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I think it's worth distinguishing the Holocaust from the Armenian genocide for purposes of this conversation. For the Holocaust, people born in the 80s and later have not lost people they have met and valued, but they do have relationships with people who (a) they love and value and (b) lost someone they loved and valu... | If your people went through genocide a hundred years ago, you have no right to be personally butthurt about it. | 0 | 2015-04-23T18:32:21 | 70 | 1 | 15Δ |
I don't really want to insult you but I'm going to use a very well known meme that matches the situation... "YOU'RE NOT WRONG.. YOU'RE JUST AN ASSHOLE" Why do I think that it fits this scenario? Because while I get your point and I see how you shouldn't be forced to "Rol Play", calling frank "Martha" (As she likes and ... | Do what you want to do with your life, but if you are trans gendered, I shouldn't be forced to role-play with you. | 0 | 2016-04-01T04:19:27 | 318 | 2 | 1 |
Do you think that the fact that most of these men and women expressing these views are young comes into play? I think most Redditors are between 14-25 and that is the age where all you want to do is have fun, so the idea of having a child is like having more homework, it doesn't appeal to them. I want to be a father ... | The negative view of children that most male redditors have is unhealthy and we need to stop encouraging it. | 1 | 2014-12-19T23:07:45 | 55 | 14 | 2 |
And you wouldn't take someone's politically incorrect speech and reword it until it resembled PC speech and say "see what they said wasn't so bad". I actually do this all the time to decode what Trump is trying to say. It is almost required in order to form an educated opinion rather than accept whichever media hype/sp... | Obama's speech on luck is more destructive and harmful message than politically incorrect speech, and should incite a similar or worse reaction. | 1 | 2016-05-26T22:08:03 | 101 | 1 | 5 |
The only form of eco-libertarianism I'm aware of which is ideologically consistent is the nihilist/defeatist argument, where humans are going to fuck up the planet anyway, so let the species suffer the consequences like it deserves, and once humans are gone the environment will eventually return to a comfortable equili... | Eco-libertarianism is utopic | 0 | 2017-05-21T01:57:52 | 94 | 8 | 27 |
and a latrine don't count. The "urinal" was specifically done by someone sharing your viewpoint. The artist wanted to convey modern art was shit, which is why he used a urinal as a metaphor for modern art. It is pretty ironic that his work is only understood and appreciated by the very people he was trying to humiliate... | Modern Art is not "Real Art" and using the argument that it's subjective is a poor argument. | 1 | 2016-12-10T03:07:27 | 710 | 1 | 2 |
1: That's brought up the moment the potion is introduced. It's toxic in large quantities and also makes you crazy reckless so you'd screw up massively. Regarding Harry's use of it, it's used after Dumbledore impresses on him how super important that information is to beating Voldemort. 2: I never liked the time turners... | Harry Potter is actually made fairly poorly and often doesn't make logical sense | 1 | 2017-05-15T23:42:08 | 93 | 53 | 258 |
If you agree that the NRA itself doesn't see opposing the US military as a priority, could I have a delta? Autonomous military units don't exist, and there are no plans to develop them, so NRA members have no particular reason to have a view on them and no policies to support or oppose. | If the NRA is sincere about gun ownership as check on government overreach, then their biggest concern is not regulations on firearms, but autonomous military robots. | 1 | 2015-12-26T23:35:18 | 80 | 2 | 92 |
Well the government does take pieces of those things after death For some though, taking a piece of themselves may as well be taking the whole. I honestly think taking an organ if it can be used instantly would be more efective and efficient at helping society That's fine, and you're probably right--using an organ to ... | I don't think people should have the right to refuse donating their organs once they die. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-03T22:42:12 | 195 | 1 | 3 |
The idea of a single, normative Islam is not a helpful construction to someone on the outside who wishes to treat Islam academically. Typically, all we require is self-identification as Muslim, and then the person defines _his_ Islam. We try not to sign off on particular versions as authentic or real, and instead try t... | The West should fight Islamism by supporting the academic study of Islam and the religious education of Sheiks worldwide. | 1 | 2015-08-04T16:33:51 | 42 | 15 | 1 |
It's not really about balls. If you abandon your side of an argument before you've fully analyzed the opposing view, you are doing yourself and your opponent a disservice. After all, neither of you truly know whether the other is right. It is in both of your best interests that both positions are defended as well as th... | Most people believe in what they believe because of social pressure, and the only reliable way to convince them is through social manipulation rather than rational argumentation | 1 | 2015-11-01T13:53:07 | 157 | 17 | 2 |
I don't think you'll find hard evidence that it's set *at birth*, but there is tremendous evidence that genetics play a big role. The most popular piece of evidence is a study done on twins. Identical twins are much more likely to be gay if the other one is gay than fraternal twins -- and the trend holds up even when ... | I don't believe that, regarding sexual preference, we're necessarily born that way. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-11T22:36:31 | 183 | 145 | 3 |
I used to think the same. I work in software development as a product manager, which usually means I'm leading and coordinating projects and tasks between 5-6 different departments at once all day. I'm constantly using email or chat or to do this, and as the person making judgement calls, usually means being available ... | For salaried employees, it's a good thing to be able to take your work home with you (e.g., receive work e-mails on your phone, have the work laptop at home, etc.) | 1 | 2015-10-20T21:31:37 | 71 | 2 | 8 |
Billions of people don't have access to clean water or AC now. Billions. That's not going to magically get better. The millions of people who get displaced if low lands become unlivable because of climate change won't magically find houses. And last time I checked most animals don't have access to A/C. Your logic s... | The threat of global warming is exaggerated. | 0 | 2016-10-08T17:04:00 | 65 | 19 | 16 |
It is perfectly logical. This is true. Everyone has the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. However, the right that homosexuals are fighting for is the right to marry whomever they *choose*, not someone of the opposite sex. **That** is the right that they lack that heterosexual people are given. | This is a logical argument: "Gay people and straight people have the same marriage rights in the US" | 1 | 2014-09-18T23:04:59 | 49 | 17 | 31Δ |
I totally agree that without the title, context and meta-knowledge it's totally meaningless and worthless. But since they exist, it means that the work can commmunicate with those who are aware of them. Would you say that a poem written in chinese is not literature because you don't speak chinese? would you say that th... | Modern Art is not "Real Art" and using the argument that it's subjective is a poor argument. | 1 | 2016-12-05T01:13:15 | 710 | 1 | 14 |
As far as your panda example goes: trying to preserve a megafauna species, when done properly, requires trying to save large swathes of intact habitat for it to live in. This means, that by trying to "save the panda" you are actually saving hundreds of other species at the same time. While we might have studied pandas ... | I am not wholly convinced that conserving certain species is worth the effort, CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-16T12:19:39 | 65 | 40 | 2 |
The toughest part, especially in this election cycle, of this issue is the conflict between personal ideology and the subsequent reality of one Presidency compared to another. Clinton will likely maintain the status quo and be similar to Obama philosophically and be relatively progressive. She's might do some stuff wi... | CMV I would rather vote for a third party candidate that is closer to my political standings rather than "the lesser of two evils" | 0 | 2016-07-26T02:18:29 | 1,101 | 1 | null |
If you are okay with the state forcing owners to do things like store and use chemicals in a certain way I don't see how restricting second hand smoke at a restaurant is much different. Sure you are saying that any person who doesn't want to work in an environment like that should get a different job but should we rea... | Store owners alone should be able to decide if they want to allow smoking inside the premises. | 1 | 2016-01-29T09:57:46 | 54 | 17 | 47 |
The economic reason they are paid so highly is supply and demand. There is demand from millions of sports fans who a) watch games b) attend games c) buy merchandise. But on the other hand, there are very few people who say, can run the 50 in 4.4 and have great hands and quickness. The few that do get a lot of money. O... | I believe that athletes contribute nothing to society other than entertainment, and therefore should not be paid more than more useful professions. | 0 | 2015-02-15T04:25:14 | 49 | 2 | 1 |
I can only get offended by something if I want to be offended by it (just my opinion, maybe everyone doesn't feel the same way). This is ridiculous. Would you react the same way to any other insult? If someone insulted your appearance, your children, or your family would you get to choose whether or not you're offended... | Why should racist jokes be considered offensive? | 0 | 2016-01-02T10:33:38 | 142 | 3 | null |
It's entirely possible that the pathology behind gender dysphoria is completely different than what is going on with your son. It's like if you met someone with a case of phantom limb pain you wouldn't say "hey get over it because my son has a shorter arm and he's fine with it." Or maybe you could, but it wouldn't do a... | with their voice therapy, implants, skirts and heels: trans people have a very narrow definition of the gender they want to express. Without socially constructed gender stereotypes and clothing expectations, trans people wouldn't exist. | 1 | 2017-02-24T02:42:50 | 405 | 69 | 7 |
Hi OP, I'm going to break my argument down to a qualitative argument and a quantitative argument. I'm not huge into buying into the endo/ecto/meso thing either. Anecdotally, it should be clear to you that the amount one could eat in a day is pretty unlimited (if I go home to Georgia I could easily eat 5000 calories in ... | As someone who has been underweight most his life. It is NOT easier to put on weight than it is to lose weight. | 1 | 2017-02-14T19:18:49 | 75 | 24 | 2 |
While you were responding I had edited my post. Is that enough to show where you were unreasonable? I can provide further information if necessary. | I am uncomfortable inviting the partners of gay/lesbian people to my wedding. | 1 | 2014-07-07T20:16:14 | 209 | 3 | 4 |
How would it even be possible to divide the wealth equally as most wealth is in real assets such as buildings? The total money supply is [$1,268,695 million](http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.pdf), or $4,028 per person. The stock market is worth [$18,668,332 million](http://data.worldbank.org/indic... | The USA should enact a one-time mass-redistribution of wealth to correct the 1%/99% imbalance along with a Basic Income and the outlaw of Renting. | 0 | 2014-04-06T02:12:25 | 426 | 0 | 3 |
(Note: I have little to no idea what I'm talking about) When you say "accept", it can mean multiple things. One is affirming something as correct or applying positive judgment. Another is acknowledging that something exists, that it simply is. I think we're going with the second part here. When we're too focused on the... | Mindfulness is paradoxical and nonsensical | 0 | 2016-04-19T22:45:15 | 43 | 1 | 30 |
Are either of these candidates seriously promising to have some sort of government-wide revote next year? I'm not sure what you mean when you say "we could have **the real** election next year..." when next year isn't even an election year (we vote every two years). I see no reason to expect that this is our *last chan... | I believe regardless of your opinions for either Trump or Sanders, we must put aside their differences and support either one depending on the nomination outcomes if we have any hopes of stopping the establishment from completely killing our democratic system. | 0 | 2016-04-14T15:04:52 | 75 | 19 | 90 |
The problem with this type of movement is the fact that the vast majority of people just do not understand how the drug development process works. Clinical research takes years, if not decades to prove that a medication is safe and effective for a specific disease. Giving a person who is terminally ill access to experi... | Terminally ill patients should be allowed to try non-FDA, experimental drugs if allowed by their doctor | 0 | 2015-12-07T20:32:35 | 92 | 1 | null |
I wouldn't call what we have in the US redistributive taxation. But you're saying that poor Republicans shouldn't vote Republican because they should want welfare and other assistance. You're saying that poor Republicans should be in favor of wealth redistribution. programs that can benefit anyone, sometimes those who... | The vast majority of poor Republicans are not voting for their own best interests. | 1 | 2016-04-12T03:48:10 | 264 | 42 | 1 |
He thinks that focusing solely on studying core classes such as mathematics, social sciences, and history is much more effective than wasting time with arts such as theater or music. Pretty sure arts/theatre/music are big industries. That said, it doesn't make sense if the only aim of a school is to give the average dr... | I think the studying the arts in high school does not help prepare students for the "real world" CMV | 0 | 2013-04-23T07:22:11 | 41 | 2 | null |
I'm assuming that OP generally meant in the United States and used Africa only as an aside. That being said, I believe OP is overlooking something: consider which cities are predominantly black. You've got Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Oakland, New Orleans. Now Detroit is a special case and I believe a lot of other comm... | No city populated by almost all blacks is doing well on the planet. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-22T01:58:27 | 93 | 36 | 2 |
For something to be civil disobedience you have to 1) Be extremely public in your actions to point out the injustices of the laws as written. 2) Be willing to face the consequences of your illegal actions without protest or attempting to hide or get out of them. To once again point out the injustices of what you are be... | Illegal immigration is a form of civil disobedience protesting global inequalities and the impossibility of legal immigration. It's a Jim Crow sit in on a grand scale. | 1 | 2016-09-05T20:30:56 | 57 | 30 | 55 |
As many others have mentioned, pro-choice != pro-abortion. I'm pro-choice because my grandmother was an OBGYN nurse who helped deliver high-risk pregnancies. She also saw many, many DIY abortions gone wrong, which can result in two deaths. I'm pro-choice because I value a woman's life more than a potential life and I w... | Vegetarians (and the like minded) are being hypocritical if they are Pro-Choice. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-14T02:28:45 | 55 | 5 | 1 |
Is it any different from a photographer giving discounts to senior citizens? Military members? I wouldn't call it discriminating. It looks more to me like someone is trying to tap into a customer-base which is normally neglected. I wouldn't call it affirmative action. Maybe if it was government imposed or something. ... | Same-sex couples discount from a photography place. I call it discrimination, she calls it affirmative action. CMV please. | 1 | 2013-12-27T22:30:49 | 716 | 5 | 2 |
Can't afford medical bills? Sorry, go get a job. So let's look at these jobs you've got yourself: "entry level" says to me "minimum wage" so $8/hr (for simplicity's sake); Let's say that you work a 40 hour work week. That is $320 per week, $1280 per month, and about $16k per year pre-tax. So that seems pretty good, yea... | I think that we should imply 'survival of the fittest' more often. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-09T14:08:21 | 33 | 1 | 47Δ |
At it's core I would say that forcing a child into practicing a specific religion amounts to unwitting child abuse. I want to agree with you but reality does not often meet an ideal situation. I don't see how one could possibly enact such a thing without violating rights and actually making the problem worse. Remembe... | Freedom of religion should be guaranteed/forced on kids. | 0 | 2016-09-20T00:01:42 | 331 | 1 | 5 |
I am going to half disagree with the OP on this, it matters on what character specifically and their background. While Spider-Man can be anything those that have more of a cultural/historic back ground that mimics reality to a degree but are still fictional matter. For example lets take Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart,... | There is no reason to be offended when a fictional character is gender or race swapped. | 0 | 2014-07-18T02:44:08 | 225 | 1 | 1 |
Are you talking about paid leave, or unpaid? The law already requires that employees get up to 12 weeks per year for medical reasons, including maternity. This is unpaid leave, and the company can require that you use vacation time. | I think they United States should pass minimum mandatory leave laws. | 0 | 2014-07-16T18:42:17 | 72 | 1 | 10Δ |
Part of the idea is to have many options for those who want to give. There are bake sales, flower sales, silent auctions - a lot of different methods to fit different peoples' tastes. When a loved one has a nasty disease, you want to *do* something. This give you something to do. It can also be a socially acceptable w... | I think it is a waste of both time, energy and money running/biking for cancer. Why not clean homes or have a bake sale for money? | 1 | 2014-08-17T16:48:05 | 46 | 10 | 108Δ |
why could they not build say the Prius with the more efficient but less powerful Atkinson cycle and not bother with any of the electronic bits. Is the lack in power so significant that it would be undrivable or would it just be slow? Because as gasoline engines get bigger, efficiency is lost as well (except at the high... | I believe that the fuel economy benefits offered by hybrid cars is a myth due to a basic understanding of physics. | 1 | 2013-08-16T18:40:50 | 69 | 3 | 2 |
With regards to political *parties*, you have to understand that *nobody* fits into them perfectly. Heck, it's the reason there's such division within political parties. In the United States, a fairly substantial amount of people sit in the middle of the political spectrum and vote for whichever party they agree with *... | I am an outcast in today's political climate and do not have a "political home" | 1 | 2017-03-08T08:01:58 | 56 | 14 | 24 |
I understand the concern about the kids of the anti-vaxxers. I am a pediatric resident, and I've had many encounters with anti-vaxxers. It is typically not in clinic, because we tend to serve a lower class urban population, and the anti-vax people tend to be middle to upper class and white. However, we still see a them... | It's unethical for pediatricians to not accept unvaccinated children into their practice. | 1 | 2016-09-24T22:20:10 | 157 | 7 | 1 |
It distracts from the real purpose of school What is "the real purpose of school"? Do schools only exist to provide an education to children, and nothing else? I think it's totally plausible that schools also serve to provide other opportunities to children which might not have them anywhere else. Divides students I di... | Schools should not sponsor after-school sports/activities | 0 | 2015-02-06T07:25:45 | 15 | 11 | 14 |
But what about a country in which everyone supports the government? We're speaking in theory here, but if a direct democracy were to take place (as in, where the people *directly* choose what to do) vote to take reprehensible action unanimously. Shouldn't they be held accountable? | An entire people can never justifiably be punished for crimes committed by their government | 1 | 2015-01-23T17:00:37 | 49 | 11 | 1 |
By adopting, you can help decrease that number. That's one of your goals. Do you think for other people that goal might not matter to them? Can you think of other goals people might have in mind when getting a dog? Let me give one example. Let's say you have small children. You adopt a mutt. A year later the mutt start... | It's always a better decision to adopt a mutt from the pound than to buy from a breeder. | 1 | 2017-05-10T18:39:04 | 95 | 3 | 12 |
Human "training" is based on deep, moral-based analysis of relatively few data points No, it is not. Our "training" started a couple billion years ago with evolution. The organization of the neural networks inside our brain are not made from scratch starting from our birth, it actually took billions of years of competi... | Modern progress in AI is not progress toward humanlike intelligence | 1 | 2016-08-07T07:27:47 | 74 | 7 | 1 |
What I'm here to challenge is this idea that there's 63 genders and that we should expect people to learn them and apply them to non-binary folks correctly, in real-time. Is this an argument that is actually being made? My understanding is that generally trans/non-binary people don't necessarily want you to be able to ... | non-binary people must conform to a third or fourth gender - not one of 63. | 0 | 2017-05-03T20:25:03 | 101 | 5 | 39 |
Most involve being strapped down or restrained I'm some way. While you may stand there stoically, I doubt most people would. They would run, jump, duck, cry, and beg. I would bet that they would do more than just tie your hands behind your back. They would most likely use the same type of restraints as lethal injectio... | Death by firing squad is the most dignified execution method. | 0 | 2016-08-28T03:11:29 | 33 | 2 | null |
I would also say that it evidently depends on the child (for example me and my sister responded differently to different punishments) and should smacking prove to not be effective then obviously other methods which showed themselves to be more so would be used. You're correct. My response shows trends and likelihoods. ... | I agree with smacking children as punishment | 1 | 2015-08-27T17:21:30 | 42 | 2 | null |
So in the absence of charity support, your plan would see these children die? I feel like a basic rubric of morality tries to avoid having children die or making parents choose between infanticide and medical/support bills that they can't afford. | I believe society has no moral obligation to take care of intellectually disabled people. | 1 | 2015-10-15T21:47:09 | 20 | 2 | 4 |
Sounds like you're an easy target. You getting attacked has nothing to do with the attackers race and everything to do with you looking like an easy victim. Fix your posture, walk with confidence, go to the gym or take some bjj classes and you'll be fine. Stop blaming others for your shortcomings. | I don't want to be afraid of random black people on the street. I was just attacked. Again. | 0 | 2017-01-07T02:00:42 | 393 | -2 | null |
there is literally no requirement to become gender fluid, me a cis het person could simply say I’m gender fluid and then boom I am gender fluid There's no requirement for sexual orientation either: you don't have to sleep with someone to affirm your sexual orientation or to qualify, you don't have to have relationship ... | I don't think Gender Fluid is a valid gender identity. | 1 | 2016-09-14T21:43:00 | 101 | 89 | 18 |
I think that there's an important tie between participation in the political process and consent. This is a country that was founded on 'consent of the governed,' and part of that means being able to withhold approval of a given set of candidates. If we mandate people vote, we remove the entire element of voluntariness... | [CMV] I think that voting should be mandatory in the United States | 1 | 2014-01-12T04:26:20 | 39 | 2 | 66Δ |
Hitler got himself on the cover of Time at one point.There was a lot of positive regard for fascist regimes amongst elite opinion in Europe and the US in the 1930s. That means he was influential, not necessarily good. As the West, in general, won the war against the nazis but the west had committed similar atrocities,... | The Nazis are perceived so badly as an accident of history | 0 | 2016-10-01T14:17:00 | 43 | 4 | null |
I'd agree with most of the conditions being removed, but I think the requirement that they be a citizen should be retained (not "natural born" but just a citizen). It is pretty explicit that participation in the political process of the United States as far as voting for or holding public office at any level is reserve... | The constitution should be amended to eliminate all requirements for becoming president | 1 | 2016-01-13T17:19:04 | 45 | 28 | 203 |
While this is a particularly interesting idea, I believe it is better left in party discussion than in real life. While having a "common man" President makes sense in the aspects you listed, the job of President is not one for the common man. It requires tremendous foresight, great legal intelligence, an insane work et... | The best president we will ever have is one who spent the majority of their lives just like everybody else. | 0 | 2016-09-02T21:09:08 | 33 | 2 | null |
On another note, if this is legitimately your personality, I don't think you should have to conform. Who says it isn't legitimately part of their personality? Our personality is largely shaped by our environment. You are lucky that you live in a time when you can tell people you're gay and not lose your friends, job an... | Flamboyant, over-the-top, 'flaming' gay people are more harm to achieving equality than good. | 1 | 2014-08-17T00:56:00 | 56 | 13 | 16Δ |
Are you trying to promote that anyone pregnant with a disabled fetus should abort, or simply that when a woman finds out she has a disabled fetus nothing should stop her from aborting if she wishes to? Women do abort disabled fetuses. That's generally the only reason for late term abortions. You can't really find out w... | Aborting a fetus that has a severe disability shouldn't be looked down apon | 0 | 2014-08-14T02:05:22 | 281 | 1 | 4 |
OP, I'm going to make a bold jump here, but please bear with me. Based on your starting argument, It sounds as though you understand some of the basic principles of evolution, and that you have an idea of how the scientific method works, even if you aren't yet willing to accept the conclusion that all species on Earth ... | I think it makes sense to believe in microevolution and not macroevolution. | 1 | 2014-12-03T23:35:00 | 69 | 20 | 1 |
We're at an extremely polarized point in our nation's history and I think a lot of the dismissal comes from the fact that he's simply in the "other" party. Democrats have branded him racist, sexist, etc. but is there a Republican they're not *also* branding as those things? Trump gets an extra heap of dismissal becaus... | Trump is the everyman's candidate | 0 | 2015-08-31T22:57:06 | 79 | 2 | null |
At this point, it just becomes a judgment call. Sometimes people totally know they might not be able to deliver what they promise; sometimes they don't. It's about reading subtle cues and how certain YOU are in your ability to do that. Also, there comes a point where we're blurring between "deceptive confidence" and "f... | Lying is an intentional masking of the truth of your intent. It is not saying one thing then doing another. | 1 | 2016-09-05T22:08:30 | 44 | 5 | 27 |
Well I'm not really aware of the US law about it but comparing it to the nazi system is a bit harsh... What I know is that efforts are growing in the health system to help those people have sex, I dont how much, I dont if it's really effective but I think that it probably wasn't the case ten years ago. Second there's... | Eugenics is alive and well in the United States and any other First World country where mentally handicapped individual cannot give consent to sex, and any sex with them is considered statutory rape. | 1 | 2016-08-12T16:26:59 | 51 | 8 | 7 |
There is something you can learn from your interactions with your mother: different perspectives in [epistemology](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/). How do we know what we know? How do we define knowledge? In what ways does science limit the bounds of its own applicability? What does that mean for how ... | I think I should not have any more philosophical debate with my YEC mother. | 0 | 2015-04-09T20:13:02 | 128 | 19 | 2Δ |
Elohim is supposedly connected to [Oklahoma City Bombing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing). And was also connected to the group at Waco. These people have an incredible and large underground. Think of the Taliban if they were Christain rednecks. | If a country managed to conquer the USA insurgents wouldn't be a huge problem. | 1 | 2015-10-30T19:36:09 | 78 | 2 | 1 |
So you think any activity that is a bit subjective can be considered a sport? The thing is, subjective sports do have many concrete, objective points for athletes to gain. For example, doing a specific trick is worth X points. Doing a trick in one category immediately after doing one in another category is work N bonu... | Cheerleading is not a sport | 0 | 2014-07-21T21:19:49 | 130 | 2 | 3 |
The concept of proprietary vs free is complete bonkers in my opinion. Stallman's definitions make no sense and his world view is ridiculous due to the "ROM loophole" Essentially his view requires a hard distinction between "software" and "hardware" since hardawre doesn't really have source code. So we enter the ROM pro... | Proprietary Software Is Morally Unjust | 0 | 2017-05-12T04:02:38 | 62 | 9 | 5 |
If you feel like you're "missing the point" on the abortion issue, then I'll put forward some popular rebuttals to the claims you make in the OP, and maybe you'll see a side of the argument you haven't yet seen: I can't help but wonder why everyone just accepts that a fetus isn't alive, and are kind of ignoring the mo... | I'm anti abortion, and I feel like an asshole for being so. | 0 | 2015-05-10T02:19:28 | 188 | 13 | 1Δ |
I think there are two main points as to why not to use trigger warnings on pointless things. One is that it's fairly insulting to people who actually have PTSD or other reasons that trigger warnings are needed. Completely unneeded ones appear to be either making fun of the idea of trigger warnings, or are trying to eq... | There is nothing wrong with the use of trigger warnings. | 1 | 2015-01-29T22:10:37 | 66 | 10 | 1 |
Pretty much any chemical that touches my skin causes an allergic reaction. This is caused by a chronic health condition that fucks up my day in many other unhelpful and surprising ways. You might not like having to see aisles of natural beauty products, but without them, I wouldn't be able to use shampoo/conditioner/bo... | Whether or not something is "natural" should be irrelevant to its desirability. | 0 | 2017-06-25T20:14:26 | 118 | 3 | null |
Okay so this was actually very enlightening and really added a perspective on something I'd disregarded most of my life just because it was in plain site most of the time. The Heartland culture is essentially what I envision my grandparents having grown up in, it was just something I'd never considered to be culture an... | The American heartland is devoid of cultural and meaning. | 0 | 2016-10-25T21:18:19 | 107 | 0 | null |
OK, seeing that I'll be gone for the next few hours and that my V has been C'd in some respects, I thought I'd just make a comment myself to thank everyone for a fascinating discussion. I'll award a delta each for the two main points that I'm taking home from this thread, which really changed my view on my claim: - **G... | I believe we should be governed by specifically trained scientists, CMV | 0 | 2013-12-09T21:54:21 | 202 | 2 | null |
Let's pick an issue to unify people on Let's try Human rights: Russia and China say no. Let's say the removal of guns from the populace: The US says no Let's say environmentalism: India and China say no Lets say the banning of landmines: The US says no once again. Is there even a single issue that would unify the ent... | While not possible yet, I think a World-Government ala "United States of Earth" is not only something really good but also inevitable. | 0 | 2016-07-13T05:55:21 | 54 | 1 | 72 |
Harry Potter wouldn't have been really difficult to do on a TV budget. The first season of Game of Thrones cost around $70 million, and I've heard that they've gotten up to around $100 million for the past couple seasons. That's about $10 million per hour of content. The Harry Potter movies were around 2.5 hours apiec... | Inspired by the recent Harry Potter post. I believe that the Harry Potter films are examples of a bad adaptation, and that Harry Potter would have been better served adapted into a TV series. | 1 | 2015-01-11T20:27:54 | 60 | 1 | 3 |
I just want to object to one statement you made, ignoring others, if you allow me: It might apply to brands, but most of them will probably not want another news feed to manage. Brands are not writing all their Twiitter, Facebook etc. posts manually. They usually use one centralized content management system which use... | Reddit's new profile pages are a fundamentally bad idea and will not even do their intended purpose of attracting creators. | 0 | 2017-03-25T13:19:28 | 112 | 1 | 2 |
I mostly agree with you in the sense that to get something, you need to be willing to fight for it. That said the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. You can put in 110% everyday but that is going to be mostly borrowed time, and if you don't hit your goal before you burn out, you may find yourself in a... | To be truly GREAT at something, your instructor has to push you/you have to push yourself to uncomfortable, sometimes abusive heights. | 0 | 2016-07-01T22:28:26 | 19 | 2 | 1 |
Invoking common sense is often used as a counter to unnecessarily pedantic arguments, the type that someone brings up when they know they've lost the battle but still won't concede out of pure stubbornness. For example, if I said something general like "I'm pretty sure most people that buy shoes intend to wear them on ... | Common sense is a bs statement used to "win" arguments without any actual proof. | 1 | 2016-02-08T19:36:24 | 144 | 452 | 63 |
What you're describing is the mainstream movement of hip-hop. It's "pop" hip-hop meant for radio/youtube to get broad appeal. While that movement is relatively recent, it doesn't necessarily represent an evolution of the whole genre of hip-hop. There are still really talented rappers out there -- some heavily influence... | I think that hip hop and rap music have become progressively worse over time | 0 | 2016-08-07T10:04:45 | 51 | 4 | null |
As I was reading your arguments for why you think Moriarty is lame I couldn't help but agree, but never once, until now had I ever considered him to be anything less than cool and that's because the Moriarty I know, exists in the context of sherlock. I know and like Moriarty not because of what he is individually but t... | BBC Sherlock's Moriarty is a terrible, cartoony character | 1 | 2017-01-18T19:53:28 | 127 | 286 | 1 |
You come out and say it yourself. You know that Trump is crazy. You had a friendship end, which is rough for anyone. It sucks. So you want to vote for a person you know is crazy - out of spite because you think it won't affect you as much as it might affect other people? And you want to know if that's irrational or jus... | I used to support Bernie but now I'd rather have Trump than Hilary just because I hate Social Justice Warriors more than Trump Supporters | 1 | 2016-07-27T04:18:13 | 102 | 13 | 67 |
There are precedents of decades-old authoritarian regimes being toppled similar to South Korea (see: Burma, Chile, Spain, Taiwan, etc. etc.), and all of them have a common denominator: economic development. There's a strong statistical relationship between the economic development of a nation and the political freedom ... | In the US, products manufactured in China should be required to be labeled "Made by the Exploited Workers of Communist China" instead of simply "Made in China." | 1 | 2014-10-14T18:29:14 | 57 | 6 | 5 |
One, too many exceptions for this to work. I myself was in special education in high school then got my act together and went hard at college, transferred to a top uni and now have a challenging and high level career. Two, no matter how you designed such a system it would be just a class system in practice. Poor kids w... | When children display low intelligence, we should be training them to enter low-income jobs, not preparing them for college like everyone else. | 0 | 2017-01-14T04:50:18 | 437 | 1 | null |
The way I see it, with the few competitive titles taking up a **major** part of the total game-time, players look towards more casual titles to play parallel to their MOBA/FPS of choice. Recently Terraria got in top 3 most played on Steam after a huge patch, Poly Bridge is ALL over /r/Gaming, Rocket League recently got... | I believe that CS:GO, LoL, and Dota 2 are "Drying up" the gaming industry | 0 | 2015-07-25T13:21:46 | 43 | 1 | null |
I don't think animals being eaten is a particularly bad thing. Wildebeest in Africa get eaten by lions all the time, and nobody bats an eyelid. You might cry necessity on the part of the lions, but hell, you could save *millions* of wildebeest lives by culling a few thousand lions, leaving great milling mindless mooin... | I'm a meat eater who believes that from a moral point of view, there's no justification for eating animals, and I should become a vegetarian. CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-04T16:11:28 | 67 | 1 | 5 |
You should be immediately allowed to kill that person in your own defense, as retreating in your own home could be a shitshow. Sure, sometimes it is a sideshow. But we already have general self-deference laws for that. It is legal to use deadly force in self defense when you have no way to escape even when there is no ... | "Stand Your Ground" laws should be permitted in all states and countries, especially inside your own home. | 0 | 2017-06-22T20:10:39 | 93 | 3 | 172 |
Can't be sure you were trying to award me a delta there, but assuming you were I think a "+delta" won't work. You'd have to do a ! in front or copy/paste the delta or use an alt-key-code. Also it's customary to give an explanation for what/why you changed your view. If I'm mistaken please disregard this. | th outcry and psychological damage done by rape/pedophilia are primarily not about our natural reactions but about puritanical attitudes towards sex. | 1 | 2016-05-13T17:24:22 | 55 | 1 | 6 |
Isn't it funny how Bernie and Hillary got 49.6% and 49.8% respectively at the (first) Iowa caucus, and people still think their participation doesn't matter. Literally a couple of votes would have made all the difference there. | For the educated middle class, voting in the U.S. is a useless waste of time. | 0 | 2016-03-01T17:27:51 | 33 | 3 | 3 |
The problem with your above reasoning is that you don't account for "what-if" scenarios that could have occurred had we *not* taken the steps that we did. Can you state with absolute certainty that Mexico would not have moved further into US territories had we lost the Mexican-American war? What if USA didn't participa... | I believe that the idea that US soldiers have fought for freedom in the United States in modern times is for the most part false. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-05T22:11:02 | 175 | 1 | 14 |
National sports teams are not a money-making venture designed for maximizing ROI, and are not a proper representation of a free-market business model. It's not the same thing as being a franchise within a professional league. The team isn't a business whose primary purpose is generating a profit - the real product is r... | The USA Women's soccer team does not deserve equal pay to the Men's soccer team. | 1 | 2016-11-21T22:31:30 | 167 | 14 | 1 |
This is never met very well and I've been accused of being racist just because my sexual preferences don't align with ongoing trends in society. Do you really think this is a fair assessment? Do you think it's uncommon for most European or American people's list of "hottest people" to contain few black celebrities? Oth... | I am in no way attracted to black people. I am not racist. | 0 | 2017-05-30T16:38:33 | 150 | 10 | 78 |
Most reasonable people realize that women don’t wear bright pink dresses, pick vegetables with faces out of the ground, and get kidnapped from a giant turtle/dinosaur hybrid. The problem is that many people are not reasonable in this sense. Many people think women are to be protected and taken care of by males, even ... | The way women are portrayed in video games has no negative effect on society | 0 | 2015-07-09T21:30:29 | 43 | 4 | 26Δ |
If we're talking about somebody with a peanut allergy, I'd agree with you - best to keep the cross-contamination at a minimum if one is a lot worse than the other. However, if nobody's allergic, I'd argue that putting the peanut butter on first is better because of the cross-contamination because peanut butter is a lot... | I think putting jelly on first when making a PB&J is the superior option. | 0 | 2016-10-20T18:13:46 | 63 | 3 | 22 |
There are a few practical problems and one theoretical problem with your proposal. Let's start with the purpose of labels. Let's say that I have a stack of DVDs. One is a movie, one has a bunch of file folders, one is an XBox disc, one is just the most hardcore porn you could imagine, etc. Now, if I've labeled them all... | Racial labels should not be encouraged (e.g. African-American, minority) as it actually encourages division instead of equality; to promote equality and a just society we should be referring to all members of all races by their nationality | 1 | 2014-10-09T20:51:08 | 302 | 43 | 43 |
Normal human beings have a survival instinct. Assuming that police officers are normal human beings, they must also possess the same desire to protect their own lives when they make an arrest of any sort. Thus, they will judge encounters based on prior policing knowledge in order to gauge threats and will react accordi... | People should learn proper etiquette when dealing with police. | 0 | 2014-10-11T17:51:59 | 107 | 12 | 1 |
I'm going to try to partially change your view because I partially agree with it, insofar as one particular group of non-binary people are concerned but I strongly disagree with it concerning a second group of non-binary people. I'll clarify who these two groups are: Gender dysphoric non-binary and non-dysphoric non-bi... | Non-binary genders make no sense unless you accept that gender stereotypes, roles and the like are real and should be so. Non-binary genders, therefore, enforce gender roles. | 1 | 2017-04-18T16:45:18 | 325 | 244 | 3 |
I do believe that there are only two genders male and female. I am not really sure I agree with your reasoning for that however. Feminists define gender in terms of the role played in society. So you see feminists see gender as a social construct, hence essentially they force their definition of gender to be malleable,... | I feel like non-binary genders are just a ploy for attention and are actually disrepectful towards trans men/women | 0 | 2017-04-16T18:39:48 | 430 | 6 | null |
One possible explanation why they liked it is that they were discriminated against, but due to their romanticising of the west, they filtered it out and they liked it nonetheless. Another possible explanation is that they simply didn't experience much racism, because there isn't as much of it as you seem to think there... | Asians from developed countries in Asia who choose to move abroad to a western country solely because they like the way of life there is being unwise as they will experience racism abroad | 1 | 2016-10-23T03:13:30 | 94 | 1 | 1 |
That said, while I agree that the NFL doesn't care about fairness so much as securing their bottom line (which happens to include fairness at times), I still think they should care. But why? I'm not talking about some kind of sketchy tax avoidance scheme, I'm talking about the league trying to foster excitement and par... | The NFL should end the divisional system, and instead let the best six teams from each conference into the playoffs. | 1 | 2015-12-14T00:29:54 | 104 | 35 | 61 |
In both of the situations you described, the people had suffered a recent loss. I think that rather than telling every person they encounter of their mourning, they should instead give themselves time away from work and social situations so they can privately grieve. For example, a subordinate at my workplace was clea... | I believe when someone close to you dies it is obligatory to tell the people you are with. | 0 | 2014-07-19T22:00:07 | 48 | 1 | null |
If Trump even tries to move to the middle to attract support from the anti-establishment left, he will defeat Hill. For the general, he must move to the center and distance himself from his more conservative racist rhetoric. I don't think Trump is going to have much success getting people to forget about the wall, nor... | Donald Trump would eviscerate Hillary Clinton in a general election | 1 | 2016-03-01T00:31:32 | 86 | 25 | 2 |
You conceded a lot there - it isn't that personal failings were unrelated, but that they are not related enough to job performance, and only in this case because we have lots of other evidence... so does my general description seem right? ;) The employer-employee analogy works in some respects. I can see how one would ... | The president of the USA need not be a saint; they just need to be good at running a country. | 1 | 2016-10-19T08:30:42 | 74 | 2 | 17 |
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