Talk about your most hated here. Can be of any topic.
Please stop telling us wikipedia is written by anyone and that anyone can change the articles. This is simply not true. It’s no longer 2007. I dare you to go sign in, and rewrite something and see how long it sticks. Just like the rest of the internet,have a high IQ and a strong bullshit filter and you can find a lot of great work on wiki.
OK, I’ll play.
The misconception that theft of intellectual property is not really stealing.
That’s right, people who buy bootleg music and videos are really just common thieves. That includes all of the people who do it while deployed because it is available at the Haji-shop, or because they feel that the hardships of military service entitles them to it.
This also includes all the people who show-up at their doctor or hospital with no intention of paying their full bill. I’ve got an idea, try walking out of Walmart with at 52" LCD TV and try to negotiate what you think is a fair price.
For many people, their intellectual work pays the bills and puts diapers on the baby. Using their services without compensation is the same as picking their pocket.
When I was a kid I used to record songs off the radio with my cassette player. Was that stealing?
Yes. Theft does not have to be large in scale or consciously malicious to be wrong. The whole idea is that people have parents to point out when activities that seems innocent are actually harming others. Granted, there is no moral equivalence between a child who does not understand that they are stealing, and an adult who is capable of deeper moral reasoning.
An AR-15 is a machine gun.
The common misunderstanding about the colloquial definition of the word “theory” and that of a scientific theory.
Philosophy cannot lead to objective truth.
Vaccinations cause autism.
Seasons are caused by the earth being closer to the sun.
A near miss from a .50 cal will cause bodily harm.
The Quran promises 72 virgins for those martyred in the name of Islam.
Eyewitness accounts constitute reliable evidence.
A bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly and the math doesn’t work.
Catholics don’t really believe that the bread and wine literally change into the body and blood of Jesus Christ during Communion.
A monkey with a typewriter will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare given an infinite amount of time. (Monkeys are not random generators)
More to follow.
I hate that one so much. “Oh it’s just a theory”
Motherfucker so is gravity
My additions,
That the highest number on your speedometer is how fast your car can go, or that if your speedometer goes higher you have a faster car
Premium Fuel is “better for your car”
…and I don’t see you jumping off buildings. 
as is electricity…
How many do they get?
The Quran mentions an unspecified amount of “houris” for all admitted into Paradise, not just martyrs.
An enterprising author of a Hadith says they’ll number 72, and also, quite strangely if you ask me, that men in Paradise will have ever-erect penises and never grow tired of sexing them up.
Not all Muslims believe that this particular Hadith is especially trustworthy, and the belief is not central to Islam in any meaningful way. Obviously, if the figure was to be found in the Quran, it would be, as they believe it to be the perfect word of god.
Thanks for the clarification. I suppose that brings me to my next hated misconception: the notion that a bed full of 72 virgins is the most fun a man can have.
Personally, I’d prefer to have a mixture of 40 virgins and 32 of the nastiest whores this side of Bangkok :D.
I’d prefer we also start spreading the misconception that the 72 virgins will also come with 72 mothers-in-law. Maybe that will cut down on terrorism.
• People who choose to believe in a deity, God, or creation, and who pray, are intellectually inferior, or troubled, naive, or otherwise damaged.
• Conservatives are warmongers.
• Conservatives are so blindly pro-corporation that they can’t recognize crony-capitalism when they see it, or don’t believe such a phenomenon actually exists.
• Federal Agents have better training, are more switched on (alert), are more perceptive to detail than local LEOs.
• Having a security clearance is awesome
• Mitt Romney is drastically different from Obama
• If the Euro collapses, it’ll mean blue skies and rainbows for the USD.
• Chrysler (Jeep) makes shitty vehicles that are prone to have massive mechanical issues, particularly with their transmissions.
• You cannot learn ANYTHING whatsoever about real-life gun-fighting by playing a good FPS game like Battlefield or Counter Strike.
That’s all for now
SMETNA, I don’t even disagree with any of these things, and I SURELY do not want to derail this thread and get into another religious war or similar pissing match.
But the above are subjective statements. The idea of a misconception deals with incorrect statements about objective truth-claims, like numbers, officially espoused positions, and definitions. If we were talking about “opinions that I disagree with” and not “misconceptions,” they’d be perfectly valid. But misconceptions are objectively false extrapolations from raw data, not subjective opinions.
For example, some conservatives are war-mongers and some are not. Now, you COULD quantify your claim by polling people who identify as “conservative” about war-related issues. But then you run into varying conceptions of what it means to be a conservative. People can self-identify in the same group but believe wildly different things. Then, you have to somehow quantify what it means to be a war-monger. Is there a threshold for supporting foreign intervention that makes one a war-monger, etc?
Neither the statement “conservatives are war-mongers,” nor the assertion “conservatives are NOT war-mongers” fall under the realm of a misconception. You could at most argue that one of them stems from faulty reasoning about subjective knowledge.
Take a look at this list of common misconceptions that I found; there are no subjective opinions, just statements about facts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
Uh, in all fairness, the criteria to be a virgin is somewhat subjective. For example, there are born again virgins and people who’ve had vaginoplasty. I even knew a girl who was willing to take it in the ass all day, but try to put it in the vageen - oh no. I guess she is still a virgin too.
So, where do you get off criticizing a man for listing subjective misconceptions when you are talking about something as wishy washy as 72 virgins?
On second thought, I say we stop being ridiculous with our definitions.
I’m not really criticizing him in a hostile way, or “getting off,” first of all. Second, the 72 virgins statement was qualified by being in the Quran. The Quran doesn’t specify ANY number of virgins, therefore the statement is objectively false, regardless of what it means to be a virgin.
Fair, but counting political opinions as misconceptions equals dead thread. Might as well just be “what do you disagree with anybody about?” But no more from me.
I’d hope that you would notice I sometimes illustrate the absurd with absurdity.
Pretty much everything listed so far has been subjective.
Not everything is true or untrue, right or wrong.
“Eyewitness accounts constitute reliable evidence.” - subjective
Plenty of DA’s, defense attorneys, jurors, convicted and exonerated persons could argue that.
Enough discussing what the meaning of “is” is. Back to the topic