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One of our dining halls here at The University of Mighigan was just recently redone and spent around 60 million doing so. If they can afford the coolest new chairs I’m sure they can afford better healthy food. That's not how college funding works. Usually huge construction projects come from a specially earmarked fund ... | College cafeterias do not offer good enough healthy options for students | 1 | 2014-10-03T19:40:22 | 74 | 11 | 11 |
Even with being vegan for ethical reasons about animal life, consider that the person who is vegan may more be valuing *not causing suffering*. The question with a child in very early stages of development may not be "is it a person" but rather "is it capable of suffering". For example, it would seem consistent to me t... | It's extreme hyprocisy to be a vegan and have an "on demand" lifestyle-dictated abortion | 1 | 2016-10-24T13:44:55 | 95 | 3 | 8 |
Well there are some laws protecting people from this sort of thing but even putting that aside I'd rather cross the line from time to time then create some law that will allow the president, Congress, or some CEO to press charges against a newspaper because they don't like what the paper has presented. It's hard to ima... | A man who didn't asked to be victimized, should not have his past brought into the public spotlight | 1 | 2017-04-12T00:31:33 | 592 | 244 | 49 |
[Here](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2003/10/smoke_and_mirrors.html) is an article that discusses why firefighters aren't all they are cracked up to be. The main reasons are that it is not that dangerous (statistically speaking, pizza delivery driving is more dangerous,) and it's a p... | I believe the firefighting is the manliest, most heroic and most respectable profession, CMV | 0 | 2014-01-16T10:31:09 | 26 | 20 | 38Δ |
I'll ignore your proposed method of erasing anonymity and instead address why anonymity exists. You paint a picture as though people prefer internet anonymity primarily to vent and to show the more base or cruel aspects of their personality. That is not the case. There are also plenty of people who turn to sites like R... | I believe the Internet should not be anonymous. I think our basic info should be made available when we comment. Or sites should offer an Anon Section, like a virtual smoking section. | 1 | 2015-08-09T06:35:58 | 35 | 13 | 1 |
Are you familiar with the concept of the [Uncanny Valley?](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg) Essentially, something that appears close to human, but slightly off in some way will appear as increasingly unnerving to people. ([See here for a demonstration.](https://www.youtube.c... | I believe that people who claim to be afraid of clowns are exaggerating and being over dramatic. | 1 | 2014-05-16T18:10:33 | 125 | 54 | 1 |
I don't think you really intend for everyone to always carry it around then. If we exclude eating at restaraunts, you're really only referring to situations like picnics and barbecues, where people would commonly use plastic objects. Carrying it around permanently would be inefficient, and I described how different foo... | I think we should make a return to carrying cutlery on our person | 1 | 2014-07-11T14:16:42 | 76 | 5 | 8 |
People like you confuse me. So you like Sanders, but if it isn't Sanders you're going to vote for the person who is probably the least like Sanders and thus give power to the party that thinks the opposite of what Sanders believes? If honesty is important to you, than why are you going to vote for Trump who is one of t... | I am a Sanders supporter, I'd rather vote for Trump than Clinton. | 0 | 2016-03-10T03:06:04 | 307 | 129 | 55 |
Dogs are AWESOME. A few benefits: * Having dogs makes the owner significantly more likely to be sufficiently [physically active](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2156050/). From the study: "odds of achieving sufficient physical activity and walking were 57% to 77% higher among dog owners compared with those... | You shouldn't own a dog. | 1 | 2015-08-15T02:02:43 | 54 | 7 | null |
As in the post, I am highly concerned by the fact that in all given western populations I've looked up online, black persons tend to make up an extremely disproportionate amount of criminal activity. I'm African American. But I work with an Indian woman and a Dominican man. In their native countries (DR and India) t... | I feel that black people might genetically be predisposed to anti-social activity/behaviour, and it really upsets me. Please Change My View. | 0 | 2014-06-23T21:20:32 | 69 | 2 | 7Δ |
To put a finer point on your argument, I think maybe the problem is actually the Citizen's United decision. As it's already been pointed out, you can only give $2,700 directly to a candidate. SuperPACs, on the other hand, are a whole 'nother matter. In my view, that's where the problem lies. | The root problem in American Government is the Campaign Finance System. | 1 | 2017-03-01T20:54:11 | 43 | 4 | 2 |
Let's ignore the ethics completely. Torture doesn't work. Putting someone under intense physical pain or discomfort only stimulate's the person to tell anything. Be it truth's or lies, or whatever they can to let the pain stop. There is no reliable way to get the [information](http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commen... | Supposing that the "ticking time bomb" scenario is real, torturing terrorists is ethical | 0 | 2017-01-23T11:23:48 | 38 | 5 | 21 |
Firstly, sociological information is poorly covered in pop-culture. But, this is not unique. I'd argue that misrepresentation of medical research, biological research and physics research are far more prone to being bastardized in the world of laymen. Further, most intro to sociology classes are about as good at sociol... | Sociology is mostly a pseudo-science. | 1 | 2016-12-18T00:41:39 | 71 | 29 | 49 |
My objection is that, statistically speaking, most instances of "explaining causality" really have no other purpose than to blame the victim. It's technically possible not to do this. But it's extremely rare, and when you do, you really have to do a thorough job of it, or it ends up being counterproductive. Therefore... | Explaining causation is not "blaming" the victim, and it's a worthwhile endeavor. | 1 | 2015-01-08T01:34:03 | 561 | 18 | 89 |
I don't know your age, but there is one thing that you may not have considered: Things aren't the same as they were when you were growing up. You say that we shouldn't be babying these kids who are victims of bullying. Did you feel that way when you were being picked on? Or did you wish someone would do something to st... | I think cyberbullying is BS, CMV | 1 | 2013-10-17T17:26:12 | 121 | 41 | 1 |
I'm the OP. [Here's](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/13/what-bernie-sanders-is-willing-to-sacrifice-for-a-more-equal-society/) a news item about Bernie Sanders that changes my view a bit. He says that there's not much point in talking about economic growth if 99% of new income goes to the top 1%... | Government officials have very little control over economic growth and political candidates are either bluffing or stupid when they say they will "grow the economy." | 0 | 2015-07-14T05:22:53 | 60 | 3 | null |
Can we qualify this by saying pregnancy is inconvenient to American businesses? This is not so much of an issue in other countries. | Donald Trump saying that pregnancy is an inconvenience to businesses is not only fine, but true. | 0 | 2016-11-06T21:38:04 | 352 | 2 | null |
You need to socially develop with other 14 year olds and maintain those (or similar age) relationships as you grow. If you started to spend all your time working for a paycheck, you would be isolated because everyone else would be 20 years or older and have different interests than you. | As an intelligent 14 year old, I could support myself if I had the legal rights to. | 1 | 2015-09-27T23:13:12 | 36 | 15 | 69 |
Governments are built to run societies and take mankind out of the state of nature (anarchy). Representative governments like the ones in the U.S., Canada, England, etc. are built so that the opinions of the larger society are brought to consensus without every person in that country having to be a direct part of the p... | I believe society is just as racist as we were in the past. | 1 | 2015-07-22T05:57:34 | 45 | 3 | null |
Personally, I'd only call stuff-between-two-pieces-of-bread a sandwich without any qualifiers. I'd agree that a gyro or hot dog is a type of sandwich, but if someone asked me what I was eating and I was having a gyro, I wouldn't answer "sandwich". The other issue I have with that list is hard-shell tacos. I really don'... | I believe that pizza is a kind of sandwich. CMV. | 0 | 2013-11-24T20:25:46 | 52 | 3 | 5 |
Exhibit #1 Ghetto Bastard Lyrics Artist: Naughty By Nature Album: Naughty By Nature Play Music Smooth it out This is a story about a drifter Who waited for the worst while the best live 'cross town Who never planned on having someday Why me huh?! Some get a little and some get none Some catch a bad one and some leave ... | I hate Hip-Hop culture | 1 | 2015-12-11T04:10:04 | 34 | 7 | 41 |
Let's say a woman had a threesome in college. Years later, she meets a guy and start dating. After a few years in, once they got pretty serious, she shares her experience. He is repulsed and disgusted by the thought, and leaves her. He did not do anything wrong. Or maybe a girl develops a crush on a guy. She confesses... | Breaking up with someone or refusing to date them because of their sexual history is perfectly okay | 0 | 2017-01-10T20:40:31 | 168 | 1 | 1 |
I'm late, but one point I don't see discussed is that I always interpreted the ending as Winston is about to get killed. Remember earlier in the book when Winston recalls seeing the three old Party members. They had been arrested for crimes against the Party, presumably tortured and then released. Winston sees them at ... | I think 1984 has a happy ending. | 0 | 2014-06-07T22:36:32 | 330 | 1 | null |
Why not turn it around? Why not argue for planes that are free of babies, that cost 3-5x more per ticket than otherwise? If it's so bad, you will no doubt pay that additional amount, I'm sure. | On airplanes, tickets going to passengers with babies should cost 3-5x more than regular tickets, or they should be banned altogether. | 1 | 2017-04-23T04:11:07 | 91 | 6 | 5 |
I agree that SOMETHING needs to be done. However, what you suggest is not a "Win / Win" scenario, nor is it a compromise, it is a blatant retraction of the Second Amendment Rights (and if someone can vote to take it away, is it truly a "Right?") There seems to be no "Give" on the "Anti-Gun" side of the equation, just t... | Here's what I would change about American gun regulations. CMV | 0 | 2013-02-07T08:31:36 | 30 | 2 | null |
I think the context of the modern world makes for an important difference between the book Moriarty and the character from the BBC series. Both Moriarty and Holmes have several layers of motives, but one of them is the search for something stimulating, some challenge for their minds. Moriarty in the books has built a ... | I hated BBC Sherlock's take on Moriarty | 1 | 2017-05-28T20:04:51 | 79 | 86 | 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(France) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_European_Socialists Socialism is widespread and common among european countries, and has been for over a century. So, it's worked fine in numerous places, and ma... | CMV : I don't believe socialism has every worked for the betterment of a country. | 1 | 2017-03-27T18:36:13 | 93 | 8 | 107 |
If someone is accepting, and under certain conditions, I wouldn't mind elaborating on my thoughts if asked to. It's not unusual, though, to face a logic dead end that is impossible to overcome, and that's apparent early on, if not immediately. In it's most simplistic form, non-arguments of the type 'god says so', 'it j... | "Not my duty/responsibility to educate" is a cop-out tactic that is ultimately harmful to social justice pursuits. | 0 | 2017-05-10T02:45:08 | 81 | 1 | null |
There are many reasons why you might prefer the rectangular cut. You note that the triangular cut exposes more middle bread to the air, more food. This is also a downside. If you leave them for a while they will go slightly stale, dry out faster as they are more exposed. For a utilitarian mind which may want a sandwich... | With regards to sandwiches, triangular cuts are far superior to rectangular cuts and should be the only ones ever used. | 1 | 2014-08-23T02:45:31 | 53 | 61 | 62Δ |
Many people consider moderation a virtue, in life and in politics. But nearly everyone also believes that there are certain hard lines in the moral sphere where compromise is not possible. It's an extreme example, but I'm sure you're not a moderate about slavery. I don't mean that you can't get in the mindset of poor ... | Moderation and neutrality are the best political ideologies, and most radicalism is fundamentally flawed. | 0 | 2017-05-10T22:56:34 | 107 | 9 | 4 |
First of all, there's the "Pottery Barn" rule of "you break it, you buy it". Much of the reason Africa is screwed up is because of how they were raped during imperialism, and are left with artificial country boundaries based on the Europeans, rather than shared language or culture. Moreover, there is an amazing return ... | I believe we should leave the poor parts of Africa to their own devices. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-21T17:43:59 | 87 | 100 | 108Δ |
How can a CEO blameshift? Everyone knows he's the CEO. So you're stepping away from your "not figureheads, the actual leaders"? Now it's the CEO and not the people making the bad decisions? we can rely on our judges to spot that and not apply the death penalty. Well, that's one way they can blameshift: make it look lik... | If a firm is too big to fail and gets bailed out, its leaders should be executed | 1 | 2014-06-25T19:21:16 | 39 | 1 | null |
Moral wise, we both don't have a problem with it. I know I would be the beneficiary of this, and he understands this. He really wants to support me with my career in any way he can. He told me, that even if it doesn't work out between us, he would still remain my best friend and put my family's mind at ease by signing ... | It's a good idea to marry my best friend of two years, (dating for only 3 months), in order to save 195K pounds (301K US dollars) in tuition | 1 | 2015-09-15T04:36:39 | 55 | 1 | 1 |
I think the biggest problem with this is that no two situations/crimes are exactly alike. You can sign a statement claiming to know that you were committing a crime. Then basically do it again and argue that some detail was different this time thereby invalidating your statement for this particular situation as it wasn... | If the crime committed isn't one of the "big" ones, and the defendant isn't a corporation, ignorance of the law should be a valid defense. | 0 | 2016-10-20T00:07:44 | 73 | 1 | 3 |
Public schools generally don't create as much mingling as you would think. White collar students take university/AP classes where they are prepped for the upper levels of the economic workforce. Whereas the rest are mostly funneled through to blue collar careers. While there is some mingling that happens, by and large ... | Private schools and homeschooling should be banned and every child put into public schools. | 1 | 2016-08-20T04:12:04 | 97 | 35 | 6 |
Try drinking before you try banning it. Seriously. You might say, "But I don't need to try drinking. I know what it does because I can see its external effects." Bullshit. That's like saying you know what it is like to dream because you've watched people sleep. You have no idea what is happening on the inside. | I believe we should put a ceiling on the amount of alcohol sold per day in America, if not return to prohibition entirely. CMV. | 1 | 2013-10-16T10:31:02 | 23 | 2 | 2 |
Would you can explain to me the reason you believe the morality extant in, say, humanism, is somehow less real, relevant, useful, etc, than the "morality" taught by any given religion? Would you say that different religions should be taught in different schools - like, say, Shinto in Japan, Buddhism in China, and Isla... | I Believe that Religion Should Be Taught In School | 1 | 2017-03-11T20:29:02 | 47 | 1 | 27 |
After much thought I concluded that only bad parents could succumb to the desires of their kids to that level, not care about official ratings and what is deemed inappropriate for children A big issue here is that the rating system is very subjective (and has changed over time). Even worse, they often aren't explained.... | Going with your 10 years old children to R-rated movies is signs of bad parenting. | 0 | 2017-03-16T16:34:41 | 39 | 3 | 24 |
Sites like Reddit provide a benefit to the customer by, instead of charging for usage, harvesting ad views and ad clicks to be sustainable. This is where I think you've made a misstep. The truth of the matter is that reddit users (like a radio audience) are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser. Reddit users... | I believe that in general, it's wrong to use adblockers on the Internet. CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-09T00:59:30 | 56 | 1 | null |
Certain criminals, by denying other people their freedom - by either theft or murder or whatnot - forfeit their own rights in the process. The rights forfeited may include: 1. Freedom of movement 2. Right to certain property 3. And even the Right to Life itself. The degree to which a right is forfeited is proportiona... | Felons should be allowed to vote. | 0 | 2016-04-22T19:17:09 | 246 | 54 | 6 |
It is common knowledge that fast foods, high amounts of sugar, and fats are terrible for anybody to consume, and parents know this just as well as anybody else. I would not take this for granted. Plenty of people are completely ignorant to how our bodies process foods, what kinds of foods are good and what are bad. Eve... | Allowing a child to be obese should be considered child abuse. | 0 | 2016-03-30T21:36:03 | 278 | 48 | null |
What if everything always has existed? This is a problem if you accept causality. If there was no beginning to reality, then every effect had a prior cause, and this means that time stretches back infinitely. If time stretches back infinitely, it would have taken an infinite amount of time to reach the present moment, ... | I don't think the universe has to have a beginning or an end | 0 | 2015-03-27T07:58:33 | 56 | 1 | 2Δ |
The state should pay the man. Requiring the mom to pay harms the child and it's the states fault for assigning payments to the man without being certain it was his responsibility. If the mom did it maliciously she should be charged and the child placed with family/cps | A negative paternity test should exclude a man from paying child support and any money paid should be returned unless there was a legal adoption. | 1 | 2016-09-02T17:46:15 | 1,414 | 211 | 1 |
Full disclosure: know a lobbyist or two personally, so I have some insight into how this stuff works in practice. It's important to note first that lobbyists are basically just subcontracted representatives acting out their constitutional rights to free speech. You can do everything they do as a private citizen or coll... | Money and special interest donations are the biggest problem in american politics | 1 | 2017-05-21T03:18:24 | 71 | 24 | 142 |
HR serves as a screening process. Not everyone has time for that many interviews, and if HR can whittle it down, it helps. That said, this is 100% the reason why networking and connections helps in the job process. If 100 people apply, and HR picks 10 people, and whittles it down to 3 second interviews that will be wi... | Candidates should always be interviewed by a person in their position instead of an HR representative whenever possible | 0 | 2015-04-13T18:23:02 | 29 | 1 | 8Δ |
Interpretation is an art form in and of itself. While you are right that most classical musicians do not write their own music (I'm going to ignore jazz and popular music), two interpretations by master musicians can be very different. Compare [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQLXRTl3Z0) [three](http://www.youtu... | I believe musicians and actors are not really artists. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-27T06:06:38 | 37 | 9 | 11 |
Have you ever seen an anesthesiologist's paycheck? They get paid a lot, and a huge portion of what they get paid goes straight to malpractice insurance. This is because it's not easy to knock someone out, and it's even harder to do it without hurting or killing them. I'm no expert on tranquilizers but I know they are ... | Instead of firearms, police should use/carry tranquilizer guns. | 0 | 2015-08-06T22:36:06 | 48 | 8 | 9 |
The notion of ecological niche states that there can never be two rival organisms co-existing, said machine would destroy us to ensure its own safety, however cliché the whole thing might be. There are plenty of humans who manage to co-exist every day. I don't know anything about what kind of potential "intelligent mac... | Intelligent Machines will destroy us and we have no right to complain. | 0 | 2016-05-02T22:11:46 | 67 | 2 | 92 |
1. Climate change - they are right about the temperature fluctuations, we just don't have good enough data to say it isn't normal. What they are wrong about is that CO2 isn't a serious problem. Luckily, I am a firm believer that science will save the day and we will manufacturer algae/bacteria to do the scrubbing for u... | There is a disturbing amount of anti-science movements in America | 0 | 2015-05-09T04:51:36 | 130 | -3 | null |
Liberals are in fact not defined as those willing to respect and accept opinions which differ from their own. Liberals are defined as people who follow an ideology guided by liberty and equality. As such gay marriage is a very liberal stance,as it is for the equality of gays and their liberty to do what they want. Whet... | Supporting gay marriage is not a liberal stance. | 0 | 2016-09-07T18:55:13 | 134 | 4 | 4 |
I know it wasn't everyone's favourite of the franchise but I'm watching Star Trek Enterprise for the first time and I'm loving it. It feels like the missing link between all other Star Trek and our current world, and makes the franchise feel all that more possible as something our own future might be like. It may not b... | I believe that "serious" science fiction writers should never prequel an existing series. - CMV | 0 | 2013-09-17T14:29:45 | 39 | 1 | null |
With that said, i have some trouble understanding why someone is willing to develop so much software for free when it could potentially be giving them money. As we live in a society where work hours are translated into money, it seems like a waste to dedicate yourself to a product that won't give you any return. You ar... | I believe open source software doesn't make sense in our current society, as it is basically giving away work for free. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-27T21:48:41 | 22 | 2 | null |
I've never heard the evolution argument against immigration, granted I'm American. The arguments I've encountered are. 1. "They took our jobs." Anti immigration people sometimes believe immigrants will take their jobs. 2. Terrorism. Terrorism has become a boogyman recently. 3. They don't like brown people. The immigran... | It is odd to believe in evolution and to be anti-immigration. | 1 | 2016-12-25T06:50:02 | 51 | 1 | null |
I don't think you're being rigorous in your definitions, and that you're sneaking in at the premise "socialism is good/altruistic" which I don't necessarily agree with. It's important to make the distinction between the individual disposition of a person (selfish/altruistic) and the way the government interacts with th... | having a "socialist" attitude is the optimal, rational, way for mankind to survive and thrive with no casualities | 1 | 2017-03-20T15:52:18 | 596 | 58 | 2 |
Humanity has figured out agricultural food production thousands of years ago. Finding food won't be a problem. Bees help pollinate, but aren't necessary to the process (remember, plants existed far before bees did and were able to survive). Pollination can occur by running through fields and brushing the flowers togeth... | I believe the sixth mass extinction has begun and we won't be able to stop it. | 0 | 2015-05-27T17:18:22 | 80 | 3 | 2 |
Statistics are actually used to prove things all the time. Without statistics, there is no proof of the Higgs boson. Without statistics, there is no 'average American income.' We would have no tax brackets because we wouldn't know where to put them. I know anecdotal evidence isn't proof of anything, but neither are st... | I believe public welfare does more harm than good. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-25T10:16:44 | 69 | 6 | 4 |
I think you may be misunderstanding their criticisms. Every movie needs some sort of plot to work. Not every movie needs car chases. You're right that the plot doesn't have to be the focus, but I think it's short sighted to say that the plot doesn't matter at all. You could, in theory, make an action movie with no plo... | A reviewer complaining that an action movie lacks plot, is the equivalent to complaining that "Schindler's list" didn't contain enough car chases. | 0 | 2016-04-17T14:48:44 | 24 | 1 | 3 |
A student is often asked, “what is the author’s purpose in writing such-and-such.” This particular topic bothers me, as well. There is the stereotypical example of an English teacher saying that an author made curtains blue to represent sadness, but this is, in my experience, complete BS. The author, in the vast majori... | English should not be a required course in high school | 0 | 2017-05-04T19:44:48 | 44 | 5 | null |
The discovery of the Americas prompted a rush of nations all seeking to capitalize on resources If the colonization of planets is not done in competition with military forces, i don't see why people will not move freely between colonies. Some places will have demand for certain skills and others for others. Overall i ... | The moment interplanetary travel and colonization in space (planetary, artificial, terraforming, etc), the human race will largely segragate | 0 | 2016-11-11T22:26:06 | 41 | 1 | null |
One part of cyberbullying is when real life spills over into online life. For instance, on facebook. You might not be able to reject friend requests from your classmates (or they'll bully you in school until you are forced to), but if you do accept them, they'll keep bullying you there. Cyber bullying can also involve... | There is no such thing as cyber bullying because you can just turn off your device or block the sender. | 0 | 2016-02-12T12:49:57 | 79 | 2 | 7 |
I'd say in that situation the person's point isn't to argue a point but rather just simply communicate it to someone else. Sure if they wanted to have a discussion then quoting free speech would be silly, but if they don't desire to talk to you and are annoyed you are trying to discredit them they will simply say "I ha... | If you have to defend something as free speech, you're probably wrong | 1 | 2015-06-11T13:39:19 | 38 | 3 | 3Δ |
About running red lights: I'm a cyclist in NYC and I, not infrequently, will run red lights and stop signs. I do this for a few definable reasons. Note: I never do so when there is visible car or pedestrian traffic. I've seen cyclists ignore or get into pedestrian areas and I hate that and those cyclists can go to hell... | Cyclists are fully entitled to share the road with motor vehicles, but they should be held accountable for all traffic violations committed when on public roads. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-28T23:13:25 | 192 | 42 | 3 |
If you're talking about unknown items, you always say "X is better than Y," never "Y is better than X". Isn't that tautology or.... something? | X is better than Y | 0 | 2015-07-23T21:39:42 | 273 | 2 | 1 |
I think, within the whole ad blocking debate, there's a large misunderstanding in how interaction works. Businesses creating ads are not evil or malicious, they're businesses. People blocking ads are not evil or malicious, they're people. Trying to deny either of those things holds back whoever is producing or consumin... | There is an ugly culture of entitlement when it comes to ad blocking and piracy. | 0 | 2016-11-15T20:38:20 | 73 | 1 | 3 |
I would say that's part of the benefit of a relationship. This other person is not you, they probably share a great deal in common but you don't have the same mind. They can see things that you may not notice or tackle an issue from a different perspective. And you can do the same for them. My wife has definitely given... | No one will ever understand completely what you might be feeling, making most relationships pointless | 0 | 2016-10-07T18:48:06 | 33 | 2 | 2 |
Sanders has yet to be truly vetted for president. His flaws are pretty obvious if you look at him objectively. - He's a Democratic Socialist, which is pretty taboo among older voters who lived through the Cold War - Wants to raise taxes on everyone, that's a near impossible sell - Honeymooned in the USSR, it's a bad l... | Clinton should suspend her campaign | 1 | 2016-05-05T20:56:25 | 76 | 51 | 1 |
There are somewhere around seven billion people on this planet. A little over three billion of them have internet access. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) The comments you see on Reddit and YouTube come from a tiny minority of people on this planet. Also, there's a bit of polarization in comm... | Youtube and Reddit have caused me to lose faith in people. | 1 | 2016-06-22T06:21:17 | 55 | 18 | 6 |
1. Human society is becoming more chaotic with more problems to solve. That's a lot of pressure to put on the next generation. 2. The next generation didn't ask to be born, and they're always left with an ethical dilemma--do I live my life to try to make the rest of the world a better place, or do I simply live for me?... | Having children is unethical. | 0 | 2017-04-24T06:37:41 | 47 | 1 | 1 |
We already (suggest) quarantines for people with AIDS: condoms. People who aren't using condoms already are probably not going to check an on-line database before having sex. | I think the only currently available way to get rid of HIV/AIDs is to start quarantining people who have the disease. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-22T23:48:13 | 45 | 2 | null |
The only "moral" reason you have listed is that animals suffer throughout their lives before being butchered. What if they don't suffer? What if they graze happily in a field until someone sneaks up on them and provides a painless death? They probably had a much better life in the safety of the pasture than trying to l... | There is no morally justifiable reason to consume animal products in the first world | 0 | 2015-07-07T14:34:18 | 236 | 4 | 31 |
For best tactical board game, i will say "Shogi" I will say shogi is better because even though it is similar to chess in every way (each pieces had their own movement and can be promoted ), the captured piece can be used again in the game. It add a whole new kind of strategy. The chess player need only to worry abou... | Chess is the best board game ever to be invented | 0 | 2016-01-22T10:23:56 | 66 | 3 | null |
A dog has no understanding of good or evil, or good or bad like a human does. A dog's Will follows one rule, the pack. A Dog will do anything for their pack. Their pack is everything to them. When a dog learns to fetch or pee outside, they are following the rules of the pack. When a dog barks at a stranger, they are pr... | There's no such thing as a good dog - only good owners | 0 | 2017-04-13T14:30:49 | 17 | 1 | null |
1. Almost every game has some sort of turn-based advantage, but it doesn't have to be as noticeable as in chess, and there are ways to offset it. Hex is usually played with a 'pie rule', where the second player can choose to permanently switch colors after the first player makes their first move. This incentivizes the ... | Chess is the best board game ever to be invented | 1 | 2016-01-20T05:04:20 | 66 | 7 | 3 |
I'm not sure about this, but it may just be my misunderstanding. Nuclear fusion I grant you would be more or less limitless, but we haven't gotten there yet. Nuclear fission relies on fissionable materials; how much of this do we have? From what I understand it's not in abundance, and takes quite a bit of work even aft... | We will never travel space in any meaningful way because we'll use up all of our resources long before that | 1 | 2015-01-19T02:40:27 | 41 | 3 | 51 |
If a rape is reported to authorities, both the police and (if it gets to them) prosecutors will make a determination as to whether or not there is enough evidence to convince of jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a rape occurred. If either the police or the prosecutors decide that there isn't, then nothing will be d... | I believe rape victims have a social responsibility to report their assaults to the authorities. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-24T16:34:29 | 953 | 84 | 8 |
What about George W Bush? That's a recent example of a president winning an election despite not receiving the most votes in the election. Gore won the popular vote, meaning more people voted for him, but Bush still won in the end. It's a rarity, but it illustrates the point that just because someone is elected Preside... | I agree with Kevin Spacey that we as Americans "get [the president] we deserve", especially if our next president is Donald Trump | 0 | 2016-03-19T05:07:46 | 27 | 1 | 4 |
Ought we trust people with less education on questions about precise technical economics questions? Yes. Lack of expertise in a topic is a reason not to trust that person's testimony. Though, I've had arguments with people who were convinced that the models of econ 101 can be used to answer all kinds of complex social ... | The fact that people with higher levels of education tend to be more liberal is an indicator that conservative voters' (who tend to be less educated) views lack validity and may be based off of ill-conceived preconceptions of the way the world works. | 1 | 2017-03-31T06:25:14 | 458 | 54 | 51 |
I haven't heard of any noteworthy social movements or political campaigns on behalf of otherkin being officially recognized as anyone. In fact, I haven't even heard of them outside of Reddit and, by proxy, tumblr. That's probably because the community is so relatively small anyway, but if they were serious about offici... | "Otherkin" need to see a shrink. Maybe good as therapy, not good as a long-term lifestyle choice. | 1 | 2016-01-10T20:02:31 | 242 | 14 | 15 |
First, you're right that [nuclear energy kills far less people than the resulting pollution from other energy forms](http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/). Second, there's never going to be a perfect solution to dealing with nuclear waste, but containment and seques... | We need to develop alternative energy capabilities, but that shouldn't include an expansion of nuclear power. | 0 | 2015-05-21T00:26:28 | 20 | 3 | 3Δ |
I would absolutely entertain the prospect of forgiving him, as I would almost any person for most any wrong or crime they might commit, but there is one condition: they have to actually show remorse for it. Chris Brown doesn't seem to have ever demonstrated even an instant of sincere, credible penitence for what he did... | Chris Brown did not commit an "unforgivable" act | 0 | 2015-02-25T21:21:14 | 32 | 1 | 30 |
With respect to your first point about them destroying car culture, self-driving cars aren't going to do away with NASCAR, Formula 1, Mario Kart, Top Gear, Hot Wheels, or any of the thousand other beloved cultural institutions based around cars. People *love* driving. They love it on TV and in movies and in video games... | I'm scared of self-driving cars. | 1 | 2016-06-29T22:16:51 | 40 | 2 | 16 |
I don't have kids, but I know someone who has children with mental disorders. Whatever the issues with your children, they are *your children* and you love them. You want to provide for them. You don't trust anyone else to do right by them. You think that they are good people even though they have issues. It's definite... | I don't see the joy in raising a mental handicapped child CMV | 1 | 2014-03-13T15:43:40 | 330 | 31 | 8 |
As they charge fees they have more money per pupil, which should mean that the quality of the education provided is better. Are you saying a step *up* for society would be to abolish those better schools, meaning everyone's left getting the same (which you've admitted is *worse*) public education? So children of the ri... | I think private schools should be abolished. CMV. | 0 | 2013-04-09T09:13:53 | 80 | 1 | 2 |
If you get some gross peanut butter, then you get some gross peanut butter. If you get a peanut product somewhere where you weren't expecting it, a person with a peanut allergy could die. | When using one utensil to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you should spread the peanut butter before the jelly. | 1 | 2015-11-20T22:09:57 | 42 | 43 | 17 |
While it could be useful as general feedback, these evaluations would most likely not capture how effective a teacher was, but how happy the teacher made the students. While not mutually exclusive, I don't think these are the same things at all. It would only bias teaching towards even more lax standards (after all, yo... | I believe that we can change american school's by allowing students to evaulate their teachers, CMV | 1 | 2014-01-14T02:28:06 | 59 | 1 | 50Δ |
I have looked through many of the links [here](http://www.ncsc.org/topics/courthouse-facilities/court-security/state-links.aspx?cat=Dress%20Codes%20for%20Courts), as well as many other links regarding court dress codes, and I can find no evidence that any courts prohibit any uniforms of any kind. I.e. there's nothing u... | Police officers should not be allowed to wear uniforms while testifying in court. | 0 | 2016-06-02T01:34:26 | 71 | 5 | 173 |
Remember Sturgeon's Law: 90% of anything is crap. Yeah, there are a lot of crap fantasy series out there. But like you said, it's not that there *isn't* good fanatasy. The Kingkiller Chronicles have gotten me back into the genre. | Epic Fantasy Novels are Boring Carbon Copies of the Same Monomyth where a simple A + B = C plot, is drawn out over millions of words. | 1 | 2014-05-04T21:28:12 | 78 | 26 | 3 |
If you're looking for a practical reason to choose a diamond for an engagement ring, consider its hardness. Diamonds are a 10 on the Mohs hardness scale, making them the hardiest of gemstone choices. That makes them a good choice for a ring one's going to wear every day, for the rest of their life. They also have the b... | I think that diamond engagement rings are a sham. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-24T17:59:18 | 560 | 1 | null |
How can it be a waste if i enjoyed it? | I believe that Christmas (and other holidays) is a waste of time and money. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-30T13:42:38 | 34 | 1 | 1 |
I'm not exactly sure what view you are proposing here. "Murder" is defined as "unlawful killing of a person". Since abortion is lawful, it is *by definition* not "murder", and any person that believes it is is simply mistaken. Now, if you are talking about people that believe that it's killing on the same moral level ... | If someone truly believes that abortion is murder, then that person is justified in non-violently protesting legal abortions. | 0 | 2016-06-28T02:40:47 | 56 | 2 | 174 |
So what would you call fake news, if not "fake news"? Would you just pretend it doesn't exist? | I believe the term (not the concept) 'Fake News' is one of the most dangerous and destructive forces against free speech we have seen in a long time. | 0 | 2016-12-01T02:43:22 | 36 | 5 | 1 |
We're on the same page. But when evaluating in retrospect an action that's already happened or statement that's already been uttered, you can examine the consequences of their action to see whether or not what they did resulted in good, neutral, or bad outcomes. At the time of me saying the thing however, I must deter... | Whether the word "nigger" and/or "nigga" are offensive or not should be based on intent and context, not the color of your skin. | 1 | 2014-04-12T02:25:24 | 107 | 4 | 1 |
But you can say that any country cpuld be these thigs. So China *could be* the land of the free. Why is here this expectation on the US that doesn't apply to any other country? | The US is the most disappointing country in the world. | 0 | 2015-07-14T19:09:30 | 34 | 2 | 62 |
There's no way the bottom is going to dry over the course of a grocery trip. And how should I set the box of pasta or bag of flour so that the wet bottom could get airflow and also not get another side wet? If it's still sitting in the same position in the cart, it's still in contact with the wet. If I turn it, the wet... | I believe we should start taking our shopping carts from the parking lot/cart corral, rather than from in the store. | 1 | 2017-03-10T23:06:08 | 32 | 7 | 6 |
First, what's happening in Aleppo is godawful. War is godawful. But the ambassador didn't start the war, he wasn't part of the decisions whether Russia should back Assad. He isn't a military commander. Frankly, there is no country on earth that hasn't done something shitty that resulted in the death of innocents. By y... | Today's shooting of the Russian Ambassador isn't an act of terrorism | 1 | 2016-12-19T21:43:35 | 37 | 2 | 201 |
I would like to start with your second point first. Second, if that's the case (put on roster due to sexual orientation), that it cheapens the achievement. I agree with this completely. In fact, I hope most people would. A person should be judged and treated not by their sexual orientation, skin color or gender, but b... | if Michael Sam is on the St Louis Rams roster at the beginning of this NFL season, it will be at least in part due to his being the first openly gay player in the NFL | 0 | 2014-05-13T15:32:59 | 41 | 2 | 10Δ |
If the argument over the definition of a word can't be settled by a dictionary, how can it be settled? Because dictionaries *record the usage* of a word, rather than *actually defining them.* The dictionary is not the end-all be-all of what a word means - *people* decide what a word means. This is why the term "litera... | The argument of whether or not you can be racist toward white people is completely pointless. | 1 | 2015-12-01T05:34:05 | 376 | 65 | 27 |
Nearly everything you have described is an issue with existing laws, not CPS. As an organization, CPS can only receive custody after a court order. If a caseworker knocks on a door, there is no legal obligation of the parent to open it. The most that the caseworker could do is document the situation and present it in c... | Child Protective Services (CPS), while a good concept, is virtually useless in practice | 1 | 2015-01-21T19:42:16 | 177 | 23 | 2 |
One is to manage a non profit organisation dedicated to protecting the last vestiges of forests and wetlands around the city i live in (while paying only 13$/h). The other is for a big construction company, to make sure that it is compliant with the pathetic environmental regulations while it bulldozes over the last na... | As an environmental engineer, I give up! PLEASE CMV! | 0 | 2015-04-24T09:41:50 | 366 | 2 | null |
If the Borg assimilated all of humanity, do you not expect they would assimilate also the creativity, instinct, insight, and brainstorming power you refer to? Of course! Not sure how you might infer this? The Borg have already assimilated billions of sentient beings (for example, they assimilated 11 billion of just **o... | I find assimilation into the Borg more enticing than membership in the Federation. CMV. | 1 | 2013-07-20T14:36:37 | 39 | 3 | 5 |
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