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Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands residents actually **do** have the right to vote, its just that their representative in Congress can't do roll call votes in Congress, nor do they have any electoral votes for President since its based on representation in Congre... | The USA is not a real democracy if the people of Guam, Puerto Rico and other island territories do not have the right to vote for their leader | 0 | 2015-03-25T18:32:16 | 271 | 1 | null |
What you are specifically talking about are "vice" crimes. There's a reason for that term. Vice crimes are activities that are made illegal because they offend the moral standards of the community. Prostitution, drugs, alcohol, and so forth. Abortion is an edge case in that those who oppose abortion will contend that ... | Making a product or service illegal only creates a black market which is generally more harmful than what is being made illegal | 1 | 2014-12-31T00:55:00 | 113 | 4 | 7 |
Here's the problem with Pascal's wager: it assumes that the agent's quality of life is at least as good believing in a deity as it would be not believing in one. If this is the case, then the proposition is probably correct. I would argue, however, that belief imposes costs on the agent that reduce the agent's quality ... | Atheism is not a smart choice because you gain nothing by being right | 0 | 2014-10-21T07:00:22 | 96 | 1 | 1 |
The reason is that while other things can be reversed, climate change is something we are running out of time to deal with You don't really know this. There have been proposals to do things like pump reflective particles into the atmosphere to reduce the amount of solar energy. There will probably be a way to solve a c... | Trump's position on climate change will devastate (if not outright doom) the world in the long run. | 0 | 2016-11-14T17:58:10 | 56 | 2 | 65 |
Your pros are definitely good. It would really hold the police and criminals more accountable. But on the other hand, it would also increase the already immense security machinery in place in the US. Not to be too liberal, but Americans are spied on often through the NSA. Having the police walk around with cameras add... | Police should be required to use dash cameras and wear body cameras at all times. | 0 | 2014-11-26T05:10:12 | 474 | 121 | 1 |
I have never even asked anyone out There's you're problem | it is clear that I am meant to be alone | 1 | 2015-07-14T06:24:55 | 29 | 1 | null |
Effective writing isn't just about knowing how to communicate clearly: at higher levels, it becomes about using language to manipulate people in such a way that they won't even realize they're being manipulated. As such, it is valuable that every student learns to recognize those techniques so as not to be unfairly inf... | English in American high schools is an unnecessary course | 1 | 2016-10-10T06:19:56 | 60 | 3 | 1 |
Giving head is trading your discomfort for your lover's pleasure. Nobody likes doing it, except for the responses it provokes. Couldn't you replace 'head' in this context with any sexual act? Anal? Water sports? Scat play? BDSM? Pegging? Everyone draws the line somewhere, and for some people - that's oral sex. I don't ... | If you don't give your SO head on the regular, they're not that significant to you. | 0 | 2014-08-19T01:35:36 | 73 | 3 | 15Δ |
Read the work of Stephen Guyenet, who wrote the article I linked above. He is a neuroscientist that studies this issue, and has an excellent blog: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com You might also be interested in reading the work of Ray Peat. He is a very controversial medical theorist and endocrinologist that argu... | Sugar is a drug and thus should be regulated(i.e. limited in products for both adults and children, especially the latter) | 1 | 2015-10-23T10:38:06 | 116 | 1 | 1 |
I think you're making a distinction without a difference. For the sake of argument, I'll fully give you your point that it's a mental illness. were catering to these people instead of giving them the psychological care they deserve What's the difference? If a person feels they're the wrong gender, *must* we somehow ps... | Transgenderism is a mental illness, and the only reason were treating it as a social issue is because we have the means to cater to them. | 1 | 2015-08-20T06:08:38 | 54 | 13 | null |
Well, because it gets complicated: 1. Immigrant families may contain both citizens and non-citizens. The state has an interest in making sure that little citizen Billy gets to grow up around mom, dad, grandpa, etc. Splitting up families is kind of icky and it has adverse social effects. Why not just send Billy back to ... | Why do people defend ILLEGAL immigration… | 0 | 2017-01-23T00:07:38 | 49 | 1 | 2 |
Preface: I don't mean for this to sound condescending. I simply mean to maybe suggest a different way to think through this. How much do you know about foreign policy or macroeconomics on the scale of national policy? The intricacies of trade deals? How much do you know or care about our level of national debt? How mu... | I want to vote for Bernie Sanders. | 0 | 2015-09-18T19:16:44 | 555 | 5 | null |
Unfortunately, yes, when the government misuses money we have to spend more. Let's come back to our business metaphor, a pizza delivery place. The industry standard (we'll say) is to have two delivery drivers, three cooks, two ovens, and a dining room. As an experiment, we cut the cost of pizza to beneath all of our co... | I think that the vast majority of Bernie supporters are selfish and ill-informed | 1 | 2016-02-09T13:17:00 | 1,221 | 78 | 7 |
This is a black-and-white look at a very complex issue. I'm going to tackle it financially, from the point of view of someone in the US. Value is the key to this debate. It is absolutely not worth going into significant debt to go to a bad college, or to get a degree without clear benefits to you. If, however, the prop... | Borrowing Money To Pay For College Is Harmful | 1 | 2017-04-28T18:17:51 | 64 | 3 | 1 |
I don't regard this as a fetish (I have a few real ones, I know what a fetish is) If you did, I don't think you would be asking this question. No, you don't have a fetish by the definition of (sexual) fetishism, which means to have a sexual attraction to otherwise non-sexual objects (such as boots) or body parts (such ... | As a man, I find it odd that "shaved" has become the norm for female pubic hair. I don't think it's a fetish that I prefer women with "hair down there." [NSFW] | 0 | 2014-04-30T10:18:19 | 301 | 12 | 2 |
I'm going to attack this from a different angle. There is no real way for the country to do this. The issue with changing the Constitution in this way is it doesn't really provide a means to accomplish such a task. And doing so runs great peril of congressional meddling in the document for personal gain. What happens i... | The US constitution and its amendments need to be re-written or updated and should be every 100 years or so. | 0 | 2015-08-20T20:21:00 | 307 | 1 | null |
It's not the niceness necessarily that is why women are unattractive to them. You're confusing correlation with causation. If you are a very attractive guy, simply put, you can probably get away with being an asshole. This is especially true at younger ages when a lot of women haven't realized that assholes aren't wort... | Girls hate nice guys. | 1 | 2017-03-08T05:57:32 | 250 | 36 | 34 |
Well, since you said "no reason", what if there's a work of literature in another language you really want to read? What if you're moving to an area that speaks another language? What if your business has lots of Spanish-speaking customers who, if they speak English, are less comfortable in it than in Spanish? What if ... | A native English speaker has no reason to learn another language. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-24T00:36:03 | 36 | 1 | 5 |
I think there's a fundamental problem with your premise. If you look at HOW the war started, you will see more issues with US involvement. The US acted as an aggressor. They transformed a struggle that was essentially anti-colonialist (which they should have supported, based on their propaganda about freedom and shit),... | As a Vietnamese, sometimes I wish the America won the Vietnam War | 1 | 2015-08-12T15:44:42 | 155 | 7 | 1 |
Both were large conflicts with lots of different experiences. Largely WW1 is seen as prolonged suffering through stalemate, shelling, long, drawn out offensives etc. WW2 however had more breaks in the combat but battles could be just as, if not more, intense and result in higher casualty rates. Units that got the "bad ... | World War 1 was just as bad if not worse than World War 2 | 0 | 2016-10-03T20:58:43 | 40 | 2 | 9 |
Advanced manufacturing in the United States is actually doing quite well despite the introduction of new low-wage competitors. Sure, simple manufacturing that doesn't require a highly educated workforce will continue to be lost, but auto manufacturing in the U.S. has actually been growing. Increasingly, foreign compet... | "Good-paying" factory jobs won't come back to the United States. | 0 | 2016-08-22T19:36:36 | 101 | 2 | 4 |
Don't lie to yourself. You wouldn't be doing it to save other people, you'd be doing it for revenge. She decided she didn't want to be with you anymore, not to have your kids, and now you're mad. Full stop. Part of growing up is moving on. You get no benefit from doing it, and in fact it might be illegal where you liv... | I want to post revenge p0rn of my last ex-girlfriend. | 0 | 2017-01-11T02:07:42 | 49 | 28 | 21 |
As others have said, your opinion is not wrong, having friends aren't a requirement, and although I think your just strongly introverted, you should probably talk to a professional about possible social anxiety. That out of the way, I'll say that having friends is not a one way exchange. You should have a positive cont... | There is nothing wrong about not having nor wanting to have friends | 0 | 2014-10-21T00:16:21 | 65 | 1 | null |
Immobility is not the single prominent feature that defines a space station. The title of "space station" is more of a descriptor of the craft's strategic role. You are correct in saying that it performs the role of a space ship, which is an uncommon trait for a space station. However, it was built primarily to serve t... | I believe the Death Star is a space ship and not a space station. CMV | 0 | 2013-10-10T23:44:20 | 87 | 1 | null |
There is unlikely to be any one party which you agree with on all policy issues. For example you might agree with the greens on their EU policy but then disagree on their policy on nuclear power. No party will represent you fully but between all the major and larger minor ones all not completely ridiculous policy bases... | I believe voting is pointless and the main parties are the same (in the UK) | 0 | 2014-04-04T14:57:29 | 43 | 1 | null |
It is being taught inside churches to be apart of christian teachings that homosexuality (and abiding it in society) is morally wrong. I think that is impossible to dispute. Therfore i do not think you can say that it is not a belief that is inspired by some peoples religious faith. Your argument, if i understand corr... | The active opposition to gay marriage in America cannot be accurately considered a religious belief | 0 | 2015-09-04T02:51:11 | 262 | 1 | null |
As I think often happens in these scenarios, your claim is that a belief cannot be logically held. Any belief can be logically held provided that the information upon which it is based leads the believer to that conclusion. Nowhere in this is it required that these foundations or their consequent belief accurately refl... | It is illogical to believe any religion | 1 | 2017-01-09T16:15:16 | 86 | 63 | 1 |
looks like you might have to change back to your original, correct, thought https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/content_policy_update_ama_thursday_july_16th_1pm/ct3n7hc | Reddit will go in exactly the same direction under Steve Huffman and no one will care, Ellen Pao was a martyr | 0 | 2015-07-15T06:54:38 | 134 | 0 | null |
It's true that there isn't a lot of data around this topic, but I did find [this book](https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=o7--7AS38tYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA169&dq=transmission&ots=gKd0iA4u5Y&sig=eMdzEKbE-nTSlWoEmB5GV_JLYmU#v=onepage&q=transmission&f=false) - look at pg. 178. The rese... | People should learn how to drive a manual transmission (stickshift) car as part of earning their drivers license. | 1 | 2016-03-21T05:52:55 | 123 | 10 | null |
This is becoming increasingly one part of many facets of the military. Today, we spend an extraordinary amount of time trying to combat terrorism in its many forms across the world. Sure, if you're engaging in counterinsurgency strategy, killing people and breaking things so your desired faction gets an advantage is on... | I believe the purpose of the military is totally to kill people and break things. | 1 | 2015-08-29T05:40:48 | 39 | 1 | 71 |
For your first point, always putting it down requires more seat-moves than just leaving it the way it was, because of the instances where the man pees twice in a row without the woman using it in between. Therefore, from a simple point of efficiency, just leaving it as-is is best. For your second point, even though sit... | Regardless of gender expectations, toilet seats should be put back down after use. | 0 | 2017-03-09T17:16:06 | 32 | 1 | 10 |
Determinism would be less widely accepted if people just took at face value our vast reams of evidence that literally everything that happens in the universe is actually non-deterministic at the quantum level (and only statistically deterministic at the macro level). Determinism is *really* unlikely to be a correct in... | I believe that determinism would be more widely accepted if it weren't so misunderstood | 0 | 2015-08-07T08:52:44 | 81 | 11 | 112 |
I dunno, something about [harvesting your own citizen's organs](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China) is kinda hard to portray without making the Chinese Gov't look bad. But it's not one-sided. Take e.g. Chinese media criticizing U.S. for police brutality. Tienanmen square outmatched similar US... | Reddit, and much of the west, has been suckered into an anti-China view by the media. | 1 | 2015-05-24T10:33:13 | 68 | 6 | 3Δ |
why would we consider this a virtue? For older countries your fellow countrymen are related to you (at least more so than people from other countries), so from a genetic point of view it is in your interest to hold a patriotic view point (and for your countrymen to do the same). This helps ensure your genes survive. Wh... | Patriotism is simply rebranded positive discrimination. | 0 | 2017-04-18T16:36:20 | 66 | 3 | 5 |
Speaking of being gullible and willfully ignorant, [Politifact is owned by the Tampa Bay Times](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/blog/2011/oct/06/who-pays-for-politifact/), a newspaper that has [endorsed Democratic candidates for 100 years](http://www.politifactbias.com/2014/07/the-tampa-bay-times-endorsed-mitt-... | Donald Trump is a conman and his supporters are gullible fools or willfully ignorant. | 1 | 2016-02-15T10:11:54 | 282 | 7 | 1 |
What if someone is against immigration because their country is low on jobs and bringing more immigrants in will only make this worse for the time being? I mean, it's a valid concern. I'm cool with immigration, but even if I wasn't, that wouldn't make me a racist by default. | It is odd to believe in evolution and to be anti-immigration. | 0 | 2016-12-25T02:11:26 | 51 | 4 | null |
There are pro's and cons to this, and that's why it's hard to make a decision. You should feel guilty about cheating, you're probably scared too. The problem is; if you expose yourself and everyone else, you'll get into trouble yourself because you're cheating, you'll be hated by a lot of people too which is sad, obvio... | I should expose my classmates and I's cheating during our final semester of university. | 0 | 2014-04-14T03:34:53 | 54 | 1 | null |
You don't present textual evidence for any of your points, so it's very difficult to rebut assertions that "the Quran says X many times." A significant problem you're going to have is that the textual evidence you (or whatever source you used) saw as unequivocal evidence of a claim is probably highly disputed. I can't ... | Islam is the worst major religion. | 0 | 2016-04-09T20:11:36 | 252 | 68 | 104 |
In the grand scheme of things, what are a few lives compared to the safety of thousands of others. Where does one set that line? I believe the phrase "All men are created equal" is a fairly central concept in America (or at least it's supposed to be). To bastardise Animal Farm: "(are) some are more equal than others"? ... | I don't have a problem with the U.S. torturing people. | 1 | 2014-12-23T02:28:58 | 36 | 3 | 4 |
Asians are on a lower rung more so than blacks. That statement is empirically false. On most economic measures, Asian Americans are above everyone else, even white Americans. Education levels tell a similar story. Income does as well. Wealth does too. I could go on but my point is that Asian Americans are on the higher... | Asians get treated just as unfairly as any other minority and worse than blacks. | 0 | 2016-07-06T20:56:18 | 142 | 6 | 1 |
In addition to the well-observed point by other posters that immigrants are a self-selecting group, it is also just true that racial sentiment by white americans towards other races does not fall evenly. This means that the experience of one ethnic group working hard and getting ahead does not mean it is equally that h... | Minority Groups Are Justified in Believing That African Americans Should Just Work Harder | 0 | 2015-05-02T07:33:33 | 242 | 1 | 6Δ |
Just find the right people to discuss these things with. I know exactly who I can talk to about political issues and who not to. It's not worth it for me to bring up what I think about Reaganomics to everyone I'm friends with because I know that may not go over well in the long run. Also, consider that discussion about... | I don't think it's worth discussing politics in public. | 0 | 2015-07-12T06:55:23 | 28 | 2 | 1 |
When people talk about it being dangerous to drink and drive they're not talking about the best case scenario where you're highly alert on a deserted highway with extremely wide lanes, and you only need to drive half a mile down the road. Similarly when people say it's dangerous to bike and listen to audiobooks they'r... | It's not dangerous to listen to audiobook while bicycling. | 1 | 2015-09-08T20:41:25 | 30 | 9 | 27 |
You gave the primary reason I think bottled water is popular already. Convenience. It's much easier to spend $2 and get a new bottle than worry about digging around a nalgene or thermos. No worry about losing it. | Under normal conditions, there is no logical reason to prefer bottled water to tap water in a first world country. | 0 | 2015-12-25T02:10:46 | 59 | 0 | 7 |
Sports offer a lot more than you'd think... 1) It gives children a sense of being a part of something (crucial for kids without stable families) 2) Sports are a GREAT source of exercise 3) Sports also helps build relationships, friendships, etc 4) It's fun and gives you something to do 5) Sports offer life lessons abo... | I think sports are ridiculous and carry no real value. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-08T09:38:27 | 67 | 2 | 1 |
Moving forward from now though, it will only decrease employment because we're moving from human interaction towards technology which can do everything on it's own. There was a symposium in [last summers JEP](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.29.3) dealing with this and also see my response to [CGP h... | Capitalism in it's current form moving into the future isn't going to be possible | 0 | 2016-03-14T19:51:33 | 836 | 16 | 2 |
While there is a significant political component to most fundamentalist Islamic extremism, the argument that politics and religion can be considered discrete motivations is necessarily a western sentiment. When you consider why extremists are opposed to perceived western imperialism, much of it boils down to the politi... | Islamic terrorism is fundamentally about anti-Imperialism, not Islam | 1 | 2015-12-24T23:42:37 | 223 | 22 | 1 |
I think the push for diversity right now is about being *conscious* of it. If we did not have people encouraging it, no one would ever think twice about their biases. Casting directors would continue to default to whitewashing the roles they are filling, because over a century of entertainment has etched certain images... | People care too much about what characters in media "look like" instead of who they are. This way of doing "diversity" is weird and the result of identity politics gone haywire. | 0 | 2017-05-09T16:24:23 | 324 | 4 | 6 |
I'm at best an agnostic, a very pessimistic one. You are not going to find a logical reason for God to exist - the whole point of belief is that it doesn't have to reside in logic. The whole point of faith is belief without external evidence or justification, you just feel it. You can't scientific method you're way int... | I believe God is a completely illogical concept with no basis in reality and was created solely to help us cope with our mortality. | 0 | 2014-05-13T21:50:38 | 119 | 3 | 22 |
any day of the week Really, you'd rather deal with them any day of the week? What about the 7th day of the 104th week? It only took 28 weeks for the zombie threat to be almost completely eradicated (barring the one stupid incident that set the movie in motion) in 28 weeks later. Sure they were more deadly, but our her... | I think, in zombie taxonomy, Walking Dead zombies would not be that hard to deal with once the post-apocalyptic dust settles. | 1 | 2015-10-30T16:39:46 | 237 | 10 | 45 |
The most successful oil producing states are focusing intently on diversification. They can see the trends better than either of us can. They have hundreds of billions to spend on creating new industries. They're not going to be unprepared or surprised when oil demand drops. As you know most of the Middle East is rule... | The Middle East will erupt into war against us (the western world) when their oil is no longer required. | 1 | 2016-04-21T12:04:19 | 26 | 49 | 5 |
Scientists say that we have three years to change things before global warming gets to a point where we will all be fucked, and Trump will be prez for at least four years. He will back out of Paris, and then we'll all be screwed. | Donald Trump is going to plunge our country, and the world, into ruin. | 0 | 2016-11-10T21:45:37 | 1,051 | 0 | null |
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? The UCCJEA says that IL keeps jurisdiction. You can't "move for a change of venue." The father would move the court in IL to enforce it's order in NJ and the NJ court would enforce it. If you wanted to fight it you'd still be forced to go back to IL and can face contempt ... | 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. | 1 | 2015-04-14T19:39:24 | 325 | 17 | 1Δ |
I had parents who were extremely persistent about making sure i stayed on track. I was only recently diagnosed with adhd a reading disability and im 20 years old. I graduated on time but i struggled so much. I failed a bunch of stuff and was constantly embarrassed to show my grades to other people. I lost hope often be... | If a child struggles to achieve in grade school it is virtually always the parents' fault. | 1 | 2014-12-24T22:29:35 | 42 | 1 | 1 |
Boot Camp and this "Reverse Boot Camp" are fundamentally different experiences. Basic training is about breaking you down as a person and building the pieces back to a military member. It consist almost entirely of high stress conditioning. This works as a forced system that is schedule and mandated, as that is the typ... | I believe that we should have a 'Reverse Boot Camp' when veterans return from active duty, in order to better transition them back into society. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-14T17:46:54 | 162 | 2 | null |
Not everyone agrees with voting as a principle. Non-voting can also be seen as a way to let everyone know, "I fundamentally disagree with this system and will not provide it with any legitimacy, real or fictional, by voting". Someone who cares solely about their country has every right (and duty!) to complain and try t... | People who can vote but choose to abstain should not complain about the outcome. | 0 | 2016-04-14T12:20:11 | 46 | 1 | null |
I'm not talking about legal free speech here, necessarily, merely, when someone is pressed on their viewpoint, they fall back on "I'm allowed to say this" instead of backing up their viewpoint. You don't think that they could be 'agreeing to disagree' instead? | If you have to defend something as free speech, you're probably wrong | 1 | 2015-06-11T20:33:12 | 38 | 2 | null |
lots of people believing that people before 18, 20 or even 21 can't have consensual sex, especially with someone who is older than they are. This seems like a straw man argument here. Very few people honestly think this, and no one is going to make a rational argument for it. The legal age to consent to sex in most sta... | As a 15yr old, I don't see any problem with having sex with much older people | 0 | 2014-06-01T00:49:48 | 108 | 3 | 1 |
China is already making a huge foothold in Africa. I suspect the future will have a Chinese-African hybrid superpower. Only time can be the judge of this though. | Africa will never produce a Superpower | 1 | 2017-06-29T04:50:10 | 47 | 1 | 1 |
Funny you mention the 1980's. The reason this is the case has little to do with personal responsibility en masse, it's actually because in the late 80's to early 2000's, regulations around legal advertising were dropped substantially in the US. That's why you never saw ads like that, because law firms weren't allowed t... | Personal responsibility is on the decline in America. | 1 | 2017-01-04T05:39:07 | 60 | 21 | 11 |
No one should have children without considering whether they can raise them, including financial means. However I would raise the following objectsions: 1. Money isn't everything. The children of rich people can be neglected, while the children of poor people can be happy. 2. Child benefits and other state payments ar... | People who can't afford to have kids shouldn't be allowed to have them. | 0 | 2017-01-23T16:05:51 | 549 | 2 | null |
In much of society we don't take psychological abuse as seriously as we do physical abuse. I posit that this is because there is a lack of physical evidence. No bruises, no scars, no tangible evidence to the observer that harm has been done. However, we do know that verbal abuse can and often does cause serious psychol... | Anti-theists and Westboro Baptist have just as much right to publicly express their views as anybody else does. | 1 | 2015-08-10T03:47:39 | 39 | 2 | 1 |
There is a difference between holding "a nation" accountable for crimes committed by its government and holding each individual accountable. As a nation, the US (its people) is accountable for the centuries of slavery and mistreatment of a huge portion of its citizens. That does not, however, mean that you or I are per... | An entire people can never justifiably be punished for crimes committed by their government | 0 | 2015-01-23T19:11:45 | 49 | 2 | null |
There is plentiful evidence that you are paying not for the act of teaching, but for the opportunity to learn, and the receive of credit and/or degree. 1. The means and methods of _how you are taught_ are arbitrary. If you learn X through teaching, video or voodoo, you've have an equivalently valuable experience. 2. A... | Students should be able to receive a refund for a class of the professor does not teach. | 1 | 2016-10-28T06:33:32 | 71 | 1 | 16 |
while an overabundance of fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts cause no harm at all Not if you are prone to kidney stones. The grains, nuts and some fruits are very high in oxalates and could be very harmful to stone-formers. | Heavily restricting meat from your diet or completely getting rid of meat within your diet is healthier than including it. | 0 | 2017-01-26T22:23:09 | 91 | 13 | 3 |
My mother is a church-going christian. My father is an atheist. They have been happily married for 30+ years. Can confirm. | I don't think an atheist and a religious person could realistically have a good marriage, CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-18T18:04:07 | 270 | 1 | null |
The important point in being either an ethical vegan or vegetarian is to limit your impact on demand for animal products. To that extent, any way in which you reduce your consumption of animal products is a step in the right direction. While vegans are doing more than vegetarians to limit their consumption, any amount ... | With the exception of a "I just don't like the taste of meat" argument, it is impossible to justify a non-vegan vegetarian lifestyle. | 1 | 2014-07-19T20:32:48 | 80 | 53 | null |
I want to know if you guys can come up with a reason a self-interested person would want to sacrifice him/her/non-gender-specific-pronounself. Define self-interest. If self-interest is hedonistic, then you're right, nobody would sacrifice themselves for anything other than to avoid levels of pain or agony that are wors... | Nothing is worth dying for if you enjoy living. | 0 | 2015-03-06T20:55:37 | 61 | 3 | 9 |
First of all, let me just say that I understand how you feel. I've been in the same situation as you but not for the same reason. I'm from the US and during my middle school through early high school years, I went to school abroad in a non-english-speaking country. Ignorant remarks about my mastery of the english lang... | The only way to change the ignorant is with violence. | 1 | 2015-07-29T22:58:34 | 42 | 2 | 1 |
It's a great script, and was recently turned back on for /r9k/ if I recall correctly, however It shouldn't be used for reddit as a whole. The defaults would end up banning several new redditors who don't fully understand what's going on with the website. It would just frustrate them and then stop reddit from getting an... | The ROBOT9000 should be enabled on reddit. | 1 | 2015-11-04T19:24:58 | 295 | 156 | 3 |
I see that now. I'm just pointing out that all that matters is if this sociopath thinks that they will leave a legacy then they might be willing to die for that reason. the kidney thing was just a fictitious example of how self-sacrifice is more worthwhile the longer you get to feel good for doing it. And just because ... | Nothing is worth dying for if you enjoy living. | 1 | 2015-03-06T19:10:44 | 61 | 2 | null |
But in a police state, that could be stopped before it can even escalate to this. This implies that people should be convicted even if they haven't done anything illegal. One big reason of our current system is exactly to prevent that. | I don't think having a police state would be a bad thing. | 0 | 2016-09-04T00:30:46 | 155 | 10 | 4 |
It is different in that smelling of weed implies having smoked weed which carries all sorts of connotations that having applied strong perfume does not; people may think you're a stoner/paranoid, many people who don't understand the drug may think it will drastically effect behaviour maybe even inciting violence. I'm n... | Smelling of weed is no different to smelling of a horrible perfume. | 1 | 2016-12-30T16:17:33 | 64 | 52 | null |
I think the best test of acting talent is one of the iconic dramatic stage roles. Something by Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, etc. The theater takes out things liked editing and the number of takes, since it's all one performance. A recognized, iconic play like Death of a Salesman takes out the question of ... | a "good actor" has more to do with writing, directing and overall production than with a particular actor's skills. | 1 | 2014-11-08T20:27:09 | 133 | 1 | 1 |
I think the title of your post does not quite match its contents. Your title says (paraphrasing) that small groups that want special treatment are arguing for inequality. That is of course true, but it's not problematic. We just need to treat people in the same situations equally. Deaf people are not in the same situa... | Statistically small societal groups claiming to be marginalized are arguing for inequality. | 1 | 2016-03-15T15:56:38 | 58 | 104 | 3 |
I have come to realize that I was never against blanket covered feeding and that I was under the false impression that uncovered 'naked' feeding is in fact not the primary aim of public feeding advocates The problem with this is that you can't discern between the two. We all know that exhibitionism is a "thing". We als... | The argument that public breastfeeding should be acceptable because it's natural doesn't stand up to scrutiny. | 0 | 2016-12-19T16:20:01 | 73 | 1 | 18 |
First off, while i understand the point you're trying to make I want to encourage you to avoid unfortunate analogies between muslims and snakes, or muslims and neo-nazis. What I have not seen ordinary Muslims do is distance themselves from the extremist interpretation of Islam - even abandon the Quran and forge an exp... | It is perfectly logical that ordinary Muslims are stigmatized in response to the action of extremist Muslims. | 0 | 2015-11-22T03:59:04 | 74 | 2 | null |
Every major city in America has a Chinatown in it, many Americans get Chinese characters tattooed on themselves, Chinese martial arts movies are pretty popular and have won awards in American organizations (like Crouching tiger hidden dragon), Jacky Chan and Bruce Lee among others are household names, martial arts in g... | China is Not Currently a Serious Challenger to Western Dominance Because of its Lack of Cultural Influence | 1 | 2015-06-05T18:38:50 | 88 | 26 | null |
Not an ethical concern but rather a practicality: you can't really enforce it, and accidental pregnancies happen often. There would either be a lot of children in the foster care system, a lot of abortions or killing of children. When China had their one child policy, parents of more than one child who weren't allowed... | People should earn the right to have children. | 0 | 2017-05-22T19:30:49 | 461 | 3 | null |
There are a few reasons why a progressive tax system works well. First, there are some essentially "fixed" expenses that everyone has to pay. For example, food. There is a certain portion of any given persons income that must go toward food, and that portion is almost certainly higher the less wealthy a person is. For ... | I do not believe in a progressive tax system. Change my view. | 0 | 2015-06-22T02:28:07 | 29 | 6 | null |
Audiobooks can add stuff that is not in the book, or make it more immersive, through the way the characters speak, or even soundeffects. Sie, if you just read, you can imagine, but what if the audio is better than your imagination? | Listening to an audiobook isn't anything like reading a book, never mind better. | 1 | 2017-04-22T12:01:28 | 25 | 6 | 28 |
Sorry, the '1 a month' was referring to an alternative of your initial point of "constantly meeting new women" If I were to exchange names and perhaps a 5 minute conversation with one new woman a month, I would only have one date a year. But I think you understood what I meant later on when you mentioned that I'm not p... | After following all dating advice, I'm starting to think PUA is the only way for me to be successful in dating. Please CMV | 1 | 2013-11-19T18:15:33 | 121 | 1 | 8 |
**It's improbable that it would work** The amendment was created at a time when the military wasn't nearly as large or capable as it is now, and where a large-enough militia could in fact beat back an oppressive government. You might argue that it's less relevant today now that things like drones exist and the military... | "The right to bear arms is needed to protect the people from an oppressive government" is a bad argument. | 1 | 2016-10-25T17:34:06 | 136 | 1 | 84 |
One of the ideals many people see in a Utopia is the abolition of gender. This is the changing of gender roles so much that the two genders become indistinguishable and gender no longer matters. In such a world, transgender people would feel entirely comfortable because there would be no expectations attached to their ... | People shouldn't change gender | 0 | 2015-07-11T01:55:15 | 180 | 1 | 1 |
So rewarding for a turn out actually doesn't necessarily mean a more fair election. Just because there's more people voting, doesn't mean they're all equally educated. They could just be going in and picking at random or otherwise in a very uninformed manner to get the reward. Adding a penalty creates issues where some... | (United States) There should be a penalty for not voting or a reward for voting in order to increase voter turnout. | 0 | 2017-04-30T11:42:56 | 33 | 1 | 1 |
It's totally situational from country to country (or area to area), and depends a lot on your immediate and long term goals. There are many instances where a community or neighborhood actually *wants* more people to move in to help stimulate dying businesses on their main steet - for example. Also (from a macro persp... | A shrinking population size is a good thing | 0 | 2015-07-23T19:58:13 | 68 | 1 | 24 |
I think one of the major issues with it is that it potentially puts women back a step in their social standing. It promotes the idea that women are a sexual object that men are entitled to have. Allowing the law to agree with this creates a precedent that could be the initial development that sparks on to further regre... | Prostitution Should Be Legal | 0 | 2016-07-22T19:40:13 | 102 | 2 | 1 |
You're half right. Scientifically speaking there is only one race, the human race. People using the term "race" when identifying people of different melanin levels or more importantly cultures, might be the biggest misnomer in society. Anthropologists have been saying that for years, so in one respect you aren't wrong ... | Race is a social construct that has too many inconsistencies and too much subjectivity to be considered biological or even scientific. | 0 | 2017-03-29T19:55:58 | 141 | 1 | null |
do you consider national security or intelligence agency work white collar work (most of it is deskjob stuff)? | There is no good reason to drug test any white collar worker | 0 | 2015-06-11T18:48:26 | 68 | 2 | 5Δ |
Ah yes, the "Reapers". We have dismissed that claim. | I think the "Reaper" invasion is a bunch of Council propaganda | 0 | 2014-04-02T03:09:36 | 38 | 44 | 2 |
Even if a person's view of reality is distorted to an extreme; they still have free will of a human. My argument is that, for all intents and purposes, they don't have free will. Just because it's physically possible for them to do something doesn't mean it's actually possible. This is a big point when it comes to chro... | Suicide is an act of weakness. | 1 | 2015-03-22T16:54:46 | 34 | 5 | 7Δ |
Sometimes people fantasize purely for purposes of sexual arousal. It doesn't always mean that they want to perform the fantasy. Is pornography cheating? | I consider fantasizing and crushing on others while in a loving relationship to be cheating | 1 | 2015-11-16T19:50:10 | 119 | 4 | 2 |
First of all, you're completely ignoring the many cultures in the world that actually have three (or more) genders. Would you suggest that entire cultures (even ancient cultures) are simply fabricating things in order to gain attention? If so, the attention of who and why? If not, then clearly there's more to it than t... | I believe that people who try to title themselves with some "other" gender simply want attention | 0 | 2015-03-30T05:37:59 | 33 | 5 | 6Δ |
This is an interesting idea. And one that strikes oddly close to home for me. Haha, hear me out. I play a lot of Vampire the Masquerade in a [persistent worldwide LARP setting](http://owbn.net). I think that game specifically addresses and even makes a mechanic of what you're missing. Humanity. Sure, being a vampire co... | Fiction that portrays vampires as burdened is off-base. For the most part, being a vampire would be awesome. | 1 | 2015-04-10T22:14:23 | 93 | 1 | 4Δ |
Ok I agree with your logic. Nazi Germany is evidence that what you say has historical evidence, as they got elected by promising to glorify the german worker through nationalist socialism. However in a country where the market system creates and deepens poverty, to further punish them by not letting these people that ... | I believe that in the USA offering more welfare as a presidential candidate is equate to buying votes and thus people on welfare should not vote. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-02T19:46:49 | 35 | 0 | 26Δ |
I want to preface this by saying that I believe most of the criticism of Hillary Clinton is based in falsehood, and in many cases stupid beyond belief. This leads you (and many other people) to think that *all* criticism of her is bogus. Frankly, it's not an unreasonable impression, one that I would likely share if my ... | Hillary Clinton isn't that bad | 1 | 2017-07-01T12:16:01 | 214 | 183 | 1 |
I know I'ma bit late, but had to chime in. I was working with a friend of mine at a school camp last weekend, this time it was circus themed. She mentions she's afraid of clowns. We all kind of laugh, of course. Nope. Later someone in a clown costume (unknowingly) jumped out at her. She had a full. On. Panic attack. Ne... | I believe that people who claim to be afraid of clowns are exaggerating and being over dramatic. | 0 | 2014-05-17T09:57:24 | 125 | 1 | null |
Or won't continue to be developed in the future. For example the technology to mine asteroids doesn't exist today, but when it does a significant amount of the science is going to come from the oil and gas industry. I mean Bruce Willis never would have destroyed that asteroid if he worked on a solar panel. | Even if climate change is not real or man-caused, all of the acts being recommended to counter it should happen anyway. | 1 | 2017-02-02T03:32:18 | 301 | 5 | 2 |
Preface to this: I am an atheist. I say that to eliminate the idea that I have some kind of bias in the determination of whether or not a historical Jesus existed. Are you familiar with the [historical method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_method)? Or basically, do you have a solid understand of the process... | Biblical scholars should not smugly dismiss the Christ Myth Theory because the evidence for a historical Christ is very weak | 1 | 2015-12-18T18:49:05 | 550 | 49 | 1 |
By definition, nobody deserves a pardon. If you're saying that Wahlberg doesn't deserve one because he's successful, recalibrate that moral compass. It can be a good thing, seeing that he's already done his time and a pardon can send a message that true rehabilitation is not only possible, but an absolute life change,... | Mark Wahlberg doesn't deserve a pardon. | 0 | 2015-01-21T20:03:52 | 87 | 1 | 2 |
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