Meta: It is easy to take a position that is held by a significant number of people and exaggerate it to the point where nobody holds the exaggerated version. Does that count as a contrarian opinion (since nobody believes the exaggerated version that was stated) or as a non-contrarian opinion (since people believe the non-exaggerated version)?
(Edit: This is not intended to be a controversial opinion. It’s meta.)
I was mostly thinking of the one about open borders. Hardly anyone thinks that open borders would destroy civilization, but that’s an exaggerated version of “open borders are a bad idea”. If I disagree that they would destroy civilization, but I agree that they are a bad idea, should I treat it as a contrarian opinion or a non-contrarian opinion?
Furthermore, it sounds like that would not qualify as “opinions you actually hold” unless the poster thought it would destroy civilization.
Meta: It is easy to take a position that is held by a significant number of people and exaggerate it to the point where nobody holds the exaggerated version. Does that count as a contrarian opinion (since nobody believes the exaggerated version that was stated) or as a non-contrarian opinion (since people believe the non-exaggerated version)?
(Edit: This is not intended to be a controversial opinion. It’s meta.)
My understanding is that the idea is to post opinions you actually hold that count as contrarian.
I was mostly thinking of the one about open borders. Hardly anyone thinks that open borders would destroy civilization, but that’s an exaggerated version of “open borders are a bad idea”. If I disagree that they would destroy civilization, but I agree that they are a bad idea, should I treat it as a contrarian opinion or a non-contrarian opinion?
Furthermore, it sounds like that would not qualify as “opinions you actually hold” unless the poster thought it would destroy civilization.
Really? I consider it obvious for a sufficiently strong definition of “open boarders”.
Also it wouldn’t completely destroy civilization because the open boarders aspect would collapse before all of civilization did.