I'm a person with very strong opinions, and I'm very set in my ways and unlikely to change, be it my eugenics leanings, my love/lust relationship with Muslims, my hatred of guns or even my adamant belief that only pathetic people prefer cats to dogs. I'd like to say your guys opinions have helped change me on those topics, but they've done exactly jack shit. However, there are a scant few issues I haven't been able to form an opinion on because I myself am unsure. So, I'd like to invite you all to share your opinions on the following topics, ideally with some justification, to help me convince me to a viewpoint so I can evolve as a person.
1. The Israel-Palestine Conflict
I don't particularly like Muslims, but I also don't like Jews, so I'm fairly impartial to the religious side of this debate. On one hand, I know Israel is far more friendly to the West and Western values, so they have that advantage over the Muslims. However, I do feel like the entire reasoning behind the formation of Israel, that the Jews deserve this land just because their great, great ancestors owned it and their book says so is an awful reason to take someone's land, and Israel haven't exactly been the best to the Muslims, so I honestly don't know where to stand.
2. Muslim Immigration
Again, I don't like Muslims, or to be fair, I don't like Islam. While there are many Muslims in the country I care about, the Muslims fleeing the issues don't seem to hold our values, which isn't great for me as a very open bisexual, and polls among the countries haven't exactly shown the most LGBT friendly values. Plus, these immigrants cause risk to me through the violent majority getting in, through the ideologies they spread and support, through the economic strain they add and through the Draconian anti-freedom laws having more of a violent minority inevitably lead to.
However, another part of me feels sympathy and pity for these people, and I've seen interviews with many of these people who seem like very decent people, and I've also had it argued that the more people fleeing ISIS and similar groups further prevents their radicalization and their working under these groups, which only gives them further power. Plus, our cruelty to the immigrants is great propaganda for them.
3. Gambling
I dunno if I think gambling should be legal. On one side, I'm fairly liberal and tend towards a laissez-faire attitude to most things, and my dad always says the lotto is a tax on the stupid, and gambling is just businesses doing the same. But, gambling addiction is definitely an illness and gambling is very predatory in nature, and it's effect can stretch far farther than on just the gambler themselves, so I don't entirely know what to think.
Interesting side fact, my great-great whatever grandfather was supposed to head to America with his brother on the Titanic, but lost his ticket gambling so only his brother could go. Whilst I'm not entirely sure how much truth there is in that story, I know for a fact his brother died on the Titanic, so there's that.
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Anyhow, those are three topics I'd like your opinions on because my opinion isn't fully formed and I'm curious. I'm sure I'll add more issues I'm struggling with tomorrow or something if people actually respond to this.
Seeing as I have no solid opinion on those topics, I'm not even going to( start insulting you guys for answering, so yay! Well, probably. If you come in here and start talking about why Israel are just Bourgeois deserving of being killed to the last man or some bullshit, I might. But I'll try not to!