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You must define what you mean by science. Science is, by the definition on dictionary.com: "systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation." How is it possible to conduct a scientific experiment on something intangible? A god is not part of the physical or material... | There is no such thing as a religious Scientist. It is oxymoronic. The scientific method is completely incompatible with evidence-free belief. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-06T16:15:59 | 123 | 1 | null |
Your conclusion isn't supported by your premises. Your first premise is a tautology. Your second premise simply states that throughout life unconsciousness is always followed by consciousness. Neither of these support your conclusion that consciousness continues after life has ceased. You are either making an argument ... | Due to the nature of conscious experience, there is certainly "life" after death. | 0 | 2016-07-07T20:08:53 | 63 | 1 | null |
I would argue that the opposite is happening. You were part of the problem but you have a chance to become part of the solution. **This is not to say that you will support Trump in the future.** Your entire post up until the very end mentions comedians' representations, comics, and jokes made at Trump's expense. Your d... | I've become part of the problem with America by losing fervor against Trump | 1 | 2017-04-25T21:35:08 | 69 | 29 | 4 |
Even if it's not possible to say exactly when a fetus becomes a person, it's possible to point at a spot very early in development and say "The fetus is definitely not a person yet." If you place the abortion cut-off date in the definitely-not-a-person area rather than in the gray later area, are there any moral qualms... | I'm anti-abortion because I can't draw the line between goo and person. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-04T03:56:19 | 77 | 1 | 8 |
Black people are oppressed, as a result, they have received some special treatment from the government. That's the reality of the situation. Black people don't have a monopoly on oppression, or special treatment from the government, but I won't get into that discussion, I'll instead focus on the issue of black oppressi... | Black Lives Do Not Matter (anymore than anyone else), they should not receive special treatment. | 1 | 2016-08-29T08:51:53 | 150 | 64 | 1 |
Fair enough. I don't fully agree with your outlook on quantum computers but I agree it's within the range of the reasonable set of views. No worries about the delta, but as an FYI [the protocol is to hand them out for smaller shifts, not just fundamental ones](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/deltasystem): A... | Within the next 15 years we will enter into a time of extreme technological change. Faster than what anyone in any time period has ever experienced. | 1 | 2016-08-22T05:48:59 | 141 | 32 | 22 |
The meaning and purpose of life is a subjective matter, and if I feel that my life has meaning and purpose, and if I want to live, why should I kill myself just because *your* life doesn't have meaning and purpose? You can argue for your own suicide, but why inflict that same conclusion on everyone else? | Life is meaningless and we should all commit suicide | 0 | 2015-06-28T13:39:47 | 110 | 1 | 30Δ |
Presidents schedules are roughed out weeks in advance. This press conference was likely stuck into his schedule, given it was entirely unexpected. Blocking four hours of golf for the president is probably not easy to manage. As you said, he does deserve to exercise. But I don't think it was exercise. He just got back f... | I think if Obama was a Republican the story of him playing golf after the James Foley press conference would have been on the front page of Reddit. | 0 | 2014-08-21T21:03:10 | 459 | 150 | null |
Well birds have to basically commit suicide in order to find out if they can fly. That kind of sucks. I'm going to narrow it down and distinguish turkey vultures as having particularly hellish lives. Vultures spend their lives eating rotting meat (carrion) because their stomachs are so acidic that diseases (like [botul... | Being a cetacean (sea mammal such as whales, dolphin, etc) is the worst kind of animal you can be | 1 | 2016-06-18T04:14:29 | 37 | 7 | 3 |
My question has a factual and direct answer: studies prove a traffic light is needed at the intersection. You either need one or don't need one based on scientific studies of traffic patterns and expected demand. So the studies say factually you need a stop light. This guy doesn't want a stop light because it will slo... | I do not think that people can have opinions on anything that can be proven scientifically or factually. | 1 | 2016-12-19T19:22:03 | 195 | 1 | 3 |
Having a wide range of new pronouns would actively harm the English language by making it less clear. Okay, I agree with most of your other stuff, but exactly how does the ability to be more explicit make language less clear? | He, she, they. That's all the pronouns you are getting. | 0 | 2015-09-01T19:20:07 | 285 | 0 | null |
I agree with your assessment there is no such thing as Separate but equal. - But this isn't about equality. This is about teaching your kids the values you believe whatever they may be. - This is about freedom to have this choice. Whatever the reason be. Segregation is wrong but "Black music channel" exist? And This ... | Single gender schools are discriminatory because there is no such thing as "separate but equal" | 0 | 2016-12-15T20:53:11 | 349 | 10 | 1 |
You might watch the movie *100 Girls*. It's about a male college freshman and his experiences with the girls in the women's dorm that he becomes the maintenance guy for (IIRC). There's a lot of different ways sex is looked at in the movie, but the relevant one is the best one: it is informal, irreverent, fun, silly, an... | I believe sex is a very meaningful act and should only happen within a loving, committed relationship. | 0 | 2016-10-26T09:18:17 | 52 | 2 | 1 |
Assuming by "We" you mean western countries like the US or the UK, there's a huge difference between the Holocaust and the comfort women or Hitler's invasion. The latter two don't really have an impact in the west, other than having a better understanding of history. But Holocaust denial isn't just about getting the h... | Criminalizing Holocaust denialism is restricting freedom of speech and shouldn't be given special treatment by criminalizing it. And criminalizing it essentially means we should also do apply the same to other unsubstantiated historical revisionism. | 1 | 2017-04-21T18:26:35 | 489 | 42 | 206 |
I think a third party vote is pointless because the overwhelming majority of citizens will vote R or D. I've seen quite a few people online who agree with you that both major candidates are unworthy of the presidency. If every one of those people votes 3rd party, it may be enough to take several states. That won't win ... | I cannot cast a vote tomorrow and keep a clear conscience. | 0 | 2016-11-07T17:26:10 | 41 | 2 | null |
This issue will be solved technology. In the future birth control will likely get so cheap and easy that there won't be unwanted pregnancies. | I don't think anyone will ever win on the issue of Abortion | 0 | 2017-01-24T17:13:45 | 44 | 2 | 142 |
They'd probably have been demoted or expected to step down. The SS was full of people eager to take their place and show their loyalty. If they disobeyed in a particularly defiant way they'd have probably been killed. But here's the important part. Anyone who climbed high enough in the SS or inner party to be on trial ... | The Nuremberg defense isn't that bad | 1 | 2015-08-10T21:40:32 | 148 | 351 | 18 |
Unemployed people are still subject to the laws of this country. If they have to live under these laws, then they deserve to have a voice in how they're made. No taxation without representation. They shouldn't have a disproportionate voice. Their voice should not be heard over yours, but they should have one. | Unemployed people should not be able to vote | 0 | 2016-12-14T23:50:11 | 62 | 2 | null |
I'll assume you mean legalized and regulated (like alcohol and tobacco), rather than de-criminalized (like prostitution already is in some jurisdictions for the provider; the buyer is the one charged with a crime). We already have a legal, regulated sex industry that we can use as a guide for what a prostitution indus... | Prostitution Should Be Legal | 0 | 2016-07-21T20:57:11 | 102 | 3 | null |
Well, it's not about how well behaved they are. It's 100% about health codes. In fact, there's really nothing (in most states, can't say for all) saying legally non-food-serving establishments can't have pets. That's all there is to it. Animals, by nature, are less healthy than children. They're specifically not allowe... | Well-behaved dogs should be allowed most places that children are. | 0 | 2015-03-24T03:07:40 | 477 | 1 | 5Δ |
I teach English at a local community college and, while I believe you make some good points, it seems to me that you are overthinking the issue. At their core, English classes are meant to teach students the English language. It is commonly accepted that the most effective means of learning a language is to become imme... | I think that rhetoric should take literature's place as a key subject in school. | 1 | 2014-04-25T05:56:47 | 43 | 5 | 1 |
Cops can tell you what to say, taze you for arguing with them, arrest journalists, and arrest you for filming them. They can break up peaceful protests by force. They bring assault weapons to memorial services and gay rights marches and anti-war demonstrations. I don't know what you are referring to when you say cops... | America is already a police state, the public just hasn't admitted it yet. | 1 | 2015-07-15T16:01:39 | 269 | 18 | 20 |
I know you've already had your view changed, so this is really just piling on, but I hope you'll forgive me for adding my own reasoning as well. Specifically, I disagree with your statement that "People can dodge bikes better than a car can a bike." As a driver, bikes are frustrating because they're slow. When there's ... | Bikes should be on sidewalks | 1 | 2015-05-17T22:01:06 | 54 | 2 | 1Δ |
This is going to be more a reality check than something I would write to try earn delta's. I do not know you as a person so I can't provide any comments on what you may or may not be doing that is causing you to be unhappy with friends putting you off. I can only provide perspective on the underlying issues in your ran... | Ignoring people is universally wrong and hurtful | 0 | 2015-09-16T04:41:49 | 29 | 1 | 2 |
How can a layman actually know whether a statement like "The evidence for climate change is overwhelming" is true? Even presented with the actual evidence in question, almost no one is capable of understanding it on a meaningful level without the appropriate training. The vast majority of layman are not capable of doin... | Assertions that "a majority" of scientists have a particular view undermines the nature of science and its role in understanding the world. | 0 | 2015-11-11T23:30:12 | 198 | 3 | 35 |
In order to understand transgender people, you need to understand why it occurs. Here's an explanation: In the womb, sex differentiation as well as brain differentiation occurs. Sex differentiation leads to either a male or female body (usually. About 1% of the time it's something in between. This is called intersex). ... | I have no problem with homosexuality or bisexuality, but I think anything beyond that is just a desperate cry for attention. CMV | 1 | 2013-04-11T07:38:04 | 77 | 14 | 19Δ |
academics couldn't market the concept worse if they tried. I think this is the key; academics are *not* the ones trying to market this concept. Fundamentally, "white privilege" explains trends in the data, not individual data points. In general, white people have an advantage in society over non-white people. It's sill... | "White Privilege" and other social justice concepts aren't going to convince people who aren't already on board with the left. At worst, it will polarize the issue and inspire resentment. | 0 | 2015-04-28T23:56:51 | 608 | 2 | null |
I was responding specifically to the Maher quote, since its wrong on both of its concerns. What is your basis for this then? | On Puerto Rico's Proposed "Fat Tax" | 1 | 2015-03-04T01:56:00 | 117 | 1 | 1 |
They are, but are you claiming that they aren't at least linked? I'm claiming that one is a clear moral harm (disenfranchisement). Failure to participate, however, is not. Minorities *not being able* to patronize a restaurant because they're barred on the basis of their ethnicity is morally wrong; minorities *not choo... | Submitting a ballot for annual elections should be compulsory, and Election Day should be a federal holiday to facilitate this. | 1 | 2015-04-09T01:20:34 | 283 | 4 | 13Δ |
People like to be romantic and say that when you decide marry someone it should all be about your sentiment for them and nothing else, but really when you decide to marry someone you are deciding on how your entire life is going to be. You have to take every part of your future life into consideration. You WOULD be sha... | It's pragmatic and not "heartless" to break up with someone due to their significant student loan debt. | 1 | 2016-01-13T08:09:02 | 655 | 9 | 1 |
First off, it should be noted that voting for Hillary *just* because she's a woman (or even primarily because she's a woman) is ridiculous. Someone's ability to function well as President is independent of gender (or race/sexual-orientation/religion-or-lack-thereof etc.). However, this does not mean that the fact that ... | Voting for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman is as sexist as voting for a guy because he is male. | 0 | 2015-09-17T23:48:51 | 603 | 1 | 2 |
chopsticks are more effective than forks, which can only stab at things (something chopsticks can *also* do), in that they can 'grab' pieces of food with little effort and hold them in place where forks can't do as well. eating noodles with a fork is way more complicated than with chopsticks... rice that is sticky and... | Chopsticks are in no way superior to fork & knife. | 0 | 2015-05-21T22:49:18 | 431 | 3 | null |
If you get extremely drunk or high on drugs and you murder someone then you are held accountable in spite of how impaired your judgement may have been. Actually your intoxicated state is taken into account depending on various factors (and how good your lawyer is). It's not removed from judging the severity of your cri... | Sex under the voluntary influence of drugs or alcohol is not rape | 0 | 2014-06-06T01:18:01 | 231 | 1 | 2 |
Why should I get a say in how something that I don't pay for is run? I could just vote myself more and more money without bearing any of the expense. I lost my job last month and I’m on unemployment. Why should I get a say in how much money I get when I am living off the work of others? I want to focus on your moral ar... | Our society should be run by the rich. Your voting power should be dependent on the amount of taxes you pay. | 1 | 2015-06-16T22:17:16 | 149 | 4 | null |
I propose an additional option. Drop both of your surnames and come up with a new one together. The only issue I see with this is that it would be harder for others to determine who your parents were. | There are no adequate gender equal options when it comes to changing your surname in marriage | 0 | 2016-12-05T18:20:29 | 180 | 3 | 9 |
Not voting for any candidate is equal to a vote for an unnamed third party. By allowing people to not vote, it gives information on how many people are disinterested in any candidate option. If we had hypothetical forced votes, we wouldn't know if a landslide win was because a candidate's policies were loved or because... | Being apolitical is unethical. | 0 | 2016-04-22T21:30:28 | 38 | 1 | null |
I may be biased as a Child Welfare Worker myself, but these services is necessary. CPS varies by county in my state (CA). So I can really only vouch for my state. There are criteria that a family has to meet before even getting involved. First, does this constitute child abuse? Simply using drugs or having a mental ill... | Child Protective Services (CPS), while a good concept, is virtually useless in practice | 1 | 2015-01-21T20:10:18 | 177 | 5 | null |
For me it's a practical thing. I leave it until I know my period is coming. That's when I trim the hair on my mons and shave or trim very short the hair below that. Periods are gross when you're hairy. | As a man, I find it odd that "shaved" has become the norm for female pubic hair. I don't think it's a fetish that I prefer women with "hair down there." [NSFW] | 1 | 2014-04-30T11:26:52 | 301 | 61 | 1 |
You can't get blood from a stone. The poor eat fast food because it's fast. They don't have to shop 3 different stores to get the best bargains. Much of the poor in my area use public transport or their feet to get groceries. The food choices at the stores are terrible because it's all cheap and processed foods. And y... | Fast Food needs to be taxed in order to help America’s obesity problem | 0 | 2016-02-16T00:13:31 | 50 | 1 | 9 |
If we don't pay taxes then we don't get to vote. If we don't get to vote we can't influence policy and outcomes in a democracy. Therefore willfully not paying taxes leaves you morally culpable for everything that happens in the country because you've opted out of voting, the way in which you influence the actions of t... | I believe that anybody working and paying taxes to the US government is supporting immoral actions and holds partial guilt. | 0 | 2016-12-25T19:23:09 | 97 | 2 | 50 |
Boredom: I had a huge yard as a kid. I could play in the woods and build forts, take my dog for a walk or run around with him, go down the street to my neighborhood park, go for a bike ride, etc. It also wasn't a huge deal to be out past dark, while it is kind of dangerous to do so in most cities. Dependence:I could ri... | By raising a family in the suburbs, the parents are condemning the children to boredom, dependence, inactivity, and expense. | 0 | 2014-08-20T19:29:14 | 73 | 2 | 1 |
This change somehow **caught on** not only within India, but all over the world. There you go. This is *fait accompli*, a thing already done. The word "germany" caught on so we use it. At this point, "Mumbai" caught on - so we use. Why expend effort hanging it again? | When using the English language, we should refer to "Mumbai" as "Bombay" for the same reasons that we refer to "Deutschland" as "Germany." | 1 | 2015-03-18T15:43:23 | 206 | 397 | 38Δ |
It's not just about information, it's about abilities. I have the ability to call a car at any time that will arrive in ~5 minutes. I have the ability to navigate in an area I'm unfamiliar with and find things I want (e.g. restaurants). I have the ability to identify a song that I want the name of on demand. I have the... | About going from dumb phone to smart phone. | 0 | 2016-02-27T03:50:46 | 39 | 16 | 2 |
Think of it this way: no matter what, someone's going to feel uncomfortable. The question we should be concerned about is: what produces the least discomfort, and what produces the smallest amount of *well-founded* discomfort? I say that no matter what, someone's going to be uncomfortable, because the fact remains that... | Public restrooms should be separated by sex (genitalia) and not gender (sexuality/identification) | 1 | 2016-04-12T03:35:53 | 112 | 48 | 8 |
First, there is no guarantee you will be able to select the specialty that you want. While this is true with the civilian match process too, most people are able to match into a desired specialty in the civilian system. From what I've seen for the military system, it's like 50% (and it's going to be worse for specialti... | CMV Me joining the army is not a waste of time nor does it conflict with my personality | 0 | 2014-12-29T03:45:33 | 47 | 1 | 6 |
But then there would need to be a utility calculation between the car being paid off and staying with them. This directly conflicts with your view though. There is feasibly a bad time to break up with someone. | I don't think there is ever a bad time to breakup with someone! | 1 | 2016-01-06T05:59:23 | 53 | 3 | 6 |
Ya, I think you misunderstood them. Gaming is appreciating art if you define that game as art. Also the word art has multiple definitions. "Art" can also be synonymous with "Skill" and some gamers are incredibly skilled. Although I think you can definitely make art in some games. [Minecraft](http://i.imgur.com/Iv2V9.jp... | I do not think that gaming qualifies as a form of artistic expression. CVM | 1 | 2013-06-10T01:17:37 | 46 | 19 | 1 |
The main critique wasn't just that the scholarships were given in part based on outward beauty, but that "even their lowest number is more than any other women-only scholarship that we could find". The idea that the _largest_ provider of women-only scholarships in the US is based in large part on appearance, on being u... | Miss America program providing scholarships based mostly on outward appearance is no more reprehensible than sports teams providing scholarships based on athletic ability. | 1 | 2015-09-21T11:35:18 | 57 | 7 | 7 |
I'll bite. I got into Pickup and then Redpill theory without having ever had a bad relationship with women. In fact I was pretty young so I never had any relationships. I've never felt bitter about it or anything. But in any case the theorys that have been presented seem to fit in so well with what I see in day to day ... | TheRedPill theory is just an out for men who have had shitty relationships all their lives. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-26T15:07:03 | 192 | -4 | null |
The key principal of universal healthcare (arguably) is solidarity. We're all in it together, thick or thin, no exceptions. Universal healthcare is just that, universal, if you start making exceptions like this, you win up with a patchwork. We accept that some people will abuse the system or act in unhealthy ways as a... | I believe those who cause their own illnesses should have to pay for their treatment on the NHS (UK) CMV | 1 | 2013-12-02T18:20:59 | 42 | 19 | 3 |
I have had multiple vegans come up to me and try and get me to stop eating meat. Why is it not correct for me to say "i dont tell you what to eat, dont tell me."? | It doesn't make sense for a meat eater to tell a vegan "I don't tell you what to eat, so don't tell me" | 1 | 2016-08-06T20:55:08 | 259 | 2 | 5 |
I think most people know that there is a very small chance of this happening, I think that imagining being in that situation is what scares people. There's a very tiny chance of being attacked by a shark, but people are still scared of sharks because "What if it happened *me*" . They are both terrifying situations to b... | It makes no sense to be scared of terrorist attacks or mass shootings in the west | 1 | 2016-11-20T03:39:22 | 94 | 57 | 1 |
I'm not educated on the history of other countries, so I will only speak on America. It seems to me that Black criminal behavior may have historical, rather than biological, causes. America has been around for about 250 years (I'm no mathematician). Of those 250 years, Blacks have been slaves for approximately 100 year... | I feel that black people might genetically be predisposed to anti-social activity/behaviour, and it really upsets me. Please Change My View. | 1 | 2014-06-22T17:33:17 | 69 | 24 | 10Δ |
I speak English and Spanish. Both fluently. When I speak English I don't have a Spanish accent, why would I intentionally fake an English accent when saying Spanish words. The reason non-Spanish speaking English speakers say quesadilla the way they do is because they can't easily pronounce it correctly. Why would nativ... | People should stop pronouncing English loanwords as if they're speaking their native language. | 0 | 2014-09-06T06:12:02 | 388 | 2 | null |
If the objective of the War on Drugs is to keep people safe and not addicted to drugs, how can we rationalize this continuing support of cigarettes while stigmatizing the use of other, less harmful drugs? Maybe your premise is wrong about the objective of the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs came from the Nixon administr... | Acceptance of cigarettes defeats the purpose of the War on Drugs | 1 | 2015-08-04T23:05:50 | 18 | 5 | 39 |
1)I agree that most places allow this. Car insurance is an example where your state may have a mandate that you have car insurance if you are driving. 2)Even if they did, you probably want both subsidies. For example, they may subsidize 5% of your retirement savings, and 50% of your health care. Why leave any free mon... | The money I spend on insurance would be better spent on a savings account. | 1 | 2017-02-01T23:03:12 | 54 | 2 | 23 |
You seem to have just decided what your idea of beauty is and compare yourself and everyone else to it. But, here's the thing: I probably don't like your idea of beautiful, I probably wouldn't find it beautiful. I find my girlfriend beautiful. No one on any model runway or film could compare to her, for me. She has st... | Beauty is in the lack of imperfections (scars, cellulite etc) on one's body | 0 | 2016-02-20T13:57:49 | 50 | 7 | null |
Not that they are worthless, but I fully believe they are inferior. Historical context is important. If you hold someone down by force for a large portion of their existence, it's hard for them to get up on their own. Here are some good threads discussing the historical context of Africa and why they've had such a hard... | Nothing worthwhile has ever come from sub-Saharan Africa. No scientific breakthrough, medical innovation or brilliant philosophy was ever created by the the people from that part of the world. | 0 | 2015-08-27T23:24:50 | 91 | 2 | 128 |
Definitely. FPD had a conflict of interest AND was stonewalling AND had clashed with protestors leading them to be relieved of duty. Normally it would be the prosecutor's office that would release information, not the police who have just been relieved of command for their own city. I mean, the video IS exculpatory--... | The release of the CCTV footage of Michael Brown is not character assassination, but a vital component of the incident that helps all parties understand the context of the shooting and the state of mind of the individuals involved. | 1 | 2014-08-19T17:12:02 | 350 | 11 | 4 |
Not justified. That doesn't make this not terrorism. Russia fucked up but so did the terrorist. Two wrongs don't make a right. | Today's shooting of the Russian Ambassador isn't an act of terrorism | 1 | 2016-12-19T21:47:36 | 37 | 2 | 1 |
I forgot the best argument: Music existed before musical notation. Would you argue there were no great musicians in the entire world before the invention of musical notation? | I believe that in order to be a truly great musician, one must be able to read musical notation. | 1 | 2014-05-23T23:10:45 | 62 | 3 | 7 |
The 1% derive their wealth from the talent they are able to hire and the markets they are able to sell to. If some billionaire wishes to move to some other country, so what. Their income would still be derived from US based assets (their company/stocks), and it would still be taxed. If they want to hire elsewhere, so w... | Taxing the 1% exorbitant amounts in order to solve the economic problems of the 99% will not work because the 1% have the economic ability to move their lives somewhere with worse tax laws | 0 | 2016-03-07T19:31:42 | 77 | 2 | 21 |
I believe you are half right. Because Sanders' economic principles led him to be a self-described socialist, he is probably not electable. That word is far less of a smear today than during the Cold War, but is still negative enough in the minds of too many voters. But as far as the economic policies themselves, no I d... | Bernie Sanders is unelectable because of his economic policy | 0 | 2015-11-05T04:12:07 | 32 | 2 | 11 |
I really like /u/GnosticGnome's responses, but I thought of another angle that might work. Your view seems to hinge on the overlap between Biden's personal moral/religious beliefs and his public policy positions/views of the law. I'm not so sure they're as strongly linked as you think even though they use the same voca... | It's morally inconsistent to think abortion is murder, but also believe it's up to women. | 0 | 2017-01-31T00:26:34 | 67 | 2 | null |
This does avoid my argument. Who decides what should be taken seriously, and what is there to mandate that something should be taken seriously? You drawing lines for yourself is fine but drawing lines for others is not reasonable. | Serious topics should not be turned into jokes. | 1 | 2017-04-14T20:37:18 | 37 | 11 | 32 |
if you look at our spending as a percentage of GDP instead of total dollars, we're actually 20th for spending | The United States Government spends too much on the defense budget. | 1 | 2017-05-17T23:31:25 | 84 | 32 | 5 |
Like Michael Moore [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADHLsECWxY), if Trump is elected, it will be the biggest FUCK YOU to the establishment run by elites like George Soros, Goldman-Sachs, etc. A lot of the people want a system that has a democratic and republican party both run by elites to go down in flames...Do... | I think Trump is a horrifying choice, no matter how bad you think Hillary is. | 0 | 2016-11-02T04:49:53 | 735 | 19 | 2 |
I hadn't thought of it like that. The Drunkards walk also seems like some interesting material to read. Do you know the title of the Pohl book you read? It's literally just called "Drunkard's Walk". Pohl wrote it in 1960 and it was originally published serially. Also, at the risk of being unreasonably demanding, if I'v... | Eugenics Is A Good Idea, Just Gone About In The Wrong Way In The Past | 1 | 2017-04-17T18:41:13 | 67 | 2 | 20 |
Both potatoes and rice are typically served as accompaniments to other foods, so even if you generally prefer rice on its own, you have to consider how each enhances different main dishes. For example, with a roast with gravy, rice would never absorb the gravy in the delicious way that mashed potatoes do. Nor could ric... | There is no reason to be eating potatoes in the developed world. | 0 | 2017-03-06T02:06:57 | 54 | 1 | 6 |
Democracy is a great idea, probably the best we have in practice. Its one weakness with existing implementation though, is that most voters vote unknowingly against self interest. Knowing that voters have the tendency to not properly understand issues, politicians try to twist their goals into words which sound good to... | Democracy is the best political system. | 0 | 2014-10-28T20:50:34 | 111 | 1 | 1 |
Advantages of G2. 1) Banking centers. G2 has all the money. 2) Media centers. Hollywood and NYC will make far better propaganda than Bronson, MO. Any G1 people tired of watching Trump TV and sneak in Netflix, HBO, or the latest Iron Man movie will be clobbered with media portraying their own side as evil and G2 as just... | If the political split in the USA erupted into a civil war, it would be hopelessly one-sided in favor of conservatives/Trump supporters | 1 | 2017-02-12T20:31:27 | 169 | 12 | 33 |
I can see the professor's point though, this is Engineering and not an English class. So he wants to grade on content rather than how pretty it looks which makes complete sense. I work in a professional environment with a bunch of engineers and we have collectively the handwriting ability of toddlers...but that's what ... | I grade assignments, if I can't easily read your writing and find your answer, you shouldn't get credit. | 1 | 2014-11-09T18:05:22 | 127 | 109 | 19 |
Although I agree partially with you, I'm going to play devil's advocate. This sounds like victim blaming. Women have been told in politics all along that abstinence is the only way to avoid pregnancy for sure, and access to abortion and birth control is continually restricted because of this idea. So, you agree with t... | If men don't want to pay child support, they shouldn't have sex with any woman they don't want to be the mother of their child. CMV | 0 | 2013-05-01T03:55:31 | 511 | 3 | null |
I know plenty of gay people with authoritarian male fathers and nourishing female mothers. And plenty of straight people who did not have that. I also know gay couples who are raising straight children. You idea has no basis in reality, and would be offensive if it wasn't so goofy and naive. | Gay people are gay because of their upbringing and socialization, not because of biological factors. | 0 | 2015-07-22T17:05:38 | 48 | 16 | 6 |
If I'm not mistaken, Easter is celebrated when it is because the original events coincided with Passover. People in the Mediterranean celebrated some form of Easter as early as the second century. The pagans weren't converted to Christianity until much later. As far as looking for reasons to celebrate. If you believed ... | Christians should not celebrate Easter. | 1 | 2017-04-14T21:42:12 | 65 | 11 | 10 |
For instance, the requirement that states you have to be an American citizen to be POTUS. Ideally, there would be NO formal requirement, but I don't mind these others as much as I dislike the age requirement because it seems so obviously a tool of an entrenched establishment to keep the younger generations from having ... | The Constitutionally-mandated age to hold public office of any kind, including POTUS, should be lowered to 18. | 1 | 2017-04-14T00:22:00 | 46 | 1 | 57 |
It seems like such a common problem that I think you're missing out in the long run by judging a show only on its beginning episodes. It's common because the cast and the crew haven't gotten into their groove yet and aren't as familiar with the show as they could be. Sometimes it's just not conceivable for it to be goo... | You shouldn't have to watch 6+ episodes of a TV show for it to be good | 1 | 2015-11-19T11:42:32 | 103 | 21 | 1 |
This might not be something that would necessarily change your view, but you have made a factual error in assuming that a teleportation device would work on a "clone and kill" method. In Star Trek when someone is teleported, their entire being is transmitted through a subspace domain. There is never a point at which t... | There's no good reason to be worried about teleportation killing you | 0 | 2016-09-05T01:12:53 | 202 | 1 | 4 |
[cows] get to experience a reasonably long life Have you looked into the age cows are slaughtered by the company you get your meat from? Cows can live twenty years (compared to human 80) - odds are who you're buying from is *somewhat* better than UK McDonalds, whose official rule is "The age requirement for beef animal... | It is morally unjustified for me to eat lamb meat | 0 | 2015-06-12T13:26:55 | 92 | 5 | null |
As others have already mentioned, it does seem very much as if you're projecting. You most likely have some rage and self-loathing still left over from being fat. You probably suffered defeat and humiliation while being fat. Even worse, you were overweight as a child and young person, the formative years of your life -... | I think the Fat Acceptance movement is dangerous | 1 | 2014-06-08T20:07:01 | 145 | 0 | 1 |
I have two points for you. 1. Almost everything has a dark side. Walmart treats its employees like shit, politicians can be bought, cheaters can prosper. We like to assume things are fair, because that theoretically makes the most sense. But many things aren't, and it can be stressful to think of how broken a system is... | Being happy is not a sign of "ignorance", and being more intelligent than most people would not make you less happy. | 1 | 2016-10-17T18:36:45 | 39 | 3 | null |
It's a matter of incentive and overall productivity. An employee who's healthy and satisfied with their job is more beneficial to the employer in the long run. An employer doesn't want employees who are burnt out or taking careless risks with their health just to be able to show up for work. Not to mention that, laws a... | Employers shouldn't pay for employees vacation time or sick days; if you're not at the jobsite working you shouldn't get paid | 1 | 2015-03-27T20:53:36 | 92 | 2 | 11Δ |
Normally I'd agree with you (I use an adblocker for internet ads and watch all my TV online to avoid commericals), but I think that the times are changing. Technically speaking, trailers were just ads at the end of movies when they first started. They slowly developed into an art form in and of themselves. In the same ... | It's perfectly acceptable to talk at full volume in a movie theatre when the lights are down but ads (not trailers) are playing | 0 | 2017-01-21T10:27:40 | 67 | 1 | 113 |
It took a LOT of solitary production and the eventual purchase of an electric piano a year ago to come to that realisation ;) As a producer who always had multiple synths with keyboards, but never actually 'played' them by hand (c'mon, thats Abletons job surely?), and just 'played' the actual synthesis it was a joy to... | Instruments are stupid and obsolete | 1 | 2014-05-12T18:52:44 | 70 | 5 | 2 |
As far as modern science currently understands, spontaneous generation (life developing independently from non-living material) is not possible, and life only comes from life. There's an entire scientific field of study, Abiogenesis, that deals with the question of how life could arise from non-living material. Now, of... | given that spontaneous generation is impossible, and that Earth hasn't been around forever, life on Earth must have extraterrestrial origins | 0 | 2015-09-21T16:31:55 | 43 | 2 | 9 |
This is simply not an issue of whether circumcision is good or bad, but an issue of what is mutilation. I don't think circumcision is a good idea in general, but it's not mutilation. The main functions of a circumcised penis are not changed by circumcision, whereas female genital mutilation most certainly changes the f... | Circumcision is mutilation | 0 | 2016-02-18T07:05:08 | 899 | -6 | 6 |
I believe that simply legitimizes a broken federal election system The system *is* legitimate whether you vote or not; all you've done is rendered yourself irrelevant to its outcomes. Think of it this way: if your behavior is morally correct, you should be able to universalize it and have it remain correct. What would ... | I am a conscientious non-voter in the US CMV | 1 | 2013-05-14T06:49:23 | 106 | 21 | 59 |
Oh wauv, that's a pretty black and white view you have there. It seems to me that you've only taken a look at the socialist left and the hardcore libertarian right, and still portrayed that pretty good guys vs. bad guys. Politics is a pretty broad spectrum, personally I consider my self social-liberal, which I guess fr... | having a "socialist" attitude is the optimal, rational, way for mankind to survive and thrive with no casualities | 0 | 2017-03-20T19:53:15 | 596 | 1 | null |
I'm going to assume you're talking (primarily) about the republican primary debates, given the timing of your question. I think that the term "debate" is a bit of a misnomer. What the debate actually does is give the public a forum where they can see where candidates stand on an issue. It's one of the only times where... | Political Debates are Useless for choosing a president | 0 | 2015-12-17T08:17:19 | 51 | 1 | null |
marijuana should be legalized through legislation, and there is a lack of sufficient research to prove marijuana's health benefits Actually, there is. Marinol is a prescription formulation that contains THC in coconut oil, it's prescribed not infrequently for cancer patients, as an example. Marinol literally is just a ... | The DEA made the right decision about marijuana | 1 | 2016-08-12T01:17:43 | 71 | 2 | 8 |
My intention is to teach my children that theism is untrue, illogical and is not good for society. That's a belief system. Your kids will make their own minds. You can teach them that religion exists and just sit back and let them make their own choice about it. Your child might be invited to a friend's church. He sh... | As an atheist, if I have children it is in their best interests not to be taught about religion as anything other than as a false curiosity. | 1 | 2016-09-29T14:16:36 | 407 | 91 | 13 |
This is one of the saddest comments I've seen on reddit. Working for a construction corporation and helping them cut down as much forest as they can get away with will eat your soul. But supporting a family on $13/hr is awful. I like the idea one guy had: if you're making more in a month at the construction job than yo... | As an environmental engineer, I give up! PLEASE CMV! | 0 | 2015-04-24T02:19:36 | 366 | 4 | null |
I think most of the Congressmen ousted by Tea Party candidates would disagree with you. I think what you're seeing is that a lot of the recently publicized protest movements haven't had any strategy beyond "show how angry we are!" Black Lives Matter got a lot of national attention, but they never followed up with a coh... | Peaceful demonstration does not affect government policy | 0 | 2017-02-18T01:07:32 | 43 | 2 | 4 |
Vertial videos are not aesthetically pleasing because they poorly replicate what people actually see. Our perception of the world is (broadly) horizontal which is why film has always been in a "wide screen" format. It simply makes more sense with how we perceive the world. A narrow, vertical video strikes us as weird a... | People angry at vertical videos are ignoring the trend of technology to move to mobile formats | 0 | 2014-09-22T19:00:47 | 38 | 6 | null |
One problem is enforcement. Are we supposed to test every heterosexual couple for fertility before we allow them to get married? No. Older couples are likely to be infertile, but stranger things have happened than late pregnancies--and an old couple may have pre-existing children or grandchildren to support. Would we e... | If you are against the idea of allowing homosexuals to marry because you feel marriage is about having kids and raising them, then you should be against old people marrying and against sterile people marrying. | 1 | 2017-07-04T01:35:41 | 270 | 3 | 1 |
Well, in basic stats you learned about the law of large numbers? Over large populations, the mean or average is the correct unbiased estimate of death. However I might agree with you if you said that we should be looking at the conditional life expectancy, assuming say people live to age 21 already, what is their avera... | Life expectancy is a misleading statistic, it should use median age of death, not average age of death. | 0 | 2016-08-26T21:54:39 | 62 | 22 | 1 |
You've listed the benefits, but not the costs. As a Canadian citizen, your child would be responsible for paying Canadian taxes, or they'd have a hard time taking advantage of all the benefits you listed. Canada will give credit for foreign taxes paid, but given that Canadian taxes are likely higher than US taxes, you'... | If you live within an hour's drive of the Canadian border, you should have your baby in Canada, not the US. | 1 | 2015-11-15T22:47:36 | 125 | 32 | 83 |
That will hurt our foreign affairs. By doing business with other nations it makes our nation more peaceable and at better terms with other countries. We need allies/friends. By employing workers who need jobs in other countries, we look like the good guys. If we begin to withdraw from these places we will soon look lik... | It should be illegal for American companies to outsource to factories with conditions that would be illegal in America | 0 | 2014-06-29T15:39:26 | 308 | 1 | 5 |
I'd argue it's not proven that Trump dislikes Mexicans so that part of your argument should be changed. Trump not wanting Mexicans to come in illegally does not necessarily mean he doesn't like them. He might or might not, but this fact alone doesn't prove it. You'd need more evidence, and I haven't seen any that would... | The world has become more intolerant today | 1 | 2016-06-28T16:51:32 | 66 | 1 | 2 |
2 points : - first, there is a paradox of someone being all knowing and predicting the future. If he predicts the future he can acts based on this prediction and do the opposite, creating a paradox. It does only work if the prediction is out of the system - most important point : this is basically a tautology. You're b... | I believe that determinism would be more widely accepted if it weren't so misunderstood | 1 | 2015-08-07T17:40:45 | 81 | 1 | 1 |
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