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Interestingly enough, they did exactly this in the U.K. about thirty or so years ago. It all seems logical and practical and like it should work. Then they decided that legally, ownership was satisfied if you could own something at all. So handguns were turned in in huge numbers and you were allowed to keep rifles and... | I agree that SOMETHING needs to be done. However, what you suggest is not a "Win / Win" scenario, nor is it a compromise, it is a blatant retraction of the Second Amendment Rights (and if someone can vote to take it away, is it truly a "Right?") There seems to be no "Give" on the "Anti-Gun" side of the equation, just t... | Here's what I would change about American gun regulations. CMV | 2013-02-07T03:18:24 | 3,809 | 1,445 | 704 | 274 |
**tl;dr:** Nobody is arguing for the right to marry (or have sex with) animals. It's a red herring, and it might be at least as interesting to explore your differences about morality before getting into the weeds on sexual politics. I think this argument frequently arises from those who are stridently opposed to homose... | Yes, I'm sure sometimes the animal does in fact enjoy it and want it, the problem is that you can never be sure because you can not communicate in a 100% certain way. You can manipulate a child into thinking it wants something and act upon it, just like you can manipulate an animal into thinking it wants something and ... | I don't understand what people find wrong with bestiality. CMV. | 2013-02-10T23:08:57 | 2,634 | 1,768 | 448 | 324 |
There are three main arguments against bestiality, and I'm going to list them below in order from most reasonable (in my opinion) to least reasonable: **1. Bestiality is inherently harmful to the animal since the animal cannot give consent, and it can sometimes be harmful to the human as well.** The first half of this ... | Yes, I'm sure sometimes the animal does in fact enjoy it and want it, the problem is that you can never be sure because you can not communicate in a 100% certain way. You can manipulate a child into thinking it wants something and act upon it, just like you can manipulate an animal into thinking it wants something and ... | I don't understand what people find wrong with bestiality. CMV. | 2013-02-10T23:08:57 | 4,498 | 1,768 | 740 | 324 |
While I would agree that it is just as possible for a vegetarian diet to be healthy for most people, there are some that are physically *required* to eat meat. I have a friend that has an admittedly rare issue with anemia. While most anemics are able to take iron pills or consume plants that are rich in iron, her body ... | I completely agree that many if not most of the processes by which we treat our animals for meat is inhumane. However, there is nothing inhumane about eating animals, simply look to biology for that, all animals eat different animals for various nutritional reasons. If you're staying healthy than being a vegetarian I b... | I believe there are no valid arguments for eating meat, other than "I like the taste" - CMV | 2013-02-12T13:24:36 | 497 | 959 | 91 | 172 |
"I do believe that you were probably lacking some important parts of your diet when you were not eating meat." That sounds as close to a valid argument for eating meat as I think I'm going to get out of you. To not accept that it could even be possible that some people actually need some level of meat in their diets t... | Ok, here's my shot! Firstly, I agree with your environmental arguments, but let's leave them aside for now. Secondly, animal welfare is important and we don't do enough on it. Personally, I think every slaughterhouse and farm should be mandated to upload a video of their conditions to the internet every year. That way ... | I believe there are no valid arguments for eating meat, other than "I like the taste" - CMV | 2013-02-12T13:24:36 | 2,387 | 2,889 | 439 | 527 |
Here's how I look at it. Just because you're in a relationship doesn't mean you suddenly stop finding anything besides your SO aesthetically pleasing. We are built to appreciate beauty, whether it's in the form of a sunset or a brightly colored bird or an attractive person. You're not going to become blind to all that ... | Man, I feel you. I used to be kinda the same way (still am, to an extent)... Like you and other commenters have said, it's probably rooted at least somewhat in your own self esteem issues, so it would probably help you significantly to address those with the help of your gf if you feel.comfortable talking to her about ... | I get internally furious whenever girls/guys in a relationship (including my girlfriend) comment on the attractiveness of anybody else, especially celebrities, simply because I think it's wrong for a significant other to think about that sort of thing. CMV. | 2013-02-13T07:43:06 | 1,643 | 2,657 | 298 | 477 |
Let me pose you a question: Do you simply accept as your significant other the most attractive person you can find? If you were with someone for a long time, then a more physically attractive person came along, would you just discard them because the next person is more physically attractive? For almost all of us, the ... | my boyfriend and i are actually pretty open about who else we find attractive. it's not like we/either of us outright, frequently state "oh she's hot!" or "mmm look at him". but we have talked about other people (i think mostly just celebrities) we find attractive. i think it's a healthy thing to be this open with your... | I get internally furious whenever girls/guys in a relationship (including my girlfriend) comment on the attractiveness of anybody else, especially celebrities, simply because I think it's wrong for a significant other to think about that sort of thing. CMV. | 2013-02-13T07:43:06 | 941 | 1,548 | 161 | 273 |
The person in power needs to have at least some motivation to do what their office requires. I am currently a part of a committee in which no one wants to be the "head" who calls meetings, makes agendas, etc. Someone reluctantly stepped into the role and agreed to be head of the committee for a year, and guess what? No... | I've worked with a lot of other powerful people, at local, national, and international levels. If there's one thing I've learned from observing those kinds of people, it is that wielding power is a difficult job that not everyone are made for. No, I think the meek would be real shitty leaders. While the same things mak... | I believe those who want power shouldn't have it. CMV. | 2013-02-16T15:56:12 | 1,539 | 1,321 | 280 | 237 |
What you are referring to is called adverse selection- the people who you want to do business with you are the exact kind of people you don't want to do it with. Some people make convincing arguments that randomly selecting a president would lead to better policy than the current systems. My only counter is that it re... | What if you want power as a means to an end? What if you do "believe everyone should be equal" and you think our government and society are doing the wrong things to make that happen? How would you change it but to become more powerful yourself and change people's minds and the government's policies? | I believe those who want power shouldn't have it. CMV. | 2013-02-16T15:56:12 | 746 | 301 | 127 | 55 |
Unfortunately there may come a point, were your life will get fucked up. Maybe it's an accident, maybe something else. Maybe financial problems, or a psychosis, everything is possible. Who will stay with you, support you, when they get nothing in return? Friends? Even if you have really good friends it would surprise m... | I kinda have the same problem, I guess. But like Doctor_Candy said; it's probably a stage in your life and you may get over it soon. You may not, I don't know. Your views and decisions on life, relationships and most things are more likely based on them (Unless you somehow changed yourself to the point where aren't lik... | I do not love my parents. CMV | 2013-02-16T19:18:14 | 1,007 | 559 | 187 | 106 |
Thanks for the clarification. You might be interested to know that you are saying something very close to the Rare Earth Hypothesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis Life forming in early earth wouldn't be so much someone rolling a die, but more like a die rolling around a shaking bowl. It's bouncing ... | Just want to point out first that evolution has nothing to do with "creation by accident". Evolution refers to how life, once created, changed over generations. If you're talking about the origins of life, you're talking about abiogenesis. If you're talking about the origins of the universe, that's a completely separat... | I believe that intelligent design (not necessarily the six-day creation as Christians believe), but the idea that the universe did not happen by accident, is a valid theory, and should be taught alongside evolution. CMV | 2013-02-27T02:39:30 | 1,920 | 1,037 | 310 | 170 |
* We have lots of evidence that shows how the Earth was created. None of it points to being created by another being of supreme intelligence. Refer to the [Watchmaker Analogy.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy#Criticism) * There is no evidence at all that a Supreme Being exists. We have Hubble Telescopes... | my biggest issue with evolution is odds. The statistics that any sort of anything, even a single molecule, could be created by accident, ex nihilo, is just preposterous to me. In addition to that, the sheer size and complexity of the universe exponentially decreases these odds, and I find it baffling anyone could belie... | I believe that intelligent design (not necessarily the six-day creation as Christians believe), but the idea that the universe did not happen by accident, is a valid theory, and should be taught alongside evolution. CMV | 2013-02-27T02:39:30 | 964 | 778 | 153 | 126 |
Well, I'm just trying to argue from a purely practical standpoint. Practically speaking, why should the rich bother with helping the poor? The frank, rather crass, answer to this, is that if the rich don't do anything to help the poor, the poor will kill them and take their stuff. It has happened many times in the past... | Although agree that the poor shouldn't be helped, I don't think the rich should have as much as they do. It's unnecessary to have way more than you need, and that money could be put to better use by helping the general public. | The rich have no obligation to help the poor. CMV | 2013-02-28T00:58:48 | 961 | 226 | 179 | 43 |
Ironically, you're thinking about this in a stereotypically Christian way instead of a stereotypically atheist way. You believe that most religious people act a certain way because that matches up with how you *want* the world to be. That's more or less what blind faith is. If you really had a science-based viewpoint, ... | I submit that knowledge of morality (and the tendency to act in moral ways) is an innate human characteristic, and that the only difference between atheists and Christians for purposes of this discussion is a disagreement about where morality actually comes from. Many Christians may *say* that their morality comes from... | I think most atheists are better people than most religious people. CMV | 2013-03-04T16:55:58 | 1,104 | 573 | 169 | 95 |
You're not the sort of person a Mac is targeted at. I finally figured this out: Macs are computers for people who *don't like computers* (and graphic designers). If you run a *nix box, you love tinkering with stuff. If you run Windows, you're happy to change some settings, learn about your computer, download the extras... | I remember when we were shopping for my wife's computer in fall 2011, the employee at Best Buy showed us an email he'd gotten from his supervisor about failure rates for laptop's made by different companies. I remember that Asus was the highest PC on the list, but I can't remember if mac was on the list or if he just t... | I see no logical reason to spend more money on a Mac opposed to a PC unless a college class requires one. CMV. | 2013-03-06T20:54:13 | 1,356 | 1,097 | 257 | 189 |
American here. Gonna attempt the simple answer. Really don't know if this is going to help or change your mind, but here it goes. Maybe the reason is that we glorify our Founding Fathers the same way many cultures glorify their roots. It's a simple story that establishes us as a people, which we all can find common gro... | Can't really change your mind, [most of it is pure propaganda.](http://www.cracked.com/article_18489_6-mind-blowing-achievements-in-propaganda_p2.html) (#2 in the article). So the obvious thing is that we were all told that our "Founding Fathers" of the State were the "smartest people alive," so that it can be beaten i... | I don't understand why many Americans deify their founding fathers, and I feel as though I'm missing something obvious. CMV. | 2013-03-07T16:15:57 | 608 | 1,000 | 106 | 149 |
I see it like this, it's a bit weird but, here goes: The lock and the key aren't really referring to vagina/penis. What they refer to is the chaser and the chased. What I mean is this, the lock is guarding something, it's always there, and you know there's something good behind it, but you don't know what. It could be ... | Isn't the saying "A good lock is opened by one key, but a good key opens more than one lock"? ANYWAY, more importantly, the "is a woman a slut for sleeping around question/should we applaud men for being player?" question. Basically, I want you to ask yourself two questions: What's wrong with a woman having sex with mu... | I think the saying "A good key can open many locks, but a shit lock is opened by many keys" has some truth to it. CMV. | 2013-03-08T16:52:59 | 850 | 626 | 162 | 117 |
Kind of. It's a device to ensure that everyone in our society can maintain a certain quality of life. My analysis assumes the same assumptions as your premise. I want to reiterate to you that ending welfare would not end poverty. People have been poor since the dawn of time. For most of history there hasn't even been a... | I believe that the poor should find work for themselves and develop other means of resources via Civil Society and entrepreneurship. That being said, cutting welfare is not a valid option for a number of reasons. Unlike many other forms of husbanding resources poor people are active political actors, not to the same ex... | I believe we should cut welfare and let the poor either die or survive by their own means. CMV | 2013-03-11T02:21:30 | 663 | 4,754 | 121 | 833 |
You can get the amino acids easily with combinations of beans/legumes and grains. (Beans and rice combined contains all the amino acids we need.) I absolutely agree that we would need to adjust what we grow, especially since a lot of the specific things we feed livestock can't necessarily be processed by our bodies at ... | I'll make a comment about the plants. I'm vegetarian. I became a vegetarian because at a young age I saw an animal being tortured (cut in half while still alive, front half trying to run away) and it scarred me. I could never do that to animal. Even if it's still being killed, I don't have to eat it. I don't want to, i... | I think moral vegetarianism is wrong and maybe even pointless, CMV | 2013-03-13T02:43:31 | 678 | 957 | 118 | 187 |
[From two days ago.](http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1a23kl/cmv_i_dont_believe_man_are_able_to_be_raped_by/) I'm not calling it a repost, but you might find it a useful resource. Firstly, I want to know what you mean when you say you don't believe men can be raped by women, but that you *know* they can. I... | Does it hurt men physically to be raped (no bondage/drugs/alcohol involved)? I sound like one of those legitimate rape Republicans here, but if a man is being raped by a woman, why can't he just... enjoy it? I hate to sound like a jerk but um...do you actually know what rape is? Rape is any time that one person, throug... | I don't believe men can be raped by women. CMV. | 2013-03-13T16:45:10 | 4,775 | 3,141 | 859 | 584 |
I am going to disagree with half of your statement and agree with half of your statement. Piracy is not and can not be theft. Theft requires depriving someone of realized goods or money. Piracy does not deprive the copyright holder of goods. Piracy does not deprive the copyright holder of realized monetary gain. The ha... | The question here is "Does piracy cost replace sales?" The answer is apparently [no](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/21/does-online-piracy-hurt-the-economy-a-look-at-the-numbers/). Using modern methods it's normally easier to get something legally via digital download than it is to pirate it. So, why shoul... | I think pirating movies/TV shows/music/software is theft and should continue to be illegal. CMV. | 2013-03-21T22:05:24 | 2,713 | 1,378 | 463 | 221 |
The record/movie/entertainment media business has a serious problem. The fact is that they used to sell something that was tied to a physical product. A vhs tape, DVD, etc. Much of their money came from selling these things. But the landscape has changed dramatically. Now their content is available anywhere by anyone. ... | The question here is "Does piracy cost replace sales?" The answer is apparently [no](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/21/does-online-piracy-hurt-the-economy-a-look-at-the-numbers/). Using modern methods it's normally easier to get something legally via digital download than it is to pirate it. So, why shoul... | I think pirating movies/TV shows/music/software is theft and should continue to be illegal. CMV. | 2013-03-21T22:05:24 | 2,360 | 1,378 | 407 | 221 |
13.**Niagara Falls** [The age of Niagara Falls is estimated to be about 7,000 years. This only gives the age of the Falls, and not the age of the earth Not only must the falls be created, but the rocks which the falls cuts through must be deposited. Young earth estimates do not account for the deposition of the rocks I... | I don't really think there are good reasons to believe in God. That seems like a pretty basic challenge here - if you can't establish that there is a God, the rest of it can't be rationally defended either. I get that that's not really what the topic is about, though. That aside, if she did exist, why would she make a ... | I believe in a young Earth and a universe that is 6,000 years old rather than 13.8 Billion [CMV] | 2013-03-22T00:05:37 | 6,889 | 1,746 | 1,034 | 296 |
What if you don't have the resources to support a child? What if you know any child you have would have a high likelihood of carrying a genetic disease present in you and/or your partner? Is it selfish not to want to bring a child into the world knowing they would only face hardship? What if you just never wanted kids?... | Having children only creates more people to demand resources. If you desire to see a couple with significant resources do good for the world, the best option would be to use those resources on kids without the need to bring more into the world. If a couple is certain that they have the resources, time, capability, and ... | I think that couples that do not have kids are selfish, CMV | 2013-03-26T01:06:22 | 713 | 666 | 135 | 111 |
"First few"? As in a certain number of drinks? People become intoxicated after different numbers of drinks. How can we legally determine what that amount is? And you say "something other than yourself". No, you are still ledge_and, no matter how many drinks you've had, but your ability to make judgements and decisions ... | You know that drinking could lead you to these things. You know that drinking is a bad idea. you know drinking is stupid. You choose to drink. You blame it on drinking. You chose to drink. Total negligence if you do something stupid just because you wanted to fuck around. If you do something knowing that it could harm ... | I believe that people shouldn't be legally held accountable for their actions when significantly intoxicated, CMV. | 2013-03-27T19:38:09 | 646 | 794 | 109 | 143 |
I read the title and thought "this should be easy". Then I read the body and thought, "well that was reasonable". I think the weak point of your argument is [what feminists want](http://i.imgur.com/xjCkkRq.png). There are so many types of feminism, and two in particular are not interested in creating a unisex world. Th... | I think feminism is not so much about pretending that men and women are alike in every way. It's more about fighting the idea that the differences make men superior to women, and fighting the fact that women get treated as inferior people because of that. The last sentence in your post seems to sum up the disparity be... | I oppose feminism, and I don't think women are equal to men. CMV. | 2013-03-27T22:53:41 | 961 | 937 | 130 | 171 |
It's not just personal safety, though. It's also other people's liability. Say you don't wear your seatbelt. What if another car accidentally hits your car from behind. If wearing a seatbelt, you would have survived, but instead you hit the windshield and, with the harsh impact, die. Instead of a smaller insurance issu... | I also don't think it should be enforced by law, but I think it should be enforced by insurance premiums. If you don't wear your seat-belt, it increases the likelihood that you'll get seriously injured in a car crash. Therefore, insurance companies should be able to charge more for people who don't wear there seatbelts... | I don't believe wearing a seat-belt in a privately owned vehicle should be enforced by law, CMV | 2013-03-28T20:24:23 | 484 | 686 | 79 | 116 |
One thing to consider is that free will and determinism are not the same thing. I agree that it seems unlikely that free will exists for the reasons you said, but I don't believe it's possible to determine the future due to quantum uncertainty. Basically, I believe that things happen on the quantum level in an non-dete... | Determinism can't be true if you look at quantum physics, but this still says nothing about free will. If you want to be convinced that determinism is wrong read some books about the quantum world, if you want to have free will I can't help | I hold a deterministic view on life CMV | 2013-03-31T02:19:07 | 395 | 240 | 67 | 45 |
The reason for this is not that police officers have a greater value (if they do is not the question here) the reason is that police officers are more likely to to be killed. For example, if a criminal is being apprehended by the police, if he thinks that it would be possible to escape by killing the officer making the... | The reason the justice system elevates peace officers, and therefore the media imitates this notion, is because there would be an open season. Open season for cop killers. What incentive do criminals have for not murdering a police officer when they receive the same punishment when killing a regular person? We have to ... | I don't believe that "cop killers" are any worse than regular killers. CMV | 2013-03-31T03:01:34 | 492 | 358 | 94 | 59 |
I am currently experiencing unmedicated depression. I have not been awake for more than a 90 minute period today. I have an exam in a subject I love on Monday, but studying for even a few minutes instantly results in a wave of crushing fatigue. I cry every time I wake up, both because I can't bear the thought of moving... | Hi! I'm you. Well, I mean, I was you two years ago, before a crushing battle with depression which I ultimately lost completely, as per my previous definition of winning and losing vs mental illness. Specifically: I am a previously healthy person who maintained a 4.0 through five semesters of school. Over the three sem... | I don't believe depression is a real illness. | 2013-03-31T03:13:33 | 4,529 | 5,007 | 847 | 927 |
Don't attach rainbows and lisps with gays. These attributes aren't exclusive to gays. A lot of gays are nothing like that. A gay person acting like a fool should disgust you no more than a straight person acting like a fool. They are both fools. A straight man walking around in leather, acting like a girl, talking with... | It depends which component of it annoys you. Are you annoyed by the perceived attention-seeking component of the behavior or is it the fact that they're not "acting like real men" according to you ? And when you say "acting like a girl", are you talking about acting like a stereotypical drama queen teenager girl scream... | I can't stand flamboyant gay people. CMV | 2013-03-31T03:40:50 | 962 | 665 | 178 | 114 |
If we can (relatively) cheaply manage or cure a genetic disorder in a person, how can we deny them the chance at a better life (or even life, period) on the basis that their future descendants will suffer from the same affliction, which by all estimates will be as easy or easier to cure by the time they are born. And w... | Genetic variation is important, it is the fuel for evolution that makes species robust. Human species is still lacking variation thanks to population bottlenecks and almost going extinct. The patient you are about to kill may hold mutation that would allow our species to survive in the future. Thanks to sex and geneti... | I don't think its a good idea to treat illnesses that are genetic because we are increasing their rate in the human population CMV | 2013-04-01T21:14:14 | 905 | 1,872 | 161 | 325 |
I struggled with (and still do, to some extent) buying into this stereotype. I couldn't possibly see the appeal of frat life other than for drinking, partying, and sexing. When my best friend rushed his freshman year I was astonished. He wasn't the frat "type" by any stretch of the imagination. We were (and still are) ... | Story of a guy who joined a frat, then decided to leave. My freshman year of college, I rushed a fraternity. It was something I never thought I would do. Here is the sequence of events that led me to do it: First, as a freshman looking for the college experience, I went to a couple of their parties. I am not a big drin... | I think that fraternities and sororities are wastes of time and are full of partiers. CMV | 2013-04-02T16:17:00 | 2,165 | 5,073 | 407 | 941 |
There's a difference between saying "I prefer not to eat dog/hamster/snake meat" and "eating dog/hamster/snake/ meat is wrong". The former is a preference and finding the consumption of those meats to be gross is a perfectly acceptable reason to prefer not eat them. | I'm personally not grossed out by any of the meats you listed apart from human. I don't know why but the thought is revolting. With that said I see any reason why consumption of any meat (including human) could be objectively wrong. Everything came from the same matter as everything else, which is why I found it silly ... | If you are willing to eat meat, then I don't think you should be grossed out by eating ANY meat, including dog meat, hamster meat, snake meat.. even human meat. CMV | 2013-04-03T00:51:35 | 266 | 475 | 43 | 88 |
Well; I won't pry into your argument with her, but friendships are precious and I hope you have luck with that. Moving on. You're making a claim that someone needs to be happy with what they have. But I don't necessarily see that as true. I read to get smarter, work out to get fitter, make more friends, try new thing... | Some girls are taught at a young age that make-up is **required**. This is, of course, an old fashioned mind set, but still a mindset that, from my experience, very much exists. Then you have the self esteem issues. Make-up makes you look perfect when done properly, which gives you confidence, which makes you more attr... | I believe women just wear makeup to get attention, and that wearing it indicates self-esteem or self-worth issues. Reddit, please CMV! | 2013-04-03T02:43:47 | 1,425 | 777 | 284 | 135 |
Let's say it does. So what? [*Drinking* raises your chances of being raped](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14743937), considering the high percentage of rapes which involve intoxication or doctoring of intoxicating drinks. Should people stop drinking in order to reduce their chances of being raped? If someone gets ... | There are a couple things wrong with the way this is worded, as well as how rape is discussed in general. * Women do not "get raped." Men rape women. Phrasing it the other way implies that the woman is partially at fault, when in actuality it is a man's responsibility to not be a terrible human being and take advantage... | I don't see how being drunk and in "promiscuous" clothing, doesn't increase the chance of rape | 2013-04-03T17:07:59 | 834 | 1,819 | 113 | 327 |
A problem is that use of a condom is risk management, it doesn't remove risk. All the risks that are present without condoms are still present with them, just to a lesser extent. So, promiscuity is a potential health hazard, even with safe sex. Additionally, it's easy to wind up with different goals with sex partners, ... | When you think about the roles sex plays in our society, it's usually like this: girls fuck to get close to someone; guys just fuck to fuck. So when a guy says "I've fucked 7 or 8 girls before," that's just what it means. But when a girl says "I've fucked 7 or 8 guys before," she's seen as trying to fall in love with a... | I don't think it's wrong for a girl to be slutty and promiscuous provided that she practises safe sex and birth control. CMV | 2013-04-04T18:33:54 | 1,339 | 817 | 234 | 159 |
A benefit you're missing: (Or, alternately, a cost to having the religious symbols): The symbols placed there/supported by gov't are alienating those that don't share those beliefs, especially if the gov't says "yes, religion X can have its symbols there, but not religion Y, and definitely none for atheists" A school t... | Public religious symbols, along with God's name on currency and in the pledge of allegiance, don't do any harm to anyone. Public religious symbols can mislead religious people, who have the ability to influence public policy, about the separation of church and state. Many times I've heard the argument that this is a Ch... | I absolutely despise atheist organizations that attempt to remove public religious symbols. CMV | 2013-04-05T22:39:31 | 662 | 607 | 107 | 102 |
The fundamental flaw with your reasoning is that you assume that an action has to be justified. Do I also have to justify my love of pepperoni pizza? How about my coffee in the morning? Do I have to justify buying a BMW because, "I find it baffling that anyone would consciously choose to ~~drink alcohol~~ buy a BMW for... | For the simple reason that many people find the effects of alcohol enjoyable. That in no way means you personally should drink. But the fact that you don't enjoy it is not enough of a reason to deny it to anyone else. | I don't think that any social drinking (alcohol) is justifiable. CMV | 2013-04-07T08:53:24 | 1,196 | 217 | 220 | 42 |
My problem with private, fee-charging schools is that they help to sustain inequality. Assuming in the UK pupils are assigned to schools based on where they live, and the funding of the school depends on the tax income of an area, this still perpetuates inequality. Schools in poor neighborhoods will remain poor. As th... | As they charge fees they have more money per pupil, which should mean that the quality of the education provided is better. Are you saying a step *up* for society would be to abolish those better schools, meaning everyone's left getting the same (which you've admitted is *worse*) public education? So children of the ri... | I think private schools should be abolished. CMV. | 2013-04-08T17:34:07 | 1,531 | 902 | 254 | 153 |
Hi, this is my first answer to a CMV post so I hope I can be of some use. There are actually a great many things I would like to point out, so I'm sorry for the incoming wall of text. 1) You claim that private schools are bad because they disproportionately aid the rich. However, I think you would agree that they do no... | Do you also believe that private microwaves, cell phones, food, cars should also be abolished, since they all cost money and richer people get better ones, thus increasing inequality? Private schools are actually different from the above because they have more financial aid that public schools, so they actually allow ... | I think private schools should be abolished. CMV. | 2013-04-08T17:34:07 | 4,552 | 1,135 | 825 | 189 |
Not all private school pupils are from rich families. I'm well aware I've been lucky in life; my parents are not rich, but they're not poor either. My Mum went back to work to pay our tuition fees (about 1.5k per term - low by comparison to most private schools) and we did without the big yearly holidays other people h... | As they charge fees they have more money per pupil, which should mean that the quality of the education provided is better. Are you saying a step *up* for society would be to abolish those better schools, meaning everyone's left getting the same (which you've admitted is *worse*) public education? So children of the ri... | I think private schools should be abolished. CMV. | 2013-04-08T17:34:07 | 2,379 | 902 | 413 | 153 |
In order to understand transgender people, you need to understand why it occurs. Here's an explanation: In the womb, sex differentiation as well as brain differentiation occurs. Sex differentiation leads to either a male or female body (usually. About 1% of the time it's something in between. This is called intersex). ... | First off, human sexuality is a vastly understudied science. There's a lot we still don't know and are still learning about. There's three main sub-fields to human sexuality: biological/anatomical, psychological/behavioral, and socio/anthropological. Each are immensely understudied, and it's reflected in the culture as... | I have no problem with homosexuality or bisexuality, but I think anything beyond that is just a desperate cry for attention. CMV | 2013-04-11T02:49:56 | 3,078 | 7,517 | 444 | 1,061 |
Well, think about it this way. It feels arbitrary to you because you haven't learned anything about it. It's very easy (when you don't know anything about a topic) to say, "Well, they just made all this shit up!" I mean, you can do that about anything. United States government? "Jeez, they just picked three branches of... | First off, human sexuality is a vastly understudied science. There's a lot we still don't know and are still learning about. There's three main sub-fields to human sexuality: biological/anatomical, psychological/behavioral, and socio/anthropological. Each are immensely understudied, and it's reflected in the culture as... | I have no problem with homosexuality or bisexuality, but I think anything beyond that is just a desperate cry for attention. CMV | 2013-04-11T02:49:56 | 1,813 | 7,517 | 318 | 1,061 |
Would it have been more difficult for them to stand in line, though? I think the best solution for them would have been to call ahead, explain, and ask if they could reserve two seats, perhaps by paying a premium, or maybe hire someone to wait in line for them? Just spit-balling. You're correct that it's only 25% obes... | I find it interesting that you begrudge the obese couple from yesterday evening their seats, because i would argue that they asked for additional seating and you did not. Managment obliged to the wish of a pair of customers and you have no idea they would not have obliged yours if you had asked. I agree with you that i... | I believe the obese aren't entitled to the same accommodations we make for the disabled. | 2013-04-11T20:55:55 | 617 | 2,402 | 107 | 436 |
Right, by that definition we could call video games a sport (and some might). I thought about making a case earlier for golf filling the role of physical prowess as well. I think if you require at least some physical prowess to exist to call it a sport that you can as golf does require this. At least, to be good at ... | This is more in agreement with you but this is something I worked out a few months back when having this exact same discussion with some of my friends. Keep in mind I hold no judgement for or against any category, I'm just making some definitions for everyone's clarity. Category 1 - Games Non-Active, Competitive, Vario... | I don't think Golf is a sport, more of a hobby. CMV. | 2013-04-11T22:01:16 | 1,033 | 852 | 193 | 129 |
When my twins were a week and a half old we took them along with us and our older two kids to see Cars 2. They each fussed for about a second when it was feeding time, but then we gave them their bottles and they shut up, ate and slept through the movie. When the movie was done the people that we were near said to us t... | if someone brings their baby and it either starts making cooing noises or starts crying *and the parent either does nothing or tries to get the baby to stop crying while still in the theater instead of taking it outside* So this is the real problem. The part about babies is a red herring - if *anyone* is being disrupti... | I believe people should not be allowed to bring babies in a movie theater except if it's a special "everybody can bring their babies" showing/theater. CMV | 2013-04-13T12:43:59 | 806 | 1,197 | 158 | 220 |
Well, it seems to me if one is very concerned about life then one must be against abortion. I think we could improve on this statement a bit. One motivation for being vegetarian or vegan is that you are concerned with the rights of others, even when those others are non-human. The question then is "what rights do peop... | As many others have mentioned, pro-choice != pro-abortion. I'm pro-choice because my grandmother was an OBGYN nurse who helped deliver high-risk pregnancies. She also saw many, many DIY abortions gone wrong, which can result in two deaths. I'm pro-choice because I value a woman's life more than a potential life and I w... | Vegetarians (and the like minded) are being hypocritical if they are Pro-Choice. CMV | 2013-04-13T15:09:03 | 1,261 | 1,103 | 231 | 182 |
The reasons why I believe this are that the great majority of creationists and religious fundamentalists are from the South, and many of the horribly stupid politicians that we've seen over the past ten or so years have been propped up by their Southern supporters. I think a flaw in your argument is that you are presu... | Northerner here. Specifically Massachusetts. Yeah, we're much more progressive socially overall, better educated, and less godly on average. Most of the republicans here are intelligent and have good rationales, and maybe even are more libertarians (liberal on social issues) sometimes. I honestly can't disagree with yo... | I think that Northerners are smarter and more educated than Southerners (in the United States). CMV. | 2013-04-14T16:45:34 | 5,085 | 1,380 | 858 | 227 |
I see two "flaws" with your argument, and would like to ask one clarifying question. **Flaw 1** The reasons why I believe this are that the great majority of creationists and religious fundamentalists are from the South You're making the assumption that all creationists and fundamentalists are dumb. If that's the claim... | Hey I can help here. I've lived and worked in the South/Midwest and the Northeast, as an adult, for 3+ years each. (Texas/Northern Florida + Maryland/DC). I feel like this puts me in a unique position to give some insight here. There is a culture in a lot of the South and the Midwest that leads people to believe in the... | I think that Northerners are smarter and more educated than Southerners (in the United States). CMV. | 2013-04-14T16:45:34 | 3,664 | 1,127 | 640 | 196 |
You ever beamed a Nutria with a .22? That in and of itself is pretty hard, but you ever killed one with a .22? Do you then know how to dress and clean a nutria so that it can be food? Can you service a tractor? do you know whats wrong with a diesel engine simply based on its sound? Do you know how fucking hard dynamit... | Hey I can help here. I've lived and worked in the South/Midwest and the Northeast, as an adult, for 3+ years each. (Texas/Northern Florida + Maryland/DC). I feel like this puts me in a unique position to give some insight here. There is a culture in a lot of the South and the Midwest that leads people to believe in the... | I think that Northerners are smarter and more educated than Southerners (in the United States). CMV. | 2013-04-14T16:45:34 | 2,073 | 1,127 | 388 | 196 |
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