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I have literally just proof-read an incredibly thorough essay on the study of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and different ways of examining the change that historians can use, written by a postgrad history student. I will **try** to outline the significant difference between the two. Feudalism was **massi... | Capitalism is a psuedo-Feudalism | 1 | 2017-01-21T11:40:45 | 433 | 5 | 1 |
I disagree with your hypothesis. I think a lot of think you list as differences aren't (it's very easy to feel a "rhythm" in most classical music) and most the things you say aren't are (small) differences. But in the end, I think the answer is *very* simple. It's not exclusive to classical music... it applies to *all... | The reason people don't listen to classical music as much as other genres is because classical music does not usually contain a drum set. | 0 | 2015-07-26T04:42:41 | 25 | 8 | null |
An unchallenged thought or belief can't be addressed. I'm religious, but I love debating religion because I get to find out where I'm wrong, and convince others where I'm right. Religion has a few things it tries to do. One of them is tell history. Religious views of history can be doubtful if we have a way of testing ... | I feel that religions that believe in a god of some sort are not ground for debate in any way and that anti theists of any sort should not spend time debating them. | 0 | 2015-04-13T10:56:23 | 92 | 2 | null |
Progressively taxing money just means that you mage a terrible situation and make it slightly less bad. When you have a wound why not cut out the tumor? A bandaid is better than nothing but you can easily do more. Money is good for corporations and democracy is important to governments. You don't really want companies... | We shouldn't ban money from politics, we should progressively tax it. | 0 | 2016-09-22T11:14:25 | 54 | 5 | 2Δ |
Insurance is weird. Some people describe it as a "gamble", but I'd say its more accurate to call it a equalizer. Essentially, everybody pays into it so that nobody gets slammed with repair expenses they can't afford and an offender who can't pay for the damages he/she caused. Your mother is, unfortunately, the mule we ... | I think car insurance is a scam. | 0 | 2016-03-13T08:13:22 | 66 | 3 | null |
but the time it takes to beat a man to death with your bare hands a person should be able to regain control. Maybe, maybe not. In any event, criminal statutes for voluntary manslaughter take this into account. Generally, there are four elements for "adequate provocation", which if present will reduce a homicide from mu... | I think that parents who catch others molesting their kids should face consequences for seriously injuring the molester. | 1 | 2014-07-19T09:38:31 | 136 | 1 | 2 |
Is it not unfair that Parent B gets to force Parent A to pay money for a child they want no part of? The fact that Parent A changed their mind is key to this scenario. When Parent A agreed to be the parent, they were making an 18 year commitment to Parent B. If Parent A never agreed to become a legal parent, then this ... | Parents who have no custody over their children should not be required to pay child support. | 1 | 2015-12-31T02:49:44 | 103 | 2 | 1 |
Sorry about my own late response I've been in the field all day and just got back! The students (or non students) would pay to rent a room and use it as a safe space or they would use an off campus facility as a safe space. Then how is that in any way in need of any campus resources or really in any way a "safe space".... | "Safe Spaces" are not bad | 1 | 2017-03-05T01:32:53 | 52 | 2 | 72 |
[the west wing argument](https://youtu.be/AEehpw2KDqU?t=36s) | We should invest in nuclear defense | 1 | 2017-01-16T07:16:08 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
Oh he definitely would, at a rate proportional to cover the kids, though I don't think it would really make an impact on how much he gets to spend on food for himself. I guess I'm just trying to come up with a hypothetical situation to show why some people would need more. Maybe replace the kids with classes at a unive... | the $29/week budget on food stamps is adequate amount of money to feed yourself nutritiously. | 1 | 2015-04-13T03:40:54 | 143 | 2 | 2Δ |
You stated that "sexual assault is punished severely." Sadly, this is not the case. According to a NY Times government survey, nearly 1 in 5 women have been raped, and 1 in every 33 men have been raped. This number doesn't even cover other forms of sexual assault. Moreover, according to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest Nati... | That "Rape Culture" does not exist in a significant way | 0 | 2014-10-13T02:00:56 | 1,090 | 3 | null |
[Six years ago a Google engineer used data stored on Google servers that he had access to as a part of his employment to harass some teenagers.](http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats) Your friends, family, and other people in your life could conceivably find work at Google thereb... | What Google knows will never adversely affect you, so avoiding them because they track you is irrational | 1 | 2016-03-10T04:19:00 | 108 | 2 | 1 |
The reasons races exist is that the same groups of people lived and reproduced with pretty much only each other for thousands of years, as time has gone on people have been moving more rapidly around the globe. In a few hundreds years the lines defining race will be even more blurry than they are now. | Racism will never be eradicated in part because there is no way to truly tell if it's ended. | 1 | 2017-05-31T22:11:58 | 39 | 1 | 11 |
True, but I'm far more willing to believe that Trump (or someone in his inner circle) organized this as a ploy, then I am willing to believe that Trump legitimately could not complete a sentence. it's far more likely that he just messed up and hit "send" too soon (especially if he was trying to delete a typo), and then... | CovfefeGate is just a ploy to desensitize the public to Trump's idiocy | 1 | 2017-05-31T21:49:00 | 72 | 4 | 5 |
I don't believe anyone should discriminate against customers, but I believe they have the right to. A private business has chosen to open its doors and should have the choice of who it will/won't provide its services/goods to. Operating a business is a privilege in our society. If you want to do so, you have to agree t... | Private business should have the ability to discriminate against potential customers. And allowing this would be more effective against discrimination than laws against it. | 0 | 2015-02-24T17:58:13 | 94 | 5 | 19Δ |
We have the largest military in the world. By that "metric", we are the greatest country on earth. I accept cash, credit, and deltas. EDIT: Even our artistic exports, our mainstream music and film, are increasingly ignored and unimportant on a global scale Name one country more culturally significant than USA. | The United States is by no metric the greatest country in the world. | 0 | 2014-07-30T22:05:39 | 139 | 7 | 5 |
How is it fair for people of the same age in different parts of the world to receive unequal treatment? Why limit it to age? A person in the US has a constitutional right to own firearms, while the UK has practically banned them. There's thousands of examples of unequal treatment at that scale, why should alcohol be si... | I Believe the Legal Drinking Age Should Be Homogeneous Around the World | 1 | 2015-02-16T04:34:16 | 42 | 2 | 19 |
I mean you can certainly play just by following the sheet, much like you can bake a cake by following the instructions. You dont really need to understand the steps. However, understanding why those chords/ingredients are there will make it easier to memorize, easier to improvise, and even improve on simple songs, and ... | knowledge of music theory is only necessary for creating music, not performing it | 0 | 2015-02-04T18:13:35 | 28 | 1 | 24 |
Except under the system I describe, a net recipient of such favors ceases to be a voter. What if they pay one dollar in tax? That would make them a voter again. Competitive market forces on their own tend to shrink profits, and grow the wealth available to everyone, including those at the bottom of the economic ladd... | People who are net tax payers should have a vote. Everyone else, including government employees, should not get a vote. | 1 | 2014-10-20T23:05:00 | 60 | 4 | 25 |
Speaking for myself here.. when I try to "change someone's view" I wouldn't necessarily say I'm trying to manipulate them into believing a certain thing. I feel like I'm more trying to say "this is where I stand and this is WHY I stand here". Explaining why I feel a certain way shows that I'm not just a blind mouse fol... | Trying to change people's views on controversial topics is not only a waste of time, but detrimental to society. | 0 | 2017-03-15T22:47:37 | 48 | 1 | null |
The only problem I have with your argument is that we cannot speak "strictly" cyberbullying. /u/Thornnuminous has it right for sure - cyberbullying entails so much more than mean messages on facebook. The kind of people that are cyberbullies are people who are determined, and they will not stop at a block or powering o... | I think that a simple solution to cyberbullying is blocking bullies or simply powering down the device. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-15T03:34:39 | 210 | 6 | 6 |
Late to the party, but maybe someone has their comments set to "new" and will see my two cents... This is a complicated issue, and, in a way, I see where some of these guys are coming from. They feel like "The woman has this choice that I don't have, and it's not fair". However, this idea that MRAs and other dudes have... | Men should either be able to waive their financial obligations to their child, or they should have abortion rights. | 0 | 2015-01-01T05:36:46 | 1,377 | 2 | null |
- This is not borne out by the facts. Usage rates do not rise when drugs are decriminalized or legalized; in fact, they tend to decrease a bit. (I'm primarily looking at Portugal here). Quite simply, there isn't really anyone going, "You know, I'd really like to try crack, but only if they start selling it at Wal-mart.... | Anyone who supports drug prohibition has not thought the issue through to its logical conclusion. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-30T00:50:22 | 310 | 48 | 3 |
Let's forget socialism vs capitalism for a second. I will try to go at it from another perspective, merely your philosophical assumptions. If I understand you correctly, fairness to you means equality of outcome according to the work someone puts in. Since human beings are really born in unequal circumstances, hard wor... | It is impossible to claim that capitalism is a fair system that rewards hard work. | 0 | 2017-01-06T16:13:11 | 143 | 2 | null |
This is entirely dependent on the type of gaming that you're talking about. For serious gamers you're probably right, but for casual gamers consoles are better than PCs. I'll use myself for example: I'm a casual gamer. I have a basic knowledge of computers, but not enough to build my own gaming PC. I also don't have mu... | PC is the master race of gaming. | 1 | 2014-08-07T19:49:24 | 85 | 1 | 38Δ |
I don't believe that you're not really a feminist. You seem to mostly be concerned with two things. 1) How people perceive you and 2) Having a desire to not expend any energy defending your feminist views. Why do I say this? Well you tout 3rd wave feminist rhetoric: Here is a quote from you: I'm aware that I have man... | I'm not a feminist | 0 | 2016-03-17T19:05:41 | 180 | 0 | null |
Missing our on a bunch of vitamins and nutrients that are in the yolk that are overall more important than the few more calories or cholesterol it brings with it You can get those nutrients elsewhere with fewer calories. A good portion of the fat found in the eggs are actually good fat (Omega-3), that you need in order... | Egg white (e.g. egg white omelette) only dishes are a complete waste and are not worth being included in one's diet | 0 | 2015-05-09T16:59:22 | 74 | 1 | null |
Others here have mentioned the whole "model minority" thing, and as an Asian guy I totally agree. I might of aced AB/BC Calculus in stereotypical fashion but my SAT scores hurt me (only 1780) when it came to college admissions. People expect Asians to be on "good behavior" so much that if an Asian person does something... | Asian-Americans don't seem to fit into the "privilege/oppression"-based model of discussing race in America. | 0 | 2015-04-17T21:02:56 | 151 | 3 | null |
Ideally, this seems like a fantastic idea. However, dead bodies rarely exist in a utilitarian vacuum. We need to consider ethical implications too. People are weirdly sensitive of their own body parts (yes, even after death). I myself wouldn't mind getting dissected, but it's not for me to judge what people want to be ... | Organ donation should be "opt out", not "opt in", in the U.S | 1 | 2017-04-30T09:14:51 | 365 | 25 | 3 |
Your list of "real world consequences" seems to point to an absence of critical thinking, with people jumping to conclusions, believing that *correlation means causation*. If we accept your conclusions regarding laypeople as true, it seems we need more hands on science education in grade school, so that kids can bette... | I think that the promotion of "hands on" learning in science education actually has harmful effects on society as a whole. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-14T08:54:54 | 19 | 5 | 21 |
Can you explain what you mean by worthy? Worthy of what, exactly? | Getting into a relationship with a pretty, confident girl means you are a worthy guy (Or having her admiration means that) | 0 | 2016-08-10T17:49:12 | 71 | 3 | 90 |
I don't *disagree* with you, exactly, but these are the pieces in which I would look for an equally impressive introduction of a chorus. 1. Messiah 2. Die Schöpfung 3. A few masses; Missa Solemnis, Mass in B- 4. Die Walküre 5. Cav/Pag 6. Carmina Buruna 7. Dr. Atomic All of these are pretty impressive. I would have to ... | Beethoven's 9th Symphony has the sickest vocal drop in music history. | 1 | 2015-02-25T19:44:09 | 74 | 100 | 18Δ |
Just to add to a couple of the points already made. I imagine that self-driving cars will always have the option for the driver to take control and drive in manual mode. To me, that just seems like an essential feature. As for people forgetting how to drive, I imagine the role of the driver will just change. As an anal... | I think that the whole self-driving car technology is overhyped and that there are a number of much more important aspects of automobile innovation that we should be focusing on first. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-02T19:50:38 | 131 | 1 | 6 |
What if you have made the appropriate decision making analyses about a certain place, and then these laws are repealed and suddenly, through no fault of your own, businesses that you depend on suddenly impose these policies? "Just move" is the most absurd response in this case. I still don't understand what your motiva... | Private business should have the ability to discriminate against potential customers. And allowing this would be more effective against discrimination than laws against it. | 1 | 2015-02-24T21:21:33 | 94 | 1 | 6 |
What does it mean "pro-life"? It's a bullshit umbrella term that some political PR hack coined to make one side look better and the other look good. Same goes for "pro-choice". Why are you not "pro-choice" if you choose to not have an abortion.... The labels are here to promote the worldviews of people who use them and... | I'm an atheist who is pro-life | 0 | 2016-05-09T19:01:32 | 209 | -1 | 1 |
A few misconceptions seem to be happening here, so I'll break down what I can... **1.) Rapists Are Strangers** Which is not true, [most rapes occur in a person's home and by someone they knew.](http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-offenders) **2.) Provocative Clothing Can Cause Rape** ["Conven... | I think women who wear revealing clothing increase their risk for rape CMV (PS: I am NOT advocating rape, please read content) | 1 | 2013-07-25T05:57:03 | 64 | 32 | 13 |
There are four types of truths. Personal truths are things which are true for an individual. These things are dependent on the experiences of an individual and true because that individual has created them. For example, if you love someone,l today, then it is only true that you love them. It does not mean anyone or an... | Life is pointless because we die. | 0 | 2016-12-02T07:14:04 | 83 | 12 | 7 |
I'm a teacher, I study the subject, and I *mostly* agree with you. But I see one way out: VR. We're *really* close to the point where VR is going to be able to substitute live environments. So picture this: Instead of pouring millions into building schools, we pay for kids to have a VR set and a computer to match. The ... | Education system is impossible to change. | 1 | 2017-04-25T14:05:58 | 43 | 4 | 7 |
I agree with koalanotbear. As someone who recently was in an accident where the bicyclist was completely in the wrong and yet because I was the one operating a vehicle, they're viewed as a pedestrian... It's too damn dangerous for vehicles to drive with bicyclists. Bicyclist should have their own lane. There should be... | I believe that new roads should be built with a bike lane. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-04T14:56:57 | 215 | 7 | 7Δ |
Of course all lives matter. The point of the Black Lives Matter movement is that some police forces are currently acting as if black lives don't matter by executing them while in custody and not affording them their constitutional rights to due process of law. I think everyone, regardless of race, should be against pol... | All lives matter. | 1 | 2016-07-11T20:34:33 | 53 | 3 | 1 |
Secondly I obviously need to hear more about this french fry sandwich! I need more ways to be cruel to perfectly good bread! More! Ah, so you start with two large, thick, soft pieces of Italian bread. Add some grilled pastrami (or cheesesteak, or eggs and cheese, or many other possibilities). Top that with some hot, cr... | Thick-cut chips are the superior choice over french fries in every culinary situation. | 1 | 2016-06-20T16:39:52 | 92 | 15 | null |
Shooting radioactive material in space seems good on paper. But it isn't about the amount of space we have to use, it's about the cost of sending it into space. It currently costs 10 grand per pound to send something into space. A typical power plant produces 20 metric tons per year of nuclear waste. $10,000 x 44,000lb... | We should be developing infrastructure for safely jettisoning nuclear waste away from Earth into space. CMV | 0 | 2013-10-01T06:31:39 | 23 | 5 | null |
Same thing with Misandry - you'll have to dig deep to find legitimate man-haters like Andrea Dworkin. I think that a lot of feminists would agree that you don't need to be a legitimate woman hater to be a misogynist. Men can make rude or unwelcome remarks, inappropriate glances, have unfair social attitudes or opinion... | Reverse Racism and Misandry Don't Exist | 0 | 2015-04-26T05:39:53 | 41 | 2 | 3 |
"Someone who has a criminal record and a list of mental illnesses couldn't be able to purchase a gun at a gun store legally, but he is able to buy a gun from a gun store legally." I'm assuming the second "gun store" here was supposed to be "gun show", and on that assumption, this statement is categorically false. The s... | If I can't buy a gun without a background check at a gunstore, I shouldn't be able to buy a gun without a background check at a gunstore/private purchase | 0 | 2016-10-24T18:09:18 | 364 | 13 | 3 |
Whether you believe in God or not, everything that happens to you in life can't be calculated with cold precision. At some point you will need to commit to doing something you are afraid you won't be able to do. You will have to put your trust in something or someone you aren't sure you can trust. People commonly marr... | I do not only think that church as a organisation is bad, I think that any religion is fundamentally wrong. | 1 | 2015-12-25T19:48:57 | 134 | 1 | 3 |
I feel you. We didn't want a "wedding" because 1 its expensive and 2 its largely a religious event. But marking the marriage with an event can be cheap and fun. You don't have to have a "wedding" to have a celebration of your union. My husband and I had a catered back yard party. It was delightful and our families who ... | I do NOT want to have a wedding, despite my family's (and his family's) wishes. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-19T01:23:38 | 309 | 1 | null |
The fact that humans help each other at all is the foundation of much of the study of evolutionary psychology. Natural selection is inherently a form of gene competition, so why are we helping other genes? Well the research found many reasons, and ultimately it comes down to the fact that as a community or group, our g... | I think if someone would choose to save an animal's life over a human's life in a scenario where both are equally in danger is a dangerous mental attitude to have. | 1 | 2016-03-26T07:08:18 | 42 | 3 | 1 |
"Almost every person in America who owns guns and knows how to use them supports Trumps or would stand with Trump if a leftist revolt were to occur." Yes, many who support Trump have guns; however, the problem with this argument is not every republican supports Trump. It would be safe to say that since he took power ... | The left could never defeat the right with violence and it is stupid to even try | 0 | 2017-02-02T09:31:53 | 72 | 5 | null |
I think OP is a guy who wants to feel better about all the wasted girls he has slept with. I see a lot of "his" comments focusing on shifting blame fully to the drunk girl. "I think too many women claim rape in order to avoid consequences of their actions (I know some women who have)." | If a woman gives consent while drunk, she still gave consent | 0 | 2016-08-12T19:54:43 | 1,724 | 1 | null |
How are we defining "choose not to work". If someone decides to focusing on getting an engineering degree, are they "choosing not to work"? How does that determination get made? The studies that have been done so far on UBI seem to suggest that it encourages people to work more. Now sure, there'll always be people who ... | UBI isn't a good idea | 1 | 2017-06-26T21:22:39 | 158 | 2 | 2 |
You are mainly correct however [Allodial Titles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title#Nevada) do exist still in Nevada so some people actually and fully own their property in the United States. | Due to property taxes, nobody in America really owns their own home. They're continually renting it from the government | 1 | 2016-04-11T03:07:51 | 430 | 4 | null |
Is it truly worse to drop a bomb filled with dangerous chemicals from plane on some piece of jungle than personally torturing POWs in horrible manner and humiliating their corpses? Is your only justification, "it wasn't as bad as what they did?" In that case - is anything unjustified so long as the enemy they fight did... | I believe that american use of chemical weapons in Vietnam is perfectly justified, CMV | 0 | 2013-12-08T20:50:29 | 30 | 12 | 55Δ |
I feel like I need the freedom to choose what I do and when I do it and I am just not allowed this with school. you're too intellectually assertive for school but a lot of people are, and they all have to get through it. once you get through it you get to choose what you study and enjoy the majority of what you study. ... | I don't think I should spend every waking hour of my teenage life trying to get into a good college | 0 | 2015-05-12T11:07:00 | 78 | 5 | 1Δ |
As you've identified some ideologies that you consider to be noble, isn't it a more correct statement to say 'strict adherence to *some* ideologies is the root of most of the world's problems.' | Strict Adherence to Ideology is the Root of a lot of the World's Problems. | 0 | 2017-04-04T06:26:00 | 89 | 6 | 5 |
I am uncertain why you think talent is a depressing concept, from the arguments given. It pushes you towards certain paths. So what? Why do you find that depressing? There is a strong correlation between people's talents and what they enjoy doing, so they simply have a head start down the path they want to take. And if... | Talent is a depressing concept. | 0 | 2014-06-20T21:24:16 | 22 | 1 | 2 |
First of all in none of those instance did trans inclusive policies give the people protections. Doing illegal or inappropriate things will still have consequences as shown by the fact that those individuals faced consequences. Second, requiring use based on biological sex, which isn't as black and white as people woul... | People should only have access to bathrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex. | 1 | 2017-02-25T20:02:38 | 81 | 58 | 2 |
If you identify as a woman and are a women, even if born male, use the woman's room. If you are biologically a male and say you're a women, even if you identify as such, you're not a woman except in mindset. Use the men's room. Same for the flip. This is status quo pretty much with everything and as it ought. A m2f p... | The "Trans Restroom Issue" is being unnecessarily complicated | 0 | 2016-07-14T21:41:44 | 504 | -2 | null |
If you're willing to accept someone being a victim of depression leading to suicide, it seems like a pedantic argument over semantics to not accept victim of suicide. | There is no such thing as "suicide victims". It is an oxymoron. | 0 | 2017-04-10T19:28:40 | 54 | 13 | 8 |
It may, although there's a lot going on in your CMV. Let me lay out my train of thought. Some of it will tie into your views. I preface it with a disclaimer that I am not a lawyer and I am not offering legal advice. I merely spent some time on Google looking through federal and Pennsylvania laws on this issue. Neither ... | A group home may be opening near me, and I'm afraid that is will be bad for the neighborhood | 1 | 2014-07-18T23:02:19 | 47 | 7 | 8Δ |
Phone goes in front right, because I use it all the time. Keys go in front left, because I use them all the time. Wallet goes in back right because I use it often, but less often than my phone or keys. Stacking multiple items in a pocket is uncomfortable, so it gets it's own pocket. I'm not putting my keys or phone in ... | Wallets in the front pocket only makes sense | 0 | 2015-11-10T00:26:57 | 68 | 1 | null |
this word is different in it's severity in effect within the historical context. I'd argue it's not worse than others - antisemitism, for example, led to 60% of Jews worldwide being killed in the 1930s and 1940s. Jewish people have a very real reason to react violently to antisemitic language, do they not? An American... | If a non-Black person in the US says the N-word, a Black person should not be charged with a crime if they respond violently, unless it results in that non-Black person's death or permanent injury. | 1 | 2017-04-03T21:02:47 | 325 | 13 | 26 |
I don't think there are very many other experiences in life, if any, where you learn as much about yourself and about another person, as being in a romantic relationship with them. And maybe necessarily, having that relationship go to shit. I'd also say that I've definitely spent significantly more time being happy in ... | Romantic love isn't a risk worth taking | 0 | 2015-02-04T00:12:33 | 22 | 1 | 3 |
There are people that don't want children, therefore it's not a fundamental human need like food, water and shelter. Also, I'm not the one making an extraordinary statement, so the burden of proof should be on your side. How would you prove that having children is a fundamental need and not a luxury like, say, a nice c... | People who can't afford to have kids shouldn't be allowed to have them. | 1 | 2017-01-23T13:44:49 | 549 | 7 | 3 |
Counter-example: my best friend is an atheist (ex-Mormon, believes all religion is bullshit), his wife is a Mormon (goes to church, participates in church events). They're completely comfortable with each other's beliefs now and have been married for over 6 years. She just got pregnant with their first child, and they ... | I don't think an atheist and a religious person could realistically have a good marriage, CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-17T19:59:40 | 270 | 12 | 2 |
Maybe they are indirectly made from gender stereotypes a bit, but that's not very applicable to me, I think. Sure they're "girly" things that I do now that I'm transitioning, but I didn't transition in order to do them, I started transitioning and then realized it wouldn't be seen as weird to do them. I mean overall my... | The idea of getting a sex change is ridiculous. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-12T21:36:34 | 95 | 15 | 1 |
Look at glass blowing if you want to see something new exploding. Both art and functional pieces are AMAZING, just look through /r/glassheads or if you're lucky, browse the head shops and glass studios in cali | Creativity in "the West"* is stagnant | 0 | 2015-06-14T19:26:13 | 78 | 0 | null |
It is already in the belt - Pluto is a Kuiper belt object. It will remain in the Kuiper belt for a while. We don't know how many objects it will find - figuring out the density of objects in the belt is something it'll be working on. The Kuiper belt is a very big place though. [Here's a page](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Ne... | I think the New Horizons mission was a giant waste of money, and humanity would have been better off if the money had fed the hungry | 1 | 2015-07-15T18:25:12 | 55 | 5 | 106 |
The South is poor. Poor people are more likely to be racist (source: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/25/9079.abstract). It's a pretty well documented fact, however sad it may be. People want someone to blame. I think this is also why the South is more conservative. The North is more liberal, and so as to not be like th... | Maybe I'm a bigot, but I despise the South. | 0 | 2015-06-30T01:19:17 | 94 | 3 | null |
Who is this right wingers he invites to talk to?? He seemed rather chummy on the streams where he had Kevin Logan on, as a friend and not as a debater. If Sargon doesn't debate people and they just talk about politics and news, he is chummy with everyone. Sargon kept singing his praises I don't know if you watched hi... | Sargon of Akkad is a closet conservative, not a liberal | 0 | 2017-06-25T19:25:26 | 267 | 0 | null |
Cutting corporate taxes is actually not a bad idea, economically. Those cuts have a higher stimulative potential and do exhibit some "trickle down" qualities. Cutting top marginal tax rates on individual rates, on the other hand, has never worked in that way and there's not really a credible economic theory suggesting ... | There is no hard data that shows "trickle-down economics" or tax cuts for the highest brackets actually produce jobs and benefit the middle class. | 0 | 2017-04-27T21:43:37 | 244 | 1 | null |
I feel you're overvaluing your personal research and capabilities. Both Psychiatrists and Psychologists devote an entire degrees worth of study to mental health, and are tested and assessed on this. Your view of this issue sounds like it's highly influenced from television and pop culture, which just isn't the case. I ... | A psychologist or psychiatrist can't do anything for my issues, other than prescribe medication. | 1 | 2015-06-04T02:11:49 | 20 | 13 | 2Δ |
I don't know if you're aware of this fact and objecting to it, or if you're unaware and this may change your view, but: actors being paid as a portion of the revenues of their performance is part of the regulations of SAG-AFTRA (The Screen Actor's Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Actors) - a union th... | Video game voice actors should not be paid based on game performance | 1 | 2015-09-25T00:57:21 | 44 | 49 | 20 |
There is also something called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome where someone with XY chromosomes has a body that can't use male hormones. They develop in the womb exactly like a female with a vag and everything, but instead of ovaries they have internal testes. They usually don't realize anything is wrong until puberty... | There is no such thing as a man born in a woman's body | 0 | 2014-07-25T21:03:35 | 418 | 2 | null |
What may make you feel a bit better is that the main reason these 'movements' exist are in response to a greater understanding and acceptance of scientific principles in society. If a person or institution maintains its social influence through the value of its knowledge, and that knowledge is shown to be faulty, it c... | There is a disturbing amount of anti-science movements in America | 1 | 2015-05-09T01:01:43 | 130 | 185 | 3Δ |
You sort of debunked your own view at the end there, when you said ''talking about people who at least meet the minimum qualification requirement for their role'' ... so you acknowledge that qualifications are necessary, but then success does not require superfluous qualifications, and that social skills would be more ... | Social skills are more useful than qualifications | 0 | 2016-03-12T02:00:45 | 26 | 1 | 40 |
Although religion isn't as prevalent today as it used to be, I feel like the fact that the west is more advanced than the rest of the word is proof that Christianity laid down the best fundamental guidelines about how we should live. The role of religion is smaller than you might think on the impact on "how people live... | I believe that Christianity is the superior religion. | 0 | 2017-03-11T01:58:59 | 116 | 2 | 25 |
All conscious actions are internally driven. Even if I'm looking at a starving child or a live grenade, the observation alone isn't enough to bring me to action. There has to be an internal response to that observation that compels me to take action. If giving into that internal motivator is "selfish" then you might sa... | All humans are selfish | 0 | 2017-02-08T20:18:47 | 123 | 1 | null |
I'd say you're only undisciplined when you can't achieve your important goals because you can't make yourself take the necessary steps to do it. If your goal isn't to be a doctor then being unwilling to study medicine and all that goes with it isn't seen as lack of discipline. Likewise if your health and appearance are... | Obese or overweight individuals lack discipline. | 1 | 2017-06-05T15:07:45 | 196 | 106 | 1 |
I have enjoyed myself in such places and know many other people who do so regularly. Either you can claim that we aren't 'really' enjoying ourselves, a pointless and tiresome argument, or you must concede that it is indeed possible to find enjoyment in noisy bars. | I don't think it's possible for people to genuinely enjoy themselves in a bar where recorded music is played too loud for conversation to be possible, and that the multitudes of people who subject themselves to this indignity are suffering from a grand delusion or a lack of ambition. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-19T06:18:27 | 345 | 1 | null |
So the thing is, I think you need to pare down what you mean by "non-violent" more. Because someone can be a huge drug kingpin and be non-violent. They can be *flooding* heroin or whatever into our cities. They can employ *massive* amounts of people who are themselves violent (and not necessarily even at the direction ... | I don't believe that non-violent drug offenders should get sent to jail. | 0 | 2015-02-24T01:58:07 | 111 | 1 | 1 |
A drunk driver passes out at the wheel, veers into oncoming traffic and kills a family of five (father, mother, and three young children). A person decides he would enjoy killing someone and abducts a mother and her three young children and kills them all. The drunk driver killed more people. But the serial killer is m... | The stigma against Nazism is not equally applied to communism, and that is a double standard. | 1 | 2017-03-17T15:09:14 | 219 | 11 | 45 |
Do you really want rule by the YouTube comment section? | In the Internet age, a true democracy should allow all constituents to vote on issues online weekly/monthly | 1 | 2014-09-20T00:35:44 | 484 | 6 | 1 |
If immortality was achieved we would have to stop having children. There we be no more new lives born into this world. If we get even passably decent at colonizing space there's enough stars out there for us to breed like rabbits and still not run out of room before all the starts burn out. Especially if we're all goin... | We should not try to become biologically immortal | 0 | 2016-08-20T05:28:35 | 32 | 2 | 1 |
**[Broecker, (2006).The Holocene CO2Rise: Anthropogenic or natural? EOS, 87 (3).](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1029/2006EO030002/asset/eost15361.pdf?v=1&t=in0p2san&s=6ce3155523ef77b353414eaa8ac9cdc6d53dc8a3&systemMessage=Subscribe+and+renew+is+currently+unavailable+online.+Please+contact+customer... | I understand, without a doubt, climate change is very real, but have yet to see any evidence that convinces me it's caused by humans. | 1 | 2016-04-14T23:09:05 | 62 | 11 | 2 |
Reading your post, I get the feeling you mean that less intelligence is required to be a businessman than it to be an engineer. That's different from businessmen being wildly incompetent relative to engineers. For example, I can be a very competent garbageman, while not doing research, having no college education, and ... | Most businessmen are wildly incompetent compared with engineers and scientists. | 0 | 2016-04-25T13:42:55 | 109 | 2 | 4 |
If we have human farms where no intelligence or reasoning is given to the babies Right, you need to stop brain development for that. And to do so in a humane way, just denying the child any sort of social interaction will just be cruelty (this is the same for animals). Besides, I don't think brainless humans would be a... | We need to make human farms | 0 | 2015-04-16T20:55:00 | 56 | 1 | 14Δ |
You don't need to be 100% Scottish to do that. Your child can be half Asian and still be raised in Scotland and taught Scottish culture, and she will identify as a Scot most likely. Why would this be bad? | CMV I believe that if you honour your personal heritage and familial culture you should only marry and have children with members of your own race and culture | 1 | 2013-05-03T02:21:32 | 80 | 9 | 1 |
1) Allowing the situation to happen at all is United's fault. That protocol should not exist. 2) CPD was not involved. It was the Chicago aviation police, a different police department. The only mistake that CPD made was releasing statements taking responsibility, and not paying attention to the video when they made t... | The ugly scene that played out on United 3411 was the fault of Chicago PD and the passenger himself, not the airline | 1 | 2017-04-12T20:43:51 | 57 | 1 | 86 |
Did you that most operas sing in Latin, and most people to listen to opera can't understand Latin. The human voice is just another instrument. You don't have to understand what they're saying to appreciate it. Great lyricism should always be important in hip hop Should it really? Always? | Mumble rap sucks | 0 | 2017-02-28T17:18:01 | 103 | 28 | null |
Rape should never be a part of it. If the fetus is a person, abortion is homicide. If the fetus is not a person, abortion is just an elective surgery. The only question that needs answered is whether and when a fetus is a person. Regarding that, though not your question, we all mostly agree on two things: partial birth... | A pro-life position with an exception for rape victims isn't realistically possible. | 0 | 2015-09-14T14:53:31 | 146 | 1 | null |
It might be true, but it simply isn't a practical reaction to the real world. If you spent the required time to look at all the facts for all the available brands of a single product it would take *literally* hours. To do that for *every* product you buy would mean you died of hunger before you finished shopping. Peopl... | "If the service is free, you are the product" is easily evaded by individual, consumer-based choices | 0 | 2017-02-19T13:11:27 | 36 | 8 | 2 |
I don't have an opinion on laws governing the music business. It has zero affect on my life. My friend should vote on those issues...not me. With something as niche as laws governing the music business, sure, that could make sense. But what about other issues that *do* affect you? Because there certainly are some that ... | I'm a single issue voter and I think that's OK. | 1 | 2015-03-22T02:45:54 | 58 | 2 | 15Δ |
The President of Israel doesn't have that much paper power. The Senate is given a lot of very specific powers in the Constitution. For them to become a rubber stamp would remove a huge check on the executive, since they would be rubber stamping things (appointments and treaties) that *only* go to the Senate for review.... | The US Senate should be a ceremonial rubber stamp in practice, rather than a body that regularly blocks legislation from the House. | 1 | 2015-06-25T04:47:29 | 174 | 6 | 85 |
So let's look at Nazi property. Plenty of families had their property (land, personal belongings, art) stolen from them, or were coercively forced to "sell" their property under the threat of death. Then, a substantial portion of those buyers and sellers died in the war. So now you have the children of victims trying t... | As a white person, I don't feel personally guilty about slavery or think I need to do anything to compensate black people for slavery. | 1 | 2015-11-07T18:16:00 | 574 | 445 | 7 |
The flaw in your thinking is that people don't change their beliefs over time. You know all of those "old Conservatives" that are starting to die off? They were bra-burning, free-loving, pot-smoking hippies in the 1960s. They were "young liberals." It isn't that conservatism was popular in 50 years ago and now it's be... | A Conservative will never be US president again | 1 | 2015-08-18T15:59:54 | 40 | 5 | 44 |
While arguments should be logical, you can't ignore emotions. We are humans - emotional beings - not robots. So for a lot of people, the act of killing four people to save five people is wrong, since killing four people is horrible to them. | Discussions should be based on logic, not on emotion. | 0 | 2016-04-22T01:34:24 | 33 | 3 | 2 |
Many women find a man asking a turnoff.Not politicall correct but true.Men already assume the vast majority of the burden when it comes to asking women out, chatting women up, approaching women, hitting on women, initiating physical contact and trying to move things in a more sexual direction. When you add in the mood-... | 'Consent Culture' is a waste of time and counter-productive | 0 | 2017-06-25T01:17:52 | 81 | 11 | 32 |
I understand. It seems that your title should be "it will be extremely hard to change", not that "they cannot change". I appreciate what you're saying about life-long morals being hard to change. I guess I would counter that individual morals can easily fall into conflict. For example, a person might two beliefs: 1) wo... | Male immigrants who have rooted from culture and society that have little to no respect for women cannot successfully be integrated into our "western" society. | 1 | 2015-12-21T00:52:05 | 33 | 1 | 3 |
While it's true that the University a person goes to is not as important as the connections they make and things they accomplish at the University of their choice, a person will likely have a better chance at making connections (and more valuable ones at that) at an elite school than at an unknown institution. So in th... | There is too much stress placed on going to the perfect college. Your success depends on your actions, not your diploma. | 0 | 2015-10-20T00:39:12 | 62 | 42 | 45 |
A lot of people, including me, remember the spelling of "Berenstain" to be "Berenstein" with an E. Human memory is notoriously unreliable. [Source](https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hidden-motives/201203/unreliable-memory) A Physics Graduate Student has stated, "reality has been tampered with" and "and history has ... | I believe the spelling of "Berenstain Bears" was always "Berenstein Bears" and we are now living in an alternate reality. | 1 | 2016-10-19T21:25:58 | 50 | 16 | 99 |
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