggy vs crunchy cereal.
The important thing is to not add too much cereal before you can eat it all. Adding in cereal last just helps make sure you don’t.
I eat my cereal dry by the handful then drink milk when my mouth gets too cottonie
My uncle’s ex-wife would pour a bowl of frosted flakes, pour milk on it, put the bowl in the refrigerator, then eat it the next day.
I don’t think that’s why they got divorced, but I’ve always believed it was a contributing factor…
A surprising number of people on lemmy seem to have this belief, which i think is unpragmatic: They think that to live ones life correctly, or to form a coherent society, one, or the society, must have a Set of Ethical and Moral Principles that crucially, has to be easily enumerable, and preferably named (Like, “The Ten Commandments”). These people also think that they do not have such a named Set, and that this is a really bad problem for them. I think having values is good. However, I think that worrying about how they might be inconsistent seems to be a kind of wild-card disscussion-ender (“Well to solve that problem, we’d first need to sort out Philosophy”), and that therefore, using this worry in any discussion but an abstract one is bad.
(For the society part, holding way too high standards for the Set also creates weird Cultural Homogeneity problems, which irks me.)
If you believe something adjacent, which Sets of values count for you? The Ten Commandments? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Or whatever Kant said?
Pick literally any religion.
Pick literally any belief.
That.
It’s like some kind of low hanging fruit party in here.
What’s a commonly held belief here on lemmy that you disagree with?
Karma.
If it existed, then how come bad people get away with a lot of shit?
Being the bigger man.
I don’t outright disagree with it to where I think it’s not useful, but I don’t agree with it either. There are some specific situations and circumstances at play where maybe being the bigger man wasn’t worth it. It’s hard to tell sometimes but I’ve been in situations where having been the bigger man just meant more bullshit for me in the end. Than, having done something right then and there that would’ve solved the issue and prestige not mattering.
good things do have a way of coming back around, but that’s more so because…well…that’s just kind of how communities as a whole function, people working together to common goal, shouldering each others burdens etc.
bad deeds definitely don’t go punished on their own though, that…takes someone with the agency/time to actually punish bad people
God.
We don’t care about God here. You got anything we care about?
You said popular belief. You did not say popular belief on lemmy
Well now you know. So do you?
Just answering you question.
It’s common to advise young people that Working hard and grinding when you are young, then having relatively calm and relaxation life for the rest of the life.
I think the relaxation never comes, if you work to death right now then still there is a pretty good chance you would be doing same 10 years from now. I believe ther should be balance between work and life no matter what age.
Also working hard doesn’t get you anywhere. You have to also be an asshole that claws your way out of the bottom of the bucket of crabs.
There’s so many really good hard workers at dead end jobs that get treated like shit.
I encourage everyone to aim to have their midlife crisis moment sometime in their mid twenties.
Get off the treadmill of life while it’s still cheap to hop on and off.
About relaxation. I’ve found that I can’t relax untill I’ve chilled for 2 weeks. Until then I have a wheel in my head that just won’t stop spinning. But after that 2 weeks I transform.
“Natural” means healthy
I like to point out to those people that arsenic is natural. Malaria is natural too.
That there is a correct way to live or that objective morality exists
You’d like The Good Place if you haven’t already seen it.
”Doug! We all love Doug!”
There are very few at ease with moral relativity.
Oh definitely. Objectivity schmobjectivity. I think it’s something completely different.
Cynicism isn’t inherently more mature than believing that things can be made better. For a lot of people “everything is fucked, nothing matters” is a way of absolving themselves from the responsibility and personal risk involved in actively trying to make the world a better place.
I agree with this. People think being pessimistic is more realistic than being optimistic. They think spinning things as negative is automatically more realistic than the positive spin. In reality, realism sees both sides and adjusts one’s behaviour to make the best out of everything
They get mad at the very idea that people can work together and successfully create change, despite numerous historical examples. It’s actively immature to be wholly cynical
I agree. And I think that cynicism is just easier. The claims of maturity part is mere justification.
The battle between socialism/communism and capitalism, in my POV both compliment each other. For the system to work as today there should be both types of countries.
Capitalism is the best system to live in when the owning class has a genuine fear of a communist revolution.
Unless they go the fascist route, like in Germany.
Fascism is just another kind of socialism/communism, it’s national socialism. The problem of it is when they start invading other countries, for context just look at Nordic countries healthy national socialism wo getting in trouble like WWII Germany.
That’s nonsense, they’re complete opposites. The Nazis came to power because they were supported by (and supported) bourgeois interests.
That “growth” is inherently a good thing to do and if you aren’t trying to grow as a person everyday then you’re not living ‘correctly’
Excuse my curiosity. Do you think learning and experiencing new things is not an important aspect of life? Or maybe you just have a different definition of growth than me?
A life without would be stagnant and boring to me.
I believe where we differ is the degree. I do still learn new things for fun and whatnot, but if there is ever a time I am NOT doing that (besides work, sleep, or helping society as a whole in some other way), I’ve been conditioned to feel guilty. Like, if I’m not growing at all times, then I am personally spitting on the graves of all my ancestors
I think growing/expanding your experience in life is good, but ya, I definitely don’t agree with that definition, that’s intense.
Can’t even “grow” when your parents destroyed your self-confidence.
Eh, you can circle back through nihilism into absurdism, and wind up in a place close enough to self-confidence to actually turn into it eventually.
Ask me how I know.
Have you considered growing past that? /s. Stupid joke aside, wholly relatable for lots – including myself – i imagine.
aaah. the morally of cancer
the industrial revolution and its consequences. also the enlightenment, fuck those guys
One of the best takeaways from the Wizard of Earthsea books. Ambition can be poison.
I love Earthsea
