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That the majority of high school seniors would benefit more from trade school, apprenticeship, and small business entrepreneurship programs than four additional years of formal classroom education.
The only way people make me dislike them immediately is when they start showing arrogant and elitist behaviour towards blue-collar workers.
That there is no free will. (and a few things deducted from that, like how anyone is innocent in some way and how this relates to criminal justice (protect society, resocialize, but never revenge)).
Some people with ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) can't (don't want to) be fixed.
"Can't" is still no justification for revenge. Even if we assume that the "can't" is absolute, re-socialization should be attempted for the rest of the life of the individual. See it as an analogy to medicine: we don't say, "this guy cannot be helped, so we'll just let him die."
Believe is the death of intelligence
One hundred something democratic sovereign states and not a single one implemented this yet.
That it's entirely possible to save enough in order to retire early.
I can agree with that, though in part it obviously depends on how high your income is, and how you invest and compound the money you have made. If you're making $25k a year it will be a lot harder and take much much longer to retire than for someone making $150k a year.
That there is no free will. (and a few things deducted from that, like how anyone is innocent in some way and how this relates to criminal justice (protect society, resocialize, but never revenge)).
That most technology has little or no real value.
That web development sucks.
That you don't need to eat three or four meals a day. You can compress all the meals into one and still stay productive, energetic & healthy. ( Speaking from 2+ years experience of daily fasting and strength training )
You just have to eat the right type of food, beans, yogurt...
I may be preaching to the choir here (because this is largely a tech audience) but I don't buy into the stereotype that gamers play videogames (video games?) because of laziness or sloth or some other unfairly negative characteristic misattributed to them. I saw a post on Reddit where a group of gamers had recreated King's Landing, the main city from Game of Thrones, in Minecraft. The entire project looked like it to…