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there is no reason why babies can't be around other babies just because they are on an airplane. Babies and kids cry a lot on air planes. It's an unfamiliar place, lots of noise, the air is different, etc. They're definitely likely to set each other off and there will often be a cacophony of noise coming from the back ... | Children under the age of 6 should be seated together in the same section on the airplane (together with their guardian(s)), at the back of the plane. | 0 | 2015-09-10T03:22:47 | 269 | 145 | 134 |
Esperanto is supposed to only be a politically and nationally neutral, second language. Where we all keep our own native languages and cultures, but when we need to trade or cooperate we can still communicate on an equal level - then go back home and resume speaking Welsh, or Lingala, or whatever. In other words, it's ... | Esperanto and Lojban are attempts of cultural genocide under the guise of providing easier communication. | 1 | 2017-03-02T13:55:19 | 42 | 3 | 1 |
What about farmers/ranchers who have had the same land in their family for generations? The children grow up and work the land once they are adults. Do you propose that they should lose that land and their way of life? | We should disallow children from inheriting wealth from their parents, for it destroys meritocracy. | 1 | 2016-04-27T22:49:02 | 96 | 9 | 1 |
A lot of egalitarians do oppose some feminist, BLM, etc. views. I'm an egalitarian, and I'll explain at least what I believe about feminism and BLM as examples. First of all, the general premise that women should have equal rights to men is definitely something that I agree with. However, the way feminism is headed, it... | Most people who call themselves "egalitarian" in fact want only to oppose feminism and not support any positive change | 0 | 2017-06-16T22:58:36 | 223 | 2 | 2 |
There's no reasonable way to quantify "leftists" and "rightists" in the US today. Saying everyone who owns a gun would stand by Trump is not only just a guess, but also pretty nonsensical There was never, in the history of the of the independent country, a scenario in which the general population went to arms against e... | The left could never defeat the right with violence and it is stupid to even try | 0 | 2017-02-01T20:52:37 | 72 | 12 | 21 |
The bible is accepted based on faith that the word of God is infallible. Well, that's not inherently true. We know there were at least 4 separate writers or groups of writers that created the Old Testament, and that is reinforced by the Jewish faith as it was a collection of the old stories told by previous generations... | You cannot reject parts of the bible and believe others. If you decide what to believe or not believe, it defeats the whole point of a religious dogma. | 0 | 2015-09-22T20:44:09 | 650 | 1 | 19 |
you make an unjustified assumption in that humanity will become a blob of mixed and diluted culture. remember culture is just what has been learned over many generation it is always evolving and changing Scottish culture looked very different in 0 AD than it did in 1,000 bc without much outside interference you seem to... | CMV I believe that if you honour your personal heritage and familial culture you should only marry and have children with members of your own race and culture | 0 | 2013-05-04T01:56:58 | 80 | 1 | null |
I think there is a fine line to walk here. There is no question that in general racism influences what we find attractive. Where I would hope you have some nuance is to understand that it's not an automatic thing. There are so many people with such a wide range of interests and attractions that it is silly to think it ... | People of color who have a preference for dating white people probably have issues with internalized racism | 1 | 2016-10-22T16:47:28 | 75 | -1 | 14 |
You weren't 100% clear so I'm going to assume you're referring to mid west states with rural towns of population less than 10k and no city of pop greater than 20k within a half hour highway drive. It depends where you are, but some regions have a wealth of national parks, and some really nice library systems. The nat... | The American heartland is devoid of cultural and meaning. | 1 | 2016-10-25T18:58:20 | 107 | 3 | 3 |
First of all, depending on how serious the illness is, the people in question will probably not be able to reproduce at all (at least if it's a dominant disorder). And even if they could reproduce, I think the most people would probably voluntarily refrain from reproducing, if there's a realistic chance that their chil... | People with dominant genetic disorders shouldn't be allowed to reproduced, similary parents being both affected by recessive genetic disorders shouldn't ve allowed to reproduce. | 0 | 2016-08-21T19:29:35 | 27 | 3 | null |
The reason we have freedom of speech is that making an idea illegal is invading everyone's personal sovereignty. It is the most basic right, and though this isn't the government, you are essentially saying that we are morally obligated to give people pain for their unheeded words. And where do we draw the line? I know ... | The violent form of direct action used by the antifascists against neo-Nazis in Sacramento was justified. | 0 | 2016-06-29T01:42:10 | 154 | 1 | 17 |
Thanks for replying, I don't think your initial post really described your opinion on the matter very well and seemed more malicious than you intended. I think there is a whole issue of terminology here. I don't agree illness is the right word since it implies that an individual is somewhat inhibited by it. I totally a... | I believe homosexuality is not natural, and should be treated as a mental illnrss. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-04T16:42:56 | 43 | 2 | 1 |
Are they supposed to pull you aside and explain why your behavior is wrong? I don't think anyone is doing this as a favor or education. I think if someone calls you out on behavior in public, they're doing it to publicly shame you. If they're wrong, they are inviting themselves up for public shaming themselves. It does... | Those who believe it is their responsibility to "call others out" have no right to complain about people treating them poorly | 1 | 2014-07-18T20:38:49 | 32 | 10 | 2 |
What you see as misogyny, others see as support groups for men in an era where there are very few. There are examples of misogyny on these subs of course, but the majority of posts are simply self-improvement advice/support for men, in a time and place where as a man, you can't get help and support anywhere else withou... | Reddit has a misogyny problem and nothing is being done to combat it. | 0 | 2017-02-26T14:33:27 | 150 | 4 | null |
So I think the travel thing is a weak case for revoking citizenship, but that there is one case that's plausible: fraud in the naturalization process. When someone applies to become a citizen through the immigration and naturalization process, they need to meet a bunch of criteria. If someone engages in fraud during th... | A person's citizenship should never be revoked, even if they travel to war zones like Syria. | 1 | 2015-01-13T18:03:04 | 222 | 87 | 51 |
The problem is that it's *much* harder to get a lot of positive karma than to lose it. For example, I got a lot of positive comment karma on this subreddit. But then I decided that, since I didn't like rule 2, I was just going to not follow it. I wasn't saying obviously stupid things like "stfu idiot", so I never reall... | Subreddit moderators should be unable to ban a user who has sufficient positive comment karma in that subreddit. | 0 | 2015-06-24T02:58:15 | 28 | 1 | null |
a melting pot devoid of individual character that I disagree with. What are you going on about ? The UK as plenty of individual character (lots and lots of them to) and it's not going away anytime soon. Your language is not in danger, you're economy is doing well and the generally understood "British culture" is pretty... | The UK should abandon multiculturalism. | 1 | 2015-02-25T21:46:03 | 85 | 12 | 14Δ |
I read through the conversation, and I think that u/deathpigeonx and u/PoppinJ made a decent attempt at helping you understand the matter, especially when they made the case for "false identity." It's an important point. But let's get to your CMV. r/changemyview is the only safe place on reddit to express any viewpoin... | /r/changemyview is the only safe place on reddit to express any viewpoint and play devil's advocate | 1 | 2015-06-20T23:22:03 | 64 | 98 | 14Δ |
As a translator myself (Japanese/English), I don't think it's impossible to create a translation that equals (or even exceeds) the original source material. A direct translation usually isn't the best translation, since it can be very difficult to handle jokes, idioms, cultural references, writing/speaking style and ac... | TV series are unrivaled better in the original language than dubbed versions | 1 | 2014-08-08T19:22:09 | 85 | 2 | 19Δ |
Thanks for your clarification! Reading print media makes us more educated, as opposed to the digital media we revel in today. Can you explain this? Why does one make us more educated than the other? If anything, with digital media we have access to...well, the whole Internet. On the other hand, a newspaper or a book h... | The media turns us into what we consume | 0 | 2015-02-07T17:24:19 | 27 | 2 | 10 |
If people on your health insurance plan are overweight, you'll have to pay higher premiums to cover their inevitable medical care. If people in your society are overweight, you'll have to contribute more money and effort to cover the cost of their choices. That's the fundamental argument behind why anyone else's concer... | People's weight is none of your goddamn business. | 1 | 2015-07-16T15:30:18 | 552 | 379 | 46 |
you just aren't understanding how the system works. first of all the grades are supposed to fall on a curve. they dont always do this because it punishes students that may be smart enough to move on, but thats how the grades are usually thought of. getting a C means you know the material enough to move on to higher lea... | I Believe the Grading System we use in schools today (A, B, C, D, and Fail) is complacent on behalf of the teaching community. Allowing a student to proceed to higher material without having earned an “A” is counterproductive to the mission of education. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-13T02:34:21 | 136 | 3 | 5 |
People don't have conscious control over what they think words mean. Language is a *shared* method of communication. I didn't decide to be offended by "nigger." Society has told me I am supposed to be offended by it, because it's a symbol for intentional offense. Suppose your dog dies and you feel bad about that. Suppo... | Words only have as much power as you give them and I cannot offend you without your consent. | 0 | 2015-01-31T00:27:00 | 46 | 31 | 1 |
Think back to when the first iPad was introduced. Everyone thought it was just some gadget toy that nobody would really use since it is not a real phone and neither a real computer, just a secondary device. There were very few apps for it and nobody really knew what to do with it other than it being new shiny and havin... | I don't get the appeal of Google Glass. Please enlighten me as to why it's so awesome. | 0 | 2014-06-03T16:37:22 | 57 | 1 | 2 |
I think you are underestimating the power of modern medicine. If you were marooned on an island and got sick or contracted an open wound, you would have no way of protecting yourself from serious illness. Do you know how to make alcohol or any other wound cleaning solution? Even if you did know, would the necessary ing... | I would enjoy being shipwrecked on an island. | 1 | 2014-05-01T21:17:36 | 47 | 3 | 1 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6kl17HH9s | Giving beggars or people on the street money is wrong, rather give it to helping institutions. | 1 | 2015-01-28T17:56:06 | 93 | 5 | 2 |
Worker A ends the year with $167,682.24 after taxes. Worker B ends the year with $62,568 after taxes. Worker A was rewarded with $105,114.24 extra dollars for his diligence. Or worker B was penalized $105,114.24 for his laziness. As also noted in some of the other comments the income is taxed at exactly the same rate,... | The rate at which one's income is taxed should be based upon average hourly income rather than annual income | 0 | 2015-01-08T23:13:02 | 72 | 11 | 3 |
The question you need to ask yourself is why is Putin setting aside his hatred for the US just because Trump is elected? Do you think he suddenly decided he wants to make the world a better place, or do you think he wants to use Trump as a pawn for his own political expediency? (spoiler alert: it's the latter) Putin ha... | I think the United States allying with Russia would be a good thing, contrary to the Cold War era propaganda still going around to this day. | 1 | 2016-11-26T18:31:34 | 124 | 27 | null |
If we observe his transition behavior as a signal about his likeness to previous Republican President-Elect's, he is starkly different: * He has attended only two of the daily scheduled intelligence briefings. There is plenty of speculation about this, but it is odd to say the least. * His transition team is an odd col... | Donald Trump ran for president purely to bolster his ego, and despite his anti-establishment rhetoric, his presidency will not be much different than a typical Republican Presidency | 1 | 2016-12-02T17:17:01 | 178 | 360 | 3 |
In the case at hand, there is doubt about the guilt of Darren Wilson. I am not saying whether or not he did anything illegal because I do not know, but the job of the Grand Jury is also not to determine guilt, it is to determine whether the case deserves a trial. The case didn't deserve a trial. The evidence suggests ... | I don't think it matters whether the Grand Jury thinks Darren Wilson is guilty, he should have been indicted anyway. | 0 | 2014-11-27T07:22:17 | 172 | 6 | 3 |
So an egg 5 minutes before hatching has nothing alive in it? And sure eggs are quite symbolic, but just because we have a tradition and giving meanings to certain items doesn't make them true | Life begins at birth. Not conception. Not any other arbitrary time. Birth. | 1 | 2017-04-13T10:36:47 | 62 | 1 | 18 |
I saw on my Facebook feed today that there is going to be a free concert for women but men have to pay. It kind of made me upset because why should a person be able to get something for free based on their gender Bussines strategy 101. If there is generally not enough females (or males) at an event you think would bene... | You shouldn't get free things based on your gender. | 0 | 2016-06-27T00:12:14 | 65 | 2 | 4 |
The no laugh track videos are really stupid argument. If the show didn't have a laugh track they wouldn't have the long pauses. The actors purposely don't talk so that the lines are stepped on by laughing. A show like Seinfeld seems awkward when you remove the laugh track and it's considered one of the best comedies of... | I think the popular show The Big Bang Theory is the pinnacle of stupidity. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-10T14:44:14 | 230 | 157 | 1 |
If it is offensive for white actors to portray non-white roles, why is it ok for able-bodies to act disabled? Is it truly offensive for white actors to portray non-white roles, or is it that it is offensive to deliberately avoid casting non-white actors? The rhetoric that emerges from any movement will generally repre... | It is offensive to be awarding people for acting disabled. | 0 | 2015-01-13T23:26:15 | 89 | 11 | 11 |
Actually, I am using reason to dismiss your arguments in support of emotionally held position. I am using reason to help me avoid having to confront your arguments and avoid changing my view. Or at least, I am pretending to. | I believe the concept of morality is abolished in the presence of reason CMV | 1 | 2013-08-14T14:47:29 | 97 | 1 | 62Δ |
I may not be able to change the way you view it, but this is what changed my perspective: I catch bugs and put them outside rather than killing them because they are just as alive as I am. So, why do I have more of a right to live than, for example, a cricket? I'm bigger, eat different food, and the noises I make to co... | Killing insects isn't intrinsically amoral | 1 | 2017-04-16T12:15:51 | 40 | 4 | null |
Here's the choice: 1. Use tech we have today to make a gamble on storing this stuff for long periods of time 2. Develop *better* tech in a fraction of that time and get by on what else we have in the meantime There's just no great approach to #1. If your approach is "well develop better tech so we can store stuff over ... | If we can test nuclear weapons on US soil then we have the space to store nuclear waste. | 1 | 2016-03-19T00:04:12 | 142 | 22 | 30 |
Has anyone mentioned the differences in cost of living across this country? Housing, energy, and many services cost significantly more on the coasts than in the Midwest. I'm not sure how a single federally imposed minimum wage, or a singular UBI for that matter, would be effective for every local/regional economy. I be... | A federal $15 an hour minimum wage is disproportionately damaging to small businesses; a Universal Basic Income is better as both a solution for society and platform for the Democratic Party | 0 | 2016-10-16T00:56:21 | 53 | 1 | null |
The whole problem with this argument and the arguments you made responding to people is you are playing semantics. That's the problem that everyone is doing: playing semantics. Oh, "Civil Unions" are OK, but not "Marriages," or maybe "Domestic Partnerships" or whatever. The fact of the matter is; the ENTIRE reason is p... | I believe that the Gay Marriage discussion isn't as important as the media portrays it to be | 0 | 2014-12-21T06:51:24 | 73 | 2 | null |
I'd like to specifically address this one: Anti hunters/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. Hunting, fishing, etc. aren't ... | If a total catastrophic breakdown of society were to happen, liberals would be primarily useless. | 0 | 2014-10-23T18:21:29 | 85 | 1 | 4 |
If one is in support of Sanders, then why would they ever vote for a conservative? While I agree with your thesis, that these people are not "true" progressives (whatever the fuck *that* means), the fact is that "true" progressivism is not the only reason to vote for an actual true progressive like Sanders. Barack Obam... | Those who support Sanders, yet would vote Republican if Sanders isn't nominated, are not true progressives, they are merely anti-establishment. | 1 | 2016-03-01T03:56:41 | 317 | 4 | 7 |
Hopefully his ignorance and hate will reveal to the American people their own unfounded exceptionalism, and move this country in the right direction, to the left. | Donald Trump Brings Out the Worst in Almost Everyone | 0 | 2017-02-07T22:38:59 | 122 | -3 | null |
Trying and failing at something, revising your thought process, and then trying again builds your intuition, which is that gut feeling that helps you solve novel problems without outside help. Allowing yourself to fail more than three times will develop your intuition and will save you time in the long run. I do this r... | Working things out for yourself is a waste of time if there's an answer readily available | 0 | 2016-12-28T11:42:58 | 32 | 2 | null |
I can be friends with anyone for the most part. But for my very best friends and my SOs, I need to share some fundamental views with them. For example, I had a serious girlfriend, and when we were moving into the next stages of our lives and figuring out whether we should do the long distance thing with eyes towards ta... | People who can only be friends with those who agree with their political views are shallow and immature | 0 | 2014-08-22T03:16:31 | 183 | 6 | 1 |
I would say a good definition for "normal" in this context is, "it's okay because it happens a lot." Think about a parent assuaging a worried child: "Mommy, I cry when Bobby makes fun of me." "Don't worry, that's normal." "Mommy, my egg yolk broke apart." "Don't worry, that's normal." "Mommy, there's a hole in my old p... | CMV : Homosexuality is not "normal" | 0 | 2017-03-04T08:21:14 | 70 | 1 | 81 |
However, I can't help but see that as a negative side effect of full liberty, because inevitably it just leads to more people getting hurt. That's the numbers talking. That's not the numbers talking, it's the BBC (i.e. fake news) talking. Just look at their sources - pure bias. Take a look at [this recent article for e... | Guns are a real danger to people and countries without them just fare better. | 0 | 2017-04-20T10:42:42 | 802 | 1 | null |
I call bullshit. LGBT is supposed to be inclusionary of all sexual identities ...why? It's in the name? Why should a community that clearly defined itself as containing homosexual and bisexual _sexual orientations_ and incongruent _gender identities_ be that? That seems like putting words into a groups mouth and then b... | Denying asexuality from the LGBT community is discriminatory and shouldn't be tolerated. | 0 | 2017-06-18T01:33:03 | 179 | 2 | null |
I bet North Korea could pull off a real life hunger games, given time they would have tribute volunteers. 1: You should understand that the tribute system is a system designed to show the outer districts that the central districts/elites can do to them whatever they want. The outer districts aren't happy about thi... | "The Hunger Games" as a story is completely unbelievable | 1 | 2015-01-23T18:16:39 | 255 | 180 | 2 |
Being able to write clearly and effectively is a universal skill that is useful in almost any endeavor. If we stop English classes at the high school level, than none of us would be able to read/write above an eighth grade level. That's staggering low. | English in American high schools is an unnecessary course | 0 | 2016-10-10T05:29:41 | 60 | 20 | 149 |
Growing the plants locally is great, but as I said, having an independent small farm usually requires fertilizer. Having some animals on a farm is good for the soil, and reduces the amount of stuff you would have to truck in- trucking in poop is a waste of resources, again, when you could simply keep a handful of chick... | I think our current amount of meat consumption in the first world is immoral. CMV | 1 | 2013-04-24T10:03:24 | 106 | 1 | 10 |
I was a juror in a case involving a 15 year old a 16 year old and some very cruel activities they were being tried for. They brutally murdered a man by knocking him to the ground holding him down with their boots and stabbing him over 60 times in the face with his neighbors kitchen knife. They attempted murder to an e... | Teenagers should not be able to get life sentences for crimes they commited | 1 | 2016-12-14T22:47:32 | 55 | 26 | null |
There is no risk of humans dieing to the mess we make within a century, global warming is only a few degrees a century and we have ac; we will be killing off frogs sure, but our food sources increase, the animals we eat have booming populations(like to our growth rate) besides fish(we need to allow homesteading of the ... | CMV - I believe human civilization is doomed. *PLEASE* change my view. | 0 | 2014-05-06T19:18:55 | 109 | 1 | 22Δ |
Well, yes, but it's not really a special situation. Every good or service or currency in the world is subject to the same thing. The worrying thing is that we have such a humongous supply (and a huge rate of increase in that supply) of dollars, which means we need a huge amount of demand to maintain its value. It worri... | I believe that the "collapse" will never happen.... CMV | 1 | 2013-07-10T19:51:43 | 124 | 1 | 2Δ |
Pansexuality, from the definition I learned, isn't necessarily the attraction to more than two sexes. Rather, its the attraction to people without regard for sex or gender. So, for example, if one is a bisexual male they are attracted to biological females and males. But they might not be attracted to people who are ... | Pansexuality Makes No Sense | 0 | 2017-04-06T17:39:55 | 71 | 3 | 18 |
I'd offer that "not electable" and "not likely to win this year" are at least somewhat different. Most of your reasons are systematic, not individual. Sure, superPACs change the spending game. Sure, the opposition is going to assassinate character. Sure, the party mechanics act to stop genuine popularity from gaining ... | Bernie Sanders is not electable. | 1 | 2015-11-24T05:50:38 | 72 | 5 | 1 |
I've been reading TRP for over a year now, and I feel like I understand them somewhat. As a group they don't condone rape or beating women like some members of Reddit would have you believe. In this sense, they don't deserve the hate that they receive over reddit. However, I would still classify them as a hate group. I... | /r/TheRedPill and /r/MensRights has way more hate than deserved. | 1 | 2015-06-10T06:53:25 | 193 | 23 | null |
Everyone pays sales tax. Thus everyone gets to vote. | Only taxpayers should be given a vote | 0 | 2016-07-24T04:27:19 | 145 | 1 | null |
The reason why we learn relatively complicated math in school isn't to teach us useless math skills, it's to teach us how to *think*. Using undeniable facts to come to a conclusion based on a logical process. There's no way anyone could know everything, and even the average person has to learn a shit-ton of stuff to fu... | People shouldn't be dismissive of conspiracy theories. | 0 | 2016-04-28T01:04:00 | 247 | 3 | 1 |
Let's say that we've got a big drug problem and it's causing lots of other crime like gangs, murder, and theft and look at it from two points of view: (these are going to be a little bit stereotypical so don't be offended but I'm going to use some hyperbole to make my point more clear) John is a Christian Deist and bel... | The question of free will is pointless | 1 | 2016-10-09T03:16:17 | 77 | 48 | 2 |
Historically, taxis have been given government-issued monopolies in order to keep the number of taxis down, and for good reason. Left to the free market, taxi services produce a massive negative externality (a cost to society) in the form of traffic congestion, which is exactly one of the situations where the free mark... | Uber should be allowed to operate; butthurt taxi drivers shouldn't impede progress from happening. | 1 | 2016-08-25T22:11:24 | 128 | 13 | 1 |
I'm personally not grossed out by any of the meats you listed apart from human. I don't know why but the thought is revolting. With that said I see any reason why consumption of any meat (including human) could be objectively wrong. Everything came from the same matter as everything else, which is why I found it silly ... | If you are willing to eat meat, then I don't think you should be grossed out by eating ANY meat, including dog meat, hamster meat, snake meat.. even human meat. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-03T06:06:43 | 64 | 1 | null |
Sports are great entertainment for those who enjoy them. They bring more joy and sadness than movies, books, games, etc, ever could for me, because they're real. But you seem to have the opinion that "why are we out there throwing a football around when there are starving kids." That I would say that we need a form of... | I think sports are ridiculous and carry no real value. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-08T03:28:34 | 67 | 5 | 14Δ |
Sorry, I should have said a giant invisible toaster that is undetectable by modern science. You're still mistaken, though. You do not need to prove that something DOES NOT exist. We assume that something does not exist by default and then provide evidence for its existence. Since you're bringing the scientific method i... | I believe that being an atheist goes against the scientific method. CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-18T06:13:57 | 106 | 7 | 50Δ |
Apologies about grammar, but I still see the benefits to the individual as outweighing the costs to the whole of women Fair enough, but if you recognize the costs to women as a whole, then you have to acknowledge that this statement This is a form of sexism that doesn't harm either group involved No longer applies | Sexism isn't always bad. | 1 | 2016-05-11T01:26:34 | 58 | 2 | 10 |
NFL receivers embellish PI calls every game, so do D-ends with holding. I've seen Tom Brady sprint a full 30 yards to yell at a back judge for not calling PI on a crucial play. Don't pretend like NFL players are above any of that. Also, in soccer, there is one ref, the side judges can make calls as well, but sometimes ... | I think (American) Football is much more fun to watch than soccer. | 0 | 2014-07-01T20:56:31 | 69 | 2 | 16Δ |
Racism is difficult to define. How are you defining it? The most racist thing most racists do is vote for racists. | "I am not a racist [against X], one of my best friends is X" is a perfectly valid rebuttal | 0 | 2017-05-30T03:18:41 | 126 | 1 | null |
It goes into another portal when I am talking about intimacy are you ok if he loves other people along with you? Sure. There are 7 billion people in the world. I couldn't help but consider myself a selfish, egotistic jerk if I insisted my partner love only me. Love isn't a limited resource - my partner loving somebody ... | I think 'open' relationships are for commitment phobes waiting for something better to come along that don't want to be alone in the interim. | 1 | 2014-11-24T10:16:08 | 268 | 23 | 15 |
OP, different types of cancers are all very different in terms of aggressiveness, treatment options, prognosis, and disease course. pancreatic cancer is one of the worst in terms of survival rates and options, for instance. conversely, something like early stage colon cancer can be totally cured with partial removal of... | If I am ever diagnosed with cancer, it is in my best interest to not seek treatment | 0 | 2015-09-23T16:46:25 | 47 | 1 | 1Δ |
My experience rather is that universities optimize for placebo. They try to look legit by using opaque language, and they like to make you FEEL enlightened Universities get ranked based on research and scores, so no. Proposition 2 - The educated class does not realize higher education is a fraud, because that runs aga... | higher education is largely pointless and somewhat harmful | 0 | 2017-06-11T18:54:26 | 31 | 9 | 14 |
Parties are fun, and a marriage is a good excuse to have one. | I do NOT want to have a wedding, despite my family's (and his family's) wishes. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-18T16:34:31 | 309 | 40 | 1 |
I'm going to do a pretty lazy point-by-point: (EDIT: After reading what I wrote, apparently I'm not, exactly) I don't get it- my computer boots in under 20 seconds As does mine; this probably has more to do with your hardware spec than it does with Windows 8. I use a Windows 8 computer for work, and it also has a lot o... | I like Windows 8. | 1 | 2014-09-26T16:27:54 | 84 | 35 | 43 |
I want to agree with you but this would only apply to an outlier like everyone mentioned. Many fit people who used to be fat have gone through this, myself included. You can be a 215lb male, 5' 10" with 25% bodyfat and be considered unhealthy. But if 5-6 months ago you were 325lbs 40+% bodyfat, couldn't run a mile in u... | The Health At Every Size Movement focusing on healthy diet and exercise is more helpful in fighting obesity than traditional programs that target weight as the enemy. | 1 | 2016-02-12T03:24:03 | 40 | 5 | 1 |
It seems like this concern will only really apply once some sort of UBI program becomes a major source of all income. But doesn't that also presume that everyone on UBI will cease all productive work? Like, if I was getting a basic income from the government, I would definitely quit my job, but I would quit my job in o... | Universal basic income is unsustainable | 0 | 2017-06-22T22:41:15 | 44 | 1 | null |
1: The price is mainly because of reactionary legislation based on irrational fear. If the procedures and safety measures were equivalent to those of equally hazardous non-radioactive chemicals, the price comes down a lot. There are also fuels other than U-235, including plutonium and thorium. 2: Radiation is a lot lik... | "Nuclear power is bad", CMV | 1 | 2014-03-18T00:27:46 | 44 | 8 | 2 |
If could would exist he would be the devil otherwise, he would stop this madness. No God(s) are obligated to do anything. If you believe so, please provide your source for that claim. *God cannot be omnipotent and omnibenevolent ...* This doesn't imply anything about *the nature of what God(s) ought to do* in this situ... | If god would exist he would be the devil | 0 | 2017-03-22T23:20:38 | 84 | 1 | null |
What do you love about your girlfriend? Is it her smile? Her laugh? The way she kisses you? The deep conversations? What I'm getting at, is that it is probably not her kidneys, her liver, or her spleen. Probably not even her biological heart, as everything we attribute to someone "having heart" is actually various bits... | My girlfriend is an organ donor. While admirable, I want her to opt-back out. | 1 | 2014-04-21T14:00:03 | 49 | 7 | 50Δ |
My first reason is that they seem to unify the emotions is a song. I have heard people say that harsh vocals add to music by changing the atmosphere or making it more emotionally intense. To me, it makes every song sound angry and frantic which just makes the emotions in the song more unified. There are also much less ... | Harsh (screaming or growling) vocals add nothing to music | 1 | 2015-10-19T07:12:53 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
The economy agrees. 10k people making $10k (i.e. $100M) are worth about 10x what a person who makes $10M. However, even if you fix what I think was probably a math error by making it 1000 $10k earners, this is a false dichotomy, as a person "with" $10M is completely unrelated to 1000 people "making" $10k/year. If you ... | I believe that 10,000 people making $10,000 a year are far more important to the economy and society than one person with $10,000,000. CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-20T02:54:53 | 106 | 2 | 95Δ |
Let's focus on the tax bracket version of this, since I think it's closer to being a good idea. My question is why 100% for the top bracket as opposed to say 90%, or some other extremely high number? When you go literally to 100%, that's when you are literally cutting off incentives for growth. With 90%, you're reducin... | If we can establish a minimum wage, we should be able to establish a maximum wage | 1 | 2015-10-05T23:43:15 | 298 | 60 | 58 |
The thing is, the government has such a thing that's called a Taxi medallion. Every taxi driver needs to have such a medallion, or they're not allowed to drive a taxi. As these medallions are limited, they cost a ton of money. Uber does not have a medallion, because they argue that they're not a taxi corporation, merel... | Uber should be allowed to operate; butthurt taxi drivers shouldn't impede progress from happening. | 0 | 2016-08-25T19:12:53 | 128 | 4 | null |
I can't disagree anymore, because I don't agree with mandatory car insurance in the first place. But back to the original point, no matter how unfair that might be, it doesn't justify paying men more money. | If men have to pay more for car insurance, it is only fair for men to earn higher pays. | 1 | 2014-09-29T06:48:23 | 77 | 1 | 31Δ |
I'm late on this, but I have a very strong point of view here and wanted to weigh in. Hillary Clinton was very popular as Secretary of State. As she prepared to run for president starting in 2013, she was the subject of near-constant attacks from both the right and the left. Those attacks, as well as the baggage she'd ... | Bernie Sanders could have defeated Donald Trump, had he been the Democrat nominee. | 0 | 2017-01-15T05:04:13 | 48 | 5 | null |
Squirrels are not smart creatures. If you pepper spray into the entry hole, they will panic and probably cause MORE chewing/scratching damage trying to make their way down into the house rather than going for the hole. Next, you're assuming that there is no nest of baby squirrels in the space. Even if your plan goes a... | I should spray pepper spray into my attic to get rid of (what I'm pretty sure are) squirrels. | 0 | 2015-02-06T20:11:18 | 43 | 6 | 5 |
I can change your view about the term "Catch-22," perhaps. A Catch-22 is when each element is a prerequisite for the other. Your first sentence basically says that to have equality you must have freedom, and to have freedom you must have equality. Seems to me that's the opposite of the point you're trying to make. The ... | The more equal we want our society to become, the less freedom that society will have. | 1 | 2014-10-21T07:00:40 | 527 | 1 | 2 |
ERROR: type should be large_string, got "https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=135591 Rapists don't jump out of an alleyway. Most are date rapists, and they tend to first try other tactics to get sex, like pressuring women, saying they love them, and trying to get them drunk. They normally try to avoid overpowering women- they use verbal threats, rarely inflict physical violence, and rarely injure women. As such, these rapists have a long time to interact with the women they are raping, and have time to see them in different clothes and become attracted. http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Behavioural_Characteristics_of_Rapists.pdf Only 10% or so, even in a sample that oversamples stranger rape, are physically abusive during rape. So rather than imagining a physically powerful male raping a poor defenseless female, and so picking targets based on who has the sexiest clothing, imagining a desperate acquaintance with few options trying to get sex any way they can until they get a person drunk or cornered and then raping them." | I think women who wear revealing clothing increase their risk for rape CMV (PS: I am NOT advocating rape, please read content) | 0 | 2013-07-25T12:40:41 | 64 | 3 | 62Δ |
1. Women are physically inferior to men on average. True, but it's not that big of a difference, and when would that difference really matter? Is running faster or lifting more really a huge part of being in a military which primarily uses guns and technology to fight? 2. Standards are consistently changed in a manner ... | Women should not serve in most military functions. | 0 | 2015-03-12T08:09:01 | 74 | 0 | null |
To be open-minded truly, one would have to both agree and disagree with every viewpoint. As it is impossible to do so, we are all stuck being closed minded, we may hear the others side, but our bias and subjective choice of what is best will always affect our choice. I disagree that it's impossible to do so. In fact, ... | There is no such thing as being open-minded | 0 | 2016-02-17T21:33:05 | 28 | 1 | 74 |
The voting system isn't perfect, but it's a good way of ensuring that content which most people want to see gets to the top. If that's not the content you want to see, you can sort by controversial to reverse the effect for you. Just by virtue of being a platform this size, reddit has to favor some content over others. | The voting system on reddit has outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. | 1 | 2017-03-10T00:18:30 | 24 | 13 | 98 |
What if the CIA gets hacked? Even if you still wouldn't care, can you see why some people would care, even if they're not doing anything illegal? | Your private life isn't very important. CIA spying on you or Google selling your personal info to advertisers is not a big deal. | 0 | 2017-03-08T20:15:12 | 69 | 25 | 6 |
If a law is generally not enforced, I don't really think the number alone would affect too much change. Besides, we can have creative enforcement strategies. E.g. we can encourage people to take cell-phone pictures/videos of offenders and send those in for 25% of the fine. | There should be stricter punishments for minor laws that a lot of people break | 1 | 2017-06-03T02:31:01 | 92 | 1 | 170 |
You can’t prove that something supernatural does not exist. No, however you can point to a lack of evidence(as well as contradicting supportive evidence) to determine the likelihood of something existing. Someone can also hold an atheistic view until they are presented with evidence to support religious or agnostic be... | When discussing the existence of a God and an afterlife being agnostic is the only rational way of talking about it. | 1 | 2017-01-24T22:18:04 | 148 | 11 | 17 |
Actually, living in urban areas tends to be better for the environment. Cities do produce a lot of greenhouse gases and pollutants, but they are also very densely populated. Per capita, they are better for the environment than living in rural areas because of factors like people living in less space, having a shorter d... | Life in the countryside better fosters social and environmental values. | 0 | 2014-08-13T16:17:28 | 22 | 1 | 2 |
Namely, you have given the family two health insurance plans. You're having them both get an average employer sponsored plan, and medicaid/an Obamacare exchange plan. I did have an error here in that I was applying the Obamacare Premium Tax Credits as discounts to the cost of employer sponsored healthcare. There was a... | Bernie Sanders' healthcare plan is not realistic. | 1 | 2016-01-22T19:02:51 | 197 | 1 | 1 |
However, so many of the things I have read in my charts and my romantic partners' charts have been dead-on accurate. Anecdotal evidence does not valid statistical evaluation make. If you wanted to convince me that astrology could accurately predict things the way you claim you have seen, you would have to gather a lar... | I believe in astrology. | 0 | 2014-03-31T20:52:02 | 96 | 2 | null |
I do not see any place for the idea that any animal, including humans, is truly capable of making choices. What does it mean to "make choices" anyway? You seem to be presupposing that the only meaningful way to make choices involves some kind of dualist separation of the mind. Personally, as [Compatibilist](https://en.... | There is No Free Will | 0 | 2015-01-01T18:16:02 | 207 | 5 | null |
My assumption is that for most people this comes down to a fear of the unknown, as opposed to a fear of non-existence. A fear of non-existence seems like a fear of non-consciousness, and yet we experience UNconsciousness regularly. Would you view a "consciousness transplant" as effective immortality? When a new body wa... | I'm terrified of dying because I will stop existing | 0 | 2015-03-27T23:18:42 | 150 | 1 | 1Δ |
You seem to have misunderstood my comment. I **DO NOT** believe religion should be abolished. Everyone is entitled to practice their own set of beliefs. As a matter of fact, I myself and my family are religious. However, that's no reason to deny the correlation between organized religion and violence. I'm merely contes... | If religion magically disappeared one day, I don't think the violence would be any different | 1 | 2015-06-06T11:34:43 | 395 | 12 | null |
Does this extent to other countries? Because the capital being the largest city is extremely common. | If a state's capital is its largest city, that state sucks. | 0 | 2016-05-07T12:12:34 | 25 | 1 | 3 |
Property taxes are best thought of as a "user fee". A number of things that have already been enumerated are provided by local governments that only have a couple means of collecting revenue these are: 1) Business Licenses, 2) Sales Tax, and 3) Property Tax. As a general rule an additional family represents the consump... | I believe the US government has no right to charge me property tax. CMV | 1 | 2014-05-05T21:23:26 | 36 | 1 | 70Δ |
Transgenders have been using bathrooms for years without incident. All of a sudden it's an issue. It's an issue because it used to be decided by the owner of the property, but then it started being put into law. The Anti-transgender law was a response to an anti-discrimination ordinance. Creeps have been dressing up l... | The transgender bathroom thing is a non-issue. People who wanted attention made it an issue. | 0 | 2016-04-21T20:00:02 | 763 | 103 | 52 |
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