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An old comment can be rescanned by a mod but a new comment would happen immediately. | Gender Segregation in K-12 is great and should be allowed in public schools. | 1 | 2016-02-05T22:31:45 | 92 | 1 | 81 |
This is a problem of weighing costs versus benefits. You have to decide whether or not the benefit of reading the books will outweigh the cost of possibly supporting Planned Parenthood. I had the same problem with Chic-Fil-A. I love their food but I don't support their political views. I ended up making the decision of... | Because I disapprove of Planned Parenthood, I should boycott Lemony Snicket and all of his books. | 1 | 2015-10-20T04:30:35 | 28 | 2 | 1 |
I'd say the Scandinavians have gone overboard I can certainly understand a philosophical preference for valuing entrepreneurship over stability, but the quality of life data in Scandinavia is pretty impressive. They get what they pay for in taxes, and it helps that their governments are smaller scale. The problem I see... | Social programs are no substitute for a good financial education and throwing money at people who cannot handle money is a waste. | 1 | 2015-04-20T16:50:38 | 93 | 18 | 15Δ |
This is actually a SUPER interesting topic and I'm glad I can use it to waste time at my job, which you might conclude contributes to the ease of my life since I doubt I'll face consequences for it. So I'm on the fence here. I, personally, believe there are people who lead objectively easier/better lives than others. D... | We can correctly estimate how easy someone else's life is (whether it's your spouse, office colleague, your boss, friend or anyone else) | 0 | 2016-10-14T17:46:09 | 61 | 2 | 1 |
If you want to find the purpose in your life, you could always cosplay Robinson Crusoe in wilder regions or just move to Africa or Middle East to test your survival skills. | Life is meaningless in the modern world and as a result life ends after high school | 1 | 2017-06-14T09:39:25 | 100 | 1 | 1 |
How can they decide for themselves at that particular age if they haven't been exposed to religion properly? Also, isn't being required to go to public school and take specific, required classes also a form of indoctrination? | Bringing your kids to church is indoctrination and they shouldn't be allowed in any church until they reach an age where they can decide for themselves. | 0 | 2015-08-18T18:06:41 | 241 | 1 | null |
Thanks! I'm glad I gave you a new perspective. Ahem, just to quote the rules... "If you've had your view changed *in any way*, then you should award a delta to the user(s) that made this happen" ... "A complete '180' of opinion is not required. A delta should be awarded for a change of any kind, whether it seems signif... | White Nationalists are the Isis of Western society | 1 | 2016-12-26T10:27:03 | 430 | 2 | 2 |
Given that the death penalty is the greatest punishment possible, and assuming that murder would also get the death penalty, if both rape and murder have the same penalty, a rapist will have a greater incentive to murder the victim. A dead person cannot identify or testify against the rapist, so the perpetrator has a b... | I believe all rapists should get the death penalty | 1 | 2014-04-17T04:01:13 | 20 | 23 | 2 |
One might argue that alcohol isn't necessarily harmful if used responsibly, but there are few people who set out to use alcohol irresponsibly, and yet it still happens. Most people who drink live their natural lifespan without suffering any terrible consequences. But given an average person, there is a significant chan... | Drinking alcohol is stupid | 0 | 2017-01-23T06:53:21 | 67 | 13 | 8 |
The reason this is an issue, is that it doesn't scale well with your logic. Lets say at some point in the future, vegetarianism becomes very popular. 40% of the US population is vegetarian in this scenario now. If those 40% don't eat meat at all, that is a *massive* hit to the meat industry and millions less animals ar... | The criteria for being a vegetarian isnt not eating meat, its not buying meat. | 0 | 2015-07-18T17:28:35 | 192 | 9 | 1 |
Taxation is far from the only thing a government does. In your plutocracy, the 1% could vote to send the other 99% to war, or to become indentured servants, etc. Besides the question of fairness, obviously, there would be problems with stability. That's a big part of the appeal of democracy, and why, when established ... | Our society should be run by the rich. Your voting power should be dependent on the amount of taxes you pay. | 1 | 2015-06-16T18:19:46 | 149 | 3 | 108Δ |
There's a legal term for lying to discredit someone: slander. If you lie with the intention of damaging someone's reputation, you can be sued for damages. There are a few other cases where freedom of speech doesn't apply in the US. Lying for financial gain is fraud, and threats of violence will also get you arrested. T... | Freedom of speech is overrated | 0 | 2017-05-03T13:33:11 | 54 | 2 | 3 |
A system which elects the loser is not effective. Period. | you’re an idiot for saying “but Hillary won the popular vote!” | 0 | 2017-01-29T00:50:47 | 104 | 4 | 9 |
I wish it wasn't real. I don't react like other people do and start blowing up and making a big deal. But when I read a post that is about rape. I tend to end up with the anxiety feelings I had when I was raped. I'm not trying to, and I really wish it wouldn't happen. I do try and get over it fairly quickly. It's not s... | 'Triggers' aren't a real thing. We should all be able to overcome our issues and not project them unto other people. | 0 | 2015-08-08T04:43:29 | 283 | 6 | null |
A person can only provide their useful attention to so many things. I don't agree that you shouldn't personally CARE or think about X because Y is more important, but I do believe matters should be taken care of in order of importance. | Saying you shouldn't care about X when Y is so much more important is never constructive | 0 | 2015-08-03T17:23:46 | 45 | 1 | 1Δ |
Why does race have to be "unique" to be real? Similarly, why does Race have to be biological to be real - surely if it exists in the mind, it exists, and can therefore be studied by Science, and therefore is scientific. If Whites have gene ABC with 58% frequency, and Asians have gene ABC with 42% frequency, is that no... | Race is a social construct that has too many inconsistencies and too much subjectivity to be considered biological or even scientific. | 1 | 2017-03-28T03:05:34 | 141 | 1 | 22 |
So firstly I'll state here and now that I am okay with people getting whatever tests they want during a pregnancy, and that women have an unquestionable right to choose. So I am not arguing against these aspects of your view, what I am arguing against is the notion that doing so is an ultimate good for society. The cru... | Aborting fetuses that would be born with debilitating diseases is good for society | 1 | 2017-05-30T15:16:19 | 276 | 307 | 112 |
Ease is a relative idea, and scales upward with status and money. Nobody actually lives an "easy" life. They can live an uncomplicated life, but even that doesn't make it "easy." 1.) Let's start with someone who lives in a third world country. They wake up every day and don't know if they're going to eat. They also hav... | We can correctly estimate how easy someone else's life is (whether it's your spouse, office colleague, your boss, friend or anyone else) | 1 | 2016-10-14T19:32:20 | 61 | 2 | 14 |
So you don't think pornography produces a relatable reaction ? I mean, fucking is one of the most universal stuff I can think of. Much more than Dante's trip to hell is. | Pornography should not be seen as art | 1 | 2015-09-07T21:35:03 | 42 | 24 | 25 |
I'm wondering how Trump's statements of immigration make him racist or bigoted, without misquoting him. Your CMV said that his immigration views are "not actually that extreme." His desire to build a wall between the US and Mexico, and his desire to ban all Muslims from entering the country is in fact embarrassingly ex... | Trump's stance on immigration is over-exaggerated my the media and not actually that extreme. | 1 | 2016-08-02T16:25:07 | 231 | 17 | 4 |
Science is the process of observing things, recording what happened, and making hypotheses and theories based on what you have observed (and getting other people to confirm what you have observed). If it doesn't follow that, it's not science. I really don't know what you mean by 'eastern science' and 'western science'.... | The Western view of science is more valid than Eastern view of science. | 0 | 2015-10-29T20:11:43 | 33 | 1 | null |
Part of the issue is that you're right: many - if not most - authors don't intentionaly put these layers upon layers of meaning into their works. My teacher taught me to find what he called the theme of the story; the moral if you will. All stories inherently have at least one theme. They're not always intentional, but... | Literary Analysis is useless. | 0 | 2016-09-23T03:59:52 | 26 | 1 | 2 |
Problem with most missile defense technology is they can be countered by **decoys**. Any world power would be able to build a cheap decoy system to defeat would-be missile defense. So the missile defense system would only be effective against rogue states and accidents. Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNSR7dXHdCY | We should invest in nuclear defense | 0 | 2017-01-17T04:20:35 | 41 | 1 | null |
However, in a democratic system, if people are not informed about current events, their votes are not informed either. This creates a government that can practically do whatever it wants knowing that there would not be backlash from the voting public--they aren't informed anyways. Thus, while keeping up with current ev... | Keeping up with current happenings and the news is absolutely useless for a common person. | 0 | 2017-04-21T06:32:32 | 44 | 1 | null |
Would you say that [you remain unconvinced that your death has a fixed 100% probability](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1dn43v/i_remain_unconvinced_that_my_death_has_a_fixed/)? Regardless, whether or not the premises are true, it is definitely a valid argument. Validity is determined based on whether th... | "All humans are mortal" is not an acceptable premise for a deductive argument. | 1 | 2015-10-21T21:36:33 | 59 | 4 | 130 |
Thanks. Are you sure you're not confusing feminists with loud people on the Internet? It's very easy to make that mistake, which is why (for instance) lots of people think atheists and vegans are loud, obnoxious, argumentative, judgmental, and snobbish. We notice loud people because they're loud. If you go to a meetin... | Men would be better off avoiding feminism | 1 | 2017-03-31T22:32:32 | 394 | 2 | 3 |
When it comes to love, one of my favorite movies helps every time... here are some quotes: "You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl you've met, she's not perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other." Odds are, she's got flaws like any other person in... | I feel uncomfortable with my hypothetical girlfriend wearing revealing clothing outdoors | 0 | 2015-05-16T05:04:50 | 186 | 1 | 2Δ |
When you think about the roles sex plays in our society, it's usually like this: girls fuck to get close to someone; guys just fuck to fuck. So when a guy says "I've fucked 7 or 8 girls before," that's just what it means. But when a girl says "I've fucked 7 or 8 guys before," she's seen as trying to fall in love with a... | I don't think it's wrong for a girl to be slutty and promiscuous provided that she practises safe sex and birth control. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-08T23:46:37 | 167 | 1 | null |
I understand that you don't wish to have the source of the culture argued to you and that you really just want to be able to objectively look at the cultures and deem one the higher-valued. Unfortunately, I don't think this is actually possible. The nature of poor black culture (this is what I assume you are speaking o... | I think parts of black culture are degenerate and, when taken as a whole, is inferior to mainstream culture. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-27T09:00:20 | 136 | 22 | 2 |
A main feature of civil disobedience is the broadcasting of one's actions to the public, and the explicit challenging of authorities to either give up enforcement or provoke outrage by enforcing an unjust law. Without that part, with civil disobedience done secretly, there is no message, the only motive is the perpetra... | 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. | 0 | 2016-09-05T20:07:08 | 57 | 31 | 18 |
You are correct, in a way. There are several different schools of thought on human rights and how they are derived. The "natural rights" are, if I remember correctly, a purely western idea which formed fairly recently. So a disagreement from that is not a wrong view and it doesn't have to change. But going from your ex... | Natural rights do not exist. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-10T18:21:44 | 83 | 3 | 1 |
Let me start by trying to summarize your premise back to you so I can address each part. 1) Colleges take the side of students who accuse another student of rape, and do so by expelling the accused without sufficient proof of guilt. 2) False rape accusations are common enough that it's dangerous for universities to aut... | Students should not be expelled for rape accusations until they are found guilty or unless there is significant evidence against them | 1 | 2016-10-23T07:44:36 | 190 | 43 | 1 |
Vietnam veterans upon returning home (being spat on by anti war Protestants) my hatred for the left grew and a negative experience with a college liberal put the final nail in the coffin when i was called a murderer just after I joined the army Spitting on soldiers returning home is a completely disrespectful, uncalled... | Everyone who is either liberal or on the left wing side of politics is either a anti war hippy that spits on the the face of veterans and abuses them or a condescending annoying insufferable 'SJW'. | 0 | 2017-02-21T04:22:46 | 46 | 1 | 16 |
button's can't be airtight or water tight, whereas zippers can. thus making them the only real choice for space suits, dry diving suits, and hazmat suits. even in the case of jeans. having full buttons for jeans (you can actually find pants like this, i have a pair) is less efficient then the zipper and 1 button style... | I believe buttons are superior to zippers and zippers should be abolished. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-01T21:17:48 | 32 | 5 | 4 |
A wage gap is a denial of access to services. Picture a lesbian couple raising 2 kids. This may be seen as more socially acceptable than gay men raising 2 kids (it's not, both situations are fine). But the gay men have more money, more status, and more social privilege. They are able to enroll their kids in a private s... | If you aren't being denied services or being beaten then I think you have enough equal rights that you should shut up and focus on other issues. | 0 | 2017-05-07T13:26:41 | 47 | 2 | null |
It depends on which flavor of "feminsm" you mean. There is one brand of feminism (which I think mislabeled, hereafter termed "egalitarianism") that believes as you do, that who a person is is largely irrelevant to what they can do. This flavor generally believes that if Hillary is the best candidate, the nature of her... | Hilary Clinton's repeated reminders of her womanhood are, perhaps ironically, counter to the feminist philosophy and is the equivalent of "playing the race card". | 1 | 2015-10-14T21:09:13 | 425 | 2 | 11 |
I am someone who describes myself as egalitarian, and I think that all of the problems you list at the end of your post are on the right track. It might be that egalitarians, anti-feminists, MRAs and redpillers - groups that I associate with opposing feminism - might be in fact very distinct and different groups, but I... | Most people who call themselves "egalitarian" in fact want only to oppose feminism and not support any positive change | 0 | 2017-06-16T19:29:52 | 223 | 7 | 96 |
By definition, Atheism is the only orientation compatible with being a scientist This clearly cannot be true, since many religious people successfully discover novel facts about the world through experimentation and this is the only definition of 'scientist' that anyone actually uses. You can redefine words all you wan... | There is no such thing as a religious Scientist. It is oxymoronic. The scientific method is completely incompatible with evidence-free belief. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-03T20:33:23 | 123 | 17 | 18 |
Here's the problem with corporal punishment. People who are spanked as children are more likely to engage in criminal behavior (like stealing and assaulting others), even if their parents are otherwise caring and affectionate ([source](http://news.discovery.com/human/videos/spanking-kids-makes-them-lawbreakers-video.ht... | I think it's okay to teach boys not to cry, and it's also okay to use corporal punishment. | 1 | 2014-05-16T04:46:32 | 32 | 29 | null |
Not a very good counterpoint, just a thought: If everyone thought like this, we would see less and less political analysts in the future, which will lead to more and more tunnel vision when working through complex problems. | People who study complicated subjects like the economy and American foreign policy for a living are unable to agree on important policy questions, so it's pointless for me to try to develop an opinion on those policies. | 1 | 2016-10-17T01:43:15 | 167 | 211 | 1 |
I think small clubs shouldn't be allowed to play their music louder than 100 - 110 decibel Why only *small* clubs? | I think small clubs shouldn't be allowed to play their music louder than 100 - 110 decibel | 0 | 2016-02-05T18:16:45 | 141 | 105 | null |
Fake news is "news" that often isn't properly sourced. Most of the time it only present one side of a story or presents a narrative that never actually happened. Or is just simply very biased and is designed just to make one viewpoint seem more believable. Not all alternative viewpoints or analyses are equal. I coul... | I believe the term (not the concept) 'Fake News' is one of the most dangerous and destructive forces against free speech we have seen in a long time. | 0 | 2016-12-01T02:52:08 | 36 | 2 | 22 |
Aren't your criticisms valid of any class? For example as an ESL kindergarten teacher I never use PE, trigonometry, or biology classes I took in daily life. Do you disagree that high school should be organized to promote general education in a variety of subjects? | Fine Arts credits should not be required to graduate high school. | 0 | 2014-12-11T01:37:39 | 50 | 1 | 7 |
I too have gone to both private and public schools. I also believe that if all students are in a public institution we can also ensure that they are receiving quality education within a transparent and accountable public organization. My parents did not believe this, and thus I went to private schools until third gra... | Private schools and homeschooling should be banned and every child put into public schools. | 0 | 2016-08-20T12:36:24 | 97 | 1 | 8 |
That does prove that it was working. As the protest continued, more media attention was being given to the protest, and more people were becoming more sympathetic to the message of the protest. Support was building. The fact that they had to defeat the protest with violence, rather than responding to the message, means... | Peaceful demonstration does not affect government policy | 1 | 2017-02-17T00:08:06 | 43 | 2 | 1 |
Let's put aside your specific argument and just think about what's more important. The role of consent in sexual relations isn't just there for its own sake, it's there to reduce harm and trauma in society. Consent is a basic function of an independent, free society where individuals can have autonomy over their own bo... | (NSFW) One needs proper consent to masturbate about someone. | 1 | 2015-07-27T19:25:28 | 31 | 12 | 16 |
Not everyone can afford to *really* dress up. I do think putting on a suit and tie and getting in an airplane and having a scotch is a fucking cool thing to do, though. But you should make that a personal thing, as opposed to a decree upon others. | People should dress up a little more when flying. | 1 | 2015-03-26T21:26:31 | 117 | 2 | 3Δ |
Then to that, the only thing I can offer is the historical context of CoD. It was the first FPS to really popularize the RPG elements of progression and grow multiplayer FPS to the size that it is. Halo may have been the first of its kind at the time, but CoD created a very effective system where you leveled up, unlock... | The Call of Duty franchise is extremely overrated and overhyped. | 1 | 2014-12-28T21:53:35 | 143 | 39 | 4 |
It honestly just sounds like you've been having an extended existential crisis on top of some dissociative identity thing. What's so special about your life? I don't know, tell me more about yourself. You clearly find something special in the lives of others since you take avid interest in them. What do these others ha... | Complete Dissociation from Self. | 0 | 2015-10-20T21:25:07 | 49 | 6 | 45 |
I think your issue is that outside of a forum like CMV, *nothing* is likely to change people's views. It's not that long posts don't change views. Short ones don't either. People don't change their views much. CMV is an odd place in that it has people more open to changing views. But all that said, yes, long posts can... | CMV - Long debate posts are ineffective at changing views. | 1 | 2015-08-19T01:33:02 | 52 | 2 | 133 |
A person doesn't have to participate in events and such to be a feminist. And often having people in the streets helping to make others aware of, for example, how they use language has an impact on society at large. Take the people who use "gay" as a pejorative, that's lost a lot of its luster because of people stoppin... | I think that social justice activists that feel the need to interrupt intelligent and reasonable debate/conversation to insert political correctness do it for self validation rather than to advance the cause. | 1 | 2016-10-18T19:17:11 | 90 | 40 | 99 |
You don't not rape someone because religion says that its bad but rather because rape is morally bad. Rape is by definition morally bad, since we define rape as such. However for other species rape is part of how they evolved their social structure. And nature, instead of giving females orgasm as an incentive to sex, g... | I believe that religion was just made up to keep people in check. | 1 | 2016-03-27T04:28:36 | 48 | 6 | 2 |
So the federal reserve is in charge of printing money right? They print more, and then the government feeds it to the big banks **and is dispersed (kinda) outward.** That last bit is actually not as direct as you imagine it. There is an economic force in any system that has borrowing and lending called the [money multi... | The Federal Reserve doesn't just print money, it steals value from everyone collectively. | 1 | 2015-04-29T21:49:33 | 83 | 3 | 82Δ |
So if you don’t want to be a hypocrite why not just do what you say would follow from the argument you made. As you say there are people that are doing this and they are able to do it so why can’t you do this? You mentioned that you are doing it for your good experience but you can also feel great by helping others to ... | I am a hypocrite vegan and therefore should spot being vegan again | 1 | 2017-02-22T22:26:36 | 61 | 13 | 1 |
What about police that are executing a lawful search warrant? You could end up killing them, when they posed no threat to your life. What about after you die naturally? Any family members or services that come in to collect your items could die. The home inspectors that go through your house to sell it could also die. ... | I believe installing death traps on a hidden room is totally justified. I see no shortcomings. (safe house of the future) | 0 | 2016-08-19T16:38:12 | 70 | 1 | 57 |
So do I get a delta on the first point? Second point we are again passing our moral beliefs on others. I think that is very inappropriate. Why is what we think is right better? | Political Correctness was never much of an issue, and today the word "Political Correctness" is mostly used wrongly to disguise racism, sexism, homophobia, or to attack progressive social views with no real arguments. | 1 | 2017-03-22T15:53:35 | 193 | 2 | 1 |
I don't disagree, but moreso because rhythm and timbre have a lot more to do with creative implementation than chord progression, of which there are only so many. That being said, I think if you use the same basic progressions without making modifications to any of the chords whatsoever, potential improvements in terms... | There is nothing wrong with using the I-V-vi-IV chord progression | 0 | 2015-03-11T16:15:59 | 23 | 0 | 6Δ |
Communism works fine on small-scales. As long as you are dealing with ~20-25 people, it works just fine. The Kibbutz system in Israel runs just fine. The family unit works just fine. The problem is really a scaling problem. Its hard if not impossible to get Communism to work for 100 million people. Communism has a pret... | Communism has never, ever worked and will never, ever work as people are inherently self-serving and those who advocate for it are idealistic idiots. | 1 | 2017-04-21T00:48:13 | 343 | 53 | 29 |
Their is no relative degree of suffering, everyone has a hard life, and trying to force everyone to walk on eggshells all the time doesn't help anyone make their life better. Everyone has their own individual struggles, but there are some struggles that encompass entire swaths of individuals. Racism, sexism, and other ... | Political Correctness has not only gotten way out of hand, but it is, ultimately, detrimental to a healthy society. | 1 | 2015-06-22T21:13:37 | 429 | 7 | null |
This is a very narrow way of looking at the type of cost-benefit analyses that a corporation may make. Direct profit vs. fines are not the only angle that this can/should be approached from. Take the current example of GM and its ignition switches. Clearly, they employed a limited form of cost-benefit analysis and deci... | If a corporation, after doing a cost/benefit analysis, determines that breaking a law/regulation will provide a net gain in shareholder value, it follows they must do so. | 0 | 2014-04-16T21:30:10 | 28 | 1 | 11 |
The first prong of attack is the homosexuality argument. However, if someone really is the opposite gender, then it would by definition not be homosexual. The second prong of attack is the rule against cross dressing. However, if someone really is the opposite gender, it's not cross dressing. I'm not intimately familia... | There is no sound biblical argument that makes being trans-gender morally wrong. | 0 | 2015-01-01T15:45:50 | 353 | 22 | null |
I think that's a whole can of worms that don't need opening up. For the record, I don't believe in this whole thing of "you can't be racist to a White person" - that's just bullshit, of course you can. You could call them 'cracker' or 'honky' or 'gwei lo' and that would all be racist. Of course, doing it in America, or... | This Chinese ad featuring a black man being washed and coming out white is not racist. | 1 | 2016-05-29T17:29:28 | 148 | 7 | 6 |
i agree with strangely pronounced names, but i feel like its not that often where someone would need to spell your name right? and having to spell it on the rare occasion that it does wouldnt be that big of a inconvenience. my last name is Bennett and a lot of people seem to think that its spelled with only 1 t. And 9 ... | Giving your child a name that people are never going to spell/pronounce correctly is selfish and foolish | 0 | 2017-02-05T03:52:45 | 606 | 1 | null |
There seems to be no downside to police wearing body cameras. There are at least a few readily apparent downsides. Whether or not they are significant enough to outweigh the advantages of body cameras is another discussion, but the downsides are most certianly there. * **No more police officer discretion.** As it stan... | I think police officers should be required to wear body cameras | 1 | 2015-11-24T19:06:05 | 268 | 45 | 22 |
While I do agree that English is pretty fucking easy to learn (I'm possibly biased. Video games are in English and my school also teaches English, so it's probably easier for me to learn it anyways) it still has its hard parts that I can see. I'll mainly say those parts since it's a CMV sub. 1. Mediterranean. That word... | The English language is not the hardest language to study, learn, or become fluent in. | 0 | 2017-06-26T17:26:50 | 45 | 1 | null |
You have defined "God" as the force that caused the Big Bang. Also, its not "God" as we traditionally know it, it could be two molecules making contact with each other. How do you want people to argue against your personal definition? | I believe some God or extra-dimensional entity caused the Big Bang and subsequently our existence. | 1 | 2015-06-24T02:35:17 | 44 | 10 | 52 |
marriage = benefits When the state is able to accept same sex marriages and provide basic benefits to the partner, there will be no issues. | I believe that the Gay Marriage discussion isn't as important as the media portrays it to be | 0 | 2014-12-23T07:01:53 | 73 | 1 | 2 |
I mean, you could make pretty similar arguments for selfishness about the Left as well. For instance, Left wing politicians typically want to keep social safety nets in place (at least more than right wing politicians), and you could argue this is because they want to stay in power so they give "free money" to the poor... | The right is inherently selfish | 1 | 2017-05-22T22:29:37 | 194 | 2 | 21 |
Loads of problems with your conflation, in my opinion. For me, both sound like "What kind of evils is he hiding from us? Not showing us is proof that he is hiding evils!" For Obama, there was one kind of "evil" that could be "hidden" by the birth certificate - that he's not American. That's hardly an evil, and though ... | Crying for Trump's tax returns is the same as crying for Obama's birth certificate | 1 | 2017-06-20T17:33:39 | 39 | 40 | 38 |
Pandas serve as the largest spreader of bamboo in the environment they come from ecologically that's incredibly important due to the amount of species involved in the Bamboo forests. On top of that they humans rely heavily on the bamboo forests. Basically they are the largest planter and care taker of one of the most i... | We should kill all of the pandas | 1 | 2017-04-10T02:25:02 | 26 | 2 | 87 |
I'm against them being able to vote while incarcerated for the sole reason that they are not contributing to society as a whole while in prison/jail. However, once they are released, I see denying them the right to vote to be an ongoing punishment which defeats the inherent belief that once you have taken your licks, y... | Felons should be allowed to vote. | 0 | 2016-04-22T23:10:04 | 246 | 0 | null |
Just because I can mathematically justify and assess the performance of a turbojet engine doesn't make everyone who can't an idiot. Many people haven't taken the time to attempt to fully appreciate the information available about evolution and other matters, and shaming them by calling them 'morons' does nothing but pu... | Evolution is proven, and anyone that denies the simple fact that we are related to primates is a moron. | 1 | 2015-10-23T07:13:15 | 76 | 73 | 1 |
So the device would be safe to operate, easy to operate, and has no adverse consequences? So it would be like abortion is now only safer, easier, and cheaper? Do you really think that this would reduce the amount of abortions or make women more "aware" (whatever this means) of the choice they are making? Do you think t... | I believe we should come up with an "abortion device" so ONLY the pregnant woman can terminate the pregnancy herself. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-18T00:11:28 | 138 | 1 | 14 |
Why does it have to be a zero-sum game? Homelessness doesn't affect only men, BTW. Go to any other third world country, and you'll find female beggars on the street. With children. This goes beyond gender issues; poverty, homelessness, health care, all of these are issues which could be solved with fair policies, e.g.,... | Men's suffering is a necessity | 0 | 2017-04-19T07:09:56 | 81 | 1 | 2 |
You repeatedly refer to camping as "low skill". (a) How are you defining "skill" if kills from camping don't count? (b) How do you define the "proper" way to play? What authority do you appeal to that supercedes anything a camper might claim is the proper way? (c) What is a legitimately low-skill player supposed to do... | Camping in gaming only shows that you lack skill and/or are unable to play the game "properly" | 0 | 2016-04-08T11:23:49 | 39 | 6 | 16 |
Africa's biggest problems are political, not economic. Economic problems are easy: you don't pay for clean water, sanitation and food, you show locals how to provide it for themselves. Ancient Chinese proverb: teach a man to fish, etc. You set up clinics staffed by doctors, grant medical & nursing experience to pr... | I believe we should leave the poor parts of Africa to their own devices. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-21T17:49:17 | 87 | 1 | 20Δ |
Basically, if I'm reading it right, it's saying that changing an unemployed person to employed will "fix" inflation faster than adopting anti-inflation policies will employ that person That's a good way of looking at it, though inflation isn't always what needs to be fixed urgently. Monetary policies are good, but less... | Keynesian economics is a thin cover for class warfare | 1 | 2015-07-20T02:04:33 | 65 | 1 | 40 |
Yeah, but my point is that giving money to people that have successful children is going, ultimately, to lead to giving money to people that already have money, and withholding it from ones that don't. Unless you make the reward high enough to overcome the *reasons* that poor parents are less involved (e.g. they don't... | If a child struggles to achieve in grade school it is virtually always the parents' fault. | 1 | 2014-12-24T19:59:18 | 42 | 30 | 89 |
I think this is a bit of a stretch because the US doesn't use a majority-vote system but rather the electoral college. That means that with the exception of swing states, political experts are fairly certain of what states will end up voting each way. For instance, an absent vote in California is definitely, unequivoc... | An absent vote may as well count as a vote for Trump | 1 | 2016-10-12T04:45:21 | 42 | 1 | 2 |
The problem I see is that essentially the lottery will have one big game every few years, and otherwise it will have low sales and low revenue because people will ignore lower jackpot drawings. That's been the design of the system since day 1 | The $1.5 billion jackpot will be bad for Powerball/lotteries in the long run. | 0 | 2016-01-14T21:10:55 | 63 | 1 | null |
The reason school degrees have a good reputation is because employers use them as pass/fail to rank people according to certain standards of social engagement and daily work that schools require. Someone who drops out of high school may do so for one of a variety of reasons and can be more capable than someone who grad... | Practical knowledge is worth more than academic knowledge. | 0 | 2017-01-06T22:24:16 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
Django-Is his spin of spaghetti western So? Are you saying every director needs to invent a whole new genre to be original? Kill Bill Vol 1. -His spin on Martial Arts So? Are you saying every director needs to invent a whole new genre to be original? Death Proof- Is the spin on grindhouse films etc So? Are you saying e... | Quentin Tarantino IS Not A Good Director | 0 | 2015-10-01T16:46:40 | 18 | 2 | 71 |
I think that you are right some of the time, but not all of the time. There are some people who genuinely are very hypocritical about their beliefs, including, but not limited to, religion. I think there's a difference between performance and belief. Someone who believes that they can pick and choose which commandment... | Trying to vote in laws based on religious faith is hypocritical in nature as no religious person follows his/her religion by the letter | 0 | 2014-06-13T23:55:45 | 45 | 1 | 2 |
The record/movie/entertainment media business has a serious problem. The fact is that they used to sell something that was tied to a physical product. A vhs tape, DVD, etc. Much of their money came from selling these things. But the landscape has changed dramatically. Now their content is available anywhere by anyone. ... | I think pirating movies/TV shows/music/software is theft and should continue to be illegal. CMV. | 1 | 2013-03-22T03:55:44 | 29 | 2 | 2 |
They don't produce goods, they don't create art, they aren't involved in political movements, there is literally nothing useful they could possibly do aside from maybe paying taxes. The only people that could possibly gain from their existence would be their direct family and themselves. You could literally say the sam... | Whenever a violent criminal (burglar, thief, murderer) dies, even if the circumstances surrounding his death are shady (police brutality, vigilantism, etcetera), society didn't lose anything of value and might have even gained from the event. | 0 | 2014-12-11T18:26:43 | 54 | 3 | 9 |
You perhaps should give people the benefit of the doubt when they say things that are not "politically correct". I've seen quite a few times where people said things that were not quite politically correct, but were valid. I see that you immediately label u\oBLACKIECHANoo as a racist because he doesn't consider joking... | People who won't admit to their racism are the worst kind of racists. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-20T13:51:15 | 134 | 1 | 1 |
I think for a lot of people like that it's because they see religion as intolerant, and that's the one thing they can't tolerate. Some people see all religion as the subset of Christians who won't tolerate homosexuality and abortion, or the subset of Muslims who won't tolerate women going unveiled in public etc.. To pe... | People nowadays is more liberal and tolerant to different ideas of all the people. But, Why most of them still hate religion and their followers? | 1 | 2015-12-04T11:11:40 | 15 | 6 | 2 |
The more optimized something becomes, the more fragile it becomes. With this in mind, let's look at your claim here: By and large, the more people you add to who runs government (not government itself), the more likely you are for corruption and collusion to take root. ↑ This may not be false, but keep thinking about ... | An Enlightened Dictatorship is the form of governance that results in the happiest populace that is the most well off, and thus is the ideal form of governance. | 1 | 2017-05-05T01:54:58 | 60 | 3 | 2 |
Okay, but what if the organ is damaged only so much as it isn't viable as a transplant, but is still intact enough that it could be used for medical science? Again, I don't have the option to opt in to only transplant: it's either 'opt in' or 'opt out' of everything. | I believe organ donation should be mandatory - or at bare minimum, opt out rather than opt in. | 1 | 2014-10-14T09:08:40 | 33 | 5 | 14 |
The problem is that unless they are top level hackers they will get caught, and when it is found out that feminists are harassing their own kind to create a political fake support for it ti will backfire. Even this CMV is taken as "some of the threats might be fake, because feminism sucks", so even the notion this is ... | It is in the best interest of internet feminists to make fake accounts to threaten people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian | 0 | 2014-12-03T16:38:30 | 73 | 1 | 25 |
i think it really had more to do with the record space available many times. before mp3 and such you were limited to media remember. So like when Hedrix's Axis bold as love fades out, its really not the end of the song, its just how much they fit on the record. Many artist used to play very very long versions of their ... | Ending a song with a fade-out is generally inferior to giving it an actual musical conclusion. | 0 | 2014-08-23T07:32:56 | 111 | 2 | 2 |
That's a traditionnal problem with the interpretation of freedom. For the argument's sake I'm going to give an example, that is only comparable of LGBTQ people with whom I have nothing against but the example is comparable in the mindset of people against it : The question behind this is : should we forbid something th... | Straight people have no reason to interfere with LGBTQ people's lives | 1 | 2016-10-10T22:31:18 | 104 | 10 | 8 |
Why bother with primary's then? Just select a candidate, the reason is, if the DNC decides to pick favorites say Hillary Clinton, how are Bernie supporters supposed to accept the results of the Primary. If the primary isn't seen as fair, supporters of the losing side aren't likely to accept the outcome, meaning Bernie ... | The DNC had every right, and in fact should feel obligated, to do whatever they can to get the candidate they wanted to win the primary | 0 | 2017-06-04T10:00:41 | 68 | 1 | null |
You have established that you support women's rights, but are just looking for a "rational" reason to do so. Following a fairly simple logical process, half of the planet is women. Increasingly, they control more and more things. Businesses, families, money, political power. From a purely self-centered view, it is in ... | As a masculine gay man without female friends, I and other gay men in my position have no rational reason to support women's rights other than preference | 1 | 2016-03-08T14:57:14 | 48 | 9 | 64 |
Everyone pretends like democracy is the be-all end-all in terms of country leaderships -- spoilers: it isn't. Democracy is, and was, **great for smaller civilizations** and there are endless examples. The problem sprouts when the ruled population expands too much and the leadership is [alienated] from the people they a... | I think some countries (like mine) are not yet ready for full Democracy, as they would be better with something else - CMV | 0 | 2013-08-11T00:40:10 | 111 | 4 | null |
It is the same thing. you don't like it you leave yes? people do not like it yet they do not leave. Maybe there are other things to stay for, shades of grey rather than black and white. | The majority of the US' problems could be solved easily if the US signed EU-style freedom of migration deals with the EU and Canada. | 1 | 2016-06-23T15:55:14 | 41 | 2 | 4 |
What if someone was pushing their cart with 100% intention to be responsible and put it in the designated area, took a phone call, found out their wife was in the hospital after a car accident and *forgot* about their cart? That seems like a legitimate excuse with full intent to do the right thing where circumstances m... | There is no excuse for people who leave their shopping carts in the parking lot instead of rolling it to a designated area. | 1 | 2016-01-18T19:54:58 | 74 | 36 | 1 |
I believe the DEA made the right decision about keeping marijuana on schedule 1 for two main reasons; marijuana should be legalized through legislation, and there is a lack of sufficient research to prove marijuana's health benefits. Medical research cannot be performed on marijuana until it is reclassified at a differ... | The DEA made the right decision about marijuana | 0 | 2016-08-11T19:43:25 | 71 | 2 | null |
Consider a very simplified scenario. Supposed every year 1 out every 100 homes burns down. I live in a neighborhood where there are exactly 101 homes and ever home costs exactly $100,000. If my home burns down it will ruin me financially. I only have $10,000 in the bank. So I organize everyone in my neighborhood, and g... | I believe that all private insurance is essentially gambling and should be discouraged. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-21T22:35:19 | 45 | 1 | null |
There are loads of better musicians and many more interesting people. Since this argument is widely subjective this could be made about anyone. Simply being able to name what *you* think is a more talented band doesn't mean the beatles weren't talented and influential. After all, they did start out as an equivalent to... | I don't think that The Beatles are as big of a deal as they are made out to be. | 0 | 2014-05-29T16:02:14 | 67 | 6 | 4 |
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