Everyone who can should live vegan. If you don’t live vegan and call yourselve an animal-lover, you’re a hypocrite.

Everyone (including kids and teens) should have full bodily autonomy. This includes how they express gender. Parents should not be allowed to circumcise/mutilate their kids’ genitals for reasons that aren’t medically necessary, nor should they be allowed to lay their hands on their kids in a violent way (and yes, that includes “only” spanking). Parents who hit/spank their kids should be charged with assault and child abuse.

Kids and teens having basic rights might not be controversial here, but in the rural area that I’m from, it certainly is.

Memes made the world a worse place.

Nudity alone - without the intent to shock or arouse - shouldn’t be taboo, criminal, or censored.

Cruelty and violence against vulnerable individuals like farm animals is morally indefensible.

This is a tricky subject to approach, since it can be reduced to a really hurtful or even misogynist slogan, but I’d like to see more physical comedy in media involving women. Think running into walls, smacked by a spinning plank, or depending on the cartoon believability of the media, crushed by a falling piano.

I started a longer writeup of why that’s “important” to me but before I bend over backwards to defend it I’m curious what others think.

Euthanasia should be legal and encouraged for people with terminal diseases like dementia. Suicide should be legally available to all citizens too

This place isn’t liberal enough for me to express them. And that is a problem in itself.

Home ownership is not ideal for everyone.

Obviously, all humans deserve to have a home. Not all of us want to own a house. I would rather have the flexibility to move around, and much prefer to leave repairs and maintenance in the hands of the person I’m renting from.

I get that it’s not fair for rent money to passively make someone else wealthy, while they get to have the equity of a house. I’m not suggesting we keep that system. Housing (at least a portion of it) should be available as a public good.

People get mad at me for thinking it’s morally better to adopt than to jump through hoops to concieve your own child. There are actual children already alive who need a home. It’s wasteful to bring new people into the world when there are already children in need. If you can’t love someone else’s child as much as your own, you shouldn’t be a parent. I’m not saying nobody should have their own children ever. If you get pregnant and you want children, by all means, keep it. I just object to going to great lengths to conceive your own child when you could give a home to someone in need.

Hot take? Maybe. Conspiracy theory? Probably a better description for what i am about to say.

I truly believe that the reason the “No Child Left Behind Act” was made/passed, at least in part, was to try and make kids “blind”, so to speak, as to the wrong/evil that the government is doing.

Or at the very least, that’s why book bans are a thing.

Religious indoctrination is child abuse.
Sending your kids to places of worship or a religious school, or telling them “this is our religion”, is child abuse.
This includes christofascists and oppressed minorities.

I’m on the fence as to whether telling your child they are a girl or a boy is similarly harmful.

Children and teenagers shouldn’t access social media

Not a serious one, but my hot take is that helping people move is fun!

Alot of people complain about it, but think about it. You get to spend quality time with friends or family, get a little exercise, teamwork, and usually at the end of the day you get to share a well-earned meal together