HACKER Q&A
📣 fumblebee

What convictions do you hold that are antithetical to popular belief?


I ask this generally, it's not aimed at a specific subject or niche. I'm also not hoping for "split the room" style answers (e.g. jam-then-cream is better than cream-then-jam, or cats > dogs, etc.).

Examples of beliefs (not my beliefs I should note) that run against the grain might include things like:

* Facebook is not an evil company and the world really is better off with Zuckerberg's incessant pursuit of "connecting everyone".

* On average, the net effect of Climate change is will be good for humanity.

* Avatar is the greatest film ever made.

A good answer should include some degree of reasoning about the statement: is true because . Also, ideally avoiding truly controversial and sensitive topics that could start flame wars.


  👤 Bubble_Pop_22 Accepted Answer ✓
Oil companies just extract the oil and take the blame for us when we burn it.

We should make them a statue every time we enjoy quality of life. Also lunatics such as exctinction rebellion and Greta Thumberg conveniently congregate near their North American or European HQs and luckily leave airports and highways alone so we can enjoy the quality of life provided by the aforementioned oil companies.


👤 stop50
I think MOND(modified newtonian dynamics) describes oir universe better than an hypothetical dark matter/energy, since it only requires modifications of formulas and not an complete new type of energy

👤 sp332
Why would I write that here?