Pineapple belongs on pizza

Sweet-and-savory is a legitimate flavor axis. The objection is aesthetic prejudice, not a culinary argument.

A hot dog is a sandwich

If a sandwich is a filling between bread, the hot dog qualifies. Resisting this is special pleading on behalf of the bun.

Cereal is a soup

A cold liquid base with solid ingredients suspended in it fits the structural definition of soup. The discomfort is cultural, not logical.

Coffee is overrated as a productivity tool

For habitual drinkers, most of the perceived boost is just relief from withdrawal rather than a true enhancement of focus.

Mushrooms are the best pizza topping

They add umami and texture without overpowering the base. Pepperoni is merely the most popular, which is not the same as the best.

Social media has done more harm than good to society

Weigh the documented costs to attention, mental health, and discourse against the genuine benefits of connection and access.

Remote work is better than office work

Better here means higher net welfare once you count focus, commuting time, and autonomy against the loss of spontaneous collaboration.

AI-generated images can be real art

If art is defined by intent, curation, and the response it provokes rather than by the tool used to make it, the medium should not disqualify it.

Smartphones should be banned during the school day

The claim concerns instructional hours specifically, weighing learning and attention gains against autonomy and emergency-access concerns.

The book is almost always better than the film adaptation

Interiority, pacing, and ambiguity survive the page in ways the screen routinely flattens, even when the film is well made.

Sequels are rarely better than the original

The exceptions are famous precisely because they are exceptions; the base rate strongly favors the first installment.

Die Hard is a Christmas movie

It is set at a Christmas party, turns on themes of family reconciliation, and uses the holiday as more than mere backdrop.

The Godfather Part II surpasses the original

Its dual timeline deepens the tragedy and gives Michael an arc the first film only sets up.

Tipping culture has gone too far

Prompts now appear at counters for minimal service, shifting wage responsibility from employers to customers under social pressure.

Cities are better places to live than suburbs

Density buys walkability, culture, and chance encounter; the suburban trade for space and quiet costs more than it appears to.

Standardized testing should be abolished

The argument is that the tests measure test-taking and family resources more than aptitude, and distort what schools choose to teach.

The four-day workweek should be the standard

Trials suggest output holds or rises while wellbeing improves, implying the fifth day is largely ritual rather than productive.

Voting should be mandatory

Compulsory turnout produces more representative outcomes and blunts targeted suppression, at some cost to the freedom not to participate.

Term limits should apply to all elected officials

They curb entrenchment and incumbency advantage, though critics counter that they discard hard-won expertise and empower lobbyists.

Nuclear power is essential to fighting climate change

Reliable, high-density, low-carbon baseload is hard to replace at scale; the case turns on whether renewables plus storage can cover the gap in time.

The designated hitter improves baseball

It removes the near-automatic pitcher's out and adds offense, at the cost of the double-switch strategy purists prize.

Soccer is right to resist excessive video review

Continuous flow and the acceptance of human error are part of the sport's character; VAR trades that for a contested, marginal gain in accuracy.

Toilet paper should hang over, not under

Over is easier to grab, more hygienic on the wall, and even matches the original 1891 patent drawing.

Cats make better pets than dogs

Lower maintenance, independence, and suitability for small spaces and busy lives can outweigh the dog's greater affection and trainability.

The Oxford comma should always be used

A fixed rule eliminates ambiguity in lists, and the rare cases where it adds confusion are better fixed by rewriting than by dropping it.

This site was worth the time it took to create it.

Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day

The slogan traces largely to cereal marketing; for many people meal timing matters far less than total daily intake and quality.

Night owls are unfairly penalized by a morning-biased world

Chronotype is substantially biological, yet schools and offices reward early risers, mistaking a schedule preference for discipline.

Free will, in the libertarian sense, is an illusion

If every choice is the product of prior causes plus chance, there is no room for the uncaused authorship the strong notion requires.

Eating meat can be ethical

Defensible under conditions such as humane husbandry, ecological balance, or nutritional need; the dispute is over which conditions actually hold.

Money can buy happiness

Beyond covering needs, income still buys time, security, and reduced stress; the cliche oversells the point at which the effect flattens.

The ends can justify the means

A strict rule against this leads to absurd outcomes where refusing a small wrong permits a vast harm; the hard part is bounding the exceptions.

Physical books are better than e-books

Better for retention, focus, and ownership; the convenience and searchability of e-books does not fully offset what the page affords.

You should abandon books you are not enjoying

Finishing out of obligation is a sunk-cost error; reading time is finite and better spent on the next book than enduring the current one.

Vinyl does not actually sound better than digital

High-resolution digital has a wider dynamic range and lower noise; the preference for vinyl is about ritual and warmth, not fidelity.

Auto-tune is a legitimate musical instrument

Used expressively rather than as a crutch, pitch correction is a creative tool no more illegitimate than reverb or distortion.

Humanity should prioritize colonizing Mars

A second home hedges against extinction-level risk; critics argue the resources would save far more lives addressing problems on Earth first.

Heritable human genetic engineering is morally acceptable

If editing embryos can prevent grievous disease, a blanket ban may be the less defensible position, provided consent and equity are addressed.

"Follow your passion" is bad career advice

It privileges those with pre-formed passions and ignores that interest often follows mastery; cultivating skill tends to beat chasing a feeling.

Unpaid internships should be illegal

They gate professional entry by who can afford to work for free, entrenching inequality while extracting real labor value.

A four-year college degree is no longer worth the cost

For many fields the debt and opportunity cost outweigh the wage premium, especially as alternatives and credentials proliferate.

Homework does more harm than good

Especially in early grades, the evidence for learning gains is thin while the costs in stress and lost family time are real.

A straw has two holes, not one

Topologically it is a single tube, but in ordinary usage the openings at each end are naturally and correctly counted as two holes.

Water itself is not wet

Wetness is a property of a solid coated by liquid; water makes other things wet but is not itself in that coated state.

New Year's resolutions are a waste of time

Tying change to an arbitrary date sets up predictable failure; durable habits form from systems and triggers, not calendar symbolism.

Group projects are a worse way to learn than individual work

They reward coordination and free-riding tolerance more than mastery, and grades rarely reflect who actually did the thinking.

Replying with a single "k" is passive-aggressive

Stripping the word to one terse letter signals dismissal; the brevity reads as withdrawal of warmth, whatever the sender intends.

The customer is not always right

Treating every customer demand as correct harms staff morale and rewards bad behavior; good service sometimes means saying no.

Hollywood's reliance on reboots reflects creative decline

When the safest bet is a known title, original storytelling gets crowded out; the trend is a symptom of risk aversion, not nostalgia alone.

Spoilers do not actually ruin a story

Studies suggest knowing the ending can increase enjoyment by freeing attention for craft; suspense is not the only, or even main, source of value.

Travel into the past is logically impossible

Backward time travel invites contradictions the grandfather paradox makes vivid; consistency constraints suggest the past simply cannot be revisited.