What popular belief do you disagree with?

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23 Comments

HubertManne@piefed.social · 23 pts · 272d (3 replies)

existence of god obviously.

presoak@lazysoci.al · -11 pts · 272d (2 replies)

Not a popular belief here on Lemmy. Can you try something that hits a little closer to home?

HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 272d (1 reply)

im not even sure I know enough about how the fediveration skews to be sure.

presoak@lazysoci.al · -6 pts · 272d

If you want to feel out the edges of the consensus here, see what gets removed.

Ok, on second thought that may be difficult.

davel@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 272d (8 replies)
presoak@lazysoci.al · -10 pts · 272d (7 replies)

Could you just say one? For conversation's sake.

davel@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 272d (6 replies)

Here are four

presoak@lazysoci.al · -22 pts · 272d (5 replies)

You people really do conform to the consensus very tightly.

davel@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 272d (4 replies)

To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, reality has a well-known socialist bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism

presoak@lazysoci.al · -17 pts · 272d (3 replies)

Just say it.

davel@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 272d (2 replies)

I don’t know what you imagine I’m holding back.

presoak@lazysoci.al · -15 pts · 272d

The actual disagreeing opinion. Stated plainly.

random_character_a@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 271d

Travelling broadens your mind.

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 272d (3 replies)

That we shouldn't care about anything besides our own worldly/ material whims.

presoak@lazysoci.al · 4 pts · 272d (2 replies)

I think that might be stress talking.

Everybody agrees that goodness and beauty matter. All of our stories and movies and ideologies say as much.

But when stressed. When security is at stake. And especially if nobody is watching. Yeah we can become selfish little rats.

My point is we go up and down like that. From human to rat and back again. Depending on our stress level.

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 272d

That's a very deep, generous and insightful post. Thanks. 👍

v0id@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 271d

The state: better manufacture endless crises then!

Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d

That because the human species has done so much, it must be good.

And the usual bit about your productive output being the measure of your value.

cerafredo@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 270d
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inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 272d

That it's fine to harm another so long as you enjoy it's flesh and muscle.

folaht@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 271d (1 reply)

That the scientific method is fine as it is.

On top of that, quantum mechanics, Einstein's theories of relativity, Maxwell's equations, Newton's law of gravity, although Einstein "disproved" this, they both make the same mistake, and more.

And before people false dichitomize me into the religious camp, the best and easiest example I will always give of what's wrong with these theories is to take the holy trinity, argue what fallacy is taking place when one introduces a three-but-really-one monotheist deity as truth and then expand on that fallacy to take down the photon's two-but-really-one wave-particle duality.

Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 271d

All said and done. We clearly have only scratched surface of scientific knowledge. So it is pretty much a safe bet that the vast majority of what we "know" is wrong. Especially anything complicated.

Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 271d

Communism killed 100 million billion trillion people.

Also that ethnostates are bad.