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I am a male, I was raped once by a teenage male when I was 8 years old. While I would normally call myself a victim, survivor is a good term to use too. Obviously it didn't outright kill me, but it is something I live with every day of my life. And if you are not careful, it is something that can take your life in a di... | I believe the term "rape survivor" doesn't make any sense. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-12T20:18:47 | 49 | 3 | 1 |
I'm going to tentatively agree with you, but for a different reason. From what I recall, most lottery winners lose all their money within a couple years. If this is true, I would argue one person going bankrupt is better than 10 people going bankrupt. Of course that does bring up the question, if 7/10 people go bankru... | In the lottery, it is worse to share the jackpot than it is to win the entire jackpot | 0 | 2017-01-30T08:12:43 | 84 | 1 | null |
Are shorts part of your culture and traditions? Is the government saying that men in particular cannot wear shorts on the beach? Because that would be a men's rights issue, they are unnecessarily dictating what you can or cannot wear. Or is it your employer saying you can't wear shorts because it conflicts with the uni... | presenting the burkini ban as an assault on women's rights is wrong and counter productive to women's rights. | 1 | 2016-08-26T12:51:55 | 63 | 5 | 6 |
Today, due to the internet and the rise of technology, literally anyone with access to a computer can become a billionaire through a savvy startup. Not really. One of, if not the, best predictors of entrepreneurial success is whether or not [the entrepreneur comes from money/privilege](http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneur... | The American dream is live and well, and any person can be successful through hard work. | 0 | 2015-10-09T05:51:55 | 94 | 11 | 16 |
No one can deny that people have done awful things in the name of religion, but I don't think that people can deny that religion does good things too. I'm not going to argue if the good outweighs the bad, but you have to acknowledge that there is some good. Personally, my cousin was able to stop drinking after he found... | Religion has no positive attributes | 0 | 2017-03-29T06:32:24 | 42 | 3 | 4 |
I have to disagree with just about every point you're making. I'm an atheist as well and to say that religion is a positive thing, while still being an atheist seems to counter your views. The first major reason I think this is I believe there are some parts of life that are too dark for us to deal with effectively I... | Although I'm an Atheist, I believe religion to be an overall positive thing for a society. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-27T00:16:23 | 68 | 13 | null |
Every time people talk about a lack of social mobility, I just think they are lazy or don't know enough about the economy to follow a proper path, and I feel a little guilty about my opinion, but I just can't figure out how it isn't possible. I'm specifically referring to the USA here too. Lastly, I'm someone who is yo... | The American dream is live and well, and any person can be successful through hard work. | 0 | 2015-10-09T23:25:41 | 94 | 4 | null |
I agree with you to some extent but it's important to realize that the value of art doesn't lie wholly in the skill used to create it, look at all of the amazing Renaissance paintings that nobody cares about. Much of what makes art interesting is the ideas and meaning behind a given piece. I'd argue that modern art isn... | Modern art is mostly terrible, and often requires audiences to unnecessarily apply meaning to it to convince themselves they "get" it. | 0 | 2016-09-05T16:48:49 | 166 | 2 | null |
No one has yet truly remarked on the binge watching experience, and I think I can help in that department. Last summer, everyone at my office was constantly talking about GoT and I was a major hold out. They asked me to watch it so much that I continually said no just to spite them. They were obsessive. However, I had ... | I cannot convince myself to watch Game of Thrones. I feel it is overrated and i rather watch shows which are just as good. | 1 | 2017-06-27T07:50:21 | 46 | 8 | 1 |
Certainly, any two peoples' lives can be compared. But to what end? I have read of former slaves who never left lives of share-cropping, but they seem to have been at peace in ways that I long for. Would I, though, wish that I had been able to live their lives? I am, frankly, glad that I do not have the choice. Flippin... | I believe for the average person it's better to be born a man than a woman | 1 | 2016-12-30T02:48:47 | 86 | 1 | 1 |
I stand by my choice to identify as a *fem*inist because reclamation of the value of femininity is integral to the movement. Femininity is ridiculed and devalued in both women *and* men. Think about the insult "you throw/hit *like a girl*". Whether this is directed at a male or a female, the implication is that being f... | I don't think "feminism" is the right word for it anymore, and calling that makes it difficult to achieve the ideology's modern goals. | 1 | 2014-03-27T19:49:50 | 505 | 34 | 1 |
convince me that alcohol isn't bad. This is vague. What precisely do you mean when you say that alcohol is "bad." I'll assume that whe you say it is bad, what you mean is "I shouldn't drink alcohol." While I'm not personally a huge drinker of alcohol, I think I can convince you that should sometimes drink it. The firs... | Alcohol is bad, please don't let me grow up boring | 1 | 2013-08-23T21:03:54 | 45 | 2 | 1 |
So you *do* think we act wrongly if we don't sit and watch the ads? A good rule of thumb is that if everyone doing it would result in something you don't like, it's probably a bad idea. I don't play sports, but I enjoy watching them. If everyone behaved as I did, then I wouldn't be able to enjoy watching sports. Does i... | Using an adblocker is morally wrong | 1 | 2016-01-09T05:10:55 | 61 | 7 | 3 |
Well depression itself is screwing with your brain, by taking antidepressants you are just trying to fix what is already wrong. Yes it takes time to find the right mix and yes there are side effects, but its one of the best decisions I ever made. You can go from a horrible situation to living a normal happy life just ... | I refuse to go onto antidepressants because I don't want chemicals to screw with my mind | 0 | 2014-10-19T17:48:18 | 166 | 0 | null |
Most of these aren't illogical positions. You just focus on simple talking points, and not the nuanced reasoning. Your exposure is mostly simplified talking points where it's easy to knock down straw men. I hope I don't actually have to defend this point. we have a separation of church and state, your religious views ... | American politics no longer cares about logic or reason, and as a young voter I have no reason to be optimistic about the future of my country. | 1 | 2016-03-28T19:31:41 | 47 | 3 | 51 |
It's great to see a thought out response. Literally every group must be equally represented in every position of power, or else there will be equality. I'm sure you meant *in*equality here. ___ I think some of the misunderstanding comes from the word "minority" itself. Given the literal/dictionary meaning of the wor... | I don't think it is correct to refer to women as a "minority". Women are in fact, the majority. | 1 | 2016-12-19T18:51:50 | 454 | 2 | 15 |
It doesn't have to be privatized to turn a profit. If that's your main argument, why not have the government collect tolls? That way the profit goes back into public coffers. Besides, highways are actually pretty poor candidates to be privatized. It's not like someone's going to build a new one just to compete if the p... | I believe that all highways should be privatised. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-27T03:38:35 | 67 | 1 | 42 |
You're still acknowledging that when all factors are considered and weighed, retail is overall the worse deal. Everything that follows "aside from the fact that retail doesn't pay a proper living wage," didn't outweigh the lack of living wage for you. You can point to specific perks or drawbacks either way, but the exp... | Retail work is not bad enough to warrant the level of complaints from its workers | 1 | 2017-01-02T20:06:56 | 60 | 34 | 89 |
1) The Cold War happened - many people still remember it well. There is a public predisposition to be anti-Russia rather than anti-China 2) If any of the recent allegations are True - that would mean there is some relationship between Trump and Russia. There are currently no allegations or evidence of any link between ... | We act as though Russia is some terrible place (ethical issues, spying etc) and yet we are friends with China and give them a pass on all of the same issues. | 1 | 2017-04-07T02:04:01 | 36 | 31 | 29 |
Well, first, morality is a 100% subjective matter, and while some might consider it immoral to eat animals, some might say it's okay - and you are both right. 1) All being**s** who are capable of being wronged have **a** moral status. This is a personal matter, as I've mentioned before. Anyone could put anything in pl... | being a vegan is morally right for me. And probably for you. | 0 | 2016-07-08T00:02:32 | 287 | 0 | null |
What if you're not in your right mind? If, as a person who is not suicidal at baseline, you become floridly psychotic due to a bad drug interaction (or whatever it might be) and killing yourself suddenly becomes your number one priority, do you still have that right even though you'd hold the absolute opposite opinion ... | Suicide is a basic human right | 1 | 2016-09-12T01:11:21 | 472 | 420 | 1 |
There was a case in the US where a girl convinced her bf to kill himself. She strongly advocated that he do it and stopped him when he tried to get help. I think in that case she's guilty of at least manslaughter because it stopped just being his idea and started to become hers. But, if you encourage a person at the... | I am only responsible for my own decisions and not the decisions of others. | 1 | 2016-08-23T12:04:11 | 192 | 8 | 9 |
So if you haven't heard of them yet, this is a great example of a micro aggression. Micro aggressions are small, passive acts of racism. They're often subtle and go unnoticed by others who are unaware of racism. I like the analogy of each micro aggression being a small cut. Over time, those cuts get deeper and deeper, ... | Asking someone "where are you originally from" is totally fine and not a racist thing to do | 0 | 2017-05-03T01:14:23 | 174 | 1 | null |
You are right - it is racist writ large. Those people are discriminating romantically against a group based on the color of their skin - pretty simple. That said this type of discrimination does not necessarily need to be an objectionable form of racism. Just because you are physically attracted to a specific skin typ... | Publicly stating you aren't interested in hearing from minority groups in online dating profiles is racist. | 1 | 2014-07-03T15:35:08 | 83 | 0 | 17Δ |
Let me try and rewrite your first three points so I make sure I understand them. 1) An awake mind cannot experience what it's like to not be awake. 2) Any loss of awareness (unconsciousness, coma) is followed by being revived awareness for living non-comatose people. 3) Therefore a living person will never experience p... | Due to the nature of conscious experience, there is certainly "life" after death. | 1 | 2016-07-07T04:58:16 | 63 | 5 | 1 |
I once wanted to put on a nice wine and cheese night for my wife. Had wine, fruit, but only crappy sandwich cheese. Went to the grocery store to pick up a couple of samples of cool cheeses to pair with the wine. That was all I got. | I believe that no one ever goes out to buy just cheese. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-09T19:50:25 | 32 | 2 | 1 |
Alright, I'm not a republican, but I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and try to address these line by line. **LGBT Rights:** You can't really discard the religious arguments, because this is somewhere around 95% of the argument against it. Whether it's right or not to use religion as an argument for or against somet... | I literally cannot understand most Republican social views. | 1 | 2017-02-10T21:03:40 | 250 | 9 | 2 |
I find it amusing that people always try to find some sort of loophole, rather than answering the actual question ("I'll blow up the trolley with a rocket launcher"). It doesn't really get you anywhere. Anyways: It's unethical to push the person off the bridge because people have rights. As a society, we have deemed it... | To push the other person off the bridge is the correct solution to the trolley problem. | 1 | 2015-05-29T17:35:35 | 81 | 9 | 1Δ |
You left out "intentional." There is a difference between killing and cruelty. Many vegetarians are not against the killing of animals in itself, but rather the cruel treatment of animals kept in factory farms. | To be vegetarian and participate in modern agriculture is philosophically inconsistent. | 1 | 2015-02-05T06:12:48 | 60 | 2 | 6 |
Contributions to animal charities do benefit humans. Although it is difficult to argue that charity, thoughtfulness, and kindness are technically necessary for society to function, most people's intuitions suggest that they are a part of meaningful existence, and make the world a better place. Arguing that one type of ... | I don't believe animal charities should exist. | 0 | 2016-02-24T22:41:34 | 50 | 1 | 9 |
I want to address one point. My parents are getting divorced, and my mom has been a stay at home mom my whole life. My dad is college educated as an engineer, makes quite a bit of money, but being a contractor, he hasn't been getting paid regularly as he should be. Along with that, he cannot support 2 households. My mo... | A Stay at Home Parent Should Be Required | 0 | 2016-08-05T07:38:27 | 72 | 1 | null |
Of course it's still not perfect there, but most people, regardless of ethnicity, color, religion, sexuality, gender identity, height, weight, or anything else you can experience prejudice against are going to be able to find plenty of places where living there wouldn't be perfect for them. If I was a white person livi... | Even today being gay is awful | 1 | 2015-08-05T20:33:21 | 169 | 8 | 21 |
Ideally yes. BUT, with all of the bureaucracy and mess being handled by the tax department, who already have that job. Think of welfare as it currently functions as an in-depth audit of *literally every welfare recipient* **constantly**. If we were to check every taxpayer to that extent it would cost tens of trillions.... | Universal Basic Income makes much less sense than simply expanding the Welfare System | 1 | 2017-06-26T01:57:23 | 52 | 5 | 4 |
Politics is about power. Right now, the US has a very complex power sharing between the president and the adminisration, Congress and the Supreme Court, and the states where there is the same. Congress' role is to make the best laws and to control the administration. This requires quite some experience. Being a politi... | Representatives should be limited to only one term in office | 0 | 2016-06-29T15:16:19 | 27 | 1 | null |
the computer may not look as appealing visually but will still have the same capabilities and utility as a well designed one Sure but it doesn't matter how amazing the machine is, it will still have to compete with other machines. To get people to buy your laptop, not only will your laptop need to be technologically so... | CMV Students who graduate with arts degrees and complain about the job market got exactly what they signed up for. | 0 | 2017-05-18T08:19:55 | 108 | 3 | null |
I have nothing but admiration for the Vietnamese people. Within a span of 30 years the French were expelled, the United States was stopped from partitioning or exerting control over the country, and shortly thereafter a Chinese invasion was repelled. The Vietnamese also deposed the Khmer Rogue in Cambodia, a regime res... | As a Vietnamese, sometimes I wish the America won the Vietnam War | 0 | 2015-08-12T13:59:52 | 155 | 33 | null |
Gladly. And I agree, SCOTUS is only a part, even if one of the most valuable. Trump is a fairly good example of a realist, speaking in terms of international relations. The following is a quick well written description of that- Realism, also known as political realism, is a view of international politics that stresse... | Supporters of Donald Trump are either completely divorced from reality or actively seeking the downfall of the United States. | 1 | 2016-07-26T07:41:26 | 311 | 3 | 2 |
I do not equate advancing equal rights with word choice because, in the end, having equal rights is so much more than what you are called. Complete equality is difficult to achieve and is indeed much more than word choice, but it is also a sum of its parts and one of those parts *is* precisely the correct terminology, ... | I think that social justice activists that feel the need to interrupt intelligent and reasonable debate/conversation to insert political correctness do it for self validation rather than to advance the cause. | 1 | 2016-10-18T18:17:30 | 90 | 18 | 20 |
I don't think this is about university students or their major (the most arrogant undergrad majors on a university campus in the states tend to be business majors, btw), I think it's about how people are in their 20s. Arrogance in the first stage of adulthood is exceedingly common, moreso among individuals who are "doi... | American universities, particularly the arts and humanities, teach young people to be confident, arrogant, and close-minded. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-14T19:41:10 | 158 | 3 | null |
I think there are multiple ways to enjoy media, and there's meaning to be found in any media depending on how you consume it. I don't personally think what media someone chooses to enjoy is reflective of intelligence or who they are as a person. How they consume it is much more telling. Broad entertainment is broad for... | I find most popular culture to be lacking depth and I can't enjoy it | 0 | 2016-08-14T10:21:59 | 37 | 3 | null |
If marijuana stays illegal, then tobacco & alcohol need to be illegal because they are much more dangerous for your health. Weed was made illegal based on racist assumptions that smoking weed made Mexicans crazy during early 20th century. Richard Nixon's war on drugs has been nothing but a huge waste of money. What... | I don't believe Marijuana should be legalized. | 0 | 2017-05-15T06:14:08 | 87 | 1 | null |
It's not even moderately close-ish who wins between, say, Battlefield 4 or Goldeneye. I remember the singleplayer in OO7 and Perfect Dark as more fun/engaging then either CoD and BF4 in "singleplayer". (Never played Halo much so can't comment on that one). I didn't even finish the singleplayer modes of CoD and BF4, the... | Goldeneye 007 is useful only as a historical artifact and is, functionally, vastly inferior to today's FPS games. | 0 | 2015-06-19T19:59:48 | 77 | 1 | null |
How do you square this view with the freedom of the press guaranteed by the first amendment? If any media outlet is able to get the details they (and all other journalists) will publish the information because people have a high level of interest in these stories which leads to viewership and advertising dollars. Now, ... | Next time there is a school shooting, the killer's name and picture should not be published by any media, and coverage of the event should be kept to a minimum. | 0 | 2014-10-19T20:40:42 | 130 | 2 | null |
There are plenty of theories for why humans are hairless. Im not going to say any one of them is definitely true, im just making the point that us being hairless doesnt necessarily imply anything about us having been aquatic creatures. I mean the first obvious alternate explanation is just this. Having your body cover... | The Aquatic Ape Theory Pretty Much Has To Be True | 1 | 2017-06-08T06:21:07 | 79 | 2 | null |
An open faced sandwich is not a sandwich, it is an open faced sandwich. The whole point of a sandwich is some sort of filling *sandwiched* in between two pieces of bread. If you want to call pizza an open faced sandwich than I thats fine. | I believe that pizza is a kind of sandwich. CMV. | 1 | 2013-11-24T20:37:17 | 52 | 0 | null |
I think first it's important to set aside all of your examples. You're arguing a completely general point, so you cannot prove it through cherry-picking. We have to be taught to do many "good" things and yet don't have to be taught to do many "bad" things. It doesn't really make sense to ignore our brain's plasticity ... | The base nature of human beings is closer to what human beings refer to as "evil" rather than what human beings refer to as "good". | 0 | 2016-10-05T18:45:54 | 189 | 2 | 4 |
I think its rare that people do things that will get them into trouble that are wrong from their point of view. Like the Muslim flight attendant who refused to serve alcohol. Presumabley she thinks she's right which is why she's doing it despite them both being wrong | Kim Davis is doing, from her point of view, the right thing by attempting to obstruct marriage through her job position. | 0 | 2015-09-19T21:11:27 | 63 | 3 | null |
I think you're confusing the money multiplier with the creation of monetary base by the Fed. When the Fed wants to add money to the economy, they don't borrow or lend to/from banks. Banks almost never do direct borrowing from the Fed except in severe crises. The Fed adds money by buying stuff. Usually that stuff is US ... | the process of money creation completely screws over working people for no good reason | 0 | 2015-01-20T07:17:08 | 41 | 1 | null |
High levels of income inequality decrease overall demand. The "haves". Can afford to buy a large amount of goods and services, but they have no incentive to do so. If the money was spread out over more people then spending would be higher as more people would be able to afford what they desire. High levels of inequalit... | I don't think income equality is a problem. | 0 | 2014-05-17T18:56:27 | 54 | 5 | null |
You are going in under the supposition that patriotism implicates an isolationist philosophy. That's just strictly false. I thought about this analogy: If I am in an orchestra, and I take great pride in my own performance, that does not mean I take no pride in the overall performance, nor does it mean I refuse to work... | Patriotism is simply rebranded positive discrimination. | 1 | 2017-04-18T20:17:09 | 66 | 1 | 2 |
It doesn't stop there, there are even more problems. What if the politician attempts to fulfill the promise, but fails. Now I know what you're thinking, but hang on. In the political process, generally success/fail isn't so binary. You try to get a bill passed and fail, doesn't mean you tried your hardest or you can't ... | We should be able to fire and even arrest politicians midterm, if they are caught telling blatant lies or acting against public interests. Losing votes in the next elections is not enough. Election promises should be binding. | 1 | 2017-05-04T11:30:51 | 144 | 178 | 22 |
Humor is a coping mechanism. I'm trans and let me tell you, it sucks. There's social elements that suck, dysphoria sucks, having to pay tons of money for my legal documents and medical treatment sucks, and *jokes about trans stuff is super fucking funny*. Making jokes about this objectively awful thing in my life norma... | Serious topics should not be turned into jokes. | 0 | 2017-04-14T20:42:24 | 37 | 1 | 9 |
First, Trump knows better than anyone else that his brand is his only true asset. If he were truly trolling, that would mean he made a conscious decision to trash the brand for dubious reasons - the ones you supply all have conspiratorial connotations for which you have no apparent evidence. (In the absence of compelli... | Donald Trump is a troll and is only here to scare us all into voting for Hillary. | 1 | 2016-08-04T02:06:06 | 54 | 6 | 109 |
I don't disagree that the LDS church would use this to coerce women into plural marriages, but I disagree that this would be the majority of cases, and I don't think it matters. Even without legal plural marriage, the problems with the LDS church still exist. Legalizing plural marriage doesn't change that. But what leg... | I strongly support legal gay marriage, but I wouldn't support legal plural marriage. | 1 | 2017-01-25T01:49:56 | 41 | 1 | 5 |
http://www.ted.com/talks/joy_sun_should_you_donate_differently?language=en This offers a good perspective. | Giving beggars or people on the street money is wrong, rather give it to helping institutions. | 0 | 2015-01-28T20:11:03 | 93 | 1 | null |
First, I'm curious what areas/countries have which rules? Where I live (Eastern US), refrigerators, washers, and driers always stay with the house like the sinks and tubs. The fact that you mention refrigerators and washers as things people take with them comes as a mild surprise to me. What areas do keep them? Second,... | Our culture should consider large furniture and appliances as something that comes with the house and that you leave with the house | 0 | 2014-06-27T23:13:58 | 79 | 2 | null |
I don't agree with your initial premise that thoughts arrive from consciousness. Thoughts *are* consciousness. Of course we can't know thoughts before we think them because that literally is what being conscious is, there is no distinction to be made. There is also an unstated major premise in your definition of free w... | Free will doesn't exist because we don't author our thoughts | 0 | 2016-02-11T07:35:48 | 161 | 5 | 1 |
Not only would they would have to work harder, but they would also have to work harder than the other groups. There is a cultural back-pressure in inner cities. Where East Asian and Indian immigrant communities see their friends and children doing well in school and going to college as a badge of honor, inner city blac... | Minority Groups Are Justified in Believing That African Americans Should Just Work Harder | 0 | 2015-05-01T02:09:13 | 242 | 2 | 7Δ |
I disagree with you not because I think you are wrong but because I don't want to live in your society - one where people do not know anything but who are able to look it up. I want an informed citizenship - it enables our democracy and our Constitutional Republic. This is a challenge because it is more efficient and ... | Education should be based less on learning facts, and more on effective research and use of information | 0 | 2015-03-06T08:20:45 | 51 | 2 | null |
Some of your points seem to stem from the fact that you're simply more comfortable with cutlery. Like the one about food falling. That still can happen with cutlery. Eating with manners? Table manners are cultural. As a personal thing, even though I don't eat much Asian food I do like that chopsticks are a one handed a... | Chopsticks are in no way superior to fork & knife. | 1 | 2015-05-21T16:49:12 | 431 | 47 | 1Δ |
I'd argue you don't agree with Kevin Spacey, you agree with [Joseph de Maistre](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre) who came up with the quote in 1811 that Kevin Spacey is ripping off here. "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite," which wiki tells me translates to "Every nation gets the government... | I agree with Kevin Spacey that we as Americans "get [the president] we deserve", especially if our next president is Donald Trump | 0 | 2016-03-18T18:30:47 | 27 | 0 | null |
where is the point at which you stop trying and pack your bags? If you truly care as much as I think you do, that point doesn't exist. How many people throughout history were the catalyst for change but either didn't know it or didn't live long enough to see the change? What it comes down to is that the more people lik... | I want to leave America and move to another country, because I hate the direction I think we're moving in, and I want to get out now. | 1 | 2014-07-07T20:35:15 | 205 | 13 | 4Δ |
So essentially, we should fear the unknown? A rational person prepares for possible outcomes. You don't know if you'll get sick or not, but I bet you have health insurance. It's like saying, "Don't buy insurance, you'll be living your life in fear." so we should prepare? Yes, absolutely. The US maintains it's nuclear ... | Terrorism on US soil isn't as much of an issue as we make it | 1 | 2017-02-22T20:02:48 | 69 | 7 | 20 |
There are a few issues with your post, I'll try to address them as fairly as I can. I believe that taking steroids is a lazy and pointless way to achieve goals Firstly, it totally depends on what the goal is, doesn't it? I know down below, you state you enjoy the 'struggle' and the grind that comes along with lifting a... | Taking anabolic steroids to gain muscle/bulk up is "cheating" and is for people who are too lazy or impatient to gain muscle "naturally". | 1 | 2015-10-17T15:41:21 | 45 | 6 | 1 |
Most social norms aren't "invented", they just happened. There were arguably no societies where norms didn't exist in some form or another. The way people work it's probably not possible for norms not to develop without us intending them too. A great example is traffic behaviors - we have some laws that so few people f... | I think social norms are holding us all back. | 1 | 2017-03-20T16:54:40 | 18 | 6 | 69 |
Firstly, I don't disagree with your general sentiment, though based on what you said in particular, probably in the opposite direction of what you see as an issue (For example, you say "ruin the lives of feminists", whereas I view how many of those same feminists or their followers have harassed, blackmailed, and bulli... | The modern gaming community has become one giant, irrational hate mob that launches uninformed witchhunts over manufactured controversies and unimportant trivialities. | 1 | 2017-06-19T08:48:53 | 98 | 9 | 1 |
Their logic is thus: Trump is sexist, racist, misogynist, and xenophobic. Therefore, anyone who voted for him is themselves at least one of these things, or condones these things. I don't believe this is the case. Could you please have one of your liberal friends come and verify this is what they actually believe? I be... | Using the same logic of some liberals, anyone who voted for Obama supports the killing of innocent civilians by drone strike | 0 | 2016-11-11T00:35:33 | 38 | 3 | 11 |
For the simple reason that many people find the effects of alcohol enjoyable. That in no way means you personally should drink. But the fact that you don't enjoy it is not enough of a reason to deny it to anyone else. | I don't think that any social drinking (alcohol) is justifiable. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-07T20:31:28 | 49 | 2 | null |
If it becomes a case where available resources can not support the entire population in any kind of a meaningful way and there's nowhere for the "excess" population to go, you'd actually be right. Simple math would dictate that the population must decrease to a sustainable level or put up with a reduced quality of life... | A shrinking population size is a good thing | 0 | 2015-07-24T01:10:10 | 68 | 2 | 1 |
The nature of a program such as Free the Nipple is essentially equality of genders. The question they ask is why should women have to cover up their breasts just because men find them sexy? Look at it this way. You, as a straight male, find women's breasts sexy, not because that's nature, but because of the social pre... | The goal of "Free the Nipple" should not be to desexualize the female breast and nipple, but to admit they are sexual just not obscene | 0 | 2016-10-01T13:38:26 | 471 | 1 | null |
One reason that Canada, Australia etc are more prosperous is because colonial powers imposed different economic and political policicies and institutions in those countries than they did on other colonies. This was argued by Acemoglu *et al* in [one of the most highly cited and famous papers on economic history](https... | Colonization isn't that bad. | 1 | 2017-03-13T23:51:50 | 78 | 1 | 1 |
If you are looking at it from the perspective of a practical benefit. You are mostly correct. There are very few occurrences wherein keeping up with local politics/news/events doesn't derive a very substantial practical benefit. Perhaps the one exception to this would be during a time of democratic elections, wherein h... | Keeping up with current happenings and the news is absolutely useless for a common person. | 0 | 2017-04-20T13:00:46 | 44 | 2 | null |
They tend to group because they feel the same as you, they are surrounded by foreigners as well and it's easier to be with people who understand them, other immigrants. A bit of sympathy can go a long way to understanding this. In terms of language, it's hard to learn; a lot of these people come from a rough life, they... | I don't think its racist to not want immigrants in my country | 1 | 2017-01-17T06:33:05 | 90 | 7 | 6 |
I reckon you shouldn't feel too badly about that. Water is never really "wasted." It simply moves from one place to another. If you let your faucet drip all day, that's clean water going back into the system, the water isn't "lost." What is lost is usefulness, money, and energy, because it takes energy to purify and di... | I think showering daily is a terrible idea and all efforts should be made to reverse this trend where it is common. | 1 | 2013-08-06T19:37:04 | 41 | 17 | 61Δ |
But my point is that their real name *isn't* going to be front and centre, because they'll register accounts under *false* names in defiance of the law. To borrow your example from the other branch, we don't abolish taxes just because of tax evaders because we still get significant benefit and we don't expose people wh... | At some point, a law stating that people must use their real names in all online communication will be seen as a good thing | 1 | 2017-05-01T14:07:09 | 42 | 5 | 8 |
Digital watches require batteries. [Self-winding mechanical-action analog watches don't require batteries.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_watch) I'm sure you can imagine some circumstances under which a need for batteries would become problematic. As for stationary clocks, what about people who live in areas w... | Analog clocks are pointless. | 1 | 2014-04-25T20:36:47 | 126 | 1 | 18Δ |
So, You're projecting a lot of your own meaning and interpretation onto what sex means for others. Both parties are just using each other with no other benefit apart from feeling good for however long their session lasts. What if a person doesn't want a relationship right now, they are focusing on their career, and fee... | It is not empowering for a woman to sleep around in NSA relationships | 0 | 2017-05-30T20:21:11 | 58 | 2 | 18 |
And how do you propose to pay for all of this? Sure it's a noble effort that you want to get everyone the help they deserve but this would be a massive effort and require the funding and man power to back it up. Also people have lies where they are, who is to say that you may relocate someone who just recently became h... | I think homelessness should be illegal. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-11T18:19:33 | 59 | 18 | 4 |
I think you're just looking for a reason to impeach him. Which realistically wouldn't happen anyway, what with a Republican House. | Donald Trump's blatant use of his position to promote the businesses of himself and his family/punish those that go against is unethical and should be an impeachable offense. | 0 | 2017-02-09T19:23:04 | 521 | 20 | null |
Are you under the impression that a man wearing only boxer shorts in public would be guilty of public indecency? | Saggy pants are unacceptable but tolerated because of white guilt | 0 | 2015-05-27T18:58:41 | 70 | 18 | 2Δ |
1. Pronunciation varies with language, but even in english, Y flows more easily. And yes, it sounds like "why", which is a word, what the hell is "ecks"? 2. Clearly, Y is more versatile, more widely available. Why is exclusivity a plus? Platform exclusives are the worst thing about games these days. 3. Again, Y is more... | X is better than Y | 0 | 2015-07-24T09:12:49 | 273 | 3 | 7Δ |
I actually had this [exact debate yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/39khuv/my_least_favorite_thing_about_australia_is_their/cs4srum) over on /r/vegan, I'm curious if you were motivated by that to post this? I'll take on your argument here though. I've been meaning to look into this more in depth anyway... | Killing baby cows for food is no more immoral than killing adult cows for food. | 1 | 2015-06-14T12:50:22 | 65 | 16 | null |
Secular values taking precedence over Islamic values? Perversion of Islamic values? This seems to be a game I can't win. You claim "Islam is incompatible with a secular society." I show you a secular society with Islam as a dominant religion. And you say "Ahh, but those are not *true* Muslims." http://en.wikipedia.org/... | Islam is incompatible with today's society. | 1 | 2015-05-19T18:14:56 | 197 | 16 | 49Δ |
You're now appealing to modernity, in that it's OK that Christianity did horrible things in the past but that Westernized Christianity is largely pacifist. We'll ignore the recent Planned Parenthood shooting, just because that's too easy. First, there are Christian terrorists in Africa, the Lord's Resistance Army bein... | Islam should not be allowed in the West and neither should Muslims | 1 | 2016-01-13T02:39:39 | 55 | 12 | 16 |
Primary point of contention: It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the ones most responsive to change. Each member of the human race would face severe stresses that would greatly change their views. Their current beliefs are not a good predictor of their survival chances during such an event. Also, i... | If a total catastrophic breakdown of society were to happen, liberals would be primarily useless. | 0 | 2014-10-23T23:49:04 | 85 | 1 | 13 |
Yes, absolutely. They've never done anything like that, but I'm sure there will be a time that a baseball will go through a window that isn't mine or a kid will knock something off a shelf and break it. Myself (of myself + the kid if they're old enough) will make reparations. I'm OK with someone making a comment to me... | There are times when smacking a complete stranger's misbehaving child is justified. | 1 | 2015-08-03T23:12:55 | 51 | 4 | 4 |
i dont understand why you are picking on athletes? at least they legitimately do something that requires skill. Im more shocked that, as a society, we allow any businessman to make billions of dollars. I mean, it might be obscene that Lebron James makes $20million a year, but it is not nearly as obscene as the fact tha... | That we are willing to pay sports persons millions of dollars is a sign that as a society we have got our priorities wrong. | 1 | 2015-03-30T07:05:27 | 91 | -3 | 7Δ |
Nonbinary person here! I'd like to help you understand things, so consider this free permission to ask questions that you otherwise wouldn't. Gender identity isn't about stereotypes. You've said almost as much yourself - you consider yourself a man but you are also comfortable with the fact that you don't fit all 'man'... | Nonbinary genders are bad for you and for society in general | 1 | 2017-05-16T03:02:50 | 61 | 12 | 5 |
/r/woodworking /r/turning /r/artisanvideos | /r/trees is the nicest and most sincere community on Reddit. | 1 | 2015-09-25T10:22:39 | 27 | 1 | 16 |
It's all down to perspective. Of course, as a human, you're going to think that human life is more valuable than that of an animal. But you're obviously looking at this from a very biased perspective. But I'd like clarification on this line. "Because we are far superior on almost all respects". Because that is a very m... | I believe the value of a human life is infinitely higher than that of an animal, and humans and animals ought to be compared. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-18T11:39:36 | 99 | 17 | null |
Also a fair point to make. Not all people who are Anti-GMO's have concerns because of negative health effects. There are also potential environmental concerns, concerns about increasing monocroping, shady business practices (may or may no be unfounded), potential lax government oversight on safety (GMO's have only bee... | Anti-GMOers are the same breed of moron as Anti-Vaxxers | 1 | 2015-06-03T05:43:35 | 152 | 74 | null |
I used to think this way too. I still tend to avoid drinking, but I realized at a certain point the negatives of not drinking were starting to beat out the positives. You seem pretty uptight, which is how I come across as well, and drinking occasionally allows me to loosen up more than I normally would. It's great to ... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 0 | 2015-01-18T23:21:26 | 446 | 2 | null |
I don't think that God is inconsistent, I just argue that he isn't omnipotent Your example of creating a boulder he can't lift implies that the concept of omnipotence is inherently inconsistent. So it's your *definition* of "omnipotent" that I'm challenging. You've latched upon an artificial, semantic definition (if Go... | God cannot be omnipotent. | 1 | 2017-05-25T02:17:44 | 106 | 8 | 1 |
Your argument is a bit like saying that you think natural selection is a part of speciation, but not the biggest part. Well, it's a part of all of the other parts too. The effects of societal biases manifest mostly in opportunity cost, which is not just in any one individual, but to the point of stacking over generatio... | There is such a thing as privilege, but it's not as important as people make it out to be. | 1 | 2017-04-21T15:05:38 | 87 | 9 | 3 |
Cabs, minivans, anything near a bike lane, is practically a time bomb. Unlike a car suddenly stopping in a road, where the car slows before stopping, there can be NO warning. You can be cycling and a car door opens 5 feet away from you, when suddenly opens up their door without checking for cyclists. And even if you re... | Being "door-prized" is the fault of the cyclist, and cyclists should ride out of the range of doors. | 0 | 2014-10-30T03:26:42 | 77 | 1 | null |
I would be most worried about Trump's ability to sabotage the Paris Climate agreement to stop global warming. In his own words, "Forget it" and "Climate Change is a hoax by the Chinese to make US manufacturing non-competitive (paraphrased)". Now I know a president would only have so much power without Congress, but Oba... | Fears over the possibilities of a Trump presidency are overblown. He can't act unilaterally on any of his positions, and his greatest actual danger to progressives would be to win and then quietly get in line with the GOP's advisers. | 1 | 2016-09-07T07:56:10 | 259 | 1 | 1 |
You be the judge for the delta thing (it’s my first comment on CMV so I won’t be greedy) :) Yes I'm making an assumption because I believe that you are correct in saying that China lacks global cultural influence, only I would add to it: *right now*. My historic argument would be the African one and maybe the fact that... | China is Not Currently a Serious Challenger to Western Dominance Because of its Lack of Cultural Influence | 1 | 2015-06-05T17:21:05 | 88 | 5 | null |
Why is that perspective important? Because you are pro-life and it draws people to your side? I dont hold that position, but one could just as well say that experiencing pregnancy clouds your mind about this subject. | If you haven't experienced pregnancy, you are missing important perspective on the abortion debate | 0 | 2016-05-19T00:22:24 | 130 | 2 | 13 |
Fire drills are *not* a tool for teaching people how to react in a life or death emergency situation, other than maybe where they should go. They exist entirely to avert panic in case of an actual fire. When a fire alarm goes off for realsies, it goes off long before the fire is a roaring inferno that speeds through th... | Frequent unannounced fire drills are no different than the story of the boy who cried wolf, and actually make people less safe. | 1 | 2014-10-10T17:08:34 | 44 | 7 | 1 |
i will use a park analogy. just because you didn't plant the grass in the park, doesn't mean you can't hate it. even if you can't choose what grass was planted, you can still dislike other peoples choices. you may not have paid for the grass, but you still want to play on it. | Eligible voters who do not vote, ought to refrain from complaining or commenting about election outcomes | 1 | 2017-03-01T20:56:56 | 83 | 0 | 2 |
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