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I don't know too much about rugby, but I watched a bit of it between plays during a recent football game, and my initial reaction was that it was "crazy football." American football was derived from rugby, so they have a lot of similarities. I think most of what you praised football for also exists in rugby. But one of... | Based on objective measures of skill, athleticism and strategy, American football is the greatest sport ever created. | 0 | 2014-09-24T22:15:09 | 54 | 2 | 6 |
I would like to expand on one aspect of /u/soiltostone's post: One [form of education] is the acquisition of knowledge, which may be helpful in your career of choice, and also **will help you develop as a person.** I hear this said fairly regularly but I would like to expand on *how* an education may make someone a be... | I think I should learn what I want to learn in high school. | 0 | 2014-05-07T06:30:30 | 28 | 1 | null |
I don't think catastrophic climate change is for certain. Let me spin you a pollyanna story. I'm not saying it will happen, but it might .... The main environmental problem of our time is the use of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum and natural gas) for *energy*. About half of our energy use is via electricity, coal (the ... | [CMV] I believe that it is too late for humans to avert catastrophic climate change because even if we did make drastic changes now it would not be enough to stop us from going past tipping points | 1 | 2015-08-09T14:51:00 | 68 | 6 | 1 |
I don't know about you, but liberal arts is not about looking for a job. It's about gaining critical thinking and philosophical skills that schools and technical degrees don't offer. Also, liberal arts degrees offers language courses like French, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic and much more. Language education has... | I believe that hard science majors, especially at top colleges, are far superior to liberal arts majors. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-12T01:52:12 | 70 | 4 | null |
I didn't mention it because I feel that a harmonious society tends to be an equal one. Well that's kinda debatable societies have long functioned and been "harmonious" (by many standards) without any form of equality. In fact equality itself is a fairly new (and good imho) idea. But its hardly a common or even natural ... | Feminism Is Being Given Way Too Much Hate Than It Deserves | 1 | 2017-04-04T23:54:57 | 152 | 5 | 87 |
Because I'm unsure of your motive for wanting to see this enacted, I'll respond with two different ideas! - If your goal is to increase the humane treatment of animals, you'd be better off trying to pass laws requiring free range animals and the like. If someone were to try to convince me not to eat meat because I had... | I believe all meat eaters in the developed world should be required to personally kill, skin, and cook an animal at least once. CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-01T02:32:25 | 78 | 1 | null |
believe that what America needs is a focus on infrastructure, jobs and. I feel like Trump would at least be helpful in these respects. Trump's infastructure plan, in his own words, is privatize it, subsidize the cost and make them a revenue stream, for the company. So, he wants you to foot the bill of creating infrastr... | Hillary Clinton is not the lesser of two evils. | 0 | 2016-11-01T22:05:22 | 75 | 3 | 3 |
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about Trump's negative words towards our relationships with European countries, since he's mentioned thinks like pulling out of NATO, trade deals, etc. This would harm our relations with almost literally that isn't Russia or China. (Of course, he's also mentioned policies that would st... | Hillary Clinton is not the lesser of two evils. | 0 | 2016-11-01T21:52:36 | 75 | 2 | 25 |
Because either extreme of 'your personal views are only your own' and 'your personal views are a product of the environment around you' are reductive. The real reason lies somewhere in between. You can say that values are *more* a product of the environment than the person themselves, but to assert that their origin l... | Your personal views and values are not your own, but rather belong to your surroundings | 1 | 2015-12-23T16:03:51 | 34 | 3 | 1 |
I don't think you are a racist at all. You would be a racist if you felt that someone else being black *causes* them to be a less ideal citizen. Being more cautious around people with a certain physical trait that is correlated with harmful activity is not racism. That's just being rational. You should, of course, real... | I'm somewhat racist and that's okay. It's a rational racism. | 0 | 2017-03-19T09:24:42 | 42 | 5 | 10 |
For all of human history getting sperm hasn't been a big issue. Women can have one night stands with men easily, and with attractive males. There are expensive alternatives in the future coming but few women are rich lesbians. Most are heterosexual women. Lesbians have less kids anyway. A partner means intimacy, wealth... | Human men are about to become surplus as father and eventually as a biological concept | 1 | 2017-07-01T17:21:21 | 68 | 3 | 133 |
If I understand your first paragraph correctly, yes. So long as we are using a catch-all term for FGM (which seems likely and probably useful), that term should indicate the higher level of horror that many forms of FGM take when compared with circumcision. If you want to call circumcision MGM, then FGM should be rebra... | In the interest of not being sexist, either circumcision should be rebranded as "male genital mutilation" (and also to give circumcision the frightening name it deserves), or FGM should be rebranded as "female circumcision" | 1 | 2016-08-13T16:07:58 | 265 | 41 | 3 |
Picking a third candidate that both sides can agree on (that's another issue entirely), would cause much more civil unrest than a candidate that more than half of the country voted for. That's why the EC simply nominates a third candidate, but doesn't give anyone enough votes to win the EC, and so sends the election to... | The Electoral College should elect Hillary Clinton as president by way of faithless electors. | 1 | 2016-11-15T17:51:32 | 94 | 3 | 19 |
I think your definition of property was actually quite correct, it just had consequences that undermined your initial premise. Property *is* based on communal recognition embodied in the social contract. A thing can't really be considered a right unless it's recognized by others as such. For example, you ask if you hav... | I believe that taxation is theft. CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-18T16:36:32 | 297 | 7 | 86Δ |
It's that the subreddit itself and the subject matter is sexist, not *just* the users. While some of these are basic ideas on how to present yourself better and feel more confident, many of them and the subreddit itself presents an unhealthy and inaccurate view of women that results in new users, who often don't have a... | r/TheRedPill, albeit sexist, would benefit most men's lives. | 0 | 2017-06-18T01:35:44 | 119 | 4 | 3 |
Your point is that he essentially brought it upon himself. That he was asking for it by putting himself in a situation where it could happen, by creating a context where the premise was that anybody could do anything to him, so he can't complain when somebody does something to him. The problem is that your conclusion d... | I think Shia Labouf's claim of "rape" is offensive to rape victims everywhere | 1 | 2014-12-01T04:31:56 | 601 | 3 | 1 |
Do you think would be OK right to take away the freedoms from those of us law abiding citizens so others in more dangerous regions can feel safer? Those of us that are not gang members or drug dealers? Those of us who rely on our weapons not only for Sporting, Hunting, Collecting, but also for self defense? How about f... | I believe that guns increase violence - CMV | 1 | 2014-03-04T22:34:03 | 113 | 7 | 2 |
The Jewish history is a history of genocide... perpetrated by the Jewish people, upon their smaller and weaker neighbors--and occasionally, by virtue of exceptional military leadership, against larger and conventionally stronger neighbors. This appears to be little more than an unnecessary rhetorical flourish on your p... | I believe that secular Jewish culture is heinously barbaric. | 0 | 2014-07-31T15:34:25 | 113 | 59 | 86Δ |
I believe it's a combination of things in and out of ones control, So you DO believe that some things "out of ones control" can nevertheless benefit a person? That is a very definition of "luck." Events are deemed lucky when "success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions." http... | I don't believe in Luck | 0 | 2014-10-22T20:53:49 | 31 | 8 | 34Δ |
I actually agree with you largely. However, a lot of the problem lies on the band itself. As a guitarist, I never would have believed it. But I absolutely did once I shifted into live sound. 1) Drums are fucking loud. Ever hear a drummer tear into a snare? Ever hear one smash his cymbals? In some small club shows, ther... | Indoor live music gigs are far too loud, and should be quieter. CMV. | 0 | 2013-10-20T15:51:14 | 103 | 120 | null |
You can save a life for $2500 today, but that doesn't guarantee that any people are saved in the long term. Donations to save Rwandans from malaria in 1990 were not as effective as they seemed, especially considering that the ensuing slaughter seems to have had as much to do with overpopulation as with ethnicity. A $2... | Most Charitable Donations in the U.S. are Actually Luxury Spending. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-27T00:27:47 | 57 | 5 | 3 |
Here's the thing. All branches of science work with models of reality. These models are *never* complete or 100% accurate. But they are good enough to explain whatever they are trying to explain, and make useful predictions. Mathematical models are part of this deal. Economics tries to come up with mathematical models ... | Economics is an illegitimate and largely pointless discipline | 0 | 2016-08-11T03:11:29 | 51 | 1 | null |
You are right, the government's help is much more beneficial, but until it's there it's not fair to say "you can have no other help except the governments" because they can then legitimately say "but the government isn't giving me enough help". Simply banning private citizens feeding/helping the homeless is wrong if th... | The laws against feeding the homeless at your will are justified. | 1 | 2017-01-10T02:25:21 | 48 | 7 | 14 |
I tink trying to puzzle out whether a movie deserves a certain rotten tomatoes score is a bad idea from the start, since rotten tomatoes is a review aggregator. To say that a movie deserves an 80% instead of a 90% for example, means that critics 1 through 8 were right to enjoy the movie but critic 9 was wrong to think ... | The movie 'Get Out' is a viciously racist anti-White film that went over the heads of most white people. | 1 | 2017-03-16T05:12:02 | 80 | 20 | 98 |
I don't personally agree with this view, but some would argue political polarization and the resultant gridlock are good. Small-*c* conservatives want government to stay out of the way and let the private sector and charities solve problems. In Redditese, these would be the people saying, "But muh freedumz, mah liberte... | Political Polarization appears to be killing progress on pretty much every issue and we are doomed if we don't reverse course | 1 | 2017-02-25T22:11:17 | 155 | 2 | 2 |
Can you get excited about preventing the Republicans from controlling every branch of government? | I'm not excited for a Hillary Clinton presidency | 0 | 2015-05-21T17:19:31 | 618 | 2 | 4Δ |
First of all, I think you're talking federal politicians only, which is much harder to seem honest and open because of the nature of the job. They're trying to play nice with everyone so they don't make too many enemies that will block their bills, and have friends to help pass them, and also satisfy all of their const... | There will never be a goodhearted, honest politician in our system. | 1 | 2015-06-29T21:56:21 | 32 | 2 | 32 |
"Fuck you, you simple bitch," See how easy that was? I wouldn't say that to a coworker or a classmate or a SO, (maybe to a good friend but that's something else) but its easy to say to you because we're both anonymous here. The truth is, anonymity doesn't turn people into assholes. It just lets people who are already a... | I think the idea that anonymity turns people into assholes is exaggerated. | 0 | 2014-08-22T19:49:22 | 37 | 1 | null |
The fact stands that Americans died while on patrol trying to find this man. A man who was not captured while in combat. ***A man who deserted his post.*** German Nazi deserters today are considered to be heros (and frankly, essentially the only heros we accept to have in WW2). | The release of is Bowe Bergdahl should be considered a national disgrace. | 0 | 2014-06-01T14:23:11 | 50 | -12 | null |
yes Then is a delta in order...? Per the rules of the sub: If you've had your view changed in *any* way, then you should award a delta to the user(s) that made it happen | "End of the world" predictions are human hubris. | 1 | 2017-02-23T19:46:20 | 74 | 1 | 18 |
You are aware that I'm not supporting this view, right? I'm merely suggesting that it's not hate-driven. I am aware. True, but I never brought up the Bible as a reason. Abrahamic religions seem to consistently be the ones invoked to condemn homosexuality. It's fair to argue that a God wouldn't command people to repre... | Opposition to homosexuality, although wrong, is not necessarily malicious | 1 | 2017-03-29T09:54:28 | 67 | 1 | 25 |
Bullying is a way for the fitter humans to rise above weaker humans If they're already fitter, why do they need to bully in order to rise above? Aren't they already inherently "above" the weaker ones, making bullying just an outlet for aggression instead of a survival tactic? That's like saying, "Well, I've got these t... | Bullying is a natural and beneficial human activity. | 0 | 2016-10-15T20:18:37 | 100 | 5 | 2 |
I wish to contend your generalization. A small clarification first: I've never studied in the USA so I'm explicitly going to disregard my own academic experience. You start your post with "My experience thus far..." - and you write just about that. Certain sentences hint that you're studying computer science, specifica... | University system (in the US) is an enormous scam that focuses on separating as much money from you as possible instead of quality education. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-21T22:54:14 | 121 | 1 | null |
Well I don't believe in 'belief'. Reality exists. There are things about reality that are objectively true, even if precise definition is difficult. The sky is blue. The ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference is 3.14... We may not all perceive blue the same way, but the wavelengths of light that get pas... | I believe you should never hold a belief so firm that your mind cannot be changed. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-13T17:04:08 | 116 | 4 | 1 |
This is kind of hard to explain, but I'll do my best to show my viewpoint. The reason people are upset is because dogs (and to a lesser extent, cats) are pets, and from the onset, dogs and cats were always going to be pets to humans - because they're carnivores. Sure, you *can* have a pig, chicken, or cow as a pet, j... | People complain about the chinese dog festival (Yulin) but not about all the other animals that we, westerners eat, that's hypocrisy. | 1 | 2016-06-19T18:49:03 | 502 | 23 | 3 |
a definition of 'gay' as 'being aroused by homosexual sex' First, I would argue that arousal is not an appropriate definition of sexuality. For example: - Spontaneous erections are a common physiological quirk, and don't necessarily indicate that a man wants to have sex in that moment. This is especially true during pu... | Being gay is a choice | 1 | 2016-11-17T20:07:34 | 158 | 1 | 1 |
From my perspective, if you have a rule which says that by default an officer shall not be indicted for shooting someone who resisted arrest, the rule will create a situation in which it is *easy* for a cop to *lie about someone resisting arrest*, kill them, and get away with it. In particular, it would create a situat... | If the police shoot someone who resisted arrest, it should be nearly impossible to indict the involved officer(s) | 0 | 2015-02-26T15:10:15 | 59 | 1 | 14 |
Critical thinking and rationalism is only a small part of philosophy. There are also genres like mysticism. The purpose of philosophy is to teach people how to live. Philosophy is useless if you don't practice it in your life. In that sense, I would support the introduction of philosophy in the educational system in sc... | Philosophy should be taught at an appropriate age and continued throughout the education system. In university, the English requirement should be interchangeable (or changed to) a philosophy requirement. | 0 | 2016-06-06T04:57:30 | 330 | 0 | null |
Otherkin are a fringe group of therians (which are also a fringe group). From what I have seen, most otherkin do not believe they are an animal, but feel a connection or want to be like an animal because of *human* cultural or religious attitudes about the animal. But it doesn't have to be strong or deeply spiritual. I... | "Otherkin" need to see a shrink. Maybe good as therapy, not good as a long-term lifestyle choice. | 0 | 2016-01-10T23:20:59 | 242 | 11 | null |
I don't agree with an ideology that includes murdering a woman for getting raped The CMV is about the right or wrong of torturing people we believe to be terrorists. You are for this torture. What makes your behaviour superior from that which you have just described? I don't agree that anyone who insults their relig... | Terrorists should not have the right to be treated like humans. | 1 | 2016-07-24T11:54:02 | 48 | 6 | 1 |
The net gain from sharing information, despite the possibility of misinformation, outweighs the net loss of not sharing information. You don't have to be 100% right. You don't really even have to be right *at all.* It is better to share a *shitty, wrong idea* than to keep it to yourself, because the shitty idea can be ... | I believe there is no possible way to spread information morally. | 1 | 2016-04-22T22:18:48 | 33 | 1 | 1 |
In your post you said that the only thing that would justify both practices being illegal is "huge health, psychological and practical issues." I'm not sure why you'll only be convinced by a critical problem that arises from necrophilia or cannibalism, since you haven't listed any upside to allowing the practices other... | I have no problem with cannibalism or necrophilia CMV | 0 | 2013-07-08T06:46:07 | 91 | 1 | 17 |
by asking for mercy through submission, by looking ridiculous with tears pouring down their face This might make sense in a scenario where someone has done something wrong and is asking for forgiveness, but there are plenty of other times adults might cry that have nothing to do with asking for mercy or submission. For... | Crying in adults is manipulative | 0 | 2015-12-11T03:23:33 | 69 | 3 | 85 |
*I'm* shy as fuck around strangers, and I'm thirty years old. Alcohol makes me less shy around strangers; and it's not just me - the lowering of social inhibitions and hangups is one of the main reasons people go to bars to drink. Does it really make sense to propose as a measure for when one should be legally allowed ... | The age a person can first make small talk with strangers is a good indicator of when they can drink alcohol. | 1 | 2017-03-19T23:04:42 | 25 | 22 | 3 |
Literally all you need to do is nuke some water and let it sit. You used to just put water in the cup and mic it, it was even more convenient. Of course now they tell you not to because its not safe to microwave styrofoam. Yet here I am having made it the unsafe way many times doing who knows what harm to myself just b... | Cup-o-soup instant lunch meals are one of the best snack/lunches | 1 | 2016-10-30T19:53:55 | 44 | 9 | 9 |
You get more food in the bowl, and you also can request a tortilla on the side. If anything, the bowl should be more expensive. | The burrito bowls at Chipotle should be cheaper than a regular burrito due to the only major difference being a lack of tortilla | 1 | 2015-10-25T01:33:30 | 173 | 387 | null |
* Sharing yourself nude on the internet is super taboo and the vast majority of people who do, for safety and privacy, would never show part or all of their face. So... don't post. Who's forcing men at gunpoint to post their mugshot on that sub? * If this was a rule on a female gonewild, I feel like there'd be some sor... | It's both invasive and sexist for /r/ladybonersgw to require submitters post their face | 0 | 2015-07-17T02:56:14 | 219 | 1 | 1 |
You are used to listening to music. Working out without it feels wrong. But if you were used to working out without music, then you might find the music distracting. You would require greater self-determination to keep exercising despite the distraction of the music. It's like how if you live in the US, you drive on t... | People should't listen to music when they work out. | 1 | 2015-04-22T16:26:36 | 86 | 6 | 39Δ |
I think it's situational. I believe that higher percentages of body fat was a positive trait in Polynesian cultures for long sea journeys, but these guys were still pretty fit. Perhaps in a disaster of attrition this may help, but these people would be more prone to injury and disorders, which one would need to factor ... | Obese, gun owning Americans are well prepared for a global disaster. | 1 | 2016-12-26T06:29:43 | 76 | 27 | 1 |
I think this least-bad-option-lowest-common-denominator stuff is a trick of false consciousness designed to ensure that the voter hands their power over to the political class. Rather than them coming to you to argue for your vote, it shifts the dynamic and makes you come to them. It does this by totally warping your s... | I should vote pragmatically, instead of idealistically with possible consequences. | 1 | 2016-08-04T11:42:41 | 55 | 3 | 5 |
I'll challenge "human technology". I don't think you can call the idea of something that contains another thing a human invention or technology. It's just so much more fundamental than clothing or fire that I don't think it can count - your mouth is a container, your cells are containers... | The most fundamental human technology is the container. | 0 | 2014-05-19T06:14:08 | 58 | 12 | null |
The right to vote has greater protection than rights that are not constitutionally protected. The rights to buy alcohol and tobacco, and to drive a car are not constitutionally protected rights (the 21st amendment does not grant the right to buy alcohol is simply repeals an amendment that prohibited the sale of alcohol... | If voter ID laws are unconstitutional, so are other things requiring a photo ID. | 0 | 2014-10-11T01:08:48 | 155 | 0 | null |
So I am similar to you in that I don't see much appeal in drinking, and have never gotten drunk. That said, I will drink a little in social circumstances for two main reasons: 1. I don't like being awkward. 2. Some alcoholic beverages legitimately taste really good. Having a drink or two with a meal will not get you dr... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 0 | 2015-01-18T19:01:37 | 446 | 36 | 51 |
I'm a little late to the game, but if those 55 million had been born, social security wouldn't be bankrupt and millions of people who should be retired would be | America is a better place because of the 55 million abortions its had | 0 | 2015-01-06T01:20:44 | 139 | 1 | 1 |
This is not always true but adoption agencies will decide who you are allowed to adopt based on medical problems. If the kid is healthy sometimes they just let him grow up in the orphanage. If the kid needs "a lot of work" they will send him away. Kinda sad. But some parents want a healthy child I guess. Not an expert ... | It's egoistic if you want children but are unwilling to adopt. | 0 | 2017-06-28T18:17:21 | 82 | 1 | null |
Sure you can lose weight if you do that, but transitioning to a less filling diet (assuming you're just going to eat less of what you already do eat rather than introducing new low calorie items) will give you insatiable food cravings which can work against you. Assuming you have the rock solid ability to tell yourself... | I can lose weight only by lowering my calories and walking my dog. | 0 | 2014-10-27T17:38:58 | 42 | 3 | 14 |
I’m going to repost something I wrote about punishment and it’s place in the justice system. Punishment comes with multiple goals: Rehabilitate bad actors (then why have a fixed time period of jail) Deter bad decisions (It’s known that longer sentences don’t affect decision making) Remove those who cannot be rehabilit... | The US needs to change the way it treats its "criminals". | 0 | 2017-04-18T18:19:32 | 43 | 2 | 55 |
It's a sucker move if you view it purely from the "It cost me more money" perspective. Personally, if a game is really good, I'd prefer they get full price for their work. I paid $60 for Breath of the Wild. It's an absolutely amazing game. In fact, it's so amazing that I spent another $20 on the expansion pass for the ... | Paying full price for a video game right at release is a sucker move, since you're essentially paying a premium to participate in a massive beta test that results in dozens of gigs of patches, fixes and free additional content ready and waiting for you the first time you play if you wait. | 0 | 2017-03-23T15:38:41 | 53 | 2 | null |
Look at it like this: say you make a super clever but obtuse pun to a group, one guy gets the reference and thinks it's the most funny/clever things he's heard all week. Those who don't get it just hear some random non-sequitur phrase, and it's not funny. Maybe you even explain it to them, but you know how that goes, a... | Modern Art is not "Real Art" and using the argument that it's subjective is a poor argument. | 0 | 2016-12-04T21:37:14 | 710 | 372 | null |
In order to know more about politics, you have to be better educated, maybe have more leisure time, have reliable access to internet and/or TV, and likely speak good English. While those are good qualities for voters to have, any efforts to make people without some of those qualities vote is going to disenfranchise the... | you shouldn't vote if you don't know a lot about politics. | 0 | 2015-10-07T17:42:55 | 50 | 9 | null |
While I do agree that you would have a better chance of getting into a meaningful relationship in your 30's, it takes experience to do so and the only way to experience xmiss to love and receive love. The hurt and pain is inevitable when it comes to love but at least it helps in self discovery because you will eventual... | Waiting until your 30s for a meaningful relationship is the best way to live | 0 | 2016-06-07T02:59:28 | 65 | 2 | 1 |
In many areas, deer are over populated and pigs are horribly invasive. Hunting has proven to be the most effective way of curtailing these problems. Every feral hog you kill is a direct benefit to the environment and economy. Once the animals are being hunted, it is a bit of a waste to just let the meat sit there inste... | There is not a single rational reason for a citizen of the developed world to continue eating red meat. | 1 | 2017-03-28T21:56:12 | 139 | 22 | 90 |
Here's an answer that's not just liberal Fox-bashing... Fox News understands that news is a form of entertainment, and they have understood that from the beginning. They understand that *all* news is influenced by opinions and personality, and that simply going on air and reading the "straight" news off a teleprompter ... | Based on cable news ratings, I believe that informed people prefer Fox news, and uniformed people don't watch the news. CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-07T21:46:48 | 43 | 15 | 20Δ |
It's sole purpose is to undermine the teaching of the church, that God created the universe. What? Its sole purpose is to share what we scientifically understand about the beginning of the universe. Whether it was done by a god or not doesn't matter into how we understand the universe. I actually know christians who t... | There is no educational benefit to teaching the Big Bang theory in schools. | 0 | 2017-01-30T17:54:16 | 91 | 1 | 58 |
I am a straight, white male and I self-identify as an egalitarian. I *also* self-identify as a feminist, pro-LGBTA, anti-racist, and several other similar groups. I consider *all of these* to be subsets of egalitarianism focusing on one particular type of inequality. (I also take a fairly dim view of conspiracy theoris... | "Egalitarianism" is an euphemism for anti-feminism and sexism, the same way "race realism" is an euphemism for white supremacism. CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-10T23:17:39 | 193 | 5 | 1 |
There are a few reasons not to do this: **It is flagrantly unconstitutional.** The Constitution sets forth the exact requirements to stand for election to the House and Senate. For the House, you must: * Be 25 years old; * Have been a citizen for 7 years; and * Be a resident of the state from which you're elected. Unde... | A congressional "re-boot" would breathe new life into the legislative branch of the federal U.S. government. | 0 | 2015-03-20T18:33:36 | 173 | 175 | 67Δ |
First I'd say not all gender stereotypes are necessarily socially constructed, some may just be common because as sexually dimorphic species there are differences between men and women. I think how stereotypes and manners of identifying gender or treating them evolve over time has at least some link to the physical dif... | with their voice therapy, implants, skirts and heels: trans people have a very narrow definition of the gender they want to express. Without socially constructed gender stereotypes and clothing expectations, trans people wouldn't exist. | 0 | 2017-02-24T01:43:35 | 405 | 0 | 49 |
Cutting a slit in your cheek to slide the Reese's in so you could consume it without parting your lips would be the wrong way to eat a Reese's. Also, spelling it "Reece's" is wrong, for what it's worth. | There's no wrong way to eat a Reece's | 0 | 2015-01-16T00:39:39 | 99 | 19 | 1 |
First, many laws specifically exempt breast feeding from indecent exposure laws. So "laws exist" argument fails. "Forty-nine states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands have laws that specifically allow women to breastfeed in any public or private location. " http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/breastfeedin... | Breastfeeding in public is tantamount to indecent exposure. | 0 | 2015-08-10T20:46:21 | 99 | 43 | 59 |
But blacks tend to be more vocal in crowds, for instance - they will speak out in a movie theater (or live theater), or cheer their approval of their performers mid-piece. Not to mention "dressing black", which is grounds to be shot in Florida. As for Jews, it's less the greed stereotype as the loud-mouthed, pushy lawy... | Flamboyant, over-the-top, 'flaming' gay people are more harm to achieving equality than good. | 1 | 2014-08-17T00:48:17 | 56 | 2 | 108Δ |
Hourly employees, who are paid based on the time spent working, aren't usually given paid vacation, and sick days are only common at higher pay grades. They do usually get overtime pay as an incentive to stick to projects when they need to be done. Salaried employees, who are paid based on level of work completed, a su... | Employers shouldn't pay for employees vacation time or sick days; if you're not at the jobsite working you shouldn't get paid | 1 | 2015-03-27T20:43:22 | 92 | 1 | 15Δ |
1) A lot of this probably hinges on your definition of society. Clearly you accept there are other values to people in society through your ending caveats, but I guess then why is earned income even to society? Think of it this way. CE1: If I pay someone $100 to mow my lawn, why is that $100 a benefit to society? It on... | CMV the societal worth of human life is measured by earned income | 0 | 2013-12-26T00:05:03 | 92 | 3 | null |
I just got married to an only daughter, and one of the many things I learned about women in our parents generation is wedding planning (the fun parts at least) with their daughter is something they have been looking forward to since the day they found out they were having a girl. One of those experiences they always en... | Spending money on a wedding dress hardly seems worth it if we’re having a small wedding. | 1 | 2014-08-14T17:03:20 | 31 | 11 | 16Δ |
They use the phrase to cover up their ignorance, in order to protect their misconstrued beliefs. Sometimes it boils down to a values judgement. If you want to talk about abortion or same-sex marriage, the underlying reasoning for that is very much opinion. The idea of being an "expert" on a topic is no longer valid. I... | "Everyone is entitled to their opinion" is a dangerous phrase that allowed American society get to the disappointing state that it is currently in. | 0 | 2014-12-11T22:03:58 | 169 | 31 | 15 |
If you want a kitchen table and chairs you can probably get one for less than $100 on Craigslist. Some second-hand stores like Salvation Army stores sell cheap used furniture. Hell, if you want to make a kitchen table and chairs you can probably buy the supplies and make it for $100 after learning how to online. If you... | the fact that IKEA is pretty much the only place most people can afford to buy furniture is a sign that capitalism is a failure. | 0 | 2015-10-07T05:05:43 | 363 | 10 | 46 |
I happen to think Milo Yiuannopolis is a clown, but that doesn't mean I think anyone has the right to stop him from speaking. You're missing the point. No one is stopping Milo from saying a word. What people *are* doing is to deny him an official place to speak from within, for example, a university. Milo asks them to... | Infringing on Free Speech rights is indefensible. | 0 | 2017-03-14T10:19:40 | 125 | 3 | null |
I was pro unisex bathrooms until this happened to my friend: She was in one of the good bars in the student area of the city. It has a reputation for being safe, LGBT friendly, cleaner, a bit more expensive than the rest. In the unisex bathroom, a creepy older man asked if she "needed a hand" in the stall, and made sim... | All non-lockerroom restrooms should be Co-Ed | 1 | 2017-03-30T23:20:52 | 304 | 25 | 1 |
The biggest problem with your view is that Moore's Law is already dead, and predicted to grind pretty much to a halt by 2020. The *physical* limitations are close. Once you get to a transistor a few atoms wide, we really don't have a good replacement technology coming on line any time soon. The *economics* of continui... | Within the next 15 years we will enter into a time of extreme technological change. Faster than what anyone in any time period has ever experienced. | 0 | 2016-08-22T05:10:14 | 141 | 2 | 190 |
A problem with only adopting is that you let other people decide what the next generation looks like. We know that [personality traits are heritable](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8776880), which means genes influence them. Therefore it matters who the biological parents of the next generation are. Children are no... | Due to Climate Change and the growing world population, the most moral option in the US is to adopt instead of having a biological child. | 0 | 2016-06-19T16:49:17 | 75 | 0 | 16 |
I smoked every day for years. A few things. 1) I always felt content with doing nothing. Rather than programming or playing piano or doing something else that would increase a skill, I would just sit on my ass for hours, getting high. While others were increasing their value as human beings, I was making zero progress.... | There's nothing wrong with me smoking marijuana at the end of the day | 0 | 2014-05-29T16:05:58 | 654 | 1 | null |
There are still separations, though. Social liberals, illegal immigrants, muslims and 'globalists'. You are not going to find Muslims targeted by being called SJWs. I don't see any conglomeration, and even if there was, why would that have to be final? | Conservative movements are reaching their final scapegoat. | 1 | 2017-02-25T02:50:53 | 110 | 4 | 2 |
I honestly don't understand where you're coming from; could you explain the path a little bit? Personally, I feel bad whenever anything bad happens to anybody; this is my baseline. If you can, could you try to explain why you don't? | I see nothing wrong when someone dies of drug overdose or a gang member gets shot. | 0 | 2016-11-11T21:06:46 | 138 | 5 | 34 |
You gotta remember that to Christians, it's not a "story". It's not like a novel that has been written with children in mind. When you really believe this stuff, it's not a story. It's history. Now, whether or not you agree, if you view it from the perspective of simply giving a factual account of history, I think mos... | The story of Noah's Ark is horrifying and should not be taught to children | 0 | 2017-07-06T17:36:43 | 190 | 11 | 91 |
While you are correct that "gamers are generally a pretty cheap bunch," it is the ones that are not cheap who effectively fund the development of the game. There is a term for them in the industry - a "whale" - and it is normal to have several $10k whales playing an F2P title. If you had any idea how much more profitab... | I think F2P is a bad business model for gaming CMV | 1 | 2013-10-05T13:07:35 | 48 | 2 | 1 |
What about volunteering/charity/non profit organisations working in dangerous conditions? These guys don't even get paid, which is pretty manly in my opinion. They are selfless. | I believe the firefighting is the manliest, most heroic and most respectable profession, CMV | 1 | 2014-01-16T10:26:15 | 26 | 5 | 3 |
I think you're stating the benefits a bit more than what would happen in reality. With B.I.G., owning a home is no longer an unrealistic goal for most folks in the lower rungs of poverty. Basically what you're saying is if you take away programs that give money/education/food/emergency housing/healthcare/etc.. to help ... | [CMV]I believe Basic Income Guarantee is the solution to most, if not all of America's societal woes. | 0 | 2013-06-10T22:42:33 | 180 | 3 | 4 |
"Swift Playgrounds, Home, and WatchOS will be important to less than 10% of Apple's total customer base, combined." First of all, based on this argument, everything they should care about would be iOS as that makes up about 95% of Apple's user base (estimated from Q2 2016 unit sales). Mac sales are 4.7% of iPhone sales... | Today's Apple keynote was the worst that Apple has ever had | 1 | 2016-06-14T20:04:11 | 139 | 1 | 1 |
Also, bullying always has two sides. I was unaware that having puberty later than others was somehow my fault. I was small at the beginning of high school, and got bullied because the bullies enjoyed the feeling of having power over someone weaker than them. When I went through puberty and got bigger than them, it stop... | I believe that kids who are bullied are partially to blame for the bullying and all this new attention placed on "anti-bullying" is a little too much. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-11T17:06:03 | 72 | 57 | 6 |
I believe the struggle with this statement, both from you and from the professor is that each person has their own definition of racist. We all have a visual image in our mind of a racist, and we know many people that don't fit that visual image and are very far from it. The statement "all whites are racist" seems lik... | All whites are racist | 1 | 2016-10-19T20:03:42 | 114 | 4 | 10 |
Where I live, 1% milk is cheaper than both whole and skim milk (I'm not sure about 2%). So price may be a factor. | I don't understand why anyone would drink 2% milk. | 1 | 2014-05-07T08:21:53 | 38 | 6 | 3 |
Can I ask what inspired this post and why you think you might be interested in having your view changed? It is a very specific idea you are talking about here. I would suggest that many of the people you describe *don't want* homosexuals to have and raise kids. In some states it is difficult or nearly impossible for ga... | If you are against the idea of allowing homosexuals to marry because you feel marriage is about having kids and raising them, then you should be against old people marrying and against sterile people marrying. | 0 | 2017-07-03T19:52:07 | 270 | 54 | 17 |
I'm a bit confused why fencing is on your list. A lot of the scoring is electronic now -- in épée you get a point if you make a touch, a circuit gets completed and a light goes off. The director's there to make sure people aren't breaking rules, to make sure that a light didn't go off from someone hitting the floor, wa... | We should remove from the Olympics sports that require judge(s) to declare a winner | 1 | 2016-02-04T21:08:50 | 149 | 5 | 2 |
There are some who choose their religion or chose to become atheists, but the majority stays in the religion they were born and socialised in without questioning it. You cannot really consider that an active choice. So we should not encourage people to stop beeing religious. We should encourage them to think for themse... | "religious" discrimination is vastly different from racism and sexism, mostly in that the "victim" could have prevented it by not being religious. We should encourage people to not be religious | 1 | 2015-12-17T01:04:16 | 80 | 3 | 1 |
I don't know anyone who has ever spent 6 months salary on an engagement ring. If was do that, then I would be paying more for my ring then I will pay for my entire wedding. I really don't think that is all what most people do. As per the ring, the experience after engagement is completely different for a woman than it ... | The "you should spend x months salary on a wedding ring" idea is morally reprehensible and financially irresponsible in every single case. | 0 | 2014-10-14T08:44:13 | 92 | 3 | null |
Memories, sense of purpose, feelings of love and so forth are all drivers in the field of behavioral economics. Those things have value, and while that value may not be monetary, the drive to acquire that value is describable within the field of behavioral economics in the same way that the drive to acquire wealth is. | I think I should not have any more philosophical debate with my YEC mother. | 1 | 2015-04-09T22:01:06 | 128 | 5 | 13Δ |
Robots don't have ambitions, we should stop treating them and talking about them as if they're human beings with emotions. This is the problem, that any AI would *not* be human and would *not* have human emotions. Humans want human things; happiness, freedom, safety etc as guided that way by millions of years of evolu... | There's no danger that robots will take over the world in the future | 0 | 2017-03-31T19:42:23 | 100 | 1 | 3 |
It is a major problem for Christian theology - in a sense it is the biggest problem for Christian theology, up there with trying to prove God exists in the first place. Christian philosophers have been trying to come up with a good answer for a long, long time. Like a lot of problems in Christian theology, though, it i... | Even if the Christian God existed, it would not be worthy of praise and worship | 1 | 2014-06-03T08:08:01 | 1,142 | 2 | 1 |
Now if a woman wears short skirts, shirts, etc. She will appeal more to rapists. Just like if someone wears expensive watches they will appeal more to robbers and muggers. This isn't a fair comparison. If I have an expensive watch and I leave it at home, or wear long sleeves to cover it up, a robber will never know th... | I think women who wear revealing clothing increase their risk for rape CMV (PS: I am NOT advocating rape, please read content) | 0 | 2013-07-25T20:30:32 | 64 | 5 | null |
There's no such thing as a race, so defining racism as hating people of different races makes no sense. There are ethnicities of course, but not races. The only difference aside from skin color between ethnicities is culture, so it makes way more sense to call someone a racist if they're being discriminatory towards pe... | Islamaphobia is NOT "Racism"! | 0 | 2017-03-30T22:18:24 | 73 | 1 | null |
I have a friend that has Raynaud's disease. It causes gangrene in his feet (effectively, his hands and feet are rotting away,) particularly if he walks too much, and walking in itself is excruciating. He has no problem getting out of a low seat, it's only his extremities that are affected. | When I see a Corvette (or similar) with a handicap license plate, parked in a handicapped spot, these words invariably cross my mind: If you regularly get in and out of a vehicle with bucket seats 6" off the ground, you're not handicapped. | 1 | 2014-08-24T02:54:48 | 94 | 18 | 10 |
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