What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

It's not really, when someone has a book version in their head it's very hard to see the film version from the point of view of non readers, it's hard for book readers to ignore the parts that get left out. Some people will read the HP books after the films as they are easy reads but anyone expecting you to read 7 books when you already know the main story points is an complete moron. HP book readers who hate the films are mostly clowns as they had impossible expectations of the films, any sensible HP fan would admit the films got most things perfect. Unfortunately you will always find some book Nazis on the Internet. I prefer the Game of Thrones TV series to the books... and I spent 10 years dealing with that argument

either capacity, you can choose. the thing where you wouldnt let a child hold a gun or sign a serious contract that sort of thing.

should the voting be taken seriously? or should people be allowed to willy nilly vote for the same parties just because their mom said so and family told them and passed it down through the years without even glancing at policy?

People far too much think of voting like rooting for football teams. when there's a clown in office (quite common these days anyway) blame the people who voted them in.

don't Disqualify voters, just make them have to answer/explain why they voted so that way we know others didnt simply just put them up to it. always happens! they should be given a brief but better understanding of voting before being allowed to cast their vote.

voting only gives us the illusion of choice, none of its real anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJI3HHsWyg

Yeah and we wouldn't let loads of older people sign a serious contract, for example. Are you suggesting disenfranchising them too? And I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I'm just always surprised by how flippantly people dismiss one group from voting and not another group based on the same criteria.

As much as I don't like the fact that some people just vote the way their parents pr grandparents do, you asked if they should be ALLOWED to do so and my answer is yes.

I get you. Me too, to be honest. Removing the party names and voting based on policies would be fascinating. There are sites that analyse the manifestos close to an election. You fill out the questionnaire, rate how important you consider a range of issues and it shows which manifesto you most closely align with. I did it with a load of friends in the UK a couple of elections back and a good fee of them came out Lib Dem. They were really surprised and then voted for the party they always voted for anyway.

The country would be much better off if people voted on policy lines rather than party lines.

To be fair; the thread topic is "Controversial Opinion"... I put out the original one of disagreeing with the premise of "one man, one vote"; it's an opinion that I don't have all the immediate answers on either.

Just fed up of hearing ridiculous misinterpretations of policy / down right stupid opinions being bandied about and knowing that their vote carry's the same weight as everyone else.

To be clear, it's not differing opinion I'm contesting either. I think a large chunk of people don't really care, they'd vote black is white despite what demonstrable. Some people need to be led.

I think we're saying the same thing.

Agreed - that's where I was coming from with my original post. It's a controversial opinion, not something I've fleshed out with a workable solution that everyone would buy in to.

The " Blind Date" solution is one that could work in theory but would be impossible to police. Your last line sums it up; policy lines rather than party lines/dogwhistle stuff.

It's controversial.

Tesco own brand crisps are nicer than Tayto.

very true. tayto is way too salty in my opinion.

Reported for hate speech.

i like this controversial opinion.

its not the fantasy we're into, its imagining having sex with the characters that counts. the ones above 18 of course

That's not controversial. Well I'd say plenty of people are not informed enough to make an informed vote.

The controversial part is that we disenfranchise an entire group from voting because we think they're not informed enough to vote, but once that same uninformed person becomes 18, they can vote for the rest of their life. Nobody ever judges how informed they are. If that person gets dementia, we still don't consider them too uninformed to vote.

The fact that young people aren't allowed to vote is a scandal. And it's so obvious it's staring us in the face.

You sound like someone who has never heard of Disney or Pixar or just doesn't understand that lots of great entertainment is designed for both adults and kids. HP is marketed towards kids but when Rowling wrote the books they were written to appeal to everybody.

you almost made that sound like its everyone inherent right to have sex lmao.

"Even if you make an uninformed choice that's your right and your choice to make." sex isnt a choice for some people