Controversial Political Opinions

[David Horn]

Set up a list again for clarity.

(03-21-2022, 11:16 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

1. No fault divorce was a mistake.
   
2. "War crimes" should only be prosecuted if the person broke the laws of his or her nation at the time and did not do so under duress. If tried by another country, there is a violation of national sovereignty ("international committees" have no legitimate sovereignty, only countries). If tried for something that was legal at the time, the prosecution is ex post facto and therefore also illegitimate.**
   
3. If you can't make a living out of high school, your education system has failed you. If you can't make a solidly middle class income out of university, your education system has also failed you.
   
4. If your ancestors committed human sacrifice, I give zero fucks about their civilization being destroyed, just like how I gave zero fucks that Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Maoist China all fell.
   
5. "Elite" should not be an insult. Being successful and having erudite tastes are something you should be proud of. Just don't be an oligarch or bureaucrat. Those are indeed legitimate insults.
   

A lot less agreement here:

1. The other alternative was vastly worse: people trapped in marriages they couldn't escape.  Some of those lead to suicide; others to homicide.
   
2. There are legitimate and unarguable standards that can't be swayed by any sovereign nation.  Genocide is the most obvious, but torture and confiscation are on the list too.
   
3. The purpose of education is not to train you for a job.  It's to make you a well-rounded individual and good citizen.  
   
4. OK, but that seems to disagree with you item #2.
   
5. "Elite" means different things to different people.  No, it's not a de facto insult, but many "elites" gained that status by being backstabbing scumballs.  I do agree that being erudite is not a negative unless you use it to lord it over others.
   

more from Jason Wrote:ex: in 2015, they literally arrested a baggage guard, for "accessory to murder" because he (legally at the time) worked in one of the Nazi camps. You don't have to have any sympathy for the Nazis to realize how ridiculous that is.

Nothing exceeds like excess.  Going after the Nazis was bound to ensnare the innocent few.  That doesn't make it right, just inevitable.