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Positive behavior should be celebrated. A return to sobriety is not only good for the former drug user but for society as well. It is a very difficult action as well as a positive one. celebrating these people is just giving them positive reinforcement to keep doing what they're doing because it's good for everyone. | Drug addicts who have quit drugs and become sober shouldn't be celebrated | 1 | 2014-08-31T14:29:01 | 24 | 8 | 2 |
Your problem is at number 4) "The right of other people not not be murdered overrules your right to bodily autonomy". Joe Biden doesn't believe that. | It's morally inconsistent to think abortion is murder, but also believe it's up to women. | 0 | 2017-01-30T22:16:03 | 67 | 2 | 4 |
If you're trying to gain weight, you have to force yourself to do something you don't want to do (eat) for a few minutes a few times a day. If you're trying to lose weight, you have to force yourself to do something you don't want to do (not eat) almost constantly. Both of these things must be very difficult or no one... | As someone who has been underweight most his life. It is NOT easier to put on weight than it is to lose weight. | 0 | 2017-02-14T20:26:05 | 75 | 19 | null |
From how I see it, sometimes what makes the amazing times we have in our lives as good as they are, is the pain we sometimes have to go through to achieve them. If we don't have this pain then we wouldn't know how good the thing we just achieved was. If we were ignorant of the reasoning behind things, we would be no mo... | I think Ignorance is Bliss. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-07T03:29:04 | 32 | 5 | null |
The problem is that politics are often concerned with future developments that can't be accurately predicted. Examples of that would be policies regarding the refugee crisis or the prevention of terror attacks. Another kind of issue that logic can't easily solve is the distribution of wealth. There's no data or study t... | Ideology should no longer be important. Any new laws or changes in policy of any kind should be evidence based. | 0 | 2016-12-01T14:33:57 | 44 | 2 | 1 |
Saying "no offense" when you say something offensive is like saying "my bad" when you break something. I know you feel bad for doing it, but it doesn't make it right. | I believe that saying "no offense" before or after what your going to say should negate much of the offense. Please CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-12T06:12:38 | 24 | 1 | 8 |
The truth is that there is nothing you can point to that suggests that certain kinds of ethical systems or cultural practices or traditions are objectively wrong. There is nothing empirical and nothing logical that supports your belief. You just believe that you're right because it really feels that way to you. Your ju... | Some cultural practises are objectively wrong, and denying that in a morally relativistic way to be 'progressive' and avoid cries of 'racism' is harmful. | 1 | 2015-11-12T22:43:18 | 81 | 26 | 12 |
I'm going to try to CYV in a different way than others perhaps. The names of seasons should not be proper nouns because neither should days of the week or months of the year. In spanish (probably other languages too), none of the above are capitalised. And there is no need to. | Given that days of the week are considered proper nouns, the names of seasons should also be proper nouns. | 0 | 2017-03-11T01:20:12 | 121 | 1 | null |
Fair enough. On both points you may want to read Hume's work on miracles. As it applies to the first, the problem with this sort of proof by increments is that you'd never get to the point where the reasonable conclusion was God. At any given time you'd be forced to ask, what is the more reasonable explanation for this... | God could reveal Himself to an individual through small, personal gestures, seemingly endless and impossibly unlikely coincidences. If it were possible to keep a perfect record of them all, the odds could be calculated and it could be supportive evidence for the existence of a relevant God. | 1 | 2015-05-20T07:51:02 | 72 | 4 | 5Δ |
Personally, I agree with the notion that life is pretty pointless, but that doesn't mean it's not *totally freaking awesome*. Unfortunately, you don't seem to find it as neat as I do. I don't really know what I could tell you to change your mind. I don't know if it's actually possible to just change your mind. My recom... | Life is not worth living | 0 | 2014-09-04T23:04:14 | 208 | 1 | null |
Ah apologies for my many edits, but it's easier to see formatting once the comment is already posted (even with RES). It seems like most of your issue is with common implementations of harsh vocals rather than the vocals themselves. One of my favorite ways to incorporate harsh vocals in a song is in tandem with clea... | Harsh (screaming or growling) vocals add nothing to music | 1 | 2015-10-19T07:09:30 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
Well depends on what you mean by "closer to animal behavior". By the purest definition everything we do is "animal behavior" because we are animals. Only difference is that we evolved to be sapient. | We are closer to animal behaviour than we are to enlightenment. | 0 | 2016-09-10T04:21:17 | 49 | 1 | null |
Competing with others however can not be undermined as it is often necessary in acquiring a job; thus we cannot look at someones individual skill without comparing him with other around him. But that isn't measured in test scores. The last time anyone cared about my "class rank" was...never. I think they might have ask... | Students with mild disabilities should not be given extra examination time. | 1 | 2016-11-16T18:03:30 | 53 | 4 | 80 |
A bunch of rental services (cars, vacation venues, etc) require the person making the reservation to be at least 25. After that, the decades are generally considered milestones. 30 is when you're "omg so old". 40 is when you can start being sad about being "old". 50 is when you stop feeling bad about being "old". 65 is... | In a week, I turn 22. I don't see any reason to look forward to any particular birthday for the rest of my life. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-15T19:44:36 | 31 | 4 | 1 |
Fetishes and kinks are sub-groups of the orientation. For example you can be heterosexual and you can like bondage. But then you usually only like bondage with a person from the opposite sex. None of those kinks or fetishes can go without the sexual orientation. | Heterosexuality and homosexuality are both essentially kinks/fetishes | 0 | 2014-09-13T00:37:10 | 78 | 2 | 3 |
We haven’t proven that objective moral facts do not exist. You have this backwards. The onus is on the party claiming that objective morality exists to prove it, not on the other group to claim it does not. Essentially, there are two outcomes from this: 1. Objective morality doesn't exist, therefore I can act in one w... | Until given a strong, knock-down argument against moral realism, I am obliged to act as if objective moral truths exist. | 0 | 2016-10-23T18:28:22 | 85 | 1 | 1 |
While it could be taken as evidence for God, it would be very very weak evidence; because it would require that God were completely and utterly batshit insane to try and reveal Himself in such an inefficient manner. A far more reasonable conclusion would be that you were in some way capable of personally influencing th... | God could reveal Himself to an individual through small, personal gestures, seemingly endless and impossibly unlikely coincidences. If it were possible to keep a perfect record of them all, the odds could be calculated and it could be supportive evidence for the existence of a relevant God. | 0 | 2015-05-20T16:35:27 | 72 | 2 | 13Δ |
I think you're overestimating the effect these movements (if you can call them that; I assume you're not speaking of more fundamental rights movements) have on the self-awareness of these people. Just because being overweight is socially accepted doesn't mean everyone's IQ is going to drop five points such that they th... | I think acceptance movements are harmful to the individuals they try to accept. | 0 | 2014-08-28T00:35:32 | 52 | 6 | 8Δ |
Interesting question! One could try to be purely rational - maybe I should sacrifice myself to save this doctor since he will save many more lives - but I don't think that will sway many since our own lives are typically more subjectively valuable to us. So we're probably not going to find anything universal. Finding ... | I don't think there is anything worth dying for. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-14T08:40:14 | 80 | 1 | 1 |
When I've spoken to Muslim women who wear the hijab (or had students write about their hijabs), I have never heard any association with hate or oppression. The only Muslim women and girls I know who wear it come from moderate to liberal families, and the girls chose to wear the hijab. In the case of one of my current s... | If you see the hijab as a symbol of oppression, you should also be against the Confederate flag. Likewise, if you think the Confederate flag is a symbol of oppression, you should be against hijabs. | 1 | 2016-11-15T02:36:07 | 51 | 14 | 20 |
Thanks for keeping an open mind. As to whether they're effective for changing behavior, the evidence is that they do. In my first comment, I linked to [this source](http://www.nber.org/papers/w13408.pdf?new_window=1) (quotation from abstract): Across all data sources, we find consistent evidence that state mandatory se... | I believe assisted suicide should be legalized and that the fact it isn't is an infringement on those individuals' free choice. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-28T21:50:34 | 182 | 1 | 18Δ |
There are no top-tier HBCU schools, especially for students in STEM fields. Choosing an HBCU means less recognized/less funded facilities - North Carolina A&T, my alma mater, is known for its engineering program & remains to be the top producer of black engineers in the nation. Just one example of many such exa... | Going to a HBCU as a black person is admitting defeat | 0 | 2016-07-11T22:55:01 | 37 | 3 | null |
I have no idea how you hold the opinion that the West is tolerating Islamic extremism. Literally the only time Article V of the NATO treaty has been invoked is to come to the defense of the U.S. following the 9/11 attacks. The ensuing war in Afghanistan has been going on ever since--it's the longest war in U.S. history... | Christianity is under attack in the western world | 1 | 2017-06-03T23:45:03 | 219 | 2 | 1 |
Hey there, I teach in a business school but my background is in the social sciences so maybe I can help give you a different perspective. Let's take this on two levels: (1) is business research an academic discipline worthy of respect and (2) is it taught in a way that teaches critical thinking and lifelong learning or... | Business school is a perversion of the purpose of universities | 1 | 2015-03-03T21:21:45 | 38 | 3 | 2 |
Dyslexic people are just as smart as regular people, but the part of their brain that interprets written words is kind of screwed up. It's much harder for them to read, and generally takes them more time and effort to get the normal amount of information out of a written thing. Once that's in their head, they're just a... | I don't think standardized tests should allot extra time for students with learning disabilities CMV | 0 | 2014-02-12T07:21:18 | 49 | 35 | 1 |
I don't think fat shaming is the way to go. While I agree with you that 99% of the time, it's within your control if you're overweight or not, there is a difference between obesity and, say, not showering. For example, consider this: When I was in the military, we had this guy in one of my platoons who would not shower... | Obese people deserve the same amount of ridicule at the same intensity felt by people who don't shower enough or fail to use deodorant. Obesity shouldn't be defended or have any concessions made for it because it is a failing in one's personal hygiene. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-19T11:25:05 | 235 | 91 | 6 |
You want to legally prevent people from washing their own cars? Can they still wipe their own asses, or will we be creating jobs to do that too? I'm not joking by the way. If your sole goal is increasing employment, wouldn't you make ass-wiper jobs? | CMV increase employment by prohibiting non-paid work | 0 | 2014-01-17T17:27:32 | 38 | 18 | 24 |
Most responses here seem to be focusing on your two larger categories -- I'd argue that your 1% category is much harder to defend. I suppose you did hedge a bit by saying "most or all of their beliefs" rather than simply "all", but if it's really just "most" then what differentiates this group from the 30% group? It se... | Most people don't change their views based on facts and evidence. | 0 | 2017-01-15T20:58:57 | 209 | 2 | null |
You said it yourself. Rent, electricity, and prices go up. If businesses need more money to pay for these things, don't private individuals too? This happens becuse of inflation. Things cost more money every year, but the value of money goes down every year. In every single occurrence of minimum wage increas, unemploy... | A $15/hour minimum wage is a disastrous proposition which will accelerate youth unemployment and automation and increase product prices. | 0 | 2017-06-01T13:04:42 | 526 | 2 | null |
I'd argue that Rob Zombie didn't get any worse after he left White Zombie. I'd actually argue that his stuff got better. | "Going solo" or a single member of the band "taking the lead" leads to a sharp decline in quality in that musicians body of work. | 0 | 2014-09-04T18:52:32 | 50 | 7 | 12 |
It's not even spam though. | Reddit Needs To Take More Action Against Trolls, Hate Speech, And Other Despicable Actions That Ruin The Reddit Experience For Others | 1 | 2016-11-30T05:23:34 | 308 | 1 | 1 |
In certain situations, I can see student evaluations to be helpful, but at the same time, this will not alone help if the goal is to weed out the teachers that do not care. This could work to identify bad teachers but this alone will not just magically make those teachers care. In most places in America (as far as I un... | I believe that we can change american school's by allowing students to evaulate their teachers, CMV | 1 | 2014-01-14T03:26:01 | 59 | 1 | null |
You're right, in the end, a person must ultimately be the one to act or cause harm, but that doesn't remove blame from dangerous ideas. A member of the KKK who lynches black people is bad. The ideology of white supremacy influences members of the KKK to act in such a way. By your logic, is the idea of white supremacy "... | Islam isn't bad; people are bad. | 0 | 2016-06-13T05:20:23 | 204 | 10 | 3 |
Suppose a fetus does have a right to life. The question then becomes whether a fetus's right to life allows them to use the mother's body without her consent. In general, we **don't** think that a person's right to life allows them to use another person's body without their consent. If I'm dying of kidney failure, I ca... | I'm an atheist who is pro-life | 1 | 2016-05-08T21:07:47 | 209 | 24 | 32 |
I would say no. Most mass shootings are committed with handguns anyways. It makes no sense to single out that specific rifle type when they're already responsible for a small minority of overall gun homicides. Doubly so, when you're doing it NOT by function, but by cosmetic features, which is what almost every "Assault... | Guns like the AR-15 should not be available to the general public | 1 | 2016-06-13T22:31:15 | 548 | 26 | 22 |
So you're asking how do we know that large scale voter fraud isn't happening? We know that because we have independent watchdog groups all over the place watching to make sure people have their ballots counted, and those ballot totals are announced publicly. If there is suspicion of wrong doing, we can have new people ... | My voting for Hillary, Trump, or anyone else will make a 0.000000000000000000000% difference in the outcome of the national election. | 1 | 2016-11-07T23:52:22 | 48 | 7 | 84 |
You are comparing the living conditions of the two, and saying that if they live in the same squalor, then they are equal - but that's not what being a slave is - a slave could live in fabulous luxury - and some slaves have been known to live in fabulous luxury - living conditions are not what defines a slave - a slave... | paying some only enough (or not even enough) to live pay check to pay check is the same thing as slavery. | 0 | 2016-12-20T16:59:20 | 60 | 8 | 39 |
There seems to be a lot of focus on the word "scam" in other people's answers. I'd like to bring the focus back to "parasitic". While I don't believe the whole crazy-inflated prices thing was an intentional scam on the part of healthcare providers and insurers, I believe that that today, the contribution of private ins... | Medical insurance in America is a scam whereby for-profit companies exploit customers' fear of high medical bills to establish themselves as parasitic intermediaries between patients and medical providers, thereby further raising the cost of medical bills. | 0 | 2017-01-19T06:33:20 | 53 | 2 | null |
Everything Hufflepuffs do screams "conformity", though. It makes sense for you to favor that; a group of people who are loyal, dependable, kind. These are good traits! But if you rank them next to Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin, it's obvious Hufflepuffs are severely lacking in one particular area that trumps all o... | In the Wizarding World of J.K. Rowling, Hufflepuff should have been the most popular house | 0 | 2017-02-07T05:09:06 | 64 | 51 | 8 |
I've always felt like chopsticks were much easier to use when eating family style. It is much easier to actually pick up food in small quantities than with a fork. A fork requires stabbing alot of small bits whereas a chopstick can be used to actually pick it up. There's also dumplings where you don't want to break the... | Chopsticks are in no way superior to fork & knife. | 0 | 2015-05-21T16:31:28 | 431 | 6 | null |
What about this: seeing women in these portrayals and not having as many positive female role models makes your girlfriend upset. Presumably, because feminism is a thing, it makes *many* people upset. Sadness is a bad thing, so something that makes a lot of people sad has a negative effect on society, even if it's a sm... | The way women are portrayed in video games has no negative effect on society | 1 | 2015-07-09T20:59:04 | 43 | 6 | 54 |
There are *many* things other people enjoy that I don't enjoy. The fact that others enjoy it is definitely not sufficient reason to believe that I would. I can look at *why* other people enjoy it, and evaluate whether or not that is likely to transfer to me as well. And it is not necessary to try something to have suf... | Refusing to try marijuana over the entirety of your lifetime (on principle) is irrational. | 0 | 2014-09-12T22:49:47 | 203 | 2 | 3 |
The major issue I always have with these arguments are that you may think "victimless crimes" are always self-inflicted but they generally harm everyone else indirectly (and sometimes directly). They are to protect yourself (and others) from yourself. Examples: Example 1: I am a meth addict. I decide I want to do meth ... | I believe all victimless crimes, including prostitution and drug use should be legalized. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-14T23:28:11 | 253 | 11 | null |
Well first they aren't against birth control. Their opposition to Planned Parenthood is that Planned Parenthood provides a decent percentage of abortions in this country. They've not made moves to do anything more than make sure Planned Parenthood doesn't get federal dollars because it is already illegal for tax dollar... | The Republican position of being pro-life AND opposing birth control and sex ed is absolutely indefensible and ridiculous | 0 | 2017-05-27T14:57:40 | 148 | 11 | 1 |
First off, I fully agree with you that suffering is an integral part of the human condition. However, in order to adopt a more positive worldview, I would start by changing your definition of happiness. Look at it this way: Happiness is really only defined when there is something to compare it against – that is, suffe... | 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 | 0 | 2014-10-29T02:54:58 | 89 | 1 | null |
Nostalgia mostly occurs with things from far before High School, when the subject's mind was incapable of critically taking apart the content they were consuming and thus developed an unrealistic appreciation for it. Power Rangers and TMNT were kids shows. Teenagers didn't watch them. | My Generation (currently in High School) will never have nostalgia due to Gen X and millenials pushing their own nostalgia on us | 0 | 2017-04-06T08:44:30 | 26 | 3 | 10 |
I think the legitimacy of a movement is based on historical statistical information, rather than whether one event or another was backed by facts. I believe the leaders of the cause are more concerned with momentum than legitimacy. The momentum of a movement is based on recent events that drive it rather than historica... | Persons who demonstrate/riot prior to the facts of a police shooting being known risk de-legitimizing the cause. | 1 | 2016-09-22T22:59:33 | 76 | 0 | 4 |
Well, that's not true in today's society, because again you need money to live. Why does whether I need money to live determine whether something is enjoyable or not? If I didn't need to work, would I only do "the things I enjoy doing"? Sure, but just because I don't choose to do it for free doesn't mean I don't enjoy... | Work is inherently unenjoyable | 0 | 2016-12-12T00:19:06 | 32 | 3 | 36 |
I think you're misunderstanding the claim. "American-made" simply means that the company is American/in America. The point being made here is that, as being an American company, it would employ Americans, which is a sign of stimulating the American economy, which tends to be more directly beneficial for Americans. This... | Insisting that your company/product is "American-made" is inherently racist. | 1 | 2016-08-29T17:36:00 | 52 | 8 | 3 |
You think good. Me like how you think. Less words is good. It would make talking easier. If words are like other words, make them just one word. Thinking is bad, less words is good. | English speakers should stop using either "affect" or "effect". | 0 | 2017-01-13T20:36:09 | 36 | 0 | 1 |
As someone who has tried twice, let me give you some insight. First, I used to think the same as you -- people were selfish and taking the easy way out. Now I think it is selfish to make them live with an illness and suffer every day just so **you** don't have to suffer. People who have never felt the deepest and darkn... | I believe people who commit suicide are coward and selfish CMV | 0 | 2013-11-15T01:11:29 | 83 | 28 | null |
I'd like to be you for a second and rephrase your CMV statement. It should read "I am not awesome". To change your view I'd then proceed to tell you that you deeply appreciate the difference between a quality rolled burrito and a shitty one, that you need your pico de gallo to be just a little spicy but not too wet, th... | Most Mexican food (enchiladas, burritos, tacos, etc.) tastes exactly the same. | 1 | 2017-02-15T04:13:49 | 34 | 6 | 66 |
Grammar is simply the structure of a language, and without it we could not get our messages across. It would be chaotic nonsense (as many people have pointed out). Grammar itself is not immoral. It seems that your view is actually "Strict enforcement of grammatical rules are immoral". This is a bit more substantive, b... | grammar is immoral | 0 | 2016-01-28T01:19:19 | 45 | 1 | 7 |
Let's say that you're a bit of a geek. You have your posters of your favorite anime, and (let's say) a My Little Pony action figure. You have an unusual culture that few people understand and many mistrust. Your room mate is an ultra cool football guy. He's loud, talks over you all the time, and used to bully you while... | I think "cultural appropriation"is perfectly okay, and opponents of cultural appropriation are only further dividing us. | 0 | 2016-04-08T00:31:08 | 360 | 36 | 7 |
If someone is racist and you call them an asshole, suddenly others start turning against you for being "just as bad" or "stooping to their level." I don't really know if this is reflective of the situation that actually occurs. Racism is, on a massive scale, seen as an unacceptable thing socially. Calling someone out o... | Bigotry towards bigots is not "just as bad." | 0 | 2017-01-04T01:19:49 | 90 | 19 | null |
If you think that motorcycles are inherently dangerous enough to the rider to warrant manadating helmet use, wouldn't it make more sense to simply advocate a ban on motorcycles altogether? | Motorcyclists Should Be Required to Wear a Helmet. | 0 | 2015-09-17T10:01:32 | 197 | 1 | null |
Its simply being anti-establishment really a good enough reason to have someone be POTUS? Remember that the election is just selecting the person who gets the job - they then actually get to _do_ the job for **4 years**. If you don't like the status quo, that's perfectly fine, but the idea that Trump and Sanders are so... | I believe regardless of your opinions for either Trump or Sanders, we must put aside their differences and support either one depending on the nomination outcomes if we have any hopes of stopping the establishment from completely killing our democratic system. | 0 | 2016-04-14T16:02:07 | 75 | 6 | 24 |
Yes, of course, but just living a normal life comes at a cost to the introvert - so you could expand your view to say that being an introvert is a disadvantage in society, not just in high level business management. | introverts are disadvantaged in the modern North American business world | 1 | 2017-01-18T10:50:50 | 40 | 3 | 41 |
I hold the belief that inherited wealth should be taxed and taxed extremely heavily. However, disallowing people to pass on their wealth makes no sense. One of the reasons people do back breaking work their entire lives is so that their children and grandchildren can have a better life. If it all goes away after you di... | We should disallow children from inheriting wealth from their parents, for it destroys meritocracy. | 0 | 2016-04-27T22:08:52 | 96 | 18 | 1 |
I would like to point out that for gay men in certain areas where men are assumed to be straight it is hard to make it known that they are available and open to sexual contact or at least to make their sexual preference known, the "gay accent" and flamboyant characteristics are sometimes exaggerated because otherwise m... | I don't think that flamboyant, over-the-top behaviour is a real characteristic of homossexuality and people who do that are faking or insecure. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-11T01:07:44 | 89 | 9 | 1 |
as some one who plays way to much video games I feel I may be of some assistance here. first of all you are right, sitting playing "battle of duty war-master 6: revenge" is not art in the same way watching the tv is not art. However, once you get to competitive play in games like star-craft 2 you need to ask your self... | I do not think that gaming qualifies as a form of artistic expression. CVM | 1 | 2013-06-10T01:44:45 | 46 | 7 | 1 |
I prefer "black people" and "white people" over "blacks" and "whites" and I will explain why. When we say "black people" and "white people" it reminds us that we're talking about *people*. It really puts emphasis and clarity on what we're discussing without it sounding like we're describing opposing teams in a game. It... | "Black people" is a racist term | 1 | 2016-04-28T17:57:47 | 51 | 9 | 92 |
If he wasn't a logician he wouldn't be surprised on Friday and the judge would be wrong. | I believe I have legitimately solved the Unexpected Hanging Paradox! | 1 | 2017-04-14T23:44:03 | 26 | 2 | 1 |
I still think this is an acceptable reaction on a small scale, isn't it? Is there any reason my SO and I shouldn't spare our conflicting votes and compromise on a third party, when third parties are so woefully under-represented due to the spoiler effect. I suppose it's *acceptable*. I just don't understand it. Even in... | There's no point in voting (for the major parties) if you and your significant other cancel each other out. (US politics) | 1 | 2014-09-18T06:26:05 | 29 | 1 | 1 |
I mean, it's all contingent on what you would do with that time, right? If you're getting up early enough to go to work/school and you're still able to actually do all of the things you want to do at different points in the day (as you've suggested in other comments), then there's nothing at all wrong with sleeping la... | Waking up early is not worth it | 0 | 2017-06-27T17:15:07 | 70 | 1 | 4 |
The average liberal shouldn't be judged by extremists, just like the average conservative shouldn't. The riots are not started or carried on by just anyone; only by people with extreme political views. They are not supported by the average liberal. A lot of liberals called the Berkeley rioters "anarchists" in a negativ... | The left and liberals are the majority perpetrators of intolerance and violence in the USA. | 0 | 2017-02-23T09:12:24 | 276 | 6 | 2Δ |
It makes everyone's life better as people can go to work at many different places and produce goods and services that you would otherwise not be able to obtain. Outlawing cars, having to use horse or bicycle would have a very profound consequence on everyone, including those that before outlawing cars did not use cars. | Cars make the quality of life of (almost) everyone worse, except for the actual user. | 0 | 2016-02-15T18:06:26 | 120 | 1 | null |
In many ways you aren't wrong. In the books, Voldemort is pretty crappy as a planner, as a leader of men, and as a truly diabolical evil person, however, that is current-voldy, who has split his soul, spent more than a decade as a disembodied spirit, and who feels betrayed by his supposedly loyal followers. He treats t... | Voldemort is an awful villain. | 1 | 2017-05-17T01:30:17 | 70 | 126 | 2 |
While mental health should be better funded that doesn't effect the consideration of self defense. If some said "I was being bullied to the point of committing suicide so I killed the bully" that doesn't absolve them of the killing it just points the need for mental healthcare | Abortion should be protected by the same laws that allow for lethal force in self defense | 1 | 2017-02-01T19:01:24 | 56 | 1 | 2 |
Your argument seems to be based on the idea that people are being deliberately careless about their health and consuming unhealthy diets as a result of the overconfidence that they feel as a result of their health insurance. That is not why people eat unhealthy diets, smoke cigarettes, or do other things that are bad f... | I am against ObamaCare, and free health care in general. | 1 | 2014-04-24T17:13:11 | 97 | 10 | 9 |
[Here's a video worth watching on this topic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348) Briefly, the population boom now happening will slow once the developing world catches up in terms of access to birth control, establishing middle class economies -- specifically with women in the labor force -- and the drop in ... | The population of the world should be a lot lower than it is | 1 | 2017-06-26T20:24:24 | 84 | 8 | 1 |
I do not want to die because I enjoy existing and experiencing things. If the teleporter works by destroying and then making a copy of me then I would stop existing and experiencing things. From the perspective of the individual there is no difference between being disintegrated and having a copy made elsewhere and jus... | There's no good reason to be worried about teleportation killing you | 0 | 2016-09-04T05:50:36 | 202 | 21 | 1 |
I am writing this on the heels of the Georgia special election (where the democrats lost a seat, despite the increases in funding) They didn't lose a seat, it's been a Republican seat for decades. In reality, the fact that they narrowed the margin to only four percentage points is notable because normally it's well int... | The Democrats in America are highly unlikely to achieve any significant political gains by 2018 or 2020, and risks political irrelevance after 2020. | 1 | 2017-06-24T10:14:41 | 58 | 8 | 14 |
I don't think that either having or not having children can be categorized as selfish or selfless without context. And even if they could, I don't think that such a categorization would have any moral significance without context. | Having a child is more selfish than not having one | 1 | 2014-10-28T21:35:03 | 231 | 3 | 2 |
Gravity is not only things falling (that is the law of gravity), it's how it works, why it happens and lots of information forming the theory and it's one of the most challenging physicists have found. The theory of evolution is actually more complete than the theory of gravity, but as measurable changes happen in mor... | Evolution Is Not A Certain As Gravity | 0 | 2014-01-14T20:58:12 | 78 | 1 | 26Δ |
What if most/all black people tell someone they have their permission to speak for them, even though they aren't black? That's what people do with politicians. If racial issues are an important problem, and politicians have stances, and a majority of one race votes for one politician over the other, I think their stanc... | people shouldn't speak on behalf of a demographic group to which they do not belong. | 0 | 2017-06-21T00:52:46 | 31 | 1 | 5 |
The truth is, an entire branch of feminism exists for the very reasons I have stated; socialist feminism believes that men have a higher capacity to work and are therefore at an advantage in a capitalist society. They believe the only way wage equality can happen is through instating socialist policies that ensure empl... | In a capitalist society, it is completely reasonable for men to make more money than women. | 0 | 2015-05-16T16:07:41 | 108 | 1 | null |
There is a reason that Churchill called democracy the worst form of government except for every other type. You're right in the fact that democracy isn't perfect, no system of government is. At least with democracy you're giving the people a say, including minorities. A minority group that makes up 5-10% of the populat... | CMV : Democracy is overrated, and the idolisation of democracy in the West is in fact harming democracy. | 0 | 2016-09-25T20:28:06 | 134 | 4 | 15 |
Okay, so I'm just basing this on your title... *I believe that admiration of a person's physique is complimentary rather than hurtful* There is a difference between appreciating beauty, which is something that humans naturally do, and looking at someone and believeing that they are an object to be used purely for your... | I don't think sexual objectification is abnormal or disgusting. I believe that admiration of another person's physique is not hurtful but rather complimentary, and I believe that people who lash out against those who do need a reality check. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-24T17:51:19 | 168 | 1 | null |
Is fire alive? It consumes material for energy, and leaves behind waste (ash). It can move, grow and reproduce (spread) and it will die without oxygen. You can easily make as convincing a case for the earth as for fire, they both do have all the superficial qualities of life. However, they don't pass down any informat... | the Earth is alive | 0 | 2015-05-20T23:01:05 | 80 | 2 | null |
If I bomb a military target with a chemical weapon The heavier than air cloud can then go and kill whomever is downwind. Be in a school. Be it another non military target. This is a different outcome than simply attacking a military column with normal ordinance. | There is no moral distinction between the offensive use of chemical weapons and the offensive use of explosive material that blasts shards of super heated lead and steel in every direction. | 1 | 2017-01-04T12:02:01 | 160 | 7 | 23 |
If we take away voting then we are not letting certain people be heard. Why would someone in office care if this certain group of people are suffering if he or she can't get their votes? People running for office would just direct all their attention and power at the people who can vote. Also, yes maybe someone has mor... | Voting shouldn't be a right, but something granted only for certain people | 0 | 2015-05-29T05:41:46 | 31 | 2 | null |
Was this your first experience with meeting someone who is vocal about her introversion? Because chances are you have probably met a lot of introverts who simply don't bother to talk about it. While you may read things about introversion being good, in general society we still prize extroversion over introversion to th... | I find those who are proud of their introversion equal to those proud of their obesity. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-07T09:38:01 | 50 | 6 | null |
Mental health is used as a red herring but in and of itself it isn't. People who go from having fear and anger to actually wanting to kill someone and then acting it out have some level of mental health issues. The problem is when Republicans use the argument. First, they don't really believe it. If they did, why aren'... | Mental health is simply a red herring for gun control. (USA) | 0 | 2017-01-08T00:56:52 | 106 | 1 | 3 |
there is nothing worse than death. NOTHING! Why not? I'd rather die than be on fire for 5 years straight. I'd rather die than have my arms and legs severed and get put in a cage on a sidewalk in New York, with someone injecting nutrients into me while I'm asleep so I don't die. Additionally, a lot of people believe in ... | Many people are hypocrites regarding rape, they refuse to admit that they are animals, that is where the so called trauma comes from. | 0 | 2017-02-14T05:28:16 | 133 | 2 | 3 |
I would like to ask- would you say that traditional values are, as a general rule, a bad thing? Are you applying this only to America? What about Europe? Asian countries? African and South American tribes? Which traditions do you consider inherently flawed and in need of changing? | Conservative 'traditional values' are inherently flawed due to them being traditional, that is, of the past. | 0 | 2016-04-17T23:12:30 | 172 | 5 | 3 |
Admittedly, a lot of the negatives about Clinton are Republican hatchet jobs, but there are a few legitimate criticisms. Clinton was one of the members of the Obama cabinet who's pushed for the intervention in Libya, which turned out to be a mess - despite Obama himself running on an anti-war platform, coming into powe... | I will be voting for Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania Primary | 1 | 2016-04-24T20:16:50 | 132 | 15 | 1 |
If you can't take the necessary steps in life to improve not only your thriving capability, but your survivability, something is wrong. While you can exercise a muscle that is weak, you can't exercise something you don't have. And this is what people generally mean when they say someone is lacking discipline, as if the... | Obese or overweight individuals lack discipline. | 0 | 2017-06-07T05:16:43 | 196 | 1 | null |
I think it bears examining why we have "free speech" and what exactly is meant by that. I'd assume you're American (boy oh boy do we love our speech), so I'll be writing this operating under that assumption. Feel free to correct me if you aren't of course, though I highly doubt that my point would really change So what... | We should leave "weird" internet communities alone unless they contain hate speech if we want to promote free speech online. | 0 | 2017-06-21T12:38:39 | 166 | 2 | 1 |
If those people were talking about an abstract concept then I would agree with you, but often they are talking about making actual, substantive change. Saying that "guns should be taken away" in a moral sense is a different argument than "guns should be taken away in modern day America" - the second argument is advocat... | Discussions of practicality don't have any place in moral arguments | 0 | 2017-03-13T19:53:39 | 196 | 2 | 103 |
Ok, I'll humor this daily CMV. Your CMV is that in modern society, being religious is delusional. You go further to dispute several things in the bible and say that "Religion either is what it is as descibed in the holy texts, or it isn't at all." As a non-religious person, you have already defined parameters for being... | Being religious in modern times is synonymous to being delusional | 0 | 2016-01-26T22:45:21 | 107 | 3 | null |
I would first like to talk about how humans are harming the environment. Humans are changing the climate, polluting the seas and rivers, and causing a mass extinction. This is bad for many species. It is also very bad for us, as we work well within our current environment. However, it is not bad for 'the planet.' Life ... | The solution to the human race's problems is to get rid of the human race. | 0 | 2015-06-28T15:21:50 | 80 | 1 | null |
...dance, may require physical activity, but mostly utilize[s] one's creative interpretation While I see where you're coming from in regards to dance competition being something that's subjectively judged rather that having an objective basis for winning, to say that dance is not extremely physical is a huge disservice... | I don't think marching band, cheerleading, dance, etc. should be considered sports. | 0 | 2014-10-13T21:23:21 | 61 | 8 | null |
I wouldn't call it a scam exactly. A scam implies fraud. The fact that your regular care costs less than your premiums doesn't make it a scam though. That is exactly how insurance is supposed to work. Normally insurance is about spreading risk. You pay a regular small amount to mitigate the risk of having to pay a one... | Medical insurance in America is a scam whereby for-profit companies exploit customers' fear of high medical bills to establish themselves as parasitic intermediaries between patients and medical providers, thereby further raising the cost of medical bills. | 1 | 2017-01-18T23:27:04 | 53 | 8 | 2 |
I would argue that unless everyone is moving at a relatively uniform speed, you're going to be encouraging traffic accidents. Regardless of what you, personally, consider to be reckless, there are going to be people who consider whatever speed you think is appropriate to be painfully slow, and people who consider it to... | I believe that you should be allowed to drive at whatever speed you wish as long as you aren't driving recklessly or under extenuating circumstances CMV | 0 | 2014-02-16T03:45:29 | 42 | 19 | 3 |
I don't have as much to add as everyone else. But I'm very similar to you in one way and very different in another. I'm 21 and have friends who have been drinking(not excessively) for years. And I think that's totally fine. It doesn't seem to interfere with their personal lives in any way. But I don't drink at all. I h... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 1 | 2015-01-19T04:03:40 | 446 | 2 | 1 |
[Here is the current handbook on standards for accreditation.](https://cihe.neasc.org/downloads/Standards/Standards_for_Accreditation.pdf) If you go to page 8, you can see the actual gen ed requirements for accreditation. While many schools have bullshit core requirements, they don't have to have gen ed requirements of... | In order to create responsible citizens, it should be mandatory for colleges to teach students the importance of credit. | 1 | 2016-05-05T02:53:36 | 34 | 3 | 6 |
I think it's a very simplistic idea that solving our issues comes down to having a smaller population. Most of our issues in the modern world are very multi-dimensional, and population is but a single factor. Pair that with the fact that [most people in the world live in some kind of poverty](http://www.globalissues.or... | The majority of the world's international issues could be curbed or solved by population control. | 1 | 2015-01-25T22:48:21 | 27 | 19 | 23 |
I think we experience something after death because the permanent cessation of experience is inconceivable to me. Is the eternal preservation of experience not equally inconceivable? What about the inception of experience? We're dealing with the metaphysical here, which will always transcend human comprehension. We hav... | I think reincarnation is real, but not past life memories. | 0 | 2016-08-24T04:06:19 | 59 | 1 | null |
Through this rationale you're creating the federal impetus for institutions to change their policy based on the location and proprietors of their service. While your intent is to minimize the waste of taxpayers' money and utility of public services, in practice it would require more bureaucracy to enforce, so unless th... | Immigrants who are illegal and/or do not pay taxes, should not get any public service that come from tax money | 1 | 2014-11-18T02:53:18 | 101 | 3 | 1 |
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