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The more useful it becomes the more likely it it's to specialize into its own field. Philosophy is an incubator for ideas that haven't matured and specialized yet. That's a useful thing. | Philosophy, as a field of formal study is meaningless. | 1 | 2016-06-18T22:44:25 | 46 | 1 | 7 |
I don't really see any problem with steps 1-3, as this could pretty much describe anyone in any romantic situation before intentions are made clear. Problem with number 1 – it is unattractive to the girl, it’s demeaning to yourself, and it sets you up for a much bigger tantrum when you get to stage 4 because it breeds ... | The criticism of "nice guys" (as seen in r/niceguys) is not valid. | 1 | 2015-08-18T02:24:48 | 288 | 3 | 1 |
There are multiple reasons to be a vegan which allows to hold pro choice views. But your case first. If you object to the killing of animals to produce meat out of ethical concern relating to the well being of the animals then basically the following takes place. 1) Neurological development of a conscious creature allo... | If you are vegan because you object to animals dying and parts of animals being consumed, but you would be open to having an abortion, you are a hypocrite | 0 | 2016-07-13T16:42:13 | 41 | 1 | null |
As Castle Rock shows, police officers in America are not obligated to protect anyone. That's not what Castle Rock held. Like, at all. Where did you get this information? Castle Rock held that failure to enforce a restraining order wasn't a deprivation of *due process*. In layman's terms, this one narrow part of the con... | American police exist solely to protect monied interests through imprisonment of and violence against the lower classes. | 1 | 2016-07-07T18:45:31 | 35 | 7 | 6 |
"Not lose any supporters" is a really high bar. Sure some of his most die hard supporters would make excuses or refuse to believe that he really did it but out of millions of supporters surely some of them would care. Look at trumps approval ratings throughout his campaign and presidency. They haven't been perfectly f... | Donald Trump could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any supporters | 0 | 2017-02-08T22:54:40 | 306 | 35 | 11 |
People have been labelling other people who are hating on Muslims or Christians bigoted and racist, even though those are simply religions. They can be changed, and one can simply re-think about their beliefs and constantly change them. Freedom of religion not only protects the freedom to hold belief in a religion, but... | Anyone should be able to hate Muslims, just like how anyone is able to hate anyone for their opinions. | 0 | 2016-10-01T19:20:24 | 97 | 0 | 5 |
White people ended slavery while the black people in Africa still practise it. If you look for bad people or good people, you are going to find it in any race, it's the human condition and not the colour of the skin. | Almost all white people are inherently racist/evil and blacks should segregate | 0 | 2016-10-19T15:04:48 | 232 | 3 | null |
So, your claim is not a strong thesis in that the assertions are not well-defined, specifically what you consider a "large percentage." I hope you will consider updating your post to create a more concrete boundary. I will start the conversation, however, by suggesting that [a *majority* of women are in favor of female... | There exists a large percentage women who want a standing double standard, where they receive full equality with men but still enjoy cultural "privileges" that they have classically enjoyed as part of male dominated culture. | 1 | 2016-02-27T20:06:41 | 704 | 120 | 1 |
Cultural exchange can happen without Cultural appropriation. e.g. * you can [enjoy cinco de mayo](http://xpatnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mexican-dancers-910-061114.jpg) without [perpetuating stereotypes](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/670/1*FAk4FvkRdyVV31La7H58jA.jpeg) * you can appreciate a [stylish hai... | Cultural appropriation is actually a good thing. | 1 | 2017-06-18T05:56:37 | 131 | 4 | 3 |
Your first three bullets are correct, its only on the 4rth that you run into some issues. We won't all be dead. Not even close. We have modern technology, like GMOs and healthcare and pumping systems that make the challenges of climate change largely doable, for those with the money to afford them. Its the poor of the... | I believe the sixth mass extinction has begun and we won't be able to stop it. | 1 | 2015-05-27T16:49:13 | 80 | 10 | 3Δ |
From Wikipedia: "Tranquillizer darts are not generally included in military or police less-than-lethal arsenals because no drug is yet known that would be quickly and reliably effective on humans without the risks of side effects or an overdose. This means that effective use requires an estimate of the weight of the ta... | Instead of firearms, police should use/carry tranquilizer guns. | 1 | 2015-08-06T22:39:12 | 48 | 8 | 1 |
Do you ever say goodbye? You shouldn't, as it is a contraction of the phrase "God be with ye" as well as being influenced by phrases like "good day." Your own logic regarding not saying something with a religious context would therefore transfer over to saying goodbye or even just bye. Or, rather, you could accept that... | Bleasing people after they sneeze is an outdated practice and should be stopped. | 0 | 2016-11-21T04:55:03 | 29 | 0 | 7 |
The problem here is that the "point" of prison is either to rehabilitate or punish the prisoner. Either goal is failed if the prisoner would rather die. If that option was available, I'm sure many would take it. Many take that way out already. Instead of allowing the powerless and institutionalized prisoners to end t... | Prisoners should have the option to end their life. | 0 | 2015-06-04T16:42:09 | 63 | 4 | 1 |
It would probably be more correct to say that religion is an attempt to explain the unknown. This would of course include death as well as the huge number of natural occurrences that mankind did not (or still does not) understand. ie causes of natural disasters, evolution, weather etc etc | I believe that all religion was born out of the fear of death. | 1 | 2014-04-29T13:43:19 | 92 | 10 | 2 |
In this situation, you should assume that since Thomas is black, his life must have included multiple instances of blatant police misconduct. How did you get that from the story? Earl just recognizes that *as a group*, black people have faced misconduct. Earl does not seem to conclude that Thomas must have personally f... | A majority of reddit users believe in practicing abject racial prejudice | 0 | 2017-06-24T13:02:53 | 50 | 1 | 43 |
The main argument that I've seen against the kind of eugenics you're advocating is that it's generally unnecessary. Even with the advancement of modern medicine, those with genetic significant genetic conditions (and even those with extremely low IQ) are still more likely to die before/without reproducing. Natural sele... | Eugenics Is A Good Idea, Just Gone About In The Wrong Way In The Past | 0 | 2017-04-17T18:23:25 | 67 | 1 | 18 |
"volunteer slavery" Please define slavery, then, because as I define it "voluntary" slavery is a contradiction. In an "ancient" society that didn't have too much human interaction, is a hunter enslaved when he hunts? He pretty much _has_ to hunt; if he doesn't, he won't get any food and he'll die. Is he being enslaved,... | I believe that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists are very ignorant and generally do not care about people who are less fortunate than them. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-02T21:19:57 | 803 | 203 | 1 |
To my view, the dropping of the atomic bombs was effectively inseparable from the rest of the strategic bombing campaign on Japan. To condemn one, you must condemn both. More people died in Tokyo than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki on its own, and the atomic bombs only counted for about a 3rd of the total casualties from... | I think that the United States should not have dropped the Atomic Bombs on Japan. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-21T04:09:59 | 145 | 4 | 30Δ |
What if you knew that animals held in captivity lived qualitatively better lives than their wild counterparts (including a lack of ticks, fleas, etc. and they received good food, medical care, etc.), and that part of what funded such a better life was the end result of eating the animals (and that these animals otherwi... | It is wrong to eat meat unless other foods are scarce. The meat industry should end. | 1 | 2016-02-17T00:26:52 | 72 | 13 | 16 |
This only exists to screen out voters. You yourself admit in points 2 and 3 that you're not only trying to reduce the total number of voters, but prevent the wrong kind of person from voting. This is a blatantly undemocratic point of view. Citizens should not have their basic rights revoked just for not carrying a smal... | IDs should be required to vote | 0 | 2015-08-18T20:36:53 | 61 | 3 | 2 |
I won't argue about abortion, but your feelings about your stance. I make it a point to respect opposing beliefs, as long as the belief makes sense and is thought out. I'll rarely respect an argument against gay marriage, because that is discriminatively denying what should be a basic human right of life, liberty, and ... | I'm anti abortion, and I feel like an asshole for being so. | 1 | 2015-05-10T05:27:30 | 188 | 4 | null |
I think it is because of the notion that rape is treated as form of conquest, which is why rape victims have a sense of shame and lose self-respect, because rape is associated with "defeat" and "surrender" and "failure". It is also the reason rape victims, especially male victims, refuse to come out and share their st... | I think it is okay to use the phrase like Team-A 'Raped' team-B in a sport's context. | 0 | 2016-02-08T12:16:29 | 173 | 10 | null |
Wage gap doesn't exist or is wrongly understood (women on average earns less than men, but it's the consequences of women's life choices) 'Women's life choices' is why we need feminism. If females are just as able as males to succeed in STEM subjects, but far more males choose to go into STEM careers than females, ther... | I think feminism isn't needed in civilized countries such as USA or Poland. | 1 | 2017-05-07T14:07:41 | 137 | 31 | 22 |
From my point of view, the entire idea of the gay rights movement, and by larger extension the LGBT community, is to accept who you are. Don't you have to go through acceptance of yourself to conclude you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender? Your given sex affects the development of your brain By this you're say... | I do not think trans-sexuality should be part of the gay rights movement. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-12T02:29:55 | 295 | 1 | null |
How do you feel about killing-off new born babies? Would not all the same reasons you listed (poverty, social reasons, economic reasons) - equally apply? | Abortions should be legally and aren't a morally bad thing. They are in fact socially and economically necessary. | 1 | 2017-04-11T22:44:09 | 112 | 18 | 157 |
We're very used to the idea that romantic and sexual love has to exist between two people, and only between two people. That's how many people want it (I know I could never be in a polyamorous relationship). However, there's not reason it inherently has to be that way. For some people, polyamory is a healthy relationsh... | Polygamous relationships are completely irrational and unnatural | 1 | 2016-12-06T08:54:43 | 36 | 12 | 7 |
Background checks aren't solely for the purpose of convicted felons. I agree with you in that the box that says "tick this if you're a convicted felon" generally does do more to punish those after they have served their time and done their punishment, but there are situations where doing a background check can prevent ... | Employment background checks should be abolished. | 1 | 2015-06-17T16:47:43 | 34 | 20 | null |
A lot of people agree with the view that it is better when a child has a parent stay home to raise them. Contrary to your belief that society is setup to require both parents to work, about a third of all mothers in the US are stay-at-home mothers, and that number has been rising since the 90s. However, even if I agre... | A Stay at Home Parent Should Be Required | 1 | 2016-08-05T01:03:07 | 72 | 2 | 82 |
You must understand pain to understand joy. You have no choice on how you come out of the womb, just that fact alone should help you understand just how lucky you are. Sacrificing yourself to help someone who can't have the same experiences as you can bring joy and purpose to someone. If you've lived 20 -30 years of ... | I don't see the joy in raising a mental handicapped child CMV | 0 | 2014-03-13T22:16:14 | 330 | 1 | null |
Self-protection - Based on what I've read and heard, gun owners by and large will not be in a position to effectively use it for self defense. Estimates on[ Defensive Gun Use](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_gun_use) vary pretty wildly, but even the low end ones from anti-gun groups project at least 55,000 per ... | Civilian gun ownership should be banned. | 0 | 2017-01-29T03:36:09 | 147 | 5 | 39 |
What specifically about Hillary and Trump makes you prefer giving Hillary three supreme court justices over Trump? I know exactly what Hillary stands for. She's been in prominent positions in US politics for so long that we know what we're going to get from her. She's also made it abundantly clear in her campaign what ... | I am a Sanders supporter, I'd rather vote for Trump than Clinton. | 1 | 2016-03-10T03:06:10 | 307 | 74 | 28 |
Do you think intelligence increases the ability to project power? Do you think the CIA collects useful information about US enemies? Intelligence can be weaponized - who holds it and for what ends we don't know - but this truth is hard to argue against. Right? Google is a central part of my workflow - but that doesn't ... | What Google knows will never adversely affect you, so avoiding them because they track you is irrational | 0 | 2016-03-09T21:08:04 | 108 | 2 | 1 |
I identify as gender fluid and I do often see people using the identity for gender expression rather than gender identity, but I don't think that's the case with me. Some days, I just see my face as male. Like I see my reflection and think "oh wow I'm a guy" and I'll feel a phantom penis and expect a flat chest. The ab... | Genderfluid isn't a thing | 1 | 2015-09-12T19:58:59 | 102 | 17 | 2 |
I think that abortions are useful to society. I agree. I think people make mistakes even responsible and loving birth control using couples and I think these mistakes should be able to be remedied by abortions. These are not mistakes. These are unintentional pregnancies. Not an unpardonable sin that will doom the impre... | Abortions should be legally and aren't a morally bad thing. They are in fact socially and economically necessary. | 0 | 2017-04-11T23:28:12 | 112 | 1 | 2 |
Having an unusual name can be a blessing or a curse, depending on how you choose to look at it. Of course it's awkward to have to spell or pronounce it correctly every time you meet someone new, but people are far more likely to remember your name. It may seem like a small thing, but it provides you a slight edge when ... | Giving your child a name that people are never going to spell/pronounce correctly is selfish and foolish | 1 | 2017-02-05T03:32:05 | 606 | 3 | 1 |
We don't make decisions based purely on "logic" though, emotions play a role, too. It's the same reason you don't step in front of a little kid at a parade or bulldoze your way to the front of a line. You might think it's simply the "logical" to do, but -to me- being defiant towards a parking spot meant for pregnant wo... | Parking in the expectant mothers spot when you're not one is the logical thing to do if there are no legal consequences. | 1 | 2015-07-24T05:00:37 | 20 | 3 | 6 |
He got revenge on literally everyone who ever wronged him, as far as we can tell. In IV-VI he doesn't seem that active until the end, because by that point he's already won. We see the emperor do even less, for much the same reason. But as soon as Vader decides that Sidious is an enemy, he kills Sidious. It takes, what... | Darth Vader wasn't a good Sith lord whatsoever | 0 | 2015-06-09T22:22:32 | 32 | 2 | null |
What you're suggesting wouldn't add much, if any, value to CMV. Threads like "hot things can burn you thread" don't get nearly as much attention as the threads that are closer to people's hearts. The really active discussions are the ones that inspire people to take a stance, and are inevitably the views that most peo... | I believe that the concept of this subreddit has more potential than any other on the entire site, but it is diluted and dragged down by people that respond purely for the sake of debate, rather than any actual interest or vested opinion of the subject at hand. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-25T16:12:14 | 52 | 2 | 1 |
The 97% statistic is actually a miss-quote of [a specific study](http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024/meta;jsessionid=662BB11AF2BF123A9A3600FBBD2E6C9F.c3.iopscience.cld.iop.org) and therefor a moot point. You aren't wrong in your view, but you are wrong about your reasons. The statistic is spe... | Consensus based arguments against climate skeptics that state "97% of climate scientists agree on human-driven climate change" are stupid | 1 | 2015-11-06T02:31:47 | 81 | 4 | 1 |
those that don't push through it will be less happy. And you base this on what, exactly? Certainly it would be true for some, even many people, but to generalize to such a degree strikes me as presumptuous. i think that whether or not you're introverted, you will have a better time if you make an effort to socialize b... | introversion is unhealthy | 0 | 2014-04-14T23:01:35 | 29 | 3 | 12 |
Disclaimer: in my spare time I am a clown, so I know a bit about people being scared of clowns, and the reasoning behind it. [There were a few movies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095444/) in the [late 80's and early 90's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(1990_film)) that a lot of people saw when they were younger that... | I believe that people who claim to be afraid of clowns are exaggerating and being over dramatic. | 1 | 2014-05-16T17:29:55 | 125 | 228 | 50Δ |
I can think of quite a few straight males that I know who have some stereotypically "gay", flamboyant traits. The thing is, those traits are associated with homosexuality because they are perceived as feminine and straight males are generally discouraged from expressing feminine traits. I personally find overly macho g... | I don't think that flamboyant, over-the-top behaviour is a real characteristic of homossexuality and people who do that are faking or insecure. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-10T23:43:02 | 89 | 1 | 1 |
I mean a guy just saying that on repeat would be a racist, sure. Ok, so do you know agree that "truth" is not automatic defense against the charge of racism? Your OP said "It's not racist if it's true." I have been you an example where, as you agree, a true statement is racist. | It's not racist if it's true. | 1 | 2016-07-12T22:48:01 | 144 | 4 | 121 |
Cmv: every crime should be worthy of life in prison. | There should be stricter punishments for minor laws that a lot of people break | 0 | 2017-06-02T23:40:49 | 92 | 6 | 17 |
You 'try and find out' with a new recipe or prototype engine design. You don't 'try and find out' with the human species. What if you're wrong? What if we end up breeding in mental instability and don't notice until too late? I may not be a genetically enhanced superhuman but I do know that our bodies and brains are a ... | Eugenics isn't all that bad... And we don't even have to kill anyone for it | 1 | 2015-01-07T05:04:51 | 132 | 30 | 6 |
While I agree with the sentiment, I'd like to change your view on your use of 'punishment'. The reason your current solution sounds 'harsh' is because of the retributive justice associated with the charges you mentioned, incarceration, public shaming, etc. A better solution might involve a greater focus on education an... | If you don't vaccinate your kids and harm comes of it, you should be punished. | 0 | 2017-04-11T23:35:31 | 93 | 13 | null |
I think bathroom breaks provide a really similar thing at bars, concerts, etc. With gendered bathrooms and typical interactions now, this only exists for women mostly. But taking a bathroom break together provides a little individual social time. It's a necessary thing you're compelled to do eventually. I've met plenty... | Nothing can replace the social value of smoking tobacco | 1 | 2014-06-10T17:10:24 | 94 | 1 | 15 |
I'll attack a premise from the title that you likely didn't expect to be attackt: Why should the relationship not be allowed when they *do* want to have kids? After all, we don't forbid couples with genetic defects like MS to have kids. So either you need to give genetic screening to couples that might be less than per... | Incest really shouldn't be a problem if it can be reasonably concluded that no power relationship is at play and that the couple agree not to have children | 1 | 2017-01-15T02:27:58 | 57 | 6 | 1 |
If you do most of your gaming with friends online then please PS4 is probably the way to go since it will help you keep up to date with your friends. If you prefer solo gaming then PS3 is probably better to stick with. Games are substantially cheaper and much more plentiful, so even if you only play 2 games now, there... | I should trade in the PS3 and upgrade to PS4. | 1 | 2015-11-18T21:05:46 | 25 | 3 | 52 |
Do you not find sleep pleasurable? I've found that since entering the work force, sleep is one of my greatest guilty sins. Its also got a noticeable healing effect, as when I'm nauseous from travel and too much time on the road, or when I have a significant headache/muscle ache/pain, sleep helps my body recuperate sign... | I hate going to sleep and have to force myself to do it every day. Please CMV about sleep being a waste of time. | 0 | 2016-12-05T18:48:03 | 32 | 1 | 3 |
Costs are a major issue, as someone else pointed out. I have another argument, one on a societal macro scale. Depending on the nation, humans are also breeding at lower rates than we should be and birth rates are dropping dramatically. This isn't good economically and will probably have negative long-term economic cons... | Those who advocate adopting dogs from a pound, rather than a breeder, but choose to have their own children are being hypocritical | 1 | 2017-05-24T02:41:14 | 32 | 1 | 16 |
There are a lot of stereotypes out there that are not intended to be harmful, and are often used by those they describe. I have an Asian friend who will joke about "the Asian parent pressure thing" When I was young, the "Jewish American Princess" meme was big, as were "preppies". And "WASPS" - White Anglo-Saxon Protest... | We should stop describing white girls as “basic” | 1 | 2014-10-02T17:37:50 | 52 | 3 | 90Δ |
First of all, by a Canadian I'm very much angered at the ego of Americans who believe that their's is the most important country on the continent. I want to remind you that we're the second biggest country in the world, and have contributed a lot to technology, art and culture. Secondly, the US was never completely "wh... | The United States of America was/has been until recently a white nation | 1 | 2016-11-02T01:11:08 | 39 | 2 | 3 |
Glad I could help! If I changed your view feel free to give me a delta! | I think people who say "this band saved my life" are delusional and dumb | 1 | 2016-03-14T21:40:57 | 20 | 2 | 5 |
I guess the question is who would be taking them and why? Sure we could design them better than we used to, but they'd still be slower and less maneuverable than a plane or helicopter and way more expensive than a car ride - even though it would often barely (or not even) be faster than one. "Given the large frontal ar... | We should totally bring back airships. | 0 | 2015-07-24T13:56:44 | 52 | 33 | 6 |
Video games. An entirely new art form. | Creativity in "the West"* is stagnant | 1 | 2015-06-14T19:49:43 | 78 | 5 | 49Δ |
It isn't that strange to feel jealousy even if you trust your partner. It's the way you deal with/interpret that feeling that makes all the difference. Namely, can you determine when the jealousy is your fault (irrational) and when it isn't (rational)? For example, let's say I'm in a great relationship with a guy who h... | Being occasionally jealous or uncomfortable with scenarios involving your SO isn't unhealthy, nor does it deem you "irrational" nor "insecure" | 0 | 2017-06-20T17:25:30 | 127 | 12 | null |
You're correct that it's possible because we live in a first-world society where we have a glut of food available. The reason this is correct is because this glut means that the food supply exceeds the demand, thereby leaving room for the lower yields that organic farming produces, because even with the lower yields, w... | I believe organic food production is a dangerous fad that has the potential to cause billions to die of starvation. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-28T21:36:57 | 49 | 29 | 54 |
This is about what's frequent, not what's acceptable. Whether a certain group is frequent should not determine whether stereotypes about them are acceptable. So I'm not sure how this influences my point. For example, jokes about, say, British or French accents seem to be made about non-white *individuals* just as much ... | In the US, the groups that are most acceptable to make stereotypes of are now minority groups who are white, such as Italians or Germans. | 1 | 2017-05-27T19:36:56 | 40 | 2 | 31 |
Pascal's Wager is only valuable for weighing the belief in a given religion, not proving one is true over another outright. The problem with the argument is it is not an argument for existence. The religion being bet on is preemptively established as part of the wager. Thus, the Wager [begs the question](https://en.wi... | Pascal's wager is the best argument for any religion | 0 | 2017-06-08T01:53:20 | 112 | 1 | null |
If you agree that it's a strength, then that falsifies the claim made in your title. But regardless. Grammar is an important aspect of speaking and comprehension. Formulaic structures allow for more efficient parsing and construction of thoughts into communication. Everything else about the language conspires to render... | The only strength of Mandarin Chinese Language is that it is widely spoken. | 1 | 2017-01-16T12:50:57 | 62 | 15 | 14 |
What if people believe there is a plan, but don't like that plan? Aren't they allowed to complain about the plan? Most people acknowledge that governments have plans for particular policy areas, however our acknowledgement of that plan doesn't mean we can't complain about it. I think if a person were to also accept tha... | People who believe in a higher power that gives people a predetermined destiny/fate have no right to complain about a loved one's death (or any other negative event). | 0 | 2017-02-15T12:05:02 | 31 | 2 | 1 |
I really think the best arguments against this are the simplest ones. What if I don't want to? What if I have no interest in talking to the person standing next to me who I don't know? Maybe I have some social problem like anxiety that would be far worse to deal with if I'm forced to interact? How do you get around the... | The simplest, cheapest, most effective way to improve society would be encouraging and participating in more public interaction between strangers | 0 | 2015-05-25T02:48:23 | 64 | 3 | null |
Why should any marks be considered at all then? I agree that many situations can cause problems for a student that reflect poorly in grades, but that can happen at any stage of education. Why must their high school marks be good in order to be considered further? My situation, for example: I had extreme depression in h... | Colleges should consider a student's situation before deciding not to accept someone over poor post secondary marks, assuming their high school marks are good. | 1 | 2015-11-05T18:19:15 | 29 | 9 | 7 |
First of all I am no native speaker and hope I understood everything correctly. But you say social norms are all about fitting in society. And that people that didn't follow these norms had a much better life. That's not correct. People back then weren't educated at all and the whole power and money laid in the hands o... | I think social norms are holding us all back. | 0 | 2017-03-20T16:50:43 | 18 | 1 | null |
First off make sure you understand statistics on the party affiliations: http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/party-affiliation/ And here is a nice info graph to give you an overview on party ideologies: http://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/leftright_US_1416.gif First off, just so you... | If the Republican party was in office in my country, it would become a worse place to live for most of the population | 0 | 2017-04-25T08:39:38 | 158 | -1 | null |
1. You're talking about it. Without events like this, or analogues, the messages in the news could easily become that of contentment, calm, acceptance of the status quo. Short of polling, if people don't make headlines, versions of reality don't get discussed. The protests achieved significant focus on not only Milo an... | The Berkeley protest of Milo Yiannopolous was counterproductive and stupid | 0 | 2017-02-03T00:46:56 | 185 | 3 | 64 |
I respect different tastes, but I can say that you are doing a great injustice to Elric of Melnibone. This saga is one of the most original, different, intriguing examples of fantasy fiction. Almost every "epic" cliche is inverted. Also, it is nıt tiring as ASoFaI, WoT or Malazan series; whole six books have like 1000 ... | Epic Fantasy Novels are Boring Carbon Copies of the Same Monomyth where a simple A + B = C plot, is drawn out over millions of words. | 0 | 2014-06-14T01:58:49 | 78 | 1 | null |
I think the way that I would phrase it is that being a "great actor" is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being *known* as a great actor. It really is necessary that an actor be skilled to be *critically* viewed this way (i.e. viewed this way by people skilled in the art). It's possible, of course, for an ac... | a "good actor" has more to do with writing, directing and overall production than with a particular actor's skills. | 0 | 2014-11-08T20:00:33 | 133 | 1 | 89 |
I would love to write a long response, but I'm running out of time on my lunch break. Others have said it as well, but there are a few key parts that your view does overlook. Even when I was religious, I didn't understand the intense opposition to gay marriage that so many Christians have. There are dozens, maybe hundr... | The active opposition to gay marriage in America cannot be accurately considered a religious belief | 0 | 2015-09-03T20:46:52 | 262 | 3 | null |
I don't mean "trolling" as it has come to be defined in mainstream discourse - i.e. saying something mean is trolling. I mean the classical sense of the word, where you say things you don't necessarily mean for the purpose of getting a particular reaction out of people, and try to push it as far as you can before they ... | There is a non-insubstantial chance that Donald Trump is executing the greatest troll in the history of the world | 0 | 2016-07-19T19:42:23 | 291 | 38 | 1 |
Though this attitude may have been true maybe 50 years ago, it is no longer the case. Toyota is nothing more than a brand now. There is no inherent essence that makes any given Toyota car of higher quality than a Dodge, since the car isn't necessarily made with "Japanese quality." Also, Japan is in an ongoing state of ... | Japanese automobiles are the best in world for quality of production and value for money. American cars are especially inferior products. | 0 | 2016-07-11T05:39:11 | 57 | 1 | null |
Thanks for the detailed response. I mean it. It's appreciated. No problem. I am happy you are being civil and engaging. I am going to limit my response here to your first response about what give something moral status. I am doing this, first, because I think this is the crux of your argument. And second I don't want t... | There is nothing inherently wrong with killing a non-human animal. | 1 | 2015-09-07T00:09:23 | 48 | 8 | 2 |
I can't recommend a precise counterpart. Even if there were one, I probably wouldn't be watching it -- it's just too much politics for me, and I'm not very happy with using video to come up to speed on things. I personally tend to avoid things that I see as either sensational or try to make emotional appeals -- in my v... | The United States of America is socially and legally backwards and should not be emulated by other countries. | 1 | 2017-02-06T22:42:02 | 444 | 7 | 3 |
You could say he glorified gang culture, I would say he portrayed it and actively participated in it in some of his songs but that's not all he did. Many of his more known songs talked about the issues black men went through and how they ended up as thugs, putting them in a humanizing amd sympathetic light. He was also... | Tupac Shakur was a violent rapist who glorified gang culture in his music and never lived up to the 'peace loving messenger' image he's developed today. | 0 | 2014-08-19T19:42:34 | 110 | 2 | null |
Yes, exactly. Almost as if people suddenly realized that he had it right the whole time, they just didn't recognize it. | Parks and Recreation took a serious decline at the beginning of Season 5 and got progressively worse | 1 | 2016-09-17T01:39:41 | 51 | 49 | 2 |
Well I can't show you results on "a majority of trans people", because we don't round them up and perform brain scans on all of them. What I can show is that, when trans people are measured, their brains show actual biological differences from a "normal" male/female. http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/jcem.85.... | The idea of getting a sex change is ridiculous. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-13T00:19:04 | 95 | 2 | 24 |
I'd like to know why and how, as that's what confuses me. Again, I'd like to point out that strictly speaking, this is irrelevant to changing your view. Your view was that it's not possible to enjoy those bars, and it sounds like talking to a living counterexample to that view has changed that view. But stepping aside ... | I don't think it's possible for people to genuinely enjoy themselves in a bar where recorded music is played too loud for conversation to be possible, and that the multitudes of people who subject themselves to this indignity are suffering from a grand delusion or a lack of ambition. CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-18T23:03:58 | 345 | 11 | 2 |
Its a pretty common misconception, but your definitions of atheists and agnostics are a bit off. Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism refers to knowledge. Atheism refers to belief. There are two possibilities for knowledge of something. You can be gnostic or agnostic. Gnostics claim to *know... | True atheism, not agnosticism, and Christianity are both equally illogical theories. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-25T10:31:03 | 90 | 13 | 2 |
It seems unfair to call them spurious when [so much research](http://phys.org/news/2016-01-temperature-co2-emissions.html) shows CO2 levels to be causal for temperature increases. | Global warming is a rounding error | 1 | 2016-07-27T23:27:48 | 57 | 1 | 46 |
While both sexual orientations and fetishes are inborn and unalterable for the most part, sexual orientation tends to govern the fetish. Say you are a male homosexual with an amputation fetish (not kink). To experience sexual attraction for a person, they would not only have to be an amputee, but also male. Another dev... | Heterosexuality and homosexuality are both essentially kinks/fetishes | 1 | 2014-09-13T01:56:59 | 78 | 1 | 2Δ |
So how would you combat this? Put everyone in re-education camps like the Chinese did after WWII? Make everyone think and act the same? If you believe people to be intellectually inferior for believing in God, that's your prerogative, but think about it this way: Your "intelligence" will be diminished by their "enligh... | Claiming that people are allowed to hold whatever religious views they want implies correctness is not important or valuable in society | 1 | 2014-04-17T20:15:47 | 180 | 3 | 1 |
I don't really disagree, but you seem to be taking a bit of an extreme. You mention things like down syndrome, but that is not really a reason to resort to euthanasia. In most cases of a child with and incurable disease, they don't "live their lives in agony" in any way. There are only very few cases where these people... | Letting a fetus with an incurable disease live is morally equivalent to giving an incurable disease to a healthy child | 0 | 2017-04-06T02:01:51 | 374 | 1 | null |
They are asking you to respect their identity. It is not about fitting in better, it is about being true to themself. On your part, if you want to understand, it is about empathy. As an experiment, pick any aspect of your identity and consider how it would feel to be repeatedly called a wrong version. An easy example f... | I believe that people who try to title themselves with some "other" gender simply want attention | 1 | 2015-03-30T09:43:36 | 33 | 3 | 7Δ |
from a business perspective, submitters are by FAR in the extreme minority. 80%+ of the user base are lurkers and dont have accounts. at most, 2-3% are responsible for 80% of all submissions. Page hits are all that matter, if reddit can actively discourage bad content, then thats a win for them. Realistically, VERY fe... | The "you are doing that too much" feature on reddit should not apply to users with registered emails. | 1 | 2016-05-06T22:09:40 | 59 | 51 | 2 |
DO the facts still stand? They put white passage in the 60 percents and other groups lower. The illiteracy rate is 14% for the nation. Presumably it's lower for teachers and lower for comparatively better off ethnic groups. Are we sure this is actually a literacy test? Might it be better described as an English profici... | There is no rational argument for doing away with the New York teacher literacy tests. | 0 | 2017-03-15T17:41:11 | 435 | 3 | 11 |
I guess I look at it this way- there have absolutely been times when gun ownership, or carrying weapons on ones person in general was more prevalent than it is today. Those time periods/places did not enjoy lower rates of violent death. Consider the "wild west." Obviously it wasn't nearly as full of gun battles as the... | I think the Paris shooting makes a good case for culture of responsible gun ownership any carrying. | 1 | 2015-01-08T07:10:46 | 147 | 3 | 1 |
The reasoning in Pascal's Wager is fundamentally broken, this is pretty trivial to demonstrate... Eg: There is a non-zero chance that planting lilies in your yard will attract a fairy which will grant you infinite happiness, therefore we should all plant lilies. Eg: Any rule postulated to give an infinite benefit with ... | I believe that you, die-hard atheists, would be doing a good thing if you instilled faith into your children. | 0 | 2015-05-18T02:45:34 | 55 | 2 | null |
It depends on what you take satisfaction from. For example, I hated high school. But I'd say in a heartbeat that it was worth doing. I'd never get a good job that I actually get satisfaction from if I didn't complete high school. | If you don't take satisfaction in what you do, what you do isn't worth doing. | 0 | 2015-05-30T18:51:46 | 104 | 1 | null |
I don't think Trump will maintain his lead. It is far, far too early to tell who is going to end up the nominee, especially with so many people running. Trump is running less than 30% in the polls, and is such a polarizing figure that if you're not backing Trump now, you aren't going to start backing him later. Right n... | Donald Trump's lead in the polls can be explained quite simply... He's the best candidate Republicans have to offer | 0 | 2015-09-24T15:21:41 | 94 | 1 | 5 |
Upon further examination of your idea, Your first and second language idea is sound. Then again you need to figure out how you're doing your send language instruction. Are you going to go immersion? Then you will need to train and recruit the teachers that can do that. There are already some school experimenting with ... | I feel like math, philosophy, first and second language and IT should be the only course taught to children until 4th grade. | 0 | 2015-03-26T05:19:00 | 46 | 2 | 32Δ |
Have you ever heard percussion led music? It is awesome. Try youtubing "safri duo - played-a-live" (rather old danish band - i would put in a link but i'm on my phone). Anyway.. i have played piano for my entire life as well and while I enjoy that I would have loved to play the drums as well. The problem was that my pa... | It is weird to choose to learn a rhythm instrument | 0 | 2014-10-16T07:44:40 | 30 | 3 | 7 |
The grading is qualitative, rather than quantitative. This means you're forced to take a class with the risk of lowering your GPA based on subjective standards for art set by the teacher. Grading in all classes have both qualitative and quantitative parts. I'm a grader for a biology class, and there is a large amount o... | Fine Arts credits should not be required to graduate high school. | 1 | 2014-12-10T11:32:50 | 50 | 14 | 15 |
I cannot think of another sport where in a million years a rando would have any chance at all of having any success at an olympic level without training. * Any race in which your competitors trip and fall catastrophically. [Like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAADWfJO2qM) (Or drown, I suppose, in the case of swi... | Shooting based sports should not be part of the Olympics | 1 | 2016-08-16T22:15:45 | 40 | 5 | 9 |
I don't think the right would describe themselves as selfish. I'm not saying they are not selfish, but they certainly don't all have selfish intents. Some right people would see some on the left as selfish - particularly the thought that people want to come after what they perceive they have worked hard to get. They s... | The right is inherently selfish | 1 | 2017-05-23T10:46:01 | 194 | 5 | 1 |
Piano Man, Don't Stop Believin', Sweet Caroline. There needs to be one, absolutely iconic line or moment that every single person in the bar is going to sing along to no matter what they're doing. | "Stacy's Mom" is the best karaoke song ever written. | 0 | 2015-11-11T19:18:52 | 65 | 1 | null |
Would you also stamp every US army uniform with "Made by the Exploited Prison Workers (Slaves?) of the United States" rather than simply "Made in the USA"? Prisoners regularly make under $1/h, receive no health and safety protection, no vacation days or overtime pay, and receive no union protection. Addressing your ma... | 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." | 0 | 2014-10-15T04:02:19 | 57 | 5 | 8 |
Yes, and no. Obviously it's possible to reduce the damage of your diet without being absolutist. The difference between three burgers and one is twice as large as the difference between one and none. But either way, your own diet is insignificant. Veganism doesn't work because it reduces one person's consumption, it wo... | Someone can eat meat and still help effectively reduce animal suffering. | 1 | 2016-07-30T21:11:37 | 291 | 185 | 17 |
If a vaccination will cause injury to an individual due to allergies or immune deficiency, then they should be exempt. While I agree, you should be informed there are other medical conditions that effect vaccinations. Some medical conditions, most layman would not anticipate interacting with vaccines. My Dad had Guilla... | Vaccinations should be compulsory for all persons living in my society (USA, but applicable to all western countries). religious reasons should not be acceptable reasons to get out of it. CMV | 1 | 2013-09-26T08:40:04 | 208 | 1 | 3 |
Simply put: NYC, objectively, does not suck. Most everything you said about the cost, crowdedness, cleanliness, smell, climate, etc. is true. Often, when I lived there, I let those things get to me and thought it sucked. That would mean NYC sometimes sucked, subjectively, which anyone could say about any city. But here... | NYC sucks | 1 | 2015-07-15T18:28:57 | 328 | 38 | null |
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