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Why do we have ambition? We don't know. Since we don't know what makes ambition we can't say that a robot could, or could not, have it. In fact one of the things people in this area are going to want to try and do is discover if they can make a robot intelligent/ambitious. Imagine if you were a polar bear at a zoo. The... | There's no danger that robots will take over the world in the future | 0 | 2017-03-31T18:20:25 | 100 | 1 | 45 |
Everyone's making great points here. I want to point out that these great monolithic religions were, at many points in their history, revolutionary in their treatment of humans and the advancement of human rights. The Catholic Church was, for the longest time in the Middle Ages and beyond, the largest provider of healt... | The world would be so much better without Christianity, Islam, and Judaism | 1 | 2016-11-21T16:53:04 | 312 | 483 | 1 |
My understanding of C-3P0 is that he serves mainly as comic relief in the movies. Yes. Jar Jar is also comedic relief. But missing a partner to build rapport with. And at an infantile level. However, he's in way too many scenes to the point that he just gets annoying. I can see why people might find C-3PO annoying. Pe... | C-3PO is the worst character in the Star Wars Movies. Yes, I said C-3PO is worse than Jar Jar. | 0 | 2014-07-22T00:57:53 | 36 | 3 | null |
Your argument doesn't make sense. You say western values are "superior" but to support the argument you simply bring up examples of (what you consider) western values, rather than showing they are actually "superior". How exactly are they superior? | CMV : Western cultures and values are superior | 0 | 2017-04-04T19:51:54 | 100 | 1 | 10 |
Wouldn't the ultimate safe space be wholly separate and unreachable from external views and ideas? Any one of us can visit r/The_Donald and post anything we like. It may get deleted quickly or it may not, but if it does someone might still see it. Certainly, at the very least, the user who reported it and the mod who d... | r/The_Donald is the ultimate Safe Space. | 1 | 2017-02-09T19:48:57 | 158 | 44 | 2 |
Although agree that the poor shouldn't be helped, I don't think the rich should have as much as they do. It's unnecessary to have way more than you need, and that money could be put to better use by helping the general public. | The rich have no obligation to help the poor. CMV | 0 | 2013-03-11T08:06:40 | 92 | 0 | null |
When was the last time there was even an american movie that focused on martial arts at all? The Kill Bill movies were decent and focused on martial arts. The first Dark Knight movie while not focusing on martial arts, had a lot of martial arts movie elements to it. | There are no good english language martial arts movies being made anymore. | 0 | 2016-03-02T22:01:04 | 41 | 3 | 1 |
I don't think I can change your view, but maybe I can give you some hope. As always, each new generation has new values. I grew up with environmentalism being a big deal. Almost none of my peers deny climate-science and we're starting to have power. I have worked with environmental NGOs and worked alongside ecologists... | As an environmental engineer, I give up! PLEASE CMV! | 1 | 2015-04-24T00:54:37 | 366 | 2 | 1Δ |
Immigration can't be stopped completely. Only legal immigration. The harder you make it to immigrate legally, the more people there will be who are highly motivated to immigrate illegally. This will inevitably lead to a larger black market for smuggling people past the border, which will commensurately increase opportu... | I believe that allowing ANY immigration from other countries is putting non-citizens lives ahead of citizens, as some of these migrants will harm current citizens, no matter where they are from. | 1 | 2017-06-27T04:33:37 | 45 | 4 | 2 |
The FACT is, piracy means less money for hundreds/thousands of people involved in the product. Your premise is [outright false](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Criticism_of_industry_estimates). While some people will pirate even if a decent way to obtain the media is available, most people pirate be... | I believe internet piracy is morally wrong and the reddit hivemind on this issue is ridiculous. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-19T17:28:47 | 150 | 9 | 13 |
I'll bite. I think the premise itself here is flawed: what does it mean for society to "culminate" in any state? Human societies have gone through many sweeping changes over the centuries, nothing stays the same for very long. How would you even know something has culminated or reached some end state where it would no ... | Civilization will culminate in either socialism or feudalism | 1 | 2017-03-01T18:39:46 | 130 | 27 | 1 |
I think you're being too rigid, which is something that shows up a lot in CMV. Yes, the movie theater is supposed to be as quiet as possible, but you have to understand that you're voluntarily going into a social situation and there are people in society that have disabilities. For that kid his non-standard upbringing ... | There was a child who was deaf in my showing of Jurassic Park. He was very noisy. I don't believe he should have gone to the movies, and I think it would have been okay if he were kicked out for being a disturbance. | 0 | 2015-06-16T21:46:04 | 258 | -3 | null |
I also want to make clear here, as a final point, that this is not intended in any way, as an attack on Kate Mulgrew as an actress. I've seen her in interviews and numerous other places, and she comes across as an extremely positive, vivacious, and charming person. True! [Unless you ask Jeri Ryan](http://girlonguy.net/... | I think Kathryn Janeway of *Star Trek: Voyager*, was the worst Trek captain, by a mile. CMV. | 1 | 2013-10-07T19:26:50 | 180 | 3 | 1 |
This was actually one of the parts to his plan I liked the most. You are concerned that returning this much control to parents will allow some of them to make mistakes. That's certainly true but think of it this way: Is a heterogeneous environment that allows for some mistakes worse than a monoculture where everyone is... | Donald Trump's plan for American education will be a disaster. | 0 | 2016-11-22T16:46:59 | 369 | 5 | null |
Your premise "human extinction would reduce human suffering at least as well as achieving an utopia would" really is objectively true under the premise that death is the end of the conscious experience - if everyone is dead, then there can't be any suffering anymore, and less then no suffering at all is impossible. But... | Given the premise that "death is the end of subjective conscious human experience", human extinction would reduce human suffering at least as well as achieving an utopia would. | 0 | 2016-10-13T17:41:54 | 181 | 30 | 5 |
Yes, of course. I have reasons why I don't want people doing various things. But that's not what we're talking about. You're not just saying you want them to stop doing stuff, you're saying it should be illegal. I'm trying to show you that we do many many things to animals that you've already said in other comments sh... | Beastiality should be illegal, and those who engage in it should be prosecuted. | 1 | 2014-10-20T02:56:54 | 71 | 2 | 12 |
I am a man who exclusively is attracted to men. The label 'gay' is useful for me to communicate that to others to whom it might matter. I don't think that label is restricting the kind of sexual encounters I have; it's literally used to make sure that I *only have* the kinds of sexual encounters I'm interested in. I do... | Putting labels on sexuality is reductive and does more harm than good | 1 | 2017-04-06T04:23:30 | 42 | 11 | 2 |
With the same person? Probably not (or not worth it). But you usually come out of a failed relationship grieving but ultimately settle into a more clear view of oneself and your expectations of others. And if or when you come across another person where a relationship is a possibility you don't avoid it just because it... | I believe that relationships are not worth the risk of them ending. | 1 | 2016-10-19T20:33:50 | 60 | 1 | 1 |
Because "22 billion*ths* meters" could very easily be confused with "22 billion meters". Big difference. Yet, nano will never be confused with kilo. That sort of the point. | Metric conversions (e.g. kilo- to centi-) are just silly; we should just use the units without prefixes. | 1 | 2014-09-17T18:13:12 | 60 | 2 | 5 |
I am a browser and non-contributor on the philosophy subreddits, and would highly encourage going to /r/philosophy and reading their reading list for some good stuff involving philosophy. However, I will focus on philosophy of logic as my counterpoint to your thinking: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/wiki/readingli... | It is not worthwhile for me to study philosophy | 1 | 2016-02-05T17:30:53 | 62 | 3 | 1 |
There is no such country that is solely socialist, there is no country that is solely capitalist. Finland and Denmark are both a mixture of capitalism and socialism. Same as America to some degree. Are all of these countries on the path to collapse? Greece didn't collapse because it was a socialist country. And as an e... | CMV : I don't believe socialism has every worked for the betterment of a country. | 0 | 2017-03-27T18:57:25 | 93 | 7 | null |
Dark humor isn't for everybody, but calling someone unsympathetic for enjoying it is completely off the mark. Dark humor derives it's humor from things that are supposed to make you uncomfortable. If it's about something that isn't discomforting, then it isn't as funny. The humor from a dark joke doesn't come from the ... | Joking about tragedy is cruel and insensitive and makes you look very unsympathetic, even if you actually are underneath. | 1 | 2017-01-20T01:13:36 | 51 | 19 | 23 |
This is nothing but a way to impose a set of moral values on an entire group of people. It's incredibly arrogant to assume that if we could just force people to reflect more they would see I'm right. This proposal is much the same as the internal ultrasound laws, designed to make the procedure more uncomfortable in ord... | I believe we should come up with an "abortion device" so ONLY the pregnant woman can terminate the pregnancy herself. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-18T02:49:59 | 138 | 4 | 9 |
so you're basically saying that since we decide our actions, then their executions give us satisfaction of fullfilling our will, therefore it is selfish. Dude, that's a tautology. You have to give us an example of an action that WOULD be altruist then, because right now, I don't see | Every single thing a person does is for selfish reasons. | 0 | 2015-02-16T17:15:16 | 122 | 1 | null |
There's more to the world than the Western first world - that's why women's rights are still so important. Western women have no need for our support, they already have equal rights to men... it's the third world countries Women's Day is about. Women's rights are human rights, are you saying non-gays shouldn't care abo... | As a masculine gay man without female friends, I and other gay men in my position have no rational reason to support women's rights other than preference | 1 | 2016-03-08T14:02:41 | 48 | 3 | 3 |
1: I don't understand this point. Why is it more useful? Are you trying to say Fahrenheit is more sensible because 100 F is intuitively 'pretty warm'? I think have 0 as a huge marker between freezing/snowy weather and not is way more useful. From there, 0-10 is fairly cool, 10-20 is cool/getting warm, 20-30 is warm/ple... | Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius in everyday usage | 1 | 2015-03-19T02:03:30 | 130 | 19 | 1Δ |
Greed, corruption, and ignorance has always been an issue in US history. Is this a unique characteristic of the United States? It seems to me that humanity has an innate "selfish" drive that is the root of all these problems. I remember telling someone about the war crimes we are alleged to have committed in the Phili... | At this moment in time, the United States creates more problems than it solves both domestically and internationally. | 1 | 2015-12-28T22:03:58 | 119 | 89 | 22 |
The original intention was for the people to be democratically represented first and foremost by their state governments, with the federal government's primary focus being to represent the states using a compromise between statehood and population to determine electoral votes. The people elected their state governments... | In American politics, the electoral college should not exist. | 1 | 2016-12-07T20:22:44 | 171 | 2 | 85 |
The dissonance is because you know it's an assumption based on an emotional response, as opposed to a concrete deduction based on facts (or at least a large data set). You're right to be pissed, and it makes sense to connect your anger with a group culturally different than you. What wouldn't make sense is deducing tha... | [CMV] I believe that prejudice can sometimes be justified. | 1 | 2014-03-01T02:05:45 | 23 | 1 | 3∆ |
I think the obvious question is, do you think men should be drafted into service and sent to the front lines? If so, why is that okay? | Women should not be drafted into the service and sent to the front lines. | 0 | 2016-09-09T07:23:37 | 78 | 8 | 11 |
You're sort of right but I think for the wrong reasons. The government has the right to regulate speech on a content-neutral basis and states could pass laws (I believe many have done so) disallowing demonstrations within 500 feet of a funeral. These laws would also prevent people from holding up signs that say "We Lov... | Banning picketing outside funerals is a good idea. Some say banning Westboro Baptist-type behavior near funerals constitutes a slippery slope to censorship; I disagree, I think a funeral-protest ban is actually prudent and justified by legal precedent in the US. CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-22T19:25:28 | 57 | 2 | 15 |
Mario can go all six of the directions you normally have in three dimensions, but also a fourth direction: the GTFO-the-planet-direction. Whenever he takes one of those little star things and blasts off to another planet, he's going a completely different direction. How is this any different from warp zones? | The Super Mario Galaxy games are 4D platformers. | 0 | 2016-06-04T22:44:35 | 29 | 3 | 17 |
Suicide is weakness in my mind, because it is a choice. And when you have a choice between turning everything off, or 'beating the game', and you consciously choose to die, you are a quitter and that is weak. To start, I'd like you to look at this from different angle with me... So, here's an article from Wikipedia on ... | Suicide is an act of weakness. | 1 | 2015-03-22T17:11:14 | 34 | 1 | 2Δ |
You should not categorize Trump voters that way because, regardless of the truth of the categories, it is a fundamentally unproductive way of looking at things and does not promote healthy political discourse between you and the people whose view you want to change. Somebody on the right can categorize Hillary's suppor... | Trump voters basically fall into three categories. | 0 | 2017-03-27T23:03:06 | 143 | 14 | 2 |
For there to be any meaningful discussion here, you have to define "true kindness/altruism." For example, a generous person who makes self-sacrifices for others could gain satisfaction in his own mind that he's done something "good" That's pretty much it (excluding the end of that sentence on purpose). That's why I do... | I believe that everyone is selfish and there is no true kindness in people. CMV | 0 | 2013-10-10T00:08:58 | 97 | 1 | 2 |
If we blame countries on previous conduct, then where do we draw the line? Are the Turks not responsible because the Ottoman Empire did not properly develop the middle-east? Did the mongols not raid and pillage most of the world, and [brought an end to the Golden Age of Islam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Gold... | Europe has a responsibility to help the refugees (and, to an extent, towards all immigrants) because of their colonial brutality in Africa and Asia. | 1 | 2015-09-03T00:01:01 | 93 | 48 | 3 |
I think a third party vote is pointless because the overwhelming majority of citizens will vote R or D. It feels like voting third party is losing my chance at having an influence on the actual outcome of the election. It's not pointless though, because it affects the next election. When future candidates are deciding ... | I cannot cast a vote tomorrow and keep a clear conscience. | 1 | 2016-11-07T16:24:04 | 41 | 3 | null |
I spend most of my free time writing music from which I make no money and give away for free. I'm perfectly happy with doing this, since I enjoy making others happy. If you give enough free music people will pay you. This is how hip hop started. And also the Grate Ful Dead. Also how street music people live. I think ... | Capitalism is a system that penalizes doing things for goodwill and is detrimental to society. | 0 | 2015-04-27T06:09:35 | 95 | 0 | 2 |
Curious: are there any other conditions that you feel would be best treated w/ institutionalization & the withholding of effective treatment in the hopes that another option might someday be found? Even if withholding treatment causes severe mental health issues, including an attempted rate of 41%? | Treating Gender Dysphoria by Gender Reassignment is cruel and counterproductive. | 0 | 2015-09-26T21:49:32 | 552 | 3 | null |
Number one problem is that bullying is a blanket term that defines a vast array of possible behaviors, some of which are totally acceptable under some situations and are totally abhorrent. Some schools have defined possible characteristics as "Name calling, joking, aggressive physical contact." All of those things coul... | I believe bullying should be an expelable offense at first evidence. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-15T03:25:43 | 55 | 2 | 1 |
Seems to me a better solution would be to have the lights automatically go off when the car goes off, but have an option to manually turn them on and off separately even if the car isn't running. This lets you use them at night when needed, but keeps you from killing your battery when you drive through a tunnel during ... | Auto manufacturers should make their vehicles' headlights shut off when the car shuts off | 0 | 2015-08-02T06:08:16 | 58 | 1 | null |
I am thinking of the recent trend of fixed gear bikes for every day use in normal city traffic. Imo they suck for several reasons: because of the hype they are often ridiculously expensive, although they should be relatively inexpensive for having no gears and rudimentary brakes (if any). * They are not ridiculously ex... | Fixie bikes suck. | 1 | 2015-12-16T18:11:47 | 294 | 3 | 1 |
Well, then an important question would be what do you propose the system be? Again, the legal system really doesn't punish guys because two people who were both the same level of drunk met and had sex. The system punishes when there is either a big gap in level of intoxication (e.g. sober guy meets girl who can barely ... | If two drunk people have sex, no rape or sexual assault was committed. Or, alternately, each of them sexually assaulted the other. | 1 | 2014-04-16T15:42:41 | 164 | 3 | 8 |
Dems should make the determination if they truly want to filibuster a nominee for four years, when Republicans did it for only one. Four years isn't an option, because GOP leaders can easily change the rules to allow Supreme Court votes to pass with 51 votes, and not the current 60 required - so a filibuster is easily ... | Democrats should confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. | 0 | 2017-02-01T22:20:49 | 125 | 1 | null |
I also notice in nature that animals can be gay and animals can transition from one gender to another This makes it sound like you're talking about physical attributes, so I wonder if part of the issue is that you're conflating anatomical sex with gender identity in humans. The whole point of gender fluidity is that no... | I don't think Gender Fluid is a valid gender identity. | 0 | 2016-09-14T23:03:15 | 101 | 3 | null |
I've heard someone describe poker as being a good card game despite people who are objectively better at it losing to people due to RNG because when people who are objectively worse win, they're more likely to play more hands, make more bets, etc. RNG keeps people coming back and it keeps things interesting, even for p... | Hearthstone is an objectively bad Card Game. | 0 | 2015-09-08T18:26:12 | 75 | 1 | null |
Dubstep is a true minefield. Here we go. I'm going to blindly assume this is a typical 'dubstep' example you have listened to; [Dr P - Sweet Shop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZkzcm7ubQg) This isn't the true sound. Saying 'oh dubstep is all wob wob screeeech wib wob wob wob' is so false. Let me bring some history ... | The only musical genre that I don't like any examples of that I have heard is dubstep. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-04T17:13:36 | 44 | 89 | 1 |
One thing has to do with how feasible/expensive it is to get live shots. Because the phone has a shiny glass face on it, phones tend to look washed out when using actual shots. There are other reasons that are less legit (not having the damn thing working at the time of shooting being one of them), or downright disinge... | The "Screen Images Simulated" on Cell Phone Commercials are False Advertising | 1 | 2015-03-20T15:41:21 | 30 | 0 | 2Δ |
There are very real health reasons for wearing shoes. In the Southeastern US, hookworm was an epidemic which severely impacted the health and productivity of the region. The situation got so bad that historians now point to it as a reason for the stereotype of Southerners as lazy and dumb. The hookworm epidemic was in... | The requirement to wear shoes in public (in nonformal settings) is arbitrary and should be lifted | 0 | 2017-04-17T20:19:14 | 67 | 1 | 1 |
Apple has always (or since Steve Jobs anyway) looked to evolve computers away from what they are now and towards a final form. The iPhone isn't the way it is now because it is perfect, it is the way it is now because that is one step closer to the ideal. The ideal is the whole thing is a single piece of shatter proof g... | Apple are falsely equating simplicity with minimalism in their hardware design | 1 | 2016-10-31T19:22:13 | 191 | 3 | 2 |
I have never read philosophy, or well I have never gotten into it, and the more I think about the subject the less I want to get into it. You are basing whether to read philosophy over "thinking" about what it might be like, rather than actually reading it. Give me people that live, that really live. Not some person t... | I think we will do better by reading the biography and thoughts of great people rather than philosophers. | 0 | 2016-06-27T20:23:50 | 55 | 1 | 7 |
They're both important. A lot of medications that are only recommended to women, for instance, isn't because the medication bizarrely cares about whether they have a vagina- but rather because of how the medication interacts with their hormones. A transgender woman will have a "hormone profile", if you will, that is mo... | While gender can be decided upon by the person, sex cannot due to genetics and sex, not gender, should be used for medical and other information on forms (as well as gender if necessary) | 1 | 2014-08-26T20:06:56 | 759 | 14 | 3 |
Foods that are more suited to chopsticks: 1. Sushi (fork makes them fall apart) 2. Many types of dumplings (form makes jucies run out) 3. Popcorn (eating with hands is gross, and using fork is impossible) So at last for these foods, chopsticks are superior. | Chopsticks are in no way superior to fork & knife. | 1 | 2015-05-21T17:13:07 | 431 | 43 | 49Δ |
"Rights" represent a contradiction between the law of the land and basic laws that govern human morality (what are known as "moral truths"). For example, in the southern US in the early 1800s, the law of the land allowed slavery. But people argued that slavery was wrong. Why? Because while it's true that it was legal a... | 'Rights' are not a real thing. They only exist as much as the state allows. Talking about (or legislating) 'Rights' without mentioning 'responsibilities and 'limits' encourages faulty, destructive thinking. | 0 | 2015-08-26T16:02:31 | 311 | 1 | 1 |
While it's true that data is made by pluralizing anecdotes, it's not made by doing only that. There's a major difference between the process you described and what the average person does when they generalize from anecdotes. In simpler terms data is no more the plural of anecdote than house is the plural of brick. | The plural of anecdote *is* data | 1 | 2016-02-18T03:38:31 | 36 | 1 | 38 |
OP, people who commit suicide tend to have underlying issues, clinical depression and/or anxiety for example. Now, if you want to look up treatments for these kinds of disorders, you'll notice that "tough love" doesn't work as a treatment, and in fact, makes them worse. Now, granted, I have come across a few teenage du... | I believe that kids who are bullied are partially to blame for the bullying and all this new attention placed on "anti-bullying" is a little too much. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-11T17:23:38 | 72 | 42 | 12 |
The Olympics are about more than one thing though. Yes, they are about athleticism. However, they were created as a peaceful competition between nations -- an alternative to war. In creating this alternative, experts in martial skills would invited to compete. The word Marathon and the distance of the race is directly ... | Shooting should not be a sport in the Olympics | 1 | 2016-08-07T21:58:37 | 30 | 8 | 4 |
You have a lot of issues. My uncle broke his ankle and never had it set right. This was during the depression. Well, it fucked his hip. You have nutrition issues. Much of the labor done back then was manual labor. You're going to wear down. | I believe the majority of mobility problems of the elderly is self inflicted. | 0 | 2016-08-30T01:21:15 | 66 | 2 | 9 |
Dude, you must be in highschool, or not have any schooling after highschool. The real world requires so much reading and writing e.g. college essays, job applications, letters, lab write ups, instructions *reddit posts*. Reading is fundamental dude, from Nobel prize winning scientists writing there dissertation to cops... | English in American high schools is an unnecessary course | 1 | 2016-10-10T07:27:37 | 60 | 4 | 1 |
Lets just go and throw the subreddit /r/mensrights right out. There's a lot of "radical" MRA in there, much like the 'feminists' they often point out are the "radical" feminists. So. Why do I firmly believe mens rights need to be addressed and supported more? It's a combination of anecdotal evidence and actual real wor... | I find it hard to take MRA seriously | 1 | 2015-06-12T16:28:18 | 96 | 15 | null |
I'm going to focus on this segment in particular because I think it's where you have a major misunderstanding about relationships. If you want a monogamous relationship and your SO sleeps with someone else, then you shouldn't be mad at your SO. You should simply realize that you guys want different things out of a rel... | Insisting your SO does not have sex outside of your relationship is a controlling behavior and should not be considered a normal, healthy behavior. | 0 | 2015-06-23T15:03:07 | 40 | 3 | 12Δ |
1. OK. Agreed on Caitlyn Jenner. Waste of space. However, lets not pretend like the celebration of the rest of that family is somehow any good ;) 2. Your perspective on gender is exactly why you should believe! The "it is just something that is" of your gender exists for others as well, just the way "it is" isn't the s... | I do not believe trans/nb people are valid | 1 | 2017-01-04T11:15:20 | 218 | 3 | 53 |
Any justice system that works is built on incentives for compliance, meaning it should never be in the criminal's best interest to resist. If punishments worse than a clean execution existed, it would make more sense to take your chances in a shootout with the police than to comply. Also, the crueler the potential pun... | The punishment should fit the crime. | 1 | 2017-03-07T23:04:32 | 61 | 5 | 98 |
So, take that question, "should you reveal that you're trans before the first date?" and replace "trans" with any other personal health information. It could be a disease, a disability, fertility problems, and on and on. All of those things are potential dealbreakers for somebody. All of them are things that a lot of p... | It's deceptive when trans people wait to reveal that they're trans when things get sexual | 0 | 2016-12-20T19:03:03 | 360 | 5 | 3 |
Its not our job to make sure that [minorities] use these opportunities and have the same outcome as non-minorities. If multiple groups of people are given the exact same opportunities, the rate of success between all the groups should be exactly the same. This assertion stands unless you belive that any one group is in... | People who can't afford to have kids shouldn't be allowed to have them. | 1 | 2017-01-23T14:04:00 | 549 | 10 | 1 |
Do you think a human who kills a human should be punished or face justice in some way? What about a hunter who kills a deer? and what about a lion that kills a gazelle? What about a bear eating a fish? If your response involves a difference scale of justice, then you don't see animals as being equal? Also, a lion is ... | Eating meat is murder and as long as I do that I can't call anyone out for doing anything immoral | 0 | 2015-08-13T04:54:53 | 135 | 1 | 4 |
1. Presumably, you grab socks from the cabinet, then grab shoes from your shoe area. Thus, you have two socks in your hand before you get to your shoes. Thus, putting those on is faster than putting one on, laying the other down, grabbing a shoe, putting that one one, then grabbing the other sock AGAIN, putting it on, ... | Putting on one sock and one shoe, then the other sock and other shoe is superior to both socks and then both shoes. | 0 | 2016-04-23T01:58:50 | 92 | 1 | null |
No stereotype is 100% true, so obviously there will be lots of scientists who aren't interested in sci-fi/fantasy. That said there are several reasons why a scientist would enjoy such things. For one thing, science is hard. It takes a hell of a lot of energy to analyse, test, commit to memory, compare, and theorize. So... | I think it is humiliating for me as a scientists/developer to be associated with sci-fi and fantasy culture such as Star Trek, Lord of Rings, Harry Potter etc. | 0 | 2014-11-30T04:22:37 | 90 | 2 | 2 |
It's not the corporation's job to ensure their employees a comfortable life or that they can take care of their kids, or eat. A company's purpose is to make as much money as possible. You are turning a macroeconomic issue into a purely ethical one, and at the same time throwing the real and actual impact of class hiera... | I believe that workers in minimum-wage jobs have no right to complain about below-subsistence level wages and if they don't like it they should work somewhere else or go back to school. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-29T21:32:41 | 31 | 24 | 1 |
Mod here. You seem to have stacked the deck here. You see to be arguing, "In a world where magic works the way I define it to work, healing will work the way I define it to work, which is dangerous." Others have pointed out "logical systems" where it might function differently (as stated in your OP), but instead of giv... | under any logical system, healing magic would be one of the most dangerous branches of sorcery there is, and would have at least as much martial potential as fire magic or necromancy. | 0 | 2017-06-05T16:32:02 | 75 | 16 | 212 |
I think if we enter a trade deal with China and we get say...their coal for a lot cheaper than what Central Appalachia produces than I think the government has the responsibility to help those people. Who's "we" in this scenario. If the privately-owned power company is buying Chinese coal instead of using American coal... | US should move to the left on economics. | 1 | 2017-03-22T19:28:08 | 115 | 2 | 86 |
It's not that it's wrong to be introverted, it's fine. I'm an introvert. I'm good with it. That being said, life is better when you share it with others, even for an introvert. Suffering softened and success is sweeter when shared. Friends and family are important, and while it might not always be your favorite thing t... | I am a 21 year-old who is rapidly becoming a hermit/recluse. I don't necessarily see anything "wrong" with it. | 0 | 2013-09-11T06:43:45 | 77 | 24 | null |
We do have this. Licenses have restrictions listed on them like, for example, in Minnesota, if you get a bad enough dui or too many duis the courts can order you to put on your drivers licenses a restriction that states, "any alcohol or drug use invalidates this license." This means, to my knowledge, that bars, restaur... | We should prohibit some people from possessing or consuming alcohol like we do with firearms | 0 | 2014-08-19T10:26:56 | 54 | 1 | null |
I'd like to directly address your idea that the patron should speak directly with the cook. I've been a server for 10+ years and I can say with complete confidence that cooks should never, ever speak directly with patrons. Painting with the broadest brush, kitchens are rough, and the staff back there are harried, tire... | waiters should not be the crucial step in preventing allergic reactions | 0 | 2016-08-08T18:00:07 | 333 | 24 | null |
People on the left, the mainstream media, and the current administration seem to be very upset about the e-mail hacking and it's role in the election. However, I think that blaming the Russians is very hypocritical and silly, for the following reasons: It is not hypocrtical... The US govt has proven beyond a shadow of ... | The DNC, not Russia, is to blame for e-mail hacking and it's impact on the 2016 Elections. | 0 | 2016-12-18T22:15:30 | 500 | 0 | 1 |
Superman is not really a crime fighter. He is more of an emergency responder to disaster zones, and fighter of powerful foes whose goal is to destroy or conquer the planet but he does not deal with common criminals. | Batman is more heroic and a better crimefighter than Superman | 1 | 2016-08-14T09:22:05 | 50 | 1 | 52 |
If your argument is, the ideal form of gerrymandering has the ability to produce a very representative form of government which it seems to be, then nobody can disprove that. The problem is that the majority of gerrymandered areas are not done so to be the most representative. Everyone has an interest in making distric... | If you want to produce a more representative, you should support Gerrymandering. | 0 | 2015-12-19T18:29:38 | 36 | 6 | null |
I did a google image search for ''Italian Olympic Team'' to get an idea of what a bunch of Italians look like, and this was [one photo with a group of what are presumably Italian people](http://www.extravaganzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Armani-Italian-Olympic-team.jpg) ... if you didn't know they were Italian, wou... | In general, I don't think Italians, Jews, or Arabs should be considered "white". | 1 | 2014-07-23T11:38:03 | 53 | 9 | 30Δ |
Are you really saying that it's preferable to be homeless in the culture of your parents then to have a home in a different one? From a purely utilitarian point of view, one of the most important indicators of future life success if your home environment. Having a stable, loving, and financially solvent family puts you... | People who adopt kids from a difference race and country as them as doing something unethical | 1 | 2016-10-28T23:30:36 | 59 | 12 | 2 |
Not a Trump supporter, but I think there's a huge swath of uneducated lower middle class to poor WHITE people, who, seeing how much attention is paid to minorities feel left out because they're also suffering but they *perceive* the world as not caring about them because they're white. I think when Trump says he wants ... | Supporters of Donald Trump are either completely divorced from reality or actively seeking the downfall of the United States. | 0 | 2016-07-26T03:27:00 | 311 | 2 | null |
The trouble is that nothing about this argument is unique to you. If it's a valid argument it's a valid argument for everyone. Let's take this point for example: Also I am aware that if everybody did that things would be different, but I want to make a distinction between telling lots of other people not to vote and i... | It's fine if I never vote in US elections because one individual vote has virtually no chance of ever changing anything, even in swing states or for most down ballot races | 0 | 2016-11-16T17:49:41 | 72 | 1 | 82 |
Here's the biggest problem with most conspiracies: They take a hell of a lot of effort, requiring cooperation from a lot of people, and, most importantly, those people have to suppress the human desire to share a secret. I'm not sure who you think was involved in this, but they would have had to either fooled or had as... | I feel like JFK's assassination was an inside job. I feel like the government DOES inside jobs . | 0 | 2015-11-05T23:52:10 | 36 | 2 | 137 |
Whether or not something is natural has no bearing on whether or not it's good or bad or desirable or damaging or anything like that. For something to be a mental illness it must cause the person with the condition to suffer some kind of pain or disability. Homosexuality on it's own does not do this. Homosexuality is ... | I believe homosexuality is not natural, and should be treated as a mental illnrss. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-04T03:11:31 | 43 | 17 | 127Δ |
Something you didn't mention is pedestrians. There are lots of big cities where pedestrians are used to crossing the road without looking because they know that cars are not allowed to go anywhere on red. This could cause a big spike in deaths / accidents. | Instead of remaining stopped, drivers should be able to proceed with caution at stoplights. | 0 | 2017-05-14T22:03:31 | 36 | 2 | null |
It comes down to personal preference, your friends and what games you play at the end of the day, and trying to change a fan boys opinion is often difficult. I myself am a PC gamer and haven't played on console for a while, but I see no need to hate it. If people prefer one over another that's fine for whatever reasons... | PC is the master race of gaming. | 0 | 2014-08-07T19:47:58 | 85 | 1 | null |
I agree; it is more than semantics. The reason why I don't think we SHOULD come together under a new title (egalitarianism seems like the best option) is that we'll lose too much momentum--feminism is a really big deal. It may not be an entirely GOOD big deal all the way through, but it is something people know. But, t... | MRAs are right to claim that there are men's issues. However, the way they're trying to address them is ineffective and quite possibly makes things worse. | 1 | 2015-05-17T12:32:02 | 106 | 32 | 1Δ |
I'm not going to try and change your view on whether building system to automate manual jobs is bad, because I, as a software engineer, do the same thing. What we do should make it so people should be able to work less, and earn the same. It should help the world by making jobs that would take time take no time, at no ... | I, as a hopeful automation engineer, have no responsibility to people who may be put out of work by my possible innovations | 0 | 2014-04-18T23:20:38 | 322 | 2 | null |
It seems to me much of the blow back against the SJW crowd hasn't been from the Far right but rather the Liberal left against what they view as illiberal ideas being spouted by an extremely vocal and authoritarian groups on the left. Often these groups are taking and fighting for traditionally left wing causes but doin... | SJW or Social Justice Warriors don't exist and people who claim to have seen one "in the wild" are just assholes trying to make an "enemy" seem real. | 1 | 2016-06-04T00:10:47 | 91 | 30 | 11 |
There is a load of evidence out there that pretty much all people raised in the U.S. have certain implicit biases about different social groups. Some of the biases around black people/communities are that 1) black people are seen as more likely to commit crimes, 2) black people are seen as more violent and threatening,... | American police kill an excessive amount of civilians, but not with any particular racial bias | 0 | 2015-12-09T18:10:31 | 250 | 5 | 8 |
Well; I won't pry into your argument with her, but friendships are precious and I hope you have luck with that. Moving on. You're making a claim that someone needs to be happy with what they have. But I don't necessarily see that as true. I read to get smarter, work out to get fitter, make more friends, try new thing... | I believe women just wear makeup to get attention, and that wearing it indicates self-esteem or self-worth issues. Reddit, please CMV! | 1 | 2013-04-03T06:27:23 | 120 | 30 | 24 |
Given that in the last election, the [vast majority of Trump's supporters were over 45](http://www.forbes.com/sites/bowmanmarsico/2016/11/30/understanding-the-trump-vote/#2ffe7f4033dc), isn't it possible that the current division will simply ease slowly over the course of the next generation while many of these people ... | The U.S. will not come together unless another national tragedy on the level 9/11 occurs. | 1 | 2017-02-14T01:20:07 | 22 | 2 | 26 |
You cannot choose to be born rich, or lucky. Lets say that the rich and lucky are 1% of the population, that means that 99% of the population do not have that option. If hard work is the best chance of success available, then it may be the only worth while option that you have. Your choice is between hard work and fail... | Hard work doesn't matter | 1 | 2014-12-14T06:54:35 | 38 | 3 | 2 |
The core of your argument is a level of fairness where the best records win. The games played are not and cannot be equal. Aside from different opponents since you aren't going to play every team every season you still have early season vs late season, home games vs road games, outdoors vs indoors, before or after bye ... | The NFL should end the divisional system, and instead let the best six teams from each conference into the playoffs. | 0 | 2015-12-14T00:54:46 | 104 | 10 | 6 |
Your view was that the school excercises too much power. All of your examples are of rules enforced in school (searches etc.) but you seem to also say that these are fine. Your issue is that schools exercise power over students outside of school. Can you give examples of what you mean? I can't imagine a school punishi... | High Schools exercise too much power over students' lives. | 0 | 2017-05-18T00:30:53 | 237 | 1 | 10 |
While I partially agree with you, I will be Devil's advocate for now. -performance on tests doesn't necessarily mean the teacher is "good": plenty of valuable skills that are taught can't be measured with standardized tests -performance on tests are not only a result of the teacher being "good" or "bad": it also depend... | I believe teachers should be paid based on performance, and underperforming teachers fired. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-28T06:17:41 | 59 | 12 | null |
I see this misrepresentation of moderate views all the time. You're assuming that every issue only has two choices, which is rarely the case in politics. You emphasize that some things are objectively correct despite that actually being a rarity. Centrism is about finding solutions to problems without being influenced ... | I think moderates/centrists are dangerous | 0 | 2017-04-30T21:31:36 | 29 | 1 | null |
Just one thing to consider that hasn't been touched on in much detail. If you want to require background checks during private sales, then you are going to have a very difficult time enforcing that law. The primary reason is because we do not have a national firearm registry. In the absence of both a registry and mand... | If I can't buy a gun without a background check at a gunstore, I shouldn't be able to buy a gun without a background check at a gunstore/private purchase | 1 | 2016-10-24T23:46:18 | 364 | 3 | 3 |
My current strategy would be getting behind the Walrus Walruses may look like slow, lumbering beasts, but they are pretty mobile. Getting on its back would only be possible if you catch it by surprise. and clambering on it's back. This is the first insanely dangerous part of your plan. If you come within goring-distan... | I think I could kill a fully grown Walrus in hand-to-hand combat | 0 | 2016-10-20T13:02:28 | 342 | 3 | null |
I also don't think it should be enforced by law, but I think it should be enforced by insurance premiums. If you don't wear your seat-belt, it increases the likelihood that you'll get seriously injured in a car crash. Therefore, insurance companies should be able to charge more for people who don't wear there seatbelts... | I don't believe wearing a seat-belt in a privately owned vehicle should be enforced by law, CMV | 0 | 2013-03-28T22:48:46 | 33 | 3 | 17 |
Having a girlfriend doesn't mean you are a good person, to skip straight to Godwin's Law, Hitler had a girlfriend. | Getting into a relationship with a pretty, confident girl means you are a worthy guy (Or having her admiration means that) | 1 | 2016-08-10T18:20:56 | 71 | 8 | 13 |
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