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the computational complexity analysis of data structures and algorithms is all completely mathematical, completely unrelated to the real world. Actually this is false. Take a look at amortized time. Also, it sounds like testing and benchmarking would satisfy some of what you're asking about, no? Either way, I think yo... | I believe Computer Science is a poorly named major. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-17T22:22:10 | 58 | 8 | null |
Imagine that you're hiring a teacher, and your interview strategy is to pick random entries from the times tables, and rate the teacher on how quickly they answer (e.g., you are testing to make sure that they have memorized the times tables from 1x1 to 12x12). 100 years ago, when teachers used to administer oral exams,... | 'Whiteboard' interviews are an appropriate way to hire programmers | 0 | 2017-03-01T18:57:25 | 42 | 6 | null |
Sanders says his plan will cut healthcare spending by $6 trillion over 10 years but does not say how. Simple a lot of the cost of healthcare is just inflation because they can charge more and to cover the people who can't pay. All it takes is to make health care a single payer system and prices can be negotiated better... | Bernie Sanders' healthcare plan is not realistic. | 0 | 2016-01-21T20:23:33 | 197 | 3 | null |
Performance is inherently compositional (in the sense that it's creating a new sound; more on how I don't think this is *actually* all of what compositional means later) in most genres of music, because every musician trained differently. If I ever got to a level where I was playing Steve Vai or Joe Satriani songs, I w... | Music performance isn't nearly as creative a pursuit as composition | 0 | 2016-07-19T21:56:58 | 29 | 2 | 7 |
1. You said you want to know if daycares can beat moms. That's a tough question because there is such a huge range of both mothers and day cares. However, from experience as a preschool teacher and having studied this topic for my Master's, I can confidently say that a child's development is largely influenced by their... | I think mothers should stay at home with their children until they are in elementary school, in lieu of day care | 0 | 2016-08-29T00:17:11 | 127 | 7 | null |
You seem to be confusing the definitions of sex and gender, and the markers of those words when applied to people. You talk about 'males' and 'women' in the same sentence, for example. It should be clarified that 'sex' is the biological category which you are assigned at birth. 'Gender' is the social category you assig... | Being attracted to transgender woman as a male makes you homosexual. (and vice-versa) | 1 | 2016-09-17T15:18:52 | 49 | 5 | 1 |
I'm in my 20's and I'm married to a woman I've been with for almost 8 years now (married for 1). We explore life together, we live together, we both work and help support each other, and my life is incredibly enriched because she's in my life. | Waiting until your 30s for a meaningful relationship is the best way to live | 1 | 2016-06-06T21:54:44 | 65 | 7 | 1 |
Historically both the right and left have been very violent in extremes. While facist Germany under Hitler killed 10 million people, communist Russia under Stalin killed 20 million people in their great leap forward, and later Mao's great leap forward kill 45 million people in just 4 years. Throughout history it has be... | The political right is more violent than the left. | 0 | 2017-02-28T21:46:50 | 77 | 11 | 1 |
I think personally that your idea is a bit one-sided. Yes in the younger years not growing up within a classroom can stigmatize someone, but I think after 8th grade especially, there is nothing to be gained by being left in a brick-and-mortared school. I was given the decision to be homeschooled after the end of 8th gr... | Homeschooling is child abuse | 1 | 2016-02-23T20:19:53 | 60 | 2 | 1 |
Define "cognitive flaw" without utilizing concepts in philosophy. Go! Also, how do you know your words are meaningful without philosophy? So I challenge the OP to demonstrate that his/her entire argument is meaningful without any philosophy of language. I mean, why are your words meaningful at all? Where does all that... | Biological fitness is the end goal of any rational human | 0 | 2017-03-04T12:58:29 | 104 | 1 | null |
If everybody were allowed the right to deny orders because of their beliefs, and a certain belief became very popular, and that belief was against something that was truly needed, nobody would supply it. Having no right to deny orders based on your beliefs is a way for business owners to be excused from the responsibil... | Businesses should not be forced to serve customers if the order is contrary to their beliefs. | 0 | 2014-12-21T01:07:00 | 125 | 7 | 1 |
So is your view that ONLY ethical vegetarians must become Vegan, or ALL vegetarians become Vegan? I'm striving to reduce my meat consumption, and possibly someday, could see myself going Vegetarian. Probably never Vegan. Because as far as the ethical concern for animals goes, it's at the bottom of reasons. I believe t... | All vegetarians will either eventually become vegans or they are lying about how much they truly care for animals' welfare. | 1 | 2016-01-25T16:28:37 | 315 | 13 | 17 |
First, I'm confused why you would choose TRP of all things, there's less misogynic groups that are trying to tackle men's issues. I'm personally a big fan of /r/menslib ([and it's not like feminists don't care](https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/3tn9kc/a_list_of_feminist_resources_tackling_mens_issues/) despite ... | I think the Red Pill is mostly correct about women and society. | 1 | 2016-03-27T15:46:00 | 1,628 | 101 | 1 |
For a truly committed (act) Utilitarian, what is right is that action which would maximize expected net happiness. Suicide is acceptable on this account just as much as mass murder or genocide, if it happened to lead to the maximum expected net happiness. That isn't really much of a defense of suicide per se. And it is... | In certain circumstances, suicide is an acceptable option | 0 | 2017-03-07T20:41:49 | 51 | 1 | 51 |
you say "owning pets", and this includes adopting animals that already exist... how is that morally wrong? To give a better home to an animal is morally wrong? I will agree breeding animals and buying them is morally wrong, but adopting animals should not be lumped in with this. | Owning pets is morally wrong | 0 | 2017-02-25T05:28:39 | 38 | 1 | 1 |
We should **all** be concerned about warrantless intrusions into our affairs. There's a great book called "[Three Felonies a Day](http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229)" where the author describes how the average American commits far more crimes than they are aware of. Maybe you're not ... | Why should i care if i get tapped by a company such as NSA if i dont have anything to hide? | 0 | 2013-12-20T22:14:00 | 98 | 24 | null |
There's a very simple and compelling reason why teachers should complain about their jobs more publicly than anyone else. The reason is that teachers, unlike nurses or janitors or you, are public employees, ultimately dependent on winning votes to change their conditions. You might say that this is true about janitors... | I believe that teachers, in general, complain too much about their profession, CMV. | 1 | 2013-11-12T19:54:40 | 151 | 57 | 2 |
I was raised in a christian household as a kid. Once i got to my senior year of high school, although my parents raised me to go to church bi weekly, and read the bible and pray, and all the other stuff that goes along with being a devout christian, they also realized that i was an individual with individual thoughts a... | Children should not be raised religiously | 0 | 2015-02-25T21:31:12 | 765 | 1 | null |
You can't cheat a single player hobby, and if that's what you're looking to get out of it, your view isn't something that can be 'changed'. I personally wouldn't use the box, especially when it comes to each individual piece. It seems like that would kind of defeat the purpose. To take it a bit further. If I took a pi... | When working on a jigsaw puzzle, looking at the picture on the box is not cheating. | 1 | 2016-09-06T07:20:30 | 73 | 7 | 2 |
Trump is (hopefully) an isolated phenomenon. To start, he won the primary of a fractured and disjointed party. The Republican Party, at best, is really like two or three different parties struggling under one banner. He didn't really win the primary as a mandate from a core of Republicans as much as he had the numerica... | Win or lose, Donald Trump has drastically altered American political culture for the worse, and opened the door to all kinds of batshit insanity in the future | 1 | 2016-09-26T16:32:07 | 690 | 269 | 2 |
We elect representatives to represent us. If the country is mostly Christian, then why would you expect an Atheist to represent them? Perhaps Christianity says that X is important, but there's no secular justification for that. Maybe the politicians will be willing to do their job and support X even if they think it's ... | People who follow any religion shouldn't be eligible to hold public office. | 0 | 2016-08-05T08:45:02 | 49 | 1 | null |
All of the negatives you listed for Cruz are common to a lot of the GOP right now. I'm not saying that they're fantastic policies, but they're not unusual within the current political atmosphere. Many congressional republicans have no qualms about obstructionism. Repealing Obamacare is, as far as I know, a policy that... | Ted Cruz would be worse for the US than Trump | 1 | 2016-04-16T21:05:35 | 144 | 333 | 7 |
It is repulsive to me we're so far into the American decline that you are willing to openly express the desire for a monarch. And while you might perceive this to be a criticism of you personally I state that it isn't and hope you don't take it as such. I want to try and change your view but all I feel is a battery of ... | The American political system is a huge failure. We need one person who has absolute power in order to advance. | 0 | 2015-11-05T21:03:16 | 156 | 0 | 10 |
The real reason why they don't read is that <... they are somewhat ashamed at their own reading level and are conscious of their inability to access books beyond a 'teen fiction' level. Shame doesn't form on it's own. If school played some role in the development of this shame, then it is completely accurate to blam... | People who claim to have had literature/reading 'spoilt' for them at school are either being disingenuous or do not understand literature. | 1 | 2017-04-14T12:45:47 | 86 | 7 | 3 |
Economically and socially, not having children when you have the means to raise them is a far more selfish act. First, let's focus the discussion on the US, since that is where I assume you live. After all, most of those 150 million orphans cannot be easily or legally adopted into the US, and those 800 million starving... | I think it's a selfish motive to purposely try to have children. | 1 | 2015-06-17T06:54:19 | 28 | 6 | 51Δ |
This is a catch 22. Because what if you have C, who is a woman born a woman who thinks that people who were born men (B) and people who transitioned to men (A) should both be using the men's room. She doesn't want to share a bathroom with a trans man. So you'd either violate B's rights or C's rights. | Protections enabling transgendered people to choose the bathroom of the gender they identify with removes that protection for other people. | 0 | 2017-02-23T16:14:26 | 401 | 1 | 1 |
When you lock doors, it's making stealing more difficult for thieves. Police who advise people to lock doors are essentially saying "Don't make it easy for thieves". When you dress non-slutty, you aren't making it harder for rapists. Unless you are talking about some medieval chastity belt, all clothes are easy enough ... | Telling someone to watch what they drink/wear (to avoid getting raped) is no different than telling someone to lock their door (to avoid getting robbed) | 1 | 2016-05-03T23:08:00 | 363 | 25 | 5 |
When I get home I will make a longer reply... But one short answer can be found by comparing citizens to family. Would you say it would be OK to allow people that aren't part of your family to help govern your family? Say your neighbors decided that your family is no longer allowed to use phones... Or the internet... W... | You should have to pass the citizenship test to vote in the US | 0 | 2015-05-10T02:58:14 | 95 | 2 | 1Δ |
Can I ask what you mean by 'the oral tradition of mythology'? Because you seem to just be talking about religion. Mythology and oral traditions are not necessarily religious. | The oral tradition of mythology, and the surrounding celebrations is something that has no secular equivalent. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-07T08:28:56 | 25 | 1 | 1 |
Just to reiterate what everyone else is saying - Those 7 hours make the 12 or so waking hours objectively more efficient in every way (mentally and physically). This has been empirically demonstrated. You seem to intellectually recognize this at some level, but don't really accept it. Why? | 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 | 2016-12-06T06:42:32 | 32 | 1 | null |
Okay, JamesDK. I am a teacher. How would my commission-based pay work? Do I get a commission every time a student of mine gets an A? Awesome, A's for everyone! Do I get one every time a student gets an F? F's for everyone! Clearly, basing it on grades don't work. Okay, standardized tests, right? I mean, they're good en... | I think that all employees should be paid (at least partially) on commission. CMV. | 1 | 2013-10-22T05:17:54 | 37 | 1 | 11 |
The movies were better, the television was better, the music was way better, the toys & games were far superior to what exists now All those things are still around now, so kids today have access to all of that, plus everything since then (Avatar, Teen Titans and Adventure Time are awesome shows, to name a few) | Being a kid in the US, in the '80s, was superior in nearly every way, to being a kid now. | 1 | 2015-06-12T23:03:25 | 54 | 6 | null |
You seem most concerned about a boss being on you. You won't have a direct boss, but you will have other people you are selling to which are often worse than bosses. What is it about working for someone you don't like? Many people need the boss to keep them on track and deal with all the paperwork so that the person t... | NO! I won't work for others until I am 70 years old, before this, I'll build my own farm/homestead, I hope to build one and get money from the land in order not to slave away before retirement. | 0 | 2016-09-08T18:05:57 | 84 | 2 | null |
Many are not. | I believe humans are naturally selfish, and any act of kindness is simply to boost their own ego. | 1 | 2016-09-13T17:48:17 | 52 | 14 | 2 |
I don't want to require "love" beforehand because that seems unfortunately incompatible with my generation. I think this is the best place to change your view. You have had two long term relationships and had your heart broken. You've seen that sex can involve a true bonding emotional experience, where you can connect ... | [25/M] finds sexual pasts gross, does not enjoy sex as a purely physical act, requires "love." Help me fix this. [mildly NSFW?] | 1 | 2014-09-02T17:47:08 | 21 | 11 | null |
Two party machine- The two party machine in the U.S is the precursor to any discussion of swing states. The reason why there are only a few swing states is that the two parties have built up reliable enough voting blocks to have their set wall of states mostly in place. Those voting blocks will likely hold in direct po... | Arguments to dump the Electoral College are seriously misguided | 0 | 2017-05-18T21:19:04 | 106 | 1 | null |
[Older fathers have a higher chance of having kids with mental illnesses.](http://time.com/10539/more-bad-news-for-older-dads-increased-risk-of-kids-with-mental-illness/) A father over 45 has a 3.5 greater chance of having a child with autism. This is in addition to a 25 times higher chance of having a child with bipol... | For a man, having a child in his 40s is not a problem. | 1 | 2016-09-11T17:05:54 | 57 | 33 | 15 |
It's hard to say without seeing the skin first hand, but (if my assumptions were right on everything else other than hair color) hypothetically... I suggest using a cream-based cleanser - something very gentle on the skin. No more than once every five days. Wash it at night, as your skin type (if my guesses are right) ... | Shampoo and special body wash products are unnecessary. | 1 | 2015-07-11T04:02:39 | 30 | 6 | 3 |
This is different from the broken window fallacy because the money isn't simply spent and lost. It creates something lasting that goes on to help more people in the future. Money spent on one person's treatment now night be the reason more lives are saved down the road. | People who require expensive medication to survive are objectively, quantifiably worth less than people who do not. | 1 | 2016-08-31T06:09:32 | 130 | 2 | 66 |
Have you read [this page](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html) on what living with depression is like? Depression isn't just being sad. Its an actual chemical imbalance in the brain that actually affects what emotions you can feel. There are hormones that regulate your emotions, ... | People with depression are really just over dramatic and ungrateful | 1 | 2014-06-05T20:18:54 | 37 | 12 | 127Δ |
As we come closer to a more optimal society, we have to deal with smaller issues. We're not going "way overboard", we're just examining progressively smaller things that could be contributing to worldwide sorrow levels. We get that gut feeling of "oh, fuck you" and we will more and more because these smaller things (li... | We've gone way overboard lately with PC-ness and the Social Justice movement. | 0 | 2015-07-12T05:06:03 | 138 | 0 | null |
She could be a role model, indirectly. Showing that even people in the spotlight who are generally considered "normal" can be transgender and get reassignment treatments. Although I agree that she sucks at promoting the organized movement, she shows that speaking publicly about who you truly are doesnt necessarily mean... | Caitlyn Jenner is a terrible spokeswoman and role model for Trans people | 1 | 2017-04-27T00:47:42 | 99 | 42 | 3 |
I understand where you are coming from. I visited Paris a few months ago and the gypsy mobs were terrible. One actually attacked my mother because I helped an America tourist avoid one of their scams. My mum is tiny, so I'm guessing this is why she was targeted as opposed to 5'10'' athletic me. Anytime I saw them, I fe... | I believe gypsies are bad for Europe and should not be welcomed in other countries. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-01T19:59:54 | 84 | 24 | 8 |
EDIT: THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER! edit: rip my inbox. Islam is repugnant, and goes against every principle of common decency in which I believe. which islam? im guessing right away you are talking about "takfiri salafi wahabi islamism". 99% of all Muslims in Afghanistan believe that Sharia Law supersedes stat... | Islam is a repugnant religion which has no place in civilized society. As a person who subscribes to a very left-wing/liberal ideology, my hatred of Islam is consistent with the rest of my beliefs. Those who support Islam are not truly left-wing and are hypocrites. | 1 | 2017-02-28T11:49:26 | 783 | 660 | 4 |
I think the essential flaw in your thesis is the notion that belief in the existence of a higher power precludes acceptance of evidence-based ways of gaining knowledge. Probably the most widely known example of this is Deism -- the "God as watchmaker" view of the universe. Many people, in fact, most people in the US, i... | All religious debate between atheists and theists is pointless. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-10T17:17:45 | 29 | 1 | null |
It's about policy and mechanism. It's *relatively* easy for the existing government to enact policy using the mechanisms set up in the constitution. It's similarly easy to change policy if the policy doesn't work, becomes unpopular or enough key legislators get bribed to do so. This is more or less a good thing, as pol... | The U.S. Constitution isn't nearly as great a document as it's made out to be, especially in the modern day. Making it as hard as it is to amend is a spectacularly disastrous oversight by the Founding Fathers. | 0 | 2015-07-06T20:36:32 | 332 | 1 | 1 |
Chances are, if you have access to Reddit and speak English, you live in the industrialized world. Chances are you also spend time every day just working on your appearance. You probably shower, comb your hair, shave, etc. Why is this important? Becuause being presentable has an impact on your life. You can't keep a jo... | Facial and body piercings have no practical purpose. | 0 | 2016-11-16T09:20:47 | 26 | 1 | 2 |
You are focusing only on the consequences (really only maximizing hedons) for the person being plugged in. However, what of the consequences for family, friends, society as a whole? Certainly kidnapping the world's top AIDS researcher wouldn't be justified, even though he would maximize his own happiness. Also, assume ... | Kidnapping someone and forcibly connecting them to the experience machine is morally justified. | 0 | 2014-08-11T20:42:22 | 58 | 9 | 7Δ |
Oregon has gone blue in every election since Reagan’s victory in 1984. It is an overwhelmingly safe bet that my state’s 7 electoral votes will belong to Hillary Clinton. I agree. However, Gore only won Oregon by 0.44%; a sizeable turnout for Nader actually had a pretty sizeable impact in your state in 2000. So, yes, yo... | Trump would be a disaster, Hillary is our only option, third-party “protest” votes are indefensible, but I should cast a protest vote because I live in a state where my vote doesn’t matter. | 1 | 2016-10-01T08:06:49 | 77 | 2 | 2 |
"I don't understand what goes on in other people's heads?" But that is not a view anyone will ever be able to change. It is currently impossible to identically experience what another person experiences. | Monosexuality is a Lie | 1 | 2016-10-04T22:28:23 | 125 | 2 | 129 |
[This XKCD comic](https://xkcd.com/1227/) is one of my absolute favorites, and does a great job of adding a little context to the phenomenon you're describing. I think the "shortened attention span" problem is just a common complaint people have made throughout the course of history as technology progresses, though rea... | I think humans' attention spans are getting too short, and it will become a real problem. | 0 | 2016-08-30T23:50:05 | 24 | 1 | null |
I don't think there is some single entity controlling all media like some Orwellian dystopia, but I think we have a lot of evidence of journalists of similar political leanings discussing and colluding about stories in ways that would qualify as pushing an agenda. Take the [JournoList scandal](http://en.wikipedia.org/w... | There is no media "agenda", just average people reporting on what sells. | 1 | 2015-05-31T10:38:56 | 42 | 20 | 51Δ |
Well, why not make it 4 years old ? You would answer that that's different. So how is it different ? We're really talking about degrees of personal responsibility here. People learn about personal responsibility as they get older and wiser. A 4 year old has no real ability to conceptualize the repercussions of a gambl... | The gambling age should be 16. (U.S.A.) | 0 | 2014-12-12T17:32:59 | 23 | 1 | 1 |
Blacks have significantly higher rates of criminality (assault, theft and homicide just to name some) than white people, disproportionate to how they are outnumbered 5-to-1 by whites. Is that a statistic on people arrested and charged for crimes, or people committing crimes? Because if it's the latter, it's kinda a poi... | Black people need to begin accepting their own responsibility for their problems; it is black criminality/culture that is causing the black community's problems, NOT white racism. [Serious] | 1 | 2016-04-27T17:12:49 | 802 | 10 | 1 |
Emotion is basically just animal instincts. Logic is what makes us human. Fear, happiness, love, anger, animals experience all of these. Only humans have risen above the rest of the creatures on this planet because of our logic. If someone makes you mad, emotion("passion") might lead you to use violence against them. I... | Emotion is more important than Logic | 0 | 2014-04-01T11:14:59 | 58 | 0 | 2 |
A majority of all reddit content is meant to be entertaining, not politically controversial. That extends to pretty much all of the default subs, all the porn subs, most of the niche interest subs, etc. Abolishing the vote system would skew the 99% of non-political subs for some questionable benefit to the political on... | The voting system on reddit has outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. | 1 | 2017-03-09T23:05:24 | 24 | 8 | 15 |
Whatever the system of elections, there's ALWAYS a way to game the system. The Founding Fathers were not creating a country, they were trying to tie together 13 countries. This is why there is a Senate (equal representation among STATES, even if one has 500,000 people and one has 35,000,000. The welfare of the larger ... | Abolishing the Electoral College Would Only Make Elections Worse | 1 | 2017-01-25T04:39:44 | 30 | 21 | 1 |
Awarding a delta: Reply to the user(s) who changed your view in some way with ∆ included in your comment, which can be copied above or created using one of the following: &#8710; (unicode - remember the semi-colon! - Windows, Mac, Linux, and Smartphones) Option/Alt+J (Mac) Ctrl&Shift+u2206 (Linux) | Using the second amendment as reasoning for not controlling guns is ridicules | 1 | 2016-04-08T18:31:33 | 53 | 1 | 9 |
Ineffective? Yes. Indoctrination? Maybe. Problem? No. Each society has development knowledge which contributes to the prosperity of the society. A very practical example is sex education that prevents disease and unwanted pregnancies. The indoctrination is clear: becoming pregnant is bad and getting STD's is bad, so pl... | Education is ineffective at best and indoctrination at worst. | 0 | 2014-05-22T12:52:40 | 29 | 2 | null |
Saying "I'm a nice guy" is like a restaurant having a commercial that says "Our tables are all very clean, and we promise you won't get food poisoning." If that's the most prominent positive trait you can list, no wonder no one is interested. People will go to the restaurant down the street with a health rating of "D" ... | Girls hate nice guys. | 0 | 2017-03-08T06:59:49 | 250 | 12 | 22 |
Some actions are reflexive or instinctual, and involve no prior thought. Sometimes saving someone's life falls into this category of action. How can it be selfish, if there is no selfish thought process motivating the action? If my daughter next to me slips on some ice, I will reflexively grab her to prevent her from ... | All humans are selfish | 1 | 2017-02-07T20:26:28 | 123 | 4 | 24 |
would that not explain why you are required to take three times the amount of math courses as art courses? | Fine Arts credits should not be required to graduate high school. | 1 | 2014-12-10T11:36:18 | 50 | 4 | 1 |
I think I understand what you mean, as I also find the notion of "pride" in anything, sexuality or race, to be kind of pointless. That said, I do think what they are ACTUALLY going for is "dignity". To be able to say "This is who I am, I'm not going to hide it, and I'm not a lesser human being because of it." It is tr... | Being LGBT is nothing to be proud of | 1 | 2016-09-03T21:05:56 | 112 | 8 | 2 |
Not to mention it has prevented me from partaking in many bbqs worth of potato, macaroni, and tuna salads over the years! Isn't Mayo one of the main ingredients in everything that you just listed? You have no right to complain about the fact that one of the main ingredients to the salad is present in the salad. Oth... | Mayo is EVIL, and should come on the side! | 0 | 2016-10-03T22:31:47 | 52 | 3 | null |
This sort of reminds me of the whole 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' argument. As in people will kill people whether they have religion/guns or not. People can be downright monsters, religious or not, we've had Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin demonstrate that extremely well. You sound like you believe tha... | I believe religion is the single most tragic thing to have happened to the human species. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-26T00:40:26 | 62 | 3 | 3Δ |
The reason why eating dogs is seen as taboo compared to other animals is because dogs have a unique relationship with humans. It's not just that they are common pets. Dogs are the only animals, besides humans, that will look in the eyes non-threateningly. And dogs only do this with humans (they avoid eye contact with o... | People complain about the chinese dog festival (Yulin) but not about all the other animals that we, westerners eat, that's hypocrisy. | 1 | 2016-06-19T18:47:19 | 502 | 27 | 1 |
For example, it is not lying to deliver a speech on your expectations for a final product, and then fail to deliver on those expectations. Product design rarely meets expectations and the design goals necessarily change over the development cycle. This is an instance of changing your mind. I don't think anyone is sugg... | Lying is an intentional masking of the truth of your intent. It is not saying one thing then doing another. | 0 | 2016-09-05T22:50:56 | 44 | 1 | null |
I don't think 9 unelected judges have the right to impinge their opinion in a certain sense. The judges are appointed by democratically elected officials (the president and the senate). Would you rather the judges be elected by the people? Because the need to campaign for re-election would make the justices more biase... | The Supreme Court of the US has too much power | 0 | 2016-03-11T22:42:28 | 70 | 2 | 27 |
The biggest argument against it is that it would be unconstitutional. It would essentially require you to get the permission of a private company in order to exercise a Constitutional right. If you can't afford the premium, you would be denied a right without due process of law, which would be a violation of both your ... | Gun owners in America should be required to insure their weapons | 1 | 2015-12-16T23:28:29 | 146 | 10 | 13 |
There was once a guy called B.F. Skinner who experimented on pigeons. He fed them at regular intervals using an automated feeding system. What he found was, over time the birds had begun to think that the certain movements they made in their cages were responsible for the food being produced. In reality there was no ph... | CMV : Masturbating is a sin. | 1 | 2014-09-03T22:55:17 | 64 | 1 | 15 |
There's a lot of racist cultural stereotypes around black people, and black women. Those stereotypes shape things like what the mainstream finds attractive. However, unless the skin lightening product can actually disguise a black girl as an alternative ethnicity, I don't think it will impact on an individual's chance... | The depressing okcupid/dating studies tells black women we should use skin bleaching creams to lighten our skin if we want to find a date. | 0 | 2016-02-25T08:07:30 | 168 | 1 | 4 |
The money goes to 'terrorists' when it could go to the government That is an argument not to do the drugs and fund 'the terrorists'... Try telling a heroin addict to stop using because they're funding terrorists. Do you really think that people are gonna just stop doing drugs because of that? They aren't, people are al... | Illegal drugs should stay illegal. | 0 | 2014-05-21T09:17:02 | 96 | 1 | 1 |
So long as it happens before the fetus has a mind, it is not a person and aborting it is not murder. If you classify any action that prevents a person who doesn't exist from existing one day as murder, then not having sex every day is murder. (ok, this is an extreme, but you see where I'm going) The very bottom line is... | I think abortion is wrong. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-04T13:18:46 | 111 | 5 | 2 |
I don't think a majority of people *do* advocate UBI as an end goal. It's always a means to something. Even in an environment where more radical change is available (and takes a desirable form, rather than being radical in the currently-popular "strongly reactionary" sense), if that change does not actually render UBI ... | Universal basic income will, in the long term, entrench inequality | 1 | 2017-05-01T14:22:06 | 102 | 3 | 8 |
Elizabeth and Catherine are good examples of female power however they are not the dictator type like I have given in the examples. I'm not sure I understand your clarification at all. Both Catherine and Queen Victoria were dictators, they were the supreme rulers of their respective countries. Catherine specfically mas... | Even if society was egalitarian or even matriarchal, women would never be able to achieve the likes of Alexander, Napoleon, Bismarck, Hitler etc | 0 | 2016-11-01T07:23:49 | 28 | 6 | 158 |
I'd generally say that a line should be drawn at views based on hatred or bigotry against another person or group of people for innate characteristics about them, thus allowing a statement like "I hate liberals/conservatives" while banning a statement like "I hate blacks/Jews". I'd say my political identity - for me, a... | Openly bigoted subreddits should be shut down and openly racist Reddit users should be banned | 1 | 2015-04-26T00:12:40 | 29 | 6 | 13Δ |
Don't get totally hammered right away, start by having 2 or 3 drinks, see how it goes, maybe the next weekend you have 4... honestly there's really no need to get "drunk", ideally you want to hover around some intermediate stage like "buzzed" or "tipsy", like you've had enough where you're talking confidently to member... | Getting drunk on purpose is an irresponsible decision | 0 | 2014-08-05T05:45:55 | 66 | 1 | null |
Let me address your views on protectionism. It is well known that free trade causes winners and losers within countries. In the past few decades, the winners have tended to be wealthier and the losers have been working class folks. It is also well known that in cash terms, winners win more than losers lose. What may be... | US should move to the left on economics. | 0 | 2017-03-22T18:20:41 | 115 | 1 | null |
Well, let's say that you're a 55-year-old coal miner. Maybe graduated from high school. Been mining since you were 20. You'd probably normally want to work for another decade or so. I agree that your "go out and build relevant skills" position is one that makes sense for anyone entering the system. But if you're 55...e... | I have no sympathy left for Americans who refuse to adapt to new socioeconomic realities but voted Trump in. | 0 | 2017-01-25T06:43:09 | 52 | 1 | 3 |
I believe the SEALS were there with Plan A being to capture him. Why can't we take him, alive, The official story states Plan A went out the window because Bin Laden went for a weapon, and there's no easy way to go from armed with an AK47 to in handcuffs without anyone getting hurt. If it was just a kill job, I imagi... | Osama bin Laden should've been tried | 0 | 2014-04-21T11:47:05 | 165 | 4 | null |
Your reasons 1 and 2 only really matter if you assume that cockroaches are bad. If you are neutral or positive to cockroaches, then they are not negatives. Personally, I wouldn't give a shit if cockroaches are hanging out in my kitchen. The trail they leave is toxic and can lead to asthma, especially in children. They... | Cockroaches are objectively the worst creatures in the world | 0 | 2017-02-10T07:46:56 | 38 | 9 | 85 |
Yeah, Mario is the best selling video game series ever... *followed by Pokémon*. Slight difference: the first Mario game was launched in 1985; the first Pokémon game came 11 years later. If you put them side by side, Mario and Pokémon sold respectively 260 million and 230 million copies of their main series games (whic... | Pokémon needs an entirely new battle system | 1 | 2017-04-15T05:15:29 | 34 | 5 | 16 |
Capitalism harnesses greed to propel the economy and individuals forwards. This is absurd to me. Forwards to what? The Koch brothers are not obligated to respect the needs of others. What makes them special? Why is it that my actions must (to some degree) respect the needs of others or else there are severe consequen... | I think it is absurd to demonize the wealthy for persuing their own personal interests at the cost of the masses. | 1 | 2015-09-06T00:37:42 | 85 | 4 | 1 |
First off I would like to thank you for taking a first step. I think you still have a lot of maturing to do based on your post but hopefully I can help you realize that there are always two reasonable sides to a story . I am going to keep these short and sweet but let me know if you would like me to go further into det... | I literally cannot understand most Republican social views. | 0 | 2017-02-10T21:14:50 | 250 | -2 | null |
it allows the results to be achieved with less effort and in a shorter duration of time Why is this a bad thing? Surely if you have a specific goal then using the means which accomplishes that goal in the quickest time with the least effort is the best way. You call it cheating, how can someone who is not in a competit... | Taking anabolic steroids to gain muscle/bulk up is "cheating" and is for people who are too lazy or impatient to gain muscle "naturally". | 0 | 2015-10-17T14:29:34 | 45 | 13 | 4 |
I can't argue on the grounds you specified. I don't see how frats enhance the college experience of anyone but their own members, I don't think the media gives a tremendously inaccurate perception of frats^\* , and I don't really think it'd change much if they were gone. But that last part is the issue. I don't see wha... | I believe Greek Life should be banned from Universities | 0 | 2014-12-16T22:28:35 | 89 | 1 | 4 |
Firstly, I'm going to ignore the fact that the health impacts of smoking are vastly more than "lung cancer". I don't think debating these statistics is not particularly important to my or your position. Then, I can think of literally a hundred things we say about fat people to insult them for being fat, lazy, ugly, dis... | Obese/overweight people should be stigmatised just as harshly as smokers are in today's society | 1 | 2016-12-12T22:55:42 | 76 | 21 | 47 |
I attach human rights to the capability to, unaided, pursue life liberty and pursuit of happiness Cool, buy a fetus can't do this unaided. My counter argument is to ask, do we ask the same of any mother of a child 1 day to 18 years old? No, because a child from day 1 has stopped using the woman's body. This is the im... | A human with rights is made at conception | 0 | 2016-11-16T15:44:58 | 329 | 14 | 1 |
I believe first and foremost we need to reevaluate why we are incarcerating such a large percentage of our population in relation to the rest of the world. Once that question is solved a lot of the issues of rehabilitating the prison population would be easier to take on. The issue of private prisons is a red-herring. ... | The US needs to change the way it treats its "criminals". | 1 | 2017-04-18T20:40:43 | 43 | 3 | 1 |
It's an issue of context. If the purpose is to say that you will not be intimidated into giving yp your freedom of speech by threats of violence, then it's ethical. If the purpose is to piss off Islamic people because getting a strong reaction from people makes you feel powerful, then it's unethical. If you publish a p... | Drawing images of Mohammed and posting them on Reddit (or proliferating them anywhere) is unethical. | 1 | 2015-01-09T01:24:18 | 73 | 5 | 15 |
If you drink and drive you're terrible at calculating and managing risk. | I believe that crimes that have no victim besides "society" or "increased risk of harming" are inherently wrong and are part of an oppressive society in which freedom is permissive, instead of assumptively permitted in the absence of an obvious victim CMV | 1 | 2013-12-28T00:07:34 | 367 | 1 | 15 |
I'm tempted to say wait for the results of trials, such as the one in Finland, to see whether the evidence supports what you say. But there are already a lot of reasons to think that it will be better than regular welfare and will not have the type of negative impact on work that you outline. 1) UBI removes bureaucracy... | UBI isn't a good idea | 1 | 2017-06-26T20:11:18 | 158 | 15 | 2 |
There are a few issues with what United did. 1) They allowed passengers to board the plane. This means that the only reason they can kick someone off is for being uncooporative with the flight crew, or otherwise a health risk. Well, there are a few other specified reasons, but the whole section 25 refers to denying boa... | The ugly scene that played out on United 3411 was the fault of Chicago PD and the passenger himself, not the airline | 1 | 2017-04-12T18:37:48 | 57 | 18 | 11 |
Fake news is not new but it has blown up. The large part of the reason is that news in and of itself has changed. In the past there was a decent barrier to entry to be a news site in the form of cost. Maybe I could create a small newspaper to share my version of the news but without adequate funding, it was not going ... | This "fake news" controversy is some kind of propaganda/psyop. | 0 | 2016-12-06T08:52:15 | 78 | 3 | 3 |
This has a lot to do with 1) the primary effect 2) selection bias and 3) nostalgia. Generally when a band makes it big and continues to put out albums, there is *always* a very vocal group of people who will argue to the death that their early stuff was better. This happens whether or not the singer "went solo" or some... | "Going solo" or a single member of the band "taking the lead" leads to a sharp decline in quality in that musicians body of work. | 0 | 2014-09-04T20:59:14 | 50 | 1 | 4 |
I'm surprised the environmental devastation our 'greatness' has driven hasn't been mentioned beyond global warming. Technology is indeed exponential, but so is the destruction of the planet's resources. Diverse species are perhaps the most amazing fruit of the earth, but when they are lost, they are irretrievable - eve... | the human race is currently at it's greatest and evidence shows that the future will be overwhelmingly positive | 1 | 2015-03-18T05:32:52 | 114 | 10 | 1Δ |
Firstly, UBI could reduce welfare dependency. If I am receiving $2000 a month in welfare checks, and entering a $1800/month job will cause me to stop receiving those checks, then I am not going to start working and instead would stay on welfare. With UBI, the welfare payment stays the same regardless of income, so ther... | Universal Basic Income makes much less sense than simply expanding the Welfare System | 0 | 2017-06-26T20:18:11 | 52 | 1 | 1 |
Not all killing is equal. The argument for vegetarianism/veganism is that you should do what you can to minimize the animal life you kill to maintain your own life, and in most first world countries that is entirely doable: unless you have extreme allergies to a lot of plant-based proteins, then you can get a nutrition... | If somebody refuses to eat meat because they don't want to support killing animals, then it is hypocritical for that person to be pro-choice. | 1 | 2016-03-03T18:50:05 | 75 | 1 | 78 |
Yes. And since this is one of the few places that tries to prevent people for being absolutely shit on for having an unpopular opinion, I think it's important that we leave those sorts of discussions open. | I believe there should be a rule ix: Posts must be controversial enough to stir adequate discussion, rather than proposing an opinion that little to no users will disagree with. | 1 | 2013-04-19T23:01:41 | 50 | 1 | 1 |
I don't really like the term privilege, but I will admit there are some circumstances where race can be very important. Not saying that this is all positive for white people. If I'm applying for a college and the person screening applications is going for diversity, then I'm less likely to get in. That said, if a white... | The only relevant privilege in Western society is money. | 1 | 2017-03-02T23:35:15 | 310 | 1 | 3 |
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