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Most places that offer military discounts do the same for on duty firefighters and police officers. The thing with police and military is they have an ID to prove they are in that organization where as the Fire/EMTs typically don't. So they don't bother to give them an off duty discount. | EMTs, SAR, firefighters, police, etc. should receive “military discounts”. | 0 | 2015-01-05T23:32:41 | 103 | 2 | 1 |
Is smoking a cigarette itself a selfish act? No. Is irresponsible smoking selfish? Yes, because you're putting other people at harm. There are plenty of ways to be considerate while smoking a cigarette, like only using designated smoking areas. That's like saying every car driver is selfish. Can you do selfish things,... | Cigarette smoking a selfish act where the smoker doesn't care if others are harmed. | 1 | 2017-06-26T00:39:27 | 37 | 15 | 8 |
What you are describing is better defined by the concept of nationalism than patriotism. In particular anti-immigration and similar beliefs are often closely tied to right wing nationalism which overlaps with racial attitudes, the idea that immigration and welfare are just dog whistles for race in US politics has a lot... | Patriotism is the belief that being born on one side of a line makes you better. | 0 | 2015-01-05T02:21:02 | 23 | 1 | null |
1. A reason is defined as a cause or an explanation. 2. An excuse is defined as a type of reason that focuses on justifying a fault. 3. The definition of justify is to "show or prove to be right or reasonable" 4. The very act of justifying something to someone makes that person a judge who must pass judgement. By de... | There is no such thing as Excuses, only Reasons. | 1 | 2017-06-16T08:13:04 | 31 | 11 | 169 |
I would like references to this actually, that sounds interesting. The most important passage in this respect is probably [Matthew 5:17-18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5:17-18). 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them **but to fulfil... | You cannot reject parts of the bible and believe others. If you decide what to believe or not believe, it defeats the whole point of a religious dogma. | 1 | 2015-09-22T22:07:33 | 650 | 20 | 3 |
It's BECAUSE we're intelligent that we don't want to pass on our genes (or more accurately, we don't value the gene passing enough to be subjected to the responsibility and other negatives of bringing up a child.) We acknowledge that if a trend emerges where the best humans choose not to procreate then we will weaken ... | I believe that passing your genes to the next generation is important. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-02T21:28:52 | 27 | 14 | 1 |
I travel pretty frequently for work. Stuff happens, and I usually roll with it. But there are times that I'm just DONE. I just want to go the hell home and sleep in my bed. I've been near tears when a plane has been cancelled at the last minute and I realize that I'm not going home, but instead will have to wait on hol... | The passenger at the center of the United situation provoked the situation the the hopes that force would be used and he would have grounds for a lawsuit. | 0 | 2017-04-13T21:31:45 | 31 | 2 | 206 |
The reverse of your fifth point is calzones can't really be shared. If I have a party it's a lot easier to have a bunch of pizzas where people can just grab a slice than to get enough calzones for everyone. Furthermore, ARE calzones ever typically baked into different sizes? Every calzone I've ever eaten has been the s... | I think Benn Wyatt is right that calzones are superior to Pizza in almost every way. | 0 | 2014-09-11T01:34:16 | 57 | 1 | null |
I get what you are saying in grey world. But are you familiar with hedonistic adaptation? People can adapt to pleasing stimuli. If you have a bunch of nature, and you go hiking 6 days of 7, the 7th day you still want something different to cleanse your pallet. Maybe you love cheese pizza, but if you ate nothing but ch... | The main reason that artists generally aren't paid as well as STEM positions is because artists produce something that is readily available in nature | 1 | 2017-03-07T23:50:00 | 70 | 3 | 40 |
The problem with your comparison of the richest black neighbourhood to the poorest white neighbourhood is that the richest black neighbourhood is urban and the poorest white neighbourhood is likely rural. Rural areas in general have lower crime rates because 1 - By the nature of being rural there is less crime 2 - What... | So called "redlining" is an entirely rational practice and should not be illegal. | 0 | 2016-09-30T15:09:20 | 130 | 2 | 9 |
If there is a rule about how a toilet seat should be left the rule should be "leave it the way you used it" and that is mathematically obvious. If you just take at face value your estimation that 60% of toilet usage happens in the seat-down position (I think that is a fair estimate) then when you walk into a bathroom -... | Regardless of gender expectations, toilet seats should be put back down after use. | 1 | 2017-03-09T18:45:58 | 32 | 4 | 1 |
Empathy is the act of understanding a person's feelings. However, empathy isn't the only way a person can react to someone else's sorrows. Sympathy comes in at that point, not as a way of understanding the feeling itself, but rather as understanding that a person does have a feeling and in turn the sympathizer feels so... | No one will ever understand completely what you might be feeling, making most relationships pointless | 1 | 2016-10-07T11:01:29 | 33 | 4 | 6 |
Do old people suddenly stop loving each other after they turn 60? | I believe people who say a relationship doesn't require physical attraction are wrong. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-05T16:10:44 | 60 | 81 | 1 |
∆ Penn Jillette talks about it pretty well here Thanks for the link, that was a really good explanation. I respect Penn Jillette, he's a pretty reasonable guy. And I feel like he addressed some of the criticism I raised on one of his other videos, regarding welfare. I'm remembering now the lessons of post-s... | When people ascribe anarcho-capitalist views to all libertarians they are attempting to dismiss all libertarian ideas and beliefs as crazy | 1 | 2016-08-25T01:48:36 | 154 | 2 | 1 |
What strikes me immediately about this speech is that if you swap all the instances of "Black" and "White" one can't help but associate white supremacy with the speaker. Many parts of the speech become very grating (e.g. "I've always been proud to be White. Never wanted to be nothing else."). Of particular interest is ... | For the sake of consistency, 'black pride' or any racial pride should be viewed the same way as we view 'white pride'. | 0 | 2017-01-02T06:14:40 | 145 | 17 | 22 |
There is a supply and demand mismatch though. With dogs, there are way more than enough stray dogs for people to adopt one from a shelter. 7 to 8.5 million dogs enter shelters each year, and 1.6 million of those dogs are adopted. It's much more expensive to get one from a breeder, and they specifically have to introduc... | Those who advocate adopting dogs from a pound, rather than a breeder, but choose to have their own children are being hypocritical | 0 | 2017-05-23T22:52:25 | 32 | 2 | 148 |
It is true that any person will lose weight if diet and exercise are properly adjusted. The important part of your question is whether any person can actually make the adjustments to diet and exercise to produce (and sustain) weight loss. People are not robots. We are subject to forces of emotion, motivation, willpower... | Any fat person can lose weight by simply adjusting their diet and exercise. | 1 | 2015-05-26T21:11:39 | 1,254 | 3,389 | 7Δ |
I wasn't a Trump supporter when this campaign started. I was one of the people mocking Trump for engaging in a presidential campaign for the sake of publicity. But as we near the elections, I've come to the conclusion that if Trump is on the ticket I will vote for him and here is why: Firstly, he has not been fairly po... | As a non-american, I see Trump as a total regression for the US and Bernie Sanders the total opposite. | 0 | 2016-03-03T18:32:53 | 1,351 | 133 | null |
Furthermore, it should cause everyone great concern if a president thinks he can change the constitution through executive order He didn't think that. It was issued under his authority to suppress rebellion under Article II Section 2 of the constitution. It only applied to states in rebellion. Furthermore, Lincoln di... | Abraham Lincoln was our worst president. | 0 | 2017-03-31T22:29:45 | 99 | 6 | 79 |
Creationism shouldn't be taught as a valid alternative to evolution. Teaching in school should always be science based, and so Intelligent Design should never be taught as a valid creation story. *However*, creationism should be taught as a part of a general religion class, for informative purposes. "This is how Chris... | Teaching Creationism or Intelligent Design in school is OK as long as it is said that science supports evolution. | 0 | 2016-01-25T07:52:23 | 20 | 2 | 5 |
While I agree donating to this cause is unethical as you are supporting something that misleads victims and can be a reason someone doesn't seek out real treatment, I do not feel it is *evil*. Many people who donate do this with good intentions, with the aim to help. There's no malice involved, and evil is a pretty str... | Donating to someone's alternative medical treatment is unethical and evil. | 1 | 2015-11-17T17:34:15 | 75 | 83 | 16 |
Because nothing is free. Even setting aside the fact that developing nations only manage to develop via pollution, you would still need to pay for the resources needed to help the planet. For instance, the junk rocket. Assuming the USA wanted to build a massive rocket (or series of smaller rockets) to send trash into t... | Helping the earth shouldn't cost money. | 1 | 2017-04-19T10:01:55 | 22 | 7 | 48 |
I think it's better to let Trump hang himself on this one. Don't give him and Republicans an opportunity to blame Obama for something like wasting the president's time or whatever they might say. Just let the FBI and other Republicans discredit him instead. | Obama should sue Trump for defamation over wiretapping claims | 0 | 2017-03-21T15:09:46 | 101 | 2 | 4 |
I am a little confused about what your CMV is, you want me to convince you that Sanders and Trump would change the system AND that they would be able to negotiate adequately on the world stage. I think you will need to adjust that, possibly give deltas for one or the other but both would be unfair to the poster above. ... | Hillary is the only candidate worthy of the job due to her foreign policy experience. Bernie and trump would both be disasters due to their inability to gather support from congress and their complete lack of any foreign policy. | 1 | 2016-03-14T23:17:13 | 33 | 3 | 1 |
do you understand that no animal has a will to live? animal's(and plants') goal is to reproduce !even humans are like that,that's why we get weak after we lose reproductive power.it happens to all life they grow reproduce die!to think other animals have same feelings and experiences like us is a very big claim, so far ... | Raising and then killing an animal for food when you have other food available is morally wrong | 0 | 2015-02-11T22:41:55 | 343 | 1 | null |
The main problem is a lack of correlation. Yes, if uninformed people didn't vote, then nothing is really harmed by that. But the problem is that many informed people don't vote, and many uninformed people do because someone told them they should vote for X. (This is often "their pastor", but there are obviously other s... | I don't think low voter turnout is a problem. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-03T03:38:12 | 25 | 1 | 2 |
I think the problem lies more with the privilege oppression argument and mindset rather than the actual lack of social progress or even people not working to better society. Its a tricky line because the idea of privileges for individuals and even groups can be seen all the time, but calling privilege unearned or even ... | Men, white people, and others with unearned privilege can never be anti-oppression, because it's not in their interest | 0 | 2016-06-06T19:34:39 | 105 | 3 | 11 |
It's really not about "scamming", per se. It's about being safe enough (both not being a criminal, and also being a sufficiently safe driver). Furthermore, most taxi regulations hail (haha) from a day when a big problem was so many taxis on the road that it was clogging up the streets way in excess of need. I.e. taxi r... | In the age of Uber there's no point in having any taxi regulations | 0 | 2016-05-27T02:55:58 | 92 | 4 | 185 |
Here's a blog post by a psychiatrist [in defense of psych treatment for attempted suicide](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-treatment-for-attempted-suicide/). He's not against suicide in principle. But he's seen a lot of the issues first-hand, and seen a lot of the statistics. All evidence sugge... | Suicide is neutral and thus should never be fought against. Respect those decisions! We need more respect in this world! | 1 | 2017-01-20T21:18:15 | 50 | 2 | 1 |
I am a fan of the ice dragon for jon snow theory mainly bc dragons fighting eachother. But i mean all in all, I can't see jon not ending on the throne. At the end of the day, he is the one that was born of ice and fire (stark and targaryen), he is the one that will lead the fight against the white walkers, etc. Maybe ... | There is no plausible ending for the "Song of Ice and Fire" series that isn't Daenerys on the Iron Throne. | 0 | 2016-07-02T09:03:31 | 285 | 2 | null |
I would argue that it is not cheating in and of itself. But I would challenge OP that it can be considered cheating by an individual or group of people working on a puzzle. If people working together agree not to look at the box, and someone surreptitiously does and then does work on the puzzle, then he or she cheated ... | When working on a jigsaw puzzle, looking at the picture on the box is not cheating. | 1 | 2016-09-06T07:49:31 | 73 | 1 | 1 |
The idea that people 'deserve' pay is irrelevant in our market economy. Price is a function of supply and demand. There is only one Lionel Messi. You do the math. The same goes for movie stars, or anyone who has a 'brand image'. They can demand gigantic salaries because few people can really replace them. Contrast with... | I think sports stars are paid far too much | 1 | 2017-05-16T06:43:11 | 39 | 1 | 24 |
This might not be the world's greatest technical CMV answer, but here goes anyway. You have to ask yourself whether or not you are in a position to evaluate the evidence. There is a scientific consensus around global warming being a serious threat to the survival of the human race, and the latest UN report concludes wi... | Climate change is not anthropogenic and we humans need not be concerned with it. CMV. | 0 | 2013-11-19T12:50:58 | 55 | 1 | 4 |
I don't think it's a question of internalized racism. It's a question of infrastructural racism. Black kids like white kids because in the media they watch is very much dominated by the white being the considered pretty one, the rich one, the famous one, whatever. Not long ago beauty magazines didn't feature black wome... | People of color who have a preference for dating white people probably have issues with internalized racism | 1 | 2016-10-22T17:02:10 | 75 | -2 | 11 |
I see your point, there is no proof that an afterlife exists. But the fact that there is no "road map" to consciousness doesn't prove that there isn't one either. I'm prone to agree with you if we're talking about, say, the afterlife as described by Abrahamic religions. The idea of heaven does rely heavily on the exist... | I believe there is no aferlife. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-03T09:00:30 | 38 | 2 | null |
That's very good but doesn't take away from the point that the whole idea behind a blanket/blind rule like this is generally to deter people from breaking the rule because of certainty of punishment, whereas the point of a more flexible case-by-case analysis like that done in family court is meant to see a fair outcome... | It is unjust to require men to provide child support for a child if that child was the result of statutory rape by the woman. | 1 | 2017-02-07T23:42:59 | 352 | 1 | 2 |
Lastly, I don't subscribe to the moral principle that money should not be exchanged for people as it is fine anyway via adoption. the reason that money should not be exchanged for people is that it would create a viable way of gaining money. on the contrary, money spent for adoption is a proof of willingness of a paren... | Putting a baby up for adoption should have a monetary reward | 0 | 2017-02-20T21:54:29 | 80 | 2 | null |
Years later, I’m STILL on the ground floor. Sucks. Advice, go to a better company. | I believe the United States is rotten to it's core and beyond saving. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-27T08:26:28 | 62 | 1 | null |
You're looking at the south as a monolithic entity which is overly simplistic. History has painted a the south as the sole bad guys but the whole country has always benefitted or complacent with racism. The emancipation proclamation wasn't created until 1863, 2 years into the civil war. The north was primarily concerne... | Maybe I'm a bigot, but I despise the South. | 1 | 2015-06-29T17:51:25 | 94 | 13 | 16 |
I think a major flaw in your argument is viewing the economy as a pie with a set amount, and if one person has more another has less. This is not how the economy works. If Bill Gates didn't have his (roughly) $60 billion that doesn't mean everyone else in the country would have another 200. | No one should be allowed to be a multimillionaire ($150 million) and their income should be capped | 0 | 2017-03-22T20:55:18 | 73 | 1 | null |
I'm going to explain why I have disagreements with Anita Sarkeesian, from my own perspective as a feminist. The first and most significant problem is that she kind of presents herself as an authority on feminism and gender issues, when in reality she has no significant academic background. I'm not saying that to be cre... | Anita Sarkeesian and similar feminists actually have a point about the portrayal of gender roles in video games. | 0 | 2016-12-05T23:33:58 | 617 | 55 | 6 |
I'm getting tired of these advertisements that are selling large pizza's for $5.99, but it is really only a 10" pizza which is a medium at best. The size of a pizza is related to its area, which for regular pies is \pi*r^2. Since the size grows as the square of the radius, a small increase in a pizza's radius can resul... | Pizza should be measured in inches, 8", 12" 18" instead of S, M, L. | 0 | 2014-05-19T11:54:45 | 53 | 1 | 1 |
If steps were taken prior to sex, one would say that there is practically no chance to conceive a child. Therefore, pregnancy is a direct result of poor planning. This is not always the case. It's possible to conceive even when condoms and/or birth control are properly used. Barring cases of rape and the rare chance o... | I believe abortion is immoral and should only be allowed in cases of rape or danger to the mother. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-12T00:10:09 | 130 | 2 | 1 |
All they care about is votes. Where do votes come from? God? The magic vote fairy? I was pretty much with you until we hit this spot... sure voting is not perfect but a Monarch would only care about hordes of peasants rushing the castle with crude weapons from farm implements. Not saying democracy is efficient, but whi... | I believe that authoritarianism is preferable to democracy, CMV | 1 | 2014-03-12T22:46:45 | 80 | 1 | 15Δ |
Lets say 2 people get married and have 2 kids. Because having both parents work and paying for child-care is more expensive than one parent staying home, both parents decide one parent becomes a stay-at-home parent. In doing so, they sacrifice 5+ years of salary, raises, and job experience to raise the children THEY ma... | I believe that after a marriage is over, both parties should walk away without receiving ANYTHING, for example alimony, from their ex. | 0 | 2014-08-08T08:28:04 | 172 | 2 | null |
A major pro-choice argument (and the one that I hold) is that, regardless of the "humanness" of a fetus, we don't give anyone the right to attach themselves to someone else's body without their consent. Heck, we don't even force a parent to give as much as a blood donation to a *born* child, without their consent. The ... | Regardless of whether abortion is wrong, rape and incest do not affect the moral permissibility of abortion. | 0 | 2016-01-11T17:59:15 | 471 | 321 | 157 |
If a parent spanks their child, it is not truly because it "teaches them." The real reason parents still spank their children is because the parents are unable or unwilling to use other tactics. Taking away a child's favorite toy for a day, week, etc. is MUCH more effective than spanking them. Children learn fast and t... | I think spanking is still child abuse even if it "doesn't leave a mark" | 0 | 2014-09-18T08:13:01 | 170 | 2 | null |
Risk is actually my favorite board game ever, so that isn't really a good example to use for me. I would actually accept "Diplomacy vs Risk" as an argument for *any* aspect of Risk that it does differently to Diplomacy. The two are on such completely different level of fun to me that I don't think it is even fair to Di... | Simultaneous movement is, all other things being equal, always better than sequential movement in board games. | 1 | 2016-04-30T05:59:37 | 39 | 2 | 59 |
The availability of firearms is not nearly as dangerous as is commonly believed. For a nearby example let me point you to your southern neighbor, Switzerland. In Switzerland, a sizeable portion of the population has fully automatic military grade weaponry in their home. These weapons are far more lethal than anything a... | I do not believe that it is a good thing that everyone in the US can buy weapons freely. | 1 | 2013-11-12T17:02:27 | 170 | 22 | 11 |
I think you are giving Wilson much too much flak than he deserves. The good from his presidency definitely outweighs the bad, and of the candidates in the 1912 election, he is probably the best that we could have had. He kept the US out of the War for 4 years. This made us the bank of the world, other countries were bu... | Historians tend to judge past US presidents more on how interesting their presidencies were than on how good a job they did as President. | 0 | 2016-05-22T16:40:12 | 80 | 10 | null |
I agree with you to a point. It's not that controversial opinions ruin the fun and discussion. What's the underlying problem is the lack of reddiquette. Down votes are not meant for "op is stupid" or "op has an ignorant opinion". But most redditors use them that way. So the problem is not the opinions, it's the use and... | Having a controversial opinion on Reddit is absolutely pointless and the karma system is the main reason behind this. | 0 | 2014-11-14T16:39:27 | 247 | 1 | null |
Polar bears mostly eat seals. Without polar bears we will see an increase in the population of the seals they eat. This will result in a decrease in the population of animals they eat, which does partially contain some animals that are common foods for humans. At this point, the chain of species affected becomes too br... | the potential disappearance of polar bears, caused by global warming, would have zero effect on my life. | 0 | 2014-07-09T18:45:15 | 117 | 1 | 31Δ |
And how has that worked out for the elephants? The demand that you think ought to be their saving grace has created a market that has nearly devastated the supply. See, we really only make paper out of easily-cultivated and fast-growing species. Make paper out of redwoods and you'll very quickly run out because it take... | Want a world with more trees? Use more paper. Want to keep endangered animals from going extinct? Turn them into food. | 0 | 2015-04-11T18:17:17 | 23 | 15 | 7Δ |
The thing is, I can't really see how your view could be changed, I'm not accusing you of not being willing, I'm saying that your view has enough conditions that it can't really be argued against. I'd have to convince you somehow that abusing a dire term to feel special or get nice treatment is fine and dandy and both y... | 'Triggers' aren't a real thing. We should all be able to overcome our issues and not project them unto other people. | 1 | 2015-08-08T01:57:26 | 283 | 59 | 5 |
The [chance of a random American being killed](http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2009/09/madds_bad_with_the_facts.html) by a drunk driver is about one in 100k in any give year. But the chance of *ME* being killed by a drunk driver is vastly smaller. I'm almost never driving after 10pm, don't drive much on rural road... | It's irrational to keep a gun in your home for self-defense | 1 | 2015-08-23T18:31:46 | 140 | 25 | 128 |
I don't agree with the point you made about how asking a person on a date would be better than confessing romantic feelings. The situation you have described is one where two people have an existing platonic relationship, but one person would like to turn the relationship into a romantic one. In my opinion, if you ask ... | 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 | 2017-02-12T20:20:15 | 173 | 1 | null |
Why does everyone think that Snowden's information indicates that the U.S. government is reading your e-mail? PRISM was not about data-mining, despite the original Greenwald article. The bigger story has been how terrible Greenwald's reporting was, and how ignorant of NSA operations Snowden actually is. PRISM's interac... | I think the US reaction to Snowden's leaks is far more unsettling than the information those leaks contained. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-27T04:52:19 | 225 | 1 | null |
13.**Niagara Falls** [The age of Niagara Falls is estimated to be about 7,000 years. This only gives the age of the Falls, and not the age of the earth Not only must the falls be created, but the rocks which the falls cuts through must be deposited. Young earth estimates do not account for the deposition of the rocks I... | I believe in a young Earth and a universe that is 6,000 years old rather than 13.8 Billion [CMV] | 1 | 2013-03-22T17:41:20 | 40 | 21 | 1 |
This perception of being a completely separate individual, distinct from the world around me, is something that hit me like a ton of bricks at the age of 5. I will not go into the details of the circumstances that brought it on, but has been a core part of what has been the biggest driving force in my life from then on... | No one will ever understand completely what you might be feeling, making most relationships pointless | 0 | 2016-10-07T09:46:04 | 33 | 11 | 2 |
C) He is advocating for something that he has explicitly said puts the country in danger and his only possible motive for that is personal political gain. Treason is not "putting the country in danger." It's narrowly defined in the Constitution as "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war ag... | Trump's call for Russia to find Clinton's deleted emails is treasonous. | 0 | 2016-07-27T23:14:30 | 338 | 2 | 3 |
For the record, I am not a vegan and don't have an issue with raising animals ethically for consumption. The argument that the vegans would make in this situation is that the act of killing something that is not an immediate threat to your own life or safety is morally wrong. It doesn't matter how good the animal's lif... | Modern arguments for veganism/vegetarianism are based more on the modern techniques of farming rather than an inherent "badness" of eating meat. | 0 | 2016-11-08T20:03:59 | 24 | 3 | 80 |
It more accurately captures the will of the people There is no such thing as "the will of the people". Individuals have a myriad different agendas, that need to be narrowed to one government policy in either case. When 10% of the public are communists, and 15% are libertarians, then having a parliament with 10% commun... | Proportional representation is a better system of democracy than single member plurality in almost every way. | 0 | 2017-06-09T17:41:11 | 187 | 5 | 32 |
If the terrorists are real and have real weapons, it's extremely likely that the passengers would die anyway, so there's no point in restraining their agression. It's better to at least try and subdue the hijackers, rather than die after flying into a skyscraper somewhere. You're speaking about a group of people as if... | If an airplane is hijacked by terrorists, the only sensible behaviour in a post-9/11 world is for the passengers to attempt to subdue them | 0 | 2016-03-31T03:42:46 | 97 | 1 | 1 |
There's a [Radiolab clip](http://www.radiolab.org/story/91536-dreams/) that might change your opinion about the usefulness of dreaming as a brain process -- the studies suggest that it is *not* random neurons firing, as you put it. But still, like you, I don't really believe in dreams as symbolism. I don't think your ... | I don't see any benefit in psychological analysis of dreams - CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-03T17:32:17 | 38 | 3 | 1 |
Come to Canada instead. You have better chances in a more timely fashion. We love immigrants! :-) | My best plan in life would be to illegally immigrate to the USA | 1 | 2016-08-18T14:54:00 | 169 | 3 | 1 |
I think it's important to read the Bible for what it is: a varying set of books written in different styles, by different people, in different contexts and with different motivations. I'm not saying that we doubt the validity of what is said, just that we bear a larger burden of interpretation than most denominations a... | Homosexuality is a sin according to the Christian viewpoint. | 1 | 2014-04-04T21:48:48 | 246 | 7 | 86Δ |
A tiny splash of quality wine at the end of cooking absolutely preserves the subtle notes of the wine. If you add it early, a lot of the aromatic compounds evaporate, so correct: you won't notice much difference. (Provided the cheap stuff isn't acetic.) But at the end, after the dish is removed from heat, good wine mar... | "If you wouldn't drink it you shouldn't cook with it" is a misleading axiom. | 1 | 2015-11-20T16:23:32 | 139 | 19 | 1 |
I don't entirely disagree. But... I do kinda disagree. I think there's an answer to be found here: However, if Queer people are equated with the heterosexual and cisgendered populations, this culture is lost. Queer is a culture, not a set of populations... and just because gay people and transgender people are getti... | The "marriage equality movement" is dangerous and should be stopped because it destroys Queer Culture and represents the end of Queer History via assimilation. | 1 | 2014-06-18T19:12:18 | 27 | 1 | 1 |
The corollary to this argument would be that if people mostly played as renegade characters then it would mean most people are fundamentally immoral. I don't think you have enough evidence to draw that conclusion. I frequently play as morally gray characters, but it's because I find it interesting to play as someone wh... | The fact that so many people have trouble with "renegade"/"bad guy" playthroughs in video games suggests most people are fundamentally good/moral. | 1 | 2016-02-23T01:40:18 | 74 | 1 | 1 |
I don't believe the KKK would exist if slavery woulda been abolished economically and not imposed on them by the north. I disagree. No matter what path was taken, there were white men in power that saw their influence diminishing. Whether this happens after victory or defeat, I don't see any reason to believe that they... | As a black man I wish the Confederate States of America woulda won the civil war | 1 | 2014-05-24T15:35:25 | 22 | 2 | 10Δ |
In conclusion, if there's an emphasis on others judging you by your cover in real life, why shouldn't you judge others by their cover? Just because they're missing out doesn't mean you have to. A healthy dose of a first impression is outside of our control. Things happen and sometimes you might not necessarily make th... | "Don't judge a book by its cover" is a useless lesson due to the importance of first impressions | 0 | 2017-04-30T07:26:05 | 25 | 1 | 2 |
No. Cats cannot, be bulls, because even if some cats were bulls, those cats would be included in the category of cats. Let's think of it in terms of math. Let's define the set A to be {1, 4, 5} Now, If I say that all of the items in set A are items in set A, that is unambiguously true. Even if somehow A got redefined -... | I do not believe that anyone can be 100% sure about anything. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-12T01:25:35 | 111 | 5 | 13 |
I'm an undergraduate right now, and I need a 75% average to graduate from my program. Let's assume that if I get a 75%, I will be "the bottom of my class". Now, I plan on going to grad school, which requires that my grades be pretty good. I could either work very little and achieve the 75% I need to graduate and pass t... | I think that it doesn't matter whether you graduate top of your class, or bottom, so long as you graduate. | 0 | 2014-12-01T23:31:31 | 69 | 1 | 3 |
People who can teach computer programming make a lot more money than teachers. | Basic computer programming should be taught in primary education. | 0 | 2017-06-02T10:28:56 | 217 | 2 | null |
I'm going to argue in the opposite direction: a major national tragedy would be *insufficient* to reverse the current trend of polarization. The cleaving apart of Republicans and Democrats from more or less politically overlapping, regional constituencies into two far-apart, discrete political cultures is a long-term t... | The U.S. will not come together unless another national tragedy on the level 9/11 occurs. | 1 | 2017-02-14T01:26:24 | 22 | 4 | 3 |
I would say that you have actually matured and would become part of the solution to a problem you see. So let us assume, and I'd say it is safe to do so, that you do not support Trump and will not support him in the future. Your viewpoint on him hasn't changed, what has changed is your approach. You viewed the solution... | I've become part of the problem with America by losing fervor against Trump | 1 | 2017-04-25T22:12:15 | 69 | 6 | 9 |
I'm not a believer, but I don't think this is a very strong example of a Biblical contradiction. Specifically, the "*until everything has been accomplished*" part makes it a lot weaker. The most obvious interpretation of what he meant by this is that the commandments would only be held up until his death. After that, i... | The Bible contradicts itself regarding whether Christians should follow Old Testament law. | 0 | 2017-04-23T23:08:07 | 41 | 1 | 8 |
By telling your daughter to spoil it for the other children, you are directly taking control of the way those other children are parented away from their parents. You assume, in point 3, that your daughter will be forced to lie to keep the secret. Why not something like "Santa doesn't visit my house, my parents do Chri... | I don't want my daughter to lie to other kids about Santa. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-18T05:18:38 | 50 | 5 | 3 |
I believe that nationalism isn't necessarily a feeling that where you are from is better than another place. It is the feeling that you are proud of being born in a country that is actively doing something you can stand by. You can have strong feelings for your country and still be tolerant of foreign people. I think y... | I believe all forms of nationalism, patriotism and 'national pride' are inherently racist and so is anyone who believes in any of these things. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-17T01:57:30 | 48 | 1 | null |
As an aside, I understand that birth control pills are often prescribed as a treatment for certain conditions. I would consider that as medicine and a basic human right. I am speaking only to birth control to be used for the purpose of recreational sex. And how do you tell the difference? Sit in on an employee's doctor... | I believe that birth control is not a "basic human right." | 0 | 2014-04-29T06:15:34 | 139 | 26 | null |
After reading through this subreddit for a bit it has become apparent to me that I don't have the depth of knowledge to argue from more than a layman's point of view on a lot of things. So my refutation is this - that time when you DO learn how ignorant you are about something, you do not experience bliss. You only exp... | I think Ignorance is Bliss. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-07T04:49:35 | 32 | 5 | 1 |
You can do all of that as a heterosexual male. If your libido is distracting you, masturbate furiously. I'm serious. Just because an asexual doesn't spend time on relationships (which isn't always true), doesn't mean that they're necessarily more productive. Just because my weekend is completely open, doesn't mean I s... | I believe being asexual is most beneficial when it comes to advance as far as possible in life. | 1 | 2014-08-28T23:18:40 | 58 | 4 | 21 |
Selling a product which entitles the owner to a chance to obtain some desired good or service, but which does not guarantee attainment of that good or service, is a raffle. Is cancer treatment a raffle then? If a treatment works 5% of the time and the good is remission of cancer, it seems to meet your condition. You mi... | Airline tickets are actually raffle tickets and should be regulated accordingly. | 1 | 2017-04-11T18:56:34 | 28 | 2 | 57 |
reducing risk of ... emotional harm. How is emotional harm reduced? Speech is speech whether on paper or in person. People tend to be dicks on the internet more often too. as soon as I think of something, and word it accurately, it's in front of me. Faster than light travel? I am granted sights, sounds, insights that I... | Living via internet is now a possible, even superior, existence | 0 | 2015-10-25T17:48:04 | 54 | 4 | 4 |
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. The frivolous luxuries spending feeds the economy, it creates jobs. Buying that fancy car means hundreds of people get a paycheck. The hundreds of people that got a paycheck this week because you purchased the fancy car will th... | Anyone who has the means to help the poor but does not do so is immoral. | 1 | 2016-06-22T22:33:00 | 66 | 1 | 9 |
The TL;DR version (but it is a short article) is that schools actively work to curb obesity by formulating diet and exercise plans for obese children. If the child fails to make good progress in six months, parents would be fined up to $500. If the child continues to not show significant weight loss after another six m... | On Puerto Rico's Proposed "Fat Tax" | 0 | 2015-03-04T22:58:05 | 117 | 1 | 3Δ |
I'd be willing to take this one step further. It's disingenuous to portray any belief system as its most extreme form alone. Almost No One Believes that their system is correct 100% of the time. They just think that their system is the best in most situations. Starting from the assumption that they want to apply their ... | When people ascribe anarcho-capitalist views to all libertarians they are attempting to dismiss all libertarian ideas and beliefs as crazy | 0 | 2016-08-25T03:10:59 | 154 | 2 | null |
OP, while there are certainly assholes out there, many with loud vehicles are not. If you and your community feel that they are problems, lobby your local government to legally lower the appropriate noise ordinance and have the police solve the problem. If your community doesn't agree with you, sadly your options are r... | People who drive loud cars and motorcycles are inconsiderate assholes | 1 | 2015-06-29T19:49:40 | 659 | 16 | null |
To be truly GREAT at something, your instructor **has to** push you/you have to push yourself to uncomfortable, sometimes abusive heights. I think the problem here is "has to," because while I'm sure there are examples of that style working, there are plenty of other examples of truly great people who got that way with... | To be truly GREAT at something, your instructor has to push you/you have to push yourself to uncomfortable, sometimes abusive heights. | 1 | 2016-06-30T22:03:15 | 19 | 5 | 8 |
According to the humane society in the USA 1 million dogs are euthanized in shelters every year (the other 3 million is cats).. worldwide the number of dogs euthanized is much greater than 4 million, so I don't know where you got those stats from. At any rate, while I personally am a huge fan of shelters (I worked at o... | It's always a better decision to adopt a mutt from the pound than to buy from a breeder. | 1 | 2017-05-11T00:29:25 | 95 | 2 | 9 |
Tell me what's standing in the way of your view changing in particular, at this point. | Extraterrestrial life is not a given and assuming it must exist is a form of religious belief. | 1 | 2016-08-27T00:40:15 | 308 | 1 | 8 |
Okay, let's break down your arguments here. And to be clear, because you admit you haven't talked to black people, and likely haven't read their arguments or taken the time to understand what they're going through I'm going to fairly brutally say *you have no fucking clue what you're talking about*. Your complete conte... | Racism is negligible in USA now. | 0 | 2016-10-07T21:01:47 | 247 | 12 | 2 |
So, a couple things 1) The conceit of the show is that it's *real* (ish) people in Texas. They're not cartoon characters, they actually do things real people would do. Yep, even crazy Dale-- I've heard plenty of Texas friends say oh yeah, people like Dale? 100% exist. So it's okay that there's a sort of... uncomfortabl... | Hank should have told Dale about his wife's affair with John Redcorn. | 1 | 2015-03-24T03:15:06 | 52 | 8 | 5Δ |
last year people tried to block gay marriage in Ireland on the idea that gay parents damaged children. Their problem was they couldn't cite reputable psychology to back them up. if there was an objective study that showed gay parents to damage children don't you think every conservative would know it off by heart? woul... | Gay people are allowed to kiss, marry, fuck, but they should never be allowed to have children since psychology tells us that a healthy individual needs both a father and a mother | 0 | 2016-02-06T20:43:38 | 107 | 16 | null |
This is probably the most straightforward point, omnipotency is a self-contradictory concept. There are numerous paradoxes involved with this, including the common one asking whether God could create a boulder so heavy he could not lift it, or the question of whether God knows what he will do next A boulder that is bot... | The God of the three main Abrahamic religions almost certainly does not exist | 0 | 2016-03-28T20:11:58 | 92 | 2 | 51 |
I would try to convince you to appreciate Father's Day in much the same way I would try to convince someone who says "I don't want to celebrate my birthday"; basically by saying "Well, it's not really *for* you." When someone's birthday comes around, it may make them feel old or self-conscious to have people wish them ... | I am a father who hates Father's Day. | 0 | 2015-06-15T16:30:48 | 71 | 3 | 3 |
girls are petty and silly, while men I have interacted with are far more interesting to have conversations with. I'm going to be frank about this. Most people IN GENERAL are dull, petty, and to be frank, uninteresting and unintelligent. However, your biases for some issues make you place those as of greater importance... | I am sexist, CMV. | 0 | 2013-04-16T14:23:35 | 115 | 4 | 1 |
Scrapbooking is one of the biggest hobbies in the world. People love to create a physical book of memories of the places they visit. What you dismiss as "yet another photo" might be the centerpiece of their personal archive, and something that means the world to them. | There is no reason to take pictures of famous sights. | 0 | 2016-08-02T23:22:34 | 38 | 1 | 21 |
I don't think we even necessarily have to get into a discussion about fundamental rights or the responsibilities of the federal government to resolve this. (edit: some words) 34B is about 5% of the military budget (as of 2015). That's an increase, to be sure, but it's not *that* large. Given that total federal spending... | it's hypocritical to support an increase in the military budget, but oppose public healthcare on the grounds that nobody is entitled to use other people's money. | 0 | 2017-05-16T15:26:35 | 206 | 4 | 12 |
I agree that ticket scalping has no or negative value. However, in an attempt to change your view, I would say that adding legislation is not the way to prevent scalping. Basically, the transaction that occurs is usually between the legitimate customer and the performer. Scalping occurs when the scalpers try to make a ... | I think that ticket scalping should be made illegal. CMV | 1 | 2013-09-07T01:16:37 | 39 | -2 | 82Δ |
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