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A lot of people, including me, remember the spelling of "Berenstain" to be "Berenstein" with an E. We are living in a parallel universe because we have collective memories. Some people have coined the term, "Mandela Effect" to explain this and it's not only specific to StAin vs. StEin controversy. Some examples include... | I believe the spelling of "Berenstain Bears" was always "Berenstein Bears" and we are now living in an alternate reality. | 0 | 2016-10-19T22:32:33 | 50 | 1 | null |
You face the threat of terrorism and global warming. Yet you haven't killed yourself. Apparently you believe your life is worth living despite these things. Why would children born in 2017 be any different? Go read a history book. If you think life will be so cruel in 20 years that the gift of life will not even be wor... | I think having kids right now in cruel. | 0 | 2016-07-03T18:30:15 | 39 | 1 | 19 |
Not more guns. More well-trained civilians with guns. We do not need more guns. How do you have more armed people without having more guns? Well trained civilians, who go through a rigorous process of obtaining a gun that weeds out the incompetent (background checks, psychologists, the whole shibang) How many more tra... | If citizens are armed, there will be less mass shootings and civilian deaths. | 1 | 2016-07-07T07:59:26 | 71 | 3 | 12 |
The way I see it, all three systems have huge flaws, but I don't think LOL is definitely the worst. Let's look at SC2 first (this is my favorite game, and the only one I'm interested in continuing to play, so I may be a little biased) * unclear direction in WCS, GSL(and its involvement with WCS), and the general lack ... | League of Legends has the most boring and the least competitive circuit from all major eSport titles | 0 | 2015-07-17T17:35:28 | 97 | 6 | 10 |
I hear you, but that seems to be more of an argument against cultural expectations and prejudice in general. It isn't a gay problem, it is a human problem. Because of this, when someone brings up something specific like this, it makes me wonder what their desired outcome would be. Do you simply think that the media sh... | Flamboyant, over-the-top, 'flaming' gay people are more harm to achieving equality than good. | 1 | 2014-08-17T01:26:00 | 56 | 1 | 12 |
A therapist is not a random person who takes your hard-earned money to dispense advice you can find on the internet. A therapist is a trained professional who takes a significant amount of time and effort to understand you *on an intimate level* and give you advice that is based on experience and *specific* to your sit... | "I urge you to seek therapy" is the most useless advice one can give on /r/relationships. | 0 | 2014-11-29T22:39:33 | 95 | 7 | 9 |
A communist would argue the opposite is true. Let's run on a simple definition of communist industry because there is 200 years of historical minutia to dig through otherwise. A communist-run industry is one in which the worker's own the means of production. Whereas in a capitalist-run industry, the capitalists and inv... | Communism is inherently unfair. | 1 | 2017-06-17T20:39:39 | 80 | 28 | 9 |
Where MRA comes from: Take men who are not comfortable with some of their gender roles. They turn to feminism as a model to rebel against these gender roles. Many feminists believe that these men do not have the right to complain as they have privilege in society. So, these men go off on their own and often outright re... | Men's rights advocacy on reddit has lost sight of reality. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-17T00:18:13 | 299 | 43 | 1 |
A lot of your counterarguments are just claiming advances in business only facilitate the "advancement" of humanity without actually advancing it. However, you could apply that same argument to anything else. E.g., Medicine doesn't advance humanity, it just allows humans to live longer, which in turn advances humanity.... | I think the study of business contributes little to nothing to the progression of society. | 1 | 2014-04-25T11:41:24 | 33 | 3 | 2 |
I don't think I can change your view, that more equality means less freedom, but I think that this trade-off is the point of society to begin with. By living in society, and so NOT living in a state of nature, you give up a number of freedoms in order to gain a more cost-effective security and equality. No society reta... | The more equal we want our society to become, the less freedom that society will have. | 0 | 2014-10-21T00:38:53 | 527 | 1 | 2 |
When you buy a book, you're paying for the entire process of its creation. You're paying for the time the author or authors took to write it and the time they're going to take to promote it. You're paying for the time it took the editors to find the book and decide they wanted to publish it and then the time they took ... | ebooks shouldn't cost more than 5dollars. Anything above just hinders education, culture and technological advance. | 0 | 2015-03-26T16:07:17 | 73 | 1 | 1Δ |
Historical perceptions of events rarely have much to do with what the predictions were leading up to those events; there's a complete disconnect in the attitudes and understanding of the general public consciousness between the time in which such predictions are made and the later times in which they are evaluated. You... | The 2016 US presidential election is mainly as predicted and won't be views as particularly extraordinary by history | 1 | 2016-10-17T16:39:17 | 85 | 60 | 42 |
The biggest difference is that books are stylish. Reading a particular book allows the reader to project something about themselves into the world. If you see someone reading a book you like, you automatically have a connection. It can be an icebreaker. If you see someone reading something on a tablet or e-reader, ther... | E-readers are better than paper books | 1 | 2016-02-08T15:01:35 | 94 | 19 | 74 |
I am a libertarian and I think you are confusing something here. **the Libertarian** non-aggression principle states that the government has no right to enter or seize property. This is not a universally held belief among libertarians. A lot of them indeed do support this position. But that isn't what being a libertari... | I believe that Libertarians have no idea how their dogma, especially the "non-aggression principle" would actually work in a real society. Please CMV! | 1 | 2013-08-13T20:19:24 | 96 | 3 | 1 |
The research I've seen suggests that targeting weight as the enemy does not help people lose weight; if anything traditional dieting leads to further weight gain than it does weight loss. I think the problem is that there is a difference between having a healthy diet, and engaging in a temporary fad diet. Am I healthi... | The Health At Every Size Movement focusing on healthy diet and exercise is more helpful in fighting obesity than traditional programs that target weight as the enemy. | 0 | 2016-02-11T20:23:33 | 40 | 0 | 17 |
If I got that right, your first point is: a) Boycott doesn't work if it's sparse. Only few people are vegetarians, therefore their boycott doesn't work. That may be partly true. But a vegetarian might say, well that's *all the more reason* for more people to be vegetarians. It's because of you meat eaters that our boyc... | I believe vegans and vegetarians who choose their diets for ethical reasons rather than simple taste or health reasons are irrational and misinformed. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-26T20:11:12 | 49 | 9 | null |
The whole point of giving trophies to young kids is to show them what success tastes like. To give them that feeling of winning, and make them chase it. The idea is that when kids are 4, 5, and 6 you give every child some sort of award. Make up a category if you have to. Every child should win something. Kids who never... | Children who do not get 1st-3rd place DO NOT deserve a trophy for simply participating | 0 | 2015-06-26T05:46:41 | 244 | 2 | null |
Surely *being correct* is more important than not changing your view. I'd agree that as a person approaches omniscience, they would be right more and more often the first time, and would therefore change their views less and less, but the causation goes the other direction. | A Person with Unchangeable Views Is, in a Way, Godlike | 1 | 2014-04-08T08:16:42 | 31 | 3 | 1 |
Roofies didn't exist back then Ever heard of slipping someone a Mickey? Roofies might not have been invented yet, but it would be inaccurate to say there were no date rape drugs around at that time. Giving someone alcohol without their knowledge would also fall under the context of drugging them. | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is not a problematic song. | 1 | 2016-12-07T21:27:35 | 119 | 5 | 1 |
how getting off Facebook makes you happier and less stressed and the comments mentioned that Reddit was probably similar. That made me wonder what you could do with your free time. You could watch TV or play video games but those are time wasters as well ... Basically, I'm arguing that the time you spend on Reddit/Fac... | Anything that you for "play" throughout the day is usually a waste of time. | 0 | 2015-11-12T23:05:19 | 21 | 1 | 75 |
I'd like to disagree and say Deus Ex is the greatest game of all time. The fact that the story is interwoven with real world facts and events can and has changed the way many a person looks at world events. Emotional investment pales in comparison to change in worldview | Final Fantasy VII is the Greatest Game of All Time | 1 | 2016-09-16T19:57:40 | 68 | 1 | 1 |
The original intent was to lower the burden of the state by encouraging churches to use their funds to enhance the welfare of the locals. Churches were intended to provide spiritual help, guidance, shelter, food, education, etc to those in need. Lowering the burden of the state therefore decreasing their tax need. So t... | I think churches should pay taxes. | 0 | 2014-06-04T16:48:24 | 83 | 2 | null |
I actually agree that love is a choice, but I disagree with your reasoning and your application. So that you understand where I'm coming from, I was raised Catholic, though that's not my personal faith. I'm a neuroscience undergrad with a psych minor. I like to think that Love is something that is built. Sometimes you ... | I believe love is a choice and that a person does not "fall" in and out of love CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-10T21:16:03 | 49 | 2 | 1 |
I think you're spot on, but the other problem here is Dumbledore doesn't know what Voldemort knows. It's the same line of reasoning that people use when they advise not talking to the police -- even if you say something that is truthful and innocent, in conjunction with some other peice of information you're not aware ... | Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter) was a selfish and bad person, and certainly not the best Headmaster Hogwarts ever had. | 1 | 2017-04-27T00:31:31 | 113 | 4 | 2 |
I can't imagine a future where every job within a country is replaced by robots, as some can only be done by humans (such as the arts, teaching, scientific research). Really? I hope you realize that human beings are machines ourselves. We're based on organic chemistry rather than silicon, but we're still machines. And ... | Mass unemployment created by robots replacing humans in the not-to-distant future may be positive for the general public | 1 | 2017-04-11T21:26:24 | 75 | 5 | 17 |
In a world without discrimination, fear, violence, where people are free to act freely, dress freely, speak freely, love freely, why is it important that their ID's show the gender they chose rather than the one they were born with? We don't live in a world without any of these things. I have not heard a strong enough... | Why is it important for Trans people to be able to change their legal gender? | 0 | 2017-05-02T23:09:48 | 47 | 11 | 110 |
If you don't see the joy in caring for an intellectually disabled child, you probably don't see the joy in caring for a "normal" child. Every child has their difficulties. You're assuming that with a disability, their life just isn't worth living, and they aren't worth taking care of. That they can't contribute to soci... | I don't see the joy in raising a mental handicapped child CMV | 0 | 2014-03-13T19:41:57 | 330 | 1 | 1 |
I do it to ensure that I can stow both of my carry-on items: one in the overhead (which fill up quickly so the sooner I'm on the plane, the better my chances of having one) and one under the seat in front of me. While the airline will check a carry on through to the final destination for free for me, hanging out at bag... | Lining up to get on an airplane is pointless. | 0 | 2015-07-13T20:08:35 | 202 | 2 | null |
For what? A program aimed at working people and retirees? Sure. And you have that data if you want it. But for truly universal programs or questions you might want to use mean life expectancy at birth. Otherwise, you'll plan for having a lot more people than you really will. | Life expectancy is a misleading statistic, it should use median age of death, not average age of death. | 1 | 2016-08-26T22:52:26 | 62 | 3 | 227 |
I gotcha. It's hard to convince someone when money is or isn't wasted, because everyone I know seems to have a different idea of what money should be spent on. In my experience, if I don't regret spending it, it hasn't been wasted. So if I spend it prolonging the life of a friend (pet), and because of that they're ok a... | I believe that taking a non-working pet to a vet is a waste of money. | 1 | 2014-04-10T19:09:40 | 76 | 2 | 1 |
I do disagree with that yes. Any restrictions on the franchise is a problem. Again, your idea of a maximum voting age is untenable and unfair as it restricts the franchise to people who are actively paying taxes. | There should be an upper age limit on voting age, too | 1 | 2017-05-14T03:00:08 | 60 | 1 | 1 |
Everyone is capable of putting in hard work, but circumstances can negate all hard work easily. There are hundreds of possible ways to fail, and few to succeed. Going to your race analogy, if a person was paralyzed from the waist down, blind, and at the 0 yard mark, would you honestly expect them to complete the race? ... | I believe that any able bodied/minded person is capable of finding their own version of success if they just put in the work | 0 | 2015-05-28T23:43:00 | 24 | 3 | null |
Our relations with the outside world will be damaged, perhaps irreparably, if we execute Louis Capet. We must seek legitimacy in the eyes of Europe; Louis cannot be a foil to our diplomacy, and a martyr for domestic counterrevolutionaries. Royalists have made a divine of Louis - well, like all pagan G-ds, let him remai... | I'm Maximilien Robespierre and I should execute King Louis XVI | 0 | 2015-04-28T17:29:32 | 40 | 55 | 3Δ |
If anyone can change my view, and convince me that calling people racists is the best way to get them to stop from saying and doing racist things or holding racist beliefs, I'm all ears (or eyes, as it were). Perhaps you've heard the joke: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light... | Calling someone a "racist" is the fastest way to end the conversation and not change a single mind | 1 | 2016-08-23T04:44:25 | 458 | 215 | 2 |
To put it more simply, if I were to pick an American black male and an American white male from the population at random, could you say with complete certainty that the challenges faced by the black male are more significant than the challenges of the white male without any additional information? I'm not talking about... | Privilege theory fails in practice because a person's upbringing has a larger impact on their life than their identity. | 1 | 2017-06-01T16:41:15 | 280 | 162 | 16 |
The relationships make no sense. Why does Harry like Cho or Ginny? Let's force in a relationship. Yay. At Harry's age (14-16) I don't think he needs a better reason to like a girl than finding her attractive. Not saying that's a good reason for a relationship, but you can't say it was forced into the story. Considering... | Harry Potter is overrated | 1 | 2016-04-23T18:07:00 | 342 | 303 | 1 |
It betrays nothing more than their ignorance of the word's correct pronunciation. Not everybody's a linguist. They simply use the words and the sounds they know, because it makes words way easier to use and remember (they probably heard a single pronunciation - or no pronunciation at all - for the longest time too). I... | Popular US/English pronunciations of foreign words, names, and phrases betray ignorance of the speaker as to the origin and meaning of those words. | 0 | 2014-07-09T21:41:02 | 123 | 6 | 18Δ |
Some people may say that having, say, Columbus Day means that Columbus was a saint. But it need not be so. Columbus Day ought simply to stand for the idea that Columbus can teach us something -- as a positive example; as a negative one; or as both simultaneously. If holidays only existed to celebrate the unequivocally ... | Holidays should not be named after people, but after the virtue(s) that they represented. | 0 | 2015-01-20T02:08:52 | 98 | 2 | 1 |
I think many posters are misunderstanding my OP. You wrote "worthy of scorn" in your unedited OP. I'm not misunderstanding the OP. You miswrote the OP. I'm saying that because of the facts I stated it is understandable why someone would be more impressed and as a result give more valuation to one group than the other ... | I believe the idea behind the "lock and key" analogy of the sexes makes perfect sense. | 1 | 2016-11-18T06:49:14 | 84 | 17 | 21 |
Marriage is very related to the concern of incest simply because if you are able to marry incestuously , then it is accepted. If it is accepted, then it will become more populous and more people will do it; this could produce the negative effects, touched on briefly in the original post. But incestuous marriage would o... | The result of the Supreme Court case on gay marriage is the next step in the "sexual revolution" and might have certain negative implication on society. | 1 | 2015-07-06T02:53:11 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
Since... jeez, early 90s, at the latest, there's been a well-known feature of hip-hop that guys who can really WRITE are not necessarily the guys who really succeed. Sure, once in a while there's a Nas or a KRS-One or a Lupe who can get eyeballs for a while with lyrics primarily, but it's not the big thing. Mainstream... | New age 'mumble rappers' are ruining hip hop | 1 | 2017-05-22T17:51:54 | 43 | 20 | 78 |
I know this discussion is pretty much over, but I'll just throw in my two cents. Gay people don't necessarily come from gay parents. I'd imagine most come from straight parents (not just biologically), and that the article you're quoting might just be because it's easier to come out to gay parents, because you know th... | Gay people are allowed to kiss, marry, fuck, but they should never be allowed to have children since psychology tells us that a healthy individual needs both a father and a mother | 1 | 2016-02-06T22:55:58 | 107 | 2 | 1 |
Think about it this way: there is a piece of spoiled food; if you eat it, it will be unpleasant, be harmful to your health, and not provide any tangible benefit. If you don't, you will throw it away, and it will neither harm nor benefit anyone. What is the difference in outcomes? One leaves you sick and with a bad tast... | Wasting food is a horrible, selfish thing to do. | 0 | 2017-02-08T03:20:17 | 46 | 1 | 2 |
Hitting someone else is never "justified". Even if it causes their life to improve 500 times over you can't just hit people because you don't like what they are doing. Especially a child could be horrified of going outside in future thinking someone 10 times their size might just hit them to the ground when they're doi... | There are times when smacking a complete stranger's misbehaving child is justified. | 0 | 2015-08-03T22:23:58 | 51 | 0 | null |
I think the main difference here is that Graphic Designers and Graphic Artists are 2 entirely separate things. Putting together an eye catching well formatted brochure using something like Office or CS is not art, it is layout design and infact many graphic artists may not be good at it. But creating a digital picture ... | graphic designers aren't artists, just highly trained computer software users. | 0 | 2014-08-04T21:02:05 | 63 | 1 | 5Δ |
There are unique challenges and opportunities facing any minority group, but a big difficulty that LGBT kids face is the fact that nearly all of them come from straight, cisgendered parents, unlike children in a racial minority, who have at least one parent who shares their experience. Having LGBT community centers and... | LGBT-only schools are not a step in the right direction; they will not help tackle discrimination, only create a sense of "otherness" | 1 | 2015-01-26T20:50:33 | 274 | 8 | 1 |
Gossip, cheating, backstabbing, betrayal, and even financial exploitation typically won't cost you future employment opportunities. But if you're in any sort of public office, if you're a lawyer, if you're a pediatrician, if you're a teacher (really if you have *any* position dealing with children), if you're a TV/radi... | "Revenge porn" should not be a criminal offence. | 0 | 2014-10-28T14:51:30 | 58 | 23 | 11 |
Do you really expect a pizza like this to be comfortably eaten when cut radially? http://i.imgur.com/lgCeNlU.jpg | Cutting pizza into squares is wrong | 0 | 2016-04-29T03:10:47 | 41 | 18 | 9 |
[Look at the revenues of major leagues around the world.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue) These leagues make money by selling a product to the public. That product is the players and the entertainment value they hold. The NFL made 9 BILLION DOLLARS selling it's players to th... | I believe that athletes contribute nothing to society other than entertainment, and therefore should not be paid more than more useful professions. | 0 | 2015-02-15T04:12:02 | 49 | 3 | 1 |
I don't think implicitly validating individuals' mistaken beliefs about the efficacy of any type of treatment is a productive way to combat the over prescription of certain types of medication. For one, homeopathy and other folk remedies can be counterproductive (feed a cold, starve a fever). Another issue is that it d... | It's better to let people who are unlikely to be convinced by scientific evidence believe in homeopathy or natural cures because their beliefs will make the placebo effect stronger without the more harmful side effects of drugs or needless antibiotics. | 0 | 2015-04-14T17:39:25 | 54 | 4 | 6Δ |
Economic viability is important for businesses, and these plans won't provide the outcomes people want once that is taken into consideration. The trees in tree plantations are often a monoculture instead of a mixed ecosystem, so they all grow at the same rate. They may not even be from the area, as things like "growing... | Want a world with more trees? Use more paper. Want to keep endangered animals from going extinct? Turn them into food. | 1 | 2015-04-11T17:40:12 | 23 | 39 | 22Δ |
I agree with you, but your arguments are bad so here goes: If Chimps, Gorillas etc weren't far behind us, then why don't you raise one of them as your child and see how far they get. Their language would be worse than a moron, and thats probably the best it gets, it wouldn't even remotely get past school grade 1. It ... | Humans are not nearly as highly evolved a species as we think. | 0 | 2017-05-22T23:02:36 | 58 | 1 | 1 |
Interesting viewpoint! Thanks for posting. If I understand you correctly, by premise 2 unhealthy people PRODUCE the same value as healthy people, so if they are worth less to society it has to be because their CONSUMPTION is somehow wasteful, which I believe is your point in premise 3. The word "medication" in premise... | People who require expensive medication to survive are objectively, quantifiably worth less than people who do not. | 0 | 2016-08-31T09:34:06 | 130 | 2 | 3 |
Absolutely. Here is an analysis by GovTrack on her voting record. It tracks how close she was to party lines and major bills she voted for. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/hillary_clinton/300022 Here's a Wikipedia page dedicated to her Senate career. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_career_... | I will not vote for Hillary. | 1 | 2016-10-04T02:42:37 | 60 | 22 | 4 |
So is beating someone for being different... | If you aren't being denied services or being beaten then I think you have enough equal rights that you should shut up and focus on other issues. | 1 | 2017-05-07T06:10:01 | 47 | 3 | 3 |
I don't see you actually spelling out what exactly the absolute definition of theft is anywhere, so I'll assume we're talking about the appropriation of property without the owner's consent. In a theft (such as robbery/burglary/bank heist/etc): the thieving party takes and keeps, and the "victim" gets nothing but a los... | Any belief system that includes the fundamental belief that theft is morally wrong is incompatible with a belief that taxes are right. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-17T00:05:32 | 35 | 5 | 1 |
A common excuse is that some people are mentally ill when they want to kill themselves. My response is , not as many as you think. Many healthy people just aren't interested in life (myself included) Suicidal ideation and behavior in and of itself is classified as mentally unhealthy, so it's a Catch-22. And there's go... | suicidal people deserve legal euthanasia options | 1 | 2017-04-28T17:04:43 | 173 | 2 | 1 |
It seems like we'd have a decent chance of survival, but in the incredibly unlikely chance that there *is* a killer asteroid headed towards us there is a non-negligible chance that we wouldn't notice in time to stop us. At this point, Yeomans estimates, we would need 10-20 years of advance notice to prepare—to build a... | If a killer asteroid were headed to Earth, Humans would be able to stop it. | 1 | 2015-05-16T06:48:17 | 38 | 24 | 22Δ |
There are some things that people should have a basic knowledge of. Sure you don't need to know exactly how a web browser works, but it's important to know at least that Chrome is web browser and that it allows internet access. Also, in a world where we are constantly on our phones and computers it is reasonable to exp... | Expecting an average citizen to be knowledgeable about ANY ONE topic is unreasonable. | 0 | 2015-04-08T06:37:40 | 52 | 2 | null |
You mean everyone who supports murder being illegal isn't planning on murdering anyone? Shock. There are only two ways to change my view: 1. Give an example of something you do not want to do or support that government should make you do or support. 2. Give an example of something you want to do that government should ... | Everyone wants government to avoid intruding in their lives, yet often ask government to intrude in the lives of others. | 0 | 2014-04-06T23:20:05 | 225 | 8 | null |
Every singly law in our legal system is built on the foundation set by our constitution. If we rewrote the constitution, we would essentially have to write every other law in the country all over again. Every. Single. Time. You can argue that our legal system is too complex and needs to be wiped clean, but our legal sy... | Thomas Jefferson was right. The constitution should be re-written from scrap every twenty years or so. | 0 | 2016-12-31T02:50:50 | 52 | 2 | null |
Allright so this will be a bit long, so I am sorry for that. Let me assess a few things first: I used to hate the souls series. A few years ago, I tried Demon Souls on PS3 and got completely wiped. I tried Dark Souls, managed to go to what I called the “green pit of hell” and then ragequitted when I kept dying to toxic... | Dark Souls isn't hard game, but rather creates illusion of difficulty with gimmicky controls and unbalanced gameplay | 1 | 2017-05-21T18:18:12 | 342 | 13 | 1 |
James Carville and Mary Matalin, a democratic strategist married to a republican strategist. 24 years married. The reason here is these are extremely intelligent people who have justified their positions with data, debate, etc to each other, publicly. I would amend your statement to say "Someone cannot have a relations... | It is impossible to have a fruitful relationship with somebody who has opposing political views | 1 | 2017-05-02T01:23:01 | 53 | 13 | 6 |
If it helps you focus on the matter at hand, here's a rephrase: I have a button that, once pressed, will retroactively switch the current calendar to one with the "fixes" I describe above. This change is instant, seamless, and will carry no cost apart from the effort to press the button. Convince me not to press it. Yo... | The Gregorian calendar should be scrapped and replaced with something more logical. | 0 | 2014-12-24T15:41:52 | 192 | 24 | null |
It is interesting that all of the "bad guys" in your scenarios are basically Republicans where it's viewed as someone trying to control another. But that's a different topic... Yes, clearly I am much more left leaning. I'm also a gun owner, so if you like, pretend I made such a scenario about democrats wanting to make ... | You cannot change your political opinions by choice, and therefore they should be treated no differently than religion with regard to civil rights. | 1 | 2017-01-28T06:32:07 | 61 | 2 | 12 |
Really the only deciding factor in watching a show is if you like the general genre that the show is. Beyond that, nothing will tell you if you like the show or not other then just watching it. For example, True Detective is a crime thriller series, and personally I hate TV shows. I was talked into just trying it once... | I don't want to waste my time on Battlestar Galactica. | 1 | 2014-10-19T03:59:49 | 29 | 3 | 3 |
If you were in a similar position, where you accepted a job that did not violate your personal beliefs, and then suddenly someone else made a decision and now the job does, would resigning be so easy for you? Especially after you've been there for 30 years? Would that be fair in your eyes? Would it be easy? No. Would I... | I don't think Kim Davis should be forced to issue marriage licenses to gay couples | 1 | 2015-09-03T14:57:59 | 74 | 51 | 40 |
I own 3 cars with no catalytic converters and a high flow muffler and one car has no mufflers or anything. The reason I do this is because I am an enthusiast that has cars that are heavily modified. Restricted exhausts also restrict performance, especially on turbocharged cars. Cruising and at idle they are all not tha... | People who drive loud cars and motorcycles are inconsiderate assholes | 0 | 2015-06-29T02:19:32 | 659 | 5 | 1Δ |
Although the responses mentioning the fact that people could be untruthful when providing anecdotal evidence are obviously accurate, this isn't the main problem with it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking anecdotal evidence into consideration, especially in a circumstance like asking someone you know their e... | I like anecdotal evidence. | 1 | 2015-08-27T07:08:42 | 54 | 2 | 1 |
I haven't seen any obvious editorial bias although it must exist. However, it's highly unlikely that Wikileaks would make much distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans, from what I understand Assange views them as two sides of the same coin. | WikiLeaks has devolved into a political organization with an agenda beyond freedom of information | 0 | 2016-08-11T19:11:07 | 135 | 1 | null |
One difference I'd like to point out between you and Rust Belt people is that you were groomed from birth to seek education. I'm not saying you had it easy, but at least you had what sounds like a support network. I'm not sure what other privileges or luck you had but I'd urge you to think on what other factors led you... | I have no sympathy left for Americans who refuse to adapt to new socioeconomic realities but voted Trump in. | 1 | 2017-01-20T09:24:50 | 52 | 43 | 13 |
I think the root of this comes not from the feeling that women are weaker or defenseless against men, because even if a woman is much, much stronger than an individual man, I suspect that the rape of that woman will seem worse for you than the rape of that man. I think this attitude comes from the purity aspect of wom... | I support resources and help centers for male rape victims, but I don't see male rape as severe as female rape. | 1 | 2015-06-18T22:39:40 | 24 | 1 | null |
Sure, its a mental health issue. Its a gun control issue. Its also a feminist issue. The guy was mentally unstable and had access to guns. That's a problem. The guy was unable to find useful mental health and/or he and his family were unable to find him the help he needed. That's a problem. He was able to find people ... | The recent shooting in Isla Vista (or UCSB, if you will) is not about women's rights | 1 | 2014-05-26T13:09:23 | 651 | 51 | 12 |
They do actually have some jurisdiction over time outside of school hours. Schools may, for example, assign homework to be done at home. This is part of the education. So is detention. That said, there are a couple of caveats. Obviously, holding a student against his or her will is wrong. However, if the detention poli... | I believe school detention should be illegal | 0 | 2016-09-03T19:47:17 | 54 | 3 | 8 |
Is your view changed? | I feel like math, philosophy, first and second language and IT should be the only course taught to children until 4th grade. | 1 | 2015-03-26T14:58:54 | 46 | 2 | 45Δ |
The problem is suits are always more professional looking the only way to prevent looks and dress from effecting the interview is to do it over the phone. Me personally I have always dressed appropriately for the job the interview is for. And haven't had an issue so I really don't see where you see a suit being expect... | The culture of expecting suits for entry-level job interviews is institutionalized classism that is unfair to the poor | 0 | 2016-11-26T05:14:13 | 50 | 6 | 30 |
Don't hate - educate. XKCD put it best http://xkcd.com/1053/ Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time. I consider myself fairly well informed and passionate about astronomy, but I wo... | "Cosmos: a space-time odyssey" is an elementary school educational show. | 0 | 2014-06-19T01:16:35 | 27 | 7 | 24 |
A few challenges: 1) This all assumes that every self-determined 18 year old freshman is a good judge of his or her own competence. What metrics do you have as a non-expert to determine your own expertise? How trustworthy is a freshman at anything, let alone accurately judging his own abilities and intelligence? How ma... | Mandatory college gen eds and formal class prerequisites punish self-determined students (US) | 0 | 2016-09-13T21:28:23 | 129 | 2 | null |
I think it is a very fraught discussion but from a practical standpoint you are right, there is this totally secular holiday that has nothing to do with Christ and Christian observances. Many of us Christians sort of wish that secular society could have come up with their own holiday for shopping and over-indulgence. I... | Christmas is not a religious event. | 0 | 2015-12-02T21:45:59 | 65 | 2 | null |
Twitter the website is nigh-unusable, but Twitter the service is pretty usable. There are so many out-of context sentences with people replying to each other but I can't see what they're replying to unless I click around for a while. Couldn't the replies be grouped with the original tweet without having to click on th... | Twitter is nearly unreadable and people mostly only use it for posting | 0 | 2015-02-09T23:56:50 | 38 | 25 | 14 |
Have you considered getting up earlier in the day and using that time as some of your free time before you start work? | It's unfair of a partner to ask that I give up my hobbies | 1 | 2016-01-29T09:14:36 | 50 | 2 | null |
Unfortunately, there is no way to have anti-trust in the other direction. If walmart raises its prices by $.03 to maintain its current profits while other stores have to raise things by $1+, Walmart has the best price, and they haven't changed a thing, or committed any monopolistic act. Preventing this while providing ... | Increasing the minimum wage is a good idea | 1 | 2016-02-04T06:54:48 | 85 | 2 | 2 |
A UBI would ideally be set up such that it increases over time as more and more production becomes automated. This gradually closes the gap between the upper and lower classes until eventually all (or most) work is automated and there is (little or) no gap. If the UBI is set to be just barely enough and never increase,... | Universal basic income will, in the long term, entrench inequality | 1 | 2017-05-01T19:31:03 | 102 | 6 | 14 |
While it may have some impact, I think it's much more likely that the 1.357 billion people in China currently experiencing an industrial revolution, or the 1.252 billion people in India will be a much larger factor. Additionally, we might be better served by using our cheap energy to research and create ways to help th... | Trump's position on climate change will devastate (if not outright doom) the world in the long run. | 1 | 2016-11-14T18:17:10 | 56 | 22 | null |
You seem very focused on the lack of direct evidence that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. Would you say it's conspiratorial to suggest members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia (or agents of Russia i.e hackers) during the campaign? I would argue that it is possible that people working for the campaign... | Given what is publicly known as of today, to believe that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election is conspiratorial | 0 | 2017-06-20T16:52:42 | 351 | 1 | null |
If I'm passionate about something like english, should I really spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to college when I'll make 20k a year after graduating? Yes. Then write a bestselling novel and become a millionaire. My favorite subject in school is history, but I'd be stupid to major in history in college. W... | The phrase "do what you love and you'll succeed" is ridiculous and stupid to tell kids. | 0 | 2015-10-18T01:54:01 | 29 | 2 | 4 |
"No rational argument would change the mind of most current Trump supporters" Depending on how you narrowly you define Trump supporters, this statement would be either false or a truism. Furthermore, it would be either false or truism whether you substitute Clinton/Sanders or whatever for Trump. Following this logic... | Democrats should focus on their own base rather than Trump voters in future elections | 1 | 2017-03-16T06:26:13 | 103 | 1 | 1 |
Say a drug dealer is arrested for trafficking and slapped with a felony conviction or two. After they have served their time, say they go to school to try to turn their life around, only to find out that they can't land a job because of a stupid decision they made years ago. Even though they have served their due punis... | It should not be legal to inquire about race/ethnicity or criminal record on job applications. | 0 | 2015-10-16T17:31:50 | 44 | 5 | 46 |
I'd like to try to CYV as a person with a fatal nut/peanut allergy. I think it should be the responsibility of the person with the allergy, not the rest of the world. As an adult, I agree entirely. My allergy is so severe that even being nearby foods that contain or were cooked with peanuts can be fatal. Here are the ... | All children should be allowed to bring nuts to school. | 1 | 2015-09-14T21:48:57 | 297 | 1,070 | 18 |
Hyperbolic words is a form of [heuristics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic) (especially when political). Liberals keep getting called socialists, and it makes socialism seem a lot more palatable to the average person, emboldening actual socialists and legitimizing them in the eyes of society. People are going t... | The use of hyperbole in politics ultimately undermines your own side and radicalizes groups you oppose | 1 | 2015-04-09T19:00:57 | 57 | 59 | 2Δ |
Depends where, I'm sure Bangladeshi are more stricken by their own history. However, European influence is much stronger than Bangladeshi influence. Meaning that anything which is part of their past tend to stick in the memory of a lot of people. Remember that not so long ago, the whole word was under European rule and... | The Holocaust is not a unique genocide (when compared to other genocides). | 1 | 2015-01-30T22:46:44 | 64 | 2 | 12 |
First off, the government is above god if you live in a secular democracy. Meaning "God has no say in the way laws and policy are made." Simple as that. If you're an American, it's in first amendment. The government has every right to tell your religion what practices are appropriate if they deem some of them unconsti... | Christianity is under attack in the western world | 0 | 2017-06-04T00:13:23 | 219 | 1 | null |
If you want to be a vegetarian for the rest of your life, go take a tour through a slaughterhouse. Anecdotally, my father took a tour through a chicken factory when he was 5, and nearly 60 years later chicken makes him ill. Nobody ever wants to see how the sausage is made. | I think most people are vegans/vegetarians because of pop culture. Change My View. | 1 | 2013-05-08T21:21:09 | 56 | 3 | 9Δ |
I think you're looking at the complaints (though not all of them) from the wrong approach. The fact that people feel backed into a one or the other, lesser of two evils choice every four years is enough reason for disdain as is, but it is only compounded by a trend that seems to grow every election; executive or legisl... | Obama is the best we could do 2008-2013 and complaining about his presidency is pointless, CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-06T05:34:04 | 120 | 12 | 1 |
An interesting story from someone who was homeless themselves: http://www.cracked.com/article_20720_7-things-no-one-tells-you-about-being-homeless.html I know Cracked might seem like an odd or sensational source, but I found this changed some preconceptions of mine about homelessness. | I mistrust and don't believe in providing for the homeless. Please CMV | 0 | 2013-11-20T13:05:37 | 81 | 1 | 1 |
Thanks for the reply. I'll start with the first thought about zoos that accommodate everything. It's impractical IMO to provide such a space and due to economics simply won't happen. The sheer quantity of animals, in addition to the diverse environments they would require and the limited space of cities, makes it impo... | Zoos can be ethical | 1 | 2015-08-08T02:59:05 | 100 | 1 | 2 |
Someone posted an article on a similar cmv that showed The US spends more money on Pell grants and other student aid then it would cost to make all state schools free. So that counters one of your views. I wouldn't be surprised if it was also the case for medicine | America can't afford universal healthcare or free college education. | 1 | 2015-06-30T19:45:46 | 181 | 25 | 9 |
In that sense you could say that WE are the ones who say "Mobile" with an accent, and the English who say it without one. And your title says there's no such thing as an American accent... vitamin (-it as in wit) and vitamin (-it as in white) | There is no such thing as an American Accent | 1 | 2017-04-27T22:39:12 | 205 | 4 | null |
People who don't even bother with *paragraphs* shouldn't expect citations from volunteer content contributors trying to indulge them. You arn't assigning a task, your trying to entice peoples sense of curiosity. Also what are your benchmarks for "productivity"? How do you *really* know whose productive? Your view, as ... | Segregated ( by gender) workplaces would lead to improved productivity. | 1 | 2014-08-26T17:32:23 | 21 | 11 | 10 |
The thing that defines a slave more than anything is the lack of freedom of choice. When you're a slave, most every decision has been made for you. The people you describe have choices they make. They can choose not to work, they can choose to spend their time just hanging out. It would be really foolish of them to do ... | paying some only enough (or not even enough) to live pay check to pay check is the same thing as slavery. | 1 | 2016-12-20T15:52:32 | 60 | 55 | 1 |
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