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Children who grow into adults who take care of the elderly, along with their own children (so grand children) have been the norm since the dawn of humanity. It's been every child's responsibility to take care of their own, which isn't just limited to blood but tribe, village, whatever, since we began as a species. The ... | Having children as a retirement plan is Immoral | 1 | 2017-04-23T05:58:30 | 80 | 75 | 11 |
"Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. There's a big difference between mostly ~~dead~~ defeated and all ~~dead~~ defeated . Mostly ~~dead~~ defeated is slightly ~~alive~~ victorious." If he was to be mostly defeated by Inigo, then Buttercup would never learn he was alive, and thus gain the strength to continue waiting... | There is no way that Wesley would have been a better swordsman than Inigo Montoya | 1 | 2016-08-29T23:41:31 | 102 | 111 | 136 |
Because many people who have tried to commit suicide later regret it afterwards. http://www.businessinsider.com/many-suicides-are-based-on-an-impulsive-decision-2014-8 The question is whether or not people are in their right minds when they're contemplating suicide, and many of them clearly are not. And you'll never kn... | Suicide is neutral and thus should never be fought against. Respect those decisions! We need more respect in this world! | 0 | 2017-01-19T23:41:42 | 50 | 4 | null |
If you're not going to give /u/ACrusaderA a delta, I know I'm not getting one, but I want you to go with me here. Relax your inhibitions. Lions and tigers are super predators. They don't eat strawberries. They don't eat helpless salmon flopping upstream. They're natural, born predators. Lions, like gorillas, hone thei... | The average Silverback Gorilla can absolutely NOT beat a grizzly bear. | 0 | 2017-06-01T20:49:02 | 60 | 2 | null |
It looks like the other users changed your mind on: 1) nominating merrick garland, 2) the supreme court choices are not bi-partisan. I like to think I changed your mind on at least a shutdown, if not the idea that an eye-for-an-eye method of government is counterproductive and an oversimplification | The Democrats should filibuster any Supreme Court nominee that President Trump puts forward. | 1 | 2017-01-31T20:58:59 | 78 | 1 | 16 |
You have explained your own struggle with emotional control, but it doesn't logically follow that everyone else struggles with it too or that emotionally-guided decisions are automatically bad. Emotions are actually quite logical. They're a mental shortcut, a bit like the reflex that has you pulling away from a hot st... | I'm living my life like a robot and think emotion is a flaw of humanity. | 1 | 2014-07-26T16:54:29 | 44 | 48 | 6 |
People willing to die for anything are just stupid. And being stupid doesn't make you a better human, it makes you a more stupid human. | People who are willing to die for their causes are the best humans. | 0 | 2016-01-27T01:17:24 | 60 | 1 | null |
Cultural appropriation is real. Without it, we wouldn't have things like blues, country, rock, jazz, fusion, R&B, electronica, disco, funk - you name it. The Italians wouldn't have noodles if not for the Chinese. The Vietnamese wouldn't have written language if not for the French - and the French weren't all that g... | I don't think cultural appropriation is a real issue | 1 | 2017-01-24T12:30:51 | 555 | 9 | 2 |
To address your first point, the population shouldn't be a problem since for better or for worse it would halve to be implemented by the states, population into more manageable sections. As for diversity I don't understand why that wouldn't just be the hospital's problem. | The US couldn't successfully implement a single-payer health care system | 0 | 2016-01-03T15:14:44 | 61 | 1 | null |
Here are my speculations on the issue. If we are created in the image of God, would that not mean God himself has transgender issues? Perhaps he views himself as omnipotent enough to be both. If he is truly our creator that created everything, and did so without a wife would that not make him asexual in a sense, and th... | There is no sound biblical argument that makes being trans-gender morally wrong. | 0 | 2015-01-01T21:03:23 | 353 | 3 | null |
The problem with this is that it shows in general that Facebook can access your cameras. Which is no surprise since various incidents have shown us that hackers can do so and that Kinect is always listening. The problem is that it is not made clear when this is happening. Do I have to put Facebook in the background for... | Online privacy isn't important if you have nothing to hide | 1 | 2017-06-09T06:15:15 | 59 | 7 | 65 |
We already have a draft. We're not using it because due to bad economic conditions we have an abundance of people wanting to go into the military (we're actually turning people away at this point). Also the next war that will require more man power than we have, isn't going to be fought by soldiers. | Reinstating the draft is the best way to prevent unnecessary wars for the US | 0 | 2017-04-14T22:55:24 | 33 | 1 | 1 |
Your premise is incorrect. My grandfather worked in rail and then in aerospace and always talked about how much more dangerous trains were than flying. This article summarizes the statistics. Looking just at the passengers on the conveyance (so excluding pedestrians/motorists struck by trains), rail passengers die at ... | Had planes never been invented, the world would be a better and safer place in terms of transportation | 0 | 2015-01-17T22:56:43 | 82 | 15 | null |
Just recently, polish goverment has seriously considered a bill, which would prohibit women to get abortion in all cases(including rape and serious deformity of a fetus). Even more recently, polish ministry of health made it forbidden to sell morning after pill (ElleOne) without prescription. In lights of these events,... | I think feminism isn't needed in civilized countries such as USA or Poland. | 1 | 2017-05-07T14:56:00 | 137 | 21 | 1 |
Why should they though? Wear whatever you want but there's no reason that people should dress a certain way just to please you. 'Dressing up" is so fucking arbitrary. | People should dress up a little more when flying. | 0 | 2015-03-26T19:24:46 | 117 | 6 | null |
You seem to be confused. The United States is not a direct democracy, but a representative democracy. **No ordinary citizen ever votes directly on legislation or issues, regardless of their knowledge.** In fact, the entire point of a representative democracy is that ordinary people can't be well educated on most speci... | As an uninformed citizen, I shouldn't be allowed to vote. | 0 | 2015-07-01T21:34:25 | 92 | 1 | 55 |
Hi, it sounds like you're taking the theoretical approach in sociology known as [structural functionalism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism). You should probably read about it, because that approach is basically dead as a dodo in sociology. [Here are the criticisms of it that can help explain why](... | CMV the purpose of society is not to provide a good quality of life for all individuals | 1 | 2014-02-03T04:08:13 | 133 | 3 | 7 |
While I largely agree, there are a few things you haven't entirely considered. First of all, many leagues have a salary cap. In the NFL, for example, team salaries can't go above a certain limit. This punishes popular teams (e.g. Patriots, Saints, Broncos) compared to unpopular teams (e.g. Jaguars, Rams, Raiders). Next... | Sports Player's Salaries are Justified by their Economic Value | 0 | 2016-02-11T10:15:01 | 90 | 1 | 9 |
First: The obvious quality in my book is the overreaching theme of the Star Trek universe - equality, exploration, acceptance, making the right decisions (not just for you, but for everyone - Prime Directive anyone?). Second: Star Trek is far enough into spaceship fantasy that younger viewers don't realize when they're... | Star Trek is a show that shouldn't be shared with future generations. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-12T10:10:18 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
I'm a liberal Christian involved in conservative churches so I deal with this a lot. The way I see it Jesus never said government should help people. Or that government should love and accept people. He said we should do that. The Republican party is not against loving our neighbor or helping those in need. In fact, fr... | Republicans are unchristian. | 0 | 2016-12-24T06:57:12 | 517 | 1 | 4 |
1. Consent. The society we live in today was only possible through vaccines. Had these not been created and used extensively, we would have a fraction of the populace we have. 2. Innoculations are similar to education: we do not simply hand drivers' licenses to individuals who turn 16. We decrease the risk of death in... | Government Mandated Vaccination On Citizens Is Never Right | 0 | 2016-02-04T16:37:30 | 146 | 2 | 10 |
Where I come from (Australia) this kind of slogan was adopted in an attempt to overcome [optimism bias](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias). The idea being that people will be biased to think they are unlikely to be injured if they don't wear their seat belt but are less likely to be biased to think that they ... | "Buckle up, it's the law" is an appeal to authority, and therefore not a good slogan to get people to put on their seat belts. | 0 | 2015-06-01T09:34:30 | 157 | 9 | 1 |
I had a very long conversation with a few of his supporters recently and I came away from it with a much better understanding of how his "fans" view him. They (i.e. the ones I talked to) are aware that he's not measuring his words, they're aware that he uses hyperbole ALL the time but they *still* like him. They like t... | Donald Trump is a conman and his supporters are gullible fools or willfully ignorant. | 1 | 2016-02-14T17:41:52 | 282 | 160 | null |
days of the week ARE proper nouns. Name of gods. The name of seasons have never been a proper noun. | Given that days of the week are considered proper nouns, the names of seasons should also be proper nouns. | 0 | 2017-03-11T03:39:00 | 121 | 1 | null |
Because that solution would screw over a ton of people. The third world doesn't want to stay the third world and they produce a fuckton of pollution. If we got everyone to agree on a solution we'd have to get developing nations to agree to stop developing which would screw them over. That's not going to happen. | Helping the earth shouldn't cost money. | 1 | 2017-04-19T09:35:04 | 22 | 2 | 15 |
Because Quidditch is a sport and only the referee is judging what is a fault or not. It's more a problem of ~~murderball~~ Quidditch than house system. (and I remind you that we're talking of a school organising ~~hungergames~~ triwizard tournament where kids have to face dragons in the first round. Then the cursus of ... | The House system in Harry Potter not only makes no sense; it is dangerous and irresponsible. | 1 | 2017-06-15T17:06:40 | 96 | 5 | 17 |
Ok, what if we set up the right to donate to "fake"? I give the office $10,000. They give me the receipt like all the other donors. They charge a $10 convenience fee and give me back $9,990. Now I have a pretty receipt to show Hillary and Marco, but I'm only out ten bucks. | The single-best thing we can do for our (US) political system is get rid of corporate campaign finance immediately. | 1 | 2015-10-06T21:02:59 | 39 | 1 | null |
Except for two main reasons. 1 - The father is leaving his physical prime. He is no longer able to share the same memories with his child as he would as a man in his 20s or even 30s. He may still be fit, but a healthy 40 year will never be as strong or have the same stamina he would in his 30s or 20s. 2 - He is going t... | For a man, having a child in his 40s is not a problem. | 0 | 2016-09-12T06:23:00 | 57 | 1 | 7 |
Scientists, as a group, are not any more virtuous than lawyers or politicians. You seem to think moving a scientist from a research/academic post to a political post would not change their behavior or incentives. The problems you identify with the status quo are endemic problems of the way influence is spread and incen... | Future government structures need to include scientists who are not voted in by the general populace | 1 | 2015-01-29T08:01:38 | 30 | 15 | 10 |
Okay, are we to say that those individuals could never become the geniuses that Descartes, Gauss and Kant were because of some genetic inability? Yes Is there no way that with the proper education they could achieve that height? Maybe with cybernetic brain implants but not anything with current technology | Education should create intellectuals not employees | 1 | 2017-02-16T00:54:07 | 51 | 6 | 11 |
Justify their decision of what? Of being pro-Trump? To be fair, she was raised in a very Catholic environment, so she probably has had the stuff shoved down her throat by parents, etc. Anymore than that I couldn't tell you, because I try to abstain from discussing politics with my friends. Hope that helps! | There is nothing morally wrong with ending a friendship with someone due to their political beliefs | 1 | 2017-03-03T02:25:43 | 166 | 2 | 1 |
Because of this it's not a good argument for any religion in particular, but it makes belief in God seem like the safer bet, Does it? In recorded human history, there have been roughly 3,000 religious belief systems. Many of them have deities that punish believers in other religions. With Christianity, your odds are 1/... | Pascal's wager is the best argument for any religion | 0 | 2017-06-08T03:17:32 | 112 | 1 | 10 |
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Gender-dysphoria/Pages/Introduction.aspx (Slightly outdated but still useful) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexuality (Not all transgender people are transsexual, but a good deal of them are. This applies to anyone who wants to physically transition.) | Transgenders only enforce gender stereotypes. | 1 | 2016-07-17T10:54:08 | 100 | 5 | 1 |
Her mental well being, possibly, but why does the possibility of her mental health being impacted trump the rights of the child? | I believe convenience abortion is morally wrong | 1 | 2014-04-01T05:27:48 | 45 | 4 | 2 |
There are a lot more old videos than new videos. Let's say a new video is considered 'released this year'. But MatPat has been making these videos for years. This means people forget the bad videos of the past and praise the good ones. Take Sonic Adventure 2 as an example, we only remember the good levels and that's wh... | Game Theory makes good and interesting theories | 0 | 2015-10-13T02:04:59 | 24 | 3 | null |
Underrepresentation is a symptom of problems, which is why it gets attention.Basically, there's no "good" reason why there would be a gender disparity in STEM fields. If there is a disparity, we know it's because of a problem somewhere, which may be that "employers are discriminating against women" or that "women don't... | Women being underrepresented is not a real problem. | 0 | 2015-07-01T16:26:23 | 449 | 20 | null |
I'm very pro-Hillary (one of the few people I know who describe themselves that way) and anti-Trump, but your entire premise relies on around at least 50 electors from several different states with opposing political backgrounds and life experiences to see both candidates in your light. For many Republicans, not only i... | The Electoral College should elect Hillary Clinton as president by way of faithless electors. | 1 | 2016-11-15T15:50:29 | 94 | 11 | 6 |
You do have a point when you say that the government could probably instill tyranny any time they wanted to, raid houses, bomb homes, and citizens wouldn't have much of a chance. Sure, citizens could fight back with the weapons they have, but their efforts would mostly be in vain considering the sheer power of the mili... | The 2nd Amendment is now pointless | 0 | 2017-02-16T00:46:53 | 115 | 0 | null |
You are still defining bravery on your own terms. Here is Webster's [definition.](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bravery) the quality that allows someone to do things that are dangerous or frightening : the quality or state of being brave It is certainly brave to "look someone who you know rubs you the wron... | I think that the Boy Scouts of America contradict their own oath and morals by refusing to tolerate atheists and homosexuals. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-31T05:20:18 | 61 | 2 | 39Δ |
I think we need to start off with a definition of racism, since you don't seem to understand what it entails (my emphasis added): Racism: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as **inferior or superior** to another race o... | If you are not attracted to black people, then you are a racist? | 1 | 2015-10-06T00:59:45 | 83 | 10 | 5 |
Businesses receive a lot of perks from tax payers. They get the infrastructure that is required to support their business, public money educating it's workforce, copyright and trademark protection, police and fire protection, tax credits, economic development programs, etc. You would have members of a community providi... | Religiously affiliated companies should be able to deny service to people that violate their religious beliefs. | 1 | 2017-03-21T20:42:45 | 83 | 1 | 79 |
I think land ownership is a much bigger problem than you're considering (except in very few exceptions where you're suggesting groups have strong cultural heritage ownership to the land, which is debatable but certainly rare). Any group is 'allowed to leave a country' and create a new one, the question is where would t... | I don't think a country has the right to deny a group the right to leave itself | 0 | 2016-09-09T17:51:34 | 33 | 1 | 5 |
First of all, Christian theology [by no means has a consensus](http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/may-web-only/do-all-children-go-to-heaven.html?start=2) on what happens to children who die. Some, as you say, believe they go to heaven. Others believe they go to hell since they have not yet been saved. Others put ... | The Most Moral Act a Christian can Do is to Kill as Many Children as Possible Before being Killed Themselves or Incapacitated | 1 | 2016-02-22T21:11:05 | 104 | 23 | 156 |
[Doctor refuses treatment of same-sex couple's baby](http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/28142401/doctor-refuses-treatment-of-same-sex-couples-baby) [Same-Sex Couples Face Significant Housing Discrimination, Historic Government Study Says](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/same-sex-housing-discrimination_n_3455463... | I'm not sure that the government should be intervening in private businesses to force them to provide service to gays or other groups. | 1 | 2015-04-01T22:42:33 | 174 | 16 | 24Δ |
There are so many ways the Trump presidency is going to damage the progressive cause, short term and long term. He's going to dramatically shift the Overton window of American politics. He's proved you can be openly racist and horrible and still get elected, so other politicians will follow suit. There's a real risk th... | For progressives it's actually good that Trump won. | 0 | 2016-11-13T07:51:23 | 423 | 1 | 5 |
A few problems with this: 1: Your definition of morality isn't necessarily what is moral. I'm not sure if you've taken a philosophy class, but this is a common debate among philosophers. "Causing the least amount of grief" is utilitarian, which means that it tries to maximize something generally perceived as good (I.e ... | Morality is objective | 1 | 2015-05-15T04:02:14 | 99 | 2 | 1Δ |
Interesting perspective, but it's unenforceable. In practice, people would let their company get the drinks and keep a glass of water nearby if any inspectors turn up. | People convicted of a DUI should not lose their licence to drive; they should lose their right to drink. | 0 | 2016-03-31T16:11:32 | 105 | 1 | 5 |
Sensitivity is intensely context sensitive. In a comedy club, insulting and offensive comments are part of the expectation. Suppose the comic tells a priest abuse joke. Hilarious. Now, an audience member decides to repeat that joke at a meeting for survivors of priest abuse. Or in a bus. Or at a kids birthday party. "Y... | "you're too sensitive" is a legitimate viewpoint. | 1 | 2016-04-28T04:39:01 | 36 | 5 | 7 |
As /u/jmsolerm stated, we didn't "start" after the dinosaurs, we began evolving a *long* time before that. The [extinction event](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event) that wiped out the dinosaurs didn't destroy all life on earth, just about 3/4 of the species on earth. A whole qua... | I don't think that evolution while on earth can explain how we are here now... CMV | 1 | 2014-01-18T14:06:06 | 65 | 42 | 1 |
Mime, lime, rhyme, slime, dime, grime. it is justified in general when a man gets praise for “sleeping around" ... It is generally imperative for males to propagate their DNA throughout many different potential mates as possible, to ensure the survival of his line. Why am I praising someone else's DNA getting propag... | The Slut/Stud Inequality Is Generally Justified | 0 | 2015-07-14T01:35:11 | 58 | 2 | 64 |
I, nor anyone else can claim to be or to feel like the opposite sex because one cant have that understanding, this goes for everything not just gender I can't claim that [my red is your red](http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-red-same-my-red), but we both use the word 'red' to identify our perception of... | You are the Gender you were born as because it is impossible to have understanding of something of which you are not. | 0 | 2016-04-19T08:44:05 | 565 | 3 | null |
I don't understand how skipping a scene is different if the movie is cut linearly or non-linearly. You want to skip The Bonnie Situation, you skip it. You'll have skipped it the same if you are watching the theatrical cut or your own mangled version. IIRC, there's only two scenes in the movie that are cut in two, other... | Pulp Fiction is a worse movie for being told in a nonlinear way. | 1 | 2017-03-31T17:50:15 | 137 | 2 | 6 |
Robots don't have ambitions, we should stop treating them and talking about them as if they're human beings with emotions. Robots will never do more than we program them to do. If they are programmed to learn, it may become invetiable that they can re-write their own source code. Assuming "we" program them with perfect... | There's no danger that robots will take over the world in the future | 0 | 2017-03-31T22:35:00 | 100 | 1 | null |
if there are two grown adults and you had to violate either Person A's right to life or Person B's right to bodily autonomy, you're saying you would kill person A? What is the reasoning behind that? Let's make it less abstract: person A needs a kidney which can only come from person B. Can I force, at gunpoint even, th... | An anti-abortion stance is not incompatible with either atheism or libertarianism. | 1 | 2014-07-02T12:31:27 | 62 | 7 | 14Δ |
Doesn't giving them extra protections undermine their goal of equality? | Protections enabling transgendered people to choose the bathroom of the gender they identify with removes that protection for other people. | 0 | 2017-02-23T16:57:10 | 401 | 2 | null |
Focusing purely on logic in a selfish manner leads to things such as the tragedy of the commons. You need to account for all the people that are now committing crimes against you as a result of this philosophy. | It is logical to commit a crime if the expected outcome is positive. | 0 | 2014-08-02T20:20:18 | 170 | 1 | null |
On the whole, I would agree that Proportional Representation is better than Single Member Plurality. The problem is that, in countries that use SMP, the apparent enormous change that would be needed to switch systems is a huge roadblock. Even understanding what a different system would look like is daunting. I went to ... | Proportional representation is a better system of democracy than single member plurality in almost every way. | 0 | 2017-06-09T15:50:15 | 187 | 6 | 2 |
I'll go ahead and state my argument in a post directly to the OP: Repunzel is the most attractive Disney Princess. Why? Well first of all, she's obviously beautiful, but she is *also* one of the most well educated Disney princesses. She literally sings a song about having been locked in a tower for years with nothing t... | Jane, from 'Tarzan', is the most attractive Disney girl | 0 | 2017-05-05T19:11:49 | 345 | 32 | null |
Political changes and government actions affect everyone in America, not just those closely involved in the day to day political interactions. Inherent in the idea of a democratic society is the concept of people publicly sharing their thoughts and opinions about the government, as they are granted the right to do so w... | Unless your country is on the brink of war or your job is political, you shouldn't post politics to Facebook. | 0 | 2015-02-13T22:53:16 | 54 | 1 | null |
There are people who live "off-grid" and make no money and have little to no material wealth yet they seem to be surviving just fine and can raise children without the need of government intervention. How do you make a determination of a person financial ability to care for a child when there are cases like this where ... | People who can't afford to have kids shouldn't be allowed to have them. | 0 | 2017-01-23T19:39:10 | 549 | 4 | null |
Genetics and environment both have major impact on brain development. It would be grossly naive to say that either is solely responsible for someone's eventual sexual preferences. The same goes for just about any aspect of personality. That, however, does not mean that being homosexual isn't "natural". | Homosexuality is not natural | 1 | 2016-10-31T15:20:14 | 73 | 1 | 5 |
So a good looking guy would be a lock and an unattractive woman would be a key if they both got a lot of sex? | I believe the idea behind the "lock and key" analogy of the sexes makes perfect sense. | 0 | 2016-11-18T17:00:47 | 84 | 1 | null |
The olympic events should show us the athletes that ... have the best coordination ... Check out the men's final for skeet shooting. [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSxCn5Zia7k) Accurately shooting multiple flying targets certainly shows an amazing amount of coordination. Sure a rando might be able to pick up a ... | Shooting based sports should not be part of the Olympics | 0 | 2016-08-16T21:30:13 | 40 | 1 | 3 |
Does a riot always de-legitimize a movement? So let's talk about some movements, that I think it would be hard to argue were de-legitimized by a riot, and probably align with your moral compass. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's had thirty-nine riots between 1963 and 1968. Ten of these were in 1968, nine of which alo... | Persons who demonstrate/riot prior to the facts of a police shooting being known risk de-legitimizing the cause. | 1 | 2016-09-22T22:28:24 | 76 | 34 | 2 |
By individual identity I mean they wouldn't be called puertoricans anymore But they would... People identify with their state quite often. Wisconsin has Wisconsinites. California has Californians. etc. Why do you think Puerto Ricans would just stop identifying as such? Nothing about becoming a state prevents that state... | The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state | 1 | 2017-04-26T17:19:21 | 153 | 4 | 13 |
idk if you're political in any sense, but Chomsky has a quote: "If you live your life without having done anything constructive or helpful, you will look back on your life and ask, 'why did I bother living?'" I paraphrased him, but that question, of why?, has stuck with me. Its true that death brings a finality to your... | We are all going to die someday, I might just as well kill myself right now. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-21T21:49:10 | 24 | 1 | 1 |
People need cars to get to work around here, and bikes are (to me) a luxury for sport or just riding. Try cycling on sidewalks at the speed most of those doing it for sport like to go. You'll find that it's very unsafe for everyone. I do think that people riding at a walking pace could use the sidewalk safely, and at t... | Bikes should be on sidewalks | 0 | 2015-05-18T08:17:03 | 54 | 3 | null |
I agree with you that funneling tax dollars to home schooling is a disaster waiting to happen, but, I don't think it would cause many people to choose home schooling over out-of-home schooling. Home schooling is a lifestyle and most people just can't afford it. School is as much child care as education, when you get ri... | Donald Trump's plan for American education will be a disaster. | 1 | 2016-11-22T19:09:00 | 369 | 2 | 1 |
The problem is that, when we were kids, if you tripped over yourself/threw up in the lunchroom/ did or said something stupid, the kids in your immediate classroom/area would laugh at you or make fun of you, but that was mostly the end of it. Now, it's been photographed or a video has been made, it's been posted on face... | I think cyberbullying is BS, CMV | 1 | 2013-10-17T19:18:44 | 121 | 5 | 1 |
The framing of this question is inaccurate: card holders in California do not receive a prescription; they receive a recommendation from a physician. This recommendation allows you to obtain a card that allows you to legally purchase cannabis. Because it is NOT prescribed, the treatment course is self-determined and fl... | I believe that for Medical Marijuana to be taken seriously, specific amounts of specific strains should be prescribed, instead of the current system. | 0 | 2014-09-29T18:15:16 | 150 | 0 | null |
Are personal leaks the worst thing that can come from this data? No, this is just one example that I used. Considering you know how many applications mass data gathering and analysis can have, are you seriously unable to think of ways an abusive government might use them to do bad things? As I see it Are you willing t... | I think government tracking and personal data collection are good and should be continued/expanded | 1 | 2015-08-18T05:04:45 | 51 | 1 | 9 |
If the point is to gain karma it is useless. If the point is to change hearts and minds, reddit provides an ok platform to do it. Look at my name, search through my history, you won't find many upvoted anti-weed posts. But I have gotten a few people tell me I have changed their minds or at least given them a new per... | Having a controversial opinion on Reddit is absolutely pointless and the karma system is the main reason behind this. | 1 | 2014-11-14T09:38:25 | 247 | 8 | 3 |
I believe most schools already have this. I know my college does (at Texas A&M). All engineers have to take a class through the philosophy department called "Ethics of Engineering". Would you mind clarifying whether you're saying universities should be required by law to include an ethics course in their curriculu... | All university/college students should have to pass a ethics/morals unit to complete a degree CMV | 0 | 2013-12-06T15:13:09 | 103 | 10 | 3 |
I think your view boils down to "I don't understand why these people would vote that way, so therefore they're irrational and uneducated." I believe that you need to understand that some people simply don't share the same values as you. For instance you've expressed a view that you want to deny people a fundamental rig... | People shouldn't be allowed to vote just because they're over a certain age | 0 | 2016-12-06T17:45:49 | 150 | 11 | 1 |
Well, the onus just simply is on the oppressed to convince the "oppressors" I put that word is scare quotes because not every white person had a hand in slavery and not every member of any group is responsible for the larger groups transgressions. Why is the onus on women to convince men? Because they're the ones cha... | I believe "that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them". Change my view. | 1 | 2014-04-09T16:33:56 | 107 | 2 | 18 |
Things that you get no benefit from for snitching on people from. Would it be ethical if you did benefit? I feel like it would be less ethical. What if I had access to your computer and see that you torrented a lot of things and took a screenshot and then sent it to your internet service provider (theoretically of cou... | "Snitching" or being a "tattle-tale" on people (not institutions) is highly unethical. | 0 | 2016-12-06T07:58:22 | 92 | 10 | 35 |
While beating the top 4 and the champ marks the end or a big milestone in most of the games, your stated task is still to complete the pokedex. "Catching them all" is not a terrible strategy, its the only strategy to achieve the goal the game sets for you. Maybe you dont like that goal, but its the goal given to you. | "Gotta Catch 'Em All" is a bad slogan for Pokemon, as it's a terrible strategy. | 1 | 2016-07-28T03:01:29 | 35 | 15 | 14 |
In this system, every gun will have a sensor that will read a RFID chip in the hand of the user. So we're going beyond available "smartgun" technology to requiring surgery of a trackig chip in gun owners. This violates: * 2nd amendment protections * 4th amendmemt protections * Case law regarding bodily autonomy * Prob... | Using an RFID based gun locking system would prevent nearly all American gun deaths | 0 | 2017-04-07T17:59:47 | 77 | 3 | 15 |
I'll take a similar tactic to many others in this thread. The real question is how you define "real" currency. I agree with most of the points you made - like you, I feel that any currency without a central regulating authority will be subject to price shocks indefinitely, and a central bank is needed to ensure stabili... | Bitcoin (for better or worse) can never operate as a real currency, by its own very design. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-14T23:50:16 | 82 | 3 | 15 |
There are two questions here: should gay people have the same rights (under the law) as straight people; is the difference between inborn and chosen irrelevant (in general, not just about legal rights)? I'll give you the first one, but the second point has some flaws. A parent can make many choices for their kid beyond... | I believe emphasizing that "being gay is born rather than a choice" is irrelevent and gay rights should be the same no matter if homosexuality is born with, nurtured or chosen. | 1 | 2014-09-09T05:09:42 | 433 | 1 | 1 |
I never see a lot of pointing out of bigotry, I just see a lot of pointing out people who don't take bigotry as seriously as they do. | I don't think SRS (/r/ShitRedditSays) is as bad as people make it out to be, and is just pointing out bigotry. | 0 | 2014-05-12T05:25:35 | 107 | 6 | null |
I'm still not convinced of evolution because I haven't seen the evidence for it from a perspective that isn't critical of it Disclaimer: this is a *super*-simplified version, so a lot of the nuance is going to get lost. Unfortunately a more in-depth (and thus more accurate) overview requires a book, of which I will be ... | I'm a young-earth creationist. | 1 | 2015-11-04T19:08:49 | 82 | 29 | 19 |
I understand your point of view, but as I explained in my first comment, it doesn't work that way. A creator has limited control over the name of anything really. Not sure if you are familiar with this humorous video, but it shows how people can very easily ignore conventions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKB... | "GIF" is pronounced like "jif" | 1 | 2017-03-10T10:44:31 | 66 | 6 | 2 |
It's 90 pounds of bone and muscle with the instincts of a predator. There really is no comparison to a child. I definitely think it would be much more violent than what you imagine, unless you are already accounting for rips in your arms and throat, broken bones, and missing chunks of muscle and skin. The dog would be ... | I could probably fight off a lone attack dog. | 1 | 2014-07-21T06:03:52 | 31 | 3 | 6 |
Vegans/Vegetarians:** You think you're going to live long enough for your victory garden to grow you a food supply? Not likely mate. Hunting and eating meat will be one of the biggest necessities for survival in the entire apocalypse. Vegans and Vegetarians generally argue that it is morally impermissible to use animal... | If a total catastrophic breakdown of society were to happen, liberals would be primarily useless. | 0 | 2014-10-29T17:13:02 | 85 | 1 | 1 |
The president of the USA need not be a saint; they just need to be good at running a country. Nope. The actual powers of the president are really restricted. Nowhere near enough in order to "run the country". You need people who actually know about that doing that. President is a head of state. As in he literally repre... | The president of the USA need not be a saint; they just need to be good at running a country. | 0 | 2016-10-19T20:59:03 | 74 | 0 | 11 |
I promise not to call you racist until you say something racist. * Black people are killed by police officers disproportionately... just as they commit crimes disproportionately. Do they commit crimes disproportionately or are they sentenced disproportionately? The gap between black and white criminality shrinks a lot ... | Black people need to begin accepting their own responsibility for their problems; it is black criminality/culture that is causing the black community's problems, NOT white racism. [Serious] | 1 | 2016-04-27T06:24:28 | 802 | 84 | 9 |
Do you really believe in your heart of hearts that an elementary requirement will have any meaningful affect on voter quality/informedness/etc? This is the trivia to which I was referring. From where I'm standing, the positive impact is likely to be negligible to non-existent, and the potential for abuse is extremely ... | Before being able to vote, everyone should have to take a test to prove basic reasoning. | 1 | 2015-02-25T22:42:33 | 37 | 1 | 61Δ |
Realistically, no countries have any intrinsic "right" to exist. You can only exist as a country if you have land and can protect it. Right now, they're doing both. Yes, mostly because the US is assisting them, but that doesnt delegitimatize their sovereignty (consider how France helped the US gain its own sovereignty)... | The Jewish state of Israel has no right to exist and should be abolished ASAP. | 1 | 2017-04-27T01:09:23 | 46 | 4 | 3 |
I agree that in the case of, say, a 7-year old saying one time "Daddy I want to be a girl" that it would be foolish to rush into a permanent decision. However, I think in reality the scenario where a change is plausible would be much more drawn out. Imagine that at age 4 the child first begins to act like the opposite... | Boys and Girls below the age of 18 are not mature or developed enough to determine their gender is not the one with which they were born. | 1 | 2017-03-08T18:19:32 | 456 | 35 | 12 |
Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, **or prohibiting the free exercise thereof** Freedom of Religion goes both ways, the government is free from influence of religion (or it should be ideally), but people are able* to practice religion freely. It is not the role of public sc... | public schools in the US should be strictly anti-religious and ban all religious symbols, dress, ideas, etc. | 0 | 2017-04-25T06:52:27 | 73 | 1 | null |
Just because someone has an iphone doesn't mean they don't need help. I mean my parents could kick me out today and I lose my job but I'll still have an iphone. | I shouldn't give change to homeless people on the streets. | 1 | 2015-05-28T20:53:17 | 118 | 68 | 1Δ |
Just thought you might find interesting this description about the status of visitation rights in Illinois, specifically, taken from the [Cook County website about this topic](http://www.cookcountycourt.org/ABOUTTHECOURT/CountyDepartment/DomesticRelationsDivision/ChildCustodyInformation.aspx): The non-custodial/non-res... | a divorced mother in Illinois can't move out of state because father has visitation rights. I disagree because she has full custody, and should have just left. | 1 | 2015-04-14T23:11:16 | 325 | 2 | 96Δ |
I don't even notice a persons skin color, or at least don't think about it when I make a "judgment" on how I treat and interact with that person. I think this applies to a lot of people, including many who treat people differently by race. This behavior doesn't require consciously taking note of a person's race and the... | For the most part, in America, it is less about skin color/race and more about how you present yourself to society. | 0 | 2017-05-17T18:49:36 | 138 | 8 | 39 |
Here's the thing, you're comparing the situation difference between the average Swede and the average American when you're not average. The average US compensation is higher than the average Swedish compensation but, for you the difference might be even higher this just comes down to what these companies are willing t... | Moving to the US feels like the wrong choice | 1 | 2015-04-06T04:14:48 | 145 | 2 | 2Δ |
Not all sacrifices were consensual; they also sacrificed POW's and they viewed this as perfectly moral since they were saving the world. Which is false. EDIT: also if a mentally ill person consents to being killed, is that moral? Taking advantage of someone's lack on knowledge is generally considered immoral. | Morality is objective | 1 | 2015-05-15T00:04:37 | 99 | 2 | 1Δ |
It's not necessary that animals need to fear death in order to make killing them wrong. A good explanation for why killing an animal is wrong is because by killing them you are denying them a valuable future. A future they would enjoy if we didn't take it away. This conception of wrong also applies to humans. What give... | being a vegan is morally right for me. And probably for you. | 1 | 2016-07-08T01:21:51 | 287 | 1 | 2 |
We have shown ourselves to be remarkably malicious and amoral among the large mammals. Anyone who has spent time with a dog would recognize this. How are other mammals more moral than us? I think the idea of applying morality to animals is absurd but if we try we can see that animals would not be considered moral creat... | Humanity needs to be removed from the earth. | 1 | 2015-11-08T05:41:19 | 39 | 13 | 1 |
Hi. College student here. The vast majority of the classes I take are related to my majors. Electives generally account for roughly a third of your classes unless you're going for a degree of questionable worth. Folks I know that go to engineering schools seem to take mostly engineering classes. In fact, a major, well ... | I think college is a useless idea created just to make money, and should not exist. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-26T10:37:15 | 49 | 13 | 1 |
What works for you doesn't work for everyone. All retail at 17 did for me was send me into a period of hating everyone and everything. I'm glad it worked out okay for you, but I finally *got* the concept that I wasn't the center of the universe by competing for jobs I wanted and getting looked over and realizing that, ... | It should be customary to get a job before you go to college. (Having your first job at 22 isn't okay.) | 1 | 2015-06-03T21:31:16 | 59 | 31 | 50Δ |
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