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I've never given much consideration to the environment. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with the idea that environmentalists have framed the discussion as a "Let's keep earth pretty" argument. Which is admittedly why I'm so disenchanted by it. To actually answer your question though, our goal is to become spacefaring an... | The biggest mistake of environmentalists is telling people to "save the environment". Environmentalism is about saving ourselves. | 0 | 2016-04-18T04:09:01 | 149 | -1 | 7 |
I will confess, I don't think anyone *needs* to watch anything, but there are a few reasons to watch it with a different outlook. It's actually a great story about resilience, making amends for past transgressions, and being courageous against the odds. It really challenges the definition of what justice is and a trans... | Les Miserables is Boring and I Will Gain Nothing From Watching It | 1 | 2015-05-07T01:39:20 | 33 | 1 | 6Δ |
A problem with the doctrine of colourblindness is that to some degree, a *kind* of racism is innate to humans generally -- according to studies done on babies (who obviously are not yet susceptible to indoctrination). The study found that even very young babies, as soon as they were able to clearly focus on subjects no... | "Colorblindness" is the best and only logical way to end racism in the United States | 0 | 2015-04-07T18:16:03 | 117 | 1 | null |
It's a double standard, I'm not sure what your're looking for, confirmation. Yes it's unfair and a fair comparison. Ideally the car insurance thing would stand and women pay more for health insurance. They equalize rates in other areas, young people are generally overcharged and old people undercharged because it's ill... | If charging women more for health insurance for no other reason than they are female is discrimination, then charging men more for car insurance for no other reason than that they are male is also discrimination. | 0 | 2015-10-24T03:23:18 | 513 | 1 | 2 |
I don't have an opinion on this specific issue, but I can say this. As a person who hires college graduates, I don't think I have ever asked what grades you made. I want to know if you can do the damn job. If you cheated to get your grades, then you probably don't have the knowledge to do the work. I won't hire you. Yo... | My classmates' cheating devalues my degree | 0 | 2014-05-11T15:21:24 | 145 | 1 | null |
What do you actually think that empowerment means when someone says that dressing a certain way empowers them, or that they feel empowered by it? I don't think that it means that they believe that their empowerment everyone suddenly values them purely intellectually. That's not the goal of empowerment. On the contrary;... | Immodest dress is neither empowering nor a good symbol of empowerment. | 0 | 2017-06-12T06:43:01 | 39 | 2 | 43 |
The problem is that we need to get away from system of education that tries to make everyone the same into a system that allows individuals to explore and express their differences while continuing to develop skills and knowledge. Education as it is currently in most places in the world is a very top down approach. Som... | Education is ineffective at best and indoctrination at worst. | 1 | 2014-05-22T11:43:04 | 29 | 8 | 10 |
Do you know anything about language families? Its pretty easy to tell what language the person speaks natively based off of the quirks of specific language families, even when they are speaking a different language. That discrimination would still happen based on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_fam... | There should be 1 Worldwide language. | 1 | 2017-01-27T04:29:47 | 38 | 2 | 5 |
Not all private school pupils are from rich families. I'm well aware I've been lucky in life; my parents are not rich, but they're not poor either. My Mum went back to work to pay our tuition fees (about 1.5k per term - low by comparison to most private schools) and we did without the big yearly holidays other people h... | I think private schools should be abolished. CMV. | 1 | 2013-04-08T23:22:34 | 80 | 8 | 1 |
Make believe violence. Someone shooting another person on a street while selling drugs is not make believe. Last time I checked, James Bond uses a Walther PPK. That's a pretty real gun. There is international espionage and it is often violent. Now it may not be in the style of James Bond level realism, but arguing that... | African-Americans should take responsiblity for their actions and work to change their lives rather than wait for someone else to do it for them. | 1 | 2016-10-04T18:37:49 | 86 | 5 | 10 |
Most of the population growth comes from undeveloped countries, countries with high child mortality, countries that are already plagued by disease, and so on. The birth rate vs. death rate in nearly *all* of the "first world" is at or below replacement rate. In other words, the places that contribute primarily to incre... | I think, to curb human population growth on planet earth, we need a big "Plague". CMV | 0 | 2014-02-27T21:08:55 | 37 | 8 | 2 |
I believe that voting republican is in our best interest (the middle class) because it involves lower taxes, while a democratic vote is a vote for higher taxes. It really depends on what you get for your taxes. Democrats tend to believe in higher taxes, but also more extensive government services, so you're paying more... | Americans in the rust belt are not voting against their best interest when voting republican. | 0 | 2017-04-25T19:30:08 | 240 | 2 | 3 |
Speaking of practicality, for all practical purposes there is a 0% chance that the election will come down to your one vote. Even if by some impossible chance that did happen, the Supreme Court would just decide the winner before a proper recount could be done and have it shown that your one vote decides the election. ... | I should vote pragmatically, instead of idealistically with possible consequences. | 0 | 2016-08-04T13:42:17 | 55 | 1 | null |
It sounds as though you have let the current rhetoric around racial inequalities get to you a little bit, and I sympathize. It's powerful and important to recognize the oppression in our history and the ways in which that history continues to impact us today. I think that it is perfectly healthy to try and reconcile wi... | We white people just make the world a worse place. | 1 | 2017-06-02T01:41:53 | 139 | 25 | 7 |
So I'm not super versed in most of those things. If any, I can provide a reason why we shouldn't move to the gold standard. So there are something like 160,000-200,000 tonnes of gold in the world, and the US geological survey estimated there is probably 50,000 tonnes left to be mined. Gold is worth something like $41.... | It is time for a Revolution in the United States | 1 | 2016-11-08T11:07:54 | 86 | 11 | 2 |
I don't think that most vegans and vegetarians would argue that they are helping to improve animal welfare on farms, but that they are reducing the amount of animals subjected to the conditions on the farms. | Veganism and vegetarianism are not the best way to improve farm animal welfare | 0 | 2015-01-05T21:06:44 | 60 | 1 | 1 |
Let's get self-evident: **You exist** - this means you occupy space and time. **You have a will** - This means you act on input from your environment. - Your will is ***continuous*** (always deciding your actions unless drugged or unconscious) and reacts to stimuli in three possible ways (with possible combination): ... | Tacit consent is philosphically illegitimate. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-05T04:01:55 | 100 | 2 | 1 |
Why is this form of contraception a better choice than a different form of male contraception? Most people who are pro-choice are not simply pro-abortion; generally, they also advocate for better sex education and birth control so as to lower contraception rates (and generally, in places with good sex education and rep... | If abortion is morally acceptable to you, then a male form of contraceptive that doesn't prevent pregnancy, but instead causes a miscarriage between the 8th and 10th week of pregnancy should also be morally acceptable to you. | 0 | 2017-02-10T03:30:27 | 149 | 5 | 6 |
Not trying to attack you here, but do you not see what you've written in the OP as extremely sexist? You seem to be operating from a place of, 'men don't feel things as deeply as women do' and 'women never want sex/men always want sex' and 'all women are defenseless and need extra protection' and 'weak men deserve puni... | I support resources and help centers for male rape victims, but I don't see male rape as severe as female rape. | 0 | 2015-06-18T09:07:16 | 24 | 13 | null |
Metaphysical existence is no more or less real than material existence within context. An atheist lives in a fundamentally different world than a Christian--the difference in perception ripples into giant schisms of perceptual differences. It is influential and changes behavior. Metaphysical existence is a basis for ex... | There is no such thing as masculinity and femininity. | 1 | 2017-04-19T08:00:31 | 67 | 1 | 3 |
I know your still 16 - but consider Jury Duty. No one wants to do it. Everyone wants to come home. Everyone does everything they can think of to get out of it. Yet, when the time comes, the argumentation in the deliberation room is impassioned and earnest. There is a real desire for truth and honesty which is pretty r... | Mankind is inherently selfish, and the motivation behind any "unselfish" behaviour is not truly unselfish. | 1 | 2017-04-24T21:30:39 | 49 | 1 | 30 |
I hold a similar view on something like the wall. I don't think it will even close to eliminate illegal immigration, and it won't even stop the main source of illegal immigration. However, it will stop some illegal immigration, and from what I've seen the cost is relatively minimal. Last I checked, the estimate is some... | I support Donald Trump | 0 | 2017-01-31T06:40:27 | 1,516 | 3 | null |
A disorder can offer a unique perspective to the person suffering from it. For example, if you were a teacher, you might recognize the signs of ADHD among children you teach before others necessarily would, and use your experiences to potentially help them succeed. There are also forms of autism (especially Aspergers) ... | There is nothing positive about having a disorder | 0 | 2017-02-21T08:52:22 | 47 | 12 | 28 |
Accountable to whom? In police state the government controls the judges, controls the police and controls the military. This in turn allows them to control everybody else. Who will stand up for you if cop beats you up? Politicians? Media? They too will disappear if they start making trouble. In the Soviet Bloc the gov... | I don't think having a police state would be a bad thing. | 1 | 2016-09-04T00:58:57 | 155 | 28 | 1 |
This is a really interesting post, and I want to take a stab at changing your view, since this is one I've gone back and forth on a lot in my own head. This materialistic philosophy that the brain is everything is one I uphold, so in one way I agree that it doesn't make sense to draw a line between a "character flaw" a... | It doesn't make sense to consider Laziness a character flaw but not Depression | 0 | 2014-09-04T23:18:04 | 78 | 1 | 3 |
I think that there are two things involved here. The first and lesser one is that a funeral is socially considered a place to mourn the one who died, and also comfort the family of the deceased. The memories and emotional pain are still fresh, so insulting someones dead relative, while not illegal, isn't really nice. T... | My view is that the idea of "speak no ill of the dead" is distasteful. | 0 | 2016-06-17T22:42:27 | 76 | 1 | null |
Why not do both? | The Berkeley protest of Milo Yiannopolous was counterproductive and stupid | 1 | 2017-02-03T02:12:37 | 185 | 11 | 59 |
Social: Instead, they spend all their time worrying (Which has negative effects on intelligence and the brain) I would love to see the citation for this. Both how standard worrying affects the brain, and that people spend all their time worrying (a lot of your later points rely on the fact that a large portion of the p... | Humanity has gotten stupider with each generation. CMV | 0 | 2015-12-23T19:43:48 | 30 | 1 | 3 |
Days are specific instances of the noun day, Mon Tues, Wednes ect are capitalized and compounded with day. "The month of May" or "the month of June" sound right. Month names are a specific named instance of the noun month. You would not say "the season of fall". You say "the fall". Would you say "the june, is in the se... | Given that days of the week are considered proper nouns, the names of seasons should also be proper nouns. | 1 | 2017-03-10T21:35:10 | 121 | 6 | 2 |
The logic seems to be, "You can't afford to make this payment, so now, the government is going to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to lock you up and make it even harder for you to afford this payment." Giving someone a criminal record because they can't or won't pay something makes it harder for them to afford i... | Jail time for unpaid child support is a modern day debtor's prison and also doesn't make sense as a concept. | 0 | 2017-02-10T18:54:13 | 382 | 0 | 2 |
But you're faulting people for making *huge*, life-changing decisions while very young, and likely with a warped understanding of the effects of this decision. The person you judge - at 25/26 - for complaining about their student loans is likely not same person who at 18 signed-on to accept $100k+ in student loan debt.... | If you graduate from a 4-year university with more than $100,000 of student debt, you have no right to complain about that debt. | 1 | 2016-01-11T05:01:36 | 114 | 60 | 2 |
Just to offer another view on impeachment, because I think we are in a very similar line of thinking here... it might be the entire staff (Pence and the cabinet too, not just Trump who get kicked out). If our investigation team finds that Russia interfered with our election (by say, hacking a few thousand votes) congre... | Impeachment of President Trump would not actually solve any problems, but rather cause more since VP Mike Pence would be President. | 0 | 2017-05-25T00:38:25 | 307 | 1 | null |
Unless the definition has changed in the last few years without my knowledge, reverse racism does not refer to any and all racism directed by minorities at majorities. It's a specific term used to describe situations in which policies intended to help minority groups end up unintentionally discriminating against majori... | Reverse racism is a real thing. | 0 | 2015-05-13T15:39:27 | 75 | 1 | 3Δ |
Before communism we need socialism, and through socialism we can create the conditions which allow communism to work. Before we go on, we have to define a few terms: Capitalism = the system in which workers provide capital to a firm in exchange for ownership of said capital and profits, and workers provide labor to a f... | I believe that communism could never possibly work. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-29T18:24:07 | 112 | 4 | 1 |
Apart from religion, Christmas to me means ‘family’, and every year I get to spend time with both sides of my family. I see grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles that I normally don’t get to see throughout the year. I also get to spend more quality time with my immediate family, which is sometimes hard to do wi... | I think Christmas is the best holiday. Change my view. | 0 | 2014-10-06T21:27:47 | 43 | 2 | 15 |
Who would determine what lying is? Truth is relative. The only true knowledge you have is that you exist. Everything else is subjective. | All politicians should be fined a percentage of their campaign funds for lying during public speeches and campaign ads when running for office | 0 | 2017-01-22T18:55:36 | 58 | 1 | 1 |
So first to your title. Yes, xyz-splaining can certainly be used to shut down valid conversation. It also can be legitimately applied. Unfortunately it's very hard to decide which is which without getting the full context of a conversation. As for your qestions, one of the most obvious examples of mansplaining that I h... | I believe Mansplaining, Cissplaining, Whitesplaining can be misused as a Thought-Terminating Cliche. | 1 | 2016-12-16T00:09:58 | 69 | 3 | 17 |
98% of gay men prefer a lifestyle of casual, multiple sexual relationships I think you could say the same about straight men as well. This seems more like an observance of male sexuality and not something specific to homosexuality. You might as well say, "I believe that gay men have a penis!" | Gay men are incapable of a committed loving, monogamous relationship. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-09T17:51:48 | 183 | 3 | 3 |
I think the Gibson in its application is also more versatile. Strats are seldom used for heavier, high gain metal sounds even though a lot of classic metal guitars seem to have strat like qualities (body design, neck thickness, etc.) The guitar just can't handle high gain as well as others, such as the Les Paul which I... | The Fender Stratocaster is superior to the Gibson Les Paul | 0 | 2014-09-05T21:42:13 | 46 | 2 | null |
All of your assumptions are based on how you imagine you would feel as an intersex or transgender person. It's possible to have empathy for people with experiences outside of your own, but it is not possible to actually experience another person's perspective. Many people *say* they would behave in a certain way given ... | There's nothing wrong with surgically altering the genitals of intersex infants | 1 | 2014-11-11T06:37:23 | 60 | 14 | 27 |
As far as social issues go, the US is *much* better off than it was when we were kids. You have to remember there are two things that are influeincing you're negative view of these issues. * The media has focused more and more on the negative. School violence is a big trend to focus on. Think youth violence is up? [Wro... | I think it's economically and socially irresponsible to have children right now. Please CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-12T04:41:59 | 102 | 1 | 3 |
If the woman's only option was prostitution, and you take that away, what is her option now? Starvation? Homelessness? While it might cause mental damage to a woman to be forced into sex, as long as it's legal, enforced, and safe, isn't the damage likely to be far less than the mental and physical damage she'd suffer b... | Prostitution should be legalized, I don't feel most arguments against it hold water. | 1 | 2015-08-13T00:19:36 | 62 | 3 | 30 |
I think I'm a good person and would raise my hypothetical children to be good people. I would therefore be doing something good by adding good people to the world. | there is no reason to have children | 0 | 2016-05-25T10:53:59 | 72 | 1 | null |
I'll go through your points one by one. 1- You have the right to marry the person you love. Shouldn't homosexuals, who are biologically attracted to the same sex, be allowed the same right? You say the rights are equal because you can't marry a man. But you being a heterosexual will never want to marry another man. Yo... | I oppose same sex marriage , CMV. | 0 | 2013-11-16T16:27:17 | 254 | 5 | 2 |
Can I ask why this bothers you so much? Do you feel like this worsens your education? Or devalues you accomplishments to employers and others? It kind of just seems like you are salty because you didn't get special treatment. You say that a students goal is to gain an education out of college, but I would argue that th... | I believe that college athletes should be held to the same admissions criteria as all other students. | 0 | 2015-02-12T01:00:09 | 218 | 2 | 1 |
1: Allowing strangers to connect to my internet can eat up my bandwidth, taking away from a service that i pay for. 2: Strangers can preform all sorts of illigal activites on my connection. Unlike a buisness I don't have a ToS for people to use my internet and I could be held reliable for anything they do. 3: Leaving ... | If you pay a flat fee for Internet, it is a nice and acceptable thing to leave an unsecured WiFi network for neighbors and travelers. | 0 | 2015-01-02T02:39:22 | 93 | 6 | null |
Full clarity I voted for Jill Stein (even though she was crazy) because for two of my key issues (net neutrality and TPP) she aligned the closest to my views. As with many voters, she didn't align that well with my view points so I had to hold my nose and pick. Trump certainly didn't align with me, nor did Hillary. I a... | If you voted for Trump, you willingly endorsed a theocrat as VP, a racist as AG, a billionaire runining education, and practical Nazis having a voice. | 0 | 2017-04-13T02:56:47 | 254 | 3 | 7 |
If one is managing their addiction in a way that doesn't impact their free will then they are not addicted. My point is that selling _anything that is addictive_ - including the patch - can be regarded as immoral. I believe there are degrees of morality within _choices_, but that ultimately choosing the most moral opt... | Smoking cigarettes is a freely made choice. If selling cigarettes is immoral, it is for other reasons. Cigarettes should be allowed to be sold. | 1 | 2016-12-01T00:33:44 | 34 | 3 | 41 |
I can't speak to the majority--to my mind, that requires a survey to address. But I can speak from my experience: 1) I went vegetarian when I was in high school because I missed some veg friends I'd met at a summer program and wanted to do something obviously liberal without letting anyone know I was gay. (Like I said,... | I think most people are vegans/vegetarians because of pop culture. Change My View. | 0 | 2013-05-09T02:06:08 | 56 | 1 | null |
You might be surprised to know that it was religious conviction that drove the first geologists to learn that the earth was older than 6000 years old. They were interested in "studying god's creation" and exploring and documenting the soil, rocks, and flora/fauna. In doing so, they found sedimentary layers that they th... | Religions only hinder scientific progress. | 1 | 2014-06-08T11:22:49 | 43 | 16 | 2 |
Of course it benefits the person who's dying. But that's not the point. The point is that they have a choice. They can: 1. Hold on to life, poor as it is, forcing their loved ones to watch as they slowly degrade into a shadow of their former selves. They will leave those they are closest to with horrifiying memories. T... | There's no such thing as death with dignity | 1 | 2014-07-17T02:55:58 | 115 | 3 | 1 |
No it isn't, unless maybe we use your carefully constructed to make you sound right definition. As I said in another comment, speaking in absolutes is a straw man. Suggesting that race is a deal breaker is just a general statement of a physical characteristic you don't find attractive. Coming back at that with the fact... | I believe that the unwillingness to date a person of a specific race is not due to “personal preference”, but is in fact racist. | 1 | 2016-02-06T19:32:03 | 70 | 1 | 20 |
You're saying that they should be allowed to discriminate based on gender because there are differences in strength, on average, between genders. What you're neglecting is that the variation is pretty high. Not all men are stronger than all women. Why should employers be allowed to discriminate based on gender and hire... | Most Employers and the Military should be allowed to discriminate genders for physical/biological reasons | 1 | 2017-02-12T04:48:31 | 58 | 122 | 8 |
I find this line of reasoning to always be a bit suspect. Like do you really expect a group advocating for women to say, "hey what can we do to increase workplace fatalities for women? After all we want equality!" That's a ridiculous notion, I highly doubt any feminist is okay with *any* workplace fatalities and would ... | For most people who label themselves as feminists, feminism is about achieving equal social status with men while avoiding the burdens associated with that gender | 0 | 2016-09-28T21:54:08 | 234 | 50 | 94 |
1440 x 2560, the s6 resolution, is simply unnecessary. I don't see it as unnecessary at all; Here's the thing about photography. about 5% of photography is having the right lens, filter, camera, shutter speed, etc; that's what you go to school to get. The other 95% is having the perfect moment to capture, in as much de... | I see no reason for most people to upgrade to the latest models of cell phones. | 1 | 2015-03-31T00:23:57 | 52 | 3 | 49Δ |
All great literature explores the human condition. It is certainly possible to look at this exploration from one specific lens (it's all about class; it's all about morality; it's all about learning to die and creating new life to carry on afterwards; etc). But I don't think it's super helpful to constrain yourself tha... | The purpose of literature is to define morality. | 0 | 2015-06-16T20:22:59 | 29 | 1 | null |
Nintendo botched the launch of the Wii u by not providing titles people wanted. Nintendo specifically delayed its titles in order for third parties to not get drowned out by their releases, as they are on every other Nintendo console. Third parties let them down (except maybe Ubisoft) Nintendo doesn't seem to care abo... | Nintendo is a badly managed company | 1 | 2015-01-15T20:57:50 | 29 | 3 | 2 |
So, you met this one group that was anti-abortion and sex-negative, so now you think that every group that's anti-abortion is going to be sex-negative? | There's no such thing as a person who's both sex-positive and anti-abortion | 0 | 2014-04-25T06:25:56 | 64 | 4 | null |
It's you. Could be the way you carry yourself, how you dress, your physical stature... But out of all the people your assailants could have victimized, they chose you. Perhaps stop worrying about who you should fear and figure out why they don't fear and respect you enough to not mess with you? | I don't want to be afraid of random black people on the street. I was just attacked. Again. | 1 | 2017-01-07T01:26:56 | 393 | 2 | 2 |
I see no valid reason to give a crap load of chemicals to a child who's immune system has not developed. From the CDC at http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/fast-facts.html In 2010, 27,550 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) were reported in the U.S., but many more go undiagnosed and unreported. This is the most number of ca... | I believe that no vaccine should be given to any child under one year of age, especially a newborn. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-07T06:45:39 | 34 | 1 | 1 |
No. The new president may decide his cabinet and remove and replace as necessary. They become the president. | If any investigation finds collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and Trump is impeached, a full re-do of the election is the only fair next step | 1 | 2017-05-19T03:32:08 | 23 | 5 | 1 |
Here is the copy/paste answer I usually give to this question: As a minority who lives in a state that recently had a controversial voter ID law struck down, perhaps I can give some perspective on this issue. First, let me tell you the main reason why the law was struck down. The Federal courts reviewed the law and det... | How do voter ID laws discriminate against a certain group of people, such as blacks or hispanics? To me that seems extremely illogical. | 1 | 2017-04-15T17:16:07 | 585 | 251 | null |
How do you know that you have the same consciousness now compared to the one that (presumably) existed 10 minutes ago, 10 days ago, 10 months, years etc? There is a difference between qualitative identity and quantitative identity: qualitative means that it has all the same properties/qualities, while quantitative mean... | I will never use a teleporter no matter how many times people show me it is safe. There is no way to prove that it is actually "you" that comes out on the other side. | 1 | 2016-11-03T01:45:33 | 196 | 29 | 22 |
What is "talent" to you, and how is it genetic? I think people often confuse concepts like "natural talent" with complimentary skills that give the illusion of natural talent. Extroverts are talented at interviews because they're skilled at casual social interaction and body language--which is complimentary to an inter... | No amount of practice can overcome a lack of talent. | 0 | 2017-06-07T04:22:01 | 31 | 4 | 4 |
Publicly-traded for-profit corporations are machines for making money. They are neither inherently good nor bad, but they are governed by the almighty dollar. If crime in the parking lot isn't hurting the bottom line, it won't be addressed. If it is, either by driving away customers or creating a public relations disas... | Walmart is an evil corporation, which is bad for the USA and the world | 1 | 2015-03-18T20:10:13 | 61 | 2 | 4Δ |
The idea that high death rate, such as one caused by a "big Plague" will curb population growth is false. In fact, the opposite is true, as a country addresses and *reduces* their death rate; their population growth actually *falls* as a result of societal and cultural decisions to have less children. This has been dem... | I think, to curb human population growth on planet earth, we need a big "Plague". CMV | 1 | 2014-02-27T21:07:55 | 37 | 25 | 82Δ |
For the sake of argument, lets say aliens exist and that interstellar travel is physically possible. When thinking about the probability of alien invasion, think about this: we know of a wide variety of cataclysms that can effect the Earth: earthquakes, volcanoes, super volcanoes, asteroid impacts, comets, climate chan... | There should be a global agency dedicated to defending against alien invasion. | 1 | 2014-10-11T12:05:43 | 159 | 1 | 1 |
Nearly two thirds of gun deaths are suicides. If the psychiatric assessment works and gets rid of the majority of those, then you're preventing most gun deaths with psychiatric assessments, and the gun locking system would be an afterthought. Guns take a long time to get into the hands of criminals. I doubt they'd have... | Using an RFID based gun locking system would prevent nearly all American gun deaths | 1 | 2017-04-08T10:19:09 | 77 | 2 | 4 |
I also hate it when people spend shit loads of money on pets when many people can't even afford to spend that kind of money on their children. I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous. What does other people not being able to properly provide for their children have to do **whatsoever** with how I spend my money? If I wan... | I think that people who treat their pets like they're people or spend shit loads of money on them are mentally challenged and out of touch with the realities of the world. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-24T21:02:14 | 42 | 1 | 5 |
Would a limit qualify as a pro-life position? I've always associated pro-life with outright outlawing of abortion. Look at all the attempts to limit abortion which fall tremendously short of a complete and total ban, typically promoted by pro-life groups. Does it make sense to call the 20-week limit 'pro-choice'? Keep ... | A pro-life position with an exception for rape victims isn't realistically possible. | 1 | 2015-09-14T03:06:06 | 146 | 3 | 2 |
Regarding point #2: Even assuming, arguendo, that an attacker is always "in a position of power to dictate terms of the interaction" vis-a-vis the victim, [that attacker has no control over third parties](http://www.wwl.com/pages/15983100.php?contentType=4&contentId=12754638). Indeed, even ones not even all that cl... | I think that many of the major pro-gun arguments are fallacious. CMV. | 1 | 2013-05-29T18:27:32 | 175 | 4 | 1 |
Communism is a utopian, unattainable First of all, do you know what communism is? As described by both classical communists like Marx, and modern, Western communists. has attempted to replicate small-scale tribal camaraderie on a national scale Communism is (mostly) about removing one thing: the police shooting the wor... | I believe Communism has spelled nothing but authoritarian disaster in practice, and anybody seriously endorsing it in the 21st Century should be ridiculed profusely | 1 | 2015-04-09T13:56:25 | 53 | 27 | 14Δ |
As a US Army soldier, I'll give you my take on it. Sitting, as CK did his first game, is disrespectful towards anyone who fought for this country. It shows you are actively "checking out" of the entire conversation rather than trying to bring about change most can agree with. Ignoring the anthem and then asking the pe... | Sitting during the national anthem in protest is not disrespectful towards the troops. | 1 | 2016-09-12T20:57:21 | 109 | 4 | 1 |
First thought: Making sure new mothers and their child are safe, secure, and taken care of benefits society as a whole. We are lacking in this category compared to other countries. If society as a whole were to voice their concerns about this we would see talks about it. In other countries that has already happened. ... | Women should not have taxpayer-funded paid maternity leave. | 1 | 2015-05-15T04:39:30 | 53 | 22 | 1Δ |
The story from ABC contains the quote; "But the blood-curdling statements and military posturing, however, are very far from heralding imminent war, analysts said. "It’s ridiculous," said Aleksander Baunov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "It’s not preparation for war." Like other Russia observers, he said th... | The democratic party should ask Hillary Clinton to step down for health reasons and choose a new candidate to run as the president on their ticket or everyone who voted for Bernie Sanders should vote for Jill Stein. | 1 | 2016-10-24T19:38:40 | 102 | 1 | 1 |
First off, that's not reality at all and really has nothing to with anything. Sure it does, that's why I asked. https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants https://www.pachamama.org/blog/do-plants-have-consciousness https://www.scientificamerican.... | I don't respect meat-eaters as much as non-meat-eaters. | 1 | 2017-02-28T04:26:02 | 148 | 3 | 2 |
So I've been battling with this for a while, and there is a combination of things here. Firstly, I'm white, and I feel a very visceral reaction whenever someone says that all white people are racist. To be specific, it's "I've lived in the deep south, and put myself in harm's way to stop 3-on-1 and 4-on-1 beatdowns of ... | All whites are racist | 1 | 2016-10-19T21:46:46 | 114 | 13 | 19 |
First, $40 for a textbook is damned cheap. I remember paying about $500 for all the textbooks and materials I needed for music history. Your argument seems to be that the distribution of the medium is where the cost should be calculated. The reality is that you pay for the content. This is why buying a downloadable mus... | ebooks shouldn't cost more than 5dollars. Anything above just hinders education, culture and technological advance. | 1 | 2015-03-26T18:16:51 | 73 | 3 | 1Δ |
-We have shown ourselves to be remarkably malicious and amoral among the large mammals. Anyone who has spent time with a dog would recognize this. Other animals are remarkably malicious. Penguins and dolphins regularly gang rape each other, for instance. | Humanity needs to be removed from the earth. | 0 | 2015-11-08T12:16:56 | 39 | 2 | 3 |
Debate is a tool for the spectators, not the combatant. You don't have to convince the other person in the debate to have an effect on the world. Anyone who watches a debate and hears their side say something inane or nonsensical has a build up of cognitive dissonance which can leave them open to belief revision. If ... | I think debating religion is a fun game, but ultimately pointless. | 1 | 2016-04-08T15:01:00 | 139 | 48 | 6 |
People say it ruins the story because you don't get surprised, but for me, a story is not just one event. Here's the problem with this thinking. You certainly can enjoy a story knowing any twist or plot point. But you are definitely not enjoying it the ***same way*** you would be enjoying it if you did not know the tw... | Spoilers don't ruin stories. | 0 | 2015-09-21T07:00:38 | 126 | 43 | 19 |
It just doesn't seem like something we need. Yes, but my point was that all cars have their malfunctions. A slightly higher error rate is worth it when you consider the benefits of autonomous travel. Emissions lowered through drafting seems cool but it doesn't seem to be the heart of the problem, that being we have a ... | I don't see the point in self driving cars | 1 | 2014-05-29T09:15:13 | 61 | 5 | 7 |
It is a fan theory, not the intention of the original writers. That alone should be a good enough reason. Would changing the Lord of the Rings races all to human make casting and explaining things easier? Yes. But should it be done? No. Why? Because those things are part of the reason people love the films/books. This ... | The Bond films should embrace the fan theory that James Bond is a code name/identity assigned to 00 Agents | 0 | 2016-06-16T00:36:02 | 140 | 3 | 2 |
I don't think there is a hero or a villain in the musical (well, besides King George III). The point is that the characters are based on people, and those people are flawed. Your criticisms of Hamilton are correct, but does that make him a villain? Do his successes make up for his failures? I mean, even your points are... | Alexander Hamilton is the villain of the musical "Hamilton" | 1 | 2017-07-06T22:17:27 | 88 | 365 | 38 |
I always thought that foot fetishes were hugely common. I personally find feet to be horribly disgusting for some inexplicable reason. (Even if they've just been washed. I just hate them so much.) So I assume it's perfectly possible to go the other way with it. And probably healthier, too! Feet specifically gross a lot... | That my foot fetish is abnormal. | 0 | 2015-03-15T04:37:19 | 52 | 3 | null |
Let's look at the UK, which has by far the lowest rate of road accidents in the developed world by far (1.1 deaths per million journeys against the US's 5.3). They found that nearly 70% of accidents happen at intersections, specifically intersections with traffic lights. They found that when the lights were turned off,... | Instead of remaining stopped, drivers should be able to proceed with caution at stoplights. | 1 | 2017-05-15T01:08:34 | 36 | 10 | 1 |
Now if we consider the 9th bank, it would have to set its interest rate so that it gets back more than $13 on the $10 it loans to the 10th bank, right? You lost me here. How did the 20% reserve ratio disappear, so that it couldn't be used to repay the initial loan? | the process of money creation completely screws over working people for no good reason | 1 | 2015-01-20T07:08:12 | 41 | 2 | 19 |
I had to lookup [the Watergate scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal) on Wikipedia today. I wasn't alive at the time, but I imagined I must have been misremembering what I learned about it. For the stuff we've seen evidence of lately, someone must have died at Watergate, right? What happened at Water... | I think Trump is a horrifying choice, no matter how bad you think Hillary is. | 1 | 2016-11-02T00:33:54 | 735 | 242 | 1 |
In most cases, the population of an area is responsible for their government. When it gets bad enough, it changes. Arab Spring is a beautiful example of this. This occurred in what we consider normally oppressive regimes with no tolerance for demonstration, and yet it changed. Similar events happened in China and Vietn... | I believe that invading oppressive countries to turn them into democracies is a good thing. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-02T16:22:56 | 172 | 65 | 1 |
Artists aren't paid as well as STEM people because there is a much lower demand for art than there is engineers. It doesn't have anything to do with "availability in nature". It's that art is aesthetic, it's not utilitarian. You aren't upgrading your art like you upgrade your iPhone. | The main reason that artists generally aren't paid as well as STEM positions is because artists produce something that is readily available in nature | 0 | 2017-03-07T23:11:14 | 70 | 1 | 9 |
The difference between the origin of the species (or any scientific text) and the bible (or any religious texts) is that science assumes that it is in some way wrong and will endeavour to change whenever it is and readily promote the changes as they occur But most religions adopt this view as well. No one alive practic... | Religious tollerance is pointless, religions are not equal and have no place in modern society | 1 | 2015-02-08T04:21:38 | 427 | 20 | 1 |
I think it depends largely on how you want to judge the scope of 3D printing. Bioprinting, for example, has shown some significant promise in the area of regenerative medicine. The potential exists to print tissues from skin/cartilage grafts (something that has already been accomplished on a quasi-functional level) to ... | 3D printing can't and won't improve exponentially, despite what we've come to expect from so many other technologies | 1 | 2016-02-01T04:20:23 | 36 | 3 | 2 |
The best thing that could happen to western society is to have easy-to-use, male birth control AKA the male pill / Vasalgel / RISUG Did you want arguments that the best thing that could happen to western society is a concerted effort to reverse and manage climate change? Because while overpopulation is a contributing ... | The best thing that could happen to western society is to have easy-to-use, male birth control AKA the male pill / Vasalgel / RISUG | 0 | 2017-04-21T21:58:53 | 24 | 8 | 55 |
The movie Hush proves that you are incorrect. Situations similar to this actually happen. People live in remote places (like me) where it takes police quite a while to reach you. A) If someone wants to commit suicide, they will find an available method. A gunshot suicide is actually pretty freaking scary. Imagine point... | Owning a gun doesn't actually makes you safer. | 0 | 2017-05-14T02:11:15 | 143 | 1 | 2 |
I'll start by saying that I share many of your criticisms of the USA, and I don't deny them. As to my credentials, I'm a natural born American citizen who has lived my entire life here, and has traveled abroad. Your concerns, while not untrue, are honestly not a typical part of my daily experience. My education was goo... | I believe that the United States of America is a bad country, and never want to settle down there. | 1 | 2014-09-10T22:50:10 | 81 | 2 | 1 |
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Gandhi The belief that victory can only be obtained through destruction is very scissor-litho-centric. Paper's power is expose the folly of this view. Sure, a rock can tear a hole in a sheet of paper - but does it then cease to be pa... | In Rock Paper Scissors, Rock is the strongest and only loses to paper to show diplomatic respect. | 1 | 2016-11-06T04:46:50 | 56 | 233 | 1 |
There is no 1:1 correspondence with cheating. It cannot be compared with stealing money from your partner's purse/wallet or lying about taking drugs or anything else which involves breaking trust. They are similar, but not the same. Having said that, one of the fundamental aspects of a relationship is trust. Any one of... | People who cheat on their spouses can and should, in some cases, be forgiven | 0 | 2014-12-30T01:46:46 | 48 | 1 | null |
I think there's a bias involved here, but not the one that you think. We have pretty much agreed as a society that the correct standard to use in criminal cases is "beyond a reasonable doubt". We do this because without it, no one could ever be convicted of anything, because there is always doubt, even if it might be ... | Requiring that jurors are willing to impose a death sentence creates an inappropriate selection bias on juries | 1 | 2015-04-22T21:35:24 | 138 | 3 | 96Δ |
You specifically asked about the suspicious stock trading. There's an excellent summary of the information investigated by the SEC and FBI following 9/11, when they both looked into the suspicous trades, [here](http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Put_Options). It's a long read so I'm going to pull out some of the highlig... | I'm starting to believe 9/11 may have been at least partially propagated by the U.S. Government. | 1 | 2015-05-02T18:08:20 | 502 | 87 | 3Δ |
First off, this sounds like a question for /r/AmItheAsshole so maybe try posting over there? Everything you list under "truth" is simply your opinion of him. It's entirely possible that other people legitimately believe him to be a good, kind, sweet, and nice person. You say he was your former friend. Possibly this is ... | I want to write an honest obituary. | 1 | 2016-01-05T23:20:38 | 29 | 4 | 89 |
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