Make that 'doc and/or close relative' and I'm on board. I have no immediate family left besides my brother, who's six years older than me and not the sharpest tool in the shed.

You need to educate people in order to do that and the vast majority of people isn’t adequately educated. It would take forever to implement. Plus, is democracy really that good? Think Trump, Brexit, democratically elected Hitler. What the world needs is a benevolent dictator.

@SergeyCornwall The trouble with benevolent dictators is they don't stay benevolent for too long. If they do? A ruthless one soon comes along. Also anyone who wants the job is unsuitable for the position. The only chance of a benevolent dictator is an absolute monarchy and thats just a chance. They don't have to fight for power, curry favour, just be born.

You are correct. I am on the other end of the spectrum. I eat keto and do it almost to the point of being carnivore. I LOVE bacon. Same reaction from people.

@boatdude87 Interestingly, it is possible to do vegan keto. So being vegan and being keto are not mutually exclusive. However, keto is a diet and being vegan is an ethical stance and a way of life (not just what I eat).

I used to argue to juries that there are some people who are alive solely because it's against the law to kill them...you know given your intent it stops being euthanasia right?

I am all for someone choosing euthanasia for themselves but not so much to cleanse the gene pool (although it needs some adjustment). That would require judgement from other people, ie who should or should not be euthanized. I don't trust other people's judgments.

@IBuiltTheMoon The biggest part that bamboozles me is how he fired off 3 rounds in 5.6 seconds with a bolt-action Italian piece of shit! Carlos Hathcock couldn't do it. He was the best 1000 yard shot the Marines had! Jesse Ventura couldn't do it. He was Expert. People that have served during the time said it would be hard to get a head shot in that time frame with an M-14. Your target is moving 6-8 MPH, you are on the 6th floor, and you have to shoot through trees. I do balistists tests myself.

I've heard Richard Dawkins espouse the same idea

For a democracy to work the majority of voters need to be educated. As a former long time poll worker I have seen how uneducated voters have brought us to what we have today. Unfortunately, many educated voters still lack some basic knowledge about how to vote.

@TheMiddleWay I completely disagree. I couldn't tell you what the offical line is, but clearly there needs to be one. Look around.

The GOP has built a legacy on stopping people from voting that don't agree with their party, redrawing districts to win elections easier, taking money from big corporations to vote for laws that don't represent their constituents, keeping the blue collar workers afraid of illegals, dividing up groups on single hot button issues (like gun control) causing them to vote against themselves, and stripping education away from the populace slowly to build a party of idiots who love voting and red hats.

Don't get me wrong, the Dems try to do a lot of this shit too they're just also incompetent at politics so when Clinton controls the party she runs the worst campaign ever losing in the biggest layup election in history.

We're a nation divided because of ignorance, and people should have to earn the right to vote. If you think you wouldn't make the cut and want to have your voice heard, what would you do to earn that right? On top of that, if people wouldn't go that extra mile, why should they get a vote?

Stupid people know when they're hurting - they can measure that better than intelligent elites can measure it for them, and they need to have the democratic power to defend themselves.

@David_Cooper Stupid people routinely vote AGAINST their self interests because a politician and party convince them that the thing they should be scared of is something irrelevant to them.

The most common one is illegal immigrants. Many idiots are convinced that illegal immigrants are a threat to their jobs, the economy, and their safety and they're voting for a wall that they ACTUALLY believed Mexico would pay for. The statistical reality is that illegal immigrants help the economy, don't take equivalent jobs, and commit less crime than legal citizens. They'd be better off voting for the Dems but they are buying the snake-oil. The only people who should be voting Republican are white millionaires who don't give a fuck about their children. However they throw in a few things for morons to be afraid of and they've got a party.

@TheMiddleWay We do it already. The US population is ~330M and ~123M aren't allowed to vote. The most common categories are under the voting age, currently incarcerated or past felony convictions, and mentally unable.

Of that 2/3 that are allowed to vote, about 55% actually turn out to vote. Our presidency is being decided by 1/3 of our actual population,and since the elections are usually pretty cut down the middle, 1/6 of the populace is choosing our president and on the last election the president didn't even win the popular vote.

If you want to convince me that we're doing a good job electing representatives because ~17% of the population chose them, you've got a long road ahead of you. The largest selection of GOP voters was non-college educated white males. Racist idiots selected Trump, a president who gets laughed at by the entire UN.

We've already proven REPEATEDLY that our current method doesn't work.

@TheMiddleWay I'm not saying that you need to take an IQ test or have a degree, but a certain level of participation and effort should be a prerequisite. Right now people who can't tell lies apart from the truth are being lied to and its working. You need to train and take a test to drive a car, why can't the same be true for voting?

Ideal for a world dictatorship - it just takes a Putin to come along and we're all stuffed.

@David_Cooper

I think it would be easier to get rid if these dickheads actually. The way the world has become interconnected and the population is growing, I think a world government is inevitable anyway. One way or another...

It doesn't work that way - big blocks fall to dictators just as easily as small ones, but the bigger they are, the harder it is to overthrow them. It's safest to keep countries small. With world government, one lurch to left or right is all it would take for a genocide of billions.

@David_Cooper

I disagree. I think if there was a way to ensure fair & democratic elections in each country or region, which I know is saying a lot, then the weight of humanity's will would overcome any wannabe dictators and demagogues.

I think our problem right now is that too many countries think that their way is the better way. Too much like religions as a matter of fact. Or sports teams.

@moonmaid I figure you knew I was going to take the bait, so here it goes.... Whoever enter beyond this point is at ones risk: Unpopular opiniioins:

1. A lot of issues going on today are driven only because a lot of people hate Trump.
2. A lot of people that hate Trump they don't even know why (They think they do but think harder)
3. Ford allegations, no evidence..in other words BS and again, she must believed because hatred towards Trump
4. Feinstein claim she didn't leak the letter (or her staff) was just plain lame
   5.- Booker have had violence issues in his record but no one seem to care
5. Harris questioning trying to corner Kavanaugh was just embarrasing (even when she thought she was tough and clever)
6. Everyone just to despise immigrants until Trump started with the traveling ban and it's now a freaking miracle because everyone loves immigrants... BS
7. Separation of children at the border... another BS to discredit this administration. A lot of those children are kidnapped south by drug dealers and the kiddo is their ticket to this country...so they thought, until Trump started enforcing borders
8. The wall is a psicological war to deter illegal immigration and its working
9. Pulling off the climate change in Paris does not have any impact on current weather conditions... its all about leverage and power which Europe was so eager to drive
   I could go on but there is a limit on txt plus this is probably enough fire

@moonmaid It's all in good fun and it's actually interesting to test our current enviroment where some people will feel true hatred towards me, a cartoon face with a bogus name. No one can know me as a person and it's ridiculos to have bad feelings towards a virtual identity. Anyhow, the original posting is asking for unpopular opinions and all the ones I have listed sure enough they are, what some people will not think about it first is, which ones do I really believe? It's just fascinating

@moonmaid ..... Ha ha ha...yup. I just cannot believe I forgot to include the Russian collision !!!

RIGHT ON on both counts!

For now.

Why 70? Why not 19?

I don't think it should be mandatory but it should be legal and safe for people to end their own lives.

@Donna_I, @NothinnXpreVails ...the work force might be negatively affected if we start killing off the 19 year olds. Besides that's already a job the military has been doing a pretty good job at since it's inception.

@Donna_I ...indeed!!

@Razorjelly yeah, but I couldn’t care less about a slave force, or work force, whatever

@NothinnXpreVails - well the slave force thing never played out so good here...or in Egypt.

@Razorjelly we’re all slaves...

In the "Logan's Run" movie, it was 30.

@maturin1919 i toilet trained 2 sons. Done. Y'all can have your cats.

@maturin1919 my little doggies poops in the yard and it disappears when it rains. Easy peasy.

@maturin1919 my cat pees down the shower drain and poops outside. Because she's an absolute badass.

@maturin1919 i consider it a form of composting

Funny stuff there. I don't think Antifa has ever protected anyone.?