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Have you at least mentioned this? That seems like a better long term solution. I mean, he may not even realize its annoying you. Or, he may have a legitimate reason for doing it the way he does. Maybe that's how he learned to cook or something. But to get to your specific question, consider the reverse argument to the ... | I believe that the spouse who cooked the meal should also do the dishes/washing up. | 1 | 2015-04-15T05:48:00 | 62 | 1 | 43Δ |
I don't really see how posting the authors real name would cut down on "fake news". Unless they had a really distinctive name it would not be terribly useful to associating it with a person. Unless they had to post their address or something then you would see real reporters stop writing articles for fear of harassment... | The Internet would be a better place if everyone had to actually post as themselves. | 0 | 2017-06-06T18:30:04 | 67 | 2 | 4 |
To me it's the exact same amount because I don't need multiple nice cars or houses so I wouldn't say the bigger number is worse but equal in value at some point more money doesn't mean it gets better but that's just my opinion since I'm a minimalist and even just 1 million could probably get me through the rest of my l... | In the lottery, it is worse to share the jackpot than it is to win the entire jackpot | 0 | 2017-01-30T08:06:09 | 84 | 4 | 1 |
The thing about masculinity and femininity is that you are correct, they are ideas. They are ideas created and continued by us, and it is we who assign others things to them. This does not mean they aren't real, however. Even if the brain is a mosaic, as you said, you are assuming this is a mosaic of masculine and femi... | There is no such thing as masculinity and femininity. | 0 | 2017-04-19T03:31:57 | 67 | 5 | null |
What if you're the one with an unhealthy self-view? If someone wants you to gain weight and you're anorexic, isn't that the correct thing to do? | It's wrong to lose weight/gain weight to fit someone you like's view of you. | 1 | 2014-12-18T00:07:42 | 53 | 1 | 3 |
Here's the difference. Something happens to Mary. Mary gets mugged. You response is: "Well why was she walking through that street at night? That's stupid, she should have known she would get mugged." The correct response is: "Well, that's unfortunate. That's a really unsafe area. The news/the police/the community shou... | Explaining causation is not "blaming" the victim, and it's a worthwhile endeavor. | 0 | 2015-01-07T21:36:25 | 561 | 150 | 3 |
[Roughly 80 percent of millionaires in America are the first generation of their family to be rich. They didn't inherit their wealth; they earned it.](http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/real-1-percent) | most rich people have done nothing extraordinary to remain rich. | 1 | 2015-09-18T22:21:28 | 313 | 102 | 1 |
Remember that you are living in the muck. Everything, good and bad, is getting play time on the radio if it has the right name attached to it. Sitting down and listening to an old mo-town station or classic rock show ([masterchief](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Downes) has a very good one), it will be NOTHING like... | I believe that pop music has never been as bad as it is right now. For god sakes CMV | 0 | 2013-08-07T20:27:43 | 49 | 6 | null |
The minute Trump calls a foreign leader a loser to their face and the world ends in a nuclear holocaust your view will change itself | As president, Bernie Sanders would not be a good international negotiator/leader, and U.S. interests would suffer | 0 | 2015-08-31T02:35:54 | 172 | 3 | null |
If you go to an online community that promotes or requires the use of trigger warnings, I don't know what else you would expect. The reevaluation of browsing habits is generally what leads people to only go to such places. So honestly, I'm not really sure what your view is. People shouldn't be allowed to have online sa... | I do not believe trigger warnings are necessary or obligatory. | 0 | 2013-09-12T22:00:23 | 50 | 1 | 3 |
Good goy uses Windows! Anyways, that aside... 1. They preinstall all kinds of garbage you don't need on your computer, and a lot of it costs money. 2. Microsoft was forcing people with Windows 7 to upgrade to Windows 10. And then, when you installed, you had to pay to get further updates. 3. Microsoft doesn't exactly h... | Windows 10 was good for the vast majority of people. | 0 | 2017-03-17T06:07:52 | 23 | 4 | null |
Racism is something that people rarely recognize in themselves and people very commonly identify specific people or parts of a culture that they admire as part of the story they tell themselves about how they are not racist. This sort of argument is so pervasively common among people who are plainly prejudiced that it ... | "I am not a racist [against X], one of my best friends is X" is a perfectly valid rebuttal | 1 | 2017-05-29T19:46:46 | 126 | 26 | 2 |
Sure, it varies by company and by position, but it largely sucks. Also someone's experience of retail is also colored by their circumstance in life, that is, are they a student working or are they supported by someone or do they have to make a living from it? Standing all day and walking around all day is physical labo... | Retail work is not bad enough to warrant the level of complaints from its workers | 0 | 2017-01-02T22:25:02 | 60 | 1 | null |
They lean towards defining their cultures in terms of their religion and race of choice, while ignoring minority religions and races. I don't think that's the case, at all. I'm a liberal but I think the left has ramped up identity politics so far, that the right had no choice--or would look that way simply by contrast.... | Right-wing politics is on the wrong side of history | 0 | 2017-04-19T16:31:08 | 79 | 4 | 3 |
my brain is now searching for a common trait to be weary of. Why? Even if 100% of them were black, you'd be making a base rate error. The odds of an attacker being black (in your area) might be high, even 100%. But the odds of any black person attacking you is very low. All crows are birds, but few birds are crows. If ... | I don't want to be afraid of random black people on the street. I was just attacked. Again. | 1 | 2017-01-06T23:46:49 | 393 | 11 | 9 |
That's great. Now, to give you some evidence, the study of bioinformatics (which is a hybrid of biology and computer science essentially) has provided some of the most concrete evidence in favor of evolution. This is extremely simplified, and only one example of evidence, but hopefully it makes sense. There are a type... | I'm a young-earth creationist. | 1 | 2015-11-04T20:06:16 | 82 | 2 | 16 |
how does a rape victim calling themselves a survivor take away attention from those that survived something else? | The term "survivor" to refer to victims of sexual assault is inappropriate. | 0 | 2014-09-15T04:43:38 | 21 | 0 | null |
For those of you that say that creating new borders would cause a burden for travel and commerce given the creation of new international borders: I can easily travel to another country now, if I have a passport. And, boarders have not posed much of an economic problem for current international companies that have aspec... | The U.S. is too big for one government, and should be broken up into smaller countries. | 0 | 2014-06-19T19:06:29 | 78 | 2 | null |
Let's take the automobile bailout as an example. If GM weren't bailed out, other automobile industries could grow and take its place, and could take the workers that lost their job from GM failing. Your political beliefs don't have to be so rigid, you can alter them to your liking, which is why we're all debating on t... | The success of a person in a libertarian society would be determinated by birth rather than drive or talent. | 1 | 2017-03-24T22:50:21 | 193 | 3 | 1 |
I agree with Bernie Sanders goals. I want to have the poor get paid more, education to be cheaper, unemployment to be lower and for global warming to be significantly curbed. But I strongly disagree with how he wants to accomplish these goals as I think that they will be counterproductive and end up accomplishing the o... | I want to vote for Bernie Sanders. | 1 | 2015-09-18T18:05:19 | 555 | 52 | 21 |
To continue your examples: If I'm interested in Astrology, I should got to an astrologer If I'm interested in using magic to trasmute lead into gold, I should talk to an alchemist. Just because there are people who study things, and even devote their lives to such studies doesn't mean that there is any validity to the... | Conspiracy theorists raise valid points and it's wrong to disregard them all as "nutjobs". | 1 | 2014-05-01T21:40:52 | 89 | 12 | 108Δ |
I realize that I may be living in an idealistic world with my rose colored glasses and should doesn't mean does. Maybe we have to have protected classes because people aren't inherently good and without protected classes we would revert back to segregation. I mean.... this right here is the argument against your view. ... | We shouldn't have any protected classes of people. | 0 | 2017-05-23T17:40:09 | 43 | 8 | 78 |
basically the problem with your premise is that the best animated films ever made were Pixar in the nineties. recently that haven't been that good but the Disney films have been just as good as any Pixar movie ever has been. You can say that the profit-driven and that quality suffers but where's the evidence. The best ... | Disney (and similar large, multinational entertainment businesses) ruin the spirit of filmmaking by putting profit over creativity. | 0 | 2017-02-20T01:49:55 | 28 | 1 | 4 |
In a building where the population of workers/visitors/students/whatever isn't roughly 50/50 but maybe 10% one sex and 90% the other sex, some of the minority sex might feel uncomfortable using the facilities which are mostly used by the opposite sex - a male might feel as if he is going into the 'women's room' and a f... | In new buildings, public restrooms should be unisex. | 1 | 2015-09-22T00:54:22 | 26 | 3 | 34 |
I have a difficulty with your edit. I got married while I was serving, and much of my unit attended my wedding. No one was in uniform, yet many people were "associated" with the military. During the same period of my life I was in the wedding party of several relatives. I only wore my uniform when they requested I do s... | Wearing your military uniform to a wedding or funeral is highly narcissistic. | 0 | 2017-05-16T23:01:05 | 111 | 10 | null |
Two main problems. On a philosophical level, I think the problem with your proposal is that you want to give both the mother and the father similar rights in regards to the child. You view abortion (as I understand it, correct me if I'm wrong) as a way of getting out of the responsibility of raising a child, and thus, ... | In the event of an unplanned pregnancy, I believe that if the father wants an abortion but the mother does not, the father should be exempt from paying child support. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-13T22:44:52 | 444 | 84 | 2 |
The industry of fashion is as hit-driven and seasonal as the industry of music. The modern classics--think traditional menswear--have been around for as long as or longer than Ellington or Picasso. The issue isn't that there's no such thing as a classic, but that fashion demands extensive customization rather than perf... | I think fashion is the field least beneficial to humanity at large. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-06T05:16:03 | 37 | 3 | 19Δ |
Now, heres some history 101. When Russia had it's proletarian revolution during World War 1, they were NOT developed, NOT industrialized, and practically lived in a preCapitalist stage, if not, then barely exposed to capitalism. Imperial Russia had certainly entered a Capitalist stage by 1913. While its development was... | Communism can work. If it were not for Stalin and Liberal Reforms, the USSR would be successful | 0 | 2015-04-12T01:06:37 | 78 | 4 | 1Δ |
We sometimes needs to be the assholes of society and debate those who cannot see the wrongness in their own statements. Simply for the sake of trying to let themselves see the wrongness in their belief and their statements. We need to debate these people to make them see the other side of that belief. Many people are... | I feel that religions that believe in a god of some sort are not ground for debate in any way and that anti theists of any sort should not spend time debating them. | 1 | 2015-04-12T22:55:56 | 92 | 4 | null |
basically a very long, drawn out "that's just like, your opinion man" style debate. Actually philosophy has undergone several revolutions. Sit down and read some Kant, and then some Neitchze, then some Foucault and tell me that everybody is just treading the same ground "how to live life" That is *not* nihilism. Nihili... | Philosophy, as a field of formal study is meaningless. | 0 | 2016-06-18T16:51:20 | 46 | 1 | 1 |
The healthcare system may be a bit awkward for you, but if you're young and relatively healthy it shouldn't be a problem. Also, if you get health insurance through your employer (highly likely) it's not as bad as its made out to be. "The aggressive nature of law enforcement"...I'll grant you a lot of cops are arrogant,... | I believe that by moving to the US, I am giving up most of my freedoms enjoyed in the UK, and significantly lowering my standard of living, CMV! | 0 | 2013-07-28T17:13:40 | 405 | 9 | 84Δ |
I don't like a few of the things GRRM does and wish he wouldn't. like the 'dany's breasts touched her dress lightly as she went past' type stuff, but when it comes to stuff like describing rape and stuff, it's just describing how horrible the society is, and when it'd brushed off, it's to show that the person whose POV... | I think GoT is badly-written, misogynistic tripe. CMV enough to get through reading the books. | 0 | 2013-11-12T15:10:28 | 138 | 1 | 1 |
I don't think I should need them. I am also doing talk therapy and I should be able to figure this out on my own. I mean it's just my thoughts right? I've changed my view on a bunch of things, a lot based on reading this sub. I think I understand this on an emotional level, but I don't really get what you're saying. Do... | I've been diagnosed with depression but I don't want to take medication because... | 0 | 2017-05-19T22:16:30 | 62 | 1 | 77 |
Personally I believe in the cycle of life and I believe being vegan is a human ideal that is not shared by the animal kingdom. Scientifically speaking humans are omnivores, in the world there are carnivores and herbivores, but humans metabolism is designed to process both plants and meats. If we were relying more on in... | I'm a vegan. Change my view. | 0 | 2016-07-19T01:16:42 | 144 | 1 | null |
Does it hurt men physically to be raped (no bondage/drugs/alcohol involved)? I sound like one of those legitimate rape Republicans here, but if a man is being raped by a woman, why can't he just... enjoy it? I hate to sound like a jerk but um...do you actually know what rape is? Rape is any time that one person, throug... | I don't believe men can be raped by women. CMV. | 0 | 2013-03-13T18:59:14 | 44 | 37 | null |
I think it's more that when Person A says something that Person B believes to be bigoted, B calling A a bigot destroys productive conversations. When an argument or belief is ignored and we proceed to shame someone until they either leave or are coerced into a superficial change, we have fundamentally failed to address... | Bigotry towards bigots is not "just as bad." | 1 | 2017-01-04T01:09:54 | 90 | 81 | 129 |
And that might be something you could bring up in an argument with a Catholic. It's a fairly weak argument against the doctrine itself, at best it calls into question the inherent legitimacy of the modern church. An educated Catholic would tell you that apostolic succession rests in the person of the church through the... | Practicing Catholics who know about the sexual abuse conspiracy are morally culpable for their continuing support. | 1 | 2015-07-03T06:23:41 | 43 | 7 | 88 |
"Without the lyrics it's just a melody and beat. It may sound great, but it can't put your view of something into another perspective like other art does." Other art? Such as sketches, painting's, drawings, etc? Since Music can change my perspective, even without lyrics, a lot faster then looking at some dripped colors... | I beleive that quality of music completely depends on the taste of the listener and holds no real artistic value. CMV | 0 | 2013-05-21T21:37:03 | 123 | 2 | null |
I read this scene years ago, but it's still awesome: [Daredevil 233](http://economicsandethics.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a58aead7970c014e8804a1b8970d-pi) When the Avengers arrive on the scene, Frank Miller describes Cap as "A Soldier with a voice that could command a God - and does". And that's his *real* super power - lead... | Captain America is the worst avenger. | 1 | 2017-02-01T00:59:01 | 60 | 62 | 202 |
Overpopulation is definitely an issue but I don't think that it is a really helpful description of the problem. It's like suggesting that the existence of trees is the root cause of forest fires. Sure if we had fewer trees, there would be fewer fires but that's not necessarily a helpful starting point for the discussio... | Overpopulation is the root cause of all other environmental crises currently affecting our biosphere. | 0 | 2017-04-08T23:04:02 | 36 | 2 | 5 |
Everyone talks about how you should accept that copyright should be longer, but I will take the opposite side. I think there should be no copyright whatsoever. It's introducing artificial scarcity to a market and therefore free market capitalists should disagree with it and leftists should disagree with it because they... | Copyright protection should last 15 to 20 years at most. | 0 | 2016-07-14T01:00:51 | 557 | 1 | null |
I think you're on the right track. Saying that because you are part of X category means you have Y privilege is ridiculous. For example, people who grown up in poor families make less money because they lack connections, educational opportunity (they should have school choice), money, and their parents teach them less ... | There is such a thing as privilege, but it's not as important as people make it out to be. | 0 | 2017-04-21T04:31:07 | 87 | 1 | 1 |
Yes they can, but this still causes a massive disruption to work flow. The skills might not be available, and the companies themselves might not actually have the money to bump up people's salaries by 1000%. They need to wait for people to buy their products at 1000% markups.. before they pay people these 1000% increas... | Realistically, hurting the majority of poor people will not hurt the majority of wealthy people in any significant way | 1 | 2016-10-14T12:14:14 | 76 | 1 | 2 |
[The capital gains tax cut did not only bene t wealthy Americans; more than half of all tax l- ers with capital gains had incomes of less than $50,000 in 2005 and more than two-thirds had incomes of less than $100,000.](http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st307.pdf) -National Center for Policy Analysis [Our results indicate that ... | There is no hard data that shows "trickle-down economics" or tax cuts for the highest brackets actually produce jobs and benefit the middle class. | 1 | 2017-04-27T20:35:30 | 244 | 8 | 5 |
Would it to be going too far then to argue that if we have a built-in resistance to killing humans that killing humans is objectively wrong? I feel like there is no way to really argue this, because your definition of morality is not very clear. I'll be that basic and just copy/paste the Google definition of it: "prin... | There is no morality | 1 | 2017-02-05T11:02:50 | 67 | 2 | 1 |
I don't believe people cannot change their opinions. I also don't believe NO racist can change. What I do believe, however, is that for for every such person who changes his/her views, there'll be three more such people who would vociferously defend their ideas and that is what allows the prominence of such traits in o... | People who are racists, bigots, religiously dogmatic can never be changed. The only way to weed out these negative traits from the society is to focus on the next generations being properly educated. | 0 | 2015-03-12T01:02:24 | 159 | 1 | 2 |
I just can't lump adults who smoke recreational weed together with people who willingly break the law and take advantage of kids who don't know any better for profit. Why can't you lump them together? Just because somebody sells drugs doesn't mean they sell to kids. What about the guy who buys an ounce or two to share ... | I think marijuana dealers do not deserve any sympathy or rescinded sentences. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-31T21:04:11 | 29 | 8 | 1 |
I work in TV advertising. Advertisers place orders on my station and it's my job to see that these orders go in, and that they actually air when they're supposed to. When spots don't air where they're supposed to (which happens frequently since TV works on an auction type system and whoever paid the least gets bumped w... | For salaried employees, it's a good thing to be able to take your work home with you (e.g., receive work e-mails on your phone, have the work laptop at home, etc.) | 1 | 2015-10-20T16:32:01 | 71 | 21 | 45 |
The problem with these kinds of conspiracy theories is the sheer number of people that would be required to keep their mouth shut to ensure it stayed secret. Take Lance Armstrong, as one example. Survived cancer twice when he was successful, a likely candidate if such a thing existed, and at the lowest ebb of his fall ... | There is an effective cure for all types of cancer, but the government and health care systems do not use this on the general public. | 1 | 2015-02-03T23:11:14 | 21 | 5 | 3 |
Lay a soft shell out, spread some refried beans and cheese on it. Microwave for a second. Set hard shell in center of cheese and beans. Fill shell with toppings, and beef. Wrap it up together. You get the crunch of the hardshell with the containment of the soft shell. | Hard-shell tacos don't make any sense | 1 | 2015-07-23T01:54:04 | 369 | 13 | null |
the obvious solution to a more peaceful life is to reduce your material wants towards zero. At some point, continuing to reduce your material wants will make your life *less* peaceful. That point is different for everybody. Some people would even say that non-material desires are wrong. To you, air conditioning is a lu... | The goal of life should be to reduce your material wants. | 0 | 2015-07-07T23:05:50 | 37 | 9 | 22 |
Right. The skill sets are different, but the concept of Cinematography is to create something visually pleasing. To differentiate, oh, this type of cinematography is different from this other type means you could also say film cinematography deserves to be differentiated from digital cinematography. Same with black an... | What constitutes cinematography needs to be divided into two categories ("classic" and "digital") for the purposes of competitions/awards. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-17T19:57:05 | 41 | 2 | 1 |
Dutchie here. Guess you'll have a lot of responses from us types. I don't wear a helmet. No-one here wears helmets with the exception of some small children and for those who bike for sport. There are two reasons. The first is simple ridicule. If I show up with a helmet at university I will get laughed at. The second i... | There are no good reasons to not wear a helmet while riding a bicycle | 0 | 2015-05-27T13:50:28 | 149 | 9 | 1 |
It's not always a silver bullet, maybe it doesn't get better immediately, maybe it doesn't ever get all that much better. But in general, you have: Depression -- Suicide = Never recover Depression -- Move out = Recover quickly/recover moderately/recover slowly/Never recover Choice #1 has a 0% possibility of recovery. C... | I believe suicide is ok as long as you're not taking anyone out with you | 1 | 2015-04-12T04:49:05 | 213 | 12 | 11Δ |
How do multiple satellites each see a perfect circle at the same time, despite looking from multiple angles? | The Earth is not a sphere, but a circle | 0 | 2015-10-21T08:25:46 | 53 | 2 | 28 |
I assure you, the polymer bills we' use are *quite* tearable. They're also heat sensitive which kind of sucks. Once they become heated they can kind of curl or warp and become totally unreadable in the machines. For machine payments - everything from vending machines to self check outs in the grocery store and parking ... | Coins are outdated and should be removed as legal tender | 1 | 2014-04-28T04:46:09 | 56 | 2 | 5 |
Michelle Obama burned her bridge with much of the political right 9 years ago when she said [" for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYY73RO_egw). It can certainly be argued that that was a "classless" thing to say. Melania, on the other hand, doesn't... | There is no non-racist reason for people to say "Melania Trump is bringing class back to the White House". | 1 | 2017-03-16T17:06:38 | 119 | 12 | 3 |
Motorized blinds already exist, why not go buy them? | The strings that control a window blinds are crappy design. | 0 | 2017-05-06T05:08:38 | 79 | 28 | 53 |
What I mean by emotional argument is when a person uses their personal views and values You'd be very hard pressed to find an argument that isn't influenced in some way by a person's beliefs and values. I agree with your overall point, but I don't think it applies at all to the example you gave in your post. "Rejectin... | Discussions should be based on logic, not on emotion. | 1 | 2016-04-22T01:32:50 | 33 | 10 | 31 |
I believe that standardized assessment of all of the individuals may not be perfectly fair (some people are not as good with the format as others) but it is the best approach given the scale of testing required, therefore, it would be irrational to do away with the format. So the claim has now shifted from "The test is... | There is no rational argument for doing away with the New York teacher literacy tests. | 1 | 2017-03-15T20:39:39 | 435 | 14 | 35 |
The short answer: Be selective about who you talk with about controversial topics. Some of your closer friends are probably already aware that you don't share their political views. So choose the ones among them who you think you could have a conversation with and roll with it. If you're sure you do want to discuss it ... | I don't think it's worth discussing politics in public. | 1 | 2015-07-12T06:05:16 | 28 | 29 | 32 |
I believe phones are largely indefensible. However, I believe that many people nowadays type far more and *faster* than they write. Word processing software is actually more powerful and arguably more adjusted to than written notes. I think distraction due to laptops is a *symptom* of a different problem rather than a ... | I don't see any reason to allow cellphones, laptops, or tablets in my classroom. CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-13T01:58:11 | 66 | 5 | 82Δ |
Fine: * 1a) They "stand for it" until they don't. SPOILER ALERT: The second book ends with a nascent revolution. * 1b) In some West African states people "stood for" Kangaroo courts that sentenced young men so they could be sold into slavery. In some places (including Europe and China) children were forcibly taken from... | "The Hunger Games" as a story is completely unbelievable | 1 | 2015-01-23T18:30:33 | 255 | 8 | 6 |
I like the idea, but like anything, there needs to be clarifying details. A large part of boot camp is indoctrination: removal of individuality, inhibition of fear of killing. A reverse boot camp as you describe, still does not instill the individualization and self agency an returning vet needs to reintegrate. Moreove... | I believe that we should have a 'Reverse Boot Camp' when veterans return from active duty, in order to better transition them back into society. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-14T17:40:40 | 162 | 63 | 2 |
You would not be able to stand on a walrus long enough to stomp on its head. Walruses are huge. Adult male walruses weigh upwards of 2 tons. That is a tremendous amount of power and muscle. If you made a single mistake, lost your footing or your balance, it could seriously injure or kill you just about instantly just ... | I think I could kill a fully grown Walrus in hand-to-hand combat | 1 | 2016-10-19T23:41:46 | 342 | 1,080 | 36 |
The idea is not to "solve" it but to stop accelerating it. Global warming and freezing is a natural thing. | Trying to "solve" global warming is unrealistic, and plans should only be made to survive it | 0 | 2017-06-25T18:32:59 | 72 | 1 | null |
What does mean for something to be your property? Like does the house know you own it? For the vast majority of people, owning somethings means having title or a claim to it that can be enforced through the legal system. The legal system is not free to run; you have to pay taxes in order for it to work, but that's not... | Due to property taxes, nobody in America really owns their own home. They're continually renting it from the government | 1 | 2016-04-11T03:02:02 | 430 | 560 | 3 |
Some of the most transformative moments of the 20th century are the direct consequence of the contest between the super-powers. With the exception of the space race, I can't think of any positive one that occurred. Western politicians had to be involved in events around the world far more than they are today. The West... | The World, particularly the West, was better off when the Soviet Union existed and acted as a counterweight to the U.S. in geopolitics. | 0 | 2015-02-21T02:57:32 | 56 | 2 | 4 |
A study featured in The New England Journal of Medicine found that people over 75 who engage in games like chess are less likely to develop dementia than their non-board-game-playing peers. It's also been proven to increase concentration, problem-solving skills, and reading comprehension among younger players. Accordi... | Videogames are always bad for humans overall | 0 | 2017-02-09T03:29:29 | 39 | 2 | 25 |
If you remove from your list of things that are part of "the good life" being ethical, being moral and having empathy for others than your argument does get a little bit better. However, that is a hell of a sacrifice to potentially achieve other things that are valued, isn't it? Your argument is basically that being a ... | It is more beneficial to be without Morals, Empathy or Ethics in a society that thrives on them. | 0 | 2017-02-02T03:04:06 | 42 | 3 | 64 |
I didn't mean school is like a job in that you trade time/ skills for money; but rather that they are both highly structured institutions that value compliance. Schools could just as easily be compared to prisons from an institutional perspective, both: - have a strict timetable - have specific areas for specific task... | High Schools exercise too much power over students' lives. | 1 | 2017-05-17T08:49:14 | 237 | 10 | 2 |
I'd argue that Philosophy majors are even moreso. Philosophy majors consistently outearn other liberal arts majors and score better on most standardized exams ([source](http://dailynous.com/value-of-philosophy/charts-and-graphs)). On top of these hard indicators of the value philosophy majors emphasize the ability to a... | Communication Majors are the most overlooked and underestimated majors within our universities in America. | 1 | 2016-05-09T01:38:30 | 27 | 9 | 25 |
If politicians can only serve one term in office, I think they'd be more likely to support special interests and lobbying efforts. After all, they will be unemployed in the near future, so they better do something to secure their next job. | Representatives should be limited to only one term in office | 1 | 2016-06-29T06:16:24 | 27 | 10 | 124 |
The current meta is not about mech's, in any way. The mech decks are not popular. The best decks are Grim Patron, handlock, oil rouge and midrange hunter. The meta is actually relatively midrange right now, with the agro decks doing poorly. And Hearthstone is not a free to play game. You can play it for free, but you w... | Hearthstone and its card economy is incredibly unbalanced and shallow, especially after the Gnomes vs. Goblins expansion. | 0 | 2015-07-29T19:18:50 | 33 | 4 | 20 |
They could instill deadline management if they graded assignments in a timely manner It doesn't really follow. True story, when I go to work and have a deadline, what happens on the next step has really zero bearing on what I just handed in. Whatever happens to it might come back to me a week, a month or (as it's happe... | Teachers shouldn't count an assignment as late unless they've already graded it. | 1 | 2014-09-23T00:59:27 | 48 | 2 | 19 |
Esperanto is better at preventing cultural genocide than its alternative, everyone learning English (or Chinese). Learning a natural language is a huge investment, and almost all people will stay at a disadvantage compared to native speakers. Even worse is when parents decide to educate their children in English from b... | Esperanto and Lojban are attempts of cultural genocide under the guise of providing easier communication. | 0 | 2017-03-02T10:01:05 | 42 | 7 | null |
I'm Canadian, so we are usually in between these "American" v. "British" issues. The spelling is pretty much already interchangeable except for things like "colour, harbour, and favour." Things with the "-our" are ingrained, but things like "offence/offense" or "recognise/recognize" are used interchangeably. So it has ... | The distinction between American and British English spelling is pointless and problematic and should be done away with. | 0 | 2014-07-17T16:47:35 | 81 | 13 | null |
Short answer- if we had a long running tradition of producing birth certificates and Obama suddenly refused, I'd be really suspicious. But we don't. Second short answer- it is traditionally considered to be ethically necessary for Presidents not to personally profit from the presidency's power. Without knowing where h... | Crying for Trump's tax returns is the same as crying for Obama's birth certificate | 0 | 2017-06-20T18:46:03 | 39 | 7 | 19 |
I'll keep this short since there are so many other great replies, and I just want to emphasize one point Vegan diets are NOT healthier in almost all cases. I'm on mobile so its hard to find good sources right now, but over and over, I have seen both anecdotal examples and research that tells us this. In theory, more ve... | If you actually care about your health and the environment, you should go vegan | 0 | 2015-10-01T07:20:56 | 179 | 1 | null |
Or if you think it should be left for the next person's convenience it would actually make more sense to leave it up if you have more men in your house than women because we pee more often than we poop so the up position will be more necessary. Actually this isn't correct. If you have a mixture of women and men, you sh... | Asking me to leave the toilet seat down for their convenience is no different than me asking someone to leave it up for my convenience. | 1 | 2015-03-28T19:02:56 | 626 | 171 | 11Δ |
Sure, but it's not the ultimate one. Trump supporters are still occasionally forced to interact with reality on occasion. Either someone who hasn't been banned slips through, their posts are highly downvoted the minute they hit /r/all, or they accidentally step out of /r/The_Donald and into the rest of Reddit. The ulti... | r/The_Donald is the ultimate Safe Space. | 1 | 2017-02-09T19:01:18 | 158 | -1 | 121 |
Playboy is dying because both of its principal offerings are better gotten elsewhere. Who wants their porn cluttered with journalism, and with all the good bits covered? Who wants to read news and interviews that have half-naked women in the margins? Can you really take that seriously? There was a time when Playboy was... | I do not agree with Playboy's decision to stop publishing fully nude photos | 0 | 2015-10-13T17:22:13 | 86 | 47 | 21 |
But what if opinion changes *quickly*. What if after making a long-term, popular opinion, something changes? Let's say the country votes to invest $100 Billion into a great project. Everyone knows its long-term. Everyone knows the penalty for turning back after the deal: a major loss on the principle. Then a year later... | A president who was sole mission was to represent the will of the people would be superior to a president that tries to 'lead' the country. This could theoretically be accomplished now (example in submission text). Why does no one even talk about this? | 1 | 2016-02-16T20:04:09 | 52 | 1 | 4 |
While you might be right that people are more likely to adopt an unwanted dog if it only has three legs I foresee two big issues with your plan: - It is straight up illegal. Mutilation of animals like this is pretty clearly abuse. This is not an ethical argument I am making, it's a practical one about the ability to en... | If a dog shelter is having trouble adopting out a dog, they should humanely amputate one of the dog's legs. | 0 | 2016-09-09T20:51:41 | 28 | 1 | 93 |
Secondly, philosophy will assure that all children are as mature as they should be at their age while also bringing them some historic knowledge. Children are impressionable and lack a lot of the developed reasoning skills that would make knowing all this philosophy actually useful. Either teaching them philosophy woul... | I feel like math, philosophy, first and second language and IT should be the only course taught to children until 4th grade. | 0 | 2015-03-26T03:26:21 | 46 | 6 | 7Δ |
This is the only case in English where two peoples are referred to as a fluid version of the same word, and I just don't see why we need the confusion. The state of Georgia (also a country in Eastern Europe) in America (also the name for the two continents in the Western hemisphere) contains the cities Athens (which yo... | I shouldn't have to say "East Indian" when talking about Indian people, and it makes no sense to call Native Americans "Indians." | 1 | 2015-10-05T01:43:42 | 72 | 20 | 4 |
It does. Obviously we're dealing with a post-collapse fantasy, so there are gonna obviously be strongmen who are out to satisfy whatever desires they can and in whatever ways they can, But The Walking Dead is one of the few action-oriented shows on television with multiple strong female lead and supporting roles. | The Walking Dead is not worth watching. | 1 | 2015-10-09T02:25:49 | 41 | 2 | null |
I believe people should take a step back from thinking grown man vs child and consider it the same as a child vs child. Because when intercourse is involved it doesn't matter how old the partner is as long as both were consenting. So, just to clarify, are you saying that there is nothing wrong with a 40 year old having... | Laws and religion have brainwashed people that sexualization of children is wrong, or having intercourse with people under 18 is wrong. | 0 | 2015-12-08T06:10:37 | 66 | 0 | null |
1) while technically true, I think you're ignoring the fact that you're experiencing all these things through a level of abstraction. When you see something on the web, you aren't *really* seeing it; you're looking at a image representing it. This inherently changes the content of the thing itself, and by extension, ch... | Living via internet is now a possible, even superior, existence | 1 | 2015-10-25T19:33:45 | 54 | 6 | 1 |
You semi-acknowledge that every generation considers the next one "soft". I know my father's generation did, and now I'm a parent of a 17 year old, and they seem to have things easier that we did. Of course, isn't that the point? To make the world better for our children? So, kids who have been working in HS need to be... | I believe that in order to help combat poor parenting that is raising a generation of self-entitled assholes, a year of mandatory federal service should be imposed on all 18 year olds. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-20T20:58:24 | 79 | 4 | 108Δ |
1) Job pay rates are determined by the job's complexity and available workforce. Highly skilled jobs limit the available amount of local candidates, low skill jobs increase the amount of local candidates. High skill jobs pay more because there is less competition to get the work done and done correctly. Low skill jobs ... | Not all jobs should be required to pay a livable wage. | 0 | 2017-06-19T19:17:40 | 107 | 2 | 6 |
* But he hasn't just learned to cope with his lack of sight, he has supernatural senses. Surely a blind man who isn't at all blind would attract a lot of attention. If its possible to " deal with your blindness by sensing your surroundings better", why isn't every blind person learning to do it? Revealing that he has t... | There is no reason that Daredevil should pretend to be 'conventionally' blind in his normal life. **[Spoilers of the Daredevil series on Netflix]** | 1 | 2016-01-03T12:58:24 | 30 | 53 | 5 |
You haven't answered the secondary question: how do you justify that you have just created an *incentive* for politicians to try to undermine the quality of education in areas where people are likely to vote against them? What exact reading level should be required, and why do you assume that political engagement and v... | Everyone should pass a test in order to vote | 1 | 2017-05-04T21:25:56 | 98 | 5 | 8 |
Principally it is because an animal can't consent. Yes, they can take the initiative in a sexual act or they can choose not to kick you in the balls/run away. That does not mean they consent. Much like you can make a child do what you want by manipulating it. It's still not consent and you are using a creature for your... | I don't understand what people find wrong with bestiality. CMV. | 0 | 2013-02-12T16:31:37 | 62 | 1 | null |
She is allowed to break up with you. She's allowed to be a gold digger if she wants to. If you want to get back at her that's just you being vindictive. You might think you're justified here, but you're not. If you go through with this plan and it gets know you might as well make a billboard to all women saying that... | I want to post revenge p0rn of my last ex-girlfriend. | 0 | 2017-01-11T03:00:14 | 49 | 7 | 23 |
I argue that the story in the prequels enhances the story of the original trilogy. A major aspect of the trilogy, especially late in Empire and throughout Jedi, is the possibility that Luke will turn to the dark side. We learn his father did, he enters in Jedi wearing all black and force choking the guards, blasting to... | Star Wars episodes 1, 2, 3 are not worth watching. | 0 | 2016-10-16T18:45:28 | 42 | 1 | null |
If you are arguing simply based upon a utilitarian standpoint, think of this scenario: you have 3 individuals at a hospital that are going to die if they do not receive an organ transplant. One needs a new heart, one needs a new kidney, and one needs a new liver. Now down the hall there is a perfectly healthy man who h... | I believe that organ donation should be mandatory. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-02T19:44:23 | 203 | 1 | null |
Assuming that whatever war is going to happen regardless... This is the part I'm taking issue with. The tools you have to use in war will affect your decision to go to war. So you can't just plug drones into the equation after the fact. I'm saying that because drones require very little risk on your part, that their us... | Drone strikes are not only a legitimate method of waging war, but one of the most ethical and ideal. | 1 | 2017-02-28T23:57:34 | 96 | 21 | 1 |
Well that's a terrible reason to vote for anyone in the first place. You should vote for what you feel is best for the country, or you, not out of spite for what appears to you as someone else's stupidity. It depends on what these people's interests are. Sure, voting for the GOP as a poor person is pretty fucking dumb ... | Many of my working class and poor facebook friends post things supporting the GOP. I'm about to start voting GOP simply to help these people hurt themselves. "Poor" and vote against your own self interests? Let me help you with that. | 1 | 2014-08-14T03:30:15 | 40 | 2 | 8Δ |
Well first of all, it's implied that the government will kill him at any time, so if it's a happy ending, it's only temporary. But also, I'd say the saddest part of the ending isn't for Winston, but for humanity itself. The implication is that that kind of horrible system *can't* be destroyed. It's maybe happy for him,... | I think 1984 has a happy ending. | 0 | 2014-06-08T00:33:01 | 330 | 2 | null |
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