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Celsius is based on water, true, but so is much of our world. Foods, people, animals, many things are mostly or largely water. Which means it's rather more intuitively applicable than fahrenheit. Fahrenheit may be more precise, but for everyday use, that level of precision is hardly important; does it really matter if ... | Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius in everyday usage | 0 | 2015-03-19T00:51:00 | 130 | 9 | null |
You're right that unemployment has fallen to relatively low levels right now, and while others have pointed out how this stat can be misleading, I agree that this trend is likely a good thing. However, there are several areas where the economy doesn't look as good, and these may mean trouble in the future. Productivity... | At 5% unemployment, the economy and job market is in a good place in the US | 0 | 2016-05-04T05:54:10 | 71 | 0 | 4 |
I generally travel like you do, but for the sake of argument let's look at this. However, a lot of people like to book a tour group, and I'm having a hard time understanding why anyone would want to do that. Many people may not have the ability to do research or manage a schedule which allows them to see what they'd li... | Guided tour groups are a terrible way to travel | 0 | 2017-05-28T18:20:58 | 45 | 3 | 32 |
A lot of people at the time did find Churchill's behavior unbecoming of a national leader, but they thought being an effective leader during WWII was more important. The difference now is that we are not in a World War and Trump has threatened a number of the institutions that have prevented one (NATO and the UN). | If you find Trump's conduct unbecoming of a national leader, you should also hate Winston Churchill | 1 | 2016-12-31T21:04:27 | 53 | 32 | 21 |
Anecdotal evidence is often associated with selection bias. I agree that in some cases, it is useful. Asking a user of the product what it's like doesn't introduce very much bias (although even then, you'd trust the average star rating of 1000 users over any individual review). The problem is when you only hear about p... | I like anecdotal evidence. | 0 | 2015-08-27T17:08:04 | 54 | 2 | null |
*What are this movie's central themes?* A naive god learning the flaws of humanity, then learning to love them anywahs. While watching the movie I got a strong impression that it was aiming to address the moral ambiguity of war, the idea that there isn't necessarily a good or bad side in war. The setting they chose ref... | Wonder Woman is not a good movie. It's dumb and deeply flawed. | 0 | 2017-06-07T23:10:20 | 69 | 5 | 25 |
This video posted on youtube a couple days ago helps summarize the current Syrian refugee situation in Europe, and addresses some of the concerns many have. The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOnXh3NN9w | Supporting the immigration of Muslim refugees into a predominately Christian/Agnostic country is detrimental to the host country. | 0 | 2015-09-19T16:08:26 | 123 | 1 | null |
I can remember my exact page on several books at once and mostly read one at a time. When I open a book and read I could perhaps resume faster but since I read in multiple hour stretches and only take a few seconds. There is nothing of significance I could possibly gain from a bookmarks. People's memory varies as does ... | People who don't use bookmarks are missing out. [TT] | 0 | 2015-05-06T04:20:10 | 36 | 1 | null |
Based on your definition, selling different underwear for men and women is "sexism" because it discriminates, which you define as "recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another." In that case, sure, it's beneficial. Men and women are not identical. But that's not what is generally meant ... | Sexism isn't always bad. | 0 | 2016-05-10T23:49:24 | 58 | 8 | 162 |
Define "huge problem." If there's enough guns in the country to assume that every given person owns 1 or more, then every person needs to be treated as a potentially lethal threat. Also things like death camps wouldn't really work given the methods of communication we have available to us today. All it takes is one pe... | If a country managed to conquer the USA insurgents wouldn't be a huge problem. | 0 | 2015-10-30T01:41:36 | 78 | 2 | 45 |
There are a number of studies that suggest that students who participate in the arts also have higher academic performance in other areas as well as improved emotional and social development. (A summary of a number of studies on the impact of arts and education can be found [here](http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED466413.p... | I think the studying the arts in high school does not help prepare students for the "real world" CMV | 1 | 2013-04-23T13:59:07 | 41 | 2 | 1 |
They're not being ranked against their peers, they're being ranked on expected ability. But the Nazi solder learned discipline. I don't want to my kids to be graded for their willingness to follow orders Your children's future employers would expect otherwise. I want a score per competency, that follows them through h... | We should not rank kids vs. each other. We should just track subjects that have been mastered, and those that still need work. | 0 | 2016-05-01T06:32:21 | 47 | 3 | 2 |
I don't think that "children first" really refers to something like the zombie apocalypse. It's more a general guideline for saving as many people as possible from something like a car wreck, a sinking ship or whatever. It's less about saving children **instead** of adults, it's more about getting the kids out before t... | In case of emergency, it's better to save adults over children | 1 | 2015-09-30T06:39:21 | 22 | 56 | 68 |
It appears that the one attempt to answer your question about Deltas provided an example, but doesn't explain how or when/why you would do so. According to the rules/explanations over there in the sidebar ---- You award a Delta anytime any comment from anyone changes your view in any way. Along with typing in the code ... | I believe the best form of argument is the one where opposing sides hold fast until conclusively stopped by firm and unshakable logic. | 1 | 2013-11-27T07:08:12 | 66 | 1 | 8 |
Most doctors don't know how to properly council their patients on weight loss. All of my examples are purely anecdotal, but while browsing r/loseit, I came across many people who said that doctors would suggest for them to lose weight but would not tell them how to do it. Or, worse: doctors would give bad advice. My ow... | A doctor telling their patient that they need to lose weight shouldn't be considered fat shaming. | 0 | 2017-02-20T18:12:57 | 310 | 8 | null |
what about people who have sex at night in bed. should they take a shower in the morning? | Evening showers are better than morning showers | 1 | 2014-09-10T20:26:31 | 68 | 7 | 7 |
I'm gonna tackle this a slightly different way. The utility of gift giving is better than money is that allows people to receive things they wouldn't otherwise think of/feel guilty getting due to practical concerns. I'm a Junior in college whose been using the same book bag since my sophomore year of high school. And a... | "Cash" or "Money" should be acceptable responses for when asked what one (adult) wants for Christmas. | 1 | 2015-12-15T03:20:57 | 65 | 3 | 3 |
Someone else has already pointed out that it would be a double standard to forbid them from having children if you allow any other couple to have children if they are carrying a genetic disorder - so I will point out the double standard on your other proviso - why should the couple need to prove that there is no imbala... | Incest really shouldn't be a problem if it can be reasonably concluded that no power relationship is at play and that the couple agree not to have children | 0 | 2017-01-15T02:59:01 | 57 | 2 | 41 |
What the Democrats would need to do and should do is try to win as big as possible in the midterms, take back the Senate and gain as much as possible in the House (I don't think they'll realistically be able to take back the House but you never know), and then start impeachment proceedings after that. Then, even if/whe... | 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 | 2017-05-19T17:12:32 | 159 | 2 | 1 |
Firstly, I also hate whenever people are trigger happy to write any attempt to give reasoning or justification as a mere excuse. However, that doesn't mean that "making excuses" doesn't exist. I often explain myself because I rather people understand why I did something. I rather they understand my reasoning and they ... | There is no such thing as Excuses, only Reasons. | 1 | 2017-06-16T07:32:50 | 31 | 2 | 52 |
Wow, you've gotten some terrible responses here, and I'm sorry that you have had to deal with that, and that the arguments you've had have been so poor in substance to your original CMV. Not sure if you are still answering this, but if so here's what I would say. It's true that the reps and dems are observing the same... | Liberals and Conservatives are both correct about the rise of Donald Trump, but assign different blame. | 1 | 2017-02-15T02:45:18 | 127 | 3 | 12 |
I think what gives a hate group its power is how it can interact with the general public. A group like the WBC, as you said, is met with a remarkable counter-protest almost everywhere they go. To compare this in real-life to a subreddit, however, I think isn't correct. With these subs not being default subreddits, one ... | Reddit's policy allowing hate subreddits to remain in order to preserve free speech actually does the opposite in practice. | 1 | 2015-04-07T04:28:54 | 51 | 5 | 2Δ |
No, he was not treated as a bad person because he held the wrong opinions on what is beautiful. He was treated like a bad person because he was cruel, albeit unintentionally, and demonstrated a complete lack of empathy and tact. The statement "I cannot deal with your body" is an exceptionally mean statement by an... | This Woman Was Unfair To This Man. | 1 | 2014-07-15T07:06:54 | 237 | 11 | 2 |
I have smoked since I was 12 years old (I am now 33). I maintained a 3.8 GPA and was enrolled in honors classes all throughout High School. I worked my junior and senior year part-time and took care of all my responsibilities. I received academic and athletic scholarships to a very prestigious local school. However, so... | As a high schooler with good grades, a job, good friends, and that's living a happy and safe life, I believe that my parents shouldn't put in an effort to prevent me from smoking weed. | 1 | 2015-04-09T05:03:29 | 134 | 22 | 1Δ |
Your argument that voting cannot be increased until it can be accomplished online in my opinion is flawed for a few reasons. First, there are a few other ways that could increase voter turnout without having to go online. First, make election day a federal holiday, allowing more people to have the day off, thus allowi... | Voter turnout on election days will not increase until there is a way for citizens to vote online. | 1 | 2015-10-07T18:16:55 | 83 | 6 | 2 |
Ok, I think I see the thrust of your argument - philosophy is very useful when it is *applied* to fields (like psychology, artificial intelligence etc) but most of the 'pure' philosophy questions boil down to truisms or sophistry. Is this about correct? In which case, would it not change your view to discover that I re... | Philosophical questions become trivial when dissected. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-19T17:42:32 | 58 | 4 | 18 |
Your idea suggests that intelligent people should know what is making them happy and how to improve that. But a person may be totally un-intelligent *in that particular respect*, despite being intelligent in any number of different ways (like math). | Intelligent people cannot be sad because if they're intelligent they'll figure out a way to cheer up. | 1 | 2015-07-26T22:37:23 | 48 | 3 | 6 |
I think it impairs my critical thinking skills. Since information is so easily accessible, I always just instantly look things up instead of just thinking about for awhile first I would contend that smart phones do not impair your critical thinking skills, rather, they have pushed the boundaries of what actually requir... | I think I would be better off without a smartphone. | 1 | 2016-03-23T22:28:51 | 134 | 3 | 1 |
I remain unconvinced that all the humans on this planet need social interaction. ...who claims that? Humans are a social species, and we've evolved to have a particular emotion (loneliness) which specifically causes us to be unhappy when we don't feel we've met a certain social function in our environment. Not everyon... | 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 | 2016-08-03T15:52:13 | 40 | 6 | 18 |
Ram on computers can get bogged down with cashed stuff. if the computer is restarted it clears the memory. Also sometimes scripts just fail to run, it's not for any particular reason that can be fixed and may very well not be reoccurring (or may be a problem in a program that I as the company IT guy can't to shit about... | "Turning it off and on again" does not solve a problem | 0 | 2017-06-13T18:36:59 | 42 | 1 | 43 |
I was originally opposed to organ donation for a couple of reasons, the only valid one being that I believed that surgeons would hack my body apart to get whatever they needed as quickly as possible without concern for what parts they didn't need, and I didn't want my family and friends to receive my remains that way. ... | Organ donation should be "opt out", not "opt in", in the U.S | 0 | 2017-04-30T16:43:24 | 365 | 1 | null |
It isn't just that we keep dogs as pets. We have had dogs as **companions**, and for many thousands of years. There are few animals that have been domesticated as long, and even among those animals, none have been actual companions in the way that dogs have (except for perhaps cats). Humans have kept chickens and cows ... | People complain about the chinese dog festival (Yulin) but not about all the other animals that we, westerners eat, that's hypocrisy. | 1 | 2016-06-19T18:47:38 | 502 | 244 | 16 |
Why do you think that they've abandoned looking for these explanations? Because they weigh theories that are supported by science more heavily than those that do not? Scientists, atheists included, are constantly trying to understand the origins of the universe, the origins of life, the nature of consciousness, and a t... | I think atheists are lazy and close-minded people who have given up on and disregard any search for spirituality - CMV | 1 | 2014-03-22T23:14:10 | 63 | 16 | 10Δ |
We have not only ways of controlling for sexual transmitted diseases but also for becoming pregnant. Condoms break, some people don't wear condoms, some people (if some forum posts are to be believed) transmit STDs intentionally and some probably don't care. People *still* get accidentally pregnant despite presence of ... | Humans had a bonobo style sex life at the start and we should have it again. | 0 | 2016-12-20T18:25:45 | 86 | 9 | 7 |
If this hypothetical society is advanced enough to genetically engineer every embryo, they're probably advanced enough to not need women to physically give birth. So women would be reproductively useless too. Both sexes are equally capable of caring for children, so there would be no reason to prize one sex over the ot... | A society that is advanced enough to control the sex of the baby, other than reproduction has no use for males, just like the bees or the ants. | 1 | 2017-04-25T01:30:53 | 58 | 9 | 45 |
And those people would be either committing a crime or making themselves likely to be thrown out. As I mentioned, the purpose of the zone isn't that every is going to follow it, especially not those who like to skirt the rules or the law. The purpose is for those who actually would follow such rules to not cause an acc... | Gun free zones and no-guns-allowed policies are ABSOLUTELY useless. [Not about gun control; about gun free zones] | 1 | 2016-05-29T06:42:50 | 50 | 15 | 75 |
(Edit) sorry for the wall of text, am on mobile so formatting is hard. Well there are several things wrong with your points. 1) Civil Forfeiture is still bound by the normal judiciary system. You can in fact get your money back, although most don't. Civil forfeiture is also only used in the case of individuals carrying... | America is already a police state, the public just hasn't admitted it yet. | 0 | 2015-07-15T16:04:07 | 269 | 1 | null |
I have thought **a lot** about this topic. I live in germany, so by default I have been confronted with the topic in school many times. History was my strongest class. I then studied social sciences and after graduating have been studying a lot of neuroscientific literature and studies. Humans are not brutal by natur... | CMV - I believe that the crimes committed by the Nazis, even though they were terrible, are a display of human nature | 1 | 2013-10-10T23:26:52 | 62 | 3 | 1 |
The biggest problem I have with things like this, is that it just incentivizes subcontracting to artificially raise the 'median wage" which has the opposite effect on the lower rung than intended. The easiest way for, say, a hospital to raise their median income would be to subcontract cleaning and billing services. Ho... | CEO of U.S. corporations should be mandated to receiving salaries no more than 6.5 times the median of their workers' income. | 1 | 2015-09-08T17:51:29 | 88 | 17 | 10 |
How many times have you seen the headlines: "Doctors said he would never walk again. Today, he's running a triathlon" "Parkinson's patient walks after 5 years bedridden" "They were told she had a month to live. Local mother makes a stunning recovery after road accident." After being bedridden for months in a hospital, ... | "Right to Die" laws are absolutely absurd and it's a no brainer that assisted suicide should be 100% legal everywhere. | 0 | 2016-03-18T00:41:50 | 42 | 2 | null |
A rational person would know that their personal value as "relationship material" People in the mating market need to make decisions about other people on the basis of limited information. A high N is one of those pieces of information that, statistically, signals a bad mate. Most everyone knows that. The fact that *yo... | No rational person can be ashamed of having a high number of sex partners. | 1 | 2014-11-17T22:05:07 | 104 | -1 | 1 |
I guess it depends on what you mean by "success". If you mean "you'll have gobs of money", maybe this isn't the best advice. If you mean "you'll always be doing what you love", maybe it is. | The phrase "do what you love and you'll succeed" is ridiculous and stupid to tell kids. | 1 | 2015-10-18T00:52:28 | 29 | 3 | null |
Your source argues that we don't have an adequate defense against a Russian nuclear strike. To that end, we have MAD. Our actual missile defense program is aimed at preventing a couple missiles from N Korea or wherever...When we don't think MAD is an adequate deterrent. | We should invest in nuclear defense | 0 | 2017-01-17T07:52:41 | 41 | 2 | null |
So if you implement this system, you are saying you would also support a society where the large majority of the taxpaying population wouldn't have a vote? Can you offer a logical explanation of how that is a wise or sustainable way of running a nation? | Only soldiers, police officers and firefighters should be allowed to vote. | 0 | 2017-06-08T18:26:47 | 248 | 1 | 2 |
Tamir Rice was a 12 year old with a toy gun that was shot by police seconds after they left the vehicle. The only way it was justified is if the dispatcher did not relay the information that the caller gave about the gun being a toy. Considering that there was later two white boys who were playing with bb guns in a par... | All of the Famous Black People Shot by Police Officers Were Justified | 0 | 2016-08-22T11:03:50 | 157 | 3 | 6 |
This is the most beautiful city in the world. It is an unreal place where time moves so much slower than any other place I have experienced. The cause for the acqua altas was the drawing from an aquifer underneath the lagoon for industrial use. They have since stopped doing this. I believe city is more threatened by th... | i think venice should be evacuated and left to sink | 0 | 2014-05-09T01:32:50 | 244 | 2 | null |
I don't whole-heatedly disagree with you, but I think it's important to remember that even films which are "digital" still hire "classical" Directors of Photography (DP's). For example, the DP for Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki, worked on Children of Men, Burn After Reading, and although I hate Terrance Malick - Tree of Li... | What constitutes cinematography needs to be divided into two categories ("classic" and "digital") for the purposes of competitions/awards. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-17T20:30:37 | 41 | 2 | null |
But if I give to something, I want to know where it's going and what it's used for There is an easy solution for this; ask them what they need, and then go buy it. I have walked through the grocery store and bought food. I have pulled into a gas station and bought gas. When there is such an easy way to control how your... | I shouldn't give change to homeless people on the streets. | 1 | 2015-05-28T20:48:53 | 118 | 31 | 24Δ |
A human right is, exactly that, a right. Unless the person formulating the list is overstepping the bounds of what a 'right' is (at which point I'd argue they're not doing their job), then a list of human rights is a list of things/opportunities/etc. which any person may choose to take advantage of. Choose, not must. A... | "Human rights" are a dangerous concept that societies should move away from. | 1 | 2017-01-09T17:01:26 | 61 | 15 | 2 |
I am very late to this but here it goes. I also don't post much at all, so please be kind. It’s about politics as much as it is about second or third wave feminism. In 2008 Hillary Clinton Hillary refused to use her status as a woman in her campaign but realized that acknowledging her womanhood is important to the mov... | Hilary Clinton's repeated reminders of her womanhood are, perhaps ironically, counter to the feminist philosophy and is the equivalent of "playing the race card". | 1 | 2015-10-15T08:00:17 | 425 | 1 | 1 |
Unlike with pets, children are cared for by others on a regular basis. Kids get food at school, daycare, their grandparents and other family members, the parents of their friends, babysitters, the list goes on and on. You're holding 1-2 people responsible when there's likely a larger community effecting the child. Scho... | Parents of fat children should be prosecuted just the same as pet owners who over feed their pets. | 1 | 2015-05-25T04:17:45 | 63 | 3 | 3Δ |
Cultural appropriation is an issue because you're taking an element of a culture while disrespecting the people who created that culture. It's also important to recognize that majority groups often get positive reactions to using those elements. So, a white lady dreads her hair and is told how cool and edgy she looks. ... | I don't think cultural appropriation is a real issue | 1 | 2017-01-23T20:19:58 | 555 | 53 | 18 |
edit 2: It has come to my attention the greatest problem people have with this post is the analogy used. Nobody was certain what my attentions were or what my initial stance is on the whole issue due to myself poorly making that clear, therefore everyone jumped to conclusions and made responses based on details I was n... | The DNC, not Russia, is to blame for e-mail hacking and it's impact on the 2016 Elections. | 1 | 2016-12-18T21:39:33 | 500 | 72 | 5 |
Yes! And, not to bother you, but the bot can't pick up on deltas that are within marks. | Homo sapiens is in the end of its evolutionary path | 1 | 2015-08-19T23:52:05 | 86 | 2 | null |
People aren't generally empathetic to everyone regardless of how much they know about them. People are empathetic to others in situations that they can relate to. Some of these situations are so common (e.g. driving accidents) that people have become numb to them because the only alternative is to sit around catatoni... | The outpouring of grief for the Canadian soldiers killed on home soil is an example of selective empathy, which is toxic. | 0 | 2014-10-26T22:15:32 | 181 | 1 | 90Δ |
Eh for what it's worth I do agree with your position, just playing devil's advocate. e: I'm just gonna edit here and done for the night, hope you see it. When it comes down to it, you're right in a few areas. No one knows how to spend my money better than I do (and so I should get cash so I can maximize utility). And g... | Food stamps should be given as cash benefits. | 1 | 2014-10-09T07:14:42 | 104 | 2 | 7 |
The dictionary definition of "hypocrite" is one who eats apples while also scolding others for eating apples because they "taste bad". It's not hypocritical however to eat apples (homosexuality) and scold others for eating McDonald's (incest), as those are two entirely different things. There's no contradiction betwe... | Accepting homosexuality REQUIRES that you accept incest | 1 | 2017-03-30T16:16:56 | 149 | 3 | 22 |
When I think of what is considered a "basic human right," as you are putting it, I think of something that is universal and in this situation, something that creates equality. I think the question of whether or not a male or female decides to have sex for whatever the purpose is irrelevant. One of the sexes can have a ... | I believe that birth control is not a "basic human right." | 1 | 2014-04-29T07:21:23 | 139 | 37 | 1 |
Fear of the outgroups and overreacting policy are nothing new, and frankly a fairly normal outcome in American political discourse. In the 50s it was Communism and the McCarthy hearings. In the 60s it was the civil rights movement and Hoover's insane overreaches to target civil rights leaders. In the 70s and 80s it was... | The terrorists have won. | 1 | 2016-01-07T18:22:02 | 155 | 99 | 203 |
If people want a serious and professional subreddit, then surely they will vote those comments to the top This is the problem. "The people" aren't "the people I am trying to build a community with." They are "anyone who shows up at the door." If I set up a room to have a discussion about some topic I don't want a mob o... | Subreddit moderators should not have the power to lock threads or delete comments. Let the voting system decide what content is good content. | 1 | 2016-06-01T15:50:48 | 48 | 22 | 40 |
Cogito ergo sum. The only thing of which we can tell that it is absoltely real are our thoughts. What is your basis for accepting the truth of this maxim? It doesn't sound justifiable to me. Our senses get stimulations from the environment; our brain processes these stimulations and puts them into a picture. You've a... | Religion is closer to reality than science is | 0 | 2014-08-31T06:59:37 | 30 | 1 | null |
Do you want to know how an ancap society would defend itself and avoid conflict, or do you want to know how an ancap society would defend itself only in your specific scenario in which a relatively wealthy modern power decided to invade an ancap society with its full military might? Because if you want to know the seco... | Any anarchocapitalist nation would be unable to defend itself from a nearby state, and by having the required military the nation becomes, at the very least, minarchist. | 1 | 2017-06-03T07:02:02 | 507 | 17 | 1 |
Also, let's not derail the discussion by arguing that weather is more severe, and therefore killing people, or food is harder to grow but we can still do it, etc. I'm talking direct alien-invasion style threat to humanity. I'm not sure you understand what climate change theory is putting forward if you think that's the... | by the time climate change becomes an imminent threat technology will have advanced enough to eliminate the threat | 0 | 2017-05-17T02:10:56 | 76 | 1 | 96 |
You get really far away from the topic at the end, seemingly asserting that burning paint on paper is "truly despicable." But I'd like to address something else. You state people are interchangeable (I completely disagree, do you think Albert Einstein was interchangeable? Leonardo Da Vinci? [Now that's ironic isn't it]... | I would kill you to prevent you burning the Mona Lisa just to keep yourself warm. CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-25T05:19:51 | 33 | 2 | 2 |
Let's assume that you're correct in your belief that nicer guys tend to fare more poorly with women. Even if we accept this premise, how do we know which direction the causation is occurring? On the one hand, it could be that women are less attracted to nice guys, all other things being equal. But what if men who are m... | Women, generally, are not attracted to genuinely nice guys. | 1 | 2016-08-26T08:00:40 | 97 | 17 | 6 |
The reason the wounds still feel fresh for Native Americans, and not for, say, rural chinese who were conquered by Genghis Khan, is that the atrocities committed against Native Americans happened very recently, i.e. in the last 150 years, not a thousand years ago. Atrocities have been committed against native americans... | modern north American society should not be actively apologizing for the genocide of native/indigenous peoples or blamed for their current struggles | 0 | 2016-08-13T05:23:49 | 64 | 31 | 2 |
I think you should be less concerned about people being offended by you. Your views are not unique. Given how many humans there are, some of them are bound to share opinions with you. If you stop sharing your opinions, you will never be able to cement a relationship with such a person. If you keep sharing your personal... | It's so easy to offend people that I'm better off saying nothing or very little. | 1 | 2017-04-18T23:16:42 | 32 | 1 | 1 |
If everybody talked at normal volume the theater would be so loud you'd all miss the trailers. Trailers wouldn't be enjoyable if their not as immersive, so people would keep talking through them, and then you'd need some kind of a signal to let people know that the movie's about to start. So the issue is, we need a cle... | It's perfectly acceptable to talk at full volume in a movie theatre when the lights are down but ads (not trailers) are playing | 0 | 2017-01-21T10:58:06 | 67 | 1 | null |
I think we can boil this humorous CMV into a legitimate question on the validity of certain forms of government. If we assume that the "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" randomly appoint members of the community into positions of power, then you'll realize that similar systems are used for other issues.... | Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government | 0 | 2016-05-20T23:24:32 | 515 | 5 | null |
I suppose this would depend on your definition of sexism. If you believe, as I do, that sexism only applies to the status quo/institutions, then challenging an unfair (see underrepresentation of women in politics, and the hurdles of getting there) system is nobler (and not inherently sexist, as discrimination is not do... | Voting for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman is as sexist as voting for a guy because he is male. | 1 | 2015-09-17T04:51:06 | 603 | 4 | 4 |
Would it have been more difficult for them to stand in line, though? I think the best solution for them would have been to call ahead, explain, and ask if they could reserve two seats, perhaps by paying a premium, or maybe hire someone to wait in line for them? Just spit-balling. You're correct that it's only 25% obes... | I believe the obese aren't entitled to the same accommodations we make for the disabled. | 1 | 2013-04-12T02:14:49 | 123 | 13 | 1 |
You're just picking out some admittedly childish criticisms of him out of the many dozens of far more important criticisms. People don't dislike Trump because of the things you listed, people dislike Trump for many many other reasons and humor is a way of coping with things. | a lot of resistance to Trump is just silly and fake. Also a lot of people who think they hate him really just secretly envy him. | 1 | 2017-06-01T17:47:26 | 49 | 38 | 2 |
One way to look at this would be an opt-in tax. If society decided to pay for everyone's tuition, we'd have to raise everyone's taxes x% to cover that cost, whether they like it or not. Instead, we allow you to opt into this system -- you can have free tuition if you want, but your "taxes" will increase as a result. Th... | Instead of tuition, universities should charge a percent of your future earnings. | 0 | 2016-12-03T05:37:01 | 82 | 1 | 8 |
These people come from a vastly different culture which is functionally not compatible with the host countries. My main issue here is that the Muslims are not the first of these groups and probably not the last. We got the Italians in the 60's, the Ex-USSR in the 90's and the Turks around 2000. Interesting here is tha... | Muslim immigrants are destroying every society that takes them in large numbers | 1 | 2016-01-24T13:05:45 | 1,093 | 341 | 1 |
What you're complaining about is a form of ["code switching"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching). Excerpt from the Wiki: Code-switching relates to, and sometimes indexes social-group membership in bilingual and multilingual communities. Some sociolinguists describe the relationships between code-switching b... | People should stop pronouncing English loanwords as if they're speaking their native language. | 1 | 2014-09-05T23:10:20 | 388 | 26 | 3 |
I would agree with you on public property, but not private property. When you speak of right to free speech, do you associate it with a right to an audience? For example, if two protesters took the podium at a political rally, would I be indefensibly infringing on their free speech rights if I asked security to remove ... | Infringing on Free Speech rights is indefensible. | 1 | 2017-03-14T09:14:19 | 125 | 57 | 2 |
I guess your argument is that accents are relating to culture and not race. However, there are accents that are only associated with one race. For example, if someone was doing a stereotypical Native American voice, that would a part of Native American culture, but would also be racist against Native Americans, by assu... | I believe that doing an accent is not racist no matter who you are and what accent you are doing. | 1 | 2016-09-22T00:50:52 | 68 | 10 | 1 |
Let me give you an analogy: If you smoke pot regularly, does that mean that you have to be willing to date a former drug dealer? Even if he has a felony conviction, and the stigma associated with that effectively prevents him from getting a full-time job? Even if you'd like to start a family, and the household will dep... | Regularly watching porn while refusing to date ex-porn stars is hypocritical | 0 | 2015-11-08T20:11:53 | 48 | 1 | 1 |
It doesn't make a sound; It makes pressure waves in the air. Something with ears nearby is required to turn those pressure waves into the sensation of sound. As for your microphone example, the mic turns the pressure wave in the air into an electric signal which is recorded and saved in computer memory. The air pressur... | If a tree falls in a forest with no one around to hear it, it DOES make a sound. | 0 | 2016-05-11T20:43:13 | 51 | 1 | 1 |
I think the two can be compatible. Just as an omnipotent God is one who can do anything which can be done, and omniscient God knows anything which can be known. Both have limitations. I think we're justified in saying that an omnipotent God cannot do things that are logically impossible: he cannot make a 4-sided triang... | There can not be an omniscient all-knowing God if humans have free will. The two can't coexist. | 1 | 2014-08-18T00:41:29 | 131 | 1 | 12Δ |
**"Most" older games are not referred to as classics though. Most older games DON'T stand the test of time, and are forgotten.** And yes, there are definitely some games that everybody acts like are still great, when they actually would be shitty (today) without nostalgia. Probably the best example of this is Golde... | I think most older video games do not stand the test of time and we only refer to them as "classics" because of our obsession with nostalgia. | 0 | 2014-07-28T21:30:17 | 66 | 3 | 5 |
A lot of businesses lease vehicles that their employees use on the job. Leasing is a lot more flexible and lets you expand or reduce your fleet to the size of your workforce. It also involves less maintenance and avoids the hassle of having to maximize the sale value of an older car. Some people may be in situations wh... | Leasing a car is always and forever a bad choice. | 0 | 2015-05-24T07:57:42 | 27 | 3 | null |
It's always frustrating when people rail against feminists who say outrageous things without actually providing links to the offending speech, since it forces other feminists to apologize for what might be a misrepresentation of the thing they actually said. But here goes nothing: 1. A feminist might say that men shoul... | Modern feminism is hypocritical and flawed | 1 | 2015-08-26T00:13:30 | 67 | 1 | 1 |
There is a few problems here. Part of the reason I joined reddit was because I couldn't share my political opinions anywhere with my name attached. If I mentioned I support Men's Rights or I hate the special snowflake attitude other unnamed sites had I would probably be killed. I go to a ~20% LGBT population High Schoo... | Saying that America is too politically correct is being used as an excuse for hateful and disrespectful speech that would otherwise be shunned. | 1 | 2015-08-10T06:37:43 | 530 | 16 | 2 |
No one would pay as much money to see a robot MMA fighter as a robot one. MMA fighter will still be a job in 200 years. | In approximately 2 centuries there will be absolutely no jobs left that robots can't do | 0 | 2016-09-15T21:20:29 | 102 | 2 | 2 |
You make a leap of faith, no pun intended, when you go from. "They believe in the big bang..." to "They accept the fact that there is a force that they don't know or understand yet that created the universe." I personally don't believe in the big bang, because I don't know anything about it, but let's say for argument'... | I believe that almost everyone accepts a higher power. CMV! | 0 | 2013-08-15T04:49:29 | 31 | 1 | null |
You're making some suppositions: (1) that teenagers who watch porn start to think rape is normal, (2) unprotected sex is caused or influenced by pornography, (3) pornographic movies depicting fully-developed people in traditional "childish" costumes is a cause of pedophilia. Do you have any sources backing any of that ... | Porn only brings harm and should be banned. | 0 | 2016-11-14T22:34:03 | 42 | 5 | 11 |
Trump is the most pro nuclear mainstream candidate that Ran this election. Every other candidate was for restricting what energies we use, Trump was for deregulation actually clean energy. | Trump's position on climate change will devastate (if not outright doom) the world in the long run. | 1 | 2016-11-14T22:21:30 | 56 | 4 | 1 |
I would say that your view might be skewed. Here are my thoughts: 1) Since you say you've worked for the police department, it's entirely likely that you, despite your race, were "whitelisted" (no pun intended), and thus the police left you alone. "Oh, no, that's u/Oh_itbDio, he works in the call center, he's cool. Let... | Police Officers don't target minority neighborhoods but rather are drawn there by the high crime rate, which is likely related to socioeconomic status. | 1 | 2017-05-07T05:03:13 | 288 | 121 | 2 |
You might consider the Israeli example. They are under a much more persistent and realistic security threat than any western country and they don't profile by race (though racial distinctions are pronounced enough that they could). Instead, they profile everybody based on demeanor and deviation from the norm. In other ... | I believe racial profiling works. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-22T17:33:42 | 237 | 3 | 84Δ |
I think it's a massive problem. I don't think adding in a middle man is a good solution to the problem (unless you can show me where the cost savings are coming from). Personally, I support a lot of different disparate efforts to reduce the problem. I support applying pressures to state universities to bring down costs... | Instead of tuition, universities should charge a percent of your future earnings. | 1 | 2016-12-02T23:28:24 | 82 | 3 | 36 |
Wow, harsh shit in Alabama, I give you that! Skeptical as I am though, I'd be curious to see how big the share of "small possession" cases actually got jail, let alone a year in jail. Other than that, if you are a student in Alabama and you handle weed you should know those laws, so make sure you don't have more than a... | Those who enforce the war on drugs are just as guilty as the politicians who wrote the laws. | 1 | 2015-09-07T08:42:57 | 109 | 6 | 2 |
English is an international language largely for the same reason QWERTY is a standard keyboard. QWERTY is absolutely horrible and inefficient, which has been proven many times. However, it gained enough popularity, and it works well enough, so changing it now is apparently more trouble than it's worth. Same way, Englis... | English should not be the international language | 0 | 2015-06-22T17:28:02 | 32 | 1 | 1Δ |
Christianity is assumed to follow the same scriptures as Judaism word for word, unless exceptions are specifically mentioned. It has the same origin but Christians do not follow OT scripture (meaning they do not follow "The Law"). If you are a Jew, you are observant to the Law of Moses, if you are a Christian, you are ... | Christianity differs no more from Judaism than Sunni Islam from Shia Islam, and thus is no more than a denomination of Judaism | 1 | 2016-10-18T21:46:43 | 42 | 6 | 3 |
Being a child of divorced parents if my mom tried to pick up and just leave across many different states disallowing me the ability to see my father that would detrimentally affect our relationship. You seem to be only looking at this from the perspective of the mother while the most important perspective on the situat... | a divorced mother in Illinois can't move out of state because father has visitation rights. I disagree because she has full custody, and should have just left. | 0 | 2015-04-14T18:55:17 | 325 | 12 | null |
While abusing any substance is bad, I challenge the premise that it's easier to slip into cannabis dependence than alcohol dependence. Going out to bars, drinking at parties, on holidays, with meals, these are all common and socially accepted behaviors. While cannabis enjoys growing support in the US, it is still seen ... | I think Weed is toxic to your psyche and it should be kept illegal , CMV | 1 | 2013-10-17T22:49:39 | 30 | 10 | 1 |
Can you answer the 'am I a woman' question quickly and without checking your genitals? If yes, then you've proved that gender is something you're conscious of and not linked to sex. Cisgender people have no reasons to think about gender and as such don't realize their own consciousness. The non binary part is exactly t... | I do not believe trans/nb people are valid | 0 | 2017-01-04T17:18:28 | 218 | 4 | null |
'Islamophobia' generally refers to a rather uneducated fear and bigotry towards Islam and its followers, a fear that seems particularly common amongst white conservative Christians in the US. Islam itself has a lot of undertones of intolerance to followers of other faiths and conquest. It's a religion that's particular... | Islamophobia is more dangerous than Islam. | 0 | 2014-10-27T15:33:19 | 105 | 2 | 11 |
what do you consider hate speech? is it the legal definition or what many SJWs use? what if the "thing" the community is based around is "wrong" socially? perhaps it doesn't advocate harm but is still considered harmful? the best example is pedophilia, even if they say do not act, people still feel free to shame them. ... | We should leave "weird" internet communities alone unless they contain hate speech if we want to promote free speech online. | 0 | 2017-06-20T22:04:35 | 166 | 3 | 2 |
how can I convince you that I like the taste of coffee? How would you prove to me that you dislike the taste? Maybe you're the one who is lying to themselves. | Coffee is overrated, the effects received are negligible and often a placebo, and people who say they like the taste are lying to themselves. | 0 | 2015-05-15T20:48:13 | 51 | 2 | 7 |
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