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What exactly is your definition of sex-positive? I'm having a hard time understanding what the problem is. As far as I know, being sex-positive is an attitude towards human sexuality that regards all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, and encourages sexual pleasure and experimentatio... | There's no such thing as a person who's both sex-positive and anti-abortion | 0 | 2014-04-25T04:40:24 | 64 | 3 | 23 |
The main difference between the two is that BIID involves lasting harm that destroys functionality, while GD doesn't. Even if you think surgery only gives some functionality, that "some functionality" is the key difference between the conditions. | Gender dysphoria should be treated the same as body integrity identity disorder | 1 | 2015-10-02T01:00:29 | 56 | 2 | 15 |
Um, human charities still exist. | I don't believe animal charities should exist. | 0 | 2016-02-24T21:16:23 | 50 | 12 | 68 |
Humor is humor. There is nothing off limits. Jokes in of themselves as well as laughing at them is not mean spirited. One person's joke about dead babies is another person's joke about stoners. Your opinion is sadly that of a hypocrite. horrible person. Yet you forget that there are jokes you do find funny and how they... | Joking about tragedy is cruel and insensitive and makes you look very unsympathetic, even if you actually are underneath. | 0 | 2017-01-20T03:52:38 | 51 | 1 | 6 |
I share your frustration about the new slower-style of rap delivery... it's true that faster isn't the same as better, but so little gets SAID. I'm not super happy with the quality of a lot of modern, mainstream rap. But, your mistake is, you're thinking of things linearly when that's not how things work. Starting in t... | I think that hip hop and rap music have become progressively worse over time | 1 | 2016-08-07T00:55:49 | 51 | 103 | 25 |
Heat. There is no need for warmth when one is already hot. A sweater is entirely inappropriate on a beach in 30C. | The best time to wear a striped sweater is all the time | 0 | 2017-05-03T09:39:26 | 49 | 2 | 12 |
Defeat Isis as quickly and efficiently as possible in an attempt to restabilize the Middle East. Then get the fuck out of there so we stop pissing off people and the world. Then those countries can regroup, hopefully get back on their feet on their own. Trump pretty much wants no involvement in the Middle East, all we ... | Donald Trump does not have a plan to fight terrorism. | 1 | 2016-07-25T01:52:45 | 60 | 1 | 1 |
Okay, for sake of this discussion I will be "non-binary", or rather I will be "I don't know what you mean when you ask me what gender I 'identify as'" if you want to not call that non-binary that's also fine. My question is simply this: why do some people feel that they absolutely must be nonbinary? Well are you talki... | Nonbinary genders are bad for you and for society in general | 0 | 2017-05-16T02:48:05 | 61 | 2 | 5 |
And if they don't want to move on climate change? Please note the kyoto accords were signed in Kyoto, you know, Japan? Part of that educated voting populous. So why again, does deleting their legislature help? | Democracy will eventually end in the west. If it's replaced by technocracy, this is a good thing. | 1 | 2017-05-24T04:31:42 | 74 | 2 | 70 |
I will agree that frozen pizza can never compare to fresh pizza, but such is the case with any food. But I will disagree that no frozen pizza is good. In order to enjoy frozen pizza a three steps must be followed, add to the pizza, cook properly, eat hot. I happen to like red Barron frozen pizza. In order to bring ou... | There is no such thing as good frozen pizza. | 1 | 2015-06-26T10:26:52 | 50 | 10 | null |
Your view, as I gleaned from the post title, is that low information voters should be discouraged from voting. It sounds like what you're now arguing in your response to my post is that we should cease perpetuating the idea that people should vote because it is their patriotic duty. I actually agree wholeheartedly with... | Low information voters who are not interested in learning political issues should be discouraged from voting. | 1 | 2015-08-20T18:14:14 | 44 | 2 | 21 |
It's not rigged, it's bad. Everyone uses the word rigged, but it's mostly false. Freedom of press and speech is a core tenet of American political philosophy, and whether you like it or not, it protects media bias. In a football game, colluding with the ref is finding a way around the rules. Colluding with the media is... | The election truly is "rigged" because of the media's collusion with the Clinton campaign. | 1 | 2016-10-24T06:38:00 | 95 | 3 | 1 |
The primary purpose of political parties is to band a group of people together with similar ideology and goals. If you have a group of people with similar political goals then by default you have formed a political party. Unless you have a way where a lot of people can forward their political agenda *without* coming to... | political parties bring nothing but problems to the political system, and only serve to divide people and make government slower. | 1 | 2016-12-20T09:00:07 | 47 | 16 | 8 |
Wait. Are you telling me that in the US, the employers will **only** pay the minimum wage if you don't get enough tips to cover for it? That's insane and fucked up. Employers should pay minimum wage regardless of how much the employee makes in tips. | The class of "tipped employees" in the US should be abolished - minimum wage should be guaranteed for all. | 0 | 2016-08-04T14:59:17 | 905 | 3 | null |
Full disclosure: I am a raging liberal and I do believe American Conservatism has ass-backwards social beliefs, but there is still logic in their beliefs. Making arguments just based off conserving the status quo is illogical and a bias: It's certainly a bias, but showing inclination towards the status quo isn't inhere... | Conservatism (current, American) is objectively illogical. | 0 | 2017-02-25T22:15:35 | 70 | 7 | 27 |
OP, you missed the biggest point. Nobody needs their right to vote MORE than a felon. What if his conviction was due to an unjust law? How can he fight to overturn the unjust law he was convicted of breaking if he doesn't have the right to vote? Marijuana, for example. It should be legal. But what if we take away the r... | Felons should be allowed to vote | 0 | 2015-07-01T02:18:38 | 90 | 12 | null |
I see communism as socialism taken too far, and something that with a little work could show real benefits for its citizens. Then you fundamentally misunderstand what communism is. Communism is far far different than simply government organized social programs that takes things a bit too far (As a note I know that's a ... | Communism isn't that bad. | 1 | 2017-05-22T20:01:32 | 83 | 22 | 101 |
You don't not have friends. You have three friends. See how you feel when/if they're not in your life any more. Why do you interact with those three people? Why don't you think future friendships wouldn't/couldn't be the same as the ones you've already got? | There is nothing wrong about not having nor wanting to have friends | 1 | 2014-10-20T19:21:07 | 65 | 19 | 6 |
First of all, do you have the slightest idea how many decisions are made every day by the government, even if we limit it to just decisions made by political appointees and exclude the civil service? There are hundreds of decisions that are made daily by cabinet members and those working for them. There are way too man... | A president who was sole mission was to represent the will of the people would be superior to a president that tries to 'lead' the country. This could theoretically be accomplished now (example in submission text). Why does no one even talk about this? | 0 | 2016-02-16T18:15:06 | 52 | 3 | 156 |
No, no. I understand your point now, but that wasn't what I mesnt. Equality under the law is more closely related to justice: the idea is that every citizen gets treated equally by the police and the judges, regardless of who he is or what he does. But a law can *applied* consistently and fairly without being a fair la... | I don't think inequality is a bad thing. | 1 | 2014-10-04T22:47:49 | 66 | 2 | 5 |
Driving is already dangerous enough. Why create extra hazards. Short yellows are extra, artificially imposed, hazards. Is there any benefit to having short yellows other then for the company or township? Does that action help drivers in the slightest. Does it make the roads more safe. Traffic control should reduce acci... | It is perfectly fine to shorten the yellow signal when installing traffic light violation cameras | 1 | 2014-09-19T06:18:17 | 91 | 1 | null |
I am not sure a changing alliance means that nuclear deterrence isn't still valid. Even if the winners of the electoral college had no semblance of policy, they still have an idea of what nuclear weapons will do. So, I don't think any major wars will happen. On the climate change issue, it is not entirely certain that ... | Donald Trump is going to plunge our country, and the world, into ruin. | 1 | 2016-11-09T13:48:10 | 1,051 | 206 | 6 |
Civilian blending is a funny way to say guerrilla warfare. Iran and neighboring Turkey are not shy when it comes to civilian casualties, and frankly the U.S. isn't really either. ISIS is being supported by the US and it's ally Saudi Arabia in order to fight Assad and the pro-Iranian government in Iraq, where do you thi... | "Civilian Blending" is an unstoppable strategy. The U.S. can't defeat IS without enormous and unacceptable civilian casualties. IS is going to win. | 0 | 2014-08-14T23:50:23 | 28 | 2 | null |
Going in order: the Twin Towers were originally designed to withstand airplane impacts from a 707. This is a serious misrepresentation of what the source says. To quote it directly: **In designing the World Trade Center, Leslie Robertson considered the scenario of the impact of a jet airliner, the Boeing 707**, which m... | On 9/11/2001, controlled demolitions brought down the World Trade Center buildings, not commercial airplanes. | 1 | 2016-04-26T03:39:58 | 149 | 15 | 1 |
We have two chihuahua pups. One is long hair deer head -he is the sweetest dog he is good with children quick to potty train he goes on the boat with us likes to swim loves car rides, he is a bit bigger at 12lbs (not obese just tall and full:) The other is still a puppy -he is tiny 5lbs and he was a bit tougher to trai... | Chihuahuas are hideous animals | 0 | 2016-08-27T11:27:11 | 60 | 2 | null |
I disagree with your view that it should be obligatory. If someone has just has a life-changing event such as a death of a family member, one way they may try to deal with that is by clinging to some sense of normality by keeping with "business as usual", routine, etc. To have to disrupt their daily routines that are k... | I believe when someone close to you dies it is obligatory to tell the people you are with. | 1 | 2014-07-19T19:03:44 | 48 | 8 | 1 |
While he clearly succeeded in the former, it's arguable whether he succeeded in the latter. However, we won't really know until Episode VII drops, so in the meantime I suppose further discussion there would just be speculation. True enough, but at least he help deal them a critical blow. why wouldn't he want to restore... | Yoda is a failure. | 1 | 2015-10-26T21:10:31 | 25 | 1 | 1 |
What you're proposing is essentially the first step of Aristotle's argument for human teleology that he makes in Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics. 'Every action seeks some good', i.e. 'a good relative to us'. We do everything because we think it is good, and, as Aristotle later clarifies, good *for us* in some way. Tha... | Every single thing a person does is for selfish reasons. | 0 | 2015-02-16T18:04:21 | 122 | 1 | null |
So, right now in the US it seems we have a lot of undereducated people doing minimum-wage jobs that could, with the proper education, do much more skilled jobs. I am, in principle, agreeing with you. I think that jobs like this should be left to teenagers, robots, and those with disabilities that prevent them from doi... | I don't believe fast foods or Wal-Mart type jobs should pay more than minimum wage. | 1 | 2014-04-06T07:54:42 | 90 | 2 | 2 |
Most importantly large insurance companies will take a hit from this, and we all know who calls the shots in the US government, the big corps. Even granting that big corps call the shots (which I don't believe) there are still big corps that have a lot to gain from driverless cars (shipping corps, taxi corps, the manuf... | I don't thing driver-less cars will be possible. | 0 | 2014-07-23T00:02:18 | 114 | 1 | 3 |
I'm going off your text, not your headline here. By your description, if you do not spend 100% of your non-essential money and time helping the poor, you are being immoral. I say this as your description "as many lives as possible" implies it. I can't really argue if you believe this, I just find it to be an unacceptab... | Anyone who has the means to help the poor but does not do so is immoral. | 0 | 2016-06-22T21:13:04 | 66 | 1 | null |
If it were all about stereotypes, femme trans guys and butch trans women wouldn't exist... and yet they do, despite the fact that rigid adherence to gender stereotypes A) has historically been a requirement for accessing care and B) is frequently something trans people are forced to do for their own safety. My upbring... | The notion of changing and identifying as a different gender doesn't make sense at its core. | 1 | 2016-12-08T01:14:07 | 489 | 22 | 6 |
Insurance agent here. HOAs are important in terms of insurance, especially for condos. For most condos, the buildings themselves are owned by the HOA and need to be insured under a master policy. What you own when you purchase a condo unit is everything from the studs in. Depending on how the CC&Rs are written for ... | I believe that HOAs (Homeowners' Associations) decrease property values by scaring away potential home buyers. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-26T21:42:19 | 70 | 5 | 2 |
That's subjective, but sure, maybe. The point remains that in your world, political expression becomes 100% pay to play. The poor couldn't afford fines or serve jail time while maintaining a livelihood. Even if they were willing to sacrifice their jobs, it's pretty hard to express yourself politically from jail. Meanwh... | There is no such thing as a peaceful legal protest and thus protesting should be illegal | 1 | 2017-03-29T08:00:22 | 316 | 1 | 3 |
I think its just labeling. What is the difference between "traditional values" and "the past is still the correct direction"? One is something you, a liberal social, personally agree with and the other you disagree with? | Conservative 'traditional values' are inherently flawed due to them being traditional, that is, of the past. | 0 | 2016-04-17T16:57:46 | 172 | 5 | 83 |
I know that a lot of people argue that standardized testing isn't a good way to assess knowledge, but these standardized tests wouldn't be designed like the SAT. They would test basic skills learned in the course, and, while not a perfect system, it would motivate teachers to try harder and help retain the best teacher... | Teachers in America should have incentive-based salaries | 0 | 2016-09-12T00:29:02 | 101 | 1 | null |
We had a neighbor who assumed a similar position with her husband until a few years before I moved out. Eventually, there was a demonstrable pattern of frivolous expenditures. Food was on the table, everybody had clothes, but he would buy things to buy things, without respect to cash flow, budgeting, future expenditure... | As long as all household necessities and a few luxuries are taken care of, a non-income earning spouse shouldn't concern themselves with expenditures made by an income-earning spouse. | 0 | 2015-09-26T02:37:26 | 83 | 4 | 72 |
I'm not sure being a leader is directly related to raising the big bucks. Remember that Paul Ryan got some national recognition as a VP pick in 2012, which should also be considered. But usingopensecrets.org: In 2013, here’s her being the leader in fundraising: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nancy-pelosi-tops-all-ot... | Nancy Pelosi should retire from Congress for the benefit of her party. | 1 | 2017-06-21T20:32:45 | 186 | 12 | 85 |
You might not be able to do anything significant about climate change *right now*, but if climate change is an issue that you're worried about, it will influence your future decisions. When you buy a house, you may choose to buy one that's small, well insulated, and located near your job. When you buy a car, you may ch... | Hearing all the doom and gloom around climate change is completely pointless unless they provide us with a practical solution | 1 | 2016-07-21T21:11:23 | 107 | 2 | 37 |
I believe that in this long-standing argument deadweight loss is usually omitted, as most people focus only on effects of minimum wage on employment levels and wages, while in my opinion it is a much more important factor impacting the economy as a whole. From the definition of a perfect competition market (PCM), we k... | Minimum Wage is a bad policy that hurts a vast majority in order to help a tiny minority. | 1 | 2017-02-28T03:08:49 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
Here's a specific counterexample for you. [In St. Louis, Missouri there is a large population of Bosnian refugees who moved there about 20 years ago.](http://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/keeping-up-with-the-jasarevics/Content?oid=2466695) during the war that broke up Yugoslavia. Most, but not all, are Muslim. They'r... | Supporting the immigration of Muslim refugees into a predominately Christian/Agnostic country is detrimental to the host country. | 1 | 2015-09-06T19:26:44 | 123 | 3 | 146 |
No. Quantum Uncertainty is not about predictions, it is about the nature of the physical system. Every measurement and test we use to explore electron location in a nuclei or radioactive decay or photons hitting a screen indicate that these are random processes. We have a single underlying equation that we build models... | It's impossible to believe in free will without also believing in the supernatural. | 1 | 2015-07-29T21:03:48 | 103 | 2 | 3 |
Isn't the 'purpose' of any punishment to influence future behavior, so that any punishment that has been put in place to assure the victim also happens to take the form of a punishment that influences the convict's future behavior? Maybe if you have an example that isn't I can respond. | I do not believe legal consequences should exist for any other purpose than to influence future behavior. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-10T07:27:03 | 50 | 2 | 42 |
How about one night stands? Rowling writes wizards as nobility, and nobles frequently produced bastards with commoners. Would such a child not be better off than muggle-muggle bastards, having a chance of wizarding prowess and a chance at a normal life with his mother? If he showed any promise, his father could of cour... | It Is Immoral for a Wizard to Reproduce with a Muggle. | 1 | 2017-05-10T05:00:11 | 116 | 3 | null |
I would try living in a few more countries before you decide America is terrible. Personally, I've lived in Spain, Greece, Canada, and the US. America is by far my preferred residence because for me it offers the highest standard of living - in my particular state I enjoy cheap housing, minimal traffic, decent weather,... | I genuinely hate America, CMV. (I'll try to keep this as non circle-jerky as possible) | 0 | 2014-02-12T05:38:05 | 41 | 1 | 3 |
I notice that you're saying that you said "anyone" and not "everyone", but here's the rub: you're basically doing the equivalent of throwing 1 bottle of liquor at 10 drunks, saying "fight for it", and then turning to the 9 losers who aren't drunk and saying "You know, if you'd tried harder, you could've had it." That i... | Anyone has opportunities to succeed, but some people have more opportunities than others. | 1 | 2015-02-08T09:36:25 | 80 | 4 | 43 |
If it is not too late for this, I would like to add that by your logic, the US government should have been hopeless shortly after it was created. Remember that Andrew Jackson threw a drunken party on his inaugeration that was so wild that not even security could drive the mob from the White House. Beyond that, Teddy wa... | American politics no longer cares about logic or reason, and as a young voter I have no reason to be optimistic about the future of my country. | 0 | 2016-03-29T08:31:07 | 47 | 1 | 5 |
Refusing to allow the unemployed to vote would incentivize lawmakers to create legislation that takes away jobs from those who are least likely to help re-elect them. | Unemployed people should not be able to vote | 1 | 2016-12-14T21:26:22 | 62 | 36 | 84 |
I am also bothered by my view because I am opposed to rhetoric which pressures women into giving up their careers to be stay-at-home moms Your view dictates that a *parent* should be at home from ages 0-4, not that it has to be the mom. Stay-at-home dad's are also an option and, if a family can afford it, there's certa... | I believe children ages 0-4 are better off being cared for by a stay-at-home parent than being put into full-time daycare. Please CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-13T05:34:17 | 64 | 2 | 8Δ |
There are plenty of Disney movies where this is not the case, but there are enough that it is an issue: Aladdin, Lion King, Little Mermaid, Mulan, Hercules (probably more). The problem is that you just kinda brush aside the rather large list of movies that aren't racist, and instead chose to focus solely on a few cherr... | Many Disney movies are racist. Further, they possibly teach children racial stereotypes. | 1 | 2014-11-11T03:28:07 | 62 | 27 | 5 |
The are two problems I have with people suggesting that trump be impeached. The first is that trump is so boldly proud of all the horrible things he is doing, he is the perfect person for people to rally against. If he were to magically disappear, Pence and the republican dominated house and senate would continue with ... | Impeachment or removal of Donald Trump from office would have no downside and really would be best for everyone. | 1 | 2017-02-04T18:20:28 | 79 | -1 | 2 |
I'm not arguing it's not going to work 100%, I'm arguing it's extremely unreliable. Compared to a gun it fails at everything a criminal wants to achieve. You'll attract more attention, it takes more time to get the message across and people won't take you as seriously. | I think that a supersoaker full of lighter fluid and a lighter are arguably a better stick up weapon than a pistol, and the poor rate of adoption points to a lack of innovative thinking within the criminal element of society. | 1 | 2014-07-13T00:45:04 | 212 | 5 | 2 |
The religion shouldn't have to change it's view because something is made legal. If their's is an unpopular opinion, they'll just get less believers anyway. The problem occurs when religious belief exists outside the church. Should a Christian that vehemently opposes gay marriage have to provide the services of their b... | Religious people don't need to let gay people get married in their church. However, they shouldn't be allowed to influence their rights for any form of legal marriage outside of that religion. | 0 | 2014-11-10T17:28:38 | 117 | 2 | 17 |
I think part of the problem would be first, define a surplus of wealth. As an example, say I've paid all my bills this month, have enough food, gas, etc. to have meals every day, clean clothes and get to work. After all that, I have $1000 left over. Should I donate that money? What if I donate that money to charity tod... | Anyone who has the means to help the poor but does not do so is immoral. | 0 | 2016-06-22T20:59:50 | 66 | 5 | null |
You don't need to follow them all the time. I just look for summaries near to voting time. It takes me about 1/2 hour per election. | I do not vote | 1 | 2014-12-14T19:17:15 | 84 | 5 | 6 |
Insuring a weapon would give someone LESS financial incentive to make sure the gun is safe, not more. The reason why is because the insurance company would be the ones paying for the damage, not the gun owner. Lower rates for anger management classes? Do you think it is common enough for people to use their gun to hurt... | Gun owners in America should be required to insure their weapons | 0 | 2015-12-16T22:59:31 | 146 | 8 | 2 |
Here's a small list: * I like how manuals handle much better than automatics. I feel more in control of the car. * Manuals can get better marginally better gas mileage on some cars. * Another point that is kinda tongue-in-cheek is that not a lot of people know how to drive stick so your car is less likely to get stol... | Coupes and manual transmissions are both novelty/useless items. | 1 | 2015-07-31T22:23:51 | 86 | 29 | 1 |
It is understandable why you may want to view your sex drive as a scam. An otherwise peaceful life spent enjoying tastes, smells, sights, ideas is thrown into turmoil by this urge to get your penis inside a tight warm hole. Not only that, it rages for you to find the tight warm hole with the prettiest face, the nicest ... | I believe my sex drive is a scam designed to benefit the continuity of the species at my expense. | 1 | 2016-05-01T23:49:30 | 49 | 2 | 1 |
The probability of getting 50-50 heads-tails split on 10 flips of a coin is only 24.6% - so you shouldn't really "expect it". It's 75% likely not to be a 50-50 split. Todd Park shouldn't be included (he's the selector, not a selectee) so that leaves 6 out 8 members are Asian. That's close enough to 4/8 (or 50-50) consi... | Former Chief Technology Officer Todd Park is racist. | 0 | 2016-07-21T18:01:05 | 38 | 1 | 34 |
I disagree with #2. When carrying groceries, it's easier to carry a bunch of bags than a bunch of bags and plastic jugs. Think about carrying 5 gallons of milk. With each on in a plastic bag, you could carry them all in one hand | You should never bag a milk jug with a plastic bag | 0 | 2016-05-26T19:49:11 | 23 | 6 | null |
In either case we are claiming these indigenous people have no right to the original names they held such as tribe like navajo and apache and are required to be labeled as what the current foreigners see as fitting. That is not how the term Native American is used. It is an overarching term for all of the native tribes... | Native Indian and Native American are equally disrespectful | 0 | 2014-12-16T04:25:10 | 20 | 15 | 28 |
The problem with your argument is that the full name in the UK is officially "[Association Football](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football)" to distinguish from "Rugby Football" and other football varieties. FIFA's official English name is the International Federation of *Association* Football. The term "s... | Football Not Soccer | 1 | 2015-08-05T02:28:36 | 26 | 16 | 1 |
I think that being in a position of power or authority is somewhat necessary to commit a crime. A crime is committed when a person exerts power over and above what a victim is capable of preventing, and the action has been determined illegal. In cases of, say, attempted robbery, attempted murder, etc., the person comm... | I think that crimes committed while acting in a position of power or trust (like a police officer, a school teacher, or an elected official) should be treated much more harshly than otherwise. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-08T23:54:49 | 153 | 1 | null |
There is a different point of view: if you want to vote, you should pay some money. Reason: only people who are interested would vote. The problem is most people have no idea what economics and law is about. So they form opinions that are feel-good but wrong. Actually, most people have no idea you could have a 'good' l... | Voting Should be Compulsory | 0 | 2016-10-20T14:13:16 | 42 | 1 | null |
When we consider supervillains, we consistently see that they either break free of capture or avoid getting captured in the first place. But we also see many villains killed during their plots, only to return later (usually stronger). They suffer from the comic-book effect of "nobody ever actually dies." It is far bett... | In many cases, it is morally permissible or possibly obligatory for superheroes to kill or handicap the supervillain they are fighting. | 1 | 2014-06-29T03:59:04 | 51 | 10 | 1 |
Wouldn't clear proof that you are strong be more accurately surveyed by, I don't know, benching a lot of weight? It sounds like what you're going after is subjective validation than actual proof of worthiness. If you're benching a dumpster truck, and a pretty girl walks by and says "hah, weakling, I'd never date you, I... | Getting into a relationship with a pretty, confident girl means you are a worthy guy (Or having her admiration means that) | 1 | 2016-08-10T18:27:03 | 71 | 5 | 6 |
Simply put you do not have the depth of mental capacity to understand the multitude of items requiring attention. As absolute emperor, there is no delegation. You would have to make every single decision yourself. 1. What would you do about the Burundian unrest? 2. What should the sales tax in Frankfurt be? 3. What sho... | The world would be a better place if I were absolute emperor of mankind. | 0 | 2016-06-21T02:48:44 | 33 | 6 | 5 |
Regardless of what the breaker believes, the breakee might believe that there is a bad time- birthday, tragedy, whatever. Even if it isn't an opinion I share, I can't imagine disrespecting someone I once loved enough to be in a committed relationship by selfishly choosing the most convenient time for me instead of wait... | I don't think there is ever a bad time to breakup with someone! | 0 | 2016-01-06T06:03:38 | 53 | 1 | 2 |
Satire is fine, but not when it replaces actual debate. Which is my point. I don't think anyone is taking satire over real debate. They are taking it over a Real Housewives rerun or the new Jersey Shore spinoff or whatever. | I think political satire is dangerous in that it generalizes politics and arguments instead of actually debating them. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-20T20:02:17 | 35 | 1 | 6 |
There's a little more to this than just supply and demand. That is a major factor, yes, but it doesn't paint the whole picture. Once upon a time in America (before it was legal to homebrew), if you were drinking beer, you were drinking Bud, Miller, or Coors. Thin, watery lagers that came in a can and didn't have much f... | I believe that the use of hops in beer is overrated and is leading to the general populace falsely equating craft beers as being hoppy. | 0 | 2014-05-17T15:01:13 | 79 | 4 | null |
I you like /r/ImGoingToHellForThis , you should celebrate the presence naked ladies on the front page. I know there are times when reddit can seem brutish, stupid and offensive. But at the end of the day, it follows an extraordinary set of moral values for a place with so much freedom and anonymity. Bigots and trolls a... | I think the over sexualization of women on Reddit is repulsive and detracts from the quality of Reddit. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-06T01:28:43 | 449 | 5 | 1 |
A glass of milk is spilled on the floor. Simplest explanation. Someone spilled milk. Actual explanation, the washer was on spin cycle and knocked over the broom which hit a plastic toy that flew into the air and knocked the milk over. Occam's razor is good investigative tool. It was never intended to give you a 100% a... | Occam's Razor doesn't help us accurately describe reality. | 0 | 2016-10-11T18:01:37 | 41 | 3 | 129 |
Honestly your income is more important to your standard of living than your country of residence. If you've got money and can afford to pay for your own health insurance, I bet your standard of living would increase. You'd still be getting good healthcare but your taxes would be lower because you wouldn't be paying for... | I believe that by moving to the US, I am giving up most of my freedoms enjoyed in the UK, and significantly lowering my standard of living, CMV! | 1 | 2013-07-28T16:30:36 | 405 | 133 | 2 |
All you've proven is Homer loves Marge more than Marge loves Homer. I'll agree with that point because its pretty explicit in the original concept of the family dynamic and in most of the plots of later years. Homer and Marge are a story of typical marital dissatisfaction. He's an alcoholic who neglects his family in f... | Homer is more deserving of Marge than she is of him | 0 | 2016-10-30T20:35:49 | 106 | 14 | null |
I worked in the non-profit sector for three years before quitting (suddenly and gleefully) to start [my own business.](www.eatquirky.com) I feel no guilt at all. I'm doing a lot of good I wasn't before. In that job, I would have been helping a few people a little bit, but I wasn't good at it and by letting someone bett... | I feel bad that I don't want to go into a "helpful" or "society bettering" career | 0 | 2016-07-15T22:21:23 | 76 | 1 | 2 |
Before we even get into the historical accuracy of the bible, you have to account for the various contradictions in the bible. There are many instances where the bible states two contradictory ideas as both true, when only one or the other can be actual truth. We could easily pick one or the other as the "true" one, bu... | I believe that the bible is god-breathed and contains no errors. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-07T01:20:05 | 86 | 4 | 3 |
As /u/MasterGrok pointed out, since your rent doesn't depend on it, you could walk away from those games that you felt dubious about. But if you got into the habit of walking away from 30% of the games, would that ruin the enjoyment of going to the casino? | Casino poker is ethically dubious. | 1 | 2015-09-08T22:16:47 | 81 | 1 | 12 |
They are hard to use, but watching Koreans use their metal chopsticks to cut up their food , grab it, and eat it is kind of amazing. I can see the advantage of only requiring one hand. Whether it is worth the learning curve is another matter. I suspect that for some cuisines it wouldn't be as advantageous, but for Asia... | Chopsticks are in no way superior to fork & knife. | 0 | 2015-05-21T21:33:49 | 431 | 1 | 1 |
What's missing from your analysis is context of the time in which these objects were created. The latrine piece you mention, *Fountain* by Marcel Duchamp, was created in 1917, when Modernism was very much in its infancy. Cubism, the genre created in part by Picasso, was less than 10 years old. Surrealism, Dali's genre,... | Modern Art is not "Real Art" and using the argument that it's subjective is a poor argument. | 0 | 2016-12-04T20:28:40 | 710 | 129 | 5 |
As a fellow atheist, this is how I look at it: The fact that I exist, that millions of consequences have happened exactly in the correct order for me to be here, is amazing. I think the fact that we as a race can exist and survive, against all odds and through all the difficulties we all face, without the protection/h... | A life with religion is more meaningful and fulfilling than one without. | 0 | 2014-04-05T21:04:51 | 118 | 1 | 16 |
There are some beliefs that we don't or can't have evidence for, like" * that we're not in the matrix * that there are minds besides our own ones * that the [laws of logic](https://www.britannica.com/topic/laws-of-thought) are always true These beliefs are generally used as a basis (axioms) for our other beliefs, but t... | It is morally indefensible to hold a belief without sufficient evidence. | 1 | 2017-06-27T02:47:26 | 62 | 2 | 43 |
The issue people who hate pop music have is more that they have no choice but to hear it than anything else. It's *imposed* on people, and that's the problem. The equivalent would be people who hate the smell of coffee, being forced to smell it, and not just in coffee shops, but everywhere, all stores, other people's c... | Too many people hate on pop music for no legitimate reason. | 1 | 2015-10-16T18:12:30 | 45 | 3 | 6 |
I was a spoiled lazy kid because I never got a job. Had my priorities mixed up and flunked. I got a job in the real world, and it was painful, but humbling. If I had gotten a job at 18 (or sooner), I would've done much better in college and learned crucial life lessons sooner. Having your first job at 22 isn't okay. I... | It should be customary to get a job before you go to college. (Having your first job at 22 isn't okay.) | 0 | 2015-06-03T21:58:09 | 59 | 90 | 8Δ |
Do you think there could be a reason Middle Eastern countries are so unstable? In the 1950s, democratically-elected Iranian PM Mossaddegh nationalized Iranian oil resources, hoping to use the oil money to modernize the country. This threatened the oil interests of the United Kingdom who, with help from the United State... | I support Israel over Palestine because they've contributed more to the greater good. Therefore are more deserving of having the majority of the land. | 1 | 2016-08-18T21:37:23 | 203 | 2 | 3 |
I think, for the most part, you are naming opinions held by separate people who all lump themselves under the category of "Republican". I am no longer identified with any political party, but used to be a conservative way back, so I'll try to address your concerns here: This is the big one for me. Republicans claim tha... | I believe that in general, Republicans are hypocrites. CMV! | 0 | 2014-03-11T22:37:13 | 108 | 1 | 2Δ |
Porn is almost entirely male-centric. Go to any porn search engine and look up even the most basic terms. What are they? They're all descriptions of the women in the videos, not the men. The men are there to have penises and that's it, and most porn doesn't focus on the man. It makes men uncomfortable. Any search for a... | Porn is normal and does not have a negative effect on people or society when used moderately. | 1 | 2017-04-30T18:00:58 | 90 | 13 | 11 |
You are only technically correct. There's no wrong way to eat a Reece's because there's no such thing as a Reece's. It's Reese's. | There's no wrong way to eat a Reece's | 0 | 2015-01-16T00:53:14 | 99 | 4 | 1 |
The longest part of your thesis is about where we would have to draw the line. And that is the problem, because we can't. Accidents while having fun? Lung cancer while smoking (while having fun smoking)? Liver damage because of having fun drinking? Where should we draw the line? No one knows but most have an opinion. S... | If certain diseases could objectively be said to be caused by the behaviours/actions of an individual, the individual should receive equal healthcare, but should be penalised for it | 0 | 2015-10-25T20:15:47 | 70 | 1 | null |
The concept of evil is honestly nothing more than personal choice so I doubt I could change your view, but let me explain what I've learned about it. Given that there are different religions and belief systems and they may all define evil differently, one might wonder if there's a way to really know what's wrong; somet... | There is no such thing as "evil" | 0 | 2014-08-06T01:26:41 | 61 | 1 | 3 |
First of all I completely agree with what /u/InsiderSwords has said. I will not concentrate further on tyrannical government. They covered it quite well. But there are other reasons as well, why you should care about online privacy and security (these two things go hand in hand). 1: Article 12 of the Universal Declarat... | Online privacy isn't important if you have nothing to hide | 0 | 2017-06-09T23:01:51 | 59 | 2 | 2 |
The only reason th cut pizza into squares is to be able to eat it with a fork. This is nice and clean if you eat pizza with a small bottom into little squares. Childeren can just eat with their hands but as a adult in a more classy situation you might decide that eating with cutlery would be more appropriate. And so, c... | Cutting pizza into squares is wrong | 1 | 2016-04-29T20:20:24 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
Islamophobia in it's most simple form isn't racism, but religious discrimination. However, Islamophobia can often result in racism - the frivolous searching that some people who "resemble" a Muslim person or have names of Indo-Arabic origin have to go through is ridiculous. | Islamaphobia is NOT "Racism"! | 0 | 2017-03-30T22:02:35 | 73 | 1 | null |
Mass media has an influence on the behavior and attitude of the audience. The influence of the media may lead to a change or a reinforcement in an audience belief. Media has a lot effect that result from media influence. It can be a positive or a negative effect but not all effect can result change. We are living in a ... | Mass media are forcing a misleading point of view. | 1 | 2016-10-29T13:23:31 | 38 | 2 | 1 |
Money isn't real. It's a useful fiction we all agree to. That's a whole 'nother thread. Someone's ability to support themselves and their child *financially*, therefore, is not a measure of their fitness in life, but their fitness in economy, which is artificial and situational. Imagine you were in a position in your l... | If you can't even take care of yourself, you shouldn't be allowed to have children. In short, "Let government take care of you by welfare for giving up fertility." | 1 | 2016-12-27T04:07:56 | 124 | 5 | 2 |
Do you buy clothes from any big brands? Nike is one example, off the top of my head, though there are a number of others who have been accused of unethical treatment of workers. There is also always the other products that are made in China -- there's a reason things from China are so much cheaper than if they were mad... | I don't care how bad a company is or what they've done, so long as they put out products I like | 1 | 2016-02-26T04:06:53 | 59 | 3 | 1 |
sociology is useless as it has no real life applications. Sociology had a real life application in the brown v board of education ruling, where [Dr. Clark, a sociologist, explained how black children are affected by segregation via the doll experiment](http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/class/common/dolls_in_brown_vs_board... | Sociology is not a real science and has no real applications | 1 | 2017-03-20T06:19:54 | 39 | 14 | 9 |
Just for clarification, then, do you consider the notion of antinatalism to be inherently irrational? In addition, how do you differentiate between what is *rational* and *natural*? It appears to me that what is rational is to be found in the realm of reason (that's broadly speaking - include notions of culture, relig... | Biological fitness is the end goal of any rational human | 0 | 2017-02-07T08:53:56 | 104 | 3 | 8 |
You are assuming a motivation on the part of redditors that you have no evidence to support. Why would you assume that people in the atheism subreddit gravitate there because they are seeking to sound "intelligent" by arguing against religion? Wouldn't a simpler, more obvious explanation be that people who frequent th... | I believe that reddit is too counter-cultural for its own good, causing circlejerking and ideological wars to flourish. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-14T04:09:54 | 40 | 37 | 4 |
The way in which politics have polarized and certain battleground states are the only ones who politically are significant is certainly a bug in our system. But it's better than the alternative. In a non-electoral system, parties would align with regional lines of political purpose. Elections would turn out leaders who... | The electoral College should be abolished | 1 | 2016-10-27T19:17:35 | 221 | 7 | 1 |
Policies like this are designed to cover the stores' ass. Knowingly providing alcohol to someone underage is a serious crime and carries serious penalties. Carding everyone present as a rule is a great way to establish that you didn't knowingly provide alcohol to a minor. I agree with all of your frustration with poli... | Stores should not be allowed to refuse the sale of alcohol for 1 member of a party being underage | 1 | 2015-10-27T17:24:01 | 234 | 245 | 21 |
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