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So, I think your idea is mostly good, and I can see it being a great addition to many schools. However, making community service a uniform requirement seems tricky to me. What about schools in bad neighborhoods where students may actually be put at risk by doing these projects? What about schools that have poorer stude... | I believe that community service should be a graduation requirement for high school students. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-27T05:39:29 | 65 | 16 | 11 |
the problem I see with bitcoin is venmo and paypal. sure you get the advantage of anonymity but its still a fiat currency that nobody is really accepting. The other issue is that there are a bunch of different crypto currencies so how do you know which one will be considered valuable in twenty years. bitcoin gets the m... | changing ~90% of my savings to bit coin is a good decision | 0 | 2016-12-30T19:09:40 | 49 | 1 | null |
There isn't more intolerance today. The internet lets you KNOW about more intolerance despite there being less. People have always looked for communities with similar views and created echo chambers. Do you really think many blacks or gays attended clan rallies? What has changed is your access to knowledge bout these g... | The world has become more intolerant today | 0 | 2016-06-28T17:04:30 | 66 | 1 | 9 |
I'm a big proponent of the emotional argument, so I'm going to give this a shot. My first issue is that I think there is an inaccurate binary of logic vs emotion when they actually perform very different functions in a debate. It is very rare that I see an argument that is totally devoid of emotion or totally devoid of... | Emotional arguments should not be considered in overall decision making or in debates. | 0 | 2016-11-01T18:45:41 | 48 | 1 | 1 |
Free throws are one out of many skills that basketball player needs in order to be successful in the NBA. An NBA center needs to practice rebounding, boxing out, dribbling, scoring from within the paint, passing, strength training, endurance training, defensive strategy, team chemistry, etc. More time spent practicing... | NBA Players should be making more free throws. | 0 | 2017-04-20T01:12:59 | 34 | 1 | null |
I think you need to read up on Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. He lived an extremely secluded life before he was arrested for sending mail bombs that killed and maimed people. When anyone tried to reach out to him, he would insist that they leave him alone because he did not want any social interaction. I'm sure Ted K ge... | I believe social interactions are overrated and a person could live just fine seeing people once a year or once in a decade or only when they go get their supplies. | 0 | 2016-08-03T20:06:26 | 40 | 1 | null |
Well, the constituency chooses a candidate that reflects their own opinions, not the other way around. The candidate doesn’t get to choose who votes for him, he just makes his platforms known an if he becomes elected, then democracy has deemed that his opinions are best suited to benefit the greatest number of people. ... | Politicians should not act on personal views, as their role is to reflect the will of the people and not themselves. | 0 | 2016-03-23T22:29:59 | 74 | 6 | null |
My answer will be from the perspective of a university student in the UK, so it might not apply directly to the US. Low numbers of right-leaning students and faculty at universities is but a symptom of a far larger problem; Politicism or political discrimination. This is a problem that won't be solved by affirmative ac... | I believe that universities should have an affirmative action program dedicated to increasing the number of students and faculty who hold conservative political views | 1 | 2015-06-22T05:58:50 | 94 | 3 | 1Δ |
I've written a fair amount of poetry. While I often can come up with words I want immediately, there are times that I get stuck. I need a word for 'unhappiness' that fits a particular rhyme and meter. So, I go to the thesaurus. I'll never use a word that I don't know, but my mental search algorithms aren't robust enoug... | We Should Burn Every Thesaurus | 1 | 2015-04-17T16:56:42 | 46 | 7 | 108Δ |
The technical meaning of a learning curve (which refers to the actual amount of learning done with X amount of experience) has diverged from the common parlance. Common parlance treats learning curve as a kind of "amount that has to be learned by a certain point in the process", becoming prescriptive (you must have lea... | The term "steep learning curve" is used incorrectly what people really mean is "shallow learning curve" | 0 | 2015-01-03T07:06:58 | 41 | 1 | 2 |
Maybe. I guess that depends on our agreed upon definition of a troll. To me a troll does it for the lols, the laughs. They don't care about being right or wrong. They don't really care about winning, the fight, stirring up shit is what rings their bell. An egomaniac (I'm not sure of the exact definition of that word h... | There is a non-insubstantial chance that Donald Trump is executing the greatest troll in the history of the world | 1 | 2016-07-19T21:34:01 | 291 | 7 | 1 |
Yes and it if it was 18, parents would educate their children on drinking more. Most parents already do a fine job of this. Kids as young as middle school have a decent enough concept of what alcohol is and can do despite having no experience with it. That doesn't mean that it will make them less likely to try it if o... | The legal drinking age should be 18 | 1 | 2015-10-15T21:08:32 | 171 | 4 | 45 |
l I wonder why because in my mind Israel IS superior they contribute more to technology, science, medical etc. Is Israel superior because they are a better country, or are they superior because they are constantly devastating Palestine with their military? Had they not gotten the initial leg up, Palestine may be a far ... | I support Israel over Palestine because they've contributed more to the greater good. Therefore are more deserving of having the majority of the land. | 0 | 2016-08-18T20:43:06 | 203 | 2 | 57 |
I don't think the PT is superior in any of the metrics that you list. I could list a litany of reasons as to why the OT is better, but ultimately it is all pretty subjective. The RedLetterMedia videos that someone else linked to are spot on and do a better point by point case for the flaws of the PT than I ever could. ... | Star Wars Episodes I-III are better than the original trilogy (Episodes IV-VI). | 0 | 2017-06-07T09:43:53 | 40 | 6 | null |
Now I say this, yet I do not necessarily think that one religion is correct and that all the others are incorrect. I believe the strongest argument for the existence of God is this: The laws of the universe seem to have been framed in such a way that stars and planets will form and life can emerge. There are many laws,... | It is not unreasonable for me to think there is a God of some kind. | 0 | 2015-12-31T20:13:40 | 62 | 3 | 3Δ |
Your welcome. I think a lot of people share our views about religion in regards to it being almost laughable but we always tend to forget about the impact it has had on the development of a lot of our social and governmental constructs. | I don't think religion deserves respect. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-13T05:16:21 | 89 | 2 | 12 |
I think that, while production is increasing, the amount of people profiting from it is shrinking. The amount of people profiting is increasing! On the other side of the equation, often forgotten, are all the consumers of products who are profiting from what they buy, through savings and other increases of value, tangi... | I think automation and artificial intelligence will lead to the need for capitalism to be replaced. | 0 | 2017-01-25T03:15:59 | 47 | 2 | 80 |
I think the trouble companies might have is not being able to track the behavior of their employees. Why is Susie always sick? Does she need a modified schedule. Jim is sure taking a lot of bereavement days. Carlos sure is taking up those vacation days. Employers need to be able to track the reliability of their empl... | Companies should not separate sick time, vacation time, personal time; it should all come from the same pool of hours. | 0 | 2014-07-09T05:56:33 | 56 | 1 | 4 |
I generally think you are right about it being better to be born a man than a woman for the reasons you gave, and maybe a few more, but I am not completely sure and I think there are caveats. Let me try to take the opposite position and see where that takes us. Firstly, when you say 'the average person', this confuses... | I believe for the average person it's better to be born a man than a woman | 1 | 2016-12-30T01:54:02 | 86 | 11 | 1 |
I'll address this topic from a few perspectives: on an economical level, on a budgetary level, and from a geopolitical/military level. **First** off, understand that the US spends a ridiculous amount compared to the world in large part because the US is simply larger economically than most other countries in the world ... | The USA spends a ridiculous amount of money on our military. | 0 | 2015-01-22T05:01:21 | 121 | 66 | 6 |
You are assuming that we live in a world where people can only spend their money in one place either one set of rules. I live in Australia. Many companies make substantial profits here and export their profits overseas, paying literally zero tax. There is no way a tax break would cause them to invest more or make more... | Tax cuts can increase output in the economy | 0 | 2016-12-05T01:20:26 | 93 | 1 | 7 |
The problem is, letting a guilty criminal go free causes the innocent to suffer. It keeps the victim, or victim's family, from gaining closure or a sense of justice, not to mention any kind of restitution. More importantly, it leaves a criminal on the streets, where he can offend again. A crime going unpunished will al... | I reject Blackstone's formulation | 0 | 2014-03-27T06:11:26 | 50 | 1 | 8 |
I feel as if the whole point of art is subjectivity. It means different things to different people. Art is meant to evoke different emotions from different people. While it's certain true that art is meant to evoke different emotions from different people, you are ignoring another aspect of art -- the artist's intenti... | Art is completely subjective and there's no such thing as "good" or "bad" art. | 0 | 2017-07-04T16:33:18 | 52 | 1 | 1 |
There are few historical events/movements with a single cause. More often than not, there are a number of factors that all added up, or a number of cases where if x hadn't happened, then y wouldn't have. (For example, the Treaty of Versailles in itself didn't "cause" WWII. If Hitler hadn't been born, or of Churchill ra... | ISIS isn't about the US or the invasion, it isn't about Bush or Obama. ISIS was created because of internal forces within the middle eastern Islamic world. It isn't about us, and to think it is is just arrogent and self centered lazy thinking. | 1 | 2015-05-15T00:17:15 | 18 | 11 | 108Δ |
I think most people would assume that it's anyone's right to refuse to date someone, with the logic that TRYING to date someone who's done something you really disagree with is bound to end in failure. But the main problem people would have with it, I think, is that it's DUMB. Why care so much about this kind of thing... | Breaking up with someone or refusing to date them because of their sexual history is perfectly okay | 0 | 2017-01-09T22:08:30 | 168 | 1 | 45 |
1) No, they can call politicians out. What they determine to be a lie, what they decide isn't a lie - these are both things that can't help but be politically manipulated. Objective, dispassionate regulation is good in theory, but it never exists. 2) This one is much stronger. The incentives in place now are to hide be... | All politicians should be fined a percentage of their campaign funds for lying during public speeches and campaign ads when running for office | 1 | 2017-01-21T04:09:36 | 58 | 7 | 132 |
As near as we can tell, we are causing a massive increase in the extinction rate. This is _not_ "how nature works" - we are causing a great deal of damage to the other life on this planet, and to ourselves. Your argument that we should fend for ourselves might make sense if we were in a zero sum game with the other li... | I believe humans have no obligation to save endangered animals. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-27T06:43:21 | 26 | 0 | 6 |
Reminder that the Nazis were still bad guys before they committed systematic genocide. The rise of the Nazi party was historically significant because it demonstrated how a fascist leadership could arise from a Western-style democracy. Putting Hitler on a pedestal and saying that Nazi Germany was a manifestation of one... | The recent increase of accusing the opposition of being like Hitler or being a Nazi is emotional blackmail that is insulting to the actual victims of Nazi germany | 1 | 2017-02-21T04:26:57 | 364 | 596 | 6 |
Yes, exactly. | the Earth is alive | 1 | 2015-05-21T03:12:37 | 80 | 2 | 10Δ |
I'm just looking for upper and lower bounds here. We can't retain more than we produce. I'm a bit confused about what you are saying here. We are not producing energy that is affecting the climate, the problem is that we are producing gasses (CO2 and CH4) which make earth absorb more energy from the sun. See page 10 of... | Global warming is a rounding error | 1 | 2016-07-28T00:11:24 | 57 | 5 | 7 |
This is why there are checks and balances. People vote for president, but the president can be overruled by the legislature and can be charged by any number of legal organizations. Not to mention that the president has a cabinet. They surround themselves with people who do know about economics and war and agriculture, ... | Democracies are inefficient and allow people to influence things they don't know anything about. | 1 | 2016-11-03T13:21:23 | 131 | 255 | 17 |
I think the bottom line is if none of the animals held captive in the zoo are sentient/sapient/self aware/ then it can't be moral, but if only non sentient/sapient/self aware/ animals are held captive then it can be. Just think of it as though aliens kept you captive in their zoo. Are there any conditions that would j... | Zoos can be ethical | 0 | 2015-08-08T00:34:03 | 100 | 1 | null |
You could kind of make this claim about believing/accepting anything touted as the truth, though. Historical, scientific, philisophical, health and wellbeing-related, etc. You could say: how can you deny all other claims or conflicting explanations about something to choose only one as the truth? *People just accept a... | Choosing a religion is foolishness (illogical), there are no logical basis to reject all the other religions and choose only one. | 1 | 2017-03-17T00:33:41 | 62 | 3 | 1 |
There is a difference between killing something which is attacking you and something which is not a threat to you at all. I would imagine that many vegans, if they were being attacked by wild animal, would kill that animal to save their own life. They would probably also kill the animal to save someone's life. Killing ... | A vegetarian or vegan who chooses to be one out of moral reasons has to be a pacifist. | 0 | 2016-03-16T21:27:55 | 31 | 7 | 13 |
Rather than try to condone all the happy images of Santa as an ugly lie, I suggest spinning it in a positive lesson on giving. Read up on the real Saint Nicholas and his secret gift giving. Tell your child those "Santa" --- "Saint Nicholas" stories in your own words and explain the value of sneaking gifts of food and ... | I won't lie to my child about Santa. | 1 | 2016-09-28T18:40:38 | 281 | 1,698 | 1 |
ya, the larger communities fall to the tyranny of the majority, but the Reddit systems of voting and commenting shine best with the smaller specialised and well regulated communities (CMV is a good example of one of the bigger ones). Try taking a look at r/ICanDrawThat and still say that Reddit is toxic, those people a... | Reddit is full of people who generalize entire groups of people based on sensationalized news | 1 | 2016-08-17T21:25:51 | 119 | 29 | 7 |
I know you had America as an example, but I think that you should know that as of 2013, Mexico has surpassed the US in terms of obesity rates. There have been a few studies that have linked their diet to societal, as well as systemic problems. I'm sure that some of the pressures that have resulted in Mexico's obesity r... | When people are overweight there should be much more pressure to change. | 0 | 2015-03-29T23:30:04 | 421 | 4 | null |
Insurgency would die down quick if such measures were used - there is a reason the British/French/Nazis loved these kind of things a lot. They are very effective and that has been proved time and time again. Resistance movements fought until the end of the war, and began long before the Allied landing on D-Day. The Yug... | If a country managed to conquer the USA insurgents wouldn't be a huge problem. | 1 | 2015-10-31T01:34:50 | 78 | 2 | 5 |
No selection bias is a statistical fallacy that involves misinterpreting data. You see a lot of young people posting stupid shit on social media and you assume it is representative of the population, however there is still a large portion of the population you're not aware of because they don't post on social media. Th... | Concerns of privacy will not exist in the not-too-distant future | 1 | 2017-06-24T02:42:35 | 117 | 3 | 4 |
You have to consider the times; At the time, you were starting to see a really big surge of using studio equipment to get a very processed feel to mainstream music; the 50's and 60's were the first time in history that a band's live shows would sound different from their recordings (and that recordings became the norm)... | The famous punk rock acts (Sex Pistols, Ramones, etc.) from the 70s sound horrible. | 1 | 2015-02-09T17:11:15 | 275 | 200 | 43 |
For the politics and jobs case, once again, I specifically wouldn't stand out amongst anyone else though. Sure, I might have some stuff that'd look bad out of context, but no worse than anyone else. If someone wanted to target me about politics, they'd have to target half the entire US haha. I don't think an employer w... | Limiting my privacy rights won't really affect me personally | 1 | 2017-03-24T19:21:28 | 62 | 3 | 15 |
Sorry, I thought I'd take a separate comment to reply to the things that bug you (I was already writing too much) Things that bug me about watching soccer: In football, people often slam into each other at full speed. In soccer, it seems to me that any accidental unavoidable contact results in a penalty. The penalty at... | I think (American) Football is much more fun to watch than soccer. | 1 | 2014-07-01T20:24:09 | 69 | 2 | 1 |
They operate in different realms. For a lot of people religion deals with the questions science cannot (or at least for now). What you're basically saying is Exercise is the opposite of Financial Planning. They don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, and they don't necessarily conflict with each other. A... | Religion is the opposite of science. | 0 | 2016-10-27T00:04:34 | 39 | 3 | 9 |
It seems to me this question could at least identify whether or not they recognize that what they're seeing isn't seen by other people. In combination with other questions it can be a useful question to ask. The only true answer in a literal sense is, "No, it's not possible to see something that isn't there to see." ... | For a psychiatrist to ask a patient, "are you seeing things that aren't there?" is incredibly clumsy language for a doctor. | 0 | 2017-04-07T01:12:03 | 149 | 1 | 76 |
I can't find a single one. Really? Accusations of payola and unethical advertising pressure have been rampant since I started following ethics in game reviews 10+ years ago. In 2007 the Gamespot editor was [fired for posting a negative review](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116360-Jeff-Gerstmann-Explains-His... | People talk about "ethics in video game journalism" as though it's a widespread epidemic, but there isn't a single incident of this outside of Zoe Quinn | 1 | 2014-11-05T19:32:21 | 184 | 104 | 27 |
I'm really confused as to how the epitome of humanity is sacrificing yourself(the one) for others(the many) when ants and other insects do this all of the time. Plenty of animals will happily act against their own self interest- even self preservation, in order to help others. | The epitome of humanity is the ability to act in disregard for self. As human beings behaving selfishly is animalistic and deplorable. | 0 | 2016-07-20T00:58:19 | 23 | 2 | 7 |
I think all the bad points you listed are actually good points instead, or non-issues. Having to hang out when I don't feel like it (almost always) or decline and feel bad after (I have absolutely no intention of hurting others); You have not had good friends then? If I tell my friends I don't want to hang out for what... | There is nothing wrong about not having nor wanting to have friends | 0 | 2014-10-20T19:15:49 | 65 | 3 | 2 |
the same concept applies to a wallet Not really, wallets wont break like phones, aren't rigid like keys, get squished like gum Front pockets tend to have more room to comfortably fit items. If I put my wallet into the front pockets of most of the jeans and shorts I own it would completely fill those pockets, where wo... | Wallets in the front pocket only makes sense | 0 | 2015-11-09T19:09:02 | 68 | 14 | 27 |
Justice is not about punishment, and prisons serve as the only way of isolating dangerous individuals from the outside world. If possible, a criminal should be rehabilitated and reinstated into society, but some people are just too dangerous to be let outside so they get a life sentence. | The Death Penalty isn't a harsh enough penalty for many crimes | 0 | 2015-04-07T01:04:44 | 55 | 1 | 2Δ |
the (imo) strongest argument I hear for showing all one's work on homework is that it demonstrates you actually worked through the problems yourself and didn't cheat No, the strongest argument for showing work is to build up the skill of being able to present your thought process in terms others can understand and foll... | STEM students should not be penalized solely for not showing work on homework/tests | 0 | 2016-09-19T00:27:07 | 62 | 44 | 12 |
It does not make sense that the show would advertise McDonald's in such a way while being sponsored by a rival fast food burger chain. What is more likely is that Hardie's/Carl's JR is going to come out with some szechuan sauce this summer alongside the rest of S3. Besides that, while Rick hasn't gone specifically for ... | The "Mulan Szechuan" bit that Rick and Morty has going on is a McDonalds ad, plain and true. | 1 | 2017-04-05T08:18:37 | 42 | 5 | 47 |
Most importantly, semantics is concerned with what is meant by our language, so saying that "we're just arguing semantics" is akin to saying "we're just arguing about meaning" which is exactly why the discussion is happening to begin with. That's not what people mean when they are talking about a "semantic argument." W... | Arguing that something is "just semantics" is a cop out. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-23T22:51:11 | 54 | 39 | 13 |
The show has almost literally nothing to do with his teaching profession. He could very well have been a chemist working in a lab, and the show wouldn't be any different. He is good at chemistry. That's all you really need to know. It's TV man. Relax. I work with computer, but you don't see me boycotting The IT Crowd ... | I am a high school teacher who refuses to watch Breaking Bad because it turns a respectable career into what appears to be unrealistic shock entertainment. CMV | 1 | 2013-09-30T23:07:36 | 27 | 7 | 1 |
Incorrect comparison. Churches serve marriage ceremonies. They are the same for gay and for straight couples. The difference is the customer, not the product. | Religious people don't need to let gay people get married in their church. However, they shouldn't be allowed to influence their rights for any form of legal marriage outside of that religion. | 1 | 2014-11-11T00:07:50 | 117 | 0 | 4 |
If a religion is true, its true for everyone. Jesus either is or is not the son of God. This is independent of who believes it. If Jesus really is the son of God, than any religion that claims otherwise is false and can be rejected with that being the only reason. | Choosing a religion is foolishness (illogical), there are no logical basis to reject all the other religions and choose only one. | 1 | 2017-03-16T21:50:01 | 62 | 1 | 1 |
Under the moral framework of rational self-interest, objectivism, virtue-value ethics, or Aristotelian ethics eating meat of animals is good because it gives us sustenance, and the *means* are justified as we have rights over beings that don't have the potential for free will or rational thought. Beastiality (as with r... | I believe there is no moral framework in which it is permissible to eat meat but not to have sex with animals. | 0 | 2015-05-19T14:55:37 | 81 | 0 | 64Δ |
Better access to these allow individual with less adapted genes to survive and procreate. This is still evolution. Evolving results in changes over time; not all of these changes are inherently good, or even useful in any way. Natural selection provides an advantage to organisms with particular traits in particular env... | Homo sapiens is in the end of its evolutionary path | 0 | 2015-08-19T22:20:55 | 86 | 1 | null |
If you know much about the prison operator's cost structure, it should in principle be possible to pay some weighted average of those two options to give the prison company any degree of incentive in either direction. In particular, if you knew the prison operator's marginal cost of taking an extra prisoner was $10k/yr... | the problem isn't *that* prisons are privatized, it's *how* prisons are privatized: all we need to do is restructure the contracts. | 1 | 2016-04-23T03:26:52 | 44 | 3 | 5 |
Hi OP! Just to let you know right off that bat that I am both an anarchist and a communist, and like you, I was once thrown off from the idea because of "human nature." First of all, it seems like you don't have a very good understanding of what communism is, and that's okay. I wrote a post explaining communism in deta... | I believe that communism could never possibly work. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-29T20:03:39 | 112 | 8 | null |
the idea that a meritocratic society is inherently the fairest form of society is often deeply flawed, because of the inequality of opportunity inherent in most Western societies. A meritocracy isn't about fairness, it's about choosing the best person for the job, the most able to perform in the position. It's not fair... | Meritocracy is so fetishized in the US that its flaws have become invisible, namely that achievement is often more dependent on opportunity than it is on skill or ability. | 0 | 2017-06-23T04:52:23 | 19 | 16 | 84 |
A lot of paradigm shifts come from the people who are ignorant about certain things. When you read the "basics" on something it is often hard to imagine that topic in any other way then what you have read about it. A good example might be with finding a shortest path to the fountain in the city. Many people might have ... | I think that if you are not informed beyond the basics on a topic your opinion is not valid and should have no weight. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-04T16:26:27 | 40 | 1 | 3 |
Even if I agreed with all of your points, what about supporting a truly moderate Republican in a primary who is a not a part of the current party? Just a person that wants to bring back the moderate Republican party that believes: 1. That free trade is good 2. We should have relatively open borders (with rules, but is ... | The Republican Party today is an evil institution and voting for or supporting Republican politicians is inherently immoral | 1 | 2017-06-28T04:50:13 | 305 | 1 | 1 |
It's a society, not a collection of individuals who think they are so special and so different. When such behavior is so widely advocated, some poor souls actually believe it and end up being "weirdos". | Special snowflakes/ special snowflake culture isn't as bad as people make it out to be. In fact, it is a sign of a tolerant and wealthy society. | 0 | 2017-01-15T17:04:12 | 83 | 2 | null |
there are plenty of other wild predators that biologically or logistically need meat to survive. In many areas, there aren't. The wild predators there would be, like wolves, have been eradicated for the sake of human safety. You have to pick between humans being predators, or humans being (potentially) prey to the pred... | I think that for someone like me with real & consistent access to vegan options, every time I eat animal products, I'm doing something selfish & morally wrong. | 1 | 2015-05-18T05:01:33 | 169 | 5 | 15Δ |
Sure: http://www.nonprofitvote.org/documents/2013/09/america-goes-to-the-polls-2012-voter-participation-gaps-in-the-2012-presidential-election.pdf http://www.demos.org/data-byte/voter-turnout-income-2008-us-presidential-election http://voteview.com/blog/?p=131 But that is actually NOT the point I was making. Your origi... | The poor have too much political power | 1 | 2014-04-04T06:26:41 | 129 | 11 | 1 |
Lots of people are taking this from the hardware side - AI running on computers can be faster because it can take more space and be more power hungry. This is true, but I don't believe that it encompasses just how large the difference can be. I would say that there are two other factors which make AI likely to perform ... | Artificial intelligence will never be incomprehensibly smarter than humans | 0 | 2017-03-25T14:19:23 | 77 | 1 | null |
Your definition of "hover" is too narrow. A creepster can "hover" over somebody sleeping on the bed. A stock price can "hover" around $20. A patient can "hover" between life and death. They're not called "floating-on-air boards," and nobody who markets them claims that they will actually float on a cushion of air witho... | Devices incapable of hovering should not be permitted to call themselves hoverboards. | 0 | 2015-12-10T19:15:59 | 228 | -2 | 3 |
The USA dropped 2 atomic bombs, not as retribution to an atomic attack. It demonstrated a lower bar for considering using them. It was to prevent a much, much greater loss of life had the mainland of Japan been invaded. Estimates put it as high as 1 million casualties just on the US side. It's conceivable that the Japa... | The USA is the least trustworthy nation to possess atomic weapons | 0 | 2015-07-28T18:12:37 | 83 | 7 | 5 |
The issue is that, as parents, the mother and father have a responsibility to educate their children to one day function as an adult in society, [as outlined by John Locke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Treatises_of_Government). Now, if it were an adult educating another adult, we would say that the teacher should t... | I believe that parents who hit their children are criminals and should be charged with assault, including the ones who disguise the abuse as "spanking". CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-12T02:43:39 | 192 | 2 | 1 |
Well, while I think many jobs can be taken over by robots there are two things that might CYW: * Humans (especially young ones) die from lack of physical and psychological contact with another human. This won't change. Every job (paid or unpaid) that is about taking care of another person will require human workers to ... | In approximately 2 centuries there will be absolutely no jobs left that robots can't do | 0 | 2016-09-14T12:34:07 | 102 | 1 | null |
I would say that instilling kids with materialistic goals for the sake of materialism is a bad idea. Participation trophies do what they're intended to do : they devalue the inherent worth of _the trophy_, but not the memory or satisfaction of playing well. I think the idea that participation trophies diminish the suc... | Children who do not get 1st-3rd place DO NOT deserve a trophy for simply participating | 1 | 2015-06-25T23:11:29 | 244 | 6 | 1Δ |
Ok, so what's the alternative? You could use the political process for that, but guess what, you're a tiny, tiny minority in that too, and unless you *abuse* the system in a way that's already causing a large part of the problem with government, you're going to need to convince a majority to "do something" about that c... | "Vote with your wallet." Is generally ineffective and so it is ideologically an ok argument but a realistically useless one. | 0 | 2014-09-09T00:00:36 | 104 | 1 | 90Δ |
If the entire black population begins rioting who is harmed? Innocent people probably, can you really justify that? Can you justify World war 2 where most of the casualties were not soldiers but civilians? Genocides such as those in Rwanda where all that happened was that two groups decided to kill each other and put t... | Black people should be rioting right now | 0 | 2016-07-08T01:31:24 | 22 | 3 | null |
The slightest pothole, sharp rock, soda can, glass shard, etc. could result in the cyclist blowing out a tire. Cars can also blow tires. And, unlike bikes, when a car blows a tire it becomes a dangerous projectile to those around it. What if it occurs when I am 12 inches away from them? You should *never* be 12 inches... | I think cyclists are selfish because they put too much trust into several variables; therefore, they create more danger on the road only for their benefit. | 0 | 2014-07-10T19:21:16 | 100 | 36 | 5Δ |
Here's the problem. Within any population there will be a spectrum of opinions ranging from extreme to moderate. Moderate Republicans may have more in common with moderate Democrats than they do with the extreme right of their party. The same goes for Democrats and the extremes in their party. When you gerrymander a di... | If you want to produce a more representative, you should support Gerrymandering. | 1 | 2015-12-19T18:36:33 | 36 | 1 | 1 |
Police provide a target. people aim for that target. If the person wasn't doing a buy or a deal with the police they would be doing it with anyone else. There is zero entrapment. | Sting operations always amount to entrapment and should be abolished | 0 | 2016-09-23T19:05:51 | 36 | 3 | 13 |
have you read the books? the story itself is very complex and wonderful and the characterisation is very good and the plot is logical and it really is worthwhile. the show has bastardised the books because turning a thousand pages into ten episodes takes a lot of cutting, so i'll give some credence to your view that th... | Game of Thrones is a terrible show with a cheap strategy of evoking basically one emotion—sadness. | 0 | 2015-06-16T06:37:52 | 61 | 2 | null |
Before I begin I want to clarify that I don't agree with rioting 99.99% of the time. That said, I would like to tackle the "legitimate reason" part of your argument. Ask yourself a question; how often do you see peaceful protests on the news? Now how often do you see violent protests? Violent protests get more coverag... | There is no legitimate reason to riot (property damage, assault, etc) | 0 | 2017-05-10T03:49:32 | 88 | 1 | 2 |
I can only touch on one point: Environmental (and I am only using an assumption here). The plastic used in the bags of cereal at my local store are massive in comparison to the box cereal. Most of the packaging on a boxed type cereal is biodegradable as well. My point is simple: bagged cereal leaves more waste that ta... | Bagged Cereal is superior to boxed cereal in every way | 0 | 2015-07-10T20:44:01 | 34 | 2 | null |
If you believe in the right to life then you will eventually get to the point of guns being a right too. They are the best way for one to defend oneself, and defend their liberty. Either way there are more defensive uses with a gun than there are offensive uses with a gun. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_scie... | "Gun rights" are a sham and provide a net-loss in utilitarian good for society. | 0 | 2015-08-20T12:14:02 | 135 | 1 | 1 |
I can't consider business to be a legitimate academic discipline. Why not? Business requires a wide range of knowledge to be find success. It's a constantly changing and evolving field. There a lot of philosophy, ethics, and sociology involved. Are those not legitimate disciplines? I feel as though most people who go ... | Business school is a perversion of the purpose of universities | 0 | 2015-03-03T16:51:20 | 38 | 1 | 8 |
Sorry if I sounded like I was attacking you. It was honestly just a question for clarification of what you would consider reasonable. The age of consent is absolutely an arbitrary thing I agree. But this is because it is impractical to develop a law that accounts for all the variation in when someone could reasonably ... | Laws and religion have brainwashed people that sexualization of children is wrong, or having intercourse with people under 18 is wrong. | 1 | 2015-12-08T04:17:59 | 66 | 2 | 17 |
First things first, is abortion murder? Yes. What do you have your finger on that has been missed by the overwhelming consesus of the medical community, [the United States Supreme Court](http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/410/113.html), the [ACLU](https://www.aclu.org/issues/reproductive-freedom/abortion/feder... | Abortion should always be penalised, save for these three instances. | 1 | 2016-12-08T23:37:53 | 90 | 26 | 4 |
Ok, so I've been thinking about this point: A system without a minimum wage could only function effectively with strong labor unions. Given that you believe strong unions are necessary and that you also acknowledge the dismal state of labor unions, can you not conclude that, at the very least, eliminating the minimum... | I believe that a mandatory minimum wage hurts workers, helps employers, and is a major cause of wage stagnation of unskilled labor in the United States. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-23T18:11:40 | 130 | 1 | 1 |
I graduated with two degrees and a minor in four years, but there was a point where I was in a similar position you are in now, and if I changed some of my engineering classes around I could have easily grabbed up a handful of minors or another two degrees. Before I ask anything else though, what does your school coun... | If I can, I should get 4 degrees in 4 years | 0 | 2014-10-04T20:00:35 | 40 | 2 | 3 |
I don't know if you live in the US or in the EU or whatever. But I think you miss something very simple. There is value in learning a language that you can use, there is less value in learning a language that you won't use. In the case of an European, (I'm taking the Dutch as an example) Germany is our biggest trading... | It is more valuable for an English speaker to learn an East Asian language than any European language | 1 | 2015-08-23T21:17:56 | 20 | 6 | 3 |
How do we quantify both intelligence and mistakes? What constitutes making a mistake? I will assume that by intelligent you mean academically intelligent ("book smart") since you reference grades being an indicator of the type of intelligence you are talking about. I will further use the general definition of "an acti... | Intelligent People Don't Make Mistakes (or they make minimal mistakes) | 0 | 2017-06-14T10:18:03 | 21 | 1 | 1 |
Well, that depends. Attempt 1 to CYV: "Evil," as per the common definition, is simply that which opposes "Good." If you have an understanding of "Good" that isn't objective whatsoever, then Evil doesn't really exist. So really, if you live in a philosophy that there is no objective "good," then you don't believe in an... | There is no such thing as "evil" | 1 | 2014-08-05T20:46:12 | 61 | 1 | 3 |
If your goal is to go to a new country and really explore the culture, then a cruise ship is probably not the way to go. Cruising has a lot of benefits otherwise, though. If you've never been on one, it's hard to realize how much stuff to do there really is on a cruise ship. You can find something fun for just about an... | Cruises (travel via cruise ship) are the worst way to travel. They're basically floating hotels that you can't leave with brief respites where you don't get any good sense of the countries you visit. | 0 | 2017-05-09T15:55:22 | 50 | 2 | 12 |
I mostly agree with you, but it is very heavily dependent on context. People often use accents specifically to degrade a race of people because of the stereotype that all people of that race have that particular accent. One example from the early 20th century U.S. was when people would adopt "yellowface" in performance... | I believe that doing an accent is not racist no matter who you are and what accent you are doing. | 0 | 2016-09-21T17:01:55 | 68 | 9 | 1 |
Giving charity is traditional value. When will that go away due to social progress? | Conservative 'traditional values' are inherently flawed due to them being traditional, that is, of the past. | 1 | 2016-04-17T16:59:05 | 172 | 2 | 113 |
$19.99 sale isn't actually used to make people think the price is $19.00. Its used because people don't like buying things at whole number prices because they assume the number is rounded up. For example if something is on a shelf for 100.00 people will think that the product should actually be charged $92 or $95 dolla... | Prices like $599.99 are deceptive by nature and ought to be outlawed or boycotted. | 0 | 2015-05-29T22:18:29 | 43 | 2 | 2Δ |
Keeping track of who owes what or devising shorthand/rules of thumb about who pays what bills, rather than just paying bills jointly, is by definition more complex. But you just claimed before, "...this one will pay this bill and that one will pay that bill until it’s close enough that they consider it square." So your... | Married couples that maintain separate finances are, at best, not fully committing to the true spirit of marriage as a partnership. At worst, their reasoning is cynical and/or selfish. | 0 | 2016-11-28T22:43:55 | 81 | 3 | null |
Everything you said strikes as pro-choice/abortion. I reckon there's a difference between the two terms but, both are used interchangeably in colloquial use and have too subtle of differences to actually point out. I'd argue against two points you made: A fetus is essentially a form of parasite, and women deserve the a... | I am not pro-life, nor am I pro-choice. I am pro-abortion | 0 | 2017-02-07T16:31:08 | 275 | 1 | null |
In some modern marxist-based epistemologies, there is the concept (called [Standpoint Theory](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-epistemology/#standpoint) in feminist theory, but it occurs elsewhere too) of the "Authentic Voice" that basically states that members of minorities groups must be considered authori... | I believe Mansplaining, Cissplaining, Whitesplaining can be misused as a Thought-Terminating Cliche. | 0 | 2016-12-17T06:03:48 | 69 | 1 | null |
It's doubtful words are going to convince you to like music that you don't like. I'm not a fan of (popular, modern) country either, largely for the same reasons you cited. I'm not much of a fan of pop music, either, and the country you'll find on today's radio is basically just pop with anything edgy or sophisticated t... | Country music is absolutely terrible. | 1 | 2015-08-24T22:22:26 | 18 | 3 | 10 |
I see where you are coming from here. My cousin lives in a dominantly Spanish city, and through a dual language program through school, learned Spanish and is now very fluent. However, there are some complications here. For instance, according to [this map](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kqD5vM-7--... | Spanish should be taught as the primary second language in US schools starting in early elementary school. | 0 | 2015-11-30T00:22:49 | 52 | 2 | null |
Trump was downright effusive in his praise for Comey during the campaign. I don't think he'd give in to Rosenstein's recommendation if he truly felt Comey was as wonderful as he earlier claimed. Eh, not really. He sung Comey's praises in *in October*, after Comey announced that they found new documents. But earlier, wh... | Trump's dismissal of FBI director Comey was a politically motivated effort to stop a legitimate ongoing investigation. | 1 | 2017-05-10T17:05:20 | 294 | 61 | 12 |
You are partially right that it's about civil liberties, but it's not just about civil liberties, is about respecting a minority population that is stigmatized still in the U.S. and many other countries. You are right that unrequited love is, in it's own right, the principle reward of a long-term committed and monogamo... | I believe that the Gay Marriage discussion isn't as important as the media portrays it to be | 1 | 2014-12-21T06:27:43 | 73 | 2 | 1 |
I feel the modern feminist movement contains within it troubling racist/homophobic/trans-exclusionary elements, I have plenty of Christian friends that feel the same way. Them being a Christian though, does not by default make them a racist bigot. I would be a jerk if I just assumed they hated gays and women because t... | I really want to be able to call myself a feminist, but can't because identifying with the movement means accepting its troubling relationship with racial minorities, GSMs, etc. | 0 | 2015-03-25T15:50:25 | 88 | 8 | 11Δ |
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