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For daily outside temperatures, can you honestly say "0° to 100°, 32° is the threshold for if it'll snow" is really better than "-20° to 40°, 0° is the threshold for if it'll snow?" I couldn't, in good conscience, argue that the Fahrenheit scale is *worse* for that one specific function if viewed in a vacuum... but I c... | Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius in everyday usage | 1 | 2015-03-19T03:24:14 | 130 | 12 | 19Δ |
However, this is happening at a time where home ownership is increasingly inaccessible to current and future generations only if by "increasing unaccessible" you mean declining from [69% at the height of a massive bubble to 67%.](http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/assets_c/2010/11/homeownership%20rate... | Flipping houses is a detrimental practice for society as a whole | 0 | 2016-04-29T20:13:05 | 60 | 2 | 6 |
In regards to the ecological effect of having kids, you could potentially compromise and have only one child, which sort of nips long term that whole issue. The strangest argument you make that I hoped you might elaborate on is why reproducing is innately narcissistic. People have children for a lot of reasons. I could... | I believe that having children is morally wrong | 0 | 2016-10-22T22:45:48 | 375 | 1 | null |
Essentially, yes. But that means the the priorities of a feminist are generally far more specific, and issue that an egalitarian might want to fight for a feminist might very well not. It's sort of a Venn Diagram situation with Egalitarianism being generally more all encompassing, but not necessarily aligning in what i... | "Feminism" shouldn't be used when talking gender rights, "Equalism" should be used. | 1 | 2016-06-16T07:54:26 | 129 | 16 | 56 |
It is interesting how frequently protest is condemned by linking it to violence as if somehow violence has no place in social change. When we look back on famous progressive social endeavors like the civil rights movement or the Indian independence movement, we tend to think of peaceful demonstration prevailing in the ... | The Berkeley protest of Milo Yiannopolous was counterproductive and stupid | 1 | 2017-02-03T01:32:42 | 185 | 32 | 1 |
Well, it's important to note that only half of eligible voters voted, half of which voted trump, meaning that only 1/6th of total americans voted trump. Kinda makes you think. | Knowingly voting for a xenophobic bigot makes you a xenophobic bigot yourself. I don't want to think half of the US-Population is like that so please CMV | 0 | 2016-11-10T23:55:57 | 145 | 1 | 1 |
Palestinian concessions are *one* barrier to the peace process. The thing is, they aren't the only one. It's crucial to understand a few points: 1. Neither side, Israelis nor Palestinians, are a monolith. Some are pro-peace, others are violently opposed. 2. As a whole, each side distrusts the other immensely. This mak... | An Israel-Palestine peace settlement will only be reached if Palestine is willing to make concessions | 1 | 2016-08-08T12:50:01 | 220 | 13 | 1 |
I think WP is good, but not great. I think it's revolutionary that everyone can edit WP, even through anonymity. However, this quality makes WP less of an "encyclopedia" and more of "a conglomerate of useless trivia." Utility is not one of the standard definitions of an encyclopedia that is general left to how to guid... | Wikipedia needs to remove unnecessary articles and/or limit their editors. | 0 | 2015-09-28T10:34:14 | 27 | 2 | null |
Humans have a responsibility to leave the ecosystem alone as much as possible. Look at what fishing has done to the ocean fish populations. By using farms we have a separate system that we are in full control of. I think most people would agree with your first sentence. The problem is, your second sentence doesn't foll... | Hunting is less ethical than "farmed" meat. | 0 | 2015-09-15T04:36:49 | 28 | 3 | null |
Whatever populations are left once breeding is discontinued will be hunted by their natural predators (and in a less humane way than we kill them). Presumably we wouldn't be reintroducing domesticated livestock into the wild, it'd make no sense and many would die of other factors. Plus the transportation logistics woul... | Vegetarianism and veganism are not ethically or morally superior to consuming meat. | 0 | 2017-03-19T12:10:48 | 108 | 1 | 69 |
You can buy affordable furniture from Amazon, Walmart, Overstock, and Target, just to name a few. Within each of these stores, there are hundreds of different brands of furniture on offer, often competing directly against each other. The fact that IKEA's prices and quality are so good is evidence of capitalism working ... | the fact that IKEA is pretty much the only place most people can afford to buy furniture is a sign that capitalism is a failure. | 1 | 2015-10-07T05:02:43 | 363 | 121 | 4 |
Hi, sorry if I sounded patronizing. Really not the intent. I have the feeling when reading you that I did not convey successfully what I meant. I did actually say that human intelligence impact on reproduction is to the "negative" (meaning reproducing less, not a value judgement), in that they can choose to have less t... | I think it is narcissistic and selfish for a person to have a large number of children. | 1 | 2014-08-15T00:26:07 | 147 | 2 | 6 |
/r/fitness might as well be /r/weightlifting since **that's all they really care about** | /r/fitness is not, as a sub-reddit, about actual physical fitness. | 0 | 2014-09-08T04:25:48 | 187 | 0 | null |
Basketball is a team sport, whereas boxing is an individual competition. As such, a boxer is responsible for performing all aspects of the sport: defense, footwork, striking, etc. against another person who is equally responsible for all aspects on his side. Otoh, in basketball, simply being faster with the ball means ... | much like boxing has weight classes, basketball should have height classes. | 1 | 2014-07-04T21:25:35 | 64 | 2 | 6 |
I agree the societal views can sometimes be harmful and warping, but navigating a relationship is a legitimate life marker. If your objection is that we shouldn't expect everyone to have sex at an early age and not judge someone for waiting until they're ready, great. I agree. (Not to mention asexuals, for which the ex... | Virginity shouldn't be a big deal | 1 | 2015-01-12T21:20:11 | 121 | 30 | 25 |
It really depends on the depiction. Most of the stories say that the vampire has an addiction not just to blood, but to taking life. While you as a vampire might not care about killing sentients, you're ignoring the rather large downside that humans who vastly outnumber you all want to track you down and kill you. Con... | Fiction that portrays vampires as burdened is off-base. For the most part, being a vampire would be awesome. | 0 | 2015-04-10T19:12:24 | 93 | 1 | 96Δ |
There is a [strong correlation](http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-smarter-people-are-more-likely-be-mentally-ill-270039) between high intelligence and bipolar disorder. Is that something we should correct for? I'd say your average person with Down Syndrome lives a happier life than a bipolar genius. What if we had a test... | Eugenics Is A Good Idea, Just Gone About In The Wrong Way In The Past | 1 | 2017-04-17T19:01:51 | 67 | 3 | 206 |
Actually, preparing for the collapse of civilization is pretty irrational, as it's exceedingly unlikely that you would survive an end of civilization type of event where society completely breaks down. You should be prepared for a natural disaster event. One where there will be a temporary and localized breakdown beca... | Not preparing for a "collapse of civilisation" type event is irrational and irresponsible | 1 | 2015-06-29T23:10:33 | 77 | 68 | null |
NO. God no. Except in cases where volunteers would be used for your statement just before that- yes. I would. Human trials happen all the time. Remember your plan was to tell transphobic countries like Russia to lock their trans people up in mental health hospitals to treat them? I am sure they would find many 'volunte... | Treating Gender Dysphoria by Gender Reassignment is cruel and counterproductive. | 1 | 2015-09-27T03:21:45 | 552 | 6 | 77 |
What I would need is an argument for WHY the situation the statistics supposedly are showing, exists. Two ways. First: 1. Immigrants come and take jobs, work for less money 2. Because companies are spending less on X labor, they can afford to spend more on Y labor (which may or may not be unskilled). For instance, if I... | Immigrants take jobs which would otherwise go to low-skilled Americans | 1 | 2017-01-20T16:45:15 | 30 | 2 | 8 |
It seems as though your concerns about a Trump or Cruz presidency are viewed largely through the filter of domestic policy. Others here have rightly pointed out that the president is largely powerless to accomplish much domestically. Consider Obama's presidency from a purely domestic perspective: he's had no major poli... | I'd rather have Donald Trump as President than Ted Cruz | 1 | 2016-03-24T07:18:38 | 48 | 15 | 2 |
I don't understand your reasoning. Are you talking about black christians from hundreds of years ago? Naturally they didn't "protest" slavery at that time, if they did they were killed. Even further, the ones who believed that Christianity gave them eternal salvation were certainly not the ones fighting slavery Also, i... | It doesn't make sense for black Christians to complain about slavery/colonization | 0 | 2016-06-04T21:22:58 | 56 | 1 | 4 |
The tradition is overall a positive one. The father is a much more experienced man, and by asking for his daughter's hand you are implicitly asking if you are worthy of marrying his daughter. Of course the ultimate decision comes from the daughter, but the idea of it is that you are asking a man if he considers you to... | Asking a woman's father for permission to marry her is a sexist and outdated tradition | 0 | 2016-06-15T14:15:28 | 101 | 1 | null |
Could you? You'd need to call a lawyer and find out what the government wants. That costs money and time. You're proposing a government regulation. One of the problems with any such regulation is that it favors big businesses versus small ones. It costs roughly the same for General Mills to figure out their legal requi... | I believe GMO products should be labeled and looked at skeptically by everyone. | 1 | 2014-08-14T06:16:57 | 69 | 9 | 84Δ |
You have to remember that college sports, much like pro sports, is a business. You also have to remember that college in the US, has evolved. It's much more than just school. It is a school FIRST, but the college experience is much, much more than an education. Pretty much all types of schools have sports. You probably... | College sports are over-idolized in American society | 0 | 2015-01-30T23:46:21 | 73 | 7 | 1 |
It's a common misunderstanding of the movement. They are what they say - they believe that black lives matter, and want other people to see that black lives matter too. There is not an implied (only) before the name of that movement. In other words, Black Lives Matter is more like "Black Lives Matter (too)" than it is ... | All Lives Matter | 1 | 2017-04-15T21:38:30 | 67 | 35 | 12 |
Arrogance is confidence that is misplaced or unjustified. If an amateur boxer said he could beat Mike Tyson, his statement would be an expression of confidence. However, it is the fact that this confidence is unjustified - because there's no way in hell this guy can actually beat Mike Tyson - that also makes the statem... | I believe that arrogance and confidence are the same thing. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-12T14:26:10 | 28 | 9 | 4 |
Are you saying you think communism would be better than capitalism, or that you just think it would be somewhat feasible? Because if the claim is that it would be better, why don't you think laziness would act to make it not-better. Sure, some people work for the sake of it... these people will not work less under capi... | Human laziness is not a valid argument against communism | 0 | 2015-06-13T01:57:02 | 360 | 1 | 15Δ |
I'm generally convinced by psychological continuity/causation views about identity. This is the crux of it right here. This is why you feel there's no good reason to be worried about the original "you" dying. Other people *are* worried about it because they aren't as persuaded by this view of identity, as you suggest a... | There's no good reason to be worried about teleportation killing you | 1 | 2016-09-04T10:07:39 | 202 | 4 | 10 |
2016 is a shitty year, not only because of events that took place in 2016, but because of the current state of the world. Usually there is an ebb and flow to the world, some problems come up, we address them, then new problems come up. But it just feels a lot like come 2016, we've fixed almost none of the problems that... | There was nothing special about 2016, bad events happen and people die every year. The internet just exaggerates everything. | 1 | 2016-11-28T10:39:56 | 336 | 41 | 5 |
What evidence do you have that Republicans think the 1950s were a Utopia? Republicans hardly even mention Eisenhower. | The ideal America that Republicans want, never existed | 0 | 2016-10-02T04:18:00 | 449 | 10 | 16 |
I believed that it was our patriotic duty to vote as citizens and be informed about the issues facing us. Do you no longer hold this to be true? Even if it didn't make any difference at all in the world, I'd still want to be informed about the goings-on in broader society, if only for my own sake. I then graduated and ... | I believe the United States is rotten to it's core and beyond saving. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-27T23:22:13 | 62 | 2 | 5 |
You really think that a teenager would think to himself: "if I only get 2 years instead of 10 I would totally knock out that dude over there". Since when did harsher punishment ever lowered a crime-rate, nobody thinks about getting caught. Most of the data I've seen shows that kids who are delinquents go on to be conv... | I think we should automatically try any teenager accused of a felony-level violent crime as an adult. CMV. | 0 | 2013-11-24T23:18:24 | 49 | 1 | null |
Well first off, you are assuming that it *is* in their interest. A democratic unified Korea is not a particularly good thing for China. A puppet regime, on the other hand, would be. Which is why they are protecting and shepherding outcast members of the Kim family within China. To attempt to install them if the current... | The Kim regime should be removed as soon as possible and North Korea should be merged with South Korea before further escalation by Kim Jong-un. | 1 | 2017-04-18T23:47:51 | 54 | 1 | 1 |
My view on this is not for everyone, but I see nothing more important than establishing a legacy that will last for long after I am dead. I see there being no point to having lived if it is like I was never there once I am gone. Children are one of the best ways to accomplish this. By having a child who is 50% you gene... | The benefits of being a parent are minuscule compared to the negatives. | 1 | 2015-10-26T02:53:05 | 33 | 3 | 42 |
Read the basic wiki page [here](http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_%28mental_illness%29). As you can see, it's a mental illness. I realize many people these days play the ADD/ADHD and depression cards, but that doesn't mean they aren't both still real issues. You don't choose to be depressed. | People with depression are really just over dramatic and ungrateful | 0 | 2014-06-05T20:15:30 | 37 | 4 | 1 |
Clinton for the most part is interested in maintaining the status quo of the Obama administration. Trump on the other hand supports policy changes that I believe are actively harmful to the United States and the world at large. Building a giant wall to stop some illegal immigration is low hanging fruit to refute, so I ... | Donald Trump is not inherently a worse candidate than Hillary, from a democratic point of view. | 0 | 2016-05-05T21:55:46 | 355 | 2 | null |
You raise some interesting points, but you neglect to consider that some locations in suburbs are more optimal than others. Choosing an optimal location (close to businesses, school, public spaces, and so on) should be a priority for parents in the first place. If chosen well, some of the problems that you mentioned wo... | By raising a family in the suburbs, the parents are condemning the children to boredom, dependence, inactivity, and expense. | 1 | 2014-08-20T04:30:53 | 73 | 5 | 1 |
I find that a change in interpretation and meaning by the general audience with which you want to communicate to be a _very strong reason_. Is your goal to communicate? | I prefer the words "Negro" and "Oriental" | 1 | 2017-04-28T05:28:15 | 58 | 11 | 85 |
For example, what if we prompted this computer to find a solution to a disease running rampant in our corn. The solution it comes up with is to kill off the entire human race because then we would no longer be dependent on corn. To a human this probably sounds stupid and many would say that we obviously wouldn’t do tha... | Our evolution of technology is going too far | 0 | 2017-01-30T20:21:00 | 41 | 4 | 8 |
While I do agree with you that people should really mind their business, I do think that one of the effects of living in (and identifying with) a society is that you want to see your values embraced and justified in that society. Think about it like this: I think people who are critical or bigoted against LGBT people a... | Straight people have no reason to interfere with LGBTQ people's lives | 0 | 2016-10-10T22:31:33 | 104 | 9 | 5 |
At the risk of engaging in an is/ought fallacy, I think you need to consider what morality is, in an objective sense: Morality is an adaptation some species evolve, most likely so that they can gain the adaptive benefits of living in societies. By no means is "morality" restricted to animals with the mental function t... | The Golden Rule and its derivatives are the core of morality. | 1 | 2015-08-17T18:43:38 | 62 | 1 | 119 |
Since you like pithy expressions, have you ever heard this one: "Love the sinner, but hate the sin?" It's one thing to try to have sympathy for bigoted people, but *tolerating* bigoted behavior is counterproductive if you are trying to make the world more tolerant. If there's some guy always telling racist jokes at w... | Being "Tolerant of everyone but the intolerant" is moral grandstanding | 1 | 2016-01-23T18:44:51 | 167 | 214 | 30 |
First, the analogy should be extortion rather than theft. Recent events in Cyprus aside (which were theft), most taxes take the form of "If you do X you will have to pay Y" rather than "surprise! pay!" If I tell you that you must pay protection money going forward or risk "something bad" happening to your store, I am e... | Any belief system that includes the fundamental belief that theft is morally wrong is incompatible with a belief that taxes are right. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-16T23:35:30 | 35 | 1 | null |
I submit that the Reddit hivemind is not liberal, but is instead contrarian. The best writing I've seen on the subject is [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/15s60l/anatomy_of_a_circlejerk_or_a_grand_unified_theory/), but to summarize: 1. Reddit's scoring system encourages like-minded thinking and beha... | Reddit leans Left when it comes to politics beyond "social Liberal," excessively and without proper reasoning | 1 | 2015-11-03T18:10:59 | 95 | 16 | 9 |
You don't need to adore Minecraft just because it's the best selling game. You got some enjoyment out of it and then you got bored of it. That's a pretty normal gaming experience. Just play something else if it doesn't do it for you anymore. | Minecraft should not be the best selling PC game of all time | 1 | 2015-05-04T20:53:01 | 37 | 28 | 4Δ |
Supporting a cause you like is not irrational. It is completely rational. Why do people donate in the first place? If I give money to a soup kitchen, my money is used to feed the homeless or unemployed tomorrow. I see the tangible benefits immediately. Many people are altruistic and feel good from giving and donating. ... | Charity is irrational | 0 | 2016-12-04T12:07:16 | 41 | 3 | null |
First point, if you personally don't want it, then that's fine. But what gives you the right to prevent people from having it? Do you have the right to tell people when they have to die? Second, replace "immortality" with "medicine" everywhere it appears in your post. Does it still make sense? The developments that mak... | We should not try to become biologically immortal | 0 | 2016-08-19T18:05:45 | 32 | 3 | 2 |
Kids crying, people talking, phones on: What movies are you going to see and what theater are you going to? If I encountered those things with great frequency I'd go postal. Family movies and teen movies are bait for things like that, as are smaller crap theaters- but even still it's avoidable. The biggest advantage ... | Watching movies at home on a decent system is a better overall movie watching experience than watching them in the theater. | 0 | 2016-03-11T21:00:44 | 106 | 1 | null |
*Note: I don't have a lot of information on your whole post, but on the economics side. And that's the real problem with capitalism; it isn't fair. Global capitalism causes enormous waste, while billions starve. Acually global starvation levels have plummeted since China under Dang Xiapeng went through a capitalistic s... | I believe that socialism is fundamentally better than capitalism | 0 | 2015-07-16T06:14:55 | 162 | 3 | null |
If your issue is with there only being 10-15 minutes of action (a statistic I'd dispute the meaningfulness of, as others in this thread already have), why are you essentially proposing shortening the games? A running clock wouldn't incentivise players to spend less time between plays. They'd just let it run and move at... | the NFL should eliminate all clock stoppage | 0 | 2016-10-09T09:07:29 | 122 | 1 | null |
I think that the alt-right is a bogeyman that barely exists in reality. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center there are maybe 6,000 Klans members in 120-odd organizations, which means that average Klan has like 50 members and consists of a couple of extended families that enjoy a rather racist version of camping... | Antifa (anti-fascism) is basically a non-entity in the USA, and the alt-right and white nationalists use it as a bogeyman to legitimise far right wing thought | 1 | 2017-05-31T20:42:49 | 176 | 7 | 80 |
Couldn't locate any specific numbers on proportionate spending, but did find [this on the WWF website.](http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/) WWF openly admits that it engages in two types of projects: **Flagship species** like Pandas, Tigers, Polar Bears, etc. "that provide a focus for raising awareness... | Trying to save the pandas is a waste of time, money, and resources. We should let them go extinct. | 1 | 2015-08-31T02:10:14 | 50 | 3 | 1 |
I would argue that instead of having a mindset that the world can only favor "morning people" or "night owls," businesses should think in terms of how to cater their services to both, and to rethink their corporate structures to find ways for their employees to collaborate and accomplish the same goals while accomidati... | We live in a society designed for "Morning People", but this system should be abolished and replaced with one that favors "Night People". | 0 | 2015-07-30T19:12:56 | 64 | 2 | null |
Would you expect the other regions or federal govt to bailout a region when one of them inevitably destroys their own currency? | The United States needs to move away from the U.S. dollar and create regional currencies | 1 | 2017-05-23T19:15:39 | 42 | 1 | 53 |
I'm completely agree that adults should be able to have medically assisted suicides but in your post it seems that you are referring specifically to children. If that is the case then I must disagree. Children do not completely understand the permanency of death. | Doctors and parents should help you commit suicide if you are sure you want to end your life. | 1 | 2017-05-28T18:09:19 | 134 | 18 | null |
I would not say 'fail to see'. The fossil record for evolution is limited, hoaxes are common, and it contradicts their reading of the Bible. It's not like they're making worse predictions as a result. | I don't understand people who deny evolution | 1 | 2017-01-17T20:27:19 | 53 | 5 | null |
Thanks man! I would love to be a citizen of Japan. But it's not worth giving up my American citizenship. Japan has taught me there are many great things about America. One of them is that Americans come from all over the world and speak many languages, which is different than almost every other country in the world. I ... | English should be the official language of The U.S.A. | 1 | 2014-09-13T17:34:29 | 63 | 2 | 7 |
Could you give an example of someone who changes their views "in a systematic, reliable way" - and who doesn't just so happen to start out with beliefs that are mostly confirmed when they set out to evaluate them? There is no "1% of mankind" that are rational people. All people are people, and have brains that have ada... | Most people don't change their views based on facts and evidence. | 1 | 2017-01-15T17:17:43 | 209 | 2 | 3 |
What about musicians who write their own bloody music? What about actors who are involved in the production aspects of a film or play? Just because you aren't creative doesn't make everyone else boring. | I believe musicians and actors are not really artists. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-27T16:33:00 | 37 | 0 | null |
Hi! I have been vegan for about the same time as you, and I found it staggeringly hard. I grew up in a family of five eating mostly cheap, processed foods, tons of meat and dairy, going out for McDonald’s at least once a week. I literally had no patience or desire to cook anything that didn’t come in a box. It took unt... | I should stop being a vegan | 1 | 2015-03-20T06:16:52 | 92 | 2 | 1Δ |
There's not a lot she can do without the support of Congress. And since the GOP controls both houses right now (and the odds of that changing are slim) passing sweeping gun-control legislation is highly unlikely. | I believe Hillary Clinton will, if elected, make good on her threats to push for and enact sweeping Gun Control laws that will render the 2nd Amendment useless. | 0 | 2016-04-17T02:28:17 | 49 | 10 | 244 |
http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr12-02.pdf http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12poverty.shtml http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-14.pdf These data show the median income in the US, the poverty line in the US, and average household size. Conclusion: Halving income brings the median family from 269% of t... | Most moms who go back to work saying that "we just can't afford for me to stay home" are lying to themselves. The reality is "staying home with my kids is just not important enough to us for us to be willing to change our current lifestyle." | 1 | 2014-10-03T17:15:04 | 100 | 15 | 1 |
If you walk around greeting people by giving them friendly punches in the arm, then chances are you're going to end up hurting somebody. Maybe it wasn't your intent, but somebody got hurt and it's worth thinking about why. When we think about common insults being thrown around like faggot, retard, nigger, etc. We shoul... | I think that people today are too easily offended and that efforts should be made not to protect their feelings but to encourage "thicker skin" - CMV | 1 | 2013-08-28T00:19:56 | 483 | 292 | 12 |
The person in power needs to have at least some motivation to do what their office requires. I am currently a part of a committee in which no one wants to be the "head" who calls meetings, makes agendas, etc. Someone reluctantly stepped into the role and agreed to be head of the committee for a year, and guess what? No... | I believe those who want power shouldn't have it. CMV. | 1 | 2013-02-17T06:52:28 | 14 | 3 | 6 |
It should be the professor, teaching assistants or faculty staff to ensure to have enough staff to monitor the exams more closely. It should be on the police to have enough staff to monitor crimes more closely. What you learn or get tested during university is vastly different from what you actually do in your profess... | Students should not report other students in academic cheating in tests | 0 | 2017-04-21T07:58:18 | 48 | 12 | 15 |
Outlaw renting? No! If we had Basic Income and a National Health Service, I might like very much to ditch my 9-5 and have a more nomadic lifestyle. I don't want to have to buy a home every place that I might stay (for indeterminate lengths of time). | The USA should enact a one-time mass-redistribution of wealth to correct the 1%/99% imbalance along with a Basic Income and the outlaw of Renting. | 0 | 2014-04-06T04:16:32 | 426 | 1 | null |
After thinking about it further (pretty sure my other post got buried), I think schools probably provide the biggest stumbling block currently. Not as much for the gender/sex issues that would arise from putting kids together at a young age, but more for the problems that it would cause the school: 1. Potential for ups... | Bathrooms divided by gender are useless. | 1 | 2015-03-12T17:35:31 | 477 | 1 | 3Δ |
You made it subjective when you said: I would much rather endure a little discomfort than get a possibly permanent injury to my head. Thus, you open the possibility that someone may choose otherwise. As an adult, I am responsible for managing my own risk. If I take a leisurely early morning ride on the sparsely popula... | There are no good reasons to not wear a helmet while riding a bicycle | 1 | 2015-05-27T03:03:16 | 149 | 128 | 34Δ |
Unions are needed for unskilled labor and skilled trades, not for engineering type work. There are very low barriers to entry for skilled trades and unskilled labor. It takes like 6 weeks to get welding certs and any one can flip burgers. This means that the labor market for these jobs tends to be saturated and abusive... | Software engineers (and engineers in general) should be unionized | 1 | 2016-04-26T20:19:30 | 124 | 15 | 3 |
I still don't believe catching all pokemon is necessary. Necessary? No. An aspect of the game? Absolutely. I'll remove the jargon to get to the core of why I believe I have changed your view. The goal of the game is to become a Pokemon master. One aspect of the game is to catch all (or most) of the Pokemon. Therefore,... | "Gotta Catch 'Em All" is a bad slogan for Pokemon, as it's a terrible strategy. | 1 | 2016-07-28T06:50:46 | 35 | 1 | 1 |
I don't think it's a controversial statement to say that males are naturally more sexually aggressive and promiscuous than females. This is only true **on average**. In reality these properties are distributions. If you plot the curves for "promiscuity" or "physical strength" for men and women you will find that the c... | I believe women who have sex with underage boys should receive less punishment than men who have sex with underage girls. | 1 | 2014-11-10T20:04:53 | 30 | 6 | 3 |
Well, thing is you are constantly replacing all of the matter in your body anyway. More of less everything in your body wasn't there 8 years ago. Most cells never gets olden than 8-10 years. So you've basically already "cloned" yourself three times by the time you are 30. The matter itself is not what makes you you, i... | If teleportation is ever invented, I wouldn't use it. But I would really want to so CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-10T06:06:01 | 23 | 1 | 3 |
Alright then. **1. BUILDING 7!?!?** Debris from the collapsed twin towers caused fires and the sprinkler system failed. Eventually the fires caused a collapse. From the [NIST report in 2008](http://web.archive.org/web/20110721055820/http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/PDF/NCSTAR%201A.pdf): The fires burned out of control duri... | I believe 9/11 was an inside job. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-18T04:56:53 | 1,727 | 1,547 | 50Δ |
T_D, KiA, TRP, MRAs are all groups which are looked down upon by the wider Reddit community. Pointing those out as hives of misogyny is cherry-picking the worst and projecting them onto the rest of Reddit. | Reddit has a misogyny problem and nothing is being done to combat it. | 1 | 2017-02-26T11:13:55 | 150 | 2 | 2 |
I think you should narrow your CMV to "A person rarely changes their mind jsut becasue someone points out an argument is fallacious". There's a regular CMV of "Debating doesn't matter because I don't change their mind". Which misses the point that a debate has an audience and is just as useful for you to define you own... | Calling out fallacious arguments rarely provides a positive effect, but must occur. | 0 | 2017-04-17T21:00:07 | 80 | 1 | 13 |
/u/sluicecannon already mentioned that multiple "isms" can exist. And some have already been dealt with in detail by a few science fiction authors. The one thing worth noting is that we have been rapidly becoming more interconnected with improvements in communication and information sharing. Land-line telephones, the ... | Civilization will culminate in either socialism or feudalism | 1 | 2017-03-01T19:56:01 | 130 | 4 | 4 |
The main problem I see with your argument is that advice like "travel in well lit areas" or "travel in groups" do very little actually prevent rape. The common pieces of advice given to "prevent rape" are ineffectual at best, and can endanger the lives of rape victims when followed at worst. Not long ago, there was a l... | Anti-Victim-blaming culture is suppressing the spread of helpful information that can prevent rape. | 0 | 2015-08-06T02:51:49 | 391 | -2 | 2 |
The article you linked to is **extremely** concerned about white people judging black people's character. It's actually giving a much stronger and in depth explanation as to why doing so is bad than I am. Note the emphasis the author places on how critics of the Ferguson riots attempt to dehumanize the perpetrators, ca... | While white people will never be able to understand what it means to be a minority, that doesn't mean we cannot be critical of their actions. | 1 | 2015-08-14T01:29:37 | 142 | 4 | 4 |
I think you are using the wrong definition of a fetish. From what I understand you seem to define a fetish as an aberration from the norm, something that is not normal. Instead, you should define a fetish as something from which you derive sexual pleasure. In that case your love for pubic hair is definitely a fetish. O... | As a man, I find it odd that "shaved" has become the norm for female pubic hair. I don't think it's a fetish that I prefer women with "hair down there." [NSFW] | 1 | 2014-04-30T14:17:28 | 301 | 1 | null |
I am mainly speaking of is in a medical team setting. Where chiropractors, nurses trainers and doctors work together. Ill update my post to reflect that. Medical teams may sometimes need a dental consult. Same goes for podiatrists. I think in those situations, Dentists and Podiatrists should still be called doctors. A... | In a clinical setting only Medical Doctors should be called Doctor. | 1 | 2014-10-24T22:14:38 | 43 | 2 | 34Δ |
I would ask a simple question from a consequential perspective: taken to it's logical conclusion, what will this world view result in? If you believe that the human condition is characterized by inevitable suffering for the vast majority of people and that there is no hope for escape no matter what you do, what rationa... | Some people are, for lack of a better word, "destined" to suffer irredeemable lives of misery; and furthermore, these people will always exist, in non-negligible numbers, until and unless there is some radical and (presently) incomprehensible paradigm shift in technology and/or human culture | 1 | 2014-10-26T03:53:22 | 89 | 26 | 1 |
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-media-interest-in-the-gop-candidates-compares-to-public-interest/ Very early on, it was pretty much everyone *but* Trump getting more media coverage than "grassroots" interest (Carson/Cruz/Paul/Rubio also have interest in line with media reporting). Look at Jeb Bush, do we need a ... | The Mainstream Media has made Trump successful in this election. | 1 | 2016-03-31T14:43:30 | 62 | 22 | 6 |
Depends on what kind of celebrity: following what the Kardashians are doing is totally different than what George Clooney is doing, or Bill and Melinda Gates. If the celibrities do good deeds, it can be a positive influence on the people following them, especially so if the people are strictly known for their good deed... | Following celebrities and gossip is a very vain activity. | 0 | 2017-01-17T06:28:07 | 31 | 7 | 5 |
There are moments in your life that things happen randomly that give you extra opportunities. This are moments you didn't work for. These are moments you didn't plan. I have my job now because I decided to play ultimate frisbee, a game I'm bad at, at the same time as someone else who knew of a school opening that was p... | I don't believe in Luck | 0 | 2014-10-23T01:42:49 | 31 | 1 | null |
I run a rather large community. I have gotten this exact comment: "You should run ads! I mean, I use Adblock, but..." Quite amusing. That said, Adblock does have a nifty feature where users can block a single image they don't want to see. Many people who use Adblock do so specifically to get rid of singular nuisances l... | I believe using AdBlocker is wrong if a website isn't charging you to view its content. CMV. | 0 | 2013-10-01T00:03:15 | 79 | 1 | 2 |
By adding a new person to the world, I would contribute to overpopulation and the depletion of resources that is already straining existing people. Overpopulation is not a large of a problem as many people think. Countries with higher standards of living tend to have lower birth rates. A handful don't even reach the re... | There is no unselfish reason to have biological children | 1 | 2015-03-24T16:52:30 | 295 | 98 | 127Δ |
Hi, I identify as a homoromantic gray-asexual. Before you get too jumbled up by the terminology, I'll break it down for you: I identify as homosexual, but minus the "sexual" part. It's essentially just that. I love men, I do have physical preferences just like the rest of the world, but I don't need full-fledged "attra... | I believe people who say a relationship doesn't require physical attraction are wrong. CMV | 0 | 2013-05-05T19:09:11 | 60 | 4 | null |
in a [2008 study](https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdf), only about 16.9% of the US population over 16 had face-to-face contact with the police. if you go down further into the statistics, it states that most people only spoke to police during traffic stops, but of those people, black people were 3 times more ... | The majority of police violence issues are caused by the victim not knowing how to get detained/arrested or interact with the police | 1 | 2017-04-12T03:52:11 | 192 | 2 | 5 |
When I think of owning a 3d printer and how it makes my life easier, I think of it's applications for short term stop-gap solutions, and money saving techniques. Think about printing plastic cups. If you have a vat of plastic that can print new cups, cheaper than going to the store and buying new ones why not have it? ... | 3D printing can't and won't improve exponentially, despite what we've come to expect from so many other technologies | 0 | 2016-02-01T22:59:48 | 36 | 1 | 6 |
There are many charities that function on how to "teach to fish" so to speak. You're talking as if all charities do is go out and give material products to people. That isn't the case. The vast majority of larger charities work towards what is known as "sustainable development" IE "helping others to help themselves". H... | Charities are a selfish form of altruism and a way to keep people dependent | 1 | 2016-08-27T19:59:19 | 73 | 15 | 3 |
It's not that everything is natural, it's that natural is a word overused and misused to a degree that makes it seem meaningless. That group in Africa producing a cheese-esque product is making an unnatural product - it's something that wouldn't occur outside of man's influence, man's intentional creation of it. You mi... | Everything is "natural" | 1 | 2017-02-16T01:19:24 | 29 | 4 | 45 |
A man walks in a museum and comes across three identical, photorealistic images hanging on the wall. I'd be amazed at the whole thing, because getting 3 photographs of a bowl of fruit to look exactly identical is extraordinarily difficult, much less a photograph, a CGI rendering, and a hand-painted piece. As a bit of b... | Hyperrealistic paintings/drawings are vain, narcissistic, and pointless. | 0 | 2014-09-03T21:48:09 | 78 | 4 | 43 |
Your economists, scientists, and experts are going to have much more of an impact than your uninformed voters. They're going to be the ones advising and advocating different policies which will actually be implemented. If you think the current system is unfair, why not propose a different system? Otherwise we're compa... | “One person, one vote” is not a fair voting system | 0 | 2016-05-04T20:36:53 | 30 | 1 | 6 |
I disagree primarily with the idea that the path you're talking about is anything like feudalism. If we imagine the case where AI and automation are mere tools (no strong AI with moral relevancy and self determination) but are something like 1000x+ better than people at everything, and owned by a small minority, that s... | Civilization will culminate in either socialism or feudalism | 1 | 2017-03-01T20:03:35 | 130 | 5 | 2 |
But you don't disagree with the idea itself then, just the timescale? | The singularity is just the rapture repackaged for techies. | 1 | 2015-11-28T04:59:03 | 69 | 1 | 1 |
Here is a considerable flaw in your reasoning: you assume that materialism automatically answers certain philosophical questions. The one thing that bothers me the most on Reddit is that people think that science can automatically answer most philosophical questions without analyzing whether or not science *can* solve ... | Philosophical questions become trivial when dissected. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-19T17:51:55 | 58 | 2 | 3 |
I have two points: * "It's not part of a civilized society." You misconstrue this as an appeal to emotion, it's not. It is a valid argument in this case. Laws are made to reflect the current ethical climate of a certain culture. Laws are made because people thing that's how a society should organize itself. It's a law... | There is nothing inherently wrong with capital punishment | 0 | 2017-02-18T20:49:38 | 55 | 2 | null |
You are talking about the aggregate. And, in the aggregate, widespread openness to new ideas might be a good thing. For individuals, though, I don't think it is universal. (1) First, particularly those that are at the upper end of the status hierarchy, there isn't much to be gained. Liberalism, in fact, threatens their... | Everyone should be liberal. | 1 | 2017-01-24T15:51:17 | 93 | 2 | 6 |
For example, lets say Person X is at a protest and is saying that all whites are racist. I believe someone has the legal right to punish you (a small fine or something). PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT to fine another person if they have been insulted and the statement has not been a valid claim backed by evidence, becau... | Freedom of speech is overrated | 1 | 2017-05-03T18:29:22 | 54 | 3 | 16 |
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