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Greetings from an actual climate scientist: Let me clear one very important thing up here: My work is not political. My job is to quantify changes in the climate. That's it. Claims about it being "dangerous", or claims that "We need to do such and such to fix it..."? THOSE are politics, and they're not the work of cli... | Global warming predictions are epistemologically flawed, and should not be the basis for public policy. | 1 | 2015-06-03T22:15:05 | 534 | 162 | null |
It's been a while since I was in, so I'm trying to do this from memory. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. First off, a Court Martial (the military's version of a trial) is a very rare thing reserved for either absolutely heinous crimes (murder, rape, etc) or for making statements (the 'defendant' believes that h... | The U.S. military court system should be abolished and military justice handled in civilian federal courts. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-20T06:12:28 | 30 | 7 | null |
While the prisoner might logically conclude *on Thursday* that he would be executed on Friday, and not be surprised, it is incorrect to assume that because he's still alive Wednesday that only Thursday remains. He could still be executed on Friday. Likewise, if he survived Monday, any other day of the week is a valid e... | I believe I have legitimately solved the Unexpected Hanging Paradox! | 0 | 2017-04-14T22:40:21 | 26 | 2 | null |
Draining the swamp means different things to different people. Donald Trump was purposefully vague when he said that's what he wanted to do. Donald Trump's version of ending corruption in politics is replace career politicians with business people. If you think corporate titans influencing government is the problem, th... | Donald trump is not 'Draining the Swamp' but rather doing the opposite | 0 | 2016-12-14T01:26:16 | 341 | 22 | 105 |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/221-rpgs-square-enix/61428436 A number of people who like gambling note that they enjoy that sort of mechanic. You personally don't like them, but if others like gambling who are you to stop them? I also LOVE random encounters. For a lazy gambling man like me who doesn't want to have to u... | Random encounters, like in the Final Fantasy series, are a bad game mechanic. | 1 | 2015-08-31T18:00:38 | 58 | 1 | null |
I have one more point that I see few people (no one?) mentioning. The whole "0° - Really cold 50° - So-so 100° - Really hot" has never really worked for me. I live in Canada with an area that we see some really major temperature swings. 0C (33F) in the winter is balmy. I have legitimately seen people wearing shorts and... | Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius in everyday usage | 0 | 2015-03-20T06:26:11 | 130 | 1 | 3 |
Well, the most obvious thing is "it depends on what your terms of success are". Another spin, then. It is common to be fairly good at things you enjoy doing; things you do not enjoy doing you won't have the same enthusiasm for, or the internal biological "reward" system. Logically, if your definition of success is a ba... | The phrase "do what you love and you'll succeed" is ridiculous and stupid to tell kids. | 0 | 2015-10-18T06:19:50 | 29 | 4 | null |
**[Megara](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/7/79/Hercules354.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140324050016)** - had the succubus vibe from the jump and that sultry, xanned out voice. Her hair is wack af tho. 6/10. **[Mulan](http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/35900000/Pretty-Mulan-mulans-victory-35976551-6... | Jane, from 'Tarzan', is the most attractive Disney girl | 1 | 2017-05-05T19:11:01 | 345 | 1,049 | 3 |
As a mathematics and computer science major, I personally study best from doing practice problems over and over until I've sharpened my intuition as well as my working knowledge of how the tools I have learned relate to each other. This process takes much longer than a few hours. In abstract mathematics especially, kno... | I believe that it should never take more than a few hours the night before an exam to study. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-21T00:03:28 | 44 | 1 | null |
Science and religion are a set of "tools" used to understand answers about the universe and our relationship with the universe. Religion isn't a tool to discover or understand anything about this universe. Believing in a god is not a decision that grants a religious person any more insight into the universe that a non-... | Science and religion are two sides of the same coin. | 0 | 2016-08-23T21:33:47 | 62 | 2 | null |
It's worth noting that, should Hillary Clinton be elected, she would only be the second Clinton to be President. Their daughter Chelsea does not seem to have any political aspirations, either. Jeb Bush would be the third Bush, but frankly Republicans have been pushing to get him into the White House since before his br... | I find it problematic that a Clinton and Bush is runing for president again | 0 | 2015-05-18T09:11:42 | 85 | 1 | 1 |
One can see that more females have reproduced in history than males, by a significant margin too Because that's the gamble that females take in the game theory. It is neither evil nor good, it simply is. I believe I have a better grasp of it than either party I'm willing to bet that you have no or almost no female fr... | In the coming decades we need to answer the Incel Question, and I believe I have the solution | 0 | 2017-04-26T05:44:14 | 161 | 2 | null |
This ignores everywhere that's not a major metropolitan area, and not everybody lives in a city. In many places in the US, there's no public transportation and the nearest grocery stores and workplaces are 10 miles away or more. Here, not having a car makes you effectively marooned, with the only place to buy any food ... | Cars make the quality of life of (almost) everyone worse, except for the actual user. | 0 | 2016-02-15T17:03:02 | 120 | 8 | null |
Legally, a transgender person would be the gender that they identified as (at least in my country), so it would not legally be a deception. Furthermore, having sex with a transgender person does not harm the other person involved unless there is some greater form of deception involved that would inhibit the nature of t... | a trans-person should face criminal charges is they fail to disclose their biological sex prior to engaging in sexual activities with another if that person wishes to push charges. | 0 | 2016-06-12T00:24:03 | 81 | 1 | 1 |
You should tolerate it. You should have to tolerate other points of view. You can't go around policing people's thoughts. You can't get everyone to think like you, sorry. What are you going to do about it? If someone is racist, view them as a complete lunatic. You can't change the way they think. You can go ahead and t... | I don't believe we should tolerate racist or sexist beliefs from the elderly any more than we should from younger generations. | 0 | 2014-11-21T06:16:28 | 298 | 1 | null |
Nothing really big has happened in the world since Trump took office, thank goodness. But some crisis tests every administration. When it does, we desperately need a President who is not a mentally ill man-child. We need someone we know won't start a global nuclear war if there's another 9/11, or if North Korea does so... | As a liberal, impeaching or otherwise removing Donald Trump is a bad idea and will only result in a stronger and harder to oppose Pence administration. We should want Trump to remain for the duration of his term and hope for a strong showing in 2020. | 1 | 2017-05-19T18:30:57 | 159 | 4 | 1 |
I think copyright should be 10 years + a fee to extend it every 5 years (increasing in cost) or an additional 10 years for successive works that way every creator gets 10 years to profit from their creation, and say for a comic book like batman, every new work extends the copy right. And if they feel they're making mon... | Copyright protection should last 15 to 20 years at most. | 1 | 2016-07-13T20:06:38 | 557 | 2 | null |
There are things the government is good at and the private sector is bad at, there are things the government is bad at and the public sector is good at, and there are things that everyone is bad at. Protecting children is something everyone is bad at. For ordinary people CPS is fucking terrifying. They literally have t... | Child Protective Services (CPS), while a good concept, is virtually useless in practice | 0 | 2015-01-21T20:17:40 | 177 | 3 | 13 |
The Alt-Right has almost no standing. Alt-right narratives aren't carried by the media, or even much on the internet. SJW's are taking over college campuses. The media carries their water. They're a larger existential threat, because they're given credence by the larger progressive movement/culture. I look at Alt-Rig... | the Alt-right (or new right) is to conservatism what SJWs are to the left, but the Alt-right isn't discussed nearly enough | 0 | 2016-04-08T20:02:49 | 401 | 2 | null |
I don't think there should be a societal norm for the supposed ranking because everyone is and should be different. Using myself as an example, I didn't grow up being close to my family but used my friends as a surrogate family. So I personally would die for 2 of my close friends but not my family. Most people would be... | I don't think there is anything worth dying for. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-14T19:24:31 | 80 | 1 | 6 |
While your statement is true when viewed from a certain angle, it's not entirely the whole story... Almost everyone does something that is bad for them. Drinking sugary sodas and eating tons of processed junk food is a bad decision too. As is drinking alcohol in excess. As is not exercising. And street racing or reckle... | Anybody who has taken up smoking tobacco since the year 1990 has made a proundly stupid decision and has nobody to blame but themselves. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-26T05:58:03 | 924 | 6 | 1 |
The problem right now is that the IOC is asking a city to plan for and host a complex mega-event and to do it once. Can't the Olympic Games then just be decentralized for the most part. Take certain events to places they are popular locally. Then, bring the athletes all together for the opening and closing ceremonies. ... | The Summer Olympics should be held at a permanent, non-moving (or rarely-moving) location | 0 | 2016-08-05T23:08:53 | 61 | 1 | null |
I feel like your argument boils down to "technology changes lifestyles and that's bad." I really disagree with you on that. A lot of technology today encourages laziness. The automobile encourages me not to walk places, but it also allows me to travel further and faster. What one calls laziness, another could call sa... | Amazon Echo is an incredibly harmful piece of technology. | 0 | 2015-07-29T16:59:31 | 216 | 66 | 3 |
They try to justify that this is a "preference" That's probably because it *is* a preference. The thing I'm talking about is mostly sexual/regarding sexual attraction. It's about the people who watch specifically "Asian porn" (where Asian females are depicted as weak and submissive). It seems to be taking objectificati... | I think that people who have racial fetishes (especially toward Asian or black people) are disturbing. CMV | 0 | 2014-06-30T14:22:12 | 68 | 8 | 18Δ |
I will specifically address point 3 since most of the others have been discussed to my satisfaction. The way you phrased the point makes it seem like this healthcare was somehow owned by the poor and will be taken from them and given to the wealthy. The ACA was an attempt to help the poor by forcing certain regulations... | The Republican Party today is an evil institution and voting for or supporting Republican politicians is inherently immoral | 0 | 2017-06-28T19:48:40 | 305 | 1 | null |
I currently have 5 digits of karma in a particular subreddit. If I start spamming, trolling, and generally being an asshole, should the mods have to wait until I burn through my karma bank to ban me, while I'm posting dick pics and racist shit for weeks on end? | Subreddit moderators should be unable to ban a user who has sufficient positive comment karma in that subreddit. | 1 | 2015-06-24T02:56:15 | 28 | 21 | null |
From the comment rules: "If you have acknowledged/hinted that your view has changed in some way, please award a delta." It seems I've changed your view that everyone who drinks is hiding deeper issues, so may I please have a delta? :) | If you drink, or use any addiction to get through life, you are inherently admitting you can't enjoy life without said drug substance/addiction | 1 | 2016-08-12T23:26:46 | 167 | 4 | 2 |
You think you will excel at a top university? I doubt it. University will be a lot of the same boring stuff it is now. Sure there will be tougher and more interesting content but there is still a lot of meaningless requirements you will have to do. Also if you really feel this way you need to discard the notion that sc... | I don't think I should spend every waking hour of my teenage life trying to get into a good college | 0 | 2015-05-12T14:55:08 | 78 | 5 | null |
Do we really want 90% voter turnout. I'd rather have the people who are willing to go to the polls getting to vote. Not people just picking a candidate and texting in there vote. The people we have voting now are more likely invested in the election and have watched debates and know their candidates platform. I know th... | Voter turnout on election days will not increase until there is a way for citizens to vote online. | 0 | 2015-10-08T03:25:33 | 83 | 1 | null |
You never need to pick a side if you do not feel one side consistently covers your interests. You do not need to just vote for one party. Registering as undeclared is fine. Not voting a straight ticket is fine. It is unlikely any party is ever going to represent all of your interests. I myself am very left-leaning in g... | Should I even pick a side of the political spectrum to be on? (As a Teenager) | 1 | 2016-11-24T00:59:05 | 69 | 11 | 1 |
Everything that WE know about the case comes from media coverage of the trial. By media coverage do you mean live video feeds of the trial? You [can watch most if not all of the trial on youtube still](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfMrZk5H2tY). So it's not a matter of the media manipulating things we can watch the ... | OJ Simpson most likely did not murder Nicole Brown Simpson, and I'm glad he got off. | 0 | 2014-09-30T19:44:39 | 262 | 9 | 20 |
This is a good response, I think plenty of people who stop being religious do so because of the reasons you mention. I guess within the standpoint of religious stories, and depending on personal philosophy, God isn't out to make the world perfect or to literally solve individual people's problems - as I understand it p... | Believing in the Christian god doesn't make sense | 1 | 2017-01-05T20:14:36 | 103 | 2 | 6 |
* "if everyone had to go to public school. Everyone would have an equal education". There is huge disparity between public schools. The top rival the finest private schools. The bottom simply hope to keep the kids off the streets for a few hours per week. * "I have never seen any benefit to private school." Benefit for... | I think that private schooling and homeschooling should be made illegal, and everyone be forced to attend public school. | 0 | 2015-08-24T18:30:38 | 148 | 44 | 128 |
Fake news is a direct threat to an informed public. If I can just make shit up and make my stuff look legit then how would the public know if my information was real or not? The people that people confirm their ideas is because they see "news" articles that support their view. And man Bernays would love the idea of f... | Fake news is a non-issue. The onus lies with news consumers, not news provider. | 0 | 2017-01-10T05:15:25 | 75 | 1 | 23 |
The plural of anecdote is anecdotes. The singular of data is datum. | The plural of anecdote *is* data | 0 | 2016-02-18T02:19:53 | 36 | 2 | null |
But even if half the country has left, and all of the people who died did so after they left, we're still looking at less than 0.3% in risk of death. And I'm sure the chances of death are higher in certain areas vs others, so by avoiding those places your risk of death reduces even more. So again, much more dangerous ... | Syrian parents who have children during the war are irresponsible and deserve no remorse if their kids die | 1 | 2017-04-05T19:25:15 | 75 | 3 | 22 |
Is not vaccinating your child kind of a shitty thing? Yes. Is it child abuse? No. While not vaccinating kids because they don't believe in it may place their child in harm's way, that child is not being inherently harmed the same way starving or leaving them unclothed is. It is less like refusing them food, and more li... | Choosing not to vaccinate your children should be considered child abuse. | 1 | 2016-09-18T13:10:47 | 176 | 75 | 7 |
I think it depends on which aspects you're referring to. For example, while marriage is clearly an issue that only impacts queer people, putting anti-discrimination laws about sexual orientation on the books helps everyone. You can just as legally be fired for being straight in most states as you can for being gay. In ... | The word "feminism" does not accurately represent the feminist movement | 0 | 2015-02-11T22:20:16 | 148 | 1 | null |
Ok, so, lets do this in a structured way. My personal position is that I am a Kantian, so I don't believe in the argument following, never the less, I think you are being unfair to the Utilitarian position. Your argument is only really two premises: P1. An acceptable moral system must not advocate slavery (except in so... | According to a utilitarian ethics system, certain forms of slavery are permissible (perhaps a moral requirement), and this makes utilitarianism a dangerous philosophy. | 1 | 2017-06-09T22:03:48 | 81 | 6 | 5 |
so if a law is wrong and eventually gets changed we should continue to punish people for their crimes? what about the old segregation laws where people got put in prison for using the wrong bathroom, or sitting at the front of the bus? if everyone just followed those laws nothing would have ever changed. people had to ... | People that get jailed for committing an illegal act that later became legal should not be released. | 1 | 2014-11-10T19:04:33 | 55 | 5 | 4 |
The notion of ecological niche states that there can never be two rival organisms co-existing, said machine would destroy us to ensure its own safety, however cliché the whole thing might be. What makes you think it would be our rival? | Intelligent Machines will destroy us and we have no right to complain. | 0 | 2016-05-03T03:02:49 | 67 | 1 | 3 |
Bob is going through a divorce with a custody battle. Bob stops going to the gym and eats take out more because the process is hugely stressful. Bob goes to his doctor, who says his blood pressure is too high. Under your system, the doctor would say, 'I won't prescribe you medication until you start exercising twice a ... | I think people must be able to perform a basic fitness and diet evaluation before they are prescribed medicine. | 1 | 2017-03-05T07:07:52 | 33 | 4 | 2 |
Ah, but if you believe this... Humans can never be sure enough that something is good or true, outside of mathematical law. Then how does this follow? If you believe someone is wrong about something, then its just as likely YOU are the one wrong... Since you have [a] **moral obligation** to spread the truth, you must ... | I believe there is no possible way to spread information morally. | 0 | 2016-04-22T21:55:14 | 33 | 2 | 38 |
I think you've made a lot of good and valid points here that I'd like to address. If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to break them down a bit so I can talk about them a bit more specifically. **1) That people getting offended here are so being they are latent homophobes** I think this is more an outcry of how homophobic t... | People react with outrage to being called gay. I believe this is perpetuating homophobia. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-14T17:42:15 | 25 | 2 | 3 |
Your title and your conjecture say slightly different things. One saying that the goal (end game) of life is to reduce material wants. The other saying that you reduce material wants to obtain a more peaceful life. I would argue that 1) there is no "goal" in life 2) a peaceful life is not one that is better 1) The only... | The goal of life should be to reduce your material wants. | 1 | 2015-07-08T23:37:28 | 37 | 4 | 1 |
Morally equivalent? No. If you give a fetus an incurable disease and let it come to term, *then* it would equivalent to giving a incurable disease to an otherwise healthy child. The moral issue at hand isn't allowing the fetus to continue to term, but the giving of the disease to the child. However, by your scale, the ... | Letting a fetus with an incurable disease live is morally equivalent to giving an incurable disease to a healthy child | 0 | 2017-04-06T05:16:08 | 374 | 1 | null |
How often do you think the average conservative thinks about trans people? First of all, most people in the US are stubbornly apolitical: they don't know or care much about politics, and they vote the way they always have or the way the people in their communities are voting. This is especially true about white people ... | Most US conservatives would, if not literally kill me, smile and nod along if one of them did. | 1 | 2017-02-10T19:49:18 | 192 | 27 | 59 |
First and foremost, I just don't think it's that unreasonable to explain to people that you have learnt to deal with your blindness by sensing your surroundings better. This would at least allow him to not walk with a cane and pretend he can't find every chair in every room. I would assume this is a rather annoying way... | There is no reason that Daredevil should pretend to be 'conventionally' blind in his normal life. **[Spoilers of the Daredevil series on Netflix]** | 0 | 2016-01-03T13:43:29 | 30 | 16 | 18 |
Not an expert nor have hard numbers off the top of my head, but have done a lot of reading about where the money goes. The main reason so many planes, ships, tank etc. Continue to get built are politicians supporting their constituants. American factories build our military's gear, politicians constituants work in thes... | Military spending is a disgusting waste of a public asset that should be spent on more useful things. | 1 | 2016-04-11T07:42:06 | 32 | 7 | 3 |
Look back at all your examples of Republican positions you can't understand, and you'll notice that in each case either their position has no empirical evidence in favor of it, or it has a negative effect on the situation. The thing you are missing is that Republicans basically don't care about the outcomes of their po... | I literally cannot understand most Republican social views. | 1 | 2017-02-10T22:24:21 | 250 | 28 | 4 |
Ok, I was kind of hoping that was the case, as it sort of helps me lay out a point. Your opening post seems largely based on the idea that they are choosing to be introverted, & your stance seems to be based on the idea that they don't deserve different treatment if they chose to be this way. I don't know that I b... | Special care should not be taken when dealing with introverts. | 1 | 2014-06-16T18:20:31 | 96 | 3 | 1 |
Hello! I am not an American, but I did live there for four years, and have a sense of place. I think that most Americans would place me on the right of the political spectrum, and might even call me conservative. More specifically though, within the right, I would be considered a Libertarian. I am cisgender, a capi... | Most US conservatives would, if not literally kill me, smile and nod along if one of them did. | 0 | 2017-02-11T08:22:26 | 192 | 1 | null |
If he is setting this condition as an ultimatum, then technically, you *would* have to sacrifice your current job to continue in the relationship. But it's not as simple as that because you want both the job and the relationship, so if he is unwilling to sacrifice his own job and move to your country, then you will hav... | CMV I believe that I should not have to sacrifice my career to be in a long distance relationship with someone by moving to so's country and starting anew | 1 | 2014-06-13T11:08:21 | 41 | 13 | 30Δ |
It seems like most of your points don't really apply specifically to modern society, things like being born or having to exist in a society until you are old enough to be able to function on your own would be true of any human child from any society, from a single baby and its mother to a full modern republic. A child... | Modern society and laws exist without consent because of a lack of alternative scenarios in which one can live self-sufficiently without assimilating, this makes us all at least temporary and limited slaves at one point in our lives, thereby making modern society unjust CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-18T12:55:56 | 313 | 36 | 2 |
"Everyone use the locker room they're most comfortable with." This means, essentially, everybody can use any locker room, which is the outcome I stated at the top of the post. If you make an exception to this rule such that 100% cis men can't use the women's room, then you have to decide about people who identify as 90... | if we allow transgender people to use the locker room of the gender they identify as, and if we also acknowledge non-binary genders, then we have to open all bathrooms/locker rooms to everyone, because there's nowhere else you can draw the line and be consistent about it. | 0 | 2017-07-03T05:47:09 | 116 | 12 | null |
I'm talking as a layperson, but as I understand it, virginity is an important concept because of the evolutionary imperative to spread one's own DNA. For all but the last few years of human evolution, if a man wanted to be sure that he was parenting his own offspring, there were precious few means of doing so. The virg... | Virginity shouldn't be a big deal | 0 | 2015-01-12T21:34:00 | 121 | 7 | null |
Obituaries are for the people who are still alive, not for the person who is dead. Although I too have seen the disturbing canonization of people who were very average after they die, I think it may be worth remembering that what you write now will not hurt your dead former friend. It will hurt his living survivors. If... | I want to write an honest obituary. | 0 | 2016-01-06T17:19:38 | 29 | 1 | null |
Thank you for the honest answer. Don't forget to award the Delta to the poster who perhaps changed your view. | I believe that the bible is god-breathed and contains no errors. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-07T02:35:31 | 86 | 2 | 3 |
I believe that college degrees already don't do much anymore because of how many people have them these days. Ignorant way to look at it. Educated population is always better population. No matter the field, no matter your career. Virtually every study done on the matter agree's. Educated people, do better. We need a m... | Adopting a system of universal, free college tuition in the US is a bad idea and would hurt the country rather than help it. | 0 | 2016-10-11T18:01:25 | 82 | 1 | 11 |
employers might fire servers who don't get enough tips as a sign of bad service but I don't think that should be the case. Just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean it won't happen. The fact is that if they don't get tipped they still *will* get fired, even if you think it's wrong. If I don't tip, they will at... | I don't think it's detrimental to servers if I don't tip them | 0 | 2014-08-04T05:24:12 | 85 | 1 | 2 |
Eventually these college students will graduate, many of them already have, and they will be already radicalized. I understand that homophobia is a very real problem in this country, and I've acknowledged that the right has many issues too, but your original post stated that SJWs are not a threat, and I'm trying to bri... | "SJWs" are not a real threat, but are instead a reactionary canard against legitimate criticism of the status quo. | 1 | 2017-06-09T02:33:49 | 82 | 8 | 2 |
This post appears to be about "dark alley rape" perpetuated by subhuman beasts that are tantalized by provocative dress. A majority of rape is perpetrated by rapists that are known to the victim. To that end, "teaching people not to rape" is the same thing as respecting boundaries, understanding affirmative consent, an... | Telling women to dress modestly and be generally careful is a valid action in the fight against rape. | 0 | 2017-03-02T19:55:45 | 211 | 23 | 23 |
I took calc 2 in college. The teacher on day one said something like "no calculator is able to do calculus the right way so you can use any calculator you like." I went out and bought a TI-89 Titanium and proceeded to not learn anything and get in the top 5 grades on all tests for the rest of the semester. This is why ... | There's no reason to not allow students calculators/formula sheets. | 0 | 2016-01-10T20:33:29 | 69 | 1 | 2Δ |
You need to consider the [Paradox of Tolerance](https://medium.com/@juliaserano/free-speech-and-the-paradox-of-tolerance-e0547aefe538#.418xizbdj). You won't have freedom of speech if you allow totally unfettered free speech including doxxing, death threats, bomb threats, impersonation, and so on. That's why in law, the... | Infringing on Free Speech rights is indefensible. | 1 | 2017-03-15T19:34:46 | 125 | 2 | 6 |
Are you asking if more money is better then less money? Does this question really need to be asked. | In the lottery, it is worse to share the jackpot than it is to win the entire jackpot | 0 | 2017-01-30T07:46:21 | 84 | 8 | 1 |
people spend based on what they have. thus more money would simply be spend on grocery's and other junk, your solution wouldn't actually do anything, productive and innovative are not things people normally spend money on, hypothetically it could, but realistically not going to happen. | The world would be better off if we didn't have pets. | 0 | 2017-02-24T00:53:50 | 22 | 1 | 17 |
I know I should be more educated about who's running the country I'm living in but as of right now I'm not too interested...I decided I was going to vote for Bernie because I heard he supports weed legalization This reads like it was written by someone who takes pride in being uneducated. a system could be implemented ... | I don't think everybody deserves the right to vote. | 0 | 2016-02-24T17:18:50 | 108 | 1 | null |
We saw Watto's shop - there's no indication that there are any working ships there (or non-working ships that could be duct-taped to work). The mind trick might not be the most... tasteful... method, but then when you're tasked with protecting a monarch against hostile capture and forced turnover of her entire governm... | CMV Qui-Gon Jinn is actual a pretty amoral dude. | 1 | 2015-01-10T10:07:39 | 57 | 11 | 4 |
think of it this way: By educating yourself and voting, you are diluting the vote of uninformed people. You dont have to write a PhD thesis on the current election, head over to isidewith, take the test, and then do some research/background checks on your top 2 or 3 candidates | I don't think everybody deserves the right to vote. | 0 | 2016-02-24T18:38:30 | 108 | 3 | null |
Why does a humans well-being and enjoyment always trump another animals? =s | It's just a lion and I see no reason to care. | 0 | 2015-07-31T04:42:37 | 568 | 0 | null |
For most people putting on weight is easier than losing. Just look at the population of this country over 65% is fat. | As someone who has been underweight most his life. It is NOT easier to put on weight than it is to lose weight. | 0 | 2017-02-15T02:42:02 | 75 | 1 | null |
You do realize that Navajo is just as offensive, right? The proper name is Diné. The Spanish called them Navajo. Where do you live? Here in New Mexico (state with the 2nd highest native/Indian percentage of population and more than 1/3 of the total Diné population) Indian is the preferred term. In reality, none of my n... | Native Indian and Native American are equally disrespectful | 1 | 2014-12-16T05:55:05 | 20 | 6 | 1 |
My wife and I both looked at this question. And this was the best that we got. The question really is how many people say the following You're a ______ you couldn't/could be a _______. ] You're a man, you couldn't possibly be a doctor.......says no one. You're a woman, you couldnt' possibly be a doctor happens a lot... | Women in the modern world are given more advantages than men are and feminism is not true feminism. | 0 | 2017-02-09T11:02:57 | 86 | 9 | 28 |
That depends on the relationship as far as I can tell. However I will absolutely stand by the claim that the ceiling for enjoyment of sex (how good it can be) increases with experience, as with everything milage may very, relationships are messy things and people will stay in them for reasons other than sex, but if bot... | Sex and relationships are best in high school | 1 | 2017-02-23T09:11:33 | 80 | 1 | 9 |
IF you force someone to pay back shares of potential earnings, you're simply forcing a bank to place an evaluation on something with very little data to evaluate how much that evaluation should be. How does the bank know how much to charge so it can make a return. How does that person know that their evaluation is at ... | A system in which students offer "shares" of their future earnings is preferable to the current student loan system. | 0 | 2015-06-13T07:39:23 | 138 | 1 | 1Δ |
the probability for consistent priorities in neural evolution would be nearly identical in the survival of any intelligent life in the universe, due to the nature of gaining control over any environment. I don't see any good reason to believe this at all. We don't have the information(what other complex life supporting... | Technology advances in a way that intelligent life will always destroy itself before it reaches the stars. | 1 | 2016-09-02T18:12:01 | 33 | 3 | 6 |
You actually address two separate things here. One is natural selection and the other is abiogenesis. The process of abiogenesis is less understood than natural selection, but it is still pretty well established. If we look at the basic building blocks of life we see a lot of chemicals that form naturally. What is thou... | The origin of life is highly improbable | 1 | 2016-02-21T22:36:13 | 50 | 23 | 53 |
You were rude by harboring anger towards a human being instead of asking if you could go ahead and pay while he was playing his scratchy lottery game. Maybe the guy playing lotto was thinking "Man, I sure wish this guy behind me would ask if he could go ahead so I don't have to stand here like an idiot. And I'm too shy... | People should not do their Lotto at Gas Stations | 0 | 2017-02-17T05:51:52 | 73 | 0 | null |
The idea that equality for women is not in the best interest of white men is retarded. Countries in which women are *ACTUALLY* repressed are shit holes. Nothing goes further to advancing the general health of a society than the empowerment of women. From reading this post, I can surmise that almost every *oppression* p... | Men, white people, and others with unearned privilege can never be anti-oppression, because it's not in their interest | 0 | 2016-06-06T19:09:57 | 105 | 5 | null |
The OP is actually much more clever than you all are giving her credit for OP has only made a comment about what happens IF Batman can escape the first fight - so any crazy-powerful superbeing wins but is not relevant to the discussion. What we really need is some sort of Lovecraftian villain that would allow Batman to... | I believe that Batman always wins the "who would win in a fight" game if he can escape the first fight. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-13T21:38:38 | 100 | 54 | 1 |
I didn't understand it to be that the fetus is a person, but in certain circumstances it is okay to kill a person. The point is that it works in both cases. So it is possible to have a sensible discussion about abortion, because it does not hinge on any one definition of what a person/human is. A [quick Google search](... | It doesn't make sense to debate abortion until the definition of a person or human life is defined | 1 | 2016-12-17T20:39:19 | 97 | 4 | 23 |
What I'm saying is there are some cases in which you do. I don't believe that you have considered every possible scenario and they all showed that lethal force was not necessary. On the original point ,we can do thought experiments all day but in the end morality is subjective, there is no absolute truth in this matter... | I believe in the absolute sanctity of human life. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-11T06:26:29 | 59 | 1 | 1 |
I think the problem you're having is that you are assuming that along with feminism making life equally good for women, feminism also seeks (or should seek) to make it equally shitty. Imagine this scenario: You give two little kids ice cream cones. The first one drops theirs before getting to take a bite. To make it f... | Modern feminism is hypocritical and flawed | 0 | 2015-08-25T05:43:12 | 67 | 2 | 5 |
The thing is that bands, especially melodramatic ones like youre describing help give people an outlet for their emotions and a sort of companionship that someone knows how they feel. Even without anyone being there, it's possible for these people to feel that they're not the only one. It's not just bands that save peo... | I think people who say "this band saved my life" are delusional and dumb | 0 | 2016-03-15T00:41:49 | 20 | 1 | 4 |
After subscribing to /r/Libertarian, I learned that the conceptual framework of the party was significantly different from what I thought the party stood for. This is kind of like using /r/atheism to gauge the attitudes of atheists at large. There are various degrees of libertarianism and most don't believe in "abolish... | I believe that Libertarians have no idea how their dogma, especially the "non-aggression principle" would actually work in a real society. Please CMV! | 0 | 2013-08-13T16:51:29 | 96 | 9 | 15 |
Not a doctor so I can't say if any of what I'm about to say is true. This is my understanding of it. Does anyone else agree with this? .... 1. The brain has lots of different "states". Like any other part of your body, it can change in a lot of different ways. And maybe it can change more than any other part of your bo... | Depression is permanent. | 0 | 2017-02-17T06:07:10 | 33 | 1 | null |
**[1] I believe taking care of the homeless should solely be the job of the government. [2] Private citizens giving handouts mostly decreases the urgency to find financial, mental, etc. help from welfare and other agencies. ** As to [1], the problem is the government is *not* taking care of the homelesss. Given that ma... | The laws against feeding the homeless at your will are justified. | 0 | 2017-01-10T04:00:59 | 48 | 1 | 2 |
I'm late to the party, but I want to bring up another point. Why does meaning matter? Why is it always negatively brought up that there is no meaning to life? Couldn't the lack of meaning be a positive thing? Or not even positive or negative, just a thing. It doesn't have to be this cold WE. ARE. MACHINES. kind of phil... | From an individual standpoint, human life is pointless. | 0 | 2014-11-25T20:13:59 | 44 | 1 | null |
No. Those airlines do not meet the same standards as US flights and there is no way for them to make them. There is also no way to tax them the same as the domestic flights. Having independent control of your country is vitally important and that includes the tranportation within it. | The US should allow airline cabotage. | 0 | 2015-07-12T00:42:27 | 71 | -8 | 15 |
The 1% is very rich. They hold most of the country's wealth, and their investments in business help make or break companies. We have a strong interest in them buying stocks. Likewise, we have a strong interest in knowing more about a company. We want to know about any new tech, any failures of tech, about any bad sales... | Insider trading on stocks should not be illegal | 0 | 2016-01-02T18:06:46 | 61 | 1 | 94 |
I deleted my previous post (I kept it at the bottom) because I wanted to ask you something and you might not have noticed the Edit on my original comment: What would happen to human interactions? How would you have friends? One person can't become closer to you because everything there is to know about you is public. ... | We should all wear cameras in our heads that record everything we do. And everyone should be able to see every feed. | 0 | 2014-04-04T17:17:26 | 95 | 3 | null |
The answer to things we don't like is not always to make (or keep) them illegal, even if just for purely practical reasons. I don't know how familiar you are with American history, but in the 1920s we tried to ban alcohol. It did not go well. Putting aside moral or ethical complaints, it was simply not feasible. I pers... | I don't believe Marijuana should be legalized. | 0 | 2017-05-13T20:50:02 | 87 | 1 | null |
Do you believe in property rights, or "stealing from the rich and giving to the poor"? You must pick one, because you cannot stand for both. If a man earns enough to buy 5 cars, and never drives 4 of them, they all still belong to him equally. He earned the money to purchase them, and they are his. It matters not his u... | Steal from the Rich and give to the Poor. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-16T20:27:01 | 70 | 1 | null |
For the lack of good launch titles, I would say that it is pretty much the case for every console in recent memory. The ps4 had maybe killzone and the xboxone had dead rising and that's pretty much it. I don't even remember exclusive launch titles of the ps3 and xbox360. I believe it is just impossible to start develop... | Nintendo is a badly managed company | 0 | 2015-01-15T23:44:56 | 29 | 1 | null |
How would you prove that someone knew about the law? To me it seems possible that somebody could knowingly commit a crime causing substantial harm (not one of the "major" crimes), but claim they were unaware of its existence. | If the crime committed isn't one of the "big" ones, and the defendant isn't a corporation, ignorance of the law should be a valid defense. | 0 | 2016-10-19T20:40:19 | 73 | 2 | 34 |
The millions of people who live in Puerto Rico are US citizens. They have been speaking Spanish for hundreds of years - they aren't immigrants. I don't think the US government has any plans to ethnically cleanse them. Therefore, at the very least, the federal government should make documents available in Spanish. | Federal and state governments in the US should stop producing documents in languages other than English because it allows immigrants to "get by" without learning English which leads to a lack of assimilation. (Which is a bad thing) | 1 | 2016-03-15T14:42:27 | 61 | 2 | 1 |
So, I actually learned a lot about society and the culture of impoverished black areas from watching this show "The Wire". It's my favorite show and it's about the drug trade in Baltimore, society, and the nature of people- I HIGHLY recommend watching it. I live near Baltimore and I STILL feel it gave me a LOT of persp... | I don't want to be afraid of random black people on the street. I was just attacked. Again. | 1 | 2017-01-07T02:51:23 | 393 | 0 | 2 |
With that said, i have some trouble understanding why someone is willing to develop so much software for free when it could potentially be giving them money. I have a few small open source projects that I run. One of them is a library for C++ and Lua, and it does stuff that anyone can do, but I just took the time to c... | I believe open source software doesn't make sense in our current society, as it is basically giving away work for free. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-26T23:47:22 | 22 | 9 | 126Δ |
If I understand your point correctly, in order to change your view, we would need to prove that "scientists" would not change their ideas on the uniformity of nature, even if presented with evidence to the contrary, right? Since that would really be counter to the fundamentals of the scientific method, it doesn't seem... | I don't think scientists assume the uniformity of nature | 1 | 2015-08-24T17:11:51 | 43 | 1 | 128 |
At the very least they were incompetently disorganized. If they knew the plane was overbooked why did they make him go through the hassle of going through security and being seated on the plane? They could have easily have told him that he had bumped and would have to take another flight when he got to the airport and ... | The ugly scene that played out on United 3411 was the fault of Chicago PD and the passenger himself, not the airline | 1 | 2017-04-12T18:26:48 | 57 | 3 | 8 |
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