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and the get paid a sickening amount of money for it. They get paid exactly what they 'deserve'. If there was no need for them to be paid that highly, they simply would not be. It is a job. The market finds a value for the job and thats what its worth. EDIT: and Paris Hilton. She is actually an awesome person. Instead... | I believe that celebrities are completely over-idolised, and do not deserve a fraction of the money, attention and fame that they get. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-25T16:19:26 | 53 | 0 | 1 |
Think of how badly you despise the Westboro Baptist Church. While not all Muslims will go commit acts of terror, it is true that a majority of Muslims hold beliefs that make what the Westboro Baptist Church say look benign. 0% of British Muslims surveyed think that homosexuality is okay. 68% want there to be legal puni... | Anti-Muslim generalisations are invalid | 1 | 2017-03-27T05:43:52 | 91 | 2 | 1 |
The simplest non-racist reason is partisanship. I don't doubt that racism motivated a lot of dislike for the Obamas, but much of it was also driven by the strong political polarization in this country. There are people in the US right now that hate the other political party so much that anything associated with that ... | There is no non-racist reason for people to say "Melania Trump is bringing class back to the White House". | 1 | 2017-03-16T16:36:33 | 119 | 43 | 5 |
I am not going to argue that you make some really good points, and in theory I agree with you. But, can you imagine what revising the Constitution would look like? The 2nd amendment fight would be brutal. You would have constitutional guarantees for gun (and more than guns) being balanced between New York City and rura... | The US constitution and its amendments need to be re-written or updated and should be every 100 years or so. | 1 | 2015-08-20T18:23:34 | 307 | 5 | 1 |
She isn't perfect (no one is), but some of her actions are certainly justified. For example, can you really blame her for closing off comments on her videos? She feels the reverberations from Gamergate most strongly, and she takes the brunt of the blow when it comes to misogyny in the gaming community. As for her crit... | Anita Sarkeesian is a horrible game critic and is bad for the gaming community. | 0 | 2017-04-15T05:43:16 | 76 | 14 | 1 |
Some girls are taught at a young age that make-up is **required**. This is, of course, an old fashioned mind set, but still a mindset that, from my experience, very much exists. Then you have the self esteem issues. Make-up makes you look perfect when done properly, which gives you confidence, which makes you more attr... | I believe women just wear makeup to get attention, and that wearing it indicates self-esteem or self-worth issues. Reddit, please CMV! | 0 | 2013-04-03T08:16:44 | 120 | 0 | 1 |
The scientific consensus is that obesity constitutes a major public health crisis. There is no question about this, and anyone arguing that obesity is harmless or that medical science is misguided in considering it a health problem is quacking pseudoscience. However, the scientific consensus is also that people are mos... | Normalizing being fat is a huge societal issue in the United States | 1 | 2016-09-01T00:02:41 | 149 | 74 | 2 |
It's irrational to think of biological necessities as "wastes of time". 'It's a waste of time to talk to each other when we could be exchanging information by way of mind-meld'. Sleep is a biological requirement. You can't do **anything** without sleep. Sleep is a prerequisite to all life functions. Ipso facto, it's n... | 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 | 2016-12-05T18:48:41 | 32 | 1 | 8 |
People wonder why birth rates in the more affluent countries are declining and that's it - it's philosophy! Choices and Behaviour that lead (or don't lead) to children is caused by your ethical beliefs, and a privileged society that has the luxury to philosophize at their leisure can so easily tinker with the very forc... | Having children is unethical. | 1 | 2017-04-24T04:21:04 | 47 | 2 | 91 |
There are so many policy failures to pick from: Allan Dulles participated in: The coup of Iran, which was criticized for killing democracy in the Middle East. The Coup in Guatemala where we first forced Guatemala to seek weapons from the USSR (blocking weapons from Canada and other allies) in order to have a justific... | Ronald Reagan is responsible for the worst domestic/foreign policy failures in modern US history. | 0 | 2016-03-29T09:35:26 | 108 | 1 | null |
US/English pronunciations of Latin phrases show the speaker's complete ignorance of how sounds are formed in romance languages. I can excuse the inability to pronounce the alveolar trill (rolled R), because it's not easily learned. But this doesn't excuse pronouncing "a fortiori" as "ey for-tay-OR-ey", when an authenti... | Popular US/English pronunciations of foreign words, names, and phrases betray ignorance of the speaker as to the origin and meaning of those words. | 1 | 2014-07-10T03:21:20 | 123 | 6 | 15Δ |
The majority should often decide policies, because this prevents small groups from imposing their will on everyone else, and keeps the most people happy. However, this doesn't work perfectly either. You mentioned that 90% of people could want slavery, and yet it would still be wrong, which I agree with. As Ayn Rand sa... | Drastic changes like the Brexit vote should require a "super" majority in order to go forward. | 0 | 2016-06-25T05:13:14 | 99 | 19 | null |
Have you seen the rampant misogyny that gets casually thrown around on reddit? Have you seen the immigrant prisons in Libya or Nehru? How about a Canadian reserve without running water? I'm not arguing that there isn't discrimination against Muslims, nor am I saying that this discrimination is not serious. What I am sa... | Muslims are the most discriminated against in general (on Reddit and in the UK) | 0 | 2015-03-18T21:31:52 | 63 | 0 | 3Δ |
For people to get along and work together, you need rules. People are messy, people are weird, some of us suck. If my brother kills your brother in a bar fight, what happens next? You and your family would probably be mad about that. If we didn't have rule of law, that might set off a feud between our families that wou... | There's no need for countries to exist, because bringing such diversity slows everything down and leads to wars and hatred. | 0 | 2017-02-26T03:03:25 | 31 | 4 | 4 |
Other current whitewashing controversies I can think of off the top of my head are the *Death Note* movie (which there's a thread about on CMV from a couple days ago) and *Iron Fist*. People seem to care about those. I also question that no one is talking about Power Rangers. Googling "Power rangers whitewashing" comes... | People Accusing Ghost in the Shell of Whitewashing don't Actually Care. | 1 | 2017-03-25T20:42:28 | 104 | 19 | 3 |
Pretend that the idea of "race" didn't exist. What is it that you are not attracted to? Dark skin? Some white people and Asian people have that. Big noses? Not all black people have the same nose shape. The hair? There's a lot more variation there than you think. I live in a place where there are a lot of black people.... | I am in no way attracted to black people. I am not racist. | 0 | 2017-05-30T15:58:31 | 150 | 31 | 81 |
Then surely it is pointless considering it? Since you're never going to get worldwide agreement. Any country that broke ranks would get lots of people immigrating there and so they would have a huge motivation to ignore your rule. It may well increase inflation. You are presumably increasing the wages of those on the b... | I think we should consider imposing a maximum allowable income. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-08T01:48:17 | 49 | 5 | 62Δ |
The word Gay, when used as an insult, is generally divorced from it's original meaning. This is where your entire argument fails. "Gay" meaning stupid, is not divorced from "gay" meaning homosexual. People try to argue this all the time about "OP is a f*g", but then people go and refer to OP sucking dick or liking peni... | Using "Gay" as an Insult is not Inherently Wrong | 1 | 2015-03-01T01:26:02 | 141 | 5 | 16Δ |
Planet Money noted on their organ donation podcast in 2015 that a downside to the "opt out" system is that your family may not believe that that you genuinely wanted to donate organs, and may believe that you just never bothered to opt out, which can hold up the process (and hurt feelings). An "opt in" system may make ... | Organ donation should be "opt out", not "opt in", in the U.S | 0 | 2017-05-01T02:49:41 | 365 | 2 | 4 |
They get paid whatever someone else will pay them. If someone thinks they are that valuable then they are. They get paid that much because there aren't that many people on Earth who can do their skill and their skill does add value. This is just economics. | I think sports stars are paid far too much | 0 | 2017-05-16T07:00:20 | 39 | 3 | 46 |
I think it's useful to be able to identify a family on the basis of last names, and so I think it's useful for everyone to share the same label. And this is exactly why hyphenation is such a useful thing. If you meet a group of people who share the last name "Montegue-Capulet" then you immediately understand that they ... | People who give their kids two last names are inconsiderate | 1 | 2015-08-01T00:46:24 | 40 | 2 | 2 |
If everyone decided that having a child was selfish and didn't have any, then the human race would cease to exist. | Having a child is more selfish than not having one | 0 | 2014-10-29T00:11:41 | 231 | 1 | null |
But hasn't most of the world moved past the age of tyrannical rulers ? Genocide is something most of the world has moved past, and only a few extremist individuals try to advocate it. People thought the exact same thing before WWI. They thought they were too civilized for what would happen in the next 50 years. And I c... | Most democracies are far too tolerant of extremism, especially the likes of neo-fascism, neo-nazism, radical Islamism and violent intolerance. The world has been to soft on these ideologies and they need to be eliminated whenever they appear. | 1 | 2014-12-25T06:42:14 | 311 | 2 | 4 |
Instead of assuming that these people don't understand how the internet works, you might try considering the possibility that you haven't given enough thought to the way *privacy* works. What does it mean to have privacy? The definition I like best (credit to [Helen Nissenbaum](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc... | It's not "creeping", "snooping", or "being a creeper" to browse social media content that presumably was put there for exactly that purpose. | 1 | 2015-05-22T15:45:33 | 199 | 10 | 5 |
As ludicrous as I think it is that Trump expressed contempt for giving his tax money to the federal government while seeking to lead the federal government, no one has claimed he broke any laws. Many people lower their tax burdens legally; do you still count these people? Also, your idea for political literacy classes ... | Because much evidence suggests that voter turnout has been steadily decreasing over the last 40 years (in many democracies), the democratic systems surely need re-thinking. | 1 | 2016-10-13T18:06:01 | 59 | 3 | 31 |
Speaking to my own personal experience, I'd have to disagree. For about a year, I worked full time as a weekend drummer at a venue. I had a few days a week free and for quite a while all I did was sleep, eat, watch Netflix, and play video games. You can only spend so much time doing what I think are objectively unprodu... | a lazy, simple lifestyle is inherently more satisfying than a driven, ambitious lifestyle. | 0 | 2017-03-31T00:16:54 | 45 | 2 | null |
No human being can actually properly use pure logic. At best they can grasp a few of the concepts and buzz words, and flail them around clumsily as either weapon, armor, or both in an argument. In the same way, no human being can properly use emotion. It is by nature imperfect and varies from person to person. Logic ma... | Emotion is more important than Logic | 0 | 2014-04-01T08:05:27 | 58 | 7 | null |
Although this is somewhat tangential, for sports such as the NBA that have a salary cap, player salaries actually have little to do with their economic value to the franchise and nearly everything to do with their athletic performance. As basically every pro athlete has an agent nowadays, salary and contract negotiati... | Sports Player's Salaries are Justified by their Economic Value | 0 | 2016-02-12T12:33:29 | 90 | 1 | null |
Isn't your entire post based on your personal experience? If we take that away from your argument here, what do you really have left? But seriously. Experience tends to have a tempering effect on information that can often be difficult to quantify. Just as you've arrived at your own point of view on experience (through... | A teenager can be just as intelligent as an adult (on certain topics) because age and experience don't equal intelligence. | 1 | 2015-01-02T23:00:01 | 94 | 17 | 6 |
I'm not sure if you're still reading responses, but I view feminism as simply being treated with respect regardless of the fact that I'm a woman. I play online games a decent amount and every time I've used my mic with random people, even if they are on my team, more often than not, the focus is about my gender, about ... | feminism is the notion that women should be absolved from all responsibility and criticism. | 0 | 2017-02-01T11:13:37 | 35 | 1 | 2 |
are claims that this planet is on the verge of another mass extinction event hyperbolic? To be honest, that's more of an ecology question, and it goes outside my expertise. I can tell you with some confidence what the climatic effects will be over the next 100 years. What that means as far as extinctions depends entire... | Climate change is going to render our planet unlivable for humans within the next 50-100 years. I therefore cannot justify bringing a child into the world. | 1 | 2014-12-02T00:58:49 | 57 | 13 | 30 |
OP please take the following in the spirit of gentle ribbing it is intended: INT. N.A.S.A. - MISSION CONTROL - ENCLOSED ROOM - NIGHT Golden and all his TECHNICIANS crowd around a console, staring at a smaller version of the COMPOSITE PHOTO. Golden: Copies to the Pentagon, Colorado Space Command, and the Washington off... | Hearing all the doom and gloom around climate change is completely pointless unless they provide us with a practical solution | 1 | 2016-07-21T20:15:26 | 107 | 30 | 5 |
Because it is sanitary to wash our hands multiple times a day. We do not have that many occasions to do it, so something we do often, such as urinating, gives a good occasion to do it. I do agree that it is silly to consider our genitals 'dirty', some may even argue that our hands are much dirtier than our genitals and... | Unless I urinate on my hand(s) [not to imply that I often do], I don't feel it's necessary to wash my hands. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-18T02:58:44 | 51 | 4 | null |
I think I agree with most of what you've said, but I think that those points are indicative of a healthy environment. Sports where a culture comes to dominate rather than the rules are awful. A good example is cricket where people who try to pursue new strategies within the rules but outside the culture are endlessly b... | The competitive gaming community is very toxic | 1 | 2016-11-17T04:17:05 | 114 | 104 | 2 |
Much of culture is a rather arbitrary set of actions you have to take to be approved. An elaborate dance of somewhat random moves that proves you are socially aware and worthy of approval. You're assuming that the reasoning goes something like this. Book a suggests that you be manly, therefore when you see bullying of ... | Promoting 'manliness', or 'being a man', is outdated, encourages prejudice, and is demeaning to both genders. | 1 | 2014-08-01T11:06:32 | 113 | 4 | 63Δ |
It's simply the fact that there's no way of ensuring that the cash is used for its intended purpose. Vouchers and stamps do not solve this problem because people can sell the vouchers and stamps for cash at a loss. The result is less money getting to the people that you are trying to help. From the government's perspec... | Welfare you receive isn't "your money", and things like food stamps that make welfare non-discretionary are a good idea. | 0 | 2014-08-30T20:07:38 | 130 | 4 | null |
Just to immediately disagree with your title, we're not free of any sexual preference without prejudice. If someone is exclusively attracted to 10-year-olds, many people will judge them for that. EDIT: Fixed a 'you're' | It's not racist to say that you would never date a black / asian / white (etc) person because we're entitled to ANY sexual preference without prejudices. | 1 | 2014-09-25T16:49:25 | 72 | 20 | null |
I thought most of what you said was complete nonsense, but I completely lost you at the stock part. Could you clarify. You said,"t could be argued that stock holders provide investment for which the company can use for funds to grow their business and give the amount with interest back to the investor as a return. How... | There should be a law that mandates companies have all employees, and only employees, elect their Board of Directors. Of course, as a result, I want the abolition of selling company stock. | 0 | 2017-02-05T02:23:42 | 40 | 6 | 4 |
Many people here have touched on the health factors so I won't go too deep into that. However, worth mentioning is that, not only will you live longer with a healthy diet and regular exercise, but your quality of life as you age will be better. You will enjoy less joint pains, less muscle atrophy (which will make activ... | As long as I am not overweight, I shouldn't have to eat healthy or workout. | 0 | 2017-03-05T16:33:46 | 28 | 1 | null |
There are a few things which are concerning with orbital debris. First though, a little primer on orbital mechanics. Your velocity and your orbit are the same thing. If you give me the velocity (that is speed+direction) and location of a spacecraft at a single point, I can tell you its orbital path.^1 Second, there are... | Space Debris is not a problem for the foreseeable future | 1 | 2015-08-11T01:58:00 | 41 | 3 | 130 |
Two major reasons why this is not right and feasible. Teachers would literally go through hell re-grading and re-calculating tests and projects. We have deadlines too and they're very cut and dry. If we're constantly moving backwards, we'd be re entering grades forever: Tests aren't just a measure of knowledge but a m... | I believe that there should be unlimited (or as close to unlimited as is practical) retakes for all tests given to school children (k-12) within the duration of each particular course. | 0 | 2014-10-08T02:21:36 | 74 | 0 | null |
Animals we breed for meat eat plants too, so you're either: -Eating plants -Eating animals that have eaten plants Even if you believe plants suffer, veganism reduces total suffering. | The ethical arguments in support of veganism are a result of egoism | 1 | 2017-05-13T11:28:15 | 26 | 34 | 1 |
I believe that as long as everyone has the freedom to climb the socioeconomic ladder rung by rung, that the only difference is between those that take the opportunity and those that don't and the reason why many people remain in poverty is because they lack the motivation to take the necessary steps, be it because they... | I believe that poor people have every ability to pull themselves out of poverty, but most don't due to a lack of motivation. | 1 | 2015-06-30T20:57:31 | 47 | 8 | 61 |
This is a statistical thing. How many refugees have turned out to be raging violent terrorists? 1 in 1000? 1 in 100000? [For Germany some hundred thousands of self-reported Syrians, 360.000 by christmas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Germany), so if 1 in 1000 of them is a violently extreme islamist who can't... | The European Union and its liberal ideals have clearly failed - the terror attacks by migrants are clear proof of this. | 1 | 2016-07-26T18:59:55 | 60 | 2 | 4 |
Well if you acknowledge that happiness is temporary, then pain must also be temporary too. Because they exist only in relation to one another, you can't have one without the other. You can easily frame this situation as happiness with illusive/temporary pain. That's how most people do it, and is the reason why no matte... | I shouldn't be born, life is unworthy. | 0 | 2015-06-10T01:44:38 | 46 | 2 | 39Δ |
If one person claims the rule of a government do not apply and another claims the rules of a government do apply then the burden of proof is on the person who claims that the rules do apply. If they both make a claim, they simultaneously have ***a*** burden of proof regarding their respective claims. If the second per... | The onus is on the person arguing that government rules apply | 1 | 2015-09-19T23:27:51 | 41 | 5 | 17 |
I can only give you my own experience, though you'd be surprised how many other people's experiences fall more in line with mine than with yours. I was a tomboy growing up. My parents did nothing huge to discourage or encourage this (though my mother insisted I wear dresses for certain occasions such as Church). My mot... | LGBT children are the result of parents forcing their views onto their kids, which I see as child abuse. | 1 | 2017-02-28T23:06:38 | 67 | 2 | 8 |
Reasoning in humans works more like a lawyer or, in [Jonathan Haidt's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt) analogy, more like a Press Secretary than a President. Another metaphor is that reason is like a rider on an elephant, where the elephant is our intuitions, and we "judge first, explain later." Plato had ... | I believe the concept of morality is abolished in the presence of reason CMV | 0 | 2013-08-14T07:35:52 | 97 | 3 | 78 |
I'm saying that you should take priviledge into acocunt when evaluating the two candidates, especially when considering intangibles. This doesn't mean you have to base all your decisions on one criteria. There are numerous studies that say [men are perceived as more competent than women despite having similar credentia... | even though I'm a straight white male, I'm not oppressing anyone by being professionally successful and I don't owe less "privileged" ethnicities/genders/sexual orientations anything because of the way I was born | 1 | 2015-07-05T23:25:18 | 77 | 105 | 27 |
I think there are far more unfair things in life that affects all races like being born ugly, short, poor, physically/mentally challenged, or just simply untalented. I don't think being black is even half as bad as being one of those anymore. A) It depends what you mean by *unfair*. Being black won't deprive you of a s... | Racism is negligible in USA now. | 1 | 2016-10-07T13:48:10 | 247 | 3 | 3 |
I perceive that there is a lack of regulations (compared to human medicine) Veterinary Medicine is highly regulated by multiple governmental and independent entities. I just have a smattering of examples listed below. Any flea and tick product use/application will be controlled by the EPA and the vet must dose in acco... | I do not trust veterinarians due to my perceived lack of regulation and the lack of communication possible from pets making it hard to do anything evidence-based. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-21T01:06:00 | 79 | 3 | null |
Let's say you have a business that is popular with men, but not women. If you want to increase your market share, you could try marketing your product at a discount or free to women. That's one way to get women to try your product and eventually become customers. There are also plenty of businesses where men get the sa... | You shouldn't get free things based on your gender. | 1 | 2016-06-26T23:02:09 | 65 | 10 | 124 |
There are only 12 people in the world who saw, understood, and inspected every iota of evidence in the trial, and those 12 people chose to let OJ go. this is the problem. There was an overwhelming mound of evidence against OJ and the defense managed to find 12 of the dumbest people in the state. Out of the 12 people, ... | OJ Simpson most likely did not murder Nicole Brown Simpson, and I'm glad he got off. | 1 | 2014-09-30T14:24:17 | 262 | 549 | 12 |
The technology to overcome severe conditions is *expensive*. While natural selection may not put much pressure on genetics, it puts a lot of pressure on *resources*. A wealthy person with cancer may survive better than a poor person with cancer. That is still selection pressure. If someone with a certain genetic mutat... | As modern medicine and technology develop, natural selection applies less and less to humans | 0 | 2017-03-07T15:45:19 | 82 | 1 | 79 |
I am the complete opposite of you OP. If I ate what I wanted whenever I was hungry, I'd gain a horrifying amount of weight very quickly. So, I track calories and plan meals and with a lot of effort I am able to lose weight. If I lose focus I'd set myself back very badly. Because that's my experience, when someone says ... | As someone who has been underweight most his life. It is NOT easier to put on weight than it is to lose weight. | 1 | 2017-02-14T21:52:33 | 75 | 40 | 1 |
A potential employer would not look at my college transcript This is exactly right. Nobody gives a shit how you did in your classes. Grad schools will, but employers won't. As long as you've graduated, that is. Anything else is just padding for your résumé. But about those gen ed requirements: if you don't like them, g... | I believe that if you know exactly what you want to study in college, then gen. eds should not be a requirement. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-12T04:34:48 | 55 | 6 | 5 |
I had a similar experience when I transitioned from being a evangelical Christian to being an atheist. I went through a rather long seeking phase, mostly focused on East Asian religions, as I looked for something to fill that void. Eventually, I realized that what was making me unhappy was that I spent way too much ti... | Having a belief system only based on known facts is destructive to your psychological well-being | 1 | 2016-08-24T21:27:41 | 52 | 11 | 2 |
convince me that religion is the only thing that can cause good people to do evil things. That depends. When do you define a person by their actions whether they're good and when do you define them by their ideology? Indoctrination happens in mostly religious households and scenarios. Yes, political as well, but when i... | Weinberg was wrong when he said that "for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." | 0 | 2015-08-24T23:21:24 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
In regards to Jefferson v Hamilton, Jefferson mostly opposed economic measures like this not only because of State's Rights principles, but also because all the moneyed interests were concentrated in the north. Hamilton was a devout northerner, so most economic measures conveniently either benefited him or his cronies ... | Republicans use the US Constitution as a cop-out for deciding certain issues instead of thinking through them logically | 1 | 2015-09-24T03:09:17 | 18 | 2 | 2 |
Communism can only work on a small level, and that's the problem with it as an overarching political philosophy. It will never work on a large scale in America. One of the reasons I like the Voluntayrist idea is that if you and 5000 others want to set up a Communist society, you can do so. I think the main issue I have... | I've never seen Communism as a bad thing. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-26T16:59:56 | 41 | 2 | null |
It's always a better decision to adopt a mutt from the pound than to buy from a breeder. Always? What if someone needs an allergy-friendly (hypoallergenic) dog? | It's always a better decision to adopt a mutt from the pound than to buy from a breeder. | 0 | 2017-05-10T19:22:16 | 95 | 2 | 40 |
Polyester can't be worn in a lot of places. Due to the nature of its flammability you can't wear it in most industrial workplaces. Hemp is a good alternative as it can be lighters than wool or cotton, without the flammability of synthetic materials. Beyond this fabric ropes are much more durable and resistant to frayin... | Hemp and Marijuana have no practical uses that are fulfilled better by other materials. | 0 | 2017-05-19T05:41:51 | 58 | 5 | 57 |
personally, i wouldn't date someone unless i thought there was a possibility of getting married to them. i wouldn't marry someone unless i wanted to start a family with them. i want my children to resemble me and the rest of my family. i refuse to be guilted for that. | I believe that the unwillingness to date a person of a specific race is not due to “personal preference”, but is in fact racist. | 0 | 2016-02-07T15:49:57 | 70 | 1 | null |
What if it was displayed in the proper context? Show that Hilter was not an exceptional talent but simply an average man whose personal failings led him to hate others. Maybe put it with some candid pictures of Hitler looking awkward and have that next to images showing the totality of death and destruction that such ... | Hitler's artwork should not be displayed in galleries or homes. | 1 | 2016-07-20T05:38:37 | 36 | 6 | 80 |
I'll challenge a part of your view, even if it's the wrong part; "I will also make one exception for students who might want to choose a program that isn't offered by a public university in their state." Many states will pay the difference between your out-of-state tuition and in-state tuition if you choose a degree n... | If you graduate from a 4-year university with more than $100,000 of student debt, you have no right to complain about that debt. | 1 | 2016-01-11T05:28:56 | 114 | 8 | 11 |
What I'm saying is that circumstantial evidence doesn't necessarily hold up in court. All there really is is the circumstantial evidence alongside the coincidental timing. The pretext and it's legitimacy are basically the things that need to be disproved, but imo they're pretty solid because Comey was dismissed for a l... | Trump's dismissal of FBI director Comey was a politically motivated effort to stop a legitimate ongoing investigation. | 1 | 2017-05-11T03:15:02 | 294 | 2 | 2 |
Do others have the right to force you to do moral things? Do others have the right to force you to do things that they think are moral but you think are immoral? If not, what privileges your sense of morality over that of others? If so, one could construct a system of morality in which anything is moral; do you think p... | I have the moral right to make others do moral things. | 0 | 2016-11-26T20:31:14 | 63 | 2 | 4Δ |
You care more about spiting some people who you find annoying than the actual results of the election? Can you honestly say that out loud and not conclude that it is selfish, narcissistic, and irrational? I'm not going to try to persuade you here on who you should vote for, but if "I don't like one group of supporters ... | I used to support Bernie but now I'd rather have Trump than Hilary just because I hate Social Justice Warriors more than Trump Supporters | 0 | 2016-07-27T04:03:35 | 102 | 13 | 15 |
But surely this belief extends to other children besides that OP's child? More to the point, my solution to that problem is that we should provide better supports for families of children with disabilities, included fully-funded respite care and in-home nursing, if needed. Most parents don't want their children dead ev... | Parents should be allowed to have children with severe mental disability euthanized | 1 | 2015-07-22T07:21:02 | 457 | 35 | 8 |
The purpose of life is to *enjoy life* and not be a dick -- by that I mean help other's enjoy their lives too. You should care about the environment, because a penny of your effort will save future generations a pound. Help them enjoy life too! After all, that's the entire point. You're on team human, man! No amount o... | I don't care about the environment. The human race is going extinct, it's just a matter of time, and it's not going to happen within my lifetime. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-03T21:29:45 | 351 | 209 | 6 |
Do you believe they shouldn't celebrate Christmas either? After all, it is also a repurposed pagan holiday. | Christians should not celebrate Easter. | 0 | 2017-04-14T22:01:04 | 65 | 2 | null |
The difference between you and that guy is that guy spent 10 years of his life, training 10 hours a day, to get to that stage, and then he lost, and **EVERYTHING HE WORKED FOR WAS FOR NOTHING**. Can you imagine that. If you went to years of college, and at the end, there is one giant exam, if you fail, you don't get yo... | I think it's ridiculous for a grown adult to cry because they didn't win a sports match, even if they are a professional sportsperson. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-25T16:54:04 | 20 | 5 | 2 |
I still feel like this it's bad to use as an example because there are better inductive arguments that are much easier to show the validity of. Like what? All inductive knowledge suffers the same problem. As stated in the comments, I believe that while potentially a valid argument, this premise is untrue and it is an ... | "All humans are mortal" is not an acceptable premise for a deductive argument. | 0 | 2015-10-22T17:27:32 | 59 | 1 | null |
What does a victory for the "no confidence" choice entail? If none, I think it won't have much effect. The US state of Nevada has had a choice called ["none of these candidates"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_These_Candidates) since 1975, but it lacks any force, and even if it gets more votes than any other cho... | a significant % of non-voters do not vote because they do not have confidence in any party. Countries should have a 'no confidence' vote in elections if they want to increase turnout, while achieving a better understanding of the public's perception of the political climate. | 1 | 2015-08-14T16:41:04 | 264 | 252 | 132 |
I agree it is selfish, though that alone does not make it wrong, nor does the selfishness necessarily imply the motive you state. We are imperfect beings and may have a multitude of stressors that cloud your reasoning, or cause feelings intense across the spectrum that you lose control over in the way you want to contr... | It is selfish to confess romantic feelings to someone who is potentially or certainly unable to reciprocate. It only makes yourself feel better while placing an unnecessary burden on them to be responsible for your feelings. | 0 | 2017-02-13T02:00:56 | 173 | 1 | null |
He says pretty clearly that women bear children. His curse of women is biological in nature so he must be thinking of women as biological. | There is no sound biblical argument that makes being trans-gender morally wrong. | 1 | 2015-01-02T00:41:29 | 353 | 2 | 28 |
Safe spaces actually increase intellectual debate. If you feel unsafe, you will not share your view. Regardless of whether a person "should" feel comfortable or not, not everyone feels safe sharing their views. Safe spaces from things like racist slurs and direct insults allow discussion of issues away from what makes ... | Universities should not have safe spaces | 0 | 2017-06-25T23:58:18 | 63 | 5 | null |
Tee shirts used to be underwear, do you feel the same about them? Are you ok with women going outside without hats or corsets? Pants on women? Fashion changes over time, go back 200 years and western society would be shocked at how much leg women show now. It seems more like you are cherry picking a specifically black ... | Saggy pants are unacceptable but tolerated because of white guilt | 0 | 2015-05-27T21:08:09 | 70 | 7 | null |
It's a sham but damn does the diamonds in my rings look amazing. For someone who was use to being treated like I had no value a beautiful diamond ring meant so much more than just a rock. Someone loved me enough to spend the money to get me something that was high quality and beautifully designed. Yes there are plenty ... | I think that diamond engagement rings are a sham. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-25T00:31:44 | 560 | 0 | null |
We will get there one day I think but our economy incentivizes people to go with the absolute cheapest option at any given time with almost no consideration of the future. Solar isn't cheapest right now so to most companies it might as well not exist. | If solar power comes from a source that lasts about 5 billions years, and oil resources last about 500 years from now, why aren't we moving towards solar power as a planet? | 1 | 2015-12-10T07:43:21 | 75 | 6 | 12 |
Point 1 is ridiculous. Why do you think farmers guided their crops/animals to be where they are? They wanted higher and quicker yields, resistance to disease and failure and to be of a higher value based off other qualities such as aesthetics. So they could sell it for more profit, less work and at a lower risk. Even i... | I believe GMO products should be labeled and looked at skeptically by everyone. | 0 | 2014-08-14T05:47:06 | 69 | 6 | null |
Just as a comment, while you did use the word you seemed to replace it with "R-word" a lot. Something about the debate around the "N-word" I thought, if someone's not willing to say the word just to describe how we should be saying it, it's not likely to be a word we should use. I was introduced to this campaign becaus... | I don't think "ending the R-word" is a worthwhile goal. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-26T23:55:36 | 375 | 3 | 1 |
Genetics is about diversity, it is unethical to restrict that diversity in any way, we should let nature take it's course, for all we know something we consider a defect today, could be the saviour of mankind in the future. | Passing on genetic diseases is highly unethical | 1 | 2017-03-04T10:33:19 | 286 | 1 | 1 |
The only way to see it as racist is to be thinking in terms of race in the first place. You do know it's okay to call someone "classless" or lower class or any of these things and it has absolutely nothing to do with the color of skin right? You can certainly say it and it be racist, but to automatically assume there i... | There is no non-racist reason for people to say "Melania Trump is bringing class back to the White House". | 0 | 2017-03-16T16:50:17 | 119 | 4 | 4 |
By that logic, should the 10 Commandments be ignored? Their content doesn't change... By that logic, any school of philosophy who's founder is dead should also be ignored... The opinions of the founding fathers on good governance should be ignored... Your stance would seem to invalidate any absolute or unchanging posit... | I have no respect for pacifists, and can't take them seriously. | 1 | 2014-07-11T10:29:09 | 100 | 4 | 3 |
don't think that delta worked. i think we need a more roboust definition of suburban areas, because there's a lot of suburban areas that are significantly more urban and would never have to worry about a hog coming through and couldn't fire a damn thing without waking up the neighbours, like, the ones i live in and gen... | I am against an "Assault" Weapons ban | 1 | 2016-11-28T05:30:31 | 158 | 2 | 5 |
Atheism isn't actually a religion though That is correct. However, imposing athiest doctorine on someone is a religious doctrine. A religious doctrine is just any belief or ideology pertaining to religion. Imposing no religion, as such, is imposing the religious doctrine of not acknowledging religion. Schools ban ban... | public schools in the US should be strictly anti-religious and ban all religious symbols, dress, ideas, etc. | 1 | 2017-04-25T05:30:52 | 73 | 18 | 4 |
While I think that neither of these societies that you posit would actually work, if one wanted to gain success in the two of them it would be easier to do it in a libertarian society than the socialist one you posit. In fact an examination of American history would show that our own development has taken a road MUCH c... | The success of a person in a libertarian society would be determinated by birth rather than drive or talent. | 0 | 2017-03-24T23:05:47 | 193 | 2 | 3 |
This is not logical as Mexico is part of America. You know what else Mexico is? The United States. Literally "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" versus "Estados Unidos de América." So, if one wanted, one could make the exact same complaint for using "United States." Historically there were a bunch of other [United States](http... | When refering to the US, you should say US, instead of America. | 1 | 2015-11-28T18:54:09 | 54 | 54 | 37 |
Trump hater here. So I'm not going to argue that *nobody* who voted for Trump is a moron or a traitor. But not everyone is. Some reasons, in random order: 1) Some people don't pay that much attention to politics, either because they don't have the time or because they just plain care about other things. Then party id... | Anyone who voted for Trump is either a moron or a traitor to our country's values | 1 | 2017-02-01T01:56:35 | 64 | 1 | 1 |
"Utilize" (at least connotatively) means "make use of", whereas "use" means "use". | I believe "utilize" is a useless word. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-25T22:36:06 | 37 | 2 | null |
The left are more agreeable to censorship Are they though? Social conservatives (especially the more religious ones) in the U.S. have advocated the censorship of books, films, and other forms of media for a long time. Nazi Germany, a fascist state, also burned books and jailed people for expressing certain views. There... | The left has a herd mentality | 1 | 2016-05-26T12:39:43 | 41 | 19 | 1 |
Hunted meat. In some areas the deer populations are out of control and they have a hunting season (usually in the fall). If the deer populations are not reduced somewhat many deer would die over the winter (mostly older ones and pregnant ones). Natural predators have been eliminated or reduced in many areas because of ... | There is no strong, socially responsible argument for not reducing/eliminating animal products in one's diet | 0 | 2017-07-05T19:55:22 | 52 | 1 | 11 |
It doesn't matter whether or not they choose in theory, but consider that if people believe it's a choice it's more likely gay folks will be persecuted. There's already way too many 'straight camps' dedicated to make you heterosexual, and saying that people choose only fuels the fire. Religious tolerance for homosexual... | I believe emphasizing that "being gay is born rather than a choice" is irrelevent and gay rights should be the same no matter if homosexuality is born with, nurtured or chosen. | 0 | 2014-09-09T08:22:55 | 433 | 1 | null |
The purpose of a conformation show (the type of show where dogs trot around rings and are gone over by judges, so named because they test how closely each dog *conforms* to its written breed standard) is simple: TO EVALUATE BREEDING STOCK. Say I am a breeder and have a female dog I am interested in breeding. I look at ... | Dog shows centered around purebred dogs are inhumane and promote unhealthy breeding of dogs. | 1 | 2015-10-22T22:31:34 | 127 | 100 | 6 |
Actually, in base 3 2+2=11. | I think that 2 + 2 = 4. | 1 | 2014-08-30T03:38:07 | 99 | 6 | 1 |
Soccer was the original name and it's what stuck in the USA Soccer is a derivation of "association football", which is what it was originally called by the English. https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/mystery-solved-don-t-blame-usa-real-reason-123344142.html While I agree that the name should change for b... | Football Not Soccer | 0 | 2015-08-05T02:30:26 | 26 | 1 | 3Δ |
You can have sympathy for bad people. [I feel sympathy for Hitler because he had to poison his dog.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondi#Death_of_Blondi_and_other_dogs) The reality of the world is that people like you are taking over, and people like them are in decline. Losing something valuable is something everyone... | I have no sympathy left for Americans who refuse to adapt to new socioeconomic realities but voted Trump in. | 1 | 2017-01-20T08:59:26 | 52 | 13 | 113 |
While I largely agree with your sentiment that you should vote in the manner which will have the greatest positive impact, there's a strong argument to make that this is for the person with the most similar position to you. The reason for this is that you shouldn't think of your vote as being made with all else being h... | You should not vote for the person that most closely shares your values. | 1 | 2016-11-20T15:42:12 | 89 | 3 | 1 |
I'm personally using a wireless mouse, but if you want, I still have four wireless mice for you laying around. You only need to repair the wires, because they're all broken. I guess it just doesn't work when you're moving your laptop around all the time. | A Wired Mouse is better than a Wireless mouse. | 0 | 2014-08-22T15:29:55 | 87 | 1 | null |
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