Unpopular Opinions Society

[Freesia]

I am feeling pretty misanthropic about my neighbours at the moment.

 

[kibbleforlola]

Kill all humans. except for fry

 

[Envy]

Kill all humans. except for fry

 

[Renee1]

Mmhmm. There's a difference between realistically outlining the reasons you distrust/dislike the actions of the majority of the human race, and constantly shouting out how much you hate humans and how you hope disaster befalls them immediately. I've seen a surprising amount of the latter on the other forum.

 

[kazyeeqen]

Kill all humans. except for fry

Hey baby, you want to kill all humans?

 

[FortyTwo]

"Fry! I was having the most WONDERFUL dream! I think you were in it."

 

[Spang]

Masturbation is a supplement.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

All shirts should have a hood.

 

[Blobbenstein]

Masturbation is a supplement.

only if you're very flexible........

 

[beancounter]

Masturbation is a supplement.

Supplements keep you healthy.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I am feeling pretty misanthropic about my neighbours at the moment.

Me too. I already have the neighbours near me who have the police and ambulance called to their home regularly because of domestic violence and I think alcohol is a big factor in that but my new neighbours have the same type of issues. I keep hearing the man screaming at the woman he lives with. I know from my own experience that DV is a complex issue but it is very unnerving hearing the shouting and my dogs keep going crazy and barking when it happens. This isn't really an unpopular opinion I know, more of a gripe.

 

[Freesia]

Me too. I already have the neighbours near me who have the police and ambulance called to their home regularly because of domestic violence and I think alcohol is a big factor in that but my new neighbours have the same type of issues. I keep hearing the man screaming at the woman he lives with. I know from my own experience that DV is a complex issue but it is very unnerving hearing the shouting and my dogs keep going crazy and barking when it happens. This isn't really an unpopular opinion I know, more of a gripe.

I know what you mean. Most of the problems I have with my neighbours is that they just make a lot of noise at weird times. The owner is a Baptist pastor and his wife, and a couple of months after they moved in they turned it into a really noisy building site with power tools, etc, for several months, so that they could convert it into a Christian guest house and play host to all these random guests.

So these guests make annoying noise and come and go at weird times, starting their cars up at midnight and keeping it running noisily in the driveway for half an hour, they hold gatherings in their side yard which backs onto my room, and there is the general feeling of strangers outside my room all the time.

And personality wise the neighbours are judgemental. You would think that a pastor and his wife would make a good, quiet neighbour, but in actual fact this couple have been very sucky neighbours indeed.

 

[thefadedone]

That sounds incredibly shady.

I know what you mean. Most of the problems I have with my neighbours is that they just make a lot of noise at weird times. The owner is a Baptist pastor and his wife, and a couple of months after they moved in they turned it into a really noisy building site with power tools, etc, for several months, so that they could convert it into a Christian guest house and play host to all these random guests.

So these guests make annoying noise and come and go at weird times, starting their cars up at midnight and keeping it running noisily in the driveway for half an hour, they hold gatherings in their side yard which backs onto my room, and there is the general feeling of strangers outside my room all the time.

And personality wise the neighbours are judgemental. You would think that a pastor and his wife would make a good, quiet neighbour, but in actual fact this couple have been very sucky neighbours indeed.

 

[Freesia]

Lol. Yes it is kind of weird. From what I know they take a lot of overseas trips on converting missions to recruit more Christians to the fold, and while they are away all these randoms are in their house playing the piano and singing religious songs, cutting their hedges etc. Not something that is good to have next door, it almost feels like some kind of freaky religious hotel.

 

[thefadedone]

Lol. Yes it is kind of weird. From what I know they take a lot of overseas trips on converting missions to recruit more Christians to the fold, and while they are away all these randoms are in their house playing the piano and singing religious songs, cutting their hedges etc. Not something that is good to have next door, it almost feels like some kind of freaky religious hotel.

Well the missionary trips make sense now, but the rest of it is still sketchy and odd. Especially the coming and going at weird hours and starting their cars in the middle of the night.

 

[das_nut]

Buying animal products (and using them) may be fine for veg*ns, depending on the circumstances. (Think used clothing, or even new vaccines.)

Eating food that's non-veg*n, if the alternative is that the food would go to waste, is fine for veg*ns.

Ethical veg*nism is about reducing and eliminating animal harm. That is usually consistent with not using or consuming animal products, but in some circumstances, such as the above, the exceptions are more ethical than foregoing animal products.

 

[Blobbenstein]

my mentally ill neighbour, some years ago, gave me some sausages(she shoved them through the letterbox actually ), I think because she didn't like waste, she gave me stuff like that. She gave me some fish fingers too.
I don't think I was being less ethical by binning it than by eating it.

 

[mlp]

Eating food that's non-veg*n, if the alternative is that the food would go to waste, is fine for veg*ns.

Ethical veg*nism is about reducing and eliminating animal harm. That is usually consistent with not using or consuming animal products, but in some circumstances, such as the above, the exceptions are more ethical than foregoing animal products.

I'm not sure where one would have to live if the only alternative to eating food is to have it go to waste - there is always some living creature that can use the food (unless it's chocolate or something else that's toxic to most/many animals). With that exception, the only time food really goes to waste is if you hang on to it until it spoils and isn't good for anybody.

And while buying used clothing is probably always more ethical than buying used, it's not as though the coat with a fur trimmed hood won't be purchased by another thrift store shopper, so bypassing it for a coat that doesn't have fur on it is an ethical wash, at the least.

 

[das_nut]

I'm not sure where one would have to live if the only alternative to eating food is to have it go to waste - there is always some living creature that can use the food (unless it's chocolate or something else that's toxic to most/many animals).

So if you have ordered a meal at a restaurant and it ends up having egg on it, do you return it (and hope that someone in the kitchen will eat it), or eat it yourself?

I've also known people who have dumpster-dived food and will eat it. I suppose they could leave it out for the birds or squirrels or something, but I don't know how well that would work.

And while buying used clothing is probably always more ethical than buying used, it's not as though the coat with a fur trimmed hood won't be purchased by another thrift store shopper, so bypassing it for a coat that doesn't have fur on it is an ethical wash, at the least.

Unless the coat with a fur-trimmed hood is the only coat that works for you. Sure, perhaps there's someone after you that would have bought it, and instead will head out and buy a new fur-trimmed hood, but I don't think that's likely. They'll either find another coat that works for them (but not you), go without, or buy a used coat later.

I suppose you could keep returning to the thrift store until you find something you want, but the environmental cost of transportation has to be considered. You could also buy a veg*n new coat, but that has its own impact on the environment (and thus animal lives).

Coats are a bad example overall, since veg*n coats tend to be plentiful. (One possible exception - people hunting for extremely cold weather gear used may have a problem avoiding down). Belts are a better example - most thrift stores I've been in have a lot of leather belts, and few if any veg*n belts that could be used in a more formal setting (this is for men, women may be different). So what's better for animals? Buying a new veg*n belt, or buying one of the plentiful used leather belts?

 

[das_nut]

my mentally ill neighbour, some years ago, gave me some sausages(she shoved them through the letterbox actually ), I think because she didn't like waste, she gave me stuff like that. She gave me some fish fingers too.

I'd forgo the food poisoning myself. Shoving food through a letter box isn't a sign that a person has good food hygiene.

Plus, as a vegan, I don't know if I'd trust my digestive track to handle that after all these years.