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Like obviously we need to make people know things exist, it makes financial and logical sense, etc.

On the other hand, this is bullshit. It's an ever increasing blight on the senses in both online and offline spaces. It's at the point where massive companies cannot function without plastering ads over everything. Fuck that. If we can't function without some garish assault of a cacophony to our psyche every few minutes, maybe we need to rethink what we're doing with our existence.

I'm a practicing Christian that goes to church every Sunday, and yet I believe in abortion and birth control like I invented them. I love babies and hold one most Sundays during the sermon and think they're a miracle, but also if you don't want to be pregnant don't for one second hesitate to have the abortion. Your life matters way way more than some cells.

Theres no such thing as "too much privacy" but at same time too much privacy can make it near impossible to catch pedos and shit like that :/

Gun control in the US.

Gun control would normally work in any other country, but guns are so ingrained in American culture and history that it is infeasible to simply just implement gun control and expect everything to work.

Couple that gun culture with a whole lot of systemic issues (capitalism, remnants of racist laws, wealth inequality, healthcare, police brutality, education system, firearms safety) and you get the gun violence rampant across the US.

Gun control won't work on its own. If you want to get rid of guns, you gotta fix everything at the same time, which won't happen because half the country would vote against progress and their own interests in the name of "owning the libs".

You can't fix stupid (in America), but you also can't stop it from doing catastrophic damage.

Proprietary products.

I am a big fan of free & open source, and I believe as much as possible should be open source, especially the essential ones, but at the same time, people need to get paid.

Cycling on the road.

On the one hand, biking is great and they should be able to bike on any road! And we should be careful when driving near them, it's super scary being so unprotected and so close to metal speed bombs hurling around them.

On the other hand, road bikers are fucking annoying, stay in your goddamn lane and stop slowing down traffic. I'm not reading your dumb hand signals, either!

Everything has pros and cons.

Most people tend to see only the pros of the things that favour them and downplay the cons that affect others. Which is why we come to hate each other so often.

For example, life and death are a cycle. Can't have one without the other. People may have different goalposts on what deaths they think they're willing to cause in order to survive, but whether it's animals, plants or even microbial organisms, some living beings have to die in order for others to live. (But it's fine because there's so many of them and they can't think or feel pain, probably. Eh, who cares anyway, gotta eat something!)

Due to the limitations of operating at a loss, a demerit is unavoidable. The problem is having to constantly fine tune the balance in order to do the least harm. And yet even that is a self-appointed right and responsibility in lack of anything else.

I oppose violence. There are some people who cause so much harm that I wish they'd die. I don't wish for violence to occur, but I wouldn't be sad if it happened and I had nothing to do with it.

I think prohibition is a massive failure of a policy and bullshit moral war and that everything about drugs would be safer and better if they were easily available to whoever seeks them.

However, I know from experience when you're desperate and not well that you'll reach for anything and this can often have severe, predictable collateral consequences for those around someone with maladaptive drug use.

Also people are generally dumb as fuck with drugs and we've all been there. Like, the stakes can be much higher with them involved and life is already basicaly a meat-grinder so I worry about people's abillity to learn to use responsibly and persevere or operate functionally in often deeply problematic home and work environments when its infinitely complicated by various random substances that can become lighter fuel for massive self-destruction and harm to others

Death penalty

On one hand, I don't believe capital punishment has any place in civilized society.
On the other, there are some in-human people (serial killers mainly, but including e.g. CEOs who have caused thousands of deaths to increase profits), where it just seems a waste of everyone's time, to lock them away in a cell for decades. Some people are just completely beyond rehabilitation, and if they are proven guilty with 99.9+% certainty, what's the point of locking then up and waiting for old age to do the job?

My two-sided opinion is that as a defence for veganism/vegetarianism, animal suffering is inconsequential. I used to use the example of flies. Would you hurt a fly? If you would, then what gives you grounds to claim that the lives of any "higher-order functioning" animal is more valuable.

My opinion on this became two sided when i learnt that most insects don't experience pain the same way most mammals do.

Housing needs to be less commodimized, but tons of normal families have their entire network tied up in a home.

Any act that raises home prices hurts though without and any act that lowers home prices hurts those with. How can we untangle homes being family's largest asset without screwing older people.

Without homes and apartments being a commodity, how do we determine who gets to live where fairly? Isn't there like 10x as many vacancies than homeless people? So it's not a supply issue, it's a location issue. The open market is great for sorting that out, but the open market has abused housing and is squeezing too hard.

I don't like that home prices are as high as they are, and we need to change our mindset about how home pricing should work. It needs both government oversight and market forces.