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Some studies have been done that say up to 1/5 of transgender people regret their transition Please link these studies. The studies I've seen indicate around 1-2% regret rates which is a far cry from as high as 20%. Those same studies also carefully clarify that one of the strongest factors in regret was the loss of pe... | transgender individuals should not be able to start hormone treatment until they're at least 16 and you should have to be diagnosed with gender disphoria. | 0 | 2017-04-14T19:35:37 | 108 | 1 | 3 |
http://i.imgur.com/BB7sc.jpg http://onlyhdwallpapers.com/wallpaper/katanagatari_yasuri_shichika_togame_desktop_1280x720_hd-wallpaper-850265.jpg http://www.popcults.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/gg_puella_magi_madoka_magica_-_01_0557c1c6-mkv-00025.jpeg http://drizzlyrain.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/sayonara-zetsubou-se... | I think anime and manga are less visually diverse than western comics, CMV | 1 | 2013-09-06T14:28:33 | 52 | 6 | null |
I'd argue the main thing that makes the left more violent isn't the number of individuals willing to commit said violence, but rather the support they gather from the more "moderate" members of their ideology.The difference comes down to the usual issue - The Right believe the Left to be wrong, the Left believe the Rig... | The political right is more violent than the left. | 1 | 2017-02-28T22:50:24 | 77 | 15 | 1 |
The potential for suffering in life is far greater than the potential for pleasure. Source? I don't see how that is true within modern western societies. Additionally, the pursuit of pleasure is ultimately futile (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill). Suffering is inevitable and lasting pleasure is una... | Having children is always immoral. | 0 | 2014-04-23T04:21:35 | 56 | 11 | 1 |
The U.S. Military uses something called Female Engagement Teams, which are all-female units. These are often necessary in the front lines in the Middle East, due to cultural concerns. In some Muslim cultures, men are forbidden from touching women, so searching them is impossible without violating a major tenet of their... | Women should not be drafted into the service and sent to the front lines. | 1 | 2016-09-09T08:07:28 | 78 | 24 | 3 |
This is ridiculous. There is absolutely nothing excusing disrespecting fellow patrons. A movie theatre is a social collaboration that allows many people to watch a movie in great conditions at an affordable price. As such, if one of those people wants to watch the ads and you keep yammering on and disturbing them, it's... | It's perfectly acceptable to talk at full volume in a movie theatre when the lights are down but ads (not trailers) are playing | 1 | 2017-01-21T16:27:27 | 67 | 32 | 1 |
[The effects of caffeine on the human body are very well documented](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+of+caffeine&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=eThWVe7kO_X8sASBu4CQCg&ved=0CBwQgQMwAA) and to describe it as a placebo is just plain wrong. While coffee is not the only ... | Coffee is overrated, the effects received are negligible and often a placebo, and people who say they like the taste are lying to themselves. | 1 | 2015-05-15T21:36:49 | 51 | 4 | 31Δ |
A lot of the responses here are about how your implementation seems ill-advised for the United States, in particular, so I'll assume that you've found some good way of doing this and make a few notes about it before continuing. A few things I think you'd need to include are: - Something that prevents parents from givin... | 100% inheritance tax is a good idea. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-07T21:24:50 | 81 | 5 | 3 |
Theoretically yeah, I think it would help a lot if the doctor focused on specific reasons for the person's weight, and ways to address it. My personal experience is that many doctors are woefully under-trained to do that though, so I'm not sure practically speaking it would help much without some other changes to the w... | A doctor telling their patient that they need to lose weight shouldn't be considered fat shaming. | 1 | 2017-02-20T23:09:37 | 310 | 4 | 1 |
Children seem like a horribly inefficient retirement plan. If you are only concerned about the financial aspects, it would be way cheaper to take the money you would have spent raising children, put it in an IRA invested in an index fund, and you'll come out in pretty good shape financially when retirement rolls around... | Having children as a retirement plan is Immoral | 0 | 2017-04-23T20:28:53 | 80 | 3 | 7 |
I've never understood this view. Anything that two human beings do together is natural. Everything! That includes thrill-seeking and praying and typing on keyboards. Nature allows, culture restricts. | Homosexuality is not natural | 0 | 2016-10-30T02:19:19 | 73 | 11 | 257 |
As an EMT, I prefer a gap under the door that I can slide into when someone collapses against the door. Ever tried to get into a tiny room with a 150lb person propped up against the only accessible door and wedged between the toilet, the wall and the door? Much easier to get under and shift them than going over and try... | Bathroom stalls should go all the way down, and have no gaps in the doors. | 1 | 2017-04-11T20:35:34 | 60 | 2 | 3 |
So how can feminists expect us to be more open to their experiences when they won't do the same, and end up making assumptions about the male life experience? In our society, we have a tendency to make males the "default". That ranges from linguistic ("All men are created equal" or "If someone wants a delicious pizza h... | Modern feminism is often dangerous, hypocritical, and illogical. | 0 | 2017-03-21T02:37:57 | 79 | 9 | null |
Wasn't people buying houses they couldn't afford with loans they were unqualified for the trigger for the recession? It seems like some regulation might be necessary. That's not the type of regulation I'm talking about. I'm talking about things like height restrictions or a zoning ordinance which only allows single fa... | Cookie cutter housing should be banned in the United States | 1 | 2017-04-04T02:35:42 | 55 | 5 | 14 |
You're right on your first point, but wrong on your second. http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_bPBNf8WXrT4jmtf It depends on how you define "UBI" though. A flat sum would be wasteful and expensive. An NIT would work, but to supplement not replace current social programs | 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 | 1 | 2016-10-15T06:39:21 | 53 | 2 | 1 |
I want to address this point- * By going to an HBCU you're choosing a school with a culture similar to your own. You're choosing to stay in a more stagnant environment that will foster less personal growth I'm going to quote Ta-Nehisi Coates, an author and journalist for the Atlantic who's currently being touted as Am... | Going to a HBCU as a black person is admitting defeat | 1 | 2016-02-28T01:25:54 | 37 | 10 | 4 |
Non acting pedophiles are one step from turning into sex offender. All it takes is one weak moment. Same way as I always fall for the "it has chocolate" label in food, or other people can't resist their favorite food after so many months of restraining themselves to a strict diet, pedophiles can fall too. It's just tha... | We shouldn't hate non-acting pedophiles | 1 | 2017-05-03T22:41:41 | 318 | 0 | 1 |
I don't think there is any issue so long as the gender or race swapped character isn't in the same canon as his/her former self unless there exists an in-world ability for the switch (I refer to things like regeneration here). Most of the comic book examples you have given are *not* the character switching race or gend... | There is no reason to be offended when a fictional character is gender or race swapped. | 0 | 2014-07-17T22:04:26 | 225 | 8 | 5 |
You're suggesting that a failing marriage is a perfectly safe, secure, ideal environment for a child? Seeing mom and dad fight all the time? Having them blame it on you accidentally? Anyway, plenty of kids grow up fine with divorced parents. Especially young kids don't understand the lasting implications of marriage. H... | Getting a divorce while raising kids is extremely selfish and irresponsible in the majority of cases. | 1 | 2014-07-04T01:49:53 | 36 | 26 | 6 |
If lawsuits cause the city to lose tons of money, why shouldn't they be able to lower overall compensation? You can, you just can't do it retroactively. Clawbacks are incredibly rare, and basically only exist for malfeasance or repayment of benefits specifically tied to something you personally didn't do. A clawback be... | Settlements from lawsuits against police departments should be paid at least partially out of police pension funds. | 1 | 2015-04-14T01:24:21 | 89 | 7 | 82Δ |
I know you've already got plenty of responses and have given at least one delta but I still wanna take a shot! more acceptable arguments seem to be... This is what I want to focus on. If you're debating against those who want drugs to be illegal, it presupposes that the other side doesnt agree (edit: w/ your position).... | When debating drug prohibition laws, I don't think harm reduction should be valued higher than personal freedom | 0 | 2015-04-13T02:33:29 | 134 | 2 | 2 |
But if Democrats take the house in 2014, then they'll control the presidency, house, and senate. That would mean they could pass all their extreme laws. The Democrats controlled the presidency, the house, and the senate from 2009-2011 and did not pass "all their extreme laws". At least some of the reason for that is th... | I think the US would benefit from the GOP taking the House again in 2014. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-03T19:04:30 | 39 | 37 | 14 |
You could make this exact same argument about just about anything people spend money on. The great thing about markets is that they more or less distribute resources efficiently. People spend money on pets because the amount of happiness they get from having pets is worth that amount of money. It may not be productive,... | The world would be better off if we didn't have pets. | 1 | 2017-02-24T00:21:19 | 22 | 7 | 2 |
But what is "worse"? How do you determine "global standing"? Many posters have pointed out discrepancies on your list of "worsts". Do you honestly think that the US is more disappointing than, say, Russia, which under Yeltsin seemed to be on the verge of embracing democracy, yet has become a cesspool of dictatorship, c... | The US is the most disappointing country in the world. | 1 | 2015-07-14T20:55:04 | 34 | 1 | 114 |
I work in commercial insurance. Which of you groups to i fall in: Creative or Scientific? If neither, why is it a career that doesn't need to exist with automation? | A society where all people are creatives or scientist is preferable to our current one | 0 | 2017-04-17T05:38:30 | 96 | 1 | 2 |
For example: If the characters are indeed random, there's no guarantee that all the characters won't all be the same every single time. If you have an infinite string of "z" you won't be able to produce the works of Shakespeare. Actually because of the [law of large numbers](http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/law-... | Monkeys hitting keys at random for an infinite period of time won't necessarily produce the works of Shakespeare. | 0 | 2016-12-22T23:44:38 | 195 | 1 | 25 |
Under any economic system, there will be winners & losers. Under communism, a communist will fare better than under fascism. And the same is true for vice versa. I think communism is better than fascism because fascists would kill me but communists wouldn't. But that's just me. So it's a subjective matter. | Fascism is better than Communism. | 0 | 2017-03-31T21:28:49 | 173 | 1 | 9 |
Everyone who I have ever heard things like this from was headed down the rabbit hole of mental illness / already there. | It is possible to become God himself/herself | 0 | 2016-09-14T09:33:15 | 51 | 1 | null |
You would see massive reductions in savings and thus major capital shortages. The financial system is very intertwined. If people were not able to pass along property to their children when they die (assuming it is vaporized upon death) then they will save less and spend it all as they approach death. People get mortga... | We should disallow children from inheriting wealth from their parents, for it destroys meritocracy. | 0 | 2016-04-28T04:27:29 | 96 | 2 | 2 |
Well, the point you're arguing isn't really something we can contest. You want to prove that heterosexuality isn't "default". But that's not how genes work: we don't have a default. We have a collection of different alleles with different frequencies in the population. Do humans have brown eyes by default? I mean, they... | I don’t believe that heterosexuality is “default” or “normal”. | 1 | 2015-07-02T16:44:58 | 69 | 0 | 3 |
Making it free, and pushing so many more people into college would just add more and more degrees and make them useless. What makes you think that making it free (on an individual basis) would push more people through college? Existing universities have a capacity and people will still get denied if they don't make the... | Adopting a system of universal, free college tuition in the US is a bad idea and would hurt the country rather than help it. | 0 | 2016-10-11T23:01:13 | 82 | 1 | 5 |
I feel that anyone could excel at math with patience and a good memory, because proficiency seems based in your ability to memorize. This has already been addressed, but as someone who has studied math at a high level I just want to reiterate that this is not true. Mathematics is not just "regurgitating concepts that a... | I believe people who are exceptionally good at math but struggle with social skills/humanities are less intelligent than the reverse. | 1 | 2016-12-05T05:22:14 | 117 | 16 | 4 |
Think of the US Military as an American jobs program. Consider how many people have jobs because of the size/scale of the US Military, beyond just the soldiers themselves. Massive American industries like aviation, manufacturing, technology, research, and healthcare have the US Military as one of their clients (if not... | The United States Government spends too much on the defense budget. | 1 | 2017-05-18T00:09:26 | 84 | 21 | 1 |
the whole thing is entertainment. So we care about the red carpet, best dress, worst dress, coolest dress and so on. Entertainment is subjective, plenty of women out there who honestly enjoy the red carpet over the show. I mean do we really care who wins awards? i feel id still see movies with my favorite actors irrega... | Most people don't care about what people are wearing to awards show. In fact, most people don't care about the awards show either. This is some sort of Hollywood/media hegemony that is trying to make us care about something that we really don't or perhaps to distract us. | 0 | 2015-02-23T17:32:13 | 100 | 1 | 2 |
The Mayflower landed in 1620. The US declared independance about 150 years later. In that much time, the political landscape had greatly changed. To further illustrate how long that is, remember that about 150 years ago, the US was embroiled in the US Civil War. Afterwards was the first time that the US was called the ... | The United States was founded by settlers, not immigrants | 1 | 2016-08-03T23:58:06 | 77 | 17 | 90 |
What you describe isn't "the American dream"; it's division of labor, property rights and evolution. Some prehistoric humans lived in the way you describe. Their lives were short and brutal because they had no medicine, were constantly vulnerable to predators and each other and died by starvation during times of famine... | I think the concept of everyone getting a job and making money is fucked up and restricts our lives more than we think. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-22T04:52:18 | 87 | 8 | 84Δ |
Sure. Like I keep saying, it depends on the job. For me, distractions are a necessary evil. If I decide to shift my hours later so that I can "get more done", its great for me, but the support burden when I'm not around is that much worse for my teammates, making my choice a selfish one in that specific instance. So I ... | If I don't have any morning meetings and I stay at work later than others, I shouldn't be judged in the corporate world for preferring to stay up late and wake up late. CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-27T23:16:47 | 200 | 6 | 40Δ |
I teach at a public school and I am like 75% on board with what Trump is proposing. School choice is one of my most important issues and I 100% support it. I've taught in the worst and best public schools and I think my opinion should hold some weight here. I'll just pinpoint a few things that you said and share my opi... | Donald Trump's plan for American education will be a disaster. | 1 | 2016-11-22T20:41:03 | 369 | 79 | 4 |
Let me preface by saying that I'm in the same boat as you, I full heartedly do not believe I ghosts, demons, etc. However, this is not to say I don't get why some people do. Something you've got to understand is that for a lot of people, anecdotal evidence is almost always going to trump logic and facts. And in terms o... | The only reason that people believe in ghosts is because of the idea of ghosts | 0 | 2016-12-13T19:42:43 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
I for one cannot process a work from an audiobook (or being read to) even a fraction as well as I can when I read. The fixed pace and inability to look forward, backward, pause, or re-read sections makes the entire experience frustrating to me. | Listening to a book is the same as reading it. | 0 | 2014-08-17T04:05:16 | 29 | 1 | null |
Can you cite any laws that state that mentally handicapped people can't consent to sex? Because in my state, they can. I actually work for an office that handles mental handicaps. Only if a person is so far gone that they require total guardianship is their ability to consent to sex taken away, by which point they're u... | Eugenics is alive and well in the United States and any other First World country where mentally handicapped individual cannot give consent to sex, and any sex with them is considered statutory rape. | 0 | 2016-08-12T22:16:15 | 51 | 1 | 3 |
Gerrymandering, redistricting in order to gain a political advantage, should be **illegal.** I disagree. I believe that gerrymandering should be **irrelevant.** If we look past first past the post voting mechanisms, we find things like Mixed-member proportional representation ([MMPR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed... | Gerrymandering should be illegal. | 0 | 2016-02-03T07:18:25 | 187 | 5 | 7 |
It's a principle of lost business. If you go into a website with the intention of using adblock, you probably don't like ads and don't plan on EVER buying from them, let alone pay attention. So you were lost business anyway. Watching the add doesn't make any difference. Whether you watch the ad or don't watch it, the c... | I think people who think they shouldn't have to watch ads are immature and self-centered. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-11T20:25:44 | 133 | 26 | 31 |
[I agreed until i met a chiweenies who melted my heart with cute-rays.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10tOTF626wA) Still not sold on most pure bread dogs. I prefer genetic diversity in my best friends. | Chihuahuas are hideous animals | 0 | 2016-08-27T15:42:20 | 60 | 2 | null |
Even if the balances and the law prevents Trump from keeping his promesses, what is scary is the idea that he would win election through the same means other faschisms came to power, mainly fear of strangers. Many countries were supposed to have balances to prevent the rise of faschism, but each time it fails because o... | I believe the comparisons of Trump to fascism are exaggerated and have little to no basis in reality. | 1 | 2016-02-26T11:57:22 | 323 | 188 | 3 |
Well, a couple things. First off, the media (both sides) revels in making all events more intense than they seem. Life in the US is just as calm as it is in Sweden. I live in Chicago, and often times I hear about protests and demonstrations about who-knows-what that occurred in my city, and I never even saw a whiff. Qu... | Moving to the US feels like the wrong choice | 1 | 2015-04-05T19:22:55 | 145 | 47 | 11Δ |
Trump might be able to win with the popular vote, but there's no way he can win with the electoral college. That's reason enough for me. | The electoral College should be abolished | 0 | 2016-10-28T03:22:18 | 221 | 1 | null |
TLDR: Teaching kids about our theories of the early days of the universe is part of the larger context of planets, stars, and galaxies. A context which offers a unique perspective on our place in the world. It's sole purpose is to undermine the teaching of the church, that God created the universe. This sounds absolut... | There is no educational benefit to teaching the Big Bang theory in schools. | 1 | 2017-01-30T20:04:11 | 91 | 2 | 2 |
A lot of people who vote are very casual and will vote for one issue and not pay very close attention to the other stuff. Military vets generally vote Republicans because the GOP is very pro military and increases military spending just about every time they get into office. Another group of people are the upper middle... | Although not everyone who voted for Donald Trump is a racist, the people who still support him are. | 1 | 2017-02-27T01:26:15 | 194 | 3 | 1 |
I feel like the fact that the west is more advanced than the rest of the word is proof that Christianity laid down the best fundamental guidelines about how we should live. While Christians often claim that the Bible or Christianity is the basis for all modern morality and that without it we would have no morality at a... | I believe that Christianity is the superior religion. | 0 | 2017-03-11T03:14:44 | 116 | 3 | 2 |
Hermaphroditism is depending on the hormones released and not necessarily the X/Y chromosomes involved. Exactly my point, which is why I am concerned about the narrowness of the definition. Why are we basing all ID's on chromosomes when they are not the only thing going on? In what case? From the Wikipedia website, it... | While gender can be decided upon by the person, sex cannot due to genetics and sex, not gender, should be used for medical and other information on forms (as well as gender if necessary) | 1 | 2014-08-26T18:32:54 | 759 | 3 | 1 |
Almost every person in America who owns guns and knows how to use them supports Trumps or would stand with Trump if a leftist revolt were to occur. I would need a source for that. You're just making this up without any facts to back your arguments. How do you know there aren't people that own guns, know how to use them... | The left could never defeat the right with violence and it is stupid to even try | 0 | 2017-02-02T15:21:14 | 72 | 2 | 2 |
I believe myself to be an introvert. I am so old that I grew up before texting or the Web as we know it today. The claim that texting makes people more introverted does not hold up, if you look at history. Even as a small child, I preferred to play alone a lot. Or I would play one on one with the same few friends. Long... | 90% of self described "introverts" are just self absorbed children who have no social skills because they've spent the last decade texting. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-16T06:50:11 | 22 | 28 | 17Δ |
rewinding time might be fun if you do not have pre existing genetic flaws, for example if you get Alzheimer at 60 rewinding it might stave it off a bit but you know your going to degenerate eventually. not to mention you can't rewind if your dead meaning that even a single accident can end your fun. lets not forget th... | Rewinding time is the best superpower for daily life | 1 | 2015-11-03T20:30:21 | 111 | 3 | 23 |
Transparency. In peer reviewed academic journals, the point is to express your findings using sources from other authors. For print sources, they require you to cite the title of the article/book, author, publisher, year etc. While this allows your readers to look up the info on their own and verify what you're saying... | I think that using MLA and APA works cited and reference pages for websites are outdated even for professional papers, and that a URL should be sufficient most of the time. | 1 | 2014-09-23T00:31:29 | 57 | 9 | 18Δ |
People used to really hate Irish and Italians At this point that's gone Also once upon a time catholics and Protestants had a problem with each other now everybody seems to call themselves Christians united by a common enemy (abortion) | Racism will never be eradicated in part because there is no way to truly tell if it's ended. | 1 | 2017-05-31T23:06:02 | 39 | 10 | 42 |
I think this because how else is there sea and land, the sea from the time of the ark must have dried up to create the land? Because plate tectonics. I mean there are tons of explanations. I mean yes there have been flooding events in world history, but the sort of event it would take to flood the whole world's surface... | I think Noah's ark is a true story. | 0 | 2017-05-24T15:52:00 | 36 | 2 | 101 |
Change my view that: without any direction, taking the safest route is the correct one. I think your view is based on premises that are incomplete, which could lead you to do the 'safe' thing for the wrong reasons. In this context, I presume you use 'safe' as a proxy for: *productive but unfulfilling.* From your comme... | life of safety and security over passion and risk | 1 | 2017-06-27T22:59:21 | 26 | 1 | 3 |
I couldn't make it through the two hours of Bioshock Infinite because it forced me to play a manshooter that I didn't think was very interesting. I play plenty of first person shooters, in fact, I'm designing one; I like first person shooters. I played Bioshock Infinite to explore its world, and the game took so many o... | I feel guilty playing RPGs on "Casual" mode | 1 | 2015-04-11T22:13:28 | 55 | 5 | 1Δ |
I think this presidential election is a good example of the extent to which this is *not* true - or at least not the end-all be all. If the rich and powerful could just buy the election, it would be Bush or Rubio vs. Clinton, nice and easy. Instead, outsiders like Trump, Cruz and Sanders are doing very well. Money can ... | Both Republican and Democratic political parties are corrupt. They are two sides of the same coin. | 0 | 2016-02-14T23:46:25 | 179 | 8 | 25 |
Im not convinced by your listing of examples that you have a firm grip on "Liberal" ideology. Perhaps you can rebut some other examples? | The liberal ideology won't be widely accepted in the near future. | 0 | 2017-02-12T23:10:51 | 41 | 5 | null |
Otherwise, you believe the right thing to do is to force a person to continue with the operation against their will? | Defining the start of human life at birth is arbitrary, and there is no ethical justification for late-term abortion even in the case of the life of the mother | 1 | 2016-02-07T23:43:06 | 105 | 3 | null |
Fighting Global Warming is not economical Let's face it: The changes proposed by environmentalists are are arduous in cost and effort It depends on what you're counting as costs and benefits. Monetary costs alone are just part of the picture. There are a lot of costs imposed on the environment and on people's heath tha... | We should not fight Global Warming | 1 | 2017-05-27T20:52:49 | 57 | 12 | 2 |
On a plane, though, you pay for space, not for relative inconvenience to other passengers. Fat people who occupy more than one seat must pay for both. Babies do not occupy a seat. A better option would be to portion off a section of the plane for babies and young children. | On airplanes, tickets going to passengers with babies should cost 3-5x more than regular tickets, or they should be banned altogether. | 1 | 2017-04-23T04:34:32 | 91 | 6 | 3 |
I think it is ludicrous for a business to turn away customers for irrelevant matters. Doing so, to me means you're no longer so much in the business of making money, you're now making a political statement. You're essentially giving your customers a litmus test and if they pass you allow them to purchase your services.... | The government should NOT be able to force businesses to serve customers/cater events the business does not want to serve/cater. | 1 | 2015-07-05T19:34:07 | 535 | 22 | 1 |
State schools are already vastly cheaper than private schools, especially with grants, scholarships and loans. Private high schools can cost just as much as expensive universities one example is this girls [school near me.](http://www.schooltuitions.org/school/palo_alto-ca-castilleja_school) Public schools in my area a... | Adopting a system of universal, free college tuition in the US is a bad idea and would hurt the country rather than help it. | 1 | 2016-10-10T21:47:24 | 82 | 45 | 14 |
Mike Pence has certainly had a much more aggressive public discourse than Trump on many issues, but I don't know that his policies would be worse. This isn't a caution against Pence but more a further criticism of Trump. While The Don managed to mostly let Pence and other republicans say the shitty social policy things... | Impeachment of President Trump would not actually solve any problems, but rather cause more since VP Mike Pence would be President. | 0 | 2017-05-24T17:54:06 | 307 | 2 | null |
Some people are tasteless morons. Michelle Obama's public persona was essentially that of "smart mom who dresses up nice for formal occasions." Personally, I really like that as a public persona for a First Lady. The "smart" in particular. But if I were the sort of person who thinks that well done steaks with ketchup... | There is no non-racist reason for people to say "Melania Trump is bringing class back to the White House". | 0 | 2017-03-16T19:09:08 | 119 | 8 | 11 |
So there's a disorder called CAIS (Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome). People with this disorder have XY chromosomes but their body processes testosterone as estrogen. They develop as a girl. They have boobs. They have female genitals. They have no reason to believe they don't have XX chromosomes until they find... | There is no such thing as a man born in a woman's body | 0 | 2014-07-25T18:45:16 | 418 | 3 | null |
I know someone who grew up in a good Catholic family that didn't believe in divorce, but the mother and father didn't speak to each other for 20 years of marriage. Very toxic situation, you can't tell me that's better than divorce. Lots of parents think like you do and wait for the kids to go to college to divorce, but... | Getting a divorce while raising kids is extremely selfish and irresponsible in the majority of cases. | 0 | 2014-07-04T02:13:33 | 36 | 1 | 4Δ |
Why don't we just have people do those things and pay them for it. I mean we have lots of people out of work. Public service would simply cut some jobs. People do need jobs right now. | Public Service should be Mandatory for all Citizens | 0 | 2015-05-19T04:06:24 | 45 | 5 | 32Δ |
the further reductions when continuing to vegetarian and vegan diets are by no means insignificant. I agree, however, it's small enough that I would wager you could make a bigger difference by simply being smarter about where you source your food. I have no math to back this up, but my bet is that buying cranberries fr... | There is no way to justify eating meat, dairy, or eggs. | 1 | 2014-12-02T05:48:35 | 145 | 3 | 30 |
Maybe the movement has come too far for it to even be necessary anymore? Maybe so, but then the "proud" would be the opposite of "shame". You aren't ashamed to be bi. | Being LGBT is nothing to be proud of | 1 | 2016-09-03T20:49:43 | 112 | 4 | 94 |
I am trans, and to be honest I am so sick and tired of seeing cis people on here use sociological algorithms to prove I am not "legit". When I was growing up I loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Nintendo and Ghost busters (all of these were marketed at boys). I also would have loved to play with princess dresses, ... | There are no girls nor boys toys, this is all a social construct with no basis in reality.Thus I believe many transgenders are victims of binary thinking. | 1 | 2017-01-31T19:25:12 | 79 | 7 | 1 |
They should gladly take responsibility and take in every immigrant from a once colonized country. This really isn't a realistic proposition. Nigeria was colonized by the British in the 18th and 19th century. It's just not possible that the UK (with a population of about 65 million) accept the 180 million Nigerians arou... | I feel like Europe always play the victim role when it comes to imigration, When they are the leading cause of destabilisation of nations and regions? | 1 | 2015-11-03T23:17:54 | 60 | 7 | 166 |
In my mind, a lot of the problem comes from that a lot of people's ideas about virginity and purity and "sluttiness" aren't based in reality. The idea that if a woman has had multiple partners she's "unclean" or has poor morals is just a stereotype. If you aren't attracted to someone for whatever reason, that's fine - ... | I think having a preference against promiscuous people is as valid as having a height or weight preference nor does it constitute "slut-shaming". | 1 | 2015-07-05T23:47:52 | 270 | 19 | 4 |
Even if your arguments are largely correct, "opposite" is the wrong word here. For two things to be opposites, they need to be in the same framework. So for instance, -1 is the opposite of 1 within the framework of a numerical system. But if I were to say that France is the opposite of 1, that would just make no sense,... | Religion is the opposite of science. | 0 | 2016-10-26T23:36:25 | 39 | 6 | 232 |
Showers wake you up, if I didn't shower on a morning I would struggle to get going. | Evening showers are better than morning showers | 0 | 2014-09-10T23:12:14 | 68 | 1 | 1 |
This is just musing, but isn't that kind of a definition of good music since all this is mostly subjective? This seems to contradict your earlier definition of "good." The impression I got from your original post was that "good" means more than just "people's brains like it." It seemed like you meant that "good" should... | Popular 90's grunge is inferior compared to all other commonly listened-to music genres. | 1 | 2014-09-04T03:09:48 | 35 | 2 | 4 |
First, I know "egalitarian" is a long word, Is it? a lot of people don't know what it means Citation? The internet has caused a lot of voices that may otherwise be drowned out come to the forefront, such as the feminist extremists (or "feminazis" if you will). That term is unnecessary and awful and why use it ever? ... | Feminists should change their title (maybe to egalitarians) to disassociate themselves from the extremists. | 0 | 2015-07-15T04:48:14 | 127 | 7 | 6 |
I love them. All the benefits if briefs and boxers comined. Just go through your table, they check every box. Also, they don't check the box for "weirdo who has two pairs of underwear on." Look at the second pic on my link, the balls are secularly insulated from legs by the "briefs" part of boxer briefs. | I think Boxers AND Briefs are the best male underwear | 1 | 2015-04-12T05:22:23 | 32 | 24 | 47Δ |
I'll preface this with this: some schools are degree mills. They don't care, professors are just there for a paycheck. I was lucky to go to the school I chose. It was a smaller school. Total cost of education: $6000/yr. I was there for six years, so $36000 for a degree. (I wish I could say this is what I owed - I'm cl... | University system (in the US) is an enormous scam that focuses on separating as much money from you as possible instead of quality education. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-21T20:20:48 | 121 | 2 | 1 |
I'm saying that if gay people want to go skiing with other gay people, then straight people shouldn't feel threatened or offended. And if they are, then that's their problem. I'm also saying that gay people can be integrated into society and also have a robust gay community. Plenty of subcultures already do this. Not ... | I'm gay but do not attend LGBT events because I don't believe integration is achieved through segregated events, and believe these events only perpetuate the idea that male homosexuals are promiscuous. | 1 | 2015-02-17T08:24:43 | 298 | 55 | 1 |
Many southern states still hold animosity with the north in regards to the Civil War. They are still Americans and shouldn't have to live in a country that celebrates the death of their ancestors. The Civil War was shitty, millions of Americans died at the hands of each other. It should be remembered as tragedy but by ... | There should be a national holiday commemorating the ass-kicking of the racist traitors of the South. | 0 | 2015-07-02T05:41:26 | 63 | 6 | null |
Disney's bread and butter (pre-Pixar, at least) is simplistic representations of good and evil. However complex the source material, Disney distills these tales down to their simplest essence in order to engage their target audience, which is children. At the time children are engaging in Disney mania, they are also re... | Many Disney movies are racist. Further, they possibly teach children racial stereotypes. | 1 | 2014-11-11T06:00:53 | 62 | 2 | 27 |
Instead of telling me "Well they haven't hurt anyone" or "It's peaceful" , tell me if you went downtown in your city and took a federal building with guns, would that be legal and allowed? No it wouldn't. That's not fuckin peaceful Like when students seized the Willard Straight Hall in 1969? Admittedly, not a federal ... | The Oregon "Militia" are Terrorists, and if they were not white but instead from a brown/middle eastern ethnicity, doing the same thing, same reason, they'd be called Terrorists immediately | 0 | 2016-01-14T02:27:14 | 144 | 18 | 12 |
If your cancer is, indeed, genetically transmitted (and if we can screen for the genes involved), then you can have children without passing the gene on through IVF. Since you apparently have a clear route to having children while minimizing the risk of inflicting them with your childhood disease, clearly it is not mor... | I've suffered from cancer and don't think it's morally right for me to reproduce because of it. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-29T00:42:28 | 27 | 2 | 15 |
I will give a counter example. Imagine Billy. Billy lives in a small town 100 miles away from a voting booth. Billy doesn't have Radio, TV, News paper. No one in Billy's town really talk about politics. Billy is completely uninformed. Billy looks on his calendar and sees that election day is coming up. Should Billy dri... | Eligible voters who do not vote, ought to refrain from complaining or commenting about election outcomes | 0 | 2017-03-03T20:08:37 | 83 | 1 | null |
PC will never have some of the best games ever made. PC will never have games like Uncharted and The Last of Us. And PC has often had shoddy ports of big games, and games like GTA V have taken over a year to hit PC. | PC is the master race of gaming. | 0 | 2014-08-07T23:07:59 | 85 | 0 | null |
how are these sites any different from the stock market? Betting on fantasy sports has no outcome of the game. The players are not more likely to win or lose, get a TD or a fumble, etc, based on how much you bet. (Unless of course a player themselves are betting.) Investing in the stock market gives the company you pu... | DFS sites like Fanduel are no different than the stock market and should not be banned | 0 | 2016-05-07T17:21:02 | 76 | 1 | 2 |
They don't seem to care if the people they kill are Hamas, it starts to look like they kill purely based on one criterium and that is if the person is from palistina. Hamas militants have a strong correlation with being male and between a certain age group (16-30s). If Israel is bombing indiscriminately there should be... | CMV Isreal is commiting genocide | 0 | 2014-07-25T05:02:19 | 360 | 7 | null |
He has no advantage in returning to the United States. He wanted the world to hear what he knew. Well, mission accomplished, in a way that likely exceeded his wildest dreams. What could the US do to him? Convict him, of course. Because while he is a hero to many, he is absolutely, undeniably, completely guilty of the c... | The best thing for Snowden to do would be to return to the US | 0 | 2014-06-15T16:56:46 | 134 | 2 | 1 |
Are you looking at your personal experience or at [statistics]?(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/01/homeschooled-students-wel_n_1562425.html) Homeschooled children do better on standardized tests than other students, graduate from college at a higher rate, and get higher GPAs. Depending how you measure, they have ... | Homeschooling is child abuse | 1 | 2016-02-23T20:43:15 | 60 | 8 | null |
Things should generally be legal unless there is a reason for them to not be. Counter: [Legal prostitution increases sex trafficking.](https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/) Basically, legalizing prostitution will drastically increase the demand for prostit... | Prostitution Should Be Legal | 1 | 2016-07-21T11:43:00 | 102 | 5 | 3 |
How can it be corrupt *and* only concerned with getting views? Self-serving and only concerned with getting views, sure, but if it's playing nice with some higher power, then kind of by definition it's concerned with things that aren't just getting views. | I believe that modern, mass media is biased, corrupt, and is only concerned with getting views. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-02T14:05:13 | 39 | 1 | 3 |
For a more upper middle income household making 100k a year, the marginal tax rate would be So, 100k/year - 4 people in the family (2 parents, 2 kids), total household income right around 100k. Our insurance rates (employer + employee) are $1530/month, so totaling around $18360/year. Unless its a hell of a lot higher t... | Bernie Sanders' healthcare plan is not realistic. | 0 | 2016-01-21T21:42:12 | 197 | 1 | 10 |
I mean, you have a point regarding priorities but since charities for pets get such a small portion of donated money I think it's not something that merits a lot of attention. Given the benefits that pets provide having some organizations that champion their well-being is a good idea. So if I managed to c your v sligh... | I don't believe animal charities should exist. | 1 | 2016-02-24T22:31:04 | 50 | 2 | null |
Coffee is about the only drink in the world I can imagine where additives are assumed instead of neutral Tell a British person you like your tea with no milk and see if "neutral" is the assumption there... But seriously, if I go order a coffee somewhere, they might ask "cream and sugar?", because that's the way the maj... | Coffee should be default to black, not cream and sugar. | 1 | 2015-02-02T18:05:23 | 64 | 2 | 26 |
The simple answer, is that at least in the United States, with very few exceptions people are "At Will" employees. Meaning that if you aren't up to the task, a company can just fire you. What this means is that it's much more efficient for an impersonal HR person to interview you for two reasons. 1.) It adds something... | Candidates should always be interviewed by a person in their position instead of an HR representative whenever possible | 1 | 2015-04-13T03:45:50 | 29 | 22 | 4Δ |
There are a few specific gaps in the theory you've put forward that I haven't seen anyone else address yet, and I think they're important ones. 1. The argument conflates a restriction on the number of licensed physicians with a restriction on the entire supply side of the supply-demand curve for healthcare as a good. U... | U.S. Government interference made healthcare expensive. | 0 | 2017-05-15T03:23:16 | 124 | 1 | null |
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