State Your Unpopular Opinions

I wanted to respond to a few posts here but work beckons and I liked your post @Deidre so basically I share the same sentiments as your first sentence and was going to expound on that.

 

True but if it’s on a forum like this, these discussions aren’t life or death moments. Yet there are some who seem too afraid to not go along with the crowd. It reminds me more of high school where there are three categories of people...the bullies, their minions and everyone else. Forums are like a microcosm of life, I guess.

 

They are. I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't be.

I think some people on here (and in life) just take themselves and the drama a bit too seriously. Much like in life .

 

Lol agree

 

I’d like to hear your viewpoint.

 

Comrade guerillabedlam needs to work.

 

When he returns of course. The forums will be here.

 

Has he joined our cause??

 

I didn't say some random interested passerby I stated a payin' customer. Big difference

 

Small difference imo. But even when they also buy something (which far from every farm offers) they can still be told 'no, not showing people around' without being dubious in any way.

Here people can buy something if they stop by and ask, but it isn't encouraged. If they would ask to view something in the production process they're often told no, we don't do that every time someone drops by and asks for that. Same with many other farmers here.

 

Ironic that the one talkin' point I least expected to cause contention is the one which has caused the most. Callin' on farmers to take responsibility for their growin' methods seems a sensible enough request to me but it would seem I stand alone or at least in this moment & this thread I do.

 

I was reacting to your claim that a farmer who doesn't show consumers how he does things on his farm when asked is hiding something.

To me too. But that wasn't what we were talking about.

A strange and unneccesary conclusion. How many people in this thread have shared their thoughts on this matter..

 

There's also people who say they're honest and straight forward and "say it like it is" and they mean they give opinions and judgements on things that don't concern them, without being asked.

Sonetimes it's not dishonest to just say nothing.

 

No.
It's just you and me in those trenches.

 

For the cause!

What cause is this again?

 

I've heard of something like this. I think it has something to do with Safety In Numbers. I've heard of an experiment where someone is crying for help in a room with only a few people, the people there are more likely to intervene and help out. But when there's a large crowd and someone calls for help, more people will stand around and look, rather than help. So there's much less safety in numbers in a large crowd of people.

 

…the produce from an organic farm is out of reach of all low income families....not some....all....no way a single mom with kids who works 50 hours a week has the time to grow veggies or the money to buy the good ones[non gmo]……..

I think we all can agree an organic world without roundup would be preferred to our system now?

RH I dont thik everyone is down or contentious on your point of view....its because there is a rumour you have red hair....lol j/k

 

Organic usually means full of Bugs !

 

As social beings, there is a natural inclination towards "herd" mentality or belonging to an "in-group". Even with that subtle change to euphemistic language, the group paradigm already seems more appealing. Groups satisfy certain basic social needs such as comfort and safety and with the reinforcement of such needs, I suppose some people might sacrifice some of their ideas, if they diverge with the communal ideas, in favor of continually receiving those social reinforcements.

Sounds like a phenomena that's in a similar vein to the Bystander Effect.

 

You are the first person to ever call me comrade and I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it right now.