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I believe that eventually the concept of gender will drop out of our society altogether, because we are moving towards a place where we realize that gender roles are restrictive and anyone should be able to dress/act/etc however they want. However, that doesn't mean gender isn't a real thing in our current society, or ... | Instead of allowing/encouraging people to identify as queer/trans/etc, all focus should be on dissolving the norms surrounding gender etc. | 0 | 2017-02-07T00:05:07 | 50 | 2 | 23 |
I understand your position as such: you are in agreement with social justice movements' aims, and you are accepting of critical race theory; *however*, you believe it to be applied too narrowly. It can validly be used to criticize other obvious targets, yet you do not see them criticized, and that is wrong. The critica... | Critical race theorists and related social justice movements usually ignore non-European forms of oppression | 1 | 2016-01-20T07:23:35 | 92 | 2 | 12 |
Procreating is simply immoral no matter how perfect your life is because babies can't give consent and doing any action without someone's consent is cruel like murder, rape, or any other awful things. Thinking that it is right to bring a child into the world makes you a hypocrite as I am sure many of us here know that ... | Benatar's asymmetry can't be countered or attacked logically because the majority of prolife arguments are a victim of supporting the biological fallacy that life is worth it and we are destined to pass our genes. | 0 | 2017-03-29T07:25:04 | 55 | 0 | 2 |
A variation of strengthening existing welfare is called guaranteed income (where you get cash up to $20k if your income is less than $20k). It is a terrible idea compared to UBI, but let me address your points first "welfare-trap" that exists in means tested welfare programs. I did a pretty lengthy search and could fi... | We should strengthen the traditional safety net rather than replace it with basic income | 0 | 2015-03-29T18:37:59 | 75 | 2 | 1 |
Haha go on, go on. You know you want to. Thanks for the discussion, it's been enjoyable. | 1997 Gun Confiscation didn't work for Australia | 1 | 2016-02-02T22:05:35 | 153 | 2 | 4 |
The teams that have contributed the most to ruining NBA basketball are the 2002 Lakers & 2006 Heat. '02 Shaq gave us the patented 3 second violation & shoulder charge no call, and the 02 series vs the Kings was comically fixed. '06 Heat gave us Dwane Wade wearing body armor and careening recklessly into defend... | Steph Curry and the Warriors are Ruining NBA Basketball | 0 | 2016-04-21T10:01:09 | 31 | 2 | 21 |
he is overly verbose I don't find him verbose at all. Quite the opposite. His descriptions of things are so bland and basic the whole thing would feel very much like "teen fic" were it not for all the x-rated stuff. If it were verbose then maybe we'd see some personality or creativity in the writing style. For the reco... | I think GoT is badly-written, misogynistic tripe. CMV enough to get through reading the books. | 0 | 2013-11-12T12:27:42 | 138 | -2 | 15 |
Before I respond, I'd suggest trying /r/asksocialscience for an actual academic-level answer. Almost everything regarding large scale financial collapses are /r/badeconomics territory (and routinely do show up there). There have been 4 jobs or activities which Man has engaged in throughout the centuries This is almost ... | Humans are going to die out because of an economic collapse | 1 | 2015-01-05T04:40:40 | 45 | 3 | 7 |
Your claim is Lincoln is the absolute worst of the 45 Presidents. This is based on: 1) The emancipation proclamation itself did not end slavery; 2) His original intent was not to end slavery but to quell the southern rebellion; and 3) He wasn't able to free slaves independent of a Civil War that cost half a million Am... | Abraham Lincoln was our worst president. | 1 | 2017-03-31T22:39:05 | 99 | 28 | 2 |
What you're ignoring is that as long as birth rates are high and average lifespan only goes up, the total population will skyrocket. There is a finite amount of many resources. There is only so much land. There's only so much freshwater. Same goes for fossil fuels. At some point we will hit onto a shortage of an ess... | Decreasing birth rates is Western nations' biggest problem. | 0 | 2014-12-19T02:21:43 | 169 | 1 | 14 |
The Pepsi commercial tried to appropriate the growing culture of protest in America. It seems like Pepsi asked "what are millenials into?" And the answer was protest and Kendall Jenner. It's completely tone deaf | The Pepsi commercial is not a big deal | 1 | 2017-04-11T22:13:27 | 67 | 35 | 29 |
Animal suffering comes from the industrialisation of meat production. Industrialisation of food production comes from the need to sustain billions of human beings. You may think that with one hand you are helping reduce animal suffering by going vegan, or buying meat that doesn't come from an industrial process, but wi... | Someone can eat meat and still help effectively reduce animal suffering. | 0 | 2016-07-31T01:40:53 | 291 | 1 | 1 |
I wouldn't have a problem returning to a system in which equal wages would be a non-issue (i.e. the world of my great-grandparents where men worked and women primarily cared for the home and the children). While you may feel that way, by advocating for a return to that system you are saying that "all women" should be h... | It's okay to be a woman against women's rights | 0 | 2017-03-24T01:14:05 | 324 | 11 | 3 |
I'm sure you'll agree that something this huge in scale and consuming so much time (decades, actually), money and resources should not be taken lightly. Then why not get it right? Why not have something that follows rules and is far more likely to impress a hypothetical alien race into thinking just how intelligent we ... | English should be the global "Lingua Franca". | 0 | 2015-11-10T22:45:43 | 50 | 4 | null |
Because in my view, the religious component is inextricable from the classical idea of the vampire. Otherwise why do they fear the cross? As a vampire, you would be an enemy of God in a world where God surely exists. Not ideal. | Fiction that portrays vampires as burdened is off-base. For the most part, being a vampire would be awesome. | 1 | 2015-04-10T17:29:41 | 93 | 1 | 48Δ |
**MASSIVE FUCK OFF SPOILER ALERT, EVEN IF YOU'VE SEEN THE ENTIRE US SERIES** If they continue following the trajectory of the UK BBC series, Claire will order Frank's assassination to preserve their reputation as he begins to flounder as President. I do believe this is how the US series will end. I'm not entirely sure ... | House of Cards' Frank and Claire Underwood are the best possible example on how a marriage should work. CMV (SPOILERS) | 1 | 2014-03-13T22:38:26 | 57 | 2 | null |
I would say that true anime does need to be produced in Japan. That's not to say that Japanese style animation in the West can't be good or has no merit. In my mind it's like the difference between eating a traditional Chinese meal in China and eating at an Americanized Chinese restaurant in America. The meals are bein... | Anime doesn't NEED to be produced in Japan. | 1 | 2017-07-05T05:07:56 | 27 | 11 | 13 |
In addition to reasons that others have mentioned, the USA's use of atomic bombs in WWII is not directly comparable because the weapons are so much more powerful now. The US showed a willingness to destroy two cities in a war that had already destroyed many more. The nuclear weapons of today have far more destructive... | The USA is the least trustworthy nation to possess atomic weapons | 0 | 2015-07-28T18:27:11 | 83 | 2 | 6 |
My initial assumptions were similar to yours. I thought once you go on a date with someone, you don't date anyone else until you broke up (broke up here could mean not wanting a second date). So when I was first asked by a girl if I wanted to be exclusive, I was surprised, I figured we already were since we'd been on d... | Exclusivity is implied when a sexual relationship begins. (Caveats) | 0 | 2016-11-16T21:05:14 | 128 | 6 | 6 |
Did you forget about frozen. Elsa and anna are both pretty hot, and both nobility if that's important. Also they seem like genuenly nice people | Jane, from 'Tarzan', is the most attractive Disney girl | 0 | 2017-05-05T22:59:08 | 345 | 5 | null |
What would you say about the people who have disorders that allow them to empathise and more deeply connect with others with similar problems? I'll offer the example of [Professor Temple Grandin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin): a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State university. She's also the i... | There is nothing positive about having a disorder | 1 | 2017-02-21T11:25:01 | 47 | 11 | 3 |
Politician campaigns on the promise of enforcing some deal with another country. Politician gets to office and learns classified information about that country that totally changes the assessment of that country. It turns out that doing so is likely to lead to war. Should the politician lose his job for applying new in... | Politicians should be legally held accountable for campaign promises. | 0 | 2017-06-30T15:23:11 | 49 | 1 | 4 |
All races really live up to their stereotypes Jews are stereotyped as being Marxists and as being Capitalists. They have no conscience yet their mom can always guilt trip them. How can this all be true? Mexicans are stereotyped as being very lazy and also working all the hard crappy jobs that "real Americans" won't do.... | All races live up to their stereotypes (that is why they are stereotypes). | 1 | 2016-02-19T16:14:48 | 58 | 34 | null |
1) As a couple people have already mentioned, even if you use contraceptives there's still a chance that you can get pregnant. Clearly people to whom this happens are attempting to *not* become parents, so I don't think the argument can be made that consent to sex equates to *consent* to parenthood. The salience hear ... | The violinist argument for abortion rights is flawed | 0 | 2016-01-18T04:42:09 | 122 | 2 | 1 |
Two people have sex and have a kid. If the woman wants to have an abortion resulting from the actions of two people only the woman would bare the cost of that? Also, you just creating a way that a man can walk away from his child. And now the child has half the resources or even less if the woman had to leave work to... | A 'financial abortion' law for men is feasible | 0 | 2014-12-24T04:20:21 | 366 | 0 | null |
I like a lot of the things he says, but whether a radical transformation takes place is something that can really only be judged decades after he's gone. Even if he brings big changes, they're only just at the very earliest stage now -- I'm not sure he's actually *done* much yet other than say some positive things. And... | I think Pope Francis is doing a great job as Pope and is radically transforming the Catholic Church for the better. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-12T06:56:56 | 589 | 2 | 2 |
But now I am unsure what the underlying argument is. Perhaps you should start a new CMV where you lay out your modified more nuanced view. | Checking a shared bag of candy before reaching in is socially unacceptable. | 1 | 2014-11-04T20:35:33 | 35 | 6 | 34Δ |
"Basic standards" is a political program, not an ethical principle. If your position is "everyone in the US gets 20k from the government," then you still need to explain why. Calling "equality" "decency" instead doesn't change the problem. Think of equality of opportunity as an attempt to defend the concept of desert, ... | Equality of outcome is malign; equality of opportunity is nonsense | 0 | 2014-09-25T19:52:49 | 36 | 1 | 5 |
I agree that language classes tend not to stick, and I recall Spanish being an utter waste of time for me in high school. This is a problem in more than just language classes though, it's ubiquitous in even core classes that they don't apply practical psychological discoveries about how people learn, and how particular... | Foreign language classes should be replaced by computer coding classes. | 0 | 2017-01-15T23:18:57 | 37 | 16 | 25 |
OP, I understand the point you're trying to make, but after reading your responses I have gotten the feeling that you don't have a lot of inside experience in women's shelters. I volunteered at a battered women's shelter once a week for over a year, so I think I might be able to help you understand this better. For the... | I think that keeping men out of domestic violence shelters is nothing but bigotry. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-24T21:56:05 | 486 | 59 | 2 |
Let's go through some of these: Pollution Who objects to Chinese pollution and not American pollution? Who is hypocritical about this? This isn't used as a we're-better-than-China metric. Human rights This is well-deserved criticism. China violates so many more human rights that the US does not. Freedom of speech and c... | Reddit, and much of the west, has been suckered into an anti-China view by the media. | 0 | 2015-05-24T04:13:26 | 68 | 14 | 7Δ |
Of course anyone is entitled to have any kind of dealbreakers and can end a relationship or refuse to date for any reason. However, the reasons why you have this dealbreaker, or are bothered by something to the point where you'd end a relationship, can tell about you that you are prejudiced, judgmental, etc. If someo... | Breaking up with someone or refusing to date them because of their sexual history is perfectly okay | 1 | 2017-01-10T15:22:25 | 168 | 2 | 1 |
Legalization would just support the idea that it doesn't do any harm and getting high everyday is ok What people seem to forget, is that we have a perfect example of what happens when drugs are legalized right in front of us, and that is alcohol. When alcohol was legalized, did everyone drink alcohol everyday and think... | I think Weed is toxic to your psyche and it should be kept illegal , CMV | 0 | 2013-10-17T23:25:18 | 30 | 1 | null |
Sometimes you can be right and wrong at the same time. Perhaps you are right in this one situation that it was wrong to break minor laws in order to protest. But then you are in the game of choosing for protesters whose causes are worthy of civil disobedience and whose are not. Safe to say the protesters themselves alw... | While white people will never be able to understand what it means to be a minority, that doesn't mean we cannot be critical of their actions. | 0 | 2015-08-14T06:12:48 | 142 | 1 | 10 |
That sounds an awful lot like party before country. Democrats should remove the person who may very well be the worst president of the US as soon as possible to staunch the flood of damage he has done audience home and abroad, and literally any replacement will do much better. | As a liberal, impeaching or otherwise removing Donald Trump is a bad idea and will only result in a stronger and harder to oppose Pence administration. We should want Trump to remain for the duration of his term and hope for a strong showing in 2020. | 0 | 2017-05-19T17:31:01 | 159 | 1 | null |
People with AIDs could be entered into a database that people without AIDs could check prior to engaging in sexual relations or the sharing of needles Disregarding the other problems with your 'solution' it's fairly obvious you haven't thought this through. The groups of people who at a high risk of infection with HIV ... | I think the only currently available way to get rid of HIV/AIDs is to start quarantining people who have the disease. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-22T09:32:37 | 45 | 1 | null |
The bodily autonomy argument is about choice. In the violinist hypo, you don't agree to be his life-support system. In each of your counter-examples there is a clear choice made. You chose to hold a knife to a guy's chest, you chose to have and raise children. This is similar to how tort liability is found in certain c... | I think that "bodily autonomy", by itself, is a horrible reason to justify abortion. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-21T23:40:14 | 103 | 3 | 9 |
To quote Lenin from "The Right of Nations to Self-Determination": The bourgeois nationalism of any oppressed nation has a general democratic content that is directed against oppression, and it is this content that we unconditionally support, At the same time we strictly distinguish it from the tendency towards nationa... | "Pride" (Gay Pride, National Pride, School Pride; take your pick) is detrimental to the betterment of society. | 1 | 2014-02-03T08:55:18 | 23 | 1 | 1 |
I somewhat disagree. I say the fundamental problem is the FPTP plurality voting system, and second is the misconception that the democracy is about implementing policies supported by the people rather than about addressing the issues aggregated from the people. The reason I say this is because people need not be knowle... | I feel that the fundamental problem in American politics is a dangerously ill-informed populace | 0 | 2014-08-20T20:49:34 | 158 | 5 | 11Δ |
The second article I linked says: "The National Institutes of Health, for example, has developed a program to help new biomedical **Ph.D.s** find alternative careers in the face of “unattractive” job prospects in the field" So, yes, things are a bit better for PhDs but still not all roses. Again, my point is that: "if ... | Trump's "tweaking" of the H-B1 visa program is going to prevent the best and brightest from studying and working in the USA | 1 | 2017-02-01T17:26:50 | 42 | 10 | 145 |
Think of it this way though. Arguing what is causing global warming is irrelevant. It's happening, and whether or not we caused doesn't matter because it can fuck us up either way. | I believe that, though climate change exists, it is NOT caused by humans. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-15T09:19:32 | 71 | 1 | null |
Average citizens are ignorant of policy: Do we really think that your average citizen knows the ins and out of health care, foreign policy, budget issues, etc etc etc? There plenty evidence (to me) showing that they don't, and the results of ignorant people being allowed input on important issues is damaging. This is n... | Democracy is overrated. | 0 | 2017-06-24T12:31:58 | 46 | 1 | 1 |
This is ultimately a result of a culture that strives for excellence, which I believe is a good thing. I don't feel like you think that excellence is a bad thing, just that companies should be satisfied with "acceptable." I hope that I can convince you as to why companies encourage their employees to perform their job ... | Five-star-ism is converting all ratings to binaries and is making the world worse. | 0 | 2014-07-21T17:39:50 | 47 | 2 | null |
According to my local government buildings, the average person reads at a 5th grade level. The average person cannot graduate high school. It's different, being here on Reddit instead of out in the real world. Surely you'd agree that a good number of people on Reddit (Those with different opinions, those who are rude, ... | I think the United States should be a direct democracy. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-20T08:18:48 | 71 | 1 | 1 |
Parts of this just don't make sense to me. If owning a gun is a constitutionally granted right, why shouldn't felons be able to buy a gun to protect themselves? It's a high risk group thing. People who are pro guns don't say that guns are harmless, they are fully aware that they can kill people. The fact is, nobody w... | Pro-gun advocates become hypocrites when they concede that felons and people with mental illness afflictions should not have guns. | 0 | 2016-06-28T22:40:37 | 33 | 2 | null |
Circumcision is morally acceptable, provided a person consents to it. However, when it is done to a child, they are unable to consent to this. While it may not be as major as cutting off one of their arms, you are still cutting of a body part that they will never be able to get back. Once they are able to consent, then... | (Male) Circumcision is a morally acceptable practice | 0 | 2017-05-29T17:03:50 | 57 | 9 | null |
Up until the point the fetus is able to survive outside of the mother's body, even if it requires medical technology, abortion should be legal. The only possible way for the fetus to survive is by using the mother's body. Sure, a newborn needs someone to take care of it, but it can rely on anyone to take care of it. Yo... | I'm anti-abortion because I can't draw the line between goo and person. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-03T13:27:12 | 77 | 5 | 27 |
I want to start with two eye-rolling cliches that apply perfectly here: "Oh, you just don't understand because you're not a parent" and "As a father..." Good now that that's out of the way... I only know my own personal experiences with my wife and 2-year old son. I'm not a fan of Mad Men (not a bad show but not the po... | You don't love your kid, until you start to form an actual relationship with him/her. | 0 | 2014-12-10T19:56:03 | 35 | 6 | 1 |
Of course one could take the view that all else equal, a society where the lion's share of unwanted births are prevented through contraception and sex ed to prevent unwanted pregnancies would be better than a society where the lion's share of unwanted births are prevented through pharmaceuticals or invasive surgery to ... | I feel that fighting for better contraception availability and sex ed in the US is more important than fighting for abortion. | 1 | 2015-03-15T18:23:09 | 210 | 4 | 1Δ |
There is a way to measure risk, called a micromort. It's a unit of risk representing a one in a million chance to die. To accumulate a micromort in a car, you have to travel 230 miles. To accumulate a micromort on a motorcycle, you have to travel 6 miles. On a bicycle, you would have to travel 20 miles, and just walkin... | Driving a car is insanely risky and probably the most dangerous thing you do in your everyday life. | 1 | 2015-01-07T01:27:45 | 204 | 139 | 33 |
What evidence do you have that technology will be able to reverse climate change in the future? We have very specific and strong evidence that climate change is real, so wouldn't it make sense that you would have to get specific on what sort of promising technology would have a shot at reversing the effects? If someth... | by the time climate change becomes an imminent threat technology will have advanced enough to eliminate the threat | 0 | 2017-05-17T02:14:42 | 76 | 1 | 24 |
I only believe that Korryn Gaines deserved to die in the sense that all of her actions lead to a predictably violent end, like someone who taunts a dangerous animal and gets mauled. Should we really consider police to be the equivalent of a mother bear? "Perceiving not only her actions, but the words she used, we dis... | Korryn Gaines deserved to die | 0 | 2016-08-08T17:23:14 | 115 | -2 | 28 |
Unfortunately you can't measure "apathy". What if caring, concerned, involved parents have a young child who breaks a serious law? The equal protection clause applies. You can't punish one set of parents and not the other. | Apathetic parents should be held accountable when their young children break the law | 0 | 2016-09-16T18:05:14 | 153 | 2 | 5 |
You gloss over the potential automation on an estimated 8 million jobs as if it will be a negative thing. Automation creates higher paying jobs, both through engineering and manufacture of the automation machinery, and through the operation and maintenance of these machines. Automation will result in fewer overall jobs... | Tackling Illegal Immigration is a complete waste of money | 1 | 2016-06-15T19:06:35 | 69 | 9 | 1 |
*weakness* is relative. Perhaps you are smaller, you are poor and they are not, you are not popular and they are, you are gay, you are a minority, or you are a litany of other things people are targeted for. They target someone not because of their perceived "weakness" but because of the lack of consequences from targe... | If I get bullied then it means that I'm a weak guy, inferior to other guys around me | 1 | 2017-05-25T19:27:19 | 70 | 1 | 16 |
Point 1: Someone who fights for a racist cause, helps create an institution to power that racism, and otherwise spread it is racist. People who have done this don't deserve to be monumented, or at the very least don't deserve to be monumented something as defining as a town square. Don't you think that this is too broa... | Monuments to confederate soldiers are symbols of racism | 0 | 2015-08-04T06:11:44 | 71 | 3 | 78 |
As another user already said; No (rational) person is arguing their right to freedom of speech. However, people often get confused with "freedom of speech" meaning "freedom from consequence". When WBC goes and pickets a childs funeral, they absolutely have the right to do that. Everyone else has the right to call them ... | Anti-theists and Westboro Baptist have just as much right to publicly express their views as anybody else does. | 0 | 2015-08-10T03:36:37 | 39 | 3 | 2 |
Both "Jesus" and "aliens" are emotional beliefs, and things people believe are real. So I don't get discriminated, unfortunately I have to begin by saying that I don't believe in Jesus and all that taboos that would disqualify me from having a voice among the completely rational and open-minded. A couple of things: Fir... | Religion should not have any legal protection from the government beyond free speech. | 1 | 2015-02-14T23:46:53 | 76 | 14 | 2 |
I'm no evolution denier or anything, I'm actually a biologist, but I think the comparison isnt fair. Earth being round *right now* is an observation, and was a theory hundreds of years ago. You can stick anyone in a rocket and show them its round, we just don't bother because its a waste of money (heck nowadays anyone ... | Denying biological evolution is exactly as reasonable as claiming that the earth is flat. | 1 | 2017-03-23T07:59:02 | 95 | 1 | 1 |
My point was there could arise another scenario in which an illness provides resistance to another illness. I have seen other cases where diseases have slowed down the progression of others [like this](http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2001/09/virus-may-slow-down-aids.aspx) although I believe I have seen a bett... | Vaccinations should be compulsory for all persons living in my society (USA, but applicable to all western countries). religious reasons should not be acceptable reasons to get out of it. CMV | 1 | 2013-09-27T17:24:48 | 208 | 1 | 2 |
My only points would be that if you take out his shit-posting on Twitter, in 3 weeks what exactly has he done that says he's incompetent? Or a white supremacist, or anti-LBGTQ? (not saying you said that, just more of a broad statement). 3 big things he's done so far are: - Nixed the EPA. Which to the uneducated is blas... | President Trump really is as incompetent and narcissistic as he appears | 0 | 2017-02-14T13:43:27 | 45 | 2 | null |
It's not the DNC that are complaining about the electoral college. It's those who voted Democrat, who ALSO complain about the rigged DNC election. | It is highly hypocritical of the DNC to complain about the rigged electoral college system when their own rigged system selected their candidate. | 0 | 2016-11-25T22:50:32 | 48 | 1 | null |
I don't really get your point of view though. Nobody is really claiming that dressing immodestly empowers people in general in comparison to X, Y, or Z. It's just why it matters *to them*. It's just their rationale. It makes them feel like they're resisting a culture they don't like, and the word that we now assign to ... | Immodest dress is neither empowering nor a good symbol of empowerment. | 1 | 2017-06-12T04:53:21 | 39 | 8 | 27 |
The problem is that there is no good way to compensate, and simply throwing money and 'support' (whatever that means) is not going to solve that issue. Witness the plight of the Native Americans in the US and Canada. Their cultures were destroyed and they were systematically discriminated against. To try and make amend... | I believe that all states should compensate wrongly convicted people by a large amount of money and support | 0 | 2014-06-07T05:23:10 | 47 | 2 | null |
I have always thought about it in terms of "technology". We invent the car and suddenly the world is a very different place. You can look back in time and say "well how hard was it to do that? You just needed to realize X, Y, Z." but it really was a hard thing to come up with. I think social understanding is equally li... | I believe sex is a very meaningful act and should only happen within a loving, committed relationship. | 1 | 2016-10-25T18:32:31 | 52 | 8 | 37 |
What is Voldemort good at? If Voldemort wasn't good at anything, then how was he able to hatch a plot over all the years after his first "death?" His plan very nearly succeeded. Did you miss the part where the Death Eaters invaded Hogwarts and killed a bunch of protagonists? The part where Voldemort literally killed Ha... | Voldemort is an awful villain. | 0 | 2017-05-17T01:24:29 | 70 | 2 | 3 |
I have quite a few Right-leaning friends who said there was no way they were going to see another Clinton in the White House. They say they were disgusted with Bill's extra-marital affairs and HRC's treatment of the whistleblowers. They also believe her to have knowledge of Benghazi and hate her for it. This made them ... | The "left" is also culpable for Trump getting elected. | 1 | 2017-02-12T00:06:07 | 135 | 4 | 26 |
The issue is not that Planned Parenthood is special in that they get government funding for providing an essential service, and they should lose that special status. The issue is actually the opposite, people want Planned Parenthood to be one of the only nonprofit organizations that *cannot* receive federal funding. Ma... | I'm just not getting the controversy around the possibility of defunding Planned Parenthood | 1 | 2017-01-22T18:19:17 | 361 | 35 | 1 |
Does spelling count? Can you spell correctly every congresspersons name? So how should ballots be counted if (1) name is spelled wrong (2) handwriting is illegible (3) they write the wrong name for the wrong party? It makes tallying votes a nightmare, and what does it gain? Disenfranchised bad spellers or those who for... | Ballots should not have names or check-boxes. They should be write-in only. | 0 | 2016-05-03T03:50:04 | 49 | 1 | 8 |
I think this is a difficult argument to make given that 70 years ago whites were so intolerant of black people that they installed separate bathrooms and didn't allow their kids to go to the same school. Not to mention everyone was Christian (largely without exception), and being gay got you excommunicated from your ho... | The world has become more intolerant today | 1 | 2016-06-28T16:08:36 | 66 | 1 | 9 |
The amount of harassment, stalking, doxxing, fraud and otherwise illegal behaviour online is going to reach a tipping point at some point in the near future. Is it? Like is it actually increasing some-how? Also "doxxing" is interesting because you effectively argue for a mandatory doxx to stop doxxing? We see the prob... | At some point, a law stating that people must use their real names in all online communication will be seen as a good thing | 0 | 2017-05-01T14:15:11 | 42 | 4 | 5 |
So first of all, I think that this person leaving their children as this person wanting to be treated as a 6-year-old girl are two separate things. Leaving your children is a shitty thing to do whether you are a cisgender, regular deadbeat dad or whether you are a trans age-play fetishist. Plenty of people who are into... | Stefonknee Wolscht, the 52-year-old man who left his family with seven kids to become a "six-year-old girl" should not be supported to please their delusions of being a six-year-old girl that also gets with bikers. | 0 | 2016-01-06T19:23:09 | 220 | 5 | null |
I actually agree with everything you said, but interpret the result a little differently. If the root of a mental illness is the religion, then how can you say that is not the cause? If he had been raised in a secular family would he have experienced the self hate that led to this violence? Would he have had the belief... | The Orlando shooter was propelled by BOTH his religious beliefs as well mental instability. | 1 | 2016-06-14T11:11:36 | 267 | 2 | 7 |
The vast majority of people in the United States that are currently unemployed are actively looking for work. An equally large number of people are also working part-time and not earning enough money to sustain themselves because they could not find full-time employment. Many of these people are either homeless, living... | I believe that socialism is fundamentally better than capitalism | 1 | 2015-07-16T02:55:59 | 162 | 1 | 2 |
Yeah, it's pretty paranoid. Trump wants to cut down on illegal immigrants. You are a native American. You're fine. Trump isn't Hitler. | The potential election of Donald Trump may pose a significant threat to my well-being | 1 | 2016-07-20T05:25:54 | 79 | 17 | 1 |
While I may mostly agree with you, I have two cousins with different levels of mental disorders. The younger is mostly normal. She has a slight speech impediment and functions on a much younger age level. Her younger brother is actually smarter than her and he's about half her age, but he's pretty brilliant so it's no... | I can't help but think that some children who are born with terminal birth defects would be better off euthanized, please CMV | 0 | 2013-11-13T23:24:24 | 191 | 2 | null |
Then I'd say you're still framing the issue incorrectly if you see this as a responsibility on the part of Democratic voters. No candidate is entitled to anyone's vote. If this is a matter of accountability and a Republican congress really is the only way to enforce that accountability, then the responsibility is with ... | Democrats who opposed HRC in the primary over corruption but are voting for her in the general should vote down ticket GOP in order to hem her in. | 1 | 2016-10-25T21:26:54 | 86 | 4 | 78 |
I'm going to assume your basic premise is correct, that you are some kind of perfect ruler who would improve everything. What happens when you die? This is the fundamental issue with this type of ruler. For all your perfection, you are still mortal. Sure you may have a successor in place who in your infinite wisdom you... | The world would be a better place if I were absolute emperor of mankind. | 0 | 2016-06-21T17:05:54 | 33 | 1 | 11 |
(Apologies if I'm repeating arguments) I'm a Christian, and staunch enough in some of my beliefs that some would call me a fundamentalist. I'm also from one of the denominations which is big on evangelism. First off, Jesus' last words to his followers were to "go and make disciples" - and that's why so many Christians ... | Religious people hate Atheists | 0 | 2017-06-10T10:54:33 | 72 | 2 | null |
The meaning is implicit rather than explicit. So for example, if my father says I should have children because 'its natural', while that itself is meaningless as far as being a reasoned argument is concerned, the implicit meaning is that his body is having a hormone based emotional reaction and opening his mouth sans f... | Natural is a meaningless word | 0 | 2015-07-16T16:43:26 | 58 | 1 | null |
I disagree. First we have to talk a little about what 'ending death' would mean. Obviously we're really talking about curing old age -- preventing something fatal from killing you is just typical medicine and we've had it for a long time. Yes people are living longer, but society seems to be speeding up so it doesn't s... | Indefinite lifespan will lead to cultural stagnation. | 0 | 2016-09-18T17:35:42 | 23 | 1 | 3 |
Alright, another approach then. Compound interest, left alone, will destroy an economic system. Inheritance taxes are the easiest way of defusing such economic breakdowns via dynastic wealth. Because inheritance taxes serve to counter compounding fortunes through interest alone, they are a necessary balance for an econ... | Inheritance tax is ridiculous. | 1 | 2015-05-10T23:56:48 | 205 | 1 | 3 |
Well, no one can know for sure either way whether any country has a secret file on any leader, so the best we can do is proffer reasons as to why that maybe isn't the case. Allow me to try: 1. In respect of the dossier, there's a truckload of unsubstantiated things, documents etc about anyone of any importance. The Bu... | Russia has some sort of blackmail on Donald Trump. | 0 | 2017-02-06T07:32:41 | 71 | 2 | 6 |
People on the **far left**, the very religious, **atheists**, and hardcore supporters of a paticular product brand come to mind. Why are you lumping in atheists with hard core supporters of brands, religions, and hard core leftists? Why not include people on the far right who are just as guilty of this? It makes me thi... | Those who believe it is their responsibility to "call others out" have no right to complain about people treating them poorly | 0 | 2014-07-18T20:16:19 | 32 | 3 | 24Δ |
Why do they find it enjoyable? As a former kid with car posters on his wall, a car has always been a visceral experience for me. It was my first step into independence, into "adulthood." It was something I could put time and labor into and see tangible results (add a new exhaust system and car goes faster). It was some... | The obsession with expensive cars makes no sense. | 1 | 2016-09-30T21:15:56 | 69 | 8 | 1 |
I think a lot of that comes down to different understandings of what is meant by "dysphoria." Gender dysphoria is a feeling dissatisfaction, distress, and wrongness associated with having a physical appearance inappropriate to their gender, and with being socially mistaken for the wrong gender. Many trans people do exp... | Transgenders only enforce gender stereotypes. | 1 | 2016-07-17T21:45:58 | 100 | 5 | 14 |
Developer here, from personal experience: I work 7-3:30 and then go home. I don't check my email, answer the phone, etc when I am home. I work on-call every now and then and am compensated for it. jobs can be outsourced Sure, but at least in the US, outsourcing has begun to be less and less. Companies are realizing th... | Software engineers (and engineers in general) should be unionized | 0 | 2016-04-26T19:46:20 | 124 | 18 | 2 |
I agree that college is often extremely expensive, even for middle to upper-middle class students. However, I experienced different anecdotal evidence, I found that while poorer students received more government aid: it was definitely easier for a middle class student to receive a private scholarship than it would have... | Middle Class Students Should Receive More Financial Aid | 1 | 2014-10-03T01:08:19 | 28 | 2 | 81 |
I'll give this a shot... ...the time before agriculture was the best. Once humans started growing their own food, everything turned to poop. People had to work, society had to change into oppressive structures, wars were raged, and ultimately the wealth of food became a wealth of money. It's particularly bad now and da... | We live in the best of all times to be alive | 1 | 2015-01-29T12:52:59 | 309 | -1 | 4 |
Otherwise, what is the point of religious doctrine existing? The founders of these religions intended people to take anything as they wanted to the point of almost randomness? Generally, founders of religions weren't most concerned with how their words would be interpreted centuries or millennia later. They were commun... | There is always a correct "ballpark" interpretation of religious doctrine. | 0 | 2015-11-22T02:42:11 | 133 | 1 | null |
I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here. Do you mean that it shouldn't be taken for granted that someone is bound by a particular set of rules, and the person arguing they are needs to establish that? Because there's a nearly-universal rule for that already: wherever you are, you're bound by their rules. | The onus is on the person arguing that government rules apply | 0 | 2015-09-19T22:34:43 | 41 | 6 | 2 |
I'm going to take issue with your word obligated - as that is the only way I can think of changing your view. Taking the generally Pauline view, we, as Christians are 'Obligated' to do nothing. All burdens of duty and the law have been removed by Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Its why Christians no longer follow Kos... | Christians are obligated to take in Syrian refugees | 1 | 2017-01-29T23:50:53 | 112 | 54 | 3 |
The ability to vote is sacred, and that means that your vote should count as much as your neighbors. Then the question becomes one of mathematics. Preventing a registered voter from submitting a ballot is just as bad as allowing someone to commit voter fraud. If the number of people who should be able to vote and are... | Voter ID laws should exist | 0 | 2016-10-07T01:52:23 | 61 | 1 | 41 |
I guess it depends on what is practical to you or what is definition of pragmatism. It is true that philosophers didn't send people into space, invented computers or created a cure for polio. Such things are without a doubt a great contribution to the mankind. There are however fields of philosphy, which stay very much... | Philosophy as made by philosophers is unreliable for living life and for public policy, except as an artistic diversion. | 0 | 2017-05-13T23:11:51 | 137 | 8 | 1 |
This is a way to quell votes and make sure that only certain people are voting, but that's a huge step backwards. One issue with ballots in the US for instance is that the way laws are written on them is absolutely insane. Compare US ballots you've probably seen [with this ballot in the UK for the monumental vote for B... | Everyone should pass a test in order to vote | 0 | 2017-05-04T22:00:52 | 98 | 1 | 13 |
Occam's Razor is often used to mean "the simplest answer is probably the correct one," when it should really be more like "the simplest answer *that explains the evidence*." That is, that the theory doesn't have to be simple, only not more complicated than the evidence demands. | I believe Occam' s Razor to be an extremely naive concept CMV | 0 | 2013-05-28T21:18:57 | 45 | 2 | 1 |
your argument focus on why office, not scripting or general knowledge about computer. the problem is on curriculum, not used os. Teaching kids other os when windows is dominant everwhere is alienating | Microsoft Windows should not be used in schools | 0 | 2016-09-20T16:02:52 | 67 | 1 | null |
its the fact that government is changing the word in their definition and for some people they can't let that go. Meh, it's not like the Church didn't shoehorn itself into the picture. You asked for proof that the sacrament of marriage was developed much later - [here's your proof]((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marria... | Marriage is between one man and one woman, because Marriage is intrinsically religious. The word Marriage should be removed from Government and changed to something around "Civil Union". | 1 | 2015-07-16T01:09:10 | 51 | 4 | null |
If we found a friendly alien species with high potential that seemingly will have them being superior in the future killing them is not the right course of action and I will tell you why. This would be no different than those with a high school education going and murdering those with a university education. Averagel... | If we discover a species of aliens that at the time is less advanced than us, but is clearly more intelligent and will surpass us in technology in the future, the correct course of action would be to wipe that species out while we have the chance. | 1 | 2014-05-07T00:05:15 | 44 | 12 | 1 |
Two points: I'm going to make the first point briefly. Being transgender is not about being born male but wanting to do feminine things or have a feminine role in society. Just like anyone else, some transgender men are more masculine, and some are more feminine. Second, I want to talk about this Furthermore, the gend... | There are only two genders and they are NOT on a spectrum. Everyone is cisgender, except for a few legitimately diagnosed with psychological disorders. | 0 | 2016-11-02T12:47:19 | 52 | 5 | 12 |
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