General & Others Unpopular Opinions?

Zoro haters are way worse and more out of touch with reality than zoro fans.
Kidds plot didnt live up to his characters potential.
Big Mom lost purely cause of plot
Also,characters like burgess should die after the shit they say and do but oda doesn't have the balls to kill them
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Yamato > King
Zoro = Sanji
Kid & Law > Zoro
-Makes whole post of 3 statements to downgrade zoro.
-all 3 statements are retarded.
Amazing.
 
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Not sure if this is really unpopular or if people just don't mention it despite thinking that such is the case in silence, but:
Transhumanism is a great problem in the series, that lowers a lot the quality of the work; Franky should not be a cyborg.
Can you expound a bit on this? Its an interesting thought I've never really hard before and I'd like to hear your reasoning. I don't really see how transhumanism is out of place in a pirate story (where hook hands and peg legs for example are ofetn fairly common).
 
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Can you expound a bit on this? Its an interesting thought I've never really hard before and I'd like to hear your reasoning. I don't really see how transhumanism is out of place in a pirate story (where hook hands and peg legs for example are ofetn fairly common).
Franky is not an amputee, he's a robot.
He becomes more of a robot as the story progresses and this is universally painted in a good light.

Imo the humanization of robots/androids is problematic.
Still not sure what to think about the pacifista and a character willingly agreeing to be turned into one and then be 'multiplied' by the scientist.

An then there is that flashback character and his sentient androids who travel to the moon, only to he found by Enel later.
Implying that robots, human-made mechanical creatures, are capable of critical thinking and of feeling affection is, again, dangerous.
It opens the door to all sorts of amoral things that are not necessarily science fiction anymore.
These inventions are being made as we speak and they threaten our perception of what is really human, and what merely appears as such.
 
Franky is not an amputee, he's a robot.
He becomes more of a robot as the story progresses and this is universally painted in a good light.

Imo the humanization of robots/androids is problematic.
Still not sure what to think about the pacifista and a character willingly agreeing to be turned into one and then be 'multiplied' by the scientist.

An then there is that flashback character and his sentient androids who travel to the moon, only to he found by Enel later.
Implying that robots, human-made mechanical creatures, are capable of critical thinking and of feeling affection is, again, dangerous.
It opens the door to all sorts of amoral things that are not necessarily science fiction anymore.
These inventions are being made as we speak and they threaten our perception of what is really human, and what merely appears as such.
Aren't every human creation human itself? Plus if you're made of the same matter as the non-living things what makes you different from a Rock. I mean you may not agree but at least don't get anthropocentric in a Manga full of weird creatures
 
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Aren't every human creation human itself?
No I disagree.



Plus if you're made of the same matter as the non-living things what makes you different from a Rock
The difference is that robots etc are made with an intent. Machines and bio-engineered, genetically modified mini-organisms are made to assist us in some form.
Androids, on top of it, are made to look human and to evoke emotion in us. We are supposed to care about them and believe that they, in fact, feel and can suffer just like us.
We make these artificial creatures only for our own benefit.

Here lies the main difference between nature and human creations.
Nature does not 'make' living beings with a purpose.
Animals, plants, rocks etc are just there, no one made them with the intention to make use of them.


Humans are a part of nature. We don't exist for a reason. We are just there because we are.
As such, there is not much that separates us from rocks, plants, animals.
How can humans assume that it is our right to 'create' something and then elevate it on the same level as real life forms? Why do some humans think they matter so much?
IMO it is nothing but pretentious.
 
Franky is not an amputee, he's a robot.
He becomes more of a robot as the story progresses and this is universally painted in a good light.

Imo the humanization of robots/androids is problematic.
Still not sure what to think about the pacifista and a character willingly agreeing to be turned into one and then be 'multiplied' by the scientist.

An then there is that flashback character and his sentient androids who travel to the moon, only to he found by Enel later.
Implying that robots, human-made mechanical creatures, are capable of critical thinking and of feeling affection is, again, dangerous.
It opens the door to all sorts of amoral things that are not necessarily science fiction anymore.
These inventions are being made as we speak and they threaten our perception of what is really human, and what merely appears as such.
It's nice to find someone in this forum with similar thoughts on this matter; I also find the things you mentioned problematic.

It frightens me the thought that maybe in the future it will become more and more common for people to deliberately cut off their limbs or deliberately remove their natural internal organs to exchange them for machines while believing that they are improving themselves by doing it.

This is intrinsically disgusting because it means the rejection of the human nature. And the moment people begin to disregard the normal standard of human nature that has been accepted as such for millenniums (like the fact that it's the normal for humans to have two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two legs, two arms, have flesh, feel pain when hurt, etc.), it becomes easier for people to accept the destruction of humanity; It may sound cool to some people the idea of having two robotic arms with ten times the strength of human arms. But then it leads to the thought "why stop there?" and "who said that we should have arms to begin with?". If someone is already accepting to have his arms substituted by machines, then why not substitute the whole rest of the body with machine? Why not just take out the brain and insert it into a gigantic dinosaur robot, for example? And who said that humans need a body to begin with? Why not just take out the brain and connect it to some computer to make people "live" in a "virtual reality" forever?
So my point is that the moment you accept the mixture between the organic human body with machine it becomes hard to draw the line between what is acceptable and what is not. So the only way to preserve sanity and normality is to never accept any kind of mixture between a human body and a machine. And therefore it should never be presented in a good light, like Oda did in Franky's case.

And yes, Enel's side story is another problematic thing. In this case it wasn't about a human mixing his body with machine, but about machines being presented as beings capable of having emotions, which is also bad.

Not sure if you would agree with me on this part, but I believe that transhumanism is a lot related to materialism, mainly because of the belief that our conscience (first person perspective) is just a product of a material (the brain), instead of being a transcendental thing. So as people believe that conscience is just a product of matter anyway, they consequently begin to think that it may be possible to artificially create conscience with technology.

Just the fact that people are already accepting the use of the term "artificial intelligence" is already a problem; There's no such thing as artificial intelligence; Only living beings, who have a first person perspective, can have intelligence; A robot designed to look like a human being doesn't have intelligence, just like a door doesn't have intelligence, just like a watch doesn't have intelligence, just like a television doesn't have intelligence, and just like any other computer doesn't have intelligence either. Just like a watch is created to display the time according to the design made by someone so that the pointers would move with certain established conditions, a computer is created to do a lot more complex things according to other established conditions by the person who designed it. So it's silly to think that one can be called "intelligence" just because its mechanism is more complex that the other's, because in the end they are all just mechanisms designed by someone to do certain things (such as showing images or showing results of sums of numbers, for example) according to established conditions that were set in the mechanism. It's not like the computer has a conscience by itself; So it's not like the computer can think about things and reach a conclusion about some matter through its own first person perspective, because it doesn't have one, just like a door, a gun, and a watch don't have one either. It's only the creator of the machine who has intelligence, and not the machine itself.
And it's obviously also ridiculous to think that a machine is closer to a human being just because it was designed with the shape of a human body, and with its exterior part painted to resemble the appearance of a human being. It's just a soulless object all the same, just like any drawing on a paper, or any sculpture.

And yet, as more technology is developed, it seems like it's becoming closer and closer to possible to create a robot, with the appearance of a human being, that will be able to walk on the street as if it were a human being...
Imagine in the future it becoming hard to tell if you're really talking to a human being or to a soulless object that has no first person perspective but has just been programmed to walk and talk in a very realistic way to look like a human being...
This is very very scary...

So what Oda did there with Enel's story on the moon was very bad, as he helped to spread confusion about what is a human and what is just an object. Not only he drew those small robots showing human expressions, but he drew one of them clearly showing signs of having a conscience/first person perspective when it was shown having remembrance of the time it was created by that old man.
 
Franky is not an amputee, he's a robot.
He becomes more of a robot as the story progresses and this is universally painted in a good light.

Imo the humanization of robots/androids is problematic.
Still not sure what to think about the pacifista and a character willingly agreeing to be turned into one and then be 'multiplied' by the scientist.

An then there is that flashback character and his sentient androids who travel to the moon, only to he found by Enel later.
Implying that robots, human-made mechanical creatures, are capable of critical thinking and of feeling affection is, again, dangerous.
It opens the door to all sorts of amoral things that are not necessarily science fiction anymore.
These inventions are being made as we speak and they threaten our perception of what is really human, and what merely appears as such.
I'm not sure why you consider this as "dangerous"
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As for this thread my newest unpopular opinions are:

- I have zero interest in any strawhat aside the monster trio. They all so fucking boring. RIP nicco robin, pre time skip was good while it lasted.

- Kaido had always seemed to me an extremly boring character. Now that he's an emotionally unstable alcoholic I've started to like hima bit more. Perhaps too little too late.

- Big mom is a superb and complex chapter, with very nice powers. The concept of stealing peoples souls seems so dark, cruel and evil...My favourite Yonkou. Such a shame she was done dirty so bad.

- killer is shit.

- So are nearly all those random supernovas

- the only commander that has been interesting so far has been Katakuri. The rest is trash, Marco included.

- Hancock is stronger than Yamato. I'm afraid she'll be done like Big Mom lol.

- I don't like Kidd anymore after seeing the way he uses his powers. It's not aesthethic...

- Kid and Law are unable to defeat big mom without plot.

- I'm admiral tard I hate to admit it but Yonkou seem to have more personal development than admirals...

- imu is the strongest fighter in the story of one piece.

- Blackbeard will never defeat Shanks because if a fight happened Shanks would woop his 2 fruited ass with just haki.
 
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I'm not sure why you consider this as "dangerous"
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As for this thread my newest unpopular opinions are:

- I have zero interest in any strawhat aside the monster trio. They all so fucking boring. RIP nicco robin, pre time skip was good while it lasted.

- Kaido had always seemed to me an extremly boring character. Now that he's an emotionally unstable alcoholic I've started to like hima bit more. Perhaps too little too late.

- Big mom is a superb and complex chapter, with very nice powers. The concept of stealing peoples souls seems so dark, cruel and evil...My favourite Yonkou. Such a shame she was done dirty so bad.

- killer is shit.

- So are nearly all those random supernovas

- the only commander that has been interesting so far has been Katakuri. The rest is trash, Marco included.

- Hancock is stronger than Yamato. I'm afraid she'll be done like Big Mom lol.

- I don't like Kidd anymore after seeing the way he uses his powers. It's not aesthethic...

- Kid and Law are unable to defeat big mom without plot.

- I'm admiral tard I hate to admit it but Yonkou seem to have more personal development than admirals...

- imu is the strongest fighter in the story of one piece.

- Blackbeard will never defeat Shanks because if a fight happened Shanks would woop his 2 fruited ass with just haki.
Another admiral fan :cheers:

Unpopular opinion: Akainu is still probably stronger than Teach
 
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