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However, I don't see too many terror attacks happening on US soil. Isn't it possible this is because of increased security and counter-terrorism, which only exists because enough people think terrorism is an important enough issue to justify the expense of the programs and agencies charged with the job of stopping terr... | Terrorism on US soil isn't as much of an issue as we make it | 0 | 2017-02-23T20:00:07 | 69 | 1 | null |
The sticker price is the manufacturers set price. The manufacturer has no involvement in any surcharges placed by a dealer and ships the car with the sticker as listed. Now in many states, there are regulatory fees that come with a car. On top of that, there are costs based on how you are purchasing the vehicle. If yo... | a new automobile's sticker price in a car lot should be its final "out the door" price (minus taxes), and this price should be set by the manufacturer. | 0 | 2016-03-09T18:46:22 | 124 | 1 | null |
The definition of suffering is experiencing or being subjected to something bad or unpleasant. How do we know that plants suffer? We can tell very clearly when animals are suffering and it allows us to sympathize with them. | The ethical arguments in support of veganism are a result of egoism | 0 | 2017-05-13T11:30:22 | 26 | 3 | null |
I agree with you Moriarty definitely could have benefited if he had more character development, but the way he talks and is wacky is the opposite of Sherlock. I like him So much more than Mary. The Mary story archs ruined the show for me almost. If it wasn't for Sherlock and john being payed by the perfect people the s... | BBC Sherlock's Moriarty is a terrible, cartoony character | 0 | 2017-01-19T01:36:25 | 127 | 0 | null |
Yes, more people watch men's soccer than women's. But that *is* an example of social injustice. Culturally, we don't like watching women play sports. That's social injustice. It's not strictly FIFA's fault, but it's there. | Equal pay in sports for men and woman atheletes cannot be attained currently, due to economic factors associated with demand, not social injustice | 0 | 2015-07-07T22:01:49 | 613 | -4 | 1Δ |
I think the problem is that the endgame of what we perceive as 'fairness', where everyone has six apples and is content with them, is an impossibility. Even if we could reach the ultimate level of 'equality', I think it would be oppressive and not something that we should strive for. I think the most natural solution i... | Gender equality will never be achieved because men will never be allowed to solve their problems | 1 | 2017-03-01T01:15:22 | 113 | 9 | 3 |
I feel there is a bit of a contradiction in your view. I think that this part of your view: I'm talking about research/design/programming/IT/call center jobs, where you aren't in the public eye or aren't representing the company with your physical body. If you're going and making house calls as an IT guy then this doe... | Nobody who works in a cubicle or other job where you rarely interact with anyone other than your co-workers should have any dress code beyond "cover your naughty bits" and "don't wear offensive stuff" | 0 | 2015-01-03T02:20:38 | 81 | 21 | 2 |
In all actuality, our economy isn't based on currency. I mean, yes, technically the economy is based on a moving of currency from one hand to the next, but, the motion of that money is not the point of that motion. It's a means to an end, and the end is what drives the economy. You say poor people don't matter and that... | Money is all that matters. | 1 | 2016-06-12T16:16:17 | 48 | 4 | 3 |
Do you know of any other arguments against gay marriage that can be proved with something like empirical evidence (something tangible, like "bad for economy" or "has social repercussions" with evidence backing up the stated claim?) Nope. I haven't seen or read of any real evidence that has convinced me that homosexual... | The Only Tenable Position Against Gay Marriage/Adoption is a Religious Position | 1 | 2017-07-04T09:18:53 | 46 | 2 | 1 |
Laws aren't always intended to cause an immediate, verifiable effect. People and laws have a feedback loop that makes even the most incremental changes worthwhile: passing a law shifts public opinion in the same direction (on a long timescale), simply because something being "a law" makes it the new "normal". So even i... | Mass shootings are irrelevant, compared to other causes of death in the US. Efforts to ban assault weapons are a huge waste of resources that should go into more important things. | 1 | 2015-10-11T17:49:29 | 535 | 1 | 1 |
A healthy job market will have opportunities for different skill sets and careers. In the current climate, basically if you suck at math you can't get a job. That's a shitty economy and job markety | CMV Students who graduate with arts degrees and complain about the job market got exactly what they signed up for. | 0 | 2017-05-18T22:22:20 | 108 | 3 | null |
What I'm saying is, there are multiple ways to do that. If the only way to scale back global impact would be to reduce population, then I'd agree. But it seems like what we *should* do is reduce sprawl and consumption, and that because we aren't doing what we *should* do, we have to consider reduction of population. | Humans should collectively work toward a significantly reduced population. | 1 | 2016-10-24T22:36:49 | 66 | 3 | 1 |
Extreme income inequality is generally pointed to as a consequence of a problem instead of a problem itself, and the real issue becomes more about equality of opportunity. There are some principles that we can pretty much universally agree on. We want upward mobility to be high. We want people to rise to the top based ... | Income inequality is not a problem it's a result of natural consequences | 1 | 2016-02-18T21:38:33 | 39 | 1 | 38 |
You remember that old phrase from Forest Gump, "a man only needs so much money, the rest is just for showing off." Well that's actually quite true. Throughout history, people tend to use their wealth to show off how much wealth they have. The status symbols change over time, but the existence of status symbols doesn't... | Progress in automation will eventually lead to a full fledge genocide on the majority of the population. | 1 | 2014-12-26T23:51:10 | 74 | 2 | 4 |
I need to be tortured because only one of us is a terrorist and it's either the four of us or potentially thousands of others, I would volunteer in a heartbeat. Really? You do realize that you might develop PTSD, might never be able to sleep soundly at might, you might become jumpy and unable to form relationships. An... | I don't have a problem with the U.S. torturing people. | 1 | 2014-12-22T20:29:33 | 36 | 7 | 32 |
Wealth is a numeric approximation of value in a currency. When someone says "I am worth 1 billion dollars (for example)," they actually mean that if they sold all their assets, they would have 1 billion dollars assuming it was sold at market rate. The key word in this example is 'market rate.' Because you really don't... | Taxes should be based on wealth, not income or expenditure | 0 | 2017-03-09T23:03:06 | 263 | 1 | 1 |
I think the role of a parent is to guide and explain thoroughly in order to produce successful offspring. Not to shelter them from "the real world." "The real world" has stuff to offer that traumatizes experienced, trained adults to the point of permanent damage, if not suicide. Why would anyone show something like tha... | Children are never too young for things. | 1 | 2017-03-15T18:17:12 | 52 | 17 | null |
In my state, adultery is a bar against receiving alimony. However, it is not an absolute bar. If the other spouse cheated too or forgave the affair and years later now wants a divorce, then those are ways to get alimony back on the table. Also, we have heart balm suits here, which is where the wronged spouse sues the ... | A cheating spouse should not be able to receive alimony payments after a divorce. | 1 | 2015-09-06T02:00:11 | 334 | 61 | 1 |
There is nothing material to be gained from attempting to convince me I am mistaken That depends on what you are mistaken about. If you think that vaccines cause autism and you're not going to vaccinate your children, then I know immunosuppressed children whose lives you're actively endangering. and the fact that you w... | You, the person trying to convince me I am mistaken, are not living up to your maximum potential because instead you are wasting time on Reddit. | 0 | 2016-04-27T17:52:40 | 28 | 2 | 84 |
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. No one is claiming that Alexander the Great raised the dead or came back after being executed. Since Jesus accounts contain clear Myth, they are by definition less historical than other documents. | The accounts of Jesus in the Bible are more historical than the accounts of most other ancient, western, historical figures. | 0 | 2015-11-13T21:28:08 | 80 | 1 | 79 |
Middle school teacher here. I don't have a disability, but I won't take notes by hand. Like just won't write stuff down if that's the only option, unless it's something BRIEF that I REALLY need. I don't see how my students do it all the time; I wish we could give them laptops to use in class and easy ways to access tho... | I don't see any reason to allow cellphones, laptops, or tablets in my classroom. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-13T00:25:32 | 66 | 1 | 5 |
At the time the second amendment was ratified, 'regulated' meant prepared. As to the part that specifically says, *'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms'?*.. the comma separates the two thoughts: The militia and the people. It doesn't make them one and the same. And if this was really about *just* the militia ... | The second amendment does not protect the right of an individual to bear arms. | 0 | 2015-09-22T22:42:13 | 38 | 20 | null |
I'll make a comment about the plants. I'm vegetarian. I became a vegetarian because at a young age I saw an animal being tortured (cut in half while still alive, front half trying to run away) and it scarred me. I could never do that to animal. Even if it's still being killed, I don't have to eat it. I don't want to, i... | I think moral vegetarianism is wrong and maybe even pointless, CMV | 0 | 2013-03-31T07:37:15 | 64 | 1 | null |
There are very few infants in good health in the adoption system. Most of the kids available to be adopted are a little older. Most of them have mental or physical disabilities. And virtually every single one of them has separation anxiety that causes detachment from emotions and people. If a couple wants to raise a h... | It's egoistic if you want children but are unwilling to adopt. | 0 | 2017-06-28T17:33:26 | 82 | 1 | 17 |
A couple of points: 1\. To say that enlightenment philosophers invented the idea of a right to own arms is missing part of the picture. Centuries before that, people felt entitled, and even [legally obligated](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assize_of_Arms_of_1181) to own military weapons of some kind. Then in the 17th ce... | Gun rights are actually a liberal concept | 1 | 2015-04-19T22:33:58 | 62 | 3 | 2Δ |
I think you're putting too much of the cause on religion. In America, a huge number of conservatives are a part of organized religion. There's nothing particularly conservative about most organized religion, but they seem to go hand in hand. If it weren't for organized religion, I think a lot of people espousing the s... | I believe religion is a major reason why transphobia and homophobia still exist | 1 | 2015-12-10T03:49:30 | 156 | 10 | 12 |
Do you currently have a serious girlfriend? I didn't want children until I met the man that I would marry. Marrying him made me want to meet our children and be a family. Corny but that's how it worked. Having children was just too nebulous a concept until I knew the man who would be their father. | I'm under the impression that I don't want kids. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-21T17:47:13 | 61 | 26 | 1 |
I don't think laugh tracks are used too much anymore. Every show now a days is either single camera and no laughing (New Girl)... or multi camera and filmed before a live audience (Big band theory). I can't think of one show that uses them. Pre recorded laugh tracks are really a practice of yesteryear. | Laugh tracks in television shows are annoying and hide the show's flaws. | 0 | 2015-09-14T06:23:10 | 219 | 6 | null |
Now the price for an illegal one just went through the roof. False. There are somewhere on the order of 275M guns in civilian hands in the United States. Most of these are already in the hands of people who desire them. Demand would not change terribly much, and a black market gun is sometimes cheaper to buy than a new... | If you outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns. I'm fine with this. | 0 | 2014-05-26T03:41:56 | 1,232 | 26 | 7Δ |
Your belief that sub-saharan Africa has always been populated by ignorant savages is a myth fabricated during the colonial era to justify colonisation. [This page](http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=32437) provides some of the information you're looking for. | 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 | 2015-08-27T23:51:45 | 91 | 3 | 1 |
*You* are the one who titled your CMV "I think mothers who intentionally gave birth without drugs did it for ego/bragging rights." When I point out there could be people who do it for other reasons, you respond with: I'm talking about the women who purposefully did natural childbirth AND go on to brag about it and/or l... | I think mothers who intentionally gave birth without drugs did it for ego/bragging rights CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-14T20:49:42 | 79 | 3 | 33 |
Age is not a guarantee of being a responsible person, yes. But it is an indicator. Ceirtainly the average 15-yo is less of a responsible person then a 22-yo. Yes, it is AN indicator. A poor one, though, particularly when we have much better indicators that can easily be used on a case-by-case basis. A parent who is a f... | A Person under 18 should never be able to legally shoot firearms | 1 | 2015-06-28T15:38:11 | 50 | 8 | null |
my belief is that for individual ownership of weaponry to be an effective deterrent to tyranny individuals must be able to own weapons comparable to the tyrannical regime Counter case in point: 1. Vietnam 2. Afghanistan 3. Iraq In the modern day this would mean weapons such as tanks, mortars, chemical weapons, explosi... | arguments for 2nd amendment protections that rely on the premise: "a well-armed populace is the best defense against tyranny" are irrevocably flawed in the modern age | 1 | 2016-08-22T22:10:51 | 38 | 14 | 16 |
People who's ancestors hail from sub-Saharan Africa (ie people with black skin) are just as varied as those who's ancestors are from Europe, Asia, the Americas, etc. When you say "black people" do you mean Yoruba, Benin, Igbo, Mande, Fula, Faso, Akan, Tswana, Sotho, Sulu, Hutu, Somali, Afa, Kanuri, Mongo, etc, etc, etc... | Black People are Better | 0 | 2017-05-02T20:52:48 | 286 | 10 | 6 |
You're arguing that a lot of artists people are mentioning didn't do much more than synthesize two different sounds that other people were already doing. But isn't this bringing new stuff to the genres they represent? How can you say that Taylor Swift, who blended country and pop together, didn't change both of those ... | There hasn't been a truly culturally significant band/ singer out of America in the last 15 years. | 0 | 2015-07-30T21:28:07 | 240 | 1 | null |
What's more, so many marriages end in divorce nowadays. Marriages that last are becoming increasingly less common. This is simply not true. Divorce rates surged for a period of time during the 70's and 80's, but this is largely due to the feminist movement lessening the stigma of divorce and granting more power towards... | As a man, it is not in my interest to get married. | 1 | 2016-12-05T00:41:13 | 112 | 18 | 17 |
As for other species, I have no idea. Then doesn't that really just completely destroy your theory. Unless you're suggesting that the animal kingdom is full of members suffering from a "broken home", you'd have to admit that there is at least some biological or genetic factor involved. | Gay people are gay because of their upbringing and socialization, not because of biological factors. | 1 | 2015-07-22T18:05:59 | 48 | 7 | 39 |
i agree with your statement, but you missed one small thing: the possibility of all opinions about a subject beeing irrational, because nobody found out the correct one yet. *"If two people have different opinions on a particular subject, at least one of them is wrong"* | if we disagree on a particular subject then either there's lack of supportive facts, or one of us is thinking irrationally. | 0 | 2016-09-26T17:13:14 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
Late to the discussion, but just wanted to weigh in: 1. Getting laid and dates in the gay community has been enormously easier to me than the straight community. This makes sense under my hypothesis. Men, in general, have less urgency when it comes to dating because they're never going to lose the ability to have chil... | Casual sex culture is leading to a demographic crisis among young men | 0 | 2017-01-02T00:38:11 | 124 | 1 | 1 |
To answer this, I have to speak from a personal perspective: I'm an ESL teacher who travels the world. I absolutely love my job, get to make a positive change in people's lives, and have visited so many countries and seen so many amazing things I literally work myself into a state of excitement just thinking about it. ... | I think the concept of everyone getting a job and making money is fucked up and restricts our lives more than we think. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-22T19:58:34 | 87 | 2 | null |
Think of it this way, we all have different lives. The worst pain we have ever experienced could be minor to someone else. Now apply this to trauma. Trauma is extremely individual, we may see their trauma as no biggie but they could feel it's the end of their world. Not only that, but it isn't always the physical thing... | 'Triggers' aren't a real thing. We should all be able to overcome our issues and not project them unto other people. | 0 | 2015-08-08T06:41:38 | 283 | 3 | null |
Just a disclaimer, I haven't read most of the other replies, but please bear with me. You mention that the reason for the societal changes will be automation development to the point that all jobs are going to be automated. Now I want to make a point that contemplating such an outcome is pointless practically. Why? Th... | Civilization will culminate in either socialism or feudalism | 0 | 2017-03-02T00:31:47 | 130 | 1 | null |
SLYTHERINS ARE NOT EVIL It's a school house, nothing more. The reason why the majority for kids with death eater parents are in slytherin is because they're the pureblood families, raised to be ambitious. It's not about being good or bad. Srsly this is addressed in the books- harry is criticized for not liking some sly... | The Sorting at Higwarts is terribly designed. | 0 | 2015-10-06T14:18:35 | 38 | 4 | 2 |
on points 1 and 3, others have made as much of a case as I could. I'd like to address "The degradation and objectification of women, again showing them that they are there to ensure the man experiences pleasure" Some porn is degrading to women, yes...some porn isn't. I feel like you're likely focusing on the most negat... | I believe that pornography's overall net impact on society has been negative. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-14T08:41:03 | 227 | 1 | null |
There was a study I read years ago (I tried for about 1 minute to dig it up and couldn't. I can give it a better shot later) which showed that *the majority of child molesters are not sexually attracted to children*. It's a really weird statement, but let it sink in for a second. The study wasn't terribly well-received... | I believe that convicted child molesters should be chemically castrated. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-24T21:14:20 | 74 | 4 | 7 |
Thanks to everyone who has replied. I should point out that I'm not strictly against regulations, I just think most things should be privatized instead of state run. Also, I live in a heavily centralized over regulated economy, so some things that might sound "heavily regulated" to you actually sounds like a free marke... | The free market is the best form for any industry and service. | 0 | 2017-03-28T03:07:46 | 82 | 1 | null |
Much of the knowledge in the show has been known for a long time, but one of the things it does quite well is to put it all in perspective. In the first episode, He puts the life of the universe into scale as a single calender year. In that time frame, human have been alive for less than 2 hours, and history(starting w... | "Cosmos: a space-time odyssey" is an elementary school educational show. | 1 | 2014-06-19T00:22:20 | 27 | 4 | 2 |
You know that saying: give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, but teach that same man how to fish and he'll feed himself for a lifetime? Well think about it like this: Sell a hundred men fish and you can make a fair amount in an afternoon. Teach a different hundred how to fish over the course of a year (assuming it... | I do not believe photography takes a lot of skill. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-21T20:59:24 | 33 | 1 | null |
I'm against independence for more 'wooly' reasons than you give, especially as economics isn't my strong point. I'd also like to point out that if 'giving some of the fruits of your labour to Britain' is the biggest issue then there would be a case for London/South East England independence. I think my argument really ... | I can't think of a good reason why Scotland shouldn't go independent. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-29T17:55:50 | 107 | 19 | 2 |
WIth regards to security cameras in bathrooms, I think you are overestimating the benefits and underestimating the costs. The potential security benefit of cameras in bathrooms is not that great. Yes, an attack may happen in the bathrooms, but as soon as the culprit exits the restroom, he or she is likely to walk into ... | Surveillance cameras should be placed in all public bathrooms and changerooms. | 1 | 2014-08-03T18:00:41 | 19 | 2 | 6 |
You can't. Only one person has pointed it out, but the *real* reason we don't teach logic is that children that young cannot understand logic. In fact, having application *helps* children learn, rather than hinder like you suggest. [Piaget did a lot of work on it.](http://www.webmd.com/children/piaget-stages-of-develop... | I think that we should teach formal logic to very young kids in elementary schools before any math, or perhaps concurrently with elementary math. CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-02T17:29:11 | 194 | 9 | 2 |
Why should I have to decipher what your meaning is if you don't pay attention to what you're writing. If you're writing something to someone it's obviously to send a message, why not make that message as clear as possible 1. If you're trying to convince me of something, like a CMV post for example and your paragraphs a... | "Proper grammar" is unimportant. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-18T16:18:51 | 364 | 240 | 11Δ |
Say you're right, and most of the people who post here are incapable of actually changing their view on the subject they're bringing up (I don't believe this is the case most of the time, but just for the sake of argument). It would still be false to say that nobody ever changes their view, though. People have deltas a... | Irony aside, most people that post in CMV are uneducated, and changing their view on one point won't solve this overall problem | 1 | 2015-01-07T02:16:37 | 69 | 27 | 2 |
The picture you linked is very much a steak fry. At least here in the US. And here in Texas proper Steak fries always have the skin still attached. In fact in many mom an pop restaurants the normal french fries have the skin attached. Edit: What you call "baked potato chunks" is what most of the US calls potato wedges... | Potato Wedges are superior to French Fries | 1 | 2016-10-18T11:12:06 | 60 | 2 | 56 |
Good topic. I think the differentiation comes from attraction and sexualization. I could say another man is an attractive person, but this doesn't mean I'm *attracted* to him. | Monosexuality is a Lie | 0 | 2016-10-04T21:41:32 | 125 | 2 | null |
I'm going to bring up a "con" that I don't see anyone else mentioning. I think your plan would lead to a significant rise in STDs. With the potential consequence of pregnancy removed from the act of unprotected sex, I believe that unprotected sex would happen a lot more often than it currently does. | People should earn the right to have children. | 1 | 2017-05-22T21:54:10 | 461 | 3 | 1 |
Politically... All the individual freedom of libertarianism with all the safety net and taxes of socialism. I like that. It tells the most about you out of everything you typed. Mainly, it tells me that you can have your mind changed, because you aren't dug too deep into a single ideology. And, that you have a sense of... | People over the retirement age should not be able to vote in the United States. | 1 | 2016-12-20T04:45:19 | 63 | 1 | 1 |
While I personally agree with every statement you made, in the spirit of CMV, I'm suggesting that a portion of Trump voters assessed his unknowns (i.e., perceived populist positions) against Hillary's knowns (i.e., wall st. history, NAFTA, TPP, etc) and made a decision based on their circumstances rather than an endors... | If you voted for Trump, you willingly endorsed a theocrat as VP, a racist as AG, a billionaire runining education, and practical Nazis having a voice. | 1 | 2017-04-14T00:30:20 | 254 | 1 | 1 |
Children are loud, annoying, dirty and expensive spawn that wreck havoc on your life. This is true, but they are also adorable, generous, and loving in turn. You'll find that very few things are 100% awesome 100% of the time and the fact that many people find that the positives of children outweigh (or at least balanc... | Having children is one of the most selfish things a person can do | 0 | 2017-07-06T22:26:21 | 47 | 6 | null |
This is literally what my youtube channel is about. If you are playing a game, and enjoy the game, but find it too difficult and that makes it frusterating and you want to quit it- why would you continue playing it? There is always the option to go back on a higher difficulty to challenge yourself after you've fully im... | I feel guilty playing RPGs on "Casual" mode | 0 | 2015-04-11T21:14:00 | 55 | 2 | null |
Ignoring for a moment the fact that this seems a questionable action of a “good” god In Christianity, anything that does not follow God's will is a sin, and sin is punishable by death. "Death" as it was used in the original Greek (thánatos) means separation, in this case from God's perfect glory. God set up a system wh... | If you believe the Judeo-Christian god is real, it's more rational to worship Lucifer. | 0 | 2014-07-29T21:22:04 | 272 | 10 | null |
The only reasons FOR eating meat comes down to taste and pragmatism imo. Taste is obvious. If you like the taste of meat better then plants then thats a reason to eat meat. Pragmatism is that it is often easier to eat meat. I found personally that when I go out often the amount of choice which doesnt include meat is ve... | I'm a meat eater who believes that from a moral point of view, there's no justification for eating animals, and I should become a vegetarian. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-04T12:30:27 | 67 | 2 | null |
You're saying now that someone under "legitimate investigation" for a crime "should" step down. Who decides this? The candidate? Based on your other statements, it seems that this is what you believe, because you're talking about it being a moral imperative for the candidate, not something that should be imposed from t... | US citizens under criminal federal investigations should not be allowed to run for public office. | 1 | 2015-08-18T01:32:51 | 130 | 1 | 119 |
The system of checks and balances is there for a reason. So that there is compromise, not necessarily stagnation. It's more about writing bills and passing laws that take other views into account, rather than just being able to bulldoze something through with little to no opposition. | If it comes down to Clinton and Trump, I shouldn't even bother to vote. | 1 | 2016-03-16T16:44:35 | 100 | 3 | 1 |
I don't think gender fluidity is the problem - I think the problem lies in portraying gender fluidity as something that necessarily involves stark changes in gender *presentation* (in ways that are 'traditionally' associated with particular genders - dresses for 'girl mode' days, suits for 'boy mode' days, etc.). When ... | Genderfluidity is anti-feminist and reinforces dated gender stereotypes that other facets of feminism aim to destroy. | 1 | 2015-12-06T20:40:58 | 201 | 3 | 2 |
I dont see how killing without necessity can ever be as or more ethical than not killing. As I already stated, the animals that I and the people I know hunt are all invasive species where I live: pigs, deer, goats, rabbits, and ducks. They were imported to my country by western colonists 100 years ago. They destroy the... | People dont eat meat because they think its morally okay, they just dont give a shit about morality. | 1 | 2015-08-06T08:39:25 | 186 | 6 | 1 |
Cause and *effect*. That snapchat filter creates a weird *effect*. How can we *effect* change. Does this *affect* me? She presented a flattened *affect.* This leads to things like in jest, she *affected* a mocking tone. Your basic premise isn't necessarily one I disagree with, except I would say the final two examples... | English speakers should stop using either "affect" or "effect". | 1 | 2017-01-13T19:47:36 | 36 | 17 | 1 |
In essence, copyright is meant to protect the creator of a work — be it a painting, book, video game, or movie — from being ripped off. Thanks to the force of lobbies, though, copyright law protects the interests of publishers and broadcasters. You're idea of the purpose of copyright is unfounded. [Copyright is meant t... | Pirating is okay | 0 | 2015-11-30T15:23:14 | 445 | -1 | 3 |
I wear sunscreen, even a weak SPF15 on my face in winter or when it's overcast, and I agree that it's important and can help to prevent skin cancer. However, I could never agree with the proposition that anyone who chooses not to wear sunscreen is "unintelligent." This is very insulting and a simplistic view. I would s... | I think any person who elects not to wear sunscreen is unintelligent – CMV | 0 | 2014-02-10T01:24:50 | 38 | 1 | null |
I found your problem right here: To make it seem like you think this post is so important for you to make that you don't care about it getting downvoted while at the same time using a phrase you know will make people more likely to upvote it. You have a cognitive distortion, you are mind-reading and generalizing. You t... | People need to stop saying "I'm probably going to get downvoted for this." | 0 | 2014-10-18T04:57:40 | 146 | 4 | null |
Setting aside the presumption that Hillary is an unquestionably moral choice over Trump...They would only be acting immorally if they had an obligation to vote. There is no such obligation. I give $20 a month to the united way. I could give $200 a month and still eat, but I don't feel I am acting immoraly because I'm n... | Since Trump says he wants to kill innocent Muslim women and children, among other horrendous things, Bernie supporters who refuse to vote for Hillary are acting immorally. | 1 | 2016-03-03T05:07:53 | 63 | 8 | 1 |
As I see it, you're arguing from the wrong stand point. Your view is mostly based around the notion that customers should expect a hot drink to be hot, and therefore handle it carefully. This is logical and thus at a first glance seems like an argument in the context of this lawsuit. However, it is irrelevant because ... | McDonald's was not responsible for the injuries of the lady who spilled coffee over herself | 0 | 2015-07-27T06:52:20 | 168 | 5 | null |
Sorry OP, but this an incredibly ignorant post. It ignores literally everything we know about biology. The best women in the world in any sport usually only compete at the same level as 15-16 year old boys. Look at woman's Olympic records in track and field and compare them to high school boys national records. The US... | Sports teams should not be separated by gender, only by physical performance | 0 | 2016-04-25T04:05:21 | 244 | 1 | null |
Theft is defined as taking money illegally. You can't just redefine it, since it has connotation for it being illegal. Saying taxation is theft makes it sound like taxation is automatically bad, since theft how it's originally defined is automatically bad by definition. Imagine you're trying to convince someone Socrate... | Taxation is theft. | 0 | 2016-08-10T05:28:18 | 214 | -1 | null |
I just want to understand this: Because you object to the Republicans not giving Garland a fair shake because of who he was nominated by rather than on his own merits, you're proposing that the democrats filibuster whomever Trump nominates, before we even *know* what their merits might be? | The Democrats should filibuster any Supreme Court nominee that President Trump puts forward. | 0 | 2017-01-31T22:47:42 | 78 | 0 | 21 |
It is nice not to see this argument not very often on /r/changemyview , but if it is used it should be deleted, to keep up the quality in this sub. I don't think we should automatically delete bad arguments, just because even a *bad* argument can be (easily) torn apart. | "Check your privilege", used in a Debate, is a terrible Argument. | 1 | 2014-11-01T18:21:45 | 38 | 7 | 43 |
Your "implementation"/practice of your world views can be different than your world views themselves. For example, let's say you've run out of money and don't have enough to buy food. You can believe theft is wrong, but still steal bread to prevent yourself from starving. | I believe there's a physical reality, and humans can achieve their values better by aligning their world views with it. | 0 | 2016-05-10T23:42:55 | 35 | 1 | null |
No. Repulsion towards incest / pedophilia is largely considered a biological phenomenon, see the [Westermarck Effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect) Attraction, therefore (and what else could it be?) is also a biological phenomenon You asked for a relatable experience for how another human being co... | Monosexuality is a Lie | 1 | 2016-10-05T00:51:45 | 125 | 2 | 1 |
Between whistle blowers (William Thomson, Scott Cooper, Andrew Wakefield etc) and corruption within the vaccine industry, it seems like something sinister is afoot. There are countless horror stories and it seems like everyone just shuts up about these things and keeps thumping that vaccines are the greatest. The prob... | There is not enough evidence of the safety/efficacy of vaccines, especially in the face of controversy and conspiracy | 0 | 2015-08-08T23:45:19 | 26 | 3 | 31 |
the lack of an objective moral authority Why does there need to be an inherent moral authority in the universe? What is invalid about logically deducing ethics based on the evidence that exists? the lack of objective methods of defining morality For utilitarianism, it still just breaks down into moral relativism at a... | Morality is Relative and Absolute Standards of Good and Evil Probably Don't Exist | 0 | 2016-12-13T07:31:41 | 90 | 1 | null |
One problem with abolishing the electoral college is that it would undermine federalism. In our current situation, it's the states that elect the president and not the people. If we were to abolish the electoral college it would skip the states and thus would undermine the concept of federalism as it's now the people n... | The electoral College should be abolished | 0 | 2016-10-27T18:55:03 | 221 | 1 | null |
The eradication of smallpox is the single greatest thing to ever happen to humanity. It is an achievement which will endure for all time, even after the very memory of capitalism is crushed under the boots of nuclear warlords. | Capitalism is the single greatest thing to have ever happened in the history of humanity | 0 | 2015-01-23T21:56:31 | 103 | 1 | null |
Now I'm far from a conservative. but I'm only confident about that because I take them seriously. The idea that Edmund Burke can be dismissed with a three paragraph wikipedia page that assets that tradition has no value is, quite frankly, silly. To begin with, you need to understand where Conservatism comes from. That ... | Conservatism (current, American) is objectively illogical. | 1 | 2017-02-25T22:14:42 | 70 | 12 | 23 |
That is a nice sentiment, but not something that we can actually do. Capital punishment cases are the most stringent we have in the legal system - the verdict is checked time and time again to ensure its accuracy, yet we have still identified over 144 mistakes since 1973 (with who knows how many more we haven't discove... | The punishment should fit the crime. | 1 | 2017-03-07T23:53:53 | 61 | 2 | 103 |
Yes. Like I said, grammar isn't supposed to be oppressive. It's a way of organizing words so that they make sense together, and convey a meaning to a listener/reader. If it makes sense, like your sentence above, then it's following grammatical rules, and is therefore grammatical. Grammar Nazis are what we call linguist... | grammar is immoral | 1 | 2016-01-28T01:02:58 | 45 | 3 | 6 |
As an avid zipper fan, and hater of button-fly jeans, I shall contest your points individually! * zippers are not as replaceable as buttons, but require replacement less often, as they are not weakly sewn into the fabric, but are rather attached in along a much larger area, making it more difficult to remove/damage its... | I believe buttons are superior to zippers and zippers should be abolished. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-02T02:41:35 | 32 | 3 | 6 |
How about a phone with a built in projector? Coupled with a camera, and hanging from the neck, it can turn an entire wall into an interface by reading your gestures (check out "gesture interface" on youtube). It can project all manner of useful information onto any surface. Or providing the processing power and cell/Wi... | The cellphone industry is stuck, since a big screen that completely covers the device is their maximum potential. | 1 | 2016-12-28T15:49:00 | 47 | 31 | null |
The effects of your morality are easily observed and obvious. You can be certain you are correct and superior. For example, suppose a person was beating their partner. You observe depression, injuries, and a weakening relationship in the other person. You can tell them "What you are doing is hurting this person in what... | I believe it is wrong to push your morals on someone else CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-02T01:20:36 | 40 | 0 | 62Δ |
A couple issues. First, you said eduction should not be mandatory. And yet, to be a truck driver, plumber, and construction worker, you *need* some form of education to learn the skills to work those jobs. So your inherent argument is flawed. Because some of us are just not made for theories learning and are more manua... | I believe education should not be mandatory. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-24T18:43:04 | 23 | 1 | 10Δ |
First, I'd like to point something out. Since President George H.W. Bush won in 1988 we've had 7 Presidential Elections and in only 3 of the 7 did a candidate win over 50% of the vote. Two of those elections were President Obama (52.9%, 51.1%) and President George W. Bush in '04 (50.7%). Trump won the electoral college... | The "left" is also culpable for Trump getting elected. | 1 | 2017-02-12T03:07:14 | 135 | 14 | 2 |
Is your feeling of certainty that you're a woman based solely on looking at yourself in the mirror? What if when you looked at yourself in the mirror, you saw wide shoulders and narrow hips and too much body hair? Some women have these features. Would you still know you were a woman? What if when you looked in the mirr... | Transgenders only enforce gender stereotypes. | 0 | 2016-07-17T21:28:25 | 100 | 3 | null |
Artists like Led Zeppelin and David Bowie were the top 40 artists of their time. The only difference is that the style of mainstream music has changed. | People only 'like' Top 40 pop music as they haven't been exposed to enough different genres | 0 | 2014-06-10T21:54:01 | 68 | 3 | 38Δ |
In biblical terms, there's nothing wrong with being innately homosexual. It never says that it's a sin to be a homosexual. The few times that it does speak against ACTS of homosexuality, it's ridiculous like Leviticus, where you're told not to do a lot of benign shit or it's out of context like the Sodom story. So the ... | There is no sound biblical argument that makes being trans-gender morally wrong. | 0 | 2015-01-01T21:59:44 | 353 | 2 | null |
Now I would always agree, if you could show me a better system. No voting system at all wouldn't be that great. Yes, that may work in smaller subreddits where 100 answers to a post is already a lot, but if you take the popular questions on subreddits like /r/askreddit with a few thousand answers, then I am happy that ... | The voting system on reddit has outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. | 0 | 2017-03-09T23:06:16 | 24 | 1 | 4 |
The problem I see with your argument is that you assume any scenario of reassigning meaning to a word inherently references its original meaning or intent. But under that logic, you leave no room for social evolution and the gradual rejection of outdated ideas- which is the very opposite of what you titled a "regressiv... | Semantic drift has become a propaganda tool for social engineering shills with a regressive agenda CMV | 0 | 2013-09-03T17:49:57 | 67 | 3 | 1 |
I think that you, as a white person (judging from the amount of times you said "we"), haven't seen a lot of racial discrimination- because you're not discriminated against. It is the *definition* of privilege to say "Well it's not happening to me- therefore it isn't happening at all." The place that undeniably is still... | "White privilege" gives nowhere near the advantages as money, family status and connections do. | 1 | 2016-07-18T17:56:59 | 1,182 | 83 | 1 |
Survival in any universal environment will cause every biological organism to develop the skills for destruction before harmony, Why are these mutually exclusive? MAD Theory specifically dictates that there will be no destruction if more than one party on each side holds the power to destroy the other. So long as this... | Technology advances in a way that intelligent life will always destroy itself before it reaches the stars. | 0 | 2016-09-02T08:39:03 | 33 | 0 | 8 |
twice as many bathrooms for women At the cost of? Yet again another measure that gives to women taking from men. On top of that, female bathrooms are dirtier than mens bathrooms and I don't want to have to endure that just to show how tolerant I am. And if everything is co-ed I guess there will be no urinals? That mea... | All non-lockerroom restrooms should be Co-Ed | 1 | 2017-03-31T09:39:10 | 304 | 6 | 4 |
One primary argument against a ban on abortion is the mother's right to bodily autonomy. This argument does not care about the state of the fetus in terms of it being a "person" or not. The argument is essentially that the fetus is an unwanted foreign body and the woman has every right to remove it from her body, with ... | It doesn't make sense to debate abortion until the definition of a person or human life is defined | 0 | 2016-12-18T11:59:00 | 97 | 2 | 10 |
Yeah, after rereading your post and responses, I can see that now. While those viewpoints might take a backseat to survival in some situations, I think you would still see some prevalence of those ideals in smaller communities, perhaps even moreso. Social wellfare: While its true that bartering will not go away, its i... | If a total catastrophic breakdown of society were to happen, liberals would be primarily useless. | 1 | 2014-10-23T04:10:03 | 85 | 8 | 16 |
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