Maybe you could let people nominate unpopular opinions for discussion without having to endorse them. That way you might get less one-upmanship and more genuinely edgy stuff. For example, I would nominate Aristotle’s “some people are slaves by nature”.
Any ideas on how to stop this from turning into a “my unpopular opinion is sexier than yours” contest?
What else could it possibly be?
Maybe you could let people nominate unpopular opinions for discussion without having to endorse them. That way you might get less one-upmanship and more genuinely edgy stuff. For example, I would nominate Aristotle’s “some people are slaves by nature”.
And add in C.S. Lewis’ idea that no people are masters by nature.
From memory: Lewis presented Aristotle’s idea as being that natural slaves were people who weren’t responsible enough to run their own lives.
A pretext for sniping at opposing ideologies and political positions? But yes.