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Placebo was used to cure people's moderate depression, and also used to fake pain killers and aesthesia. You should really have a look at the article and linked research studies. The placebo effect itself can be used as a treatment along with medical science. Same thing with alternative medicine. As long as crystal hea... | Alternative medicine is useless and should never be supported. | 1 | 2017-02-26T22:14:14 | 71 | 3 | 1 |
You're forgetting that this may very well be a pun on the phrase "second banana," therefore reducing the importance of actual fruit merit. | The banana should be the fruit winning gold medal, while the strawberry has no place on the podium at all | 1 | 2016-08-22T04:22:38 | 148 | 2 | 1 |
There's nothing wrong with having one particular issue that you're passionate about. However, I'd say there is something wrong with putting blinders on to all other issues. What if there are two candidates that support gun rights equally? A true single-issue voter would essentially toss a coin at that point. It's alway... | I'm a single issue voter and I think that's OK. | 1 | 2015-03-22T02:17:01 | 58 | 3 | 4Δ |
I would argue that even the white Trump supporters who support white nationalist rhetoric are not necessarily racist. I think it's more accurate to say that they suffer from white fragility. [Link to article explaining in more detail](http://meta.ath0.com/2016/11/16/the-secret-trump-voter/). However, you might view whi... | Although not everyone who voted for Donald Trump is a racist, the people who still support him are. | 0 | 2017-02-27T18:30:51 | 194 | 1 | 4 |
For starters, unions, totally! Pro-union. Libertarians have no problem with unions. In fact, I support them, and I imagine most libertarians do too. And to your last bit there, you're saying there's not a difference. To a libertarian, there is when we're defining "liberty" and "violence". Today's liberals don't count t... | Libertarianism fails to meaningfully address that government is not the only potential mechanism for tyranny to flourish and thus fails to protect individual liberty in the manner it desires. | 1 | 2017-03-06T21:46:24 | 697 | 32 | 9 |
Can anyone explain to me why she's so heavily criticized for saying something that makes perfect sense: Mainstream video games are almost exclusively made to appeal to a male demographic, resulting in (arguably) sexist portrayals of women (both narratively and in the way they're presented). It borders on asking compani... | Anita Sarkeesian and similar feminists actually have a point about the portrayal of gender roles in video games. | 1 | 2016-12-05T21:50:11 | 617 | 95 | 1 |
I see it as just a kind of moving of the goal post. If ones own purposes don't seem meaningfull then subsume them as part of the purposes of something divine which is automatically defined by us being greater and more meaningful. That is a kind of sophistry. Devising or subscribing to something others have devised to e... | I feel because of the futility of existence, life is not worth living, CMV. | 1 | 2013-05-12T06:28:57 | 54 | 1 | 1 |
I think you're setting up a bit of a straw man here. The purpose of government running things isn't to be more efficient but to do it the way the government wants it done. In other words have the will of the people be the priority rather than profit. Or in other words be a not-for-profit agency. The post office is a go... | The private sector can do anything that the public sector can do but with more efficiency. | 1 | 2014-11-07T05:52:24 | 83 | 30 | 20 |
My problem with people having designated safe spaces on campuses and other places, is that its a breeding ground for bad ideas, its how, i don't want to use the word extremist, but, persons of the extreme variety come into existence. its where you get liberals so delusional that they think if we were to kill all white ... | "Safe Spaces" are not bad | 0 | 2017-03-04T17:15:50 | 52 | 0 | null |
There are many sweeping restrictions on free speech in the US. The classic one: You can't yell fire in a crowded theater. That's bullshit. You can; you simply cannot use the 1st as a shield from the consequences for doing so. It's illegal to campaign within 500 feet of a voting facility To prevent voter intimidation... | Banning picketing outside funerals is a good idea. Some say banning Westboro Baptist-type behavior near funerals constitutes a slippery slope to censorship; I disagree, I think a funeral-protest ban is actually prudent and justified by legal precedent in the US. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-22T20:38:11 | 57 | 2 | null |
This slogan is for people who do not seem to have the IQ or common sense to take basic precautions for their own safety. There are two ways to convince these prospective candidates of the Darwin award - authority or emotion. Appeal to emotion requires some introspection and determining your own worth to your family etc... | "Buckle up, it's the law" is an appeal to authority, and therefore not a good slogan to get people to put on their seat belts. | 1 | 2015-06-01T14:35:26 | 157 | 1 | null |
Thanks. Do you think this is enough for a delta? | There are no advantages to being quiet and introverted in modern society. | 1 | 2016-06-24T01:53:36 | 22 | 2 | 3 |
Ok, they were protesting her arrest. That's hardly the most important part of my argument though. It seems like you're using this one example of a protest (staged by a group that MANY feminists absolutely hate btw) and deciding that no other feminists are out there lobbying, changing laws, and fighting for rights of al... | I can't take feminist activists in the west seriously... | 1 | 2015-04-16T06:16:53 | 195 | 1 | 2Δ |
Yes, but if you're skilled at a craft or something, your grades don't matter as much. And as for the students that don't try and get subpar grades, what does that say if you think of school as a job? I can fix a car, but do you think my boss at the research facility cares? | I believe that grades in school are completely useless. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-10T09:45:37 | 29 | 2 | 2 |
Do you think that people *honestly* use condescension and demonetization to win others over? Because I think that's where your trouble is. I'm not condescending to people because I want to change their minds on anything, I'm condescending to people because sometimes it's fun to be mean, or it's the quickest way to get ... | It is completely inefficient to be condescending to or demonize the ignorant. | 0 | 2016-02-19T00:40:29 | 56 | 12 | 1 |
Perhaps this is a bad analogy - but if you say something antagonizing to a bully and you get your ass kicked, you should have anticipated that outcome. The issue seems to be that this idea doesn't belong. We are living in the most enlightened age of all time. Even in school we don't make rules based on what will appeas... | Freedom of speech is being taken too far | 0 | 2015-01-08T10:38:49 | 57 | 1 | null |
I worry that importing millions of people every year into Europe who have fundamnetally different worldviews on issues like sexism, anti-Semitism, free speech, and liberal democracy is a threat to European values. I'm scared of what Europe will look like in another few decades if immigration remains loose, and I feel l... | Mass migration and the refugee crisis is an existential threat to Europe's future | 1 | 2017-05-08T21:32:30 | 756 | 540 | null |
They eat poo. Other than being gross (and not all dogs eat shit), why is this a problem to dog ownership if it does not bother someone? They are annoying. Personal opinion. Dogs that are properly trained are roughly as annoying to the general public as a child. Should children not be allowed on buses? Additionally, th... | You shouldn't own a dog. | 0 | 2015-08-15T01:43:03 | 54 | 1 | 5 |
First of all, unproductive people who leech off of public services will always exist, no matter how you cut those services or provide more. You might as well provide them with enough income to pull themselves out of poverty This is going to sound harsh, but I think the best way to stop them from "leeching off of public... | UBI seems like it would work. | 0 | 2017-05-19T20:47:04 | 657 | 9 | 1 |
Sometimes overbookings happen on accident, and is no one's fault. For example, I used to work at an online travel agency. Sometimes due to system errors on either our part or the hotel's part bookings would not go through properly. Most of the time it was the hotel's fault, but they weren't doing it to be malicious. I'... | Overbooking should be illegal. | 1 | 2017-04-10T20:00:45 | 803 | 8 | 1 |
In spite of being rabidly anti-smoking (in public), I don't denigrate people that smoke cigarettes or the cigarettes themselves. I denigrate smoking them *around me*. I don't like being assaulted. This is not crazy. Ok, so if marijuana were legal, and people were smoking it in public around me, would I be equally upset... | I think the mainstream's acceptance of marijuana and rejection of cigarettes is delusional to the degree of insanity. - CMV | 1 | 2014-02-10T21:25:15 | 223 | 9 | 96Δ |
it really depends on your endgame, I suppose. I've suffered from a lack of motivation since my early high school days. that affected the choices of schools I could go to quite considerably and the program that I could go into (I settled for History/Poli. Sci., rather than Globalization Studies). once in my Bach. I stru... | I think that it doesn't matter whether you graduate top of your class, or bottom, so long as you graduate. | 1 | 2014-12-01T19:28:48 | 69 | 6 | 2 |
People- Individuals have power through numbers, social inclusion, social exclusion, and stigmatization. People in great enough numbers have massive influence on social climates which has immense bearing on an individual's personal freedoms. If you ask a member of a GSM (gender/sexual minority) who makes their lives the... | Libertarianism fails to meaningfully address that government is not the only potential mechanism for tyranny to flourish and thus fails to protect individual liberty in the manner it desires. | 0 | 2017-03-06T21:19:37 | 697 | 27 | 1 |
George Bush isn't a great example of supply side considering Radical Islamists ruined the face of America on 9/11 and Bush launched 2 wars in response. Are you drawing a causal link between the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the great recession? Do you have any evidence for such a link? Does this mean you *would* decrea... | Supply-Side Economics is what we need in our next president. | 1 | 2016-08-30T03:15:21 | 52 | 4 | 10 |
Well I would like to share my point of view into this... First of all I really hate gutturals, growling and screaming in music it's like WTF? I just don't get it, I mostly reject everything with that way of ''singing'' but I can have my own exceptions. Then, I also really hate when people take for metal, only Dea... | I don't hear any musical quality in the screaming vocals found in many genres of metal music. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-10T13:38:16 | 636 | 1 | null |
I think it's possible for culture to evolve this single, small, addition... and hope that it may. I don't think it's possible to force it to happen. And until it does, not all toilets "should be unisex". | All toilets should be unisex. | 1 | 2017-02-21T01:53:03 | 188 | 2 | 223 |
I think this is exactly the challenge though. There's a specificity you can always apply to the genre that will confirm your view. So long as you hold the view and can discriminate what artists are 'rock' and which aren't it's going to be tough. All those bands have key elements in common with classic rock artists like... | Rock is not dead but definitely getting old | 1 | 2017-01-06T19:45:03 | 132 | 2 | 4 |
What do you mean end of the world? End of all human life? End of modern civilization? The literal complete destruction of Earth? Nukes have only been around 70 years, I would say their existence has dramatically increased the chance of the end of the world since so many people have access to them. | "End of the world" predictions are human hubris. | 0 | 2017-02-23T16:39:57 | 74 | 5 | 3 |
I've been told [this](http://i.imgur.com/ihTnzCw.jpg) is an accurate description of depression by [people here](http://www.reddit.com/r/MorbidReality/comments/1eo27d/a_letter_about_depression/). I know the style of it may be confirming to your "over-dramatic" feelings but just try to take it for the message. I felt the... | People with depression are really just over dramatic and ungrateful | 1 | 2014-06-05T20:15:17 | 37 | 11 | 1 |
I don't expect this to actually change anything, but... My understanding of the argument is not that it is inherently wrong to eat meat... As you point out humans have evolved to be omnivorous. The ideas is that since humans have evolved to such a point that we can think about the other animals and empathize with them ... | We are omnivorous, we should eat less meat, but to say it is immoral to eat meat is false | 0 | 2017-03-11T08:46:42 | 79 | 1 | null |
1. Space travel is hard The difficulties of space travel basically come down to energy or power. There is an **enormous** financial incentive to develop novel forms of power generation (see [Lockheed's fusion reactor announcement](http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html) for one example, or my per... | Humans will never colonize the Moon, Mars or any other body in the universe. | 0 | 2016-08-25T21:50:33 | 115 | 3 | null |
When you have a dating preference you aren't engaging in racism because you are making a statement about yourself, not someone else. "I find Finnish people unattractive" is a very different statement than "Finnish people are ugly" | Having dating and attraction preferences based on race is an acceptable form of racism. | 0 | 2016-11-21T20:32:28 | 65 | 1 | null |
This post relates VERY well to my experiences in college, but it doesn't resonate as strongly for my k-12 education. I, like a lot of people, have issues with the standardized testing done in k-12, but from my particular experiences, outside of the SAT itself, I never really felt like I was being graded against the cro... | We should not rank kids vs. each other. We should just track subjects that have been mastered, and those that still need work. | 1 | 2016-05-01T19:03:45 | 47 | 1 | 1 |
I think /u/Grunt08 made a good point on the weakness of the criteria you are using, but I think I can go one further. Hitler was one of the clearest examples of a fascist we have, he tried to take control of Germany in a violent coup, and then when he failed he used violence, intimidation and murder to gradually take c... | I believe that Trump is Fascist. | 0 | 2017-01-22T04:48:02 | 79 | 6 | 1 |
If 'black people' is racist, then so must be 'white people'. You can't claim to be offended by one, but not the other, otherwise, you're the racist. | "Black people" is a racist term | 0 | 2016-04-28T19:29:16 | 51 | 1 | null |
I think I can answer this one fairly well. You might be misunderstanding the concept: it's not just about being attracted to males or females in differing degrees over time, it's also about what you find arousing in a partner over time. I feel confident in asserting that you are not attracted to literally every male in... | Sexuallity is not fluid | 0 | 2014-04-22T05:26:57 | 40 | 3 | null |
You are overthinking this. The gunnery officer is Imperial military, and is trained to follow orders and not question them. I doubt the gunnery officer was high ranking enough to know any mission details. He probably knew nothing about the ship, who it and what it carried, or what they were even boarding it for (ie t... | The Imperial officer in A New Hope should have blown up the escape pod. | 0 | 2016-09-14T20:20:19 | 70 | 8 | null |
I play poker. A lot. Poker decisions are governed by game theory. Option A vs Option B. There are always pros and cons to each decision. By not vaccinating your child you are protecting him or her from a yet unknown future calamity, the cost of that protection is an increased risk to actual known diseases that can be c... | I believe it is foolish to trust the government about vaccination. | 1 | 2015-02-05T02:14:49 | 55 | 10 | 14 |
Oh i didnt know you were asking about surpreme court cases. being taught solely to diminish religion As i said, they are taught to educate children, not diminish religion. So i cannot really give you examples, maybe you can give me surpreme court cases with such topics that ruled in religions favor? But anyway, even if... | There is no educational benefit to teaching the Big Bang theory in schools. | 1 | 2017-01-30T18:45:41 | 91 | 2 | 22 |
I was under the impression that the precedents it sets were the BEST outcome of the election. The media, politicians and corporations have been shown to be in bed with one another and America went out and told them they weren't going to eat up a candidate just because the media fawned over her, Bernie was forced out o... | The worst part of this election are the precedents it sets. | 0 | 2016-11-10T18:49:27 | 125 | 0 | null |
I think the problem with this view that tau would be easier to learn is that multiplication is a much more intuitive and easy to mentally calculate/visualize operation than division. Hence, because there are times when tau is more convenient, and times when pi is more convenient, it is easier to have pi be primary, bec... | Tau is greater than pi | 0 | 2017-02-17T23:31:49 | 78 | 2 | 223 |
Which Elite? If George Soros and the Koch Brothers don't agree, who gets what they want? Isn't it necessary for those elite to align their positions to some extent with the common people, resulting in them also getting what they want? As a result though, nobody, even the wealthiest elite, get *everything* they want. Ev... | Elections in advanced democracies are essentially kabuki theatre on economic policy. The elite will have their way no matter what the people vote. | 1 | 2015-12-18T16:10:25 | 25 | 6 | 61 |
iPhones become obsolete, fast. Don't believe me? Just look at all of the iPhone 4 users who have to bear with how slow and laggy iOS 7 is. My Galaxy S III from 2 years ago is still faster than any iPhone I've tested it against. That's not a good comparison. At this point 2 years ago was the tail end of the 4s cycle. A ... | Android phones are much better than iPhones. | 0 | 2014-07-17T00:25:35 | 148 | 1 | 1 |
My grandpa was a smoker, but not because he had no willpower. He didn't know it was wrong. The second my grandma told him that smoking was bad for him and the children, he put it down and never smoked again. My grandpa had the most wilpower of everyone I've ever met. Sadly, he smoked for too long and it took its toll. ... | I think everyone who uses or cannot resist drugs/alcohol/tobacco... is weak and has no willpower. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-02T13:28:47 | 24 | 1 | null |
No, if an area says that dogs need to be leashed then the dog needs to be leashed. You can have the best dog in the world, but I don't know your dog. If I am scared of dogs then seeing your dog without a manual restraint is going to leave me worried and I can't fully enjoy the park if I am worried about myself and thod... | If you have a well-trained dog (defined in description), you should be able to bring it off-leash to a normally on-leash area. | 1 | 2017-06-15T22:05:02 | 24 | 20 | 65 |
Liberal simply means embracing new ideas while conservative means holding onto traditional ones. This usually aligns with republican and democrats, as those who want small government typically hold more traditional values. While those who want more involved government hold newer ideals. It's a spectrum. Someone could h... | Unless you're a millionaire, there is no reason to vote for a Republican president. | 1 | 2016-02-27T18:18:13 | 161 | 4 | 2 |
Maybe, but the only "bureaucracy" we'd be removing is a jury trial. I'm reading your original comment, and I'm being led to believe that the system you're looking for already exists. Any patient can refuse a specific hospital service (i.e. chemotherapy), but it's up to the hospital to see that the patient is comfortabl... | The Death Penalty should be made illegal, but Suicide should be made legal. | 1 | 2015-09-06T23:34:43 | 254 | 1 | 1 |
The president and executive is separated from the legislature which leads to constant partisan battles between the two,stifling effective leadership and reform Well I wouldn't say that is what is causing partisan battles. Look at when Obama had a same party congress, or when Bush had the same. More laws were passed, bu... | The US should transition from its current system of Government to one based upon a variant of the Westminster System | 1 | 2016-10-07T16:03:29 | 22 | 11 | 31 |
CS major here. The point of college is not necessarily to prepare you for a life in the workforce - if you want to just be trained properly, there's trade school for that, and if you want to learn STEM without necessarily going through college, there are enough online tutorials that you could probably get a job with en... | my brothers philosophy degree is worthless | 0 | 2016-08-11T00:28:31 | 57 | 23 | 20 |
Consciousness is more than simply being able to react to your environment. Consciousness is the ability to self recognize, i.e. use the pronoun "I". I don't believe that you could properly create that "I" no matter how well you understood the mechanisms behind the brain. A replica would always be that, a replica. "I" w... | I believe that human consciousness and self-awareness are merely products of a biological mechanism(brain) that can be recreated it said mechanism is understood and perfectly recreated. | 0 | 2014-07-26T23:12:49 | 246 | 1 | 3 |
If a white person does make eye contact they usually quickly look away and look downwards/opposite direction. This is true of many white cultures no matter the race of the other person. It's just not normal to make eye contact with others. I don't mean to say you haven't experienced racism, but don't you think it that... | All white people are closet racists/biases. | 0 | 2016-02-28T02:22:30 | 52 | 9 | 23 |
Objectively, it's better to choose the closer one. Only if "closer to the door" is something you care about. I'm from Florida, where most of the year, [our criteria for a "good spot" is all about shade](http://i.imgur.com/vXg8MgB.jpg), not distance from the door, so the Expectant Mother spot, in most cases, would be ob... | Parking in the expectant mothers spot when you're not one is the logical thing to do if there are no legal consequences. | 1 | 2015-07-24T04:22:58 | 20 | 6 | null |
I'd point out that it makes things easier for less popular candidates, which is precisely what reddit seems to think is a great idea. It's difficult enough for say, Bernie Sanders to build up an infrastructure to get people to support him in just New Hampshire or Iowa. If he had to do it in all 50 states, he's complete... | States like Iowa and New Hampshire shouldn't have their caucuses/primaries earlier than the rest of the country. | 1 | 2015-06-08T15:36:52 | 91 | 162 | null |
I do not support Donald Trump. I think he is immature, lacks the required ability to convey a message concisely, and I don't think he even really wanted the job. He is too ego driven and have a lot of personality flaws that will negatively affect the perception of the Office of the President... That being said....**STO... | Anyone who voted for Trump is either a moron or a traitor to our country's values | 0 | 2017-02-01T02:43:37 | 64 | 16 | null |
I don't really care what happens when someone uneducated on the issues votes and doesn't receive what they wanted. The republic keeps the "ignorant masses" in check. That's the whole point of a representative as opposed to a direct democracy. That's also why we only elect 1/3rd of senators every two years instead of th... | I'm not registered to Vote and I don't think everyone should vote | 1 | 2016-03-21T18:06:06 | 44 | 4 | 84 |
I think there is a difference between "politicizing" and merely not talking about something. Politicizing means that you are trying to craft policy around a particular event. Sometimes extreme events can be wake up calls that warrant policy changes, sometimes they lead to heightened emotions and uninformed policy makin... | I think there is nothing wrong with politicizing a tragedy. | 1 | 2016-08-09T23:30:17 | 39 | 1 | 3 |
Fair enough, I don't disagree. Ok, then you've given up your core headline claim that the US would be better off having colonized the south. Alright, let's start from here then. Perhaps as part of World War I. In any case, working off the assumption that the southern states were not in a position to influence American ... | the USA is worse off for allowing the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union following the Civil War. | 1 | 2017-06-22T17:14:59 | 33 | 5 | 262 |
I think it's telling that the only example you came up with is one that is silly on its face. I'm assuming that providing arguments that are both substantive and might need to be defended as free speech won't convince you, so what would? Incidentally, what are your thoughts on the Scopes Monkey trial? Because that was,... | If you have to defend something as free speech, you're probably wrong | 0 | 2015-06-11T19:25:29 | 38 | 7 | 15Δ |
There are similar calls to remain non-violent in older religions. [Ahimsa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa) for example. Quoting wikipedia here - Ahimsa (Sanskrit: अहिंसा; IAST: ahimsā, Pāli:[1] avihiṃsā) means 'not to injure' and 'compassion' and refers to a key virtue in Indian religions.[2][3][4] The word is d... | Christianity's call to turn the other cheek in the face of personal insult or violence sets it apart from other religions, it's a revolutionary moral call. | 1 | 2017-02-15T21:21:33 | 90 | 4 | 45 |
(3/3) Phase 3: Why Bernie? a: On the Issues and Consistency This will be the shortest section of this. Bernie has [repeatedly voted to positively help]( https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357) the American people and deny the establishment the power that it so desperately reaches for. He voted ... | Hillary, not Bernie, is the better vote for the Democratic preliminaries | 1 | 2016-02-03T11:46:37 | 104 | 10 | 1 |
You seem to be under a number of fairly fundamental misconceptions. The Earth is most likely not going to become uninhabitable for humans. It may well become unable to support *seven billion* humans, but not all humans, barring some unforeseeable catastrophe. No sane, informed person is proposing the colonization of an... | Colonizing another planet isn't the solution to our immediate crisis (next few hundred years). Traveling to another world just to deal with an uninhabitable planet is a waste, when we could learn to colonize and live on the increasingly uninhabitable planet we're already on. | 1 | 2016-08-19T20:53:25 | 42 | 56 | 22 |
She flip flops a lot, so I don't feel comfortable with her saying she wont support TPP, because I think she certainly might. She absolutely will and this is a good reason to vote for her. The opposition to trade agreements like TPP & NAFTA is a mixture of misrepresentation regarding the agreements and outright nons... | There isn't anyone that I can vote for right now for president, especially when taking into account treatment of women | 0 | 2016-10-11T18:02:28 | 85 | 2 | 7 |
I'd like to add my two cents about TRP. It's a reality of the world that we live in that you can get ahead in life by being a bad person. You can manipulate people to get what you want. You can screw people over. You can act dishonorably, selfishly, and immorally and get huge rewards from doing so. This is, in my opini... | TheRedPill is very accurate about women and the reality of attraction, and the AF/BB concept | 0 | 2017-04-28T03:56:43 | 65 | 1 | 1 |
Isn't that the exact reason you should be reading the books? I, too, disliked the books, and felt like I was plodding through them. But plod I did, and I'm glad for it. I don't think that you and I see at all eye-to-eye on the matter of what's wrong with them (case in point: Martin does a good job at, as time goes on, ... | I think GoT is badly-written, misogynistic tripe. CMV enough to get through reading the books. | 1 | 2013-11-12T23:51:06 | 138 | 3 | 2 |
I'm curious where you're gathering your information since I see plenty of liberals (Bill Maher, for example) criticize Islam's shortcomings. I'm quite liberal myself but I don't have any patience for religious dogma when it tries to override secular values. That applies for all religions, not just Christianity and Isla... | Islamic religious freedoms are more supported by Liberals than Christian religious freedoms. | 0 | 2015-11-09T13:44:49 | 45 | 4 | 167 |
We live in a society that values monogamy and the devotion and faithfulness that that entails. Perhaps someone who feels ashamed of their past is not shy to share because they are directly ashamed of their own intentions, but in the views of others and how they might judge them promiscuous and unfaithful. There's also ... | No rational person can be ashamed of having a high number of sex partners. | 1 | 2014-11-17T20:53:54 | 104 | 3 | 26 |
You've focused on your career and come out ahead: awesome. You've focused on your hobbies and have developed some cool skills: fantastic. I'm getting the sense that you haven't yet truly focused on yourself, and I think that's what you need to try before PUA. Introspection is certainly part of it, but it's not the whol... | After following all dating advice, I'm starting to think PUA is the only way for me to be successful in dating. Please CMV | 1 | 2013-11-19T16:28:21 | 121 | 2 | 1 |
I think if you're raising a child, "finish your plate" can be a healthy thing to say. Why? Well, let's say I'm serving my child some food. I give him carrot sticks, apple slices, and a peanut butter sandwich. He eats the least healthy item on his plate first--the peanut butter sandwich--because he likes it the best! Th... | Telling people to "finish their plate" or "eat what they took" to reduce food wastage is harmful to society | 1 | 2016-05-06T20:55:00 | 39 | 26 | 10 |
Wheelchairs will never be obsolete. What about the worlds aging population? One in eight people in the world are aged 60 or over.[\(source\)](http://www.unfpa.org/ageing) With age comes mobility issues. "robotic legs" will never be a practical solution for most people over a certain age because robotic advancements re... | Wheelchairs are bad, and we should not design our entire cities and public places around them (Frustrated architect here) | 0 | 2016-05-01T18:47:11 | 72 | 3 | null |
The world is in a very different place than it was when the baby boomers were graduating form high school and college. The US used to have a lot of manufacturing jobs and generally existed with a labor shortage. Industries were forced to keep wages high to attract talent both from the US and from other countries. Aro... | At 5% unemployment, the economy and job market is in a good place in the US | 1 | 2016-05-04T08:37:10 | 71 | 44 | 2 |
I grew up in a Baptist Church in Georgia that was actually kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention over this issue. The first thing I would say is Jesus never said anything on the topic. Obviously that does not mean a lot on its own, but it does leave a lot more room for debate than has been traditionally consid... | Homosexuality is a sin according to the Christian viewpoint. | 0 | 2014-04-04T20:16:08 | 246 | 2 | null |
Again, I cannot speak to LDS, I'll take your word (and the articles you cited) as proof of that. It was an honor to change your view. Good day! | Politically liberal ideologies are less sympathetic and caring than conservative ones | 1 | 2017-05-09T23:09:28 | 192 | 1 | 167 |
I am as Socialist as the 14 work-day is long. The type of Socialist that has a picture of Eugene Debs in a frame-level of commitment to the cause. So I get what you are coming from in your belief system. Remember, however, that those the shout the loudest on both the left and the right are the ones in the minority. If ... | We've gone way overboard lately with PC-ness and the Social Justice movement. | 1 | 2015-07-11T19:17:22 | 138 | 14 | 3 |
It seems like your view has two main prongs. First, that kids will naturally gain the context of appropriate use without adult intervention. Second, that non-derogatory profanity should not be stigmatized. For the first, I work with kids 4th through 8th grade, and from my experience: no way in hell. Kids love, love, lo... | It's okay for kids to hear and say 'bad' words. | 1 | 2015-07-23T08:38:26 | 120 | 5 | 7 |
I think the entire concept of engineer's syndrome is a fallacy. Engineers, physicists, mathematicians use the best concept known to man for solving complicated, generic real-world problems: splitting the problem into smaller party and abstraction (using models). They are specifically meant to be used in completely unre... | Engineers' Syndrome is not specific to engineering | 0 | 2016-10-29T10:05:12 | 108 | 4 | 1 |
While I don't disagree with how you worded your statement, because a lot of that is true (many made bad recordings, sounded less than 'good' and were base), however there is a matter of intent or aspiration behind what was happening despite that baseness. Technically, the Clash (who are still amazing to listen to) and ... | The famous punk rock acts (Sex Pistols, Ramones, etc.) from the 70s sound horrible. | 0 | 2015-02-10T04:39:40 | 275 | 3 | null |
Most appreciation of post-modern and modern art for me came only after I started to learn about the process and the history of each work. You say that you like literature. Well then, think about this. The stuffy and nature loving Romantics and Gothics of the 1800s were fighting the industrial revolution and the sense o... | Try as I might, I can't seem to appreciate modern art, but I'd like to. | 1 | 2014-06-18T22:56:08 | 98 | 44 | 5 |
If you're switching from a UBI to a NIT I think that's a pretty substantial shift. A NIT really does have massively different work incentives than a UBI, and generally costs much less. As far as the original UBI idea and the costs, I really think you aren't grappling with what it means to increase government revenue by... | Universal Basic Income both necessary and more effective than most welfare systems. | 1 | 2017-05-26T03:58:52 | 78 | 5 | 259 |
Both of these can be simplified into the same question: Is a fetus a "person" in the legal sense, such that it is protected by law just as any born person? I don't think it's this clear of a question. To put it simply, being pro-choice, in most people's minds, means supporting the *choice* of a woman to terminate an un... | It is inconsistent to be pro-choice and also support separate murder charges for unborn fetuses. | 0 | 2016-05-17T00:12:27 | 489 | 1 | 1 |
It will be the same as others, go to college, achieve a bachelors or masters in some field (no need to specify my interests), and pursue my dream career. You can do whatever the fuck you want. By age 50, a year is just another year. It will be extremely similar to the one before it, and the one after When you're 50 y... | Why do I not just kill myself? I am not depressed, it is simply the most logical solution. | 0 | 2016-01-04T18:35:50 | 22 | 1 | null |
Here we go: The more time an employee takes to get carts, the more hours they get on the time sheet. Because I live in a poor area and a lot of people don't have cars, this dude has a business collecting carts miles away. When you have a gaggle of kids who are bitching out, it's sometimes hard to put it back. | There is no excuse for people who leave their shopping carts in the parking lot instead of rolling it to a designated area. | 0 | 2016-01-19T18:08:18 | 74 | 0 | 9 |
To get an atheist's view on religion, I'd encourage you to read the story outline of the Broadway musical "Book of Mormon," which was written by the South Park folks. The point of the musical shows how much religion can help a society even though the actual tenants and beliefs are irrelevant. I'm guessing that the chur... | I do not only think that church as a organisation is bad, I think that any religion is fundamentally wrong. | 0 | 2015-12-25T17:07:03 | 134 | 2 | null |
I agree with you in that I find the term and it's sudden spread troubling. Where I differ is in assigning a cause. You seem to ask, if not as a coordinated effort to silence... something, why the strong push from so much media for the idea of "fake news"? The simple answer is that mainstream media is driven by the same... | This "fake news" controversy is some kind of propaganda/psyop. | 1 | 2016-12-06T16:46:02 | 78 | 8 | 2 |
It is my current belief that he will struggle to find work within his field and ultimately that his degree is pretty worthless. What if the degree helps him find work that *isn't* in his field? Would it still be worthless? | my brothers philosophy degree is worthless | 0 | 2016-08-11T00:48:49 | 57 | 3 | 16 |
The point of a democracy is not to have the most effective government. The point of a democracy is to represent and reflect the will of the people, not just the ones that are educated. Thus, in order to get the best representation of the will of the people, *every* citizen must be given the opportunity to vote, no matt... | As an uninformed citizen, I shouldn't be allowed to vote. | 1 | 2015-07-01T21:43:44 | 92 | 40 | 36 |
Iss will be invaluable if we ever decide to send people to Mars or similar as this is the only place people have lived over a longer timeperiod in zero gravity ( well that and Mir ). If sending people to Mars is a worthy goal is up for debate of course. It is also practice for setting up and supplying lunar colonies, w... | I believe the ISS has been a complete waste of money. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-17T12:36:44 | 38 | 42 | null |
Women have the option of absolving themselves of all legal, moral, financial and social responsibility of parenthood after conceiving a child. Men can only legally do this if the woman allows them to. I think what you meant was women have the heavily regulated right to control what happens within their own body. Men al... | I don't think it is correct to refer to women as a "minority". Women are in fact, the majority. | 0 | 2016-12-19T22:14:08 | 454 | 1 | 7 |
I can't say anything for your situation. I don't know you and don't know what would work for you. But in the general sense, what's wrong with wanting support and attention? People with mental illnesses are ill. They're venting about their symptoms or talking about their treatment. That's reasonable, in the same way it ... | To post, or not to post one's struggles with mental illness on social media? I say not. | 1 | 2015-05-04T00:06:17 | 20 | 3 | 7Δ |
I see where you're coming from, and I personally am not a huge fan of abortion. If you think you're mature enough to have sex, then you should be mature enough to use birth control, and pregnancy is ultimately a choice, except in maybe in those rare cases where birth control actually goes wrong, which really doesn't ha... | Help me be pro-choice | 0 | 2015-04-15T08:37:22 | 38 | 1 | null |
Nobody is saying fetuses aren't alive. They are. They just should not be considered as *independent* organisms that are subject to moral principles. My hand is 'alive' in the same sense as a fetus is, but that doesn't mean cutting it off is the same as killing a person or animal. People often say fetuses develop into h... | I'm anti abortion, and I feel like an asshole for being so. | 1 | 2015-05-10T01:43:04 | 188 | 7 | 3Δ |
Embryonic stem cells are a very powerful biomedical tool, and that power comes with a commensurate degree of responsibility. There are some ethical grey areas that need to be considered in the process of acquiring and using embryonic stem cells. How would you feel about: -A rich person paying a poor person to donate la... | If you are pro-choice, there should be no circumstances in which you are against using embryonic stem cells | 0 | 2017-02-21T00:59:35 | 54 | 1 | 7 |
There's many examples where online petitions.have brought issues into awareness and applied pressure in.ways that has changed an outcome. They don't always work, but they often do! And the least any of us can do is try. To dissuade people from even trying, I find pretty saddening act.of self defeatism | Online petitions are useless | 0 | 2015-02-01T12:40:35 | 60 | 1 | null |
My point is this. It's very difficult to figure out what is meant by the words you put at the top. What is a "free market" system? Some free market systems are great (Denmark, Germany). Others are horrible (US, Saudi)^. There are things about what you might call the free market system that are really bad, and things th... | Communism has always failed while true free market economics has always succeeded. | 1 | 2017-04-04T03:53:11 | 145 | 13 | 11 |
The point is, classic characters like these have been around for decades, and some are almost a full century old. That is a lot of time for these characters to be around and be explored, and I think we've long since hit the point where they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for narrative. The reason why these class... | Marvel and DC should retire most of their classic heroes by making death more permanent | 0 | 2016-06-04T08:46:04 | 54 | 2 | null |
What are those jobs you're talking about? We don't have enough jobs for everyone. There is no unskilled (no I'm not leveling that term at caretakers, you know what I mean) field that is hurting for bodies. That's the fact of modern life. The total 'work' that needs doing can be done by far fewer people than the number ... | I agree with the Nazi 'Action T4' program. | 1 | 2015-05-24T07:32:38 | 71 | 9 | 1Δ |
I was raised in a very religious household. I grew up in a moderately religious community but one with a wide variety of religious and non-religious people. As it happened, despite the fact that I was brought up religious and held to most of my religious beliefs throughout my childhood and teenage years. The vast major... | Religious people hate Atheists | 1 | 2017-06-10T01:41:03 | 72 | 16 | 1 |
As such, I can't see a reason to continue giving the police access to the standard sidearms etc. that they have now, especially not the military-grade weaponry. How many police will you have if you have an armed citizenry and a disarmed police? (even in high gun control states, people can get guns easy enough) Will the... | The police can't be trusted to manage their access to lethal force and therefore shouldn't have it. | 1 | 2016-08-24T01:14:08 | 71 | 7 | 3 |
I get there is a personal violation, but if your life wouldn't have been any different (aside from maybe some vaginal soreness) if you were made unaware of it, how bad could it have been? Are you trying to argue that psychological trauma doesn't count? When you get raped, it is a loss of bodily autonomy. Someone else i... | There is nothing especially bad about rape. | 0 | 2015-09-24T19:34:53 | 55 | 3 | 37 |
Despite the fact that you and the Tuskegee experimenters both call yourselves "scientists," I would hazard a guess that the similarities end there. You seem to espouse the idea that an experiment should do minimal harm to its participants; that is part of your ideology. If so, you and the Tuskegee scientists *are not t... | When an individual or organization uses your ideology to justify action, and you do not denounce said action, you are enabling their justification and bear partial responsibility for that action. | 1 | 2015-10-27T04:47:47 | 85 | 28 | 2 |
I say that if you really were into someone, you wouldn't often forget texting them back. I don't have this specific problem, but it's not always any more possible to use the technological crutches to aid memory than it is to just remember in the first place. If the person were not in a position to be able to respond t... | Often forgetting = not caring enough about it | 1 | 2015-12-27T05:24:29 | 81 | 2 | 144 |
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