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Assuming that "all animals kill themselves" means "they'll die in the wild anyway no matter what," by the same token refraining from killing human beings is useless. | Meat is murder, but all animals kill themselves, and the vegans do nothing to prevent that, that is why veganism is useless. | 1 | 2017-03-11T20:05:48 | 73 | 3 | 1 |
No offense but your post has the raving quality of a conspiracy theorist. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a reference is just a reference. You literally have zero tangible evidence to make this claim; no confessions from Adult Swim staff, no evidence of Justin Roiland accepting payment from McDonald's, no actual ... | The "Mulan Szechuan" bit that Rick and Morty has going on is a McDonalds ad, plain and true. | 0 | 2017-04-05T12:46:47 | 42 | 1 | 81 |
I understand that your experiences have not been pleasant and if you decide transition is not for you that's of course valid--but what about all the people who view their transition as a good or even life-saving decision? | I am starting to wonder whenever transgenderism is a real thing | 0 | 2017-01-11T05:20:09 | 94 | 0 | 1 |
Is /r/The_Donald a safe space? You could potentially conceive of it that way but I think it's an insult to "safe spaces". The idea that safe spaces are places devoid of debate or confrontation, places were everyone thinks and acts the same is incorrect. Gender, race, class, sexuality are only portions of a person's ide... | r/The_Donald is the ultimate Safe Space. | 1 | 2017-02-09T20:03:23 | 158 | 3 | 1 |
Many social movements throughout history have a moderate wing and an extreme wing that have similar goals but use different tactics and rhetoric. The former tends to use logic, rational arguments, and peaceful actions, and attempts to change the status quo from the inside. I don't know if "extreme" is the right word. G... | Radical, extreme, and absolutist components of progressive movements generally do more harm than good. | 1 | 2017-06-26T19:08:55 | 123 | 6 | 11 |
That seems reasonable. What if a Chinese staffed plane lands in Seattle from Beijing, then works its way down the coast, then zig-zags across the country to the east coast before working its way up and then zipping back to China? What would stop that other than cabotage? | The US should allow airline cabotage. | 1 | 2015-07-12T09:50:24 | 71 | -1 | 1 |
I would say the main problem lies in interests. There are a lot of people out there who have enough money that they can easily live of the interests without having to ever work. And not only people who somehow earned that money. People born into that money! They live on the "money working for them" and they also get ev... | It doesn't matter that the rich are getting richer. | 0 | 2016-02-24T14:28:52 | 115 | 1 | null |
Your argument is essentially that gender is a social construct. But that doesn't mean that social constructs don't exist. Private property, government, taxes, capitalism, communism, marriage, etc. are all social constructs, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Some humans have penises. Some humans have vaginas. And ... | There is no such thing as masculinity and femininity. | 0 | 2017-04-19T04:07:26 | 67 | 3 | 139 |
If I'm passionate about something like english, should I really spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to college when I'll make 20k a year after graduating? People really enjoy a ton of different things, but most of those aren't suitable careers. No, you should pursue that without getting into debt. That's just ... | The phrase "do what you love and you'll succeed" is ridiculous and stupid to tell kids. | 0 | 2015-10-18T00:51:37 | 29 | 3 | 3 |
Any leadership or management experience required? | The world would be a better place if I were absolute emperor of mankind. | 1 | 2016-06-21T03:03:51 | 33 | 6 | 13 |
I think this is more a case for a better education system than changing who gets to vote. Regardless, you seem to be missing one of the key components of a democracy. The path to power in a democracy is through the people, and so you have to make the people happy to get elected. By cutting out a large portion of the po... | People shouldn't be allowed to vote just because they're over a certain age | 1 | 2016-12-06T17:15:51 | 150 | 6 | 10 |
I would add another point, which might change your view or perhaps expand it, and that is that animals don't necessarily share the same rights as human beings. You're also right about captivity - pet dogs are essentially held in captivity and they're the happiest animals on the planet. I think we have a moral obligati... | Animal rights groups should stop assuming animals share the same values as humans | 0 | 2016-12-12T04:25:16 | 113 | -2 | null |
So you seem to have attempted to address the most obvious rejection to making a single language (cultural importance) in #3, but I don't really see how we are going to create a large language that somehow encompasses all cultures. You can't have your cake and eat it too; you're going to have to destroy a lot of culture... | [CMV] I believe adopting a single, unified language would be beneficial to the world | 0 | 2013-05-02T08:30:25 | 110 | 4 | 11 |
I don't necessarily "have nothing to hide", but I don't expect that there is literally a person on a computer looking through what I post to Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook (or what porn I look at). There kind of is. There is a culture of finding and trading nude pictures at the NSA. It has been suspected that the NSA ha... | I'm not worried about the US government spying on citizens. | 0 | 2015-05-27T18:01:15 | 304 | 11 | 24Δ |
I understand that the conjugation is the only tough part and the whole gender thing might be confusing at first (not that crazy if it ends on an a it's female, except agua which can be both, the only tough part is if it end on an e).... I know this seems biased like I am arguing that Spanish should be the international... | English should not be the international language | 1 | 2015-06-21T21:43:57 | 32 | 3 | null |
I haven't read any because the topic doesn't interest me. But they're not hard to find if you hit the memoirs section of your local library. For what it's worth, here are a couple small resources that I think illustrate that those who behave immorally aren't always happier than others: [Inmates writing their own obits... | Immoral people seem to be happier than moral people. | 1 | 2016-08-12T04:21:29 | 37 | 5 | 14 |
In the United States at least we have the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) whose job it is to monitor things like this and protect the consumer. They're in fact currently in the process of suing AT&T for providing "unlimited data services" which actually having data caps and then throttle down your service to a snail... | It should be against the law to describe something as "free" if a purchase is required to obtain it | 0 | 2014-11-22T17:39:20 | 37 | 2 | 26 |
Literature teaches students how to support their interpretations, to use argument and purpose to express subjective opinions in a way that other individuals can understand and analyze. And don't try to explain that it helps teach critical thinking skills because believe me my upper level science classes have enough wor... | Testing students on subjective material, such as literature, is a complete waste of time and should be eliminated from the mandatory curriculum | 0 | 2016-02-08T21:59:05 | 42 | 4 | 23 |
I know you've already delt a delta for this topic but i just want to point out the artforms of [Kintsugi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUTQkaSSTY) and [Wabi-Sabi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmHLYhxYVjA) Kintsugi is known as the art of repairing broken pottery in a way that the breakage is not hidden but is sti... | Beauty is in the lack of imperfections (scars, cellulite etc) on one's body | 1 | 2016-02-20T17:42:51 | 50 | 5 | 2 |
I would argue that there is no human model of intelligence that can describe the singlemindedness of a corporate charter, sociopathy or otherwise. Instead, I would describe for-profit businesses as something the AI community calls a ["paperclip maximizer"](http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer). A singlemi... | If businesses are people, they are sociopaths, and must be harshly controlled. | 1 | 2014-09-09T20:40:20 | 284 | 6 | null |
It sounds like you've been been really turned off to the activism surrounding global warming than to the actual theory, which is unfortunate. It always bad when advocates for an issue turn people away, for whatever reason. I'm really glad you're trying to get past that distaste and focus on facts. As for facts, this si... | I believe that man made global warming to be made up, CMV | 0 | 2013-11-24T19:50:42 | 489 | 129 | 1 |
meta gaming is the opposite of immersion. If you are doing one you aren't doing the other. If your first level character knows or has the ability to know everything then you're not immersed. Seriously if I bunch of people who have never fought a troll fight it like they have fought hundreds of trolls, because the ch... | Metagaming in roleplay games is good and shouldn't be seen as immoral. | 1 | 2017-03-24T04:18:44 | 193 | 1 | 35 |
I think a lot of furries, otherkin, etc, those who truly believe they are are actually part animal, have mild to moderate cases of autism. And there are quite of few people who identify as pan sexual, whatever the fuck, who carry whole bunch of other mental problems going into world fluid gender, species, race and sexu... | Otherkin are delusional and should be treated as such | 0 | 2014-12-30T04:28:22 | 458 | 2 | 3 |
What do you to say to someone who supports the deportation of illegal immigrants but would welcome those same people with open arms if they came back legally? The existence of paths to legal citizenship are irrelevant. How can someone be racist if he/she is fine with people from group X coming to the USA legally, but n... | The most reasonable conclusion you can reach about someone who advocates deportation of non-violent illegal immigrants is that they are racist | 0 | 2017-03-02T05:05:07 | 191 | 3 | null |
You are creating a false dichotomy though where a Sanders supporter has to either be A) A True progressive B) Only likes anti-establishment candidates I'd imaging there are quite a few people attracted to both Sanders and Trump for a few of the following reasons: - Campaign finance reform - Focus on domestic policy ... | Those who support Sanders, yet would vote Republican if Sanders isn't nominated, are not true progressives, they are merely anti-establishment. | 1 | 2016-03-01T00:02:44 | 317 | 303 | 36 |
Animals are capable of self-sacrifice. Social insects almost revolve around suicide. For example, bees defend the hive with their stingers. The stingers lodge in the creatures they attack, killing the bee. | The epitome of humanity is the ability to act in disregard for self. As human beings behaving selfishly is animalistic and deplorable. | 1 | 2016-07-20T00:58:02 | 23 | 8 | 1 |
1. What are your thresholds of evaluation, here? How much would I have to think about a view I hold for you to believe that I've done so carefully? How much would I have to read from another person for you to believe that enough was done to warrant a change? 2. It's not always just a few sentences, either; I've seen vi... | I think anyone who's view can be changed after reading a few sentences from a stranger on the internet does not think carefully enough about the views they hold. CMV | 0 | 2013-05-26T20:27:44 | 31 | 1 | 23 |
There are a number of reasons why you are risking your company by doing this (before we even get to the ethical quandaries here): 1. You say you do this because you are risk-averse and don't want liabilities. **If you are ever caught doing this by the authorities, you will risk huge fines, the possible collapse of your... | I have never, and will never, hire a woman under 50 years old for any position that is even mildly important. CMV. | 0 | 2014-07-10T06:48:10 | 632 | 1 | null |
People have told me "It's like before you were born, you never knew, it wasn't scary." But that's before you existed. Now I have <130 years of existence... I know it's counting down and can be over in an instant. You interpreted that statement in the wrong way. When someone says "before you were born", they are *rea... | Death is by far the most terrifying thing on the planet, and this life is pointless. | 0 | 2015-11-06T16:08:04 | 177 | 1 | 41 |
**Regarding your point #1**: that isn't a mistake; it's the intended purpose of the electoral college. The phrase "favoring smaller states" gives the wrong idea, in my opinion. "Temporarily handicaps large states" is more accurate. Presumably larger states have many more tools in their political arsenal at every other ... | In American politics, the electoral college should not exist. | 0 | 2016-12-07T05:59:57 | 171 | 7 | 2 |
This depends on what sort of "zombie apocalypse" you're dealing with. If you're in a sort of "my town has been infested with zombies" situation, then an AA-12 will be nice, but if we're talking something like *The Walking Dead*, then really an AA-12 is going to be a poor choice for a few reasons: * **No Select Fire** -... | The AA-12 is the best firearm for a theoretical zombie apocalypse for the average person. | 0 | 2015-12-18T22:44:11 | 71 | 3 | 68 |
I'm not sure it's relevant if the Republican party as an absolute is damaged. What matters, at least for the purpose of winning elections and general approval, is how the Republican party compares to the Democratic party (and, to a much lesser extent, third party players). And with the large amount of public outcry for... | Trump has seriously damaged the public opinion of the Republican Party for the foreseeable future | 1 | 2016-11-14T18:14:15 | 146 | 19 | 1 |
The show is designed to entertain and attract viewers. Literally _every single the thing show has ever done is designed to get people to watch the show_. Making a distinction here relative to every other choice they make seems kinda absurd to me. | Zeke Smith being outed as transgender on Survivor is nothing more than a cheap PR stunt to get people to watch the show again. | 1 | 2017-04-13T20:20:51 | 41 | 87 | 85 |
Your title and text are related only on the surface. Keeping up with current happenings THAT ARE LOCAL TO YOU is absolutely valuable for any 'common' person. What roads might be closed for construction delays, who's building what where and might they be hiring, is there a sale on socks because I surely would like new s... | Keeping up with current happenings and the news is absolutely useless for a common person. | 1 | 2017-04-20T12:53:51 | 44 | 7 | 1 |
You are not obligated to give the money up. The moral thing to do would be to give the money up. You give no indication that she specifically wanted you to get the money after the split. Just that she named you as the beneficiary 20 years ago and never changed it. If you were to ask her before she died, do you think sh... | I should keep my Ex's life insurance policy not her kids. | 0 | 2017-06-30T23:23:20 | 33 | 8 | 1 |
Your accuser is not a camera. Your accuser is the police department, and their evidence is the camera. That's like saying that if someone breaks into my house while I'm not home, I shouldn't be able to use the video camera footage from my security system as evidence against them. Regarding your 2nd point, that's often ... | Photo ticketing cameras are unlawful and should not be used | 0 | 2016-08-05T18:44:20 | 28 | 2 | 71 |
//I've been doing this for 5 years. I'm at a healthy weight. My BMI is 21, which in normal range. From the outside I look okay, but at some days when I really feel the urge to eat, I eat. When I eat, I can't stop. When I can't stop, I keep going, because I think it's okay to eat until I'm really full because I'm going ... | I think binging and purging is an effective way to maintain my weight. It's killing me on the inside. Please someone CMV. | 1 | 2014-10-13T18:44:24 | 48 | 2 | null |
Now my high school *did* offer "The Bible as Literature" as a class, and I certainly don't have a problem with that, because everything you said here is accurate. However, I would question the *mandatory* bit. There have been lots of very influential books and things in Western culture, but we don't devote an entire ma... | I believe the Bible should be taught in public schools as a mandatory class. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-27T06:09:21 | 112 | 25 | 54 |
Here's some tough numbers to help you realize you may not be safe regardless of what you do. The more safety precautions the better as far as your well-being is concerned. According to American Police Beat, the average response time for an emergency call is 10 minutes. Atlanta has the worst response time with 11 to 12... | Instead of buying a dangerous gun for home protection, one should just invest the money into a decent home security system. | 1 | 2015-12-23T19:45:24 | 79 | 4 | 3 |
A couple of points here: 1. Most guns used in the commission of a crime are obtained illegally (some estimates as high as 93%). Concealed and open carry advocates, in general, are *very* serious about complying with the law, are knowledgable about gun safety and are responsible with guns. Requiring training (although i... | People walking around with guns is completely ridiculous and should require extensive training. | 1 | 2015-02-25T23:40:45 | 59 | 51 | 2 |
A simple example from recent US history is the [Florida recount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount) that decided the Gore vs. Bush election. If a few more people would have voted differently the modern history of the US could have been completely different. It doesn't look like it matters, but it d... | There is no practical reason for any individual to vote in national elections | 0 | 2015-09-01T05:54:53 | 44 | 6 | 128 |
I take your reason for doubting that felons should be denied the right to vote is that it is thinly veiled disrespect and abandonment. In response to /u/subheight640 you said that you are (1) a rule utilitarian about criminal punishment and (2) grounded in social contract theory. From within these two conditions, I'm g... | Felons should be allowed to vote. | 1 | 2016-04-22T20:54:11 | 246 | 51 | 6 |
Again there's so many hypotheticals it's hard to say. If the US had stayed out of the war AND not sent any lend-lease aid to the UK and USSR then it's possible Hitler may have got a peace deal from Stalin. But it's equally as likely that the USSR and UK keep fighting and win a long drawn out war. The problem was that ... | The Allies wouldn't have won World War II if America never entered the war. | 1 | 2016-06-17T01:33:32 | 60 | 3 | 5 |
But I can't shake the gut feeling that Luckily, gut feelings are not a very good way to tell what is true or not. Humans are fallible and can make mistakes. Who cares what a black hole is doing millions of lightyears away if there's millions of people starving and dying from preventable diseases here? You can't save... | Space travel/exploration/research is a waste of money which should be spent on solving problems here on Earth. | 0 | 2016-03-15T14:33:37 | 103 | 5 | null |
Art doesn't have an objective value outside of human society. Art critics know this. It's art, so the value is not something they just tally up by the pound or sum up the cost of materials. Value assessments are made legitimate when a person actually pays that price for the thing. Even old "priceless" pieces of art by ... | I don't see why the name of the artist should affect the value of a work of art, and I think the fact that it does invalidates fine art criticism to some extent. | 1 | 2014-08-09T17:42:59 | 16 | 17 | 4 |
Here is one thing you should think about. The benefits of FPTP is that is results in majority governments almost every election. In 2010 we were left with a coalition - and everyone slated the Liberals for selling out on there values (even though I don't really believe they did.) If we use PR people will have to think ... | [UK] The First Past the Post system is a farce; it creates unrepresentative governments and prevents more modern views from smaller parties from being heard. It must be abandoned. | 0 | 2015-08-12T13:18:44 | 159 | 1 | null |
Ignoring the morality and benefits behind allowing people to torture others, I'm going to address the "beyond reasonable doubt" part. We already require guilty verdicts beyond reasonable doubt to send people to prison, to stay there for life or be executed. And yet innocent people are constantly ending up there by acci... | I believe torture to be perfectly ok if guilt is established beyond reasonable doubt. | 1 | 2014-11-05T21:32:34 | 55 | 5 | 1 |
Do you think someone who masturbates on the bus cares about ridicule? The one's that would care, those that have a functional understanding of social interaction, will most likely already be aware of their problem. And what I probably should have asked instead is why choose ridicule when there are countless other metho... | Obese people deserve the same amount of ridicule at the same intensity felt by people who don't shower enough or fail to use deodorant. Obesity shouldn't be defended or have any concessions made for it because it is a failing in one's personal hygiene. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-19T15:35:36 | 235 | 1 | 2 |
Every ideology has an expiration date. Every ideology is in the end is totalitarian so it self-destructs. So the so called liberal and conservative and whatever other sides, branches, views you want to divide all stem from the same root and have the same end. It's delusional to think there are two sides, or duality. Th... | The liberal ideology won't be widely accepted in the near future. | 0 | 2017-02-13T19:37:03 | 41 | 1 | null |
The difference in the case of learning disabilities is that there are actually physiological barriers to accomplishing a task/learning something/being able to perform. I have one kid with dyslexia as well as visual coordination issues. Reading has been nightmarish, I made sure she got every therapy she could and we st... | There is no qualifiable difference between someone who is learning disabled and someone who just isn't good at something | 0 | 2016-02-28T17:22:23 | 103 | 3 | null |
If you are planning to do work during that time, work will never end and by getting more done in one day you are not getting yourself any closer to retirement. If planning to exercise more, your body can only handle so much exercise before it becomes detrimental. If planning to read more, your mind will not comprehen... | I hate going to sleep and have to force myself to do it every day. Please CMV about sleep being a waste of time. | 1 | 2016-12-05T18:44:17 | 32 | 3 | 3 |
It seems to me that you have conceded that there actually is at least one wrong time to break up with someone: Staying in the face of certain relationship termination just to get past X event is unfair to both individuals involved. So, suppose that someone is deciding whether to break up with their partner now, or to ... | There is no "wrong time" to break up with someone | 1 | 2015-06-29T01:03:24 | 17 | 4 | null |
I can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. [The BITE Model](https://www.freedomofmind.com/Info/BITE/bitemodel.php) is a great checklist for determining if an organization is a cult. BITE stands for the different ways a cult could control you: 1. Behavior 1. Information 1. Thought 1. Emotions There's a pretty good (bu... | Mormonism is a cult | 0 | 2015-12-18T12:58:49 | 132 | 8 | null |
I'm not a native English speaker, but I speak English better than my native tongue, Portuguese. Still, I feel awkward as all hell when I speak Portuguese words -- usually names -- in English. The normal American accent I have seems wrong, and switching languages altogether seems even wronger. That said, I feel like som... | People should stop pronouncing English loanwords as if they're speaking their native language. | 1 | 2014-09-06T01:44:22 | 388 | 4 | 5 |
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself funds out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ... | I think direct democracy would be the greatest form of decision making for the American people if applied now, CMV | 1 | 2013-11-01T08:06:17 | 53 | 2 | 1 |
There are a few important differences in the comparison of smoking to putting people who are above average weight on the screen. For one smoking was depicted as cool, being fat is not seen as cool, it's at best seen as neutral and at worst becomes a feature of ridicule or makes the characters stereotyped into the 'funn... | Obesity should not be shown in movies/TV shows that have a young audience, due to it normalising unhealthy lifestyles. | 0 | 2017-02-19T06:43:32 | 58 | 30 | 12 |
There's a separate issue here that's being conflated: whether or not this ban is effective, anti-terrorism or anti-Islam. Part of the argument about why it might not be a Muslim ban is that it doesn't ban all Muslim countries, and part of the argument as to why it's not really a terrorist ban is that it is ineffective ... | President Donald Trump's travel ban is not anti-Islamic, it is anti-Terrorism. | 0 | 2017-03-07T03:17:33 | 99 | 7 | 1 |
I feel like allowing entire populations, specifically working age males, to be sustained on the governments teet leads us down a dark and dangerous road. What happens if suddenly the payments cannot be provided? I think this is unlikely to happen. The UBI should only cover the costs for a basic life - e.g. enough food,... | Universal Basic Income is a bad idea because relying on the government to survive is degeneracy. | 1 | 2017-02-18T19:30:53 | 74 | 2 | 3 |
1) Movie theaters do need to make a profit to exist. However, increasing popcorn and snacks prices doesn't necessarily mean that the profit will increase. The inverse relationship between cost and demand plays a factor. When you increase the price of snacks, there would be less people who will buy popcorn. The loss of ... | I think the overpriced popcorn and soft drinks at the movies is a wonderful thing for customers | 0 | 2015-06-06T00:08:41 | 75 | 0 | null |
Everyone is special and unique in their own way, but the problem of the special snowflakes is that they expect special and unique treatment, being a special snowflake without entitlement for being a special snowflake is not a bad thing, expecting others to behave like you feel entitled because you are special is a bad ... | Special snowflakes/ special snowflake culture isn't as bad as people make it out to be. In fact, it is a sign of a tolerant and wealthy society. | 0 | 2017-01-16T12:17:16 | 83 | 1 | null |
The difficulty of a job can be judged in lots of different ways. Who has a harder job, a brain surgeon or a ditch digger? I think, if you look at every aspect of a job, you might find that motherhood ranks pretty decently high across pretty much of the board when it comes to difficulty. Is it as physically demanding as... | I don't think being a mother is the hardest job in the world. | 0 | 2014-05-22T22:34:50 | 109 | 1 | null |
I think your view is one that is very difficult to change, simply because of the nature of "suffering" that you speak of. Buddhism is one of the biggest religions in the world, and the basis of that religion is that life is suffering - all creatures suffer, and the only way to end suffering is to end the cycle of rebir... | In current state, my first world style living means suffering of others. | 1 | 2016-02-15T18:32:08 | 199 | 102 | 1 |
Let me start this by saying I am not really familiar with the CC standards. I teach high school physics, and I have been spending my time worrying about NGSS, the science version of common core that is implemented next year. The thing that tends to be annoying about the standards, is that the outright objectives are no... | Common Core (esp. Mathematics) is a system that is fundamentally flawed and does not prepare students for the real world. | 0 | 2015-06-12T04:54:46 | 45 | 6 | null |
Let me start by attacking your premises. Governments exist for the benefit of their citizens, not the other way around. They provide services, the most important of which are protection from harm and protection of rights. Premise 1: this premise reeks of some pretty nasty ethnic nationalism. I'm going to interpret "com... | Only soldiers, police officers and firefighters should be allowed to vote. | 1 | 2017-06-08T18:10:35 | 248 | 2 | 1 |
The question is not if people with high earning potential will stop working, it's whether they'll work less or in areas that reward them in ways other than money. So for example the one of the highest paid careers in the US is medical doctor. Doctors have lots of job opportunities in most cases, and usually don't have ... | A slightly higher tax rate for the rich doesn't remove the incentive to work | 1 | 2014-08-22T16:25:53 | 217 | 108 | null |
I think you are on the right track, however, you have failed to highlight the source of the problem. An ill-informed populace is only a symptom of the disease--a poor education system. While America still ranks fairly high globally for education & developed many of the educational methods used in other countries, t... | I feel that the fundamental problem in American politics is a dangerously ill-informed populace | 1 | 2014-08-21T00:00:16 | 158 | 8 | 1 |
Going to the core of the idea. How is it ethical to bring a child into the world knowing there is a chance for them to have life long pain and suffering. Though I think that could be said about any pregnancy due to not genetic diseases and factors. I would argue, saying it is unethical having a child if you have one ... | Passing on genetic diseases is highly unethical | 1 | 2017-03-04T11:49:57 | 286 | 1 | 1 |
I'd be very cautious with dates you can only get with applying money liberally. Would you know if you are attractive on a personal level or as a walking ATM? | Moving around small green pieces of paper is the best way to increase happiness | 0 | 2017-01-20T18:20:17 | 42 | 3 | null |
If you were to make the exterior of a cat to look like a dog what would you call that, to me thats hasn't ceased to be a cat. I think it's important that we don't resort to analogy here. Specifically: if a human gets a sex change operation, what is their gender? Im not going to make a decision about something that is ... | You are the Gender you were born as because it is impossible to have understanding of something of which you are not. | 1 | 2016-04-20T20:59:12 | 565 | 1 | 3 |
I just want to address this (sorry if someone already did, looked through the comments first): And Alabama did not formally repeal the ban until 2000, and with only 60% of the vote! In Alabama, several state legislators had a ridiculous spending bill that they wanted to pass, but enough people were opposed (the state h... | Maybe I'm a bigot, but I despise the South. | 1 | 2015-06-29T20:30:59 | 94 | 9 | 2Δ |
I don't find this stance to be objectionable. The only contrary viewpoint I would offer is that there is an opportunity cost on terms of devoting finite resources to computer education at an early age - time invested in the school day, funding for purchasing and maintaining hardware, time and money to train teachers on... | Basic computer programming should be taught in primary education. | 1 | 2017-06-01T20:28:42 | 217 | 8 | 1 |
Governments are not dispassionate. Governments are made up of humans same as private organizations. Private contracting is not the the same as privatization. The government is still in charge of a private contractor and contractor has the incentive to lobby, bribe, and get as much money from the government as they can ... | I believe that there are some things that a government simply does better than private groups or companies can. CMV. | 0 | 2013-05-08T03:14:41 | 84 | 2 | null |
I think we should leave all subs alone even if they use hate speech. Trying to silence it is going to cause it to spread faster than having open discussions about it and with these people | We should leave "weird" internet communities alone unless they contain hate speech if we want to promote free speech online. | 0 | 2017-06-21T03:53:24 | 166 | 2 | null |
Who are you following on Twitter? If you follow people that you know are going to start drama, that's what you're going to get. You wrote [on Reddit] there is a treasure trove of actual news and discussion that can be found. You can find tons of news and discussion on Twitter. I follow many news agencies and individual... | Twitter is a platform for people who are trying to score shallow social recognition... CMV | 1 | 2014-01-04T03:16:45 | 20 | 39 | 1 |
Look at Canada, Australia and South Africa for example, they were all colonies of Great Britain and they're all doing fine (is it historically accurate/logical to use these as example? I'm absolute shit in History) The colonizers are doing great. The natives are living in perpetual poverty and largely segregated from t... | Colonization isn't that bad. | 0 | 2017-03-13T23:57:54 | 78 | 2 | 2 |
As a takeaway person... we did more than the serves and didnt get tipped out We made our money from tips, we are required to treat our guests the same as if they were dining in I put in all orders; got your drinks, all the extras you would need, package everything up into their right boxes and bag it all plus on top of... | I shouldn't feel guilty for not tipping/requesting tip to be removed for take-out meals, and it is unreasonable for restaurants to expect a tip for take-out meals | 0 | 2016-10-15T05:51:40 | 52 | 1 | null |
My reading of history is that Christianity was a passenger on the ride towards modernity over the last several hundred years, emerging on the other side like a dinosaur that has had to find ways to adapt to liberal society. I would argue the other way round. Christianity was a key driver behind many examples of the li... | I think the history of Christianity/Judaism discredits the religion | 0 | 2017-06-27T11:26:25 | 53 | 6 | 21 |
But you should be extremely concerned about the disasterous consequences of overreacting to global warming. You should be extremely interested to know, for instance, if there is a sound reason for rich countries to pressure developing countries to slow their development - effectively condemning hundreds of millions of ... | I don't find anthropogenic global warming an interesting issue. | 1 | 2014-06-30T17:58:29 | 37 | 0 | 1 |
Are there really people out there who don't know this stuff? Yes. And the fact that *you* **don't know that** makes you seem sort of ignorant yourself, despite that you are familiar with stellar evolution and gravity. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the US alone who have no idea about this stuff. [There ... | "Cosmos: a space-time odyssey" is an elementary school educational show. | 0 | 2014-06-19T22:52:18 | 27 | 3 | 5 |
But most people who say they are "depressed" aren't severe (thankfully). Doesn't work that way. You can have very, serious case of depression and that is a suvere illness. However what people do consider depression that is different. The chances are they are stuck in a shit job or an unhappy relationship or are lonely... | A large portion of people with "depression" are not mentally ill | 0 | 2017-06-19T12:00:35 | 33 | 1 | 36 |
I use analog clocks for a very distinct purpose: quickly measuring specific amounts of time when time is short. I mainly use it for things like calculating someone's pulse or breathing rate. If I use digital I have to figure out exactly what 30 seconds from this second is. If I use analog I know that when the second ha... | Analog clocks are pointless. | 1 | 2014-04-25T23:45:00 | 126 | 6 | 2 |
Infeasible. Some group has to calculate the net effect of every government program for every citizen. This group has, through the ability to skew the accounting, the ability to revoke the right to vote from anyone. Basically you would have three classes: Class one is the voting aristocrats, buffered by indirect intangi... | People who are net tax payers should have a vote. Everyone else, including government employees, should not get a vote. | 1 | 2014-10-20T23:21:07 | 60 | 3 | 13 |
Not sure if it's specifically US hotels or not, but the majority of the US is Christian. One book that you can guarantee would cause the least problems while simultaneously be readable/interesting for their customers would the Bible. Heck, Christianity even has a large chunk of the world population. As to why it is a r... | Providing a bible in a hotel room is arbitrary | 0 | 2014-06-06T15:22:13 | 55 | 1 | 1 |
I don't think that the debate needs to be to change someone's mind. Religious debates taking place erodes the idea that religion ought to be left unchallenged out of respect. I would argue that this is reason enough, even if nobody's mind is changed on the question of whether religion makes sense. | I think debating religion is a fun game, but ultimately pointless. | 0 | 2016-04-08T22:22:17 | 139 | 1 | null |
If we can make them then it's highly probable that there are natural processes that can also produce them. The problem is that we very rarely see or can measure the conditions that might possibly produce them. So, we don't (rather, can't with current capabilities) know if, when, and where these things might exist in na... | Elements created in a lab that cannot exist in nature or in quantities greater than a few atoms for microseconds at a time have no place on the periodic table | 1 | 2015-06-17T21:59:28 | 88 | 5 | 70Δ |
On point d), many people, myself included, do not want to use TouchID, and the moment they require me to do so is the moment they lose me as a customer. Given that Apple has made a major selling point of security on its phones, they can't remove the lock screen to just replace with TouchID. | Today's Apple keynote was the worst that Apple has ever had | 0 | 2016-06-14T05:08:30 | 139 | 91 | 17 |
No one has a legitimate reason to be confused about what the word means. It's an incredibly tame, self-evident usage of a common word. People easily understand phrases like "It's been a privilege playing with you", or "I had the privilege to meet the President", or ""your pocket money is not a right, it's a privilege"... | White Privilege is another way of saying Non-White Disadvantage. Labeling it as "White Privilege" alienates white people and discourages them from getting involved | 0 | 2016-10-24T17:13:24 | 236 | 10 | 18 |
I think your views changing on the paranormal stuff is a normal part of learning about the world and actually keeping an open mind. You might think its actually open minded to want to believe but some of that would require you to be so so closed minded to reality so you're moving in the right direction. Just let yourse... | There's no such things as paranormal creatures or events or intelligent life (at least close to Earth) thus we're essentially alone in the universe. | 1 | 2014-12-08T06:54:31 | 48 | 1 | 1 |
"only a handful of songs I've ever heard were improved by actually understanding the lyrics" You look for the lyrics exactly for these moments. For me, even if it if few and far in between, it would still outweigh the case when it disappoints. | If you can't understand the lyrics in a song you like, then the worst thing you can do is look them up. | 0 | 2016-09-26T15:23:34 | 17 | 1 | null |
Fascism is one of the most poorly defined political ideas in the Western lexicon. You can tell this because whenever we ask if someone or something is fascist (apart from Mussolini), the arguments for and against all hinge on what exactly fascism is. Almost nobody calls themselves a fascist as they might if they were a... | I believe that Trump is Fascist. | 1 | 2017-01-22T00:56:49 | 79 | 56 | 132 |
I know you changed your view a lot by now, kudos for that. I'd like to just add one interesting scientific tidbit. One aspect of the OP was that orgasm/wetness/erect penis means enjoyment. It doesn't. What you are looking for is the word genital nonconcordance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22399053 Genitals can ... | Many people are hypocrites regarding rape, they refuse to admit that they are animals, that is where the so called trauma comes from. | 1 | 2017-02-14T11:26:53 | 133 | 5 | 5 |
Where would they vote? It can't be where they are incarcerated because that could completely distort local elections if there are towns with a small population that have a prison. Should someone who has been in prison for 30 years be able to influence the elections of the place they lived before being arrested? What ab... | Felons should be allowed to vote. | 0 | 2016-04-22T19:05:17 | 246 | 144 | 31 |
Context: adopted kid with mutation that made some fingers not grow. I also don't know if this affects my ability to have kids. 1. Get insurance. 2. Get genetic testing. Find how frequent it is to have this show up. If it's low you can consider having biological children. If it's going to be close to 100% chance, I unde... | Being the carrier of a genetic defect, i don't think i should have a second children. | 0 | 2014-08-02T22:24:53 | 91 | 1 | null |
Although I'm not an advocate of religion in public schools, which seems to be what you're actually against as opposed to people complaining about public schools in general, I certainly think every tax payer has a right to levy their concerns and desires for public school. To say citizens who are paying for a program th... | No one should be complaining about public schools when alternatives exist that they're not willing to take advantage of. | 1 | 2015-01-11T22:27:24 | 77 | 1 | 5 |
Why would you want to wish to live forever if you could wish to live until you wanted to die? All the benefits none of the "tortured existence" risk. | I would want to live forever if I had one wish. I see no downsides to it. | 1 | 2016-09-10T17:38:55 | 95 | 12 | 16 |
First, markets are an emergent phenomenon. When you say capitalism, you are likely referring to market operations involving competitive forces. Markets are an organic, distributed, p2p heuristic solution to an otherwise too complex problem to solve top-down. Markets seek an equilibrium, though they may not be ideal sol... | I believe that the advancement of technology has made money pointless and that capitalism is only holding the world back - CMV | 1 | 2013-06-01T19:28:58 | 99 | 2 | 1 |
First, a number of salaried workers get bonuses based on sales success. I don't even work in games and am bonused on product performance. It isn't a novel concept, even if it's using different language than you're used to. It really isn't any different than me getting an extra bonus check in November because we hit X n... | Video game voice actors should not be paid based on game performance | 0 | 2015-09-25T04:02:08 | 44 | 1 | 7 |
13.there are a few who view consumption of marijuana as immoral,but should not be illegal, and many with abortion ( lefty libertarians ) who think immoral but not illegal. The main issue here is the race one is the most covered and discussed one because it makes the best headlines and is a topic people get worked up ov... | Some modern Libertarians hypocritically deny that Civil Rights are Rights | 1 | 2014-10-14T04:19:40 | 146 | 2 | 2 |
I would tentatively point out that i think you paint depression meds as more of a fix than they are. I would argue that the meds are used more as a way to tone down the worst and most invasive shit going on so that you can really properly sort yourself out long term (very much helped by therapy). This stuff is annoying... | I believe that antidepressants mess you up and addict you in the long term because without them you are back to the "reality" goggles. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-26T03:49:18 | 63 | 2 | null |
How do you feel about grown women who watch the show? Now if you think it’s okay for women to enjoy the show, but not men, then it’s properly just you projecting most of the sexual undertones on the male viewership. I have several adult female friends who are big fans of the show; one even went so far as to have her en... | Brony's obsession with a child show is unhealthy and they should seek psychiatric help. Please CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-09T07:15:06 | 128 | 8 | 11 |
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