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The people who tend to be pro lifers (conservatives for example) also believe in a radically different way to help the poor. You say they're against social programs, and are therefore hurting the poor, but conservatives believe that social programs created by the government aren't effective at helping the poor. They b... | Being "pro-life," but also supporting the scaling back of social programs to support the poor, is hypocritical | 0 | 2017-06-17T21:38:08 | 201 | 6 | 1 |
Here is another realistic scenario where self defense with a gun is a viable option. You live in the woods pretty far from any sort of law enforcement and a bear breaks into your house and starts rummaging through your kitchen. If you don't have a gun, you have pretty much no options in this situation besides hoping th... | I don't think guns can be effectively used for self-defence | 1 | 2017-03-14T17:48:34 | 87 | 2 | 89 |
When we say "not all Muslims are terrorists", that is a very true statement. A very small amount of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world are actually terrorists, and an even smaller amount come to America. It's why we have a very rigorous screening process, but also why we don't ban the entire religion. There is no eas... | There is a huge inconsistency between the ways the left treats male rapists and muslim terrorists. | 1 | 2016-07-31T13:50:44 | 263 | 16 | 1 |
It certainly is a form of discrimination - a beneficial and necessary one that people reject because they misunderstand the purpose of the military. "Discriminate" has come to have a primarily negative connotation, but we should look at other contexts in which the term is used. A person who only drinks only very good w... | There should be an age limit in the military, in terms of combat. | 1 | 2017-04-24T07:05:44 | 66 | 5 | 138 |
My dad says "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" which I think could be used as an argument both for and against gun control. Owning guns may not be a fundamental human right per se, but the law comes from a time when the founders of our country were outlaws who needed weapons to fight their government. | There's no reason gun ownership should be a fundamental right. | 0 | 2015-10-14T13:52:18 | 694 | 2 | null |
Pop music, is, as you said, probably the most popular genre out there right now. The thing about music is that everyone has their own tastes: people all like certain genres and dislike certain genres. However, pop music seems to have risen about the rest for some reason, and is therefore played the most and therefore r... | Too many people hate on pop music for no legitimate reason. | 1 | 2015-10-16T04:48:20 | 45 | 12 | 14 |
If you were in central mexico - the place these things originate - it'd always be folded in half. Beyond that trump card (not that trump's card permits quesadillas on this side of the wall) for properness, consider: 1. flipping. Much harder and messier without a folded edge. 2. Carry and go. Folded is a finger food. 2-... | A Proper Quesadilla involves 2 tortillas to make an O-shaped 'dilla, not 1 tortilla to make a D-shaped 'dilla | 1 | 2017-02-08T16:46:07 | 50 | 114 | 65 |
I'd object to the "only" part of "is only on the rise because..." I think a big reason fake news is on the rise is because the mainstream media has eroded its credibility. There's a few specific scandals, like the Rolling Stone UVA rape story, or Brian Williams lying about his helicopter coming under attack. And then t... | Misinformation, or "fake news" is only on the rise because information as a whole is becoming more accessible. | 1 | 2017-01-03T18:40:34 | 62 | 9 | 9 |
Well, that's not difficult to do. Nobody likes paying taxes; I would rather keep all my money myself. However, I agree that it is necessary for the government to collect taxes, since otherwise there could be no government, and there are lots of government services which are necessary (particularly, preventing foreign g... | Everyone wants government to avoid intruding in their lives, yet often ask government to intrude in the lives of others. | 0 | 2014-04-06T21:14:17 | 225 | 78 | 9 |
I don't get it. So, if a father went into a liquor store with their kid, they wouldn't be able to buy alcohol because their kid is under-age? I actually think that's a ridiculous policy, and I don't buy the "cover the store's ass" argument either, because they sold the alcohol to someone who is of age. If they then pr... | Stores should not be allowed to refuse the sale of alcohol for 1 member of a party being underage | 0 | 2015-10-28T15:12:51 | 234 | 1 | null |
I present Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and countless other blind artists. They have a physical inability to read sheet music, yet they would hardly be considered poor musicians. | I believe that in order to be a truly great musician, one must be able to read musical notation. | 0 | 2014-05-23T21:50:49 | 62 | 5 | 11Δ |
I disagree. Being born a white straight man is *more likely* to be a pretty good deal (in America) than many other combinations, but this is a stupid comment because it ignores the people themselves. White straight males are present at both the top and the bottom, but in the end, it's better to be a black gay transwoma... | Being born a white straight man is actually a pretty good deal. | 1 | 2015-12-29T11:39:38 | 74 | 3 | 2 |
Nationalism, as others have already pointed out, can be productive *and* destructive. It is a bunch of people coming together to accomplish something, for better or ill. So why define nationalism by its negatives rather than its positives? I think that what you are trying to get at here is that group identity is necess... | Nationalism is destructive. | 1 | 2016-12-03T05:04:00 | 99 | 2 | 2 |
Using a throwaway account for this. For context I'm a guy. I never say 'I was raped' if I tell anyone what happened. I use terms like sexual assault or avoid using a term at all. I don't remember how old exactly I was at the time, maybe sometime between the ages of 9 and 12? The other guy was a few years ~3-4 older tha... | I believe society causes more trauma for rape victims | 1 | 2014-11-20T19:34:53 | 120 | 3 | 1 |
My experience at a liberal arts school that demanded a broad exposure was that many of the non-science subjects were markedly easier than the science ones, and that the only barriers to getting As in them were silly things like memorization or figuring out what the teacher wanted you to say. Admittedly I didn't take an... | Engineers' Syndrome is not specific to engineering | 1 | 2016-10-28T21:58:48 | 108 | 37 | 42 |
Why should I care that car dealerships are going down? They are pushy, annoying, and have to pay for the building and sales people, ect. I don't think we should keep jobs around just because it is somones job, if another way can do it better, we should do it that way. | I agree with Michigan in regards to banning Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers. | 0 | 2014-10-26T15:31:04 | 25 | 1 | null |
Similarly to how women are not treated the same as men in our society, the same goes for African Americans: According to the Urban League’s State of Black America 2004 Report: • Fewer than 50% of black families own their own homes, vs. over 70% of whites • Blacks are denied mortgages and home improvement loans at twic... | I believe that black Americans, and no one else, are responsible for their impoverished status in America and stereotypes against them are completely justified. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-15T19:44:36 | 163 | 3 | null |
He's got the wall with Mexico, the ban on Muslim immigration and the general tough on crime/terrorism shared by all Republicans. Clinton really doesn't have a plan either. Neither of them share of view of some of us to mostly disengage from the Middle East. | Donald Trump does not have a plan to fight terrorism. | 0 | 2016-07-24T20:42:41 | 60 | 5 | 2 |
I find most ads manipulative and offensive, and I think that modern advertising has been extraordinarily detrimental to our society. The purpose of advertising is to subconsciously trick you into buying things that you don't rationally want or need, which means that exposure to advertising is harmful, like smoking ciga... | I believe that in general, it's wrong to use adblockers on the Internet. CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-09T02:24:33 | 56 | 1 | 2 |
Please don't take this the wrong way, but there is nothing in what you posted that would make me think you would succeed in college. You're going to encounter the same boring classes or assignments. You're going to have to deal with all of the stuff that right now you don't deal with all that well. You can't just turn... | I don't think I should spend every waking hour of my teenage life trying to get into a good college | 1 | 2015-05-12T11:01:09 | 78 | 24 | 32Δ |
"The government does some shady shit" and "conspiracy theories" are not one in the same. As well the difference between a political scandal and a conspiracy theory is that all of those things you listed were due to leaks or investigative journalism. A conspiracy theory is when someone immediately dismisses the idea of... | People shouldn't be dismissive of conspiracy theories. | 1 | 2016-04-28T00:43:49 | 247 | 25 | 13 |
but in absolute terms I believe religion (I will limit myself to Christianity) makes you more moral. How? Being religious actually sounds like it would make you less moral. In my opinion, if you're religious, you're only following a 'moral code' because of either 1. Fear of punishment (hell) or 2. Expecting to be rewar... | I believe that in modern Western culture, being religious makes you more moral. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-17T23:28:38 | 124 | 2 | null |
Well, we know incarceration doesn't seem to work very well as a deterrent (i.e. for the overall reduction in violent crimes). And it doesn't seem to work well for rehabilitation (in the US). The one thing that incarceration seems to work well for is that it keeps those particular criminals from committing crimes again... | I think we should automatically try any teenager accused of a felony-level violent crime as an adult. CMV. | 1 | 2013-11-25T05:41:38 | 49 | 2 | 5 |
Again, I definitely agree that there is room to determine that some of the great works are alien to younger people and people in general. I *still* don't get *some* of Joyce's or Pynchon's stuff and I probably never will. But again, that doesn't mean that the concept of teaching great literature to students is fundamen... | I believe forcing high schoolers to read the "great works" of literature is a waste (and only turns them off from reading in general) because they lack the life experience to appreciate them. CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-25T02:00:49 | 455 | 47 | 82Δ |
I agree in general that insults aren't a great way to change peoples minds, and I think that insults for the sake of insulting are virtually never useful. But sometimes I think that the idea is that it can be jarring enough to break someone out of a train of thought and make them reevaluate given the length that the ot... | The use of insults in arguments does nothing to change the views of others | 1 | 2017-04-13T01:43:31 | 40 | 14 | 24 |
Why discriminate on gender? If the issue is the physicality of the job, then judge people on their fitness - not their gender. Not all women are weaker than men. | Most Employers and the Military should be allowed to discriminate genders for physical/biological reasons | 0 | 2017-02-12T14:19:57 | 58 | 6 | null |
Why did you think extroverts are better at raising children? Because they're not pushovers? Introverts aren't pushovers. Introverts are some of the greatest leaders, partly because of self reflection and a calming demeanor. These would be great for parenting too. Some of the greats include Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roos... | Introverts shouldn't have children. | 0 | 2017-05-16T17:11:59 | 123 | 6 | 2 |
I’m not really that interested in ethical arguments. Why should one person’s ethics determine how other people live their lives? For example, I don’t think I would ever have an abortion for my own personal ethical reasons. That doesn’t mean that I’m against other people having the option. You don't seem to understand t... | I don’t see anything wrong with the legalisation of polygamous marriage | 0 | 2015-06-28T04:07:59 | 161 | 1 | 1Δ |
This is [scope neglect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_neglect). The scope of an action matters. Let's take the extremely simplified vegan argument that it's just wrong to cause the death of an animal. Eating a vegetable causes some deaths. Eating meat causes some deaths. But eating meat causes more deaths than eat... | I believe an ethical vegetarian or vegan diet is morally indefensible and delusional. | 0 | 2014-05-06T20:18:44 | 353 | 7 | 6 |
At work you don't always get a mulligan, the grades would mean less by not measuring how well a student can do on the first try. | College students should be allowed to retake and completely replace the grade previously earned. | 0 | 2015-10-19T04:31:30 | 72 | 1 | null |
The only reason any of those things was "ok" is because both candidates were utter, complete shit. Clinton was such a bad candidate that she could lose against Trump and Trump was enough of a clown that he could win against Clintonm, both being weak as fuck don't make this suddenly ok. Bernie would have won by a landsl... | The worst part of this election are the precedents it sets. | 1 | 2016-11-09T11:19:47 | 125 | 4 | 1 |
Can the continuance of life itself be an ethical goal? At one point, life did not exist. Then, for some reason, it did. Life seems to exist only to promote itself. At some point it came into being, and for some reason it continues to propagate itself in all it's wonderfully different forms. I can't say for certain, bu... | Having children is unethical. | 1 | 2017-04-24T01:44:32 | 47 | 2 | 11 |
I view this as you thinking about making an effort into changing how you behave in order to be a happier person, sounds about right? To work consciously on improving oneself is great and a lot of the TRP stuff is really good advice: "Take responsibility for your life", "Become an interesting person" and "Be happy by yo... | I think the Red Pill is mostly correct about women and society. | 0 | 2016-03-27T15:00:23 | 1,628 | 3 | null |
He has, in the past, donated vast amounts of money to several liberal politicians such as Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid. What are these 'vast amounts of money'? And he also donated to, and endorsed, Republicans. He's a businessman. Businessmen at his level buy politicians. He bought a few. And his advantage is he cann... | Donald Trump is not really a conservative and would be a disaster for the conservative movement, the GOP, and the United States. | 0 | 2016-04-10T16:50:09 | 101 | 5 | 2 |
Good and evil are somewhat subjective. I think it's far less subjective to recognize how destructive the mentality of willing to kill/die for ideas is. That people are willing to kill/die is the only reason that we have war. War brings the destruction of individual lives, human achievements, lifestyles, and potentiall... | People who are willing to die for their causes are the best humans. | 1 | 2016-01-26T20:08:03 | 60 | 2 | 3 |
Human DNA has the potential to mutate for a variety of reasons, to form tumors, cancers, or simply to mutate in a benign way. DNA in these cases is often distinct from the host yet clearly related. A teratoma is a specific type of tumor that can contain multiple tissue types and in rare cases, entire organs and brain ... | Surgical abortion constitutes an act of violence against a living human organism | 1 | 2017-04-11T21:37:09 | 58 | 7 | null |
My mother has worked in the nuclear industry my entire life. My step-father has worked in the nuclear industry for nearly four decades. First of all, with this kind of background you probably have a significant confirmation bias towards nuclear energy. If we are going to change your view, you have to try and consider a... | I think that research into wind and solar energy sources are a waste of time. Nuclear power is the only way to go. CMV. | 1 | 2013-04-16T04:23:13 | 39 | 22 | 2 |
That all sounds well and delicious. But with the addition of a potato scone and haggis, you knock that shit up a league and you've got yourself a full Scottish breakfast. More food, more variety, more flavour, more satisfaction. True king of breakfasts. I can't look at an English or Irish breakfast now without feeling ... | A full Irish breakfast is the breakfast of champions with no equal | 1 | 2016-09-25T20:50:44 | 72 | 2 | 1 |
Sometimes, you have no action to take. Lets say your wife was on the Malaysian airliner that vanished a few months ago. What action would you take? You would reach a point that all of your actions lead to the same result of you still being no closer to finding your wife. At some point, you have two options. Option A i... | "Hope" in its broader sense, is just an excuse for inaction. | 1 | 2014-07-20T12:58:13 | 15 | 7 | 3 |
There have been many studies done over the past few years on the effect of nature, and natural environments on the human brain. Many of them point to the problems that our modern high tech environments put to brains and bodies that are still evolved for the neolithic era. Neither our brains or bodies are actually evolv... | There is no need to maintain public land, as the potential benefits offered by utilization of the land is greater | 0 | 2016-07-18T01:15:28 | 49 | 4 | 15 |
Is it immoral for professional athletes to have children with people who aren't professional athletes because there's a 10% chance that they will have a kid that won't be a professional athlete, and that kid will live in misery knowing that they could have been a professional athlete if only they had gotten the right g... | It Is Immoral for a Wizard to Reproduce with a Muggle. | 0 | 2017-05-09T22:42:34 | 116 | 1 | 3 |
For starters, the biggest holes I see are 1) there is literally no possible gain for staging such an event, and 2) the amount of people who would need to be in the know about such an event is far too high to successfully keep the fact that it was staged under wraps. | I truly believe the Sandy Hook shooting was staged. | 0 | 2017-02-05T08:23:38 | 40 | 7 | 31 |
I would argue the direct connection between being overweight and the rest of the attributes you make as a result. Here's what we know for a fact when somebody is overweight, they eat food. Yup, that's it. The leap of logic you take based on your personal anecdote is meaningless in the real world. I'm sure somebody coul... | I think obesity is an outward sign of poor self-discipline CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-29T21:22:33 | 519 | 3 | null |
We all know that there are extraterrestrials up there and down in the depths. Well we don't actually know for certain yet. Also, what do you means by the depths? Also, I hate to tell you this, but Area 51 has a pretty simple explanation, and it isn't aliens. Also, what evidence is there to support this claim? It's har... | I think that Malaysian Flight MH300 was interfered with by Aliens. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-15T22:24:20 | 40 | 2 | 9Δ |
The fetus is, until birth, a parasite. This is true even if we all agree that it is a person. US law entitles all humans to life but it does *not* entitle humans to use other people's bodies without their consent. Forcing them to do so *is* forcing your ideas on others in every sense of the phrase. | Being pro-life is not "forcing my ideas on others" | 0 | 2015-08-09T07:54:11 | 97 | 2 | 9 |
I already replied to this discussing the refugee convention component of this, but I'm going to throw another - wider and more confronting argument - out there. We try to live in a world where people are valued for their achievements. We all believe that if we work harder than the next guy, we should get the promotion... | Everybody at the 'Calais jungle' is an economic migrant. There's no good reason to allow them into the UK. | 0 | 2016-10-03T01:42:02 | 50 | 1 | 3 |
I can state as a matter of fact that I become more alert around black people, especially black guys who act "hood" I feel that this is totally rational given where we are at as a country and my own experiences. This is prejudice not racism. And some prejudice is fine, normal, practical even. Associating people who do ... | I'm somewhat racist and that's okay. It's a rational racism. | 1 | 2017-03-19T13:27:06 | 42 | 2 | 69 |
Not every 1% income earner can leave the country and produce value elsewhere. Take for example Johnny Depp or Britney Spears or any Hollywood celebrity or NBA player. They can only make that money living in America. There is no NBA or Hollywood elsewhere willing to pay the sums they are getting. The people that can lea... | Taxing the 1% exorbitant amounts in order to solve the economic problems of the 99% will not work because the 1% have the economic ability to move their lives somewhere with worse tax laws | 1 | 2016-03-07T02:13:56 | 77 | 4 | 4 |
I agree that it needs a large budget, but it doesn't need to be as big or bigger than it is currently. It is too inefficient at the moment, and the reason it is as big as it is has nothing to do with what your concerns are about. It's as large as it is not because of Russia and China but because; 1). Over commitment in... | The United States of America needs to have a massive defensive budget, and honestly needs to be larger. | 0 | 2017-06-26T20:57:17 | 40 | 1 | 1 |
Anyway I'm not going to go in to a full blown debate about this as it's not really my interest with this CMV. I just showed you a case where non-LGBTQ people made decisions on behalf of homosexual men for the benefit of all. That directly refutes your assertion that straight people have **no reason** to interfere with ... | Straight people have no reason to interfere with LGBTQ people's lives | 1 | 2016-10-10T23:16:20 | 104 | 3 | 257 |
They allowed a passenger to board a plane that they either A) Knew they weren't going to have enough seats for or B) Are so incompetent that they literally can't predict if they'll have enough seats five minutes before the doors are supposed to close I agree that the situation is being blown way out of proportion. I do... | United Airlines did nothing wrong. | 1 | 2017-04-11T09:36:32 | 141 | 54 | 9 |
Here is the link to the Serebii article on it "Hyper Training". Just not that it does change the actual IV of the pokemon it just makes it as though it had a perfect IV. IVs give that pokemon an extra stat point in that stat at lvl 100. So an IV of 31 gives 31 points an IV of 2 gives 2. This doesn't change the actual I... | Pokemon, while not ruined by, is worsened by including IV/EV as a concept, etc. | 1 | 2017-01-16T05:07:04 | 37 | 31 | 1 |
Here is why you're wrong: the problem with Congress isn't the people. It's the era, context and circumstances into which they're elected. Let me explain. Congress is dysfunctional for three main reasons: 1. Money. Campaign contributions and lobbyists having the freedom they do guarantees that the will of the people wi... | A congressional "re-boot" would breathe new life into the legislative branch of the federal U.S. government. | 1 | 2015-03-21T06:31:04 | 173 | 1 | 2Δ |
I'm not a very spiritual person. And I don't believe in a lot 'outside' of what we can percieve. Yes I believe there's more to the world, but I don't believe in anything beyond biological sex. Of course it's not binary. Intersex people very obviously exist, that's just scientific fact. I'm having trouble understanding ... | I don't believe in gender, other than biological sex. As in, I don't believe in any set gender norms/the existance of a non-biological gender. | 0 | 2015-07-14T06:48:55 | 28 | 4 | 7 |
Your reasons are chiefly financial, which aren't necessarily bad reasons, but you did make a point of mentioning that you wouldn't go hungry but wouldn't be able to fully fund colleges for both. As a college educated guy that's 30k in debt (used to be 50) and has 2 sisters and a poor family, I have never once caught my... | I only want to have one child. | 1 | 2014-09-04T16:50:41 | 89 | 26 | 14 |
Also, one thing to consider is how 3D will help film makers do a better job of films for future technologies like virtual reality headsets. They will likely look a lot more convincing and could really do a good job of immersing you in a world. 3D glasses might be a phase, but when you can look through a "window" into t... | I believe 3D is a childish gimmick, contributes nothing to a film's quality, and makes the industry inaccessible for new filmmakers. CMV | 0 | 2013-05-18T10:20:45 | 157 | 1 | null |
I think the Nordic model has been romanticized to an extent greater than is really justifiable. As others have pointed out, there's a strong argument to be made that culture is a major factor in your success. I think that if we're going to look for a "best" socioeconomic model, we should look for one that's more genera... | I consider the Nordic model the best socio-economic model to base a country around & the best compromise between the right and left | 1 | 2014-10-24T18:36:42 | 537 | 2 | 1 |
Almost every utilitarian philosophy includes some caveats about individual rights precisely to prevent this kind of thing. I don't think anyone believes in the kind of utilitarianism you're describing here. But even if you don't include individual rights, it's pretty easy to think of social welfare functions that won't... | According to a utilitarian ethics system, certain forms of slavery are permissible (perhaps a moral requirement), and this makes utilitarianism a dangerous philosophy. | 0 | 2017-06-09T22:24:22 | 81 | 2 | 21 |
The USA is odd. It might be better to think of it as a confederation of countries- California has a greater GPD than Australia for example. So predictably since there are a lot of countries with a lot of economic situations some countries will come off better than the USA by certain measures. An oil rich country like N... | The US is not the greatest country in the world, and at least in 2009-2010 there were multiple countries that were unambiguously better. | 1 | 2015-11-10T12:29:00 | 68 | 4 | 87 |
I agree that "babying" kids probably doesn't help them cope with bullying and may make them have even worse reactions to it but I think the whole thing behind cyber bullying is that people should be able to use computers /the internet with a reasonably expectation that they won't be harassed | I think cyberbullying is BS, CMV | 0 | 2013-10-17T21:13:31 | 121 | 0 | null |
Interesting, that's going to be some great reading to look into right now. Isaiah Berlin was the originator, I believe, but you can try out the [Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy page](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/). So what is the traditionally accepted form of freedom? Positive or ... | Arguments that laws that make people more safe (DUI laws, Statutory Rape etc) also make people more free are intellectually dishonest. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-20T01:35:18 | 116 | 2 | 6 |
I take the exact same information, and find the exact opposite reasoning. If everything existed forever, then nothing would have meaning. What would love mean? Can you truly love something if it existed forever? It would never change, always be the same. The fact that it begins and ends means that it actually has meani... | Everything in life eventually comes to an end, therefore everything is worthless | 0 | 2014-10-11T08:44:17 | 59 | 1 | null |
In our society we value the autonomy of our body over anything else. In the situation where you are a perfect match to give someone a kidney and save their life, you are not forced to give up your kidney and you can refuse, even if it means that a life might be lost. Similarly with abortion, even though the woman may b... | Abortion should only be legal in extreme cases (danger to the mother's life, rape, etc.) | 1 | 2017-04-16T03:49:14 | 79 | 8 | 2 |
I can say without a doubt, the field of engineering would come to a grinding halt of this were true. A fair amount of engineers are absolutely brilliant, extremely hardworking, and overweight. The company I work for would be in serious trouble if we hadn't hired some of the overweight people we have, and tripling our s... | I think obesity is an outward sign of poor self-discipline CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-29T21:08:17 | 519 | 29 | 2 |
You seem to have a very narrow definition of tourism, and you only seem to be describing certain types of tourism. It also seems to me like you aren't actually criticizing *tourism*, but that you are criticizing a certain lack of awareness and understanding of the world that some tourists tend to have. In your favour:... | I believe that tourism is racist and classist | 1 | 2014-03-29T07:06:38 | 19 | 12 | 3 |
So, to be clear, those women should not vote for Clinton right? And do you honestly believe Clinton can eliminate sexism from society? People said Obama would eliminate racism, yet it's still around. | I believe women should vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. | 1 | 2016-09-22T23:30:59 | 69 | 5 | null |
Although admittedly it is far from a consensus, many seem to believe that the hunting of these exotic animals is objectively wrong and therefore should be prohibited. I have a problem with this kill because; * Legality: It apparently was done in an illegal way. (luring outside of the park, killing animal with a collar... | Those who condemn the hunting of trophy animals and are not vegetarians are hypocrites | 0 | 2015-07-30T04:34:56 | 50 | 2 | 64 |
Flat earthers think governments are faking images from space. Creationists think biologists, paleontologists, physicists, chemists, and geologists are all faking the evidence for evolution. But you don't even need fossil evidence or pictures to disprove flat earth theory. Mathematics and physics, and/or personal observ... | Denying biological evolution is exactly as reasonable as claiming that the earth is flat. | 1 | 2017-03-23T07:02:29 | 95 | 4 | 70 |
I work in technology. I think the Internet is great for lots of things: the sharing of knowledge, debate and conversation, the ability to order goods from around the world, and lastly the ability to connect with each other in new ways. The last is important: Facebook, Tinder, Twitter, Linked In, and the like have let u... | Living via internet is now a possible, even superior, existence | 0 | 2015-10-26T00:08:47 | 54 | 1 | null |
Vegans are not always vegans for reasons you believe. Whatever a person's reason for wanting an abortion is, kinda isn't any of your business. The simple fact they know they don't want a kid is enough to me for there to be an abortion. You wouldn't force a person to care for something they don't want because there's go... | It's extreme hyprocisy to be a vegan and have an "on demand" lifestyle-dictated abortion | 0 | 2016-10-24T11:17:03 | 95 | 3 | 3 |
Why not have a lottery elect all officials every year? Democracy has gerrymandering and parties and all sorts of things to prevent any sort of change or shift. Actually electing everyone by lottery would be far more representative than a modern democracy. | Democracy is the best political system. | 1 | 2014-10-29T04:12:20 | 111 | 1 | 2 |
Well technically you can't 'prove' anything. The best we can say is that it's very (very) likely something is true. So again, you'd need a threshold to determine what is 'statistically motivated' and what isn't. | Extraterrestrial life is not a given and assuming it must exist is a form of religious belief. | 1 | 2016-08-27T00:10:43 | 308 | 1 | null |
You're also making an arbitrary distinction with the "intent". I disagree with you here. This is really the crux of the argument, and maybe you find it to be just a semantic difference, but I think it's a legitimate point. Philosophers who follow the principle of double effect see a difference between foreseen outcomes... | The famous Trolley problem and the related Transplant problem are morally equivalent, in their purest forms. | 1 | 2015-04-19T03:56:25 | 73 | 11 | 12Δ |
It isn't **supposed** to awe the whole world. It isn't **supposed** to be be liked by that guy at PragerU. I'd argue that art can be objectively critiqued if the intent is known. For example, listen to this [recording of Queen of the Night by Florence Foster Jenkins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ubiUIxbWE). She is... | Art is completely subjective and there's no such thing as "good" or "bad" art. | 1 | 2017-07-04T16:36:55 | 52 | 6 | 1 |
You can't do this. Full stop. There are a huge number of reasons but lets start with the first things to happen: 1. Credit to the poor. If there is any question that lending to a person might be a problem that loan will not be made. Credit cards for the poor and lower middle income people would immediately be revoked b... | Governments should enact a true Jubilee for much of their internal debt, forgiving or vastly reducing it to better people's lives and banning harsh collection tactics. | 1 | 2015-03-11T17:14:45 | 126 | 3 | 16Δ |
You have to empathise with him. You aren't treating him like an individual, and that is a mistake. When I watch Moriarty, I am enthralled to see a character so wild, enjoying so much power, and wholly embracing the absurdity of life. He's not supposed to be scary. You're categorizing him into "bad guy," which is not wh... | BBC Sherlock's Moriarty is a terrible, cartoony character | 0 | 2017-01-19T03:15:54 | 127 | 0 | null |
I mean...if you want to talk about a hypothetical that's completely divorced from reality, that's okay. I just don't know why you'd want to do that. At a point, you're just saying "I want to talk about how this is a good idea as if nothing would go wrong." That's not a fair way to frame the conversation. At some point,... | The U.S. is too big for one government, and should be broken up into smaller countries. | 1 | 2014-06-19T21:56:06 | 78 | 9 | 86Δ |
I think your logical flaw comes from saying. "I don't believe people feel a certain way (gender) because I don't feel that way" if I told you I had a stomach ache, would you not believe me because you feel fine? If I told you I felt sad and confused about the morality of eating meat would you not believe me? Why when i... | I do not believe trans/nb people are valid | 0 | 2017-01-05T08:52:44 | 218 | 3 | null |
As a continuation, I believe the right thing for C to do is to inform B of A's infidelity regardless. I do not necessarily think there is a responsibility for C to do so, though. However, this is not central to my belief, or to this post. I think it is. You said it is not immoral to be with someone who is with some els... | It is not immoral to be ''the other person'' with whom somebody in a relationship cheats. | 0 | 2014-12-07T04:14:19 | 122 | 11 | null |
it is the last group they'll need, because it will catch everyone. Hmm. Yeah, to me, it's still just the same thing. It's always been the approach that "the other side" is wrong and bad and evil, and the only thing that changes is the name(s) they call the "bad" guys. Not sure I have much to add without going in circl... | Conservative movements are reaching their final scapegoat. | 1 | 2017-02-24T21:53:08 | 110 | 1 | 2 |
If citizens needlessly die at the hands of police, there is a problem with the police (obviously) If police needlessly die at the hands of citizens, there is a problem with the police still, because the citizens believe the police are not doing their jobs correctly. Let's read this from a different perspective: If poli... | Police being killed is different than citizens being killed by police | 1 | 2016-07-18T06:34:45 | 57 | 1 | 9 |
But it also *causes* another problem: the idea of taxation without representation. Right now, that's voluntary for people who *choose* not to vote. When it becomes involuntary, that's much closer to despotism than it is to democracy. The right to vote is also a check and a balance on the government by the citizenry. I... | Before being able to vote, everyone should have to take a test to prove basic reasoning. | 1 | 2015-02-25T23:09:14 | 37 | 1 | 33 |
Your job as an engineer and scientist has not been to change the world, but to give people the information they need so that THEY can make informed decisions. And that's all you can do. It's all anyone can do. You give people the knowledge they need, but beyond that, it's simply out of our control what people do with i... | As an environmental engineer, I give up! PLEASE CMV! | 1 | 2015-04-23T19:04:25 | 366 | 521 | 37Δ |
Many people in different countries can't tell the difference, in particular, people who live in places where they don't come into contact with many other cultures. So would you consider an insular and naive old lady who uses the word Arab out of ignorance to be full of hatred? For example, some Scottish people really h... | Calling an Iranian "Arab" should be categorized as hate crime | 1 | 2014-11-19T10:36:47 | 57 | 7 | 6 |
I call this the "why can't we have nice things?" problem. In an ideal world, all cultures would borrow and be borrowed from. We'd trade styles and ideas and fashions. Unfortunately, the world is far from ideal. People of colour have been treated inhumanly by white cultures. So when white people selectively choose to ... | wearing dreads or locks is NOT appropriating BLACK culture | 0 | 2017-05-18T21:18:14 | 677 | 39 | null |
Although I agree that illegal immigration should be curbed (if only because we don't know exactly who the people coming in are), [the idea that illegal immigrants are a burden to the economy or social services is false](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/magazine/do-illegal-immigrants-actually-hurt-the-us-economy.html).... | There is no good reason to support illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. | 0 | 2017-04-27T02:09:55 | 88 | 1 | null |
Uh, thanks! You're right in the sense that cis-ness can normally be assumed so there's no need to mention it, say, in your Facebook 'about me' section. But that there's a time and a place when it is very useful. Some people will abuse it because some people adore any and all labels they can apply to themselves, but nob... | I think that "cisgendered" and "cissexual" are unnecessary. | 1 | 2014-04-30T20:13:16 | 173 | 9 | 6Δ |
1. My face looks better with a beard. That is a matter of preference. 2. Initially I started because I was too lazy to shave, then I got used to having facial hair, then it felt weird without any facial hair. 3. I also dont like long gandalf style beards, I dont think most people do, but a well-groomed, short beard l... | I think beards are disgusting. CMV | 0 | 2013-10-22T23:16:54 | 32 | 1 | null |
On the other hand, you will stink to the non smokers and they might avoid you. I have a few friends whom I would probably spend more time with if they didn't smoke, but they smoke a lot and permanently stink as a consequence. And not only that, but they always want to go to the bars that allow smoking if we go out, and... | Nothing can replace the social value of smoking tobacco | 0 | 2014-06-10T12:41:39 | 94 | 1 | null |
My computer is in a shared space in my house (since I don't like being holed up when I use it) and there's a young one in the house. I only use it to browse sites that would be appropriate for the aforementioned young one to see, but oftentimes, those sites have inappropriate ads. This is why I use ad blocker. It's not... | People who use ad-blockers are just as bad as pirates. | 0 | 2016-08-21T18:58:41 | 92 | 1 | 1 |
If there are already deaf people on the road, assuming they don't cause a higher rate of car accidents, injuries, or deaths than the general public, isn't all this concern over nothing? Do you have statistics showing that deaf drivers are, on the whole, more dangerous? Also, to point out some flaws with the risks you b... | deaf people should not be allowed to drive | 0 | 2014-10-08T18:53:22 | 44 | 2 | 9 |
It isn't that no one is producing. It is more that people are significantly less rich than they would be if the population was growing. With less wealth comes a lower standard of living. | A shrinking population size is a good thing | 1 | 2015-07-23T20:29:40 | 68 | 0 | 20 |
I would like to start this post by saying I don't necessarily agree with all of these stances. I do, however, see it as important to understand both sides of the argument so that a meaningful dialogue can be had. As such, I have spent a good amount of time trying to understand the other side of these issues in the hope... | I literally cannot understand most Republican social views. | 0 | 2017-02-10T21:43:43 | 250 | 9 | 85 |
The hit ratio may be poor, but I think people can be swayed over time, as a cumulative effect of many such debates. I know that's what happened to me, as I started life in a Christian environment (regular churchgoers, my mother was a Sunday school teacher!) but in college, when I started to talk to people and argue the... | I think debating religion is a fun game, but ultimately pointless. | 1 | 2016-04-08T19:01:29 | 139 | 4 | 1 |
All right, so let's just go through this. The Empire's forces were already swarming over the base, and the Empire gained nothing by blowing the base up. True. But like you said, the Empire didn't *know* exactly what the Rebels plans were, but they knew exactly why they were there. Yes, the Rebels got the plans, but on... | [Star Wars Rogue One Spoilers] The Empire's Actions at the end of Rogue One make no strategic sense whatsoever | 1 | 2016-12-27T03:45:00 | 61 | 91 | 3 |
if parents are the primary, then they do have to have some right to say "they're my child". they might be wrong in doing so, but the statement itself is not illegitimate unless you claim the community's right exceeds the parents'. | Educating a child is the duty of the whole community, not just the parent | 1 | 2016-06-18T18:36:27 | 129 | 20 | 9 |
I do not have children, but if i did, i can assure you they would be getting vaccinated on schedule. The science is in, vaccinating children prevents them from getting sick. In the first six months of a childs life, the CDC recommends hepatitis b, diptheria, tetanus, pertussis vaccinations. Believe me, they are not doi... | I believe that no vaccine should be given to any child under one year of age, especially a newborn. CMV | 0 | 2013-05-06T15:40:25 | 34 | 0 | null |
After some consideration at work today, I've decided I don't agree with you about that. The main reason is that of all the people in the world that are neglecting those other children, you've singled out the people that want to have their own babies as the ones that should be responsible for them. What about the people... | People who decide to have biological children are selfish CMV | 1 | 2013-06-27T04:45:17 | 120 | 1 | 3 |
But, who cares? Life is short. Have fun and celebrate the small things in life even if it is super easy. I can see why it's frustrating though. I worked 60ish hours a week while going to school full time. A lot of my friends had their parents pay for their school, they fucked around and barely passed all their classes.... | College graduation should only be celebrated if it was genuinely hard for you | 1 | 2017-06-07T06:57:56 | 38 | 15 | 4 |
If feminists as a group changed their name to egalitarians or something similar, then people would (rightly) question why they only work to help women's issues. So they couldn't change their name to egalitarians, because then their name would no longer make any sense. | Feminists should change their title (maybe to egalitarians) to disassociate themselves from the extremists. | 0 | 2015-07-15T06:12:01 | 127 | 6 | 11 |
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