The name of the community is Unpopular Opinion. Try to list an authentic one and see what happens. It gets downvoted.
If it is unpopular and you don’t agree with it you downvote it. The community name is not “Edgy Opinions That Aren’t Mainstream That I Agree With”
If you don’t believe what I am saying to be true I’ll give you an example.
Try to post this:
Dogs in shelters should be euthanized and the meat should be used to feed various farm livestock.
That will get downvoted and you know that to be true.
Let the downvotes for this post commence!
Opinions are evaluative judgements somewhere below the epistemic threshold for facticity. Denying scientific facts isn’t “an opinion.” Worse, it’s very boring.
You’re not edgy when you claim that germs don’t cause disease. You’re just wrong. I mean if that’s what you consider an “unpopular opinion” you might as well fill this community with the autogenerated negation of all the sentences in Wikipedia.
I’m not trying to be edgy. This is my opinion. I disagree with the label. To me- it’s not a disease and I refuse to acknowledge that it is. And I never said germs don’t cause disease- I said ADDICTION is not a disease.
Period. Let it go.
Then we should rename this community to “dumb things that are obviously wrong.” Or maybe “anti science.”
You don’t have any interesting opinions — evaluative judgements formed on the basis of evidence disregarded by the majority — so you latch onto simple nihilistic gobbledygook. It’s just… pointless.
And by the way, there are tons of scientific takes that enjoy opinion status. For instance, “psychopathy is far more common than 5% and the condition should be treated very aggressively.” That’s an opinion. It’s an evaluative response to inconclusive or incomplete evidence.
I disagree. See how that works? It’s an opinion. And an unpopular one at that. But look at you proving my point! Go you!