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A big reason the situation in the US has gotten to where it has is not simply the existence of for-profit (private) prisons, it's the lobbying power they wield. Why do they wield that power? Because there are many of them, they are large, and they have lots and lots of money. It's perfectly possible that there's nothin... | Private Prisons in the UK are a good idea. | 1 | 2015-01-24T16:46:17 | 134 | 57 | 47 |
I'm having trouble understanding how that improves anything. I won't suffer much--I just have to live in a messier house and do more chores on the weekend. But my cleaning lady is now unemployed and unlikely to find another house-cleaning job since presumably everyone else has also sworn off luxuries. In your scheme, r... | It's immoral to spend any more money than what you must spend for basic needs and reasonable comfort, when that money could be used to help people in need. | 1 | 2015-07-02T00:58:39 | 66 | 3 | 4 |
You appeared to be using it to refute the statistical evidence, I was incorrect in making the assumption for how it was being used. That is on me, I tend to be very liner focused so I was thinking your first response is counter my first response, I was wrong. That said are you going to address the point on responsibil... | Addiction is a habit, not a disease. | 1 | 2015-07-17T18:39:04 | 117 | 25 | 5 |
The real attack on Christianity is the insistence that Christians submit to the liberal imperial cult. But Pope Francis is the [patron saint of the liberal imperialist cult.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/07/what-has-pope-francis-actually-accomplished-heres-a-look-at-7-of-his-most-notable-a... | Christianity is under attack in the western world | 0 | 2017-06-03T23:42:00 | 219 | 1 | 167 |
By the way, how *do* you feel about the four cases I mentioned? That wasn't a rhetorical question, I really don't feel like I have a firm enough grasp yet on why you feel this way to understand whether I think I can say what, if anything, is wrong with it. (Who know, you might end up changing my view.) For example, you... | Paralympic Games make no sense since abilities are on a continuum; it's just a big white lie | 1 | 2015-02-14T23:22:11 | 77 | 9 | 7 |
Ultimately it comes down to *agency*. So you're a construction worker, and it's physically hard, and you have to wrestle with heavy stuff all day. That stuff is not actively trying to stress you out, nor does it have any ability to *refrain* from stressing you out, nor is that stuff to *blame* for your situation. There... | Retail work is not bad enough to warrant the level of complaints from its workers | 0 | 2017-01-02T19:58:01 | 60 | 2 | 217 |
The logic is that the people your inheritance would be going to didn't really do anything to deserve that money So what? If its my money, I get to decide who is deserving, not you. Regardless, all you would accomplish is making old rich people slightly change strategy with the games they play with how much money they w... | I think that unless you have dependents, all "inheritance" should go to government services | 0 | 2014-04-14T19:25:01 | 75 | 2 | 8Δ |
If you were the person who made this a reality, I would make absolutely sure that whenever you were having an intimate moment with a special lady, you'd get the image of me furiously jacking it and making lewd comments about the woman you're with. My point being: There are some things we do that are private for reasons... | We should all wear cameras in our heads that record everything we do. And everyone should be able to see every feed. | 1 | 2014-04-04T17:44:05 | 95 | 2 | 50Δ |
This is some stranger, and it's much weirder. What about Portajohns though? Or late at night in co-ed dorm rooms, which is where I first ran into this? It's just pooping, bro. Everyone poops. Did you know the Romans used to just have long public benches, with no dividers or anything? When you really think about it, the... | The "Trans Restroom Issue" is being unnecessarily complicated | 1 | 2016-07-14T20:42:09 | 504 | 0 | 6 |
Women are often objectified by men, so if I dated I would expose myself to situations where guys would see me merely as a sex object, Objectifying is how our brain works, how we see the world. And whenever you don't know someone, you view them as an object. You can't avoid it, and you can't help it, that's simply how ... | As a girl, there's no advantage for me to date | 0 | 2016-10-02T00:22:35 | 82 | 0 | 11 |
I think we're saying the same thing? Peterson's point (as I understand it) is that passing laws to curtail free speech in order to change the meaning of or to create new words is authoritarian. He isn't refusing to do so to hurt his students' feelings - he is refusing to do so because the government is censoring his sp... | Refusing to use someone's preferred pronouns (within reason) is being pointlessly combative | 1 | 2017-06-13T23:25:18 | 166 | 17 | 35 |
First off, I agree with you in part - I do think we can do a lot to be more accessible. But I think you swing too far the other way, and I'd like to play half-devil's-advocate to some of your points. A college education (or at the very least, the Internet and plenty of time on one's hands) seems to be a standard cost ... | The SJW movement uses language of the elite and privileged, and thus does very little to empower or educate. | 0 | 2015-07-28T05:42:59 | 54 | 9 | 8Δ |
You're right, and that's the actual, literal definition of discrimination - where one person can't have access to something. Single gender education has some benefits; for instance, dividing the genders prevents most children from being distracted by romantic notions during class. This is a net benefit, and the homosex... | Single gender schools are discriminatory because there is no such thing as "separate but equal" | 0 | 2016-12-16T05:54:42 | 349 | 2 | 3 |
I think the most important part of the article is this line: many of of the male study participants had previously served in combat units, whereas female participants, by necessity, came directly from infantry schools or from noncombat jobs This means that teams with rookies are being compared to teams that may likely ... | Women should not be allowed in the US Marines | 1 | 2015-09-13T15:38:29 | 335 | 878 | 3 |
You're taking a virtue, which is remaining neutral without a more comprehensive understanding, and viewing it as a vice. I'm a bit confused with what youre suggesting in terms of how giving an opinion based off what you know is better than no opinion at all. I understand your sentiment in the sense that saying you don'... | It's intellectually lazy to not have a stance on an issue | 0 | 2016-03-05T05:16:01 | 76 | 1 | 3 |
Most of it is repetitive: hardship and love Well, to quote John Berryman: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resour... | I don't see the big deal about poetry. | 0 | 2014-05-28T05:16:51 | 197 | 2 | null |
My father is a retired engineering professor. Quite a few years ago, he decided to write a textbook because he was tired of teaching from books he didn't like. He spent over 6 months writing it. Besides actually writing, he had to search for the images to put into it, get approvals to use the images, work with artists ... | ebooks shouldn't cost more than 5dollars. Anything above just hinders education, culture and technological advance. | 1 | 2015-03-26T16:53:15 | 73 | 44 | 108Δ |
but these same very lucky people are claiming that in some bizarro fashion they are actually the ones that are being discriminated against and being victimized. I am seriously confused how anyone could be so out of touch with reality. In the UK at least, [a recent poll](https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/12/14/prejudice-da... | Being born a white straight man is actually a pretty good deal. | 0 | 2015-12-28T11:29:31 | 74 | 2 | 1 |
The thing is "Be responsible for yourself by not drinking too much" is good advice for anyone, not just women. On your definition of rape culture, my understanding is that rape culture isn't so much about men not being accountable, but more that women are sort of held accountable for moderating men's sexual urges. The... | I am not totally convinced that telling a woman to be "responsible for herself" by "not drinking too much" is an instance of rape culture. | 0 | 2016-07-13T22:27:24 | 184 | 2 | 1 |
In that case, I will follow up by saying you *should* have a strong opinion about important/controversial topics and you *should* care about them, but that it's okay if that opinion is ambivalent. As long as you do your due diligence and demonstrate *why* you hold that position, and that your reasons are valid and soun... | I don't need to have a strong/passionate opinion on every controversial topic, nor do I have to really care about them at all. | 1 | 2017-05-02T22:26:23 | 52 | 13 | 4 |
Are you going to address my questions? Should it be lawful for Apple to operate an Apple store? Should it be lawful for Farmer Bob to sell at the farmer's market? Should it be lawful for Farmer Bob to sell directly to a supermarket? How many people have a right to earn an income on Farmer Bob's produce? Let's say I hav... | I agree with Michigan in regards to banning Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers. | 1 | 2014-10-26T09:03:39 | 25 | 11 | 3 |
Airline seats are designed to recline; using them they way they are intended is not rude. Expecting others to cater to your specific needs is what's rude imho. If we need a certain amount of room on a flight, it's our duty to find the right flight for us - it's not the airlines' and other peoples' duty to cater to our ... | I believe it is socially rude to fully recline your seat on an airplane flight. | 0 | 2014-10-03T23:48:28 | 309 | 35 | null |
One thing worth considering with the libertarian party: 3rd party candidates are not there to win the presidency. They are aware that the system is rigged. It is highly unlikely they will win the White House. However voting for them still serves two important purposes. 1. A non-vote is statistically indistinguishable ... | As a libertarian, I will not vote in any election in 2016 | 0 | 2016-03-14T14:13:51 | 41 | 2 | 5 |
1. Its still based on random cars. When the majority of people are sleeping or at a non-busy street, there are less cars and less surveillance. If you had fixed cameras, you can have surveillance 24/7 100% of the time. 2. You just need to block view from the road and eye-level. With high fixed cameras its harder to bl... | Self-driving cars are too likely to become a tool of mass surveillance, therefore their development should be stopped as soon as possible. | 1 | 2017-01-02T00:19:36 | 51 | 1 | 103 |
You're setting up misappropriation as an inevitable side effect of exchange, but in reality cultural exchange and cultural misappropriation have very little to do with each other. If we treated each other equally and with respect we'd have 100% cultural exchange and 0% cultural misappropriation. Misappropriation specif... | While Cultural Appropriation is annoying in its extremes, The Benefits of Cultural Exchange Vastly Overshadow the occasional mild annoyance. | 0 | 2017-06-18T19:03:16 | 113 | 17 | null |
You state that foreign policy experience is important to you but then claim you don't care whether it was blundered/messed up. That doesn't make sense to me. It's like if I really needed to have someone with college experience, but said I didn't care of they failed most of their classes. Personally I would gamble on on... | 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. | 0 | 2016-03-14T08:47:06 | 33 | 3 | null |
That's an assumption you're making. Equally possible, maybe they're just very confident that their prices are some of (if not the) best prices you can find. As I said initially, it's an attempt to keep a customer that might have gone elsewhere, not an attempt to only screw you if you're stupid. | All other things being reasonably equal, people should not buy from places that offer price matching or advertise/offer things like "We'll beat their price by $xxx or X%". | 1 | 2015-03-11T05:04:03 | 80 | 1 | 6Δ |
torture doesnt work. subject someone to enough pain and they'll tell you whatever you want to hear, they'll admit to crimes they did not commit, they'll say whatever it takes to make you stop. But if someone came up to me, and said three other people and I need to be tortured because only one of us is a terrorist and ... | I don't have a problem with the U.S. torturing people. | 0 | 2014-12-23T13:35:20 | 36 | 1 | null |
I think its more like "I have this very strong opinion and I'm really in the mood for arguing about it, but I don't particularly want to change it so I'm just gonna ignore the excellent counterarguments that took ages to write and not give people the deltas they deserve". | r/changemyview is essentially "Teach me How to Groupthink". | 1 | 2015-08-25T12:02:55 | 82 | 2 | 2 |
They don't deserve punishment But in your CMV you said they do, so either I’ve changed your view, or you were unclear about what your original view was :) You totally missed my point about cruel punishment. It wasn’t about *innocent* men sitting in jail at all. It was about what punishment a human being *deserves*, eve... | Western visitors to Iran or North Korea who do anything that breaks laws deserve to end up in jail and their home governments should make it clear they won't support them. | 1 | 2014-11-10T12:01:07 | 87 | 1 | 3 |
What if the individual that will be raising the child doesn't have the resources to provide the adequate care that is needed to take care of a handicapped individual? Warning - incoming huge "is/ought" disctinction. Looking at purely an evolutionary framework, it makes the *most* sense to abort a fetus that would be un... | I believe that terminating a pregnancy that will result in a handicapped child is immoral. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-07T22:51:21 | 58 | 16 | 6 |
Unfortunately there may come a point, were your life will get fucked up. Maybe it's an accident, maybe something else. Maybe financial problems, or a psychosis, everything is possible. Who will stay with you, support you, when they get nothing in return? Friends? Even if you have really good friends it would surprise m... | I do not love my parents. CMV | 1 | 2013-02-17T07:08:02 | 24 | 7 | 1 |
It isn't necessarily an endorsement of their values. But it is a recognition of them and their work. They don't name buildings after random people on the street. They name them after notable people. And they don't typically name them for people who are notable for negative reasons. There is no Hitler Hall anywhere as f... | Renaming Calhoun College, Yale sets a dangerous precedent in recognizing historical figures | 1 | 2017-02-12T15:26:26 | 54 | 20 | 15 |
His contributions to science are not discoveries So, is your requirement that they need to make discoveries? Do scientists who toil in vain for a breakthrough not count then? Or those who made discoveries centuries ago only to find someone had beaten them to it without their knowledge? Is someone doing bad science more... | Bill Nye is not a scientist | 1 | 2015-01-27T22:26:43 | 263 | 1 | 85 |
Am I right in remembering that nobody has ever defeated Obi-Wan in single combat? Single combat is no measure for the 'greatest jedi of all time.' Even if it was, we didn't see Obi-Wan fight many other force users. Nobody would dispute that Obi-Wan was one of the greatest, that much is clear, but surely the greatest ... | Obi-Wan was actually the greatest Jedi. | 0 | 2016-07-24T00:16:00 | 69 | 78 | 1Δ |
Not An Expert Or Anything Like It, But: -Upward mobility can be sort of paradoxical. I've heard of cases where an applicant has to 'appear' to be doing better than they are, in order to land a certain job. For example, I wouldn't be too surprised to see someone using government assistance to buy a three-piece suit, be... | People getting government support should have a spending limit on non-necessities. | 1 | 2017-05-15T01:26:12 | 157 | 5 | 1 |
After all, they did start out as an equivalent to today's boy bands No, they didn't. Just because girls liked them they're equivalent to today's boy bands? Today's boy bands are mass-marketed, manufactured, and a dime-a-dozen. The Beatles were a genuine rock band that started from the ground up, played rock and roll an... | I don't think that The Beatles are as big of a deal as they are made out to be. | 0 | 2014-05-29T07:50:37 | 67 | 60 | 50Δ |
Checks and balances for the US is based on 3 institutions: legislative, judicial and executive. The media is not part of the checks and balances. But, even if you don't agree with the constitution and you want to include the media as a 4th institution, then you need to remeber that "checks and balances" works to keep ... | Calling the media the enemy of the American people is a way to eliminate checks and balances at a governmental level and creates corruption | 0 | 2017-02-28T02:36:58 | 562 | 1 | null |
I think that's worth it. And?? Do you own reddit? This is not a judgement call that you are qualified to make. Reddit is not about politics or about changing views, it is about whatever the hell you want it to be. You want to change people's views? Too bad, they don't *want* their views changed. Your argument is basica... | Political subreddits are becoming echo chambers, and there should be a way for liberal posts to have a change on r/T_D, and conservative posts on r/politics | 1 | 2017-05-16T10:37:01 | 74 | 3 | 24 |
Child support is for the child, not the woman. When he tries to get out of supporting his child, it's the innocent child who suffers. If he didn't want to ever support a child, he could've done done a better job with birth control, gotten a vasectomy, or chose not to have sex. Your agreement also doesn't work because... | A 'financial abortion' law for men is feasible | 0 | 2014-12-24T20:51:01 | 366 | 2 | 14 |
The NRA is sincere about Gun ownership. [full stop] One argument among many for being pro-gun is as a check against government overreach. It is the NRA, not the NAMRA. If you wanted the citizens to have the right to bear autonomous [para]military robots then you could start the NA[p]MRA society if you wanted to. If you... | If the NRA is sincere about gun ownership as check on government overreach, then their biggest concern is not regulations on firearms, but autonomous military robots. | 0 | 2015-12-27T03:34:26 | 80 | 1 | null |
I agree with everyone here, and would like to add my two cents. I see it as, white people (per se) taking bits and pieces of the "good things" in other cultures, like, "I'll wear the warbonnet because it looks cool" but only using that from the Native American culture, without delving into the other parts of it, whethe... | I don't think cultural appropriation is a real issue | 0 | 2017-01-23T21:44:55 | 555 | -2 | null |
I have thought about this for a time and have come to the conclusion that democracy is needed for whatever system that replaces it. You say that we should focus on national interest not regional, however in systems that forego democracy one is not thinking in national logic, but their own. Democracy provides accountabi... | Democracy is overrated. | 0 | 2017-06-24T05:45:11 | 46 | 1 | null |
It's a "which came first", type of thing. Exactly. And your OP claims that a focus on diversity was the cause of the current poor performance. How do you know it's not that poor writing caused a lousy portrayal of diversity? | The Marvel Comics are suffering due to it's focus on "Diversity". | 1 | 2017-04-03T23:59:09 | 110 | 6 | 26 |
You talk a bit in this thread about how it's better for children if the mother stays at home with them. I have the opposite view (I.e. It's generally better for children if both parents have careers). I can elaborate on this, but first I want to understand why you think it's better the way you describe? Of course there... | It's okay to be a woman against women's rights | 0 | 2017-03-24T07:16:07 | 324 | 1 | 1 |
Many people just don't have the aptitude for those "highly skilled" jobs that are being referred to Not all tech jobs are that in-depth. Lots of local businesses need websites and the like, and most of that isn't super complicated. It's more about UI design, where honestly, many of the people in the older age ranges wo... | It is unreasonable to "retrain American workers for higher skilled tech jobs" | 0 | 2016-11-29T04:12:01 | 98 | 1 | 1 |
To clarify are you talking all Confederate Soldiers, or just officers? What about people who were forced to fight? What about those that left the army to tend to their farms and family before the end of the war? Also, it would have been a huge misstep on at least a moral standpoint to fight a war attesting that no huma... | At the conclusion of the American Civil War those who supported the Confederacy and committed treason should have been stripped of their citizenship, sold into foreign slavery, and had their lands forfeited and given to the newly freed American slaves as reparations. | 0 | 2016-06-02T18:12:21 | 258 | 2 | null |
Hey, if I changed your view in any way, it is customary here on CMV to award a delta. The instructions are on the sidebar. | I believe that parents should not refer to their child as "it" until the child grows up and determines its gender | 1 | 2016-08-17T16:09:06 | 97 | 2 | 90 |
As with many situations, there's many answers here that I think are accurate and provide a piece of the picture. I'd like to offer another. It's the most simplistic, that's why I think people do it. It's the easiest to argue against. It's easier to define, it's easier to understand. I don't know that much about the det... | When people ascribe anarcho-capitalist views to all libertarians they are attempting to dismiss all libertarian ideas and beliefs as crazy | 0 | 2016-08-25T01:21:14 | 154 | 2 | 4 |
One thing you also need to consider is that an employer could open themselves to a huge liability. Imagine, if you will, I worked for the cable company and hired an installer. The installer had been convicted of DWI, and he was going to drive an installers truck for my company. Imagine then that he runs over a kid in t... | Employment background checks should be abolished. | 0 | 2015-06-18T00:23:39 | 34 | 1 | null |
Hm. Depends on the context. If you work very very hard at your job as an accountant, is that really better than someone who works somewhat hard at their job as a pediatrician? Is that person really better than someone who works an average amount at a nonprofit? People who work harder tend to get more prestige, regardle... | I believe that hard science majors, especially at top colleges, are far superior to liberal arts majors. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-12T03:06:11 | 70 | 3 | 1 |
It seems like you're focusing on a particular part of the business world, rather than looking at all of the smaller parts it's comprised of which include many task/workload completion jobs where socialization is, if anything, often discouraged as it isn't productive. Rising up a corporate ladder isn't everyone's thing,... | introverts are disadvantaged in the modern North American business world | 0 | 2017-01-18T03:54:46 | 40 | 2 | 25 |
Except those requirements/restrictions simply aren't true. * For your PAL the RCMP conduct few if any interviews unless you have a serious record. Even when it comes to violence it needs to be an indictable offense, not just summary. Even then it can be overlooked if it is an old offense. * You can keep a firearm outsi... | There is little sense in allowing the citizens of a country to own firearms for reasons other than hunting and recreation, and that should be tightly-controlled. | 0 | 2017-02-22T20:36:12 | 92 | 2 | 30 |
You have listed, essentially, frivolous potential benefits to come from this that could easily be achieved in other ways (i.e. making the school year admission more flexible - though I don't think this is appropriate). The effect of this plan however would be massive fraud. Birthdate along with SSN is one of the key wa... | I think it should be legal for people to change their birthdate. | 1 | 2015-01-20T20:07:36 | 37 | 2 | 13 |
By your logic, you should never pay to have a television repaired, because all it provides is entertainment (and not even companionship). Why would someone ever pay to have it repaired? Because paying a certain amount extends your investment. If it costs $100 to repair a $1500 TV, that has years of life left in it afte... | I believe that taking a non-working pet to a vet is a waste of money. | 0 | 2014-04-09T04:42:03 | 76 | 7 | 108Δ |
Ok, so to address your position, let's start by separating the different components and addressing them one at a time: #*Is there a university system in the United States?* I think I understand what you mean: there is a very systematic way in which people choose universities, apply to them, pay for them, etc. But, ther... | 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 | 1 | 2014-03-21T20:24:51 | 121 | 29 | 1 |
You can donate to charity to make the lives of people around you better, thereby making your life better. You can also see it as "buying" the feeling you did something good. Seen in this way, charity is no more irrational than buying anything that doesn't directly prepare you for the future (ie everything from cinema t... | Charity is irrational | 0 | 2016-12-04T23:56:10 | 41 | 1 | null |
A country is a greater collective/representation of the society that you live in. When you have a job in your country, and are paying taxes, you are contributing to the wealth and wellbeing of your nation. I don't think it has anything to do with where you were born, people can immigrate to America and become a proud a... | Nobody chooses his/her country of origin, so it is foolish to be proud of it/patriotic. | 1 | 2014-05-03T21:07:13 | 126 | 2 | null |
I wouldn't say it's immoral for you to have children. Cancer can happen to anyone, and even if genetics make it more likely, it's still not a reason to not have kids, at least not by itself. You have a lot of good points, though, I'll give you that. Only, think of this. Think of how it would feel knowing that your pare... | I've suffered from cancer and don't think it's morally right for me to reproduce because of it. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-29T08:16:38 | 27 | 1 | null |
My dad always joked about how the very rabid football fans among us are channelling an otherwise destructive warlust into a relatively harmless game. Hence the nationalistic fervour, among other things. Of course, that doesn't account for the acts of violence and war committed in the name of football, as you wisely poi... | Football is an institution which causes more problems than it solves, and receives far more money than it deserves. | 1 | 2015-02-22T23:33:48 | 34 | 3 | 2 |
Hey OP, what is your favorite songs, movies, tv-series, games and sports? Genuinely think about each of them a few seconds before reading on... ... ... ... ... ...Alright I know you didn't stop to contemplate, so fucking do it! .... .... ... ... ...Ok let's continue. I am sure you came up with at l... | Life is meaningless. There is no point in doing anything beside trying to feel good. | 1 | 2015-07-09T07:51:38 | 85 | 6 | 3 |
We are told from a very young age that if we work hard and go to college we can achieve anything. That's not what the American Dream is. The American Dream is that you can build a *better* life for yourself by working hard. However, many students come out of college with incredible amounts of debt. While this may not ... | The American Dream is a lie | 1 | 2017-01-08T05:57:20 | 48 | 14 | 15 |
First of all, most religions don't change their teachings unless there is a compelling reason to do so. The Jewish/Muslim food laws are a great example. Pork and shellfish were much more likely to cause food poisoning back in the day, which is why they were forbidden. There's no reason for it now, but it's a "thing". S... | Religions should not frown upon pre-marital sex. | 0 | 2014-09-14T18:12:57 | 92 | 7 | 98Δ |
Gay marriage is just a modified version of one adult of legal standing can now marry another person of legal standing. We really don't have to figure out any new laws. We just have to have the word man or woman become either man or woman. Poly marriage? That's a whole shit ton of new case law. There is a lot more new... | The arguments for gay marriage open the door for Polygamy | 0 | 2017-04-18T12:05:48 | 80 | 4 | 42 |
The intent of the song is clearly that on some level the woman wants to stay and the man is trying to convince the woman (against her better judgement, but in a romantic way) to stay the night/stay longer. The reason it's problematic is that the kind of coyness expressed in the song was seen as socially necessary for w... | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is not a problematic song. | 1 | 2016-12-07T23:06:21 | 119 | 13 | 1 |
The only reason I can think of is that a lot of these animals would probably become endangered or extinct if they weren't used for food. Humans would probably kill them all anyway to free up land and get rid of the nuisance. Also, partly for that reason, I might say vegetarianism is most moral, rather than veganism. He... | I'd like to be convinced that veganism is not currently most moral diet taking into consideration the suffering of farm animals as of right now | 0 | 2015-08-05T22:51:09 | 56 | 1 | null |
OP, have you heard of *mother-tongue education*? If not, [here](http://www.languageeducationpolicy.org/whatareleps/mothertongueeducation.html) is one of the many fairly good links you'll find on the internet. Basically, the essence of it is that dropping a foreign language on the kids as soon as they hit kindergarten ... | English should be taught as first language in every school worldwide. | 0 | 2015-10-12T19:22:42 | 77 | 1 | null |
Treating a sexual encounters as something to "get it over with" doesn't sound like a good idea. Imagine describing sex with your girlfriend or wife that way. Plus, a first time is special because it's the first time, but you will not be magically endowed with powers of flirtation, seduction, and sexual prowess. These t... | I should lose my virginity in a casual encounter to get it over with as opposed to waiting for someone I care for | 0 | 2017-07-06T20:40:52 | 113 | 3 | null |
I know in bigger cities, the dress code is to keep students from wearing gang colors. Lived in Houston briefly about 20 years ago, and I remember one guy said the entire city had just started a dress code because of a serious gang problem. I don't know if it helped, but it did make sense. You can't visibly tell what ga... | Dress code restrictions in high schools should be lifted. | 1 | 2016-03-28T01:51:06 | 66 | 6 | 1 |
In some cases, that may be the only suit the person owns. It certainly was the only suit I had when I was lower enlisted. Also, if the event is about someone military (retired military funeral, wedding of a military person), it would be generally appropriate to show up as military since it is then a military event. Pol... | Wearing your military uniform to a wedding or funeral is highly narcissistic. | 1 | 2017-05-16T16:06:13 | 111 | 74 | 7 |
I'm all for voluntary surveillance. But having everyone forced to have a camera seems like it could quickly become a privacy issue. Even if they're offline, the government would still be able to know you have that data and request it, or you'd face the penalty for not having a camera. | Dashcams should be required on cars. Truth shall set you free.. from insurance scams and indefensible premiums alike. We need better factors than traditional ones such as speed/age/gender. | 1 | 2015-04-21T02:00:31 | 88 | 3 | 1Δ |
ISIS is bound by both their ideology and their means. You starve them [financially](http://thehill.com/policy/finance/224036-treasury-urges-patience-in-effort-to-dry-up-isis-dollars) and you can build your tactics around their [ideology](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/... | Genocide is the only way to win the war against ISIS. | 1 | 2015-12-04T22:25:08 | 44 | 7 | 22 |
I feel like escalators tend to become problematic when a lot of people funnel into a single one, and I've personally experienced this on the DC metro (even when they are working). It has less to do with people standing and more to do with bottlenecking. And while I'm a young and athletic person that gets irritated and ... | Escalators are meant to be walked up, not ridden. | 0 | 2015-03-20T04:19:58 | 86 | 1 | null |
You can't really confirm anything. So while one "theory" might be more supported by more people and you consider it more probable, someone might still consider different "theory" to be more probable (its his opinion). | I do not think that people can have opinions on anything that can be proven scientifically or factually. | 0 | 2016-12-19T23:35:33 | 195 | 1 | null |
After all; inductive reasoning is making predictions of the future based on the fact that we expect a pattern to continue while an appeal to authority is a specific form of the same thing. An appeal to authority is a specific form of inductive reasoning, but not all inductive reasoning consists of an appeal to authorit... | Inductive reasoning is the ultimate appeal to authority, and if one rejects any appeal to authority, one is rejecting inductive reasoning | 0 | 2014-07-03T06:43:22 | 56 | 1 | 1 |
If you think attendance should be voluntary then i have nothing else to add. | Institutions of higher education should prepare students for total war | 1 | 2017-01-21T22:28:13 | 31 | 2 | 1 |
Hmmm, Ignoring the Tryant claims, as I believe, in order for one individual to force his will upon an entire world, whether for good or evil, you MUST be a tyrant. Genghis Khan would like to have a word with you, perhaps you two can have a talk over a cup of tea. His most notable achievement is that of pure biological... | Napoleon was the greatest sovereign in History. | 1 | 2017-03-22T20:11:36 | 37 | 11 | 1 |
The only small business support this carpenter needs is getting his competitors - who are disregarding all of the local, Federal laws - to either obey the laws or leave. Trump said specifically he would crack down on individuals not obeying these local laws by sending people not cleared for work back home; Hillary said... | Trump voters basically fall into three categories. | 1 | 2017-03-28T16:40:59 | 143 | 2 | 22 |
People associate with people of their race far more often than not. Most jobs in tech (and most industries) are based off contacts that you have. They likely have far more direct connections with Asians than whites or other groups of people. So when they are tasked with assembling a crack team they are going to reach o... | Former Chief Technology Officer Todd Park is racist. | 1 | 2016-07-22T01:31:26 | 38 | 1 | null |
If your view is that good paying manufacturing jobs won't come back, I can help change that. However, it will not be through any of the 3 steps you mentioned. I'm currently in a company that is in the process of reverting a disastrous outsourcing project. The company attempted to outsource most of their services to Ind... | "Good-paying" factory jobs won't come back to the United States. | 1 | 2016-08-22T12:34:32 | 101 | 15 | 1 |
If I had to choose between a world with drug commercials and a world with responsible, informed consumers of drugs, the choice would be obvious. Unfortunately, that choice is not one that I or anyone else can make. A more realistic choice is one between a world in which drug commercials are permitted and one in which t... | Medicine should not be advertised on TV | 1 | 2014-12-21T08:25:03 | 153 | 14 | 11 |
I think you're taking a bit of an idealistic approach to this. My response to this is kind of the same as a response someone would make to Batman's "never kill" rule. I mean, there are 104 billion humans to have ever lived, is Batman really that hard set on the idea that not a single one of them dying earlier would hav... | neutering animals is wrong | 1 | 2015-09-25T10:27:53 | 61 | 1 | 13 |
In the past, extreme prejudice was normal, and before then, expected. Nowadays, such views are unacceptable in society at large. You talk of echo chambers, but in the past, your entire world was an echo chamber. The only people you knew were exactly like you, with an identical culture, upbringing, and heritage. When we... | The world has become more intolerant today | 1 | 2016-06-28T15:10:42 | 66 | 24 | 5 |
I think your misunderstanding the current situation. While we SAY "men's Soccer" and "women's soccer", this isn't the reality. The teams are much more accurately described as "gender inclusive team open to anyone that can earn a spot" and "gender exclusive team closed to participation by males" Your assertion that peop... | Sports teams should not be separated by gender, only by physical performance | 1 | 2016-04-24T18:20:24 | 244 | 3 | 3 |
Occam's razor is just a principle that when you have multiple explanations that equally describe reality, you should default to the one that's simpler because it's easier to test them. It doesn't mean you should ignore the complete picture, as you are suggesting it does. In your example, you would walk in to a room wit... | Occam's Razor doesn't help us accurately describe reality. | 0 | 2016-10-11T18:08:34 | 41 | 1 | 3 |
Well, my thought was actually that on Facebook, people may have (legitimately) less interest in explaining themselves. This, of course, depends on what dynamic they want on their wall -- but, if they think of it as their personal space, they may think it's particularly not their business to explain stuff there. E.g. th... | "Not my duty/responsibility to educate" is a cop-out tactic that is ultimately harmful to social justice pursuits. | 1 | 2017-05-10T00:06:16 | 81 | 8 | 4 |
So for a lot of modern people, I agree that it's mostly just symbolic and moderately pointless. But for me, I hold marriage in high regard due to my religion. The thing that makes religion special is it allows you and another to share your life by doing things like living and moving in together, consummating your love ... | Marriage is mostly pointless and outdated, you can declare your love for someone without having to "tie the knot, and I feel most people get married due to societal pressures. | 0 | 2017-07-05T22:00:20 | 187 | 2 | null |
I don't know how it is at other schools, but at mine the food isn't provided by the school; it's provided by a company that is contracted by the school. Beyond choosing which company serves the meals, the administration has no say in what food is served, it's all up to the contracted company. Students can form co-ops o... | College cafeterias do not offer good enough healthy options for students | 1 | 2014-10-03T23:59:50 | 74 | 1 | 1 |
I really do like the concept you have going on in theory, but with this being such a large scale act, it would definitely be controlled by the government. Which, in the US, would be the worst idea *ever*. This would be abused immediately. Otherwise, I think you are absolutely right about the outcomes, there is just no ... | People should earn the right to have children. | 0 | 2017-05-22T23:43:02 | 461 | 2 | null |
I think you have to write it !delta if you're on mobile, or literally copy/paste the ∆ if you're on a computer. | Religion does more harm than good. | 1 | 2016-10-22T03:17:49 | 114 | 1 | 4 |
My friends used to live in a large city in Asia too - and they mostly stopped cooking as well, except when they felt like it - i.e. as a hobby. The reason for this is that restaurant & take out food was very good and ridiculously, insanely cheap, by western standards. They have now moved back West - and now they co... | CMV : With less people learning how to cook, supermarkets will start to replace fresh produce with pre-made food. | 1 | 2017-02-02T22:30:28 | 42 | 1 | 1 |
So what is the issue then? You have conceded that advertisements do not take up space in the mind, and thus cannot detriment learning, then what really is the real negative aspect of children watching TV ads? | Children should not watch modern television, specifically commercials. | 1 | 2014-08-14T20:52:14 | 29 | 5 | 2 |
The speed limit is done to protect others. No one is telling us we have to sleep in our houses, we can't sleep in someone else's because you'd be taking an action infringing on another's property rights. Not wearing clothes is a lack of action. Being forced to wear clothes is a violation of freedoms and is only done to... | Telling women to dress modestly and be generally careful is a valid action in the fight against rape. | 1 | 2017-03-02T20:03:59 | 211 | 6 | 2 |
I think your philosophy disregards one of the most important things about a college degree in general. One of the biggest reasons why college degrees are important is that they show dedication. It shows that you wanted to the put the time money and effort into studying something for four years at a high level. That fac... | Choosing a college major based mainly on it's earnings potential is better than choosing a major you're interested in, but has a bad job market. | 0 | 2016-06-25T00:04:27 | 224 | 1 | null |
Scrooge Mcduck is a serious character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_Scrooge_McDuck Take a look at his timeline and what he had to do to earn his millions and keep his millions. Its pretty obvious that his empire isn't made of gold but of people and corpo... | Scrooge McDuck is ruining Duckburg's and the world's economy. | 0 | 2014-05-16T11:50:18 | 82 | 1 | 3 |
1) Let's consider this on its most basic level, not as an affront to the school but just as a gesture among fellow students. Frat houses are by a wide margin the most famously rapey place you can go in the world. They get featured on *Law & Order* episodes on the regular. So think about these posters in that contex... | It is neither derogatory nor a promotion of sexual assault when heterosexual males express their desire to have sex with females. | 0 | 2015-08-25T17:41:48 | 100 | 6 | 2 |
A couple of points: Tautologies are meaningless, that is if I said all whites are racist because I define racists as those people who are white this would make the term racist meaningless (or at least redundant). By defining racists as people who are members of groups who benefit in situations with racial disparity, yo... | All whites are racist | 0 | 2016-10-19T22:14:19 | 114 | 1 | 2 |
There is a large difference between what you went through and contact sports like MMA. You were beaten and had no choice is the matter. Your father was stronger than you and you had to accept what he did to you. Contact sports are different because people consent to participate. The difference? *They can say no at all ... | Being physically abused as a child has caused me to think that all contact sports (Hockey, American Football, Rugby etc...) are immoral and that sports like MMA/UFC/Boxing should be illegal. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-09T18:33:28 | 40 | 4 | 14 |
The biggest problem with nuclear is that it simply isn't cost effective. In the 50's it was billed as too cheap to meter. Nuclear power plants went up across the West at a startling rate, but new plants stopped being constructed almost entirely during the 70's because nuclear power is just too expensive. The interestin... | I think that research into wind and solar energy sources are a waste of time. Nuclear power is the only way to go. CMV. | 0 | 2013-04-16T05:24:58 | 39 | 9 | 1 |
Obviously a response to this takes quite a bit of generalizations so I want to be upfront that I'm not in any way talking about all homeless people. Also, mental illness is a big issue causing homelessness and we can't just ignore that either. But putting this aside I'll try to address your I think if you're looking a... | Laziness is not the main cause of homelessness in the U.S. | 1 | 2017-01-06T02:34:33 | 290 | 17 | 4 |
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