Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Yes, can see this being true, competition as the sole driver is a poor guide and it would be better for society to be the arbiter of success rather than some purely competitive metric. However, human nature has embraced competitive reasoning for thousands of years, so it is hardly a contemporary problem.

Forgive me, but I'm not sure that's universally true either, looking at history. Of course, it is the case often, just not always, and perhaps not even most.

 

For me,  the arbiter of success is survival, in comfort, with as much harm reduction as possible. Everything else is just a means to that end.

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Forgive me, but I'm not sure that's universally true either, looking at history. Of course, it is the case often, just not always, and perhaps not even most.

 

For me,  the arbiter of success is survival, in comfort, with as much harm reduction as possible. Everything else is just a means to that end.

Sorry, sure not always, and I was not  trying to suggest that this competition was always against other humans in any nefarious way, more that it exists in recreational activities, business and to some degree inter human relationships, but as society moves forward (?) then this sometime competitive innate nature is a strange bedfellow of a more collaborative social outlook.

 

As temperatures continue to rise, and the situation globally  becomes more fraught, this really will be a litmus test for our ability to work together.

[grobyfox1990]

6 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Again, just for clarity.

There is enough money in the world to end poverty, we choose not to do it.

For sure we can all be supported to minimum standards globally. But as inhabitants of the first world and the luxuries we currently enjoy, you and I are not going to accept those minimum standards. 

[Jon the Hat]

6 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Again, just for clarity.

There is enough money in the world to end poverty, we choose not to do it.

Absolutely, and that money / wealth was built through capitalism, which remains the best bet to bring the rest out of poverty as well.  Of course there will always be degrees of wealth, and we need controls, taxes, unions, politics  and everything else to support a successful economy and to reduce the gaps between the haves and have nots.

[The Bear]

7 hours ago, Zear0 said:

We already do

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/01/two-child-limit-on-uk-welfare-benefits-has-failed-to-push-parents-into-jobs

 

Yes well 2 children is a bit drastic. I was thinking more about 4 being my number. And it wasn't to try and get parents back to work it was purely to limit the outliers in terms of benefit claiming. 

[Milo]

9 hours ago, Tuna said:

Good luck with that, you'd need every bike to have a number plate or some identifier.

Snipers?

[Free Falling Foxes]

13 hours ago, S1DDO said:

It should be illegal to ride bikes on the road if there's a cycle path

You're not a cyclist - I can tell.

Many cycle paths are very poorly maintained. The ones that are part of the road often have pot holes and all the general crap from the road washed/blew onto them. All the broken glass seems to find its way there too.

Cars are often parked across them as well.

Dedicated cycle paths often have folk walking on them. In the autumn they can be covered with wet leaves making them very slippery to ride on.

 

Most (all?) cyclists would use dedicated cycle routes if it was better to do so.

Edited 27 June 2023 by Free Falling Foxes

[Daggers]

Ban all private transport from town and city centres
Make all public transport electric, free to use, and running 24/7 (extended to cross country too)

Make all deliveries between 00:00 and 05:00 only

Improves public health, improves productivity, decreases red faced men screaming from their Audis and BMWs - job done

[SeCrEt FoX]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Ban all private transport from town and city centres
Make all public transport electric, free to use, and running 24/7 (extended to cross country too)

Make all deliveries between 00:00 and 05:00 only

Improves public health, improves productivity, decreases red faced men screaming from their Audis and BMWs - job done

Daggers for mayor! 

[Jon the Hat]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Ban all private transport from town and city centres
Make all public transport electric, free to use, and running 24/7 (extended to cross country too)

Make all deliveries between 00:00 and 05:00 only

Improves public health, improves productivity, decreases red faced men screaming from their Audis and BMWs - job done

It would take years to buy enough public transport, but yes clearly this is the future.

[Daggers]

29 minutes ago, SeCrEt FoX said:

Daggers for mayor! 

I’m only prepared to accept positions with absolute, unquestionable power…although dropping my trousers in public is an appealing proposition. 

[Captain...]

12 hours ago, leicsmac said:

This is likely true.

 

However, this is a particular matter that would take unified global action because you'd need to shore up every single tax haven. As much as I agree with the idea, I'm not sure how that can practically be done.

The prevalence of money is not the issue (money is a man made construct and we can always print more money), it's the availability of resources and the sustainability of the whole of humanity living in comfort. 

 

For example I remember a statistic from a few years ago that if every household in the world had a fridge it would be an environmental disaster in terms of the resources needed to make and run an extra 0.5 billion fridges. 

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, Captain... said:

The prevalence of money is not the issue (money is a man made construct and we can always print more money), it's the availability of resources and the sustainability of the whole of humanity living in comfort. 

 

For example I remember a statistic from a few years ago that if every household in the world had a fridge it would be an environmental disaster in terms of the resources needed to make and run an extra 0.5 billion fridges. 

Certainly agree that resource availability and logistics are the problem.

 

However, given that the way we utilise all of those resources is, at the present time, almost always horribly inefficient, the problem is one of execution, not of availability IMO.

 

I do not accept the idea of the Earth not having enough resources for the current or slightly increased human population level to live at a level of comfort given ingenuity and logistics, because by doing that I am also tacitly accepting that there will be a gargantuan population crash causing death and suffering on a level unimaginable in the near future. And that is because humans will not and should not accept a regression in their living standards unless the reason is extremely clear and forced upon them, and even if they did it would likely be too late to stop such a crash anyway.

 

So we need better, more efficient ways to utilise the resources we have and keep improving and progressing - it's the only way out of this that doesn't end in utter horror.

[Stadt]

Leadership is the most overrated quality in football. We didn’t go down because of a lack of leadership, nobody ever says Man City win because they have leaders everywhere, it’s the shit teams suffering from a lack of leadership, year on year. Stupid soundbite.

[Fox92]

17 hours ago, Stadt said:

Leadership is the most overrated quality in football. We didn’t go down because of a lack of leadership, nobody ever says Man City win because they have leaders everywhere, it’s the shit teams suffering from a lack of leadership, year on year. Stupid soundbite.

Along with height. That one always gets me.

[Nalis]

17 hours ago, Stadt said:

Leadership is the most overrated quality in football. We didn’t go down because of a lack of leadership, nobody ever says Man City win because they have leaders everywhere, it’s the shit teams suffering from a lack of leadership, year on year. Stupid soundbite.

 

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Along with height. That one always gets me.

Ditto 'who wants it more'. 

[LCFCCHRIS]

22 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Certainly agree that resource availability and logistics are the problem.

 

However, given that the way we utilise all of those resources is, at the present time, almost always horribly inefficient, the problem is one of execution, not of availability IMO.

 

I do not accept the idea of the Earth not having enough resources for the current or slightly increased human population level to live at a level of comfort given ingenuity and logistics, because by doing that I am also tacitly accepting that there will be a gargantuan population crash causing death and suffering on a level unimaginable in the near future. And that is because humans will not and should not accept a regression in their living standards unless the reason is extremely clear and forced upon them, and even if they did it would likely be too late to stop such a crash anyway.

 

So we need better, more efficient ways to utilise the resources we have and keep improving and progressing - it's the only way out of this that doesn't end in utter horror.

I think we as a people are extremely inefficient too. We throw away so much, at least that’s something I do and as trying to avoid. 

[leicsmac]

10 minutes ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

I think we as a people are extremely inefficient too. We throw away so much, at least that’s something I do and as trying to avoid. 

Yeah. Again, it comes down to the "tragedy of the commons" - when people have access to a seemingly abundant resource and it isn't regulated by market or government, most of the time they'll be wasteful with it. 

 

So more regulation on such things is necessary.

[bovril]

20 hours ago, Stadt said:

Leadership is the most overrated quality in football. We didn’t go down because of a lack of leadership, nobody ever says Man City win because they have leaders everywhere, it’s the shit teams suffering from a lack of leadership, year on year. Stupid soundbite.

I actually think mentality is underrated and contributes greatly to league position and trophies won. 'The intangibles', as the Americans say. It's difficult to define though, especially for your average football pundit, so "leadership" is probably an easy word to use. What I would say is that it's not necessarily something a player has or doesn't have their entire career.

[SemperEadem]

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Edited 28 June 2023 by SemperEadem

[oz was my hero]

On 27/06/2023 at 11:55, Daggers said:

Ban all private transport from town and city centres
Make all public transport electric, free to use, and running 24/7 (extended to cross country too)

Make all deliveries between 00:00 and 05:00 only

Improves public health, improves productivity, decreases red faced men screaming from their Audis and BMWs - job done

Quick question.  Who is taking the delivery at 3 in the morning in a town centre shop ?

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, oz was my hero said:

Quick question.  Who is taking the delivery at 3 in the morning in a town centre shop ?

The staff who got to work on the free electric tram. 

[oz was my hero]

2 minutes ago, Daggers said:

The staff who got to work on the free electric tram. 

 

2 minutes ago, Daggers said:

The staff who got to work on the free electric tram. 

So let's just say you work at pilot for example. Would you go in at 3 in the morning  to take a delivery ?

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, oz was my hero said:

 

So let's just say you work at pilot for example. Would you go in at 3 in the morning  to take a delivery ?

I’ve no idea what you’re on about. Work at somewhere called pilot or work as a pilot? 
 

Whatever, yes, stores would have to take in stock prior to the usual working day - in the same way that many already do. I used to deliver photocopiers in a van to London businesses from 3am onwards. 

[oz was my hero]

1 minute ago, Daggers said:

I’ve no idea what you’re on about. Work at somewhere called pilot or work as a pilot? 
 

Whatever, yes, stores would have to take in stock prior to the usual working day - in the same way that many already do. I used to deliver photocopiers in a van to London businesses from 3am onwards. 

It's an independant clothes shop in the middle of Leicester. Ya must be nuts if you think people who work in these places will go in  to take a delivery in the middle of the night.