Just sharing this because I have not seen anyone use it and I literally end up sniping Arch almost every game I play against it. Of course this is for a team that is just insanely Arch weak and needs a dark type. I do think there is some serious merit though, and no one is expecting.
This shouldn't even be an "unpopular opinion", because (ironically) this is just a fact. These "fallacies" are not "fallacies" but disputes of the facts of the matter.
When you accuse someone of a slippery slope, what you should be accusing them of is that somewhere in the "A --> B ... --> Z" chain, X does not factually lead to Y. You cannot call something a slippery slope just because of the "A --> B ... --> Z" logical structure. It is a perfectly valid structure if the facts are correct.
Similarly, "No true rectangle has 3 sides, so that triangle cannot be a rectangle" is perfectly valid, and perfectly correct. "No true rectangle is green, so that green thing cannot be a rectangle" indeed a no true scottsman "fallacy". But it is not a logical fallacy. You are disputing the falsehood of "No true rectangle is green", not the logical structure.
Stop attacking argument structures that are perfectly valid because you've heard a misapplied word that described said structure.
This is a simple one but one that I believe is very unpopular, at least until you really think about it.
The opposing team shows respect and humility by observing and respecting the tradition. One that is by nature meant to intimidate the opponent.
I think that after the game, win or lose, the performing team should give some small token to players on the opposing team. Maybe a dessert, maybe a pin, just anything to restore balance.
Otherwise, I find the entirety of the tradition to be fairly empty of meaning. It's one-sided it doesn't resolve.
This is obviously an inherently difficult topic to approach, and I fear depending on where I posted this discussion I likely wouldn't get mature responses. I shouldn't even have to preface this, but I have no care for anyone who harms children, and quite frankly, if you have thoughts that you don't act on I still find you quite odd.
That being said, I have noticed that waves of what one might call a pathological anti-pedophilia sentiment and fixation on the subject tend to come and go in this country. We seem to be in the middle of a HUGE one right now. I am sure most of you know what I mean, but you know, the type of people who claim to want to go door to door and murder pedophiles, an actual-seeming uptick in violence against offenders, online communities dedicated to the subject, complete dehumanization, etc.
The thing is, I've noticed that this tends to align with waves of certain brands of generally right-wing, generally isolationist, generally anti-immigrant, generally anti-semitic, generally libertarian, generally homophobic social and political movements (bolded the big ones).
The waves don't just align though. It seems to me that the people are almost 1:1 the same people. If and only if you are in a racist, homophobic, isolationist community, there is a LOT of anti-pedophile content. If you are seeing a lot of anti-pedophile content, you are likely in a racist, homophobic, isolationist community. It becomes a very difficult bomb to defuse, for obvious reasons.
Is this done intentionally by leadership of these movements, or is it just natural thing that arises within groups of highly paranoid people? It seems to me that this could very well be intentional, as a way to be able to tell detractors "if you disagree with us, you support pedophilia". It also work in the sense that once you get people really riled up about pedophilia, you get to start calling groups pedophiles to get people riled up about those groups. "Gays are pedophiles, Jews are pedophiles, immigrants are pedophiles, etc."
It's reached a point culturally speaking in the US, that it almost feels like if someone really really hates pedophiles and thinks about it a whole lot, it's a huge red flag regarding the rest of what that person thinks. To be honest, I find this to be a pretty disgusting form of manipulation. I wish there were better ways to talk about it without the response being "so you support pedophiles". But as I said, this is a very tricky bomb to defuse.
I don't know. I have a bad feeling about the state of this subject right now. It's odd, of course, because most everyone hates pedophiles, but it feels like the sentiment in this cultural moment is masking something much more sinister, and I wish more people would talk about it.