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I don't think historical context matters very much when determining if the song is problematic according to today's standards. Her reasons for saying no and wanting to leave aren't important, this is a song about a man who doggedly tries to persuade a woman to stay despite her clear and explicit message that she wants ... | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is not a problematic song. | 0 | 2016-12-07T14:37:20 | 119 | 14 | 101 |
There's almost no way she was the only one at fault for your relationship not being successful. By ghosting her, you've lost the opportunity to find out if there was something you did that made her cheat on you. I'm not saying it's your fault; I'm just saying that most failed relationships fail because of flaws on bot... | I'm not wrong for "ghosting" my ex after finding out she cheated | 0 | 2017-03-23T17:03:07 | 172 | 7 | null |
well no if the supernatural interacts with the natural what youd get would be a miracle or however you want to call it something that seems logically impossible, yet its still there. Something that is supernatural itself but has natural ripples. Now this whole thing might not make sense, but thats because you are tryin... | It is possible to become God himself/herself | 1 | 2016-09-13T20:53:41 | 51 | 1 | 15 |
Hm. I'm still a little confused, but it really seems like you're not against snitching; you're against snitching on actions that you personally don't think are that wrong. | "Snitching" or being a "tattle-tale" on people (not institutions) is highly unethical. | 1 | 2016-12-06T07:51:59 | 92 | 12 | 38 |
I agree with your primary point, but would like to point out that the individuals reputation would be tarnished either way. The problem here is not with the reporting of the cases, but with our mindset. Innocent until proven guilty means a lot more than most people would realize. The worst part of being in a Jury is re... | The Media should not be allowed to report on a trial, until the verdict. | 1 | 2015-01-25T05:46:21 | 108 | 2 | 1 |
At the same time, Bernie Sanders barely wins the primary but the DNC chooses Clinton (this is probably more unlikely than Trump going on his own). Sanders then sticks with his Independent status while Clinton goes as a Republican. Why would Clinton go as a Republican if the DNC chooses her? With this we effectively ha... | Trump losing the (R) primary and Sanders and Clinton splitting could end the two-party system. | 0 | 2015-12-18T18:16:06 | 43 | 2 | 3 |
Gender-fluidity is an ideology which influences neurology, it is independent of physiology. Feminism is also an ideology, which advocate women's rights or equality. Gender-fluidity is unable to reinforce a singular gender stereotype because it is an umbrella term for all gender stereotypes. The idea that clothes imply... | Genderfluidity is anti-feminist and reinforces dated gender stereotypes that other facets of feminism aim to destroy. | 0 | 2015-12-07T10:38:02 | 201 | 2 | 1 |
creating massive welfare programs isn't going to stop poverty The objective is to contain poverty, not make it disappear with a wave of a tax hand. a large group (dare I say majority) of "working class" who are stuck in their position not because of the lack of hard work or talent, but because they have absolutely n... | Social programs are no substitute for a good financial education and throwing money at people who cannot handle money is a waste. | 0 | 2015-04-20T16:48:37 | 93 | 1 | 26Δ |
You're right that there aren't a lot of tracks available for people to train bobsled, luge, or skeleton. But, it's not they like any old person can train on these tracks. There is a process you have to go through just to get to start to train on a team. [Here](http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1yb9xc/e... | I believe the Olympics are a farce, because many of the competitions are such niche events, CMV | 1 | 2014-02-22T23:06:11 | 71 | 40 | 6 |
My initial reaction to this was outright confusion, as both I, my wife, and most people I know have friends of the opposite gender and those relationships do not fit the conditions you've posited. However, simply saying that doesn't warrant much of an argument, does it? Then again, *your* conviction is based on exactl... | Women and Men (who are both heterosexual) cannot be platonic friends and are using each other, in most cases. And I find it unnecessary baggage within a relationship. | 1 | 2015-07-16T17:12:45 | 106 | 66 | 1 |
I have contemplated this since I was a young teen and often made me wonder why so many people are concerned with leaving a "legacy". If existence (from your perspective) lies solely on your consciousness then after you die it doesn't matter what you left because it no longer exists since you cannot experience it. In a ... | Assuming there is no afterlife, then life is ultimately meaningless and pointless because we die. | 1 | 2015-01-06T23:29:27 | 150 | 1 | 1 |
I think you'll be interested in the Graham/Nosek study. In this study a set of political questions are asked of people. 1/3 of the questions are asked of the person answering - their own opinions/ideas. the next third are then ask the person to answer "as a liberal would" and the last third are to be answered "as a con... | The Left in the US has made a better effort to understand the Right than the Right has to understand the Left. | 1 | 2016-11-29T01:50:20 | 776 | 666 | 41 |
If you agree that perception is relative, how would objective truth matter? At the most extreme, you might imagine a bunch of people plugged into a video game, maybe different ones even. Sure, things might be objectively true outside the simulation, but you have no way to know if that's the case, and if it is the case,... | Truth is not relative. Perception is. | 0 | 2016-10-30T20:55:30 | 56 | 1 | 12 |
After the wipe, an agent may return to their families to live out the rest of their life. However, the agent knows that that is a lie. They are going to have to lie to their families for the rest of their lives, something which is incredibly hard. What happens when an agent feels they can't keep up the lie anymore? Eve... | I don't think that retiring MIB agents should be neurolized | 1 | 2014-08-13T00:07:42 | 31 | 5 | 3 |
I don't see why being male or female would make a difference here. Presumably, the argument is that men aren't the ones who'll be directly affected by the opinions and decisions while females would be, but this fails to take into account that the bias can run both ways: one could be looking out for one's self interest ... | Men should not be allowed to vote on anything regarding abortion. | 1 | 2014-10-20T06:56:37 | 97 | 11 | 1 |
As a number of other people have mentioned, the word "surprised" is problematic in your view. I guess you could say that people should assume the system is corrupt and biased, and then they would never be surprised, but that's not a very productive view. I think, though, that the real question is "Should one be *disapp... | No one should be surprised the Democratic leadership actively snubbed Bernie because he only identified as a Democrat for political gain. | 1 | 2016-07-24T19:48:47 | 413 | 303 | 171 |
What's obnoxious isn't that the ads are important and you're interrupting them, but that your single loud voice is competing for attention with them. Nobody cares about the ads, but they do care about that little twinge in their head that makes them want to throw a brick at you for being the only person who can't pipe ... | It's perfectly acceptable to talk at full volume in a movie theatre when the lights are down but ads (not trailers) are playing | 1 | 2017-01-22T01:00:40 | 67 | 4 | 8 |
Before I begin, I'm actually agreeing with OP and just providing an interesting alternative angle to the argument. As was pointed out elsewhere (I'm on mobile so I can't link), there is a difference between "mentally ill" in a medical sense (diagnosed by a professional in accordance with the DSM guide, likely caused by... | I believe that the mentally ill are unfairly scapegoated for mass shooting and this is harmful to people seeking care. Change my view. | 1 | 2016-07-17T15:55:04 | 108 | 14 | 1 |
Scared the hell out of me. I knew it was fake but watched it in the woods in a trailer and didn't sleep that night. Movies like Friday the 13th don't scare me but that movie with it's slow build up, the fact that it was disarmingly funny in spots and then that ending made it terrifying. Turns out my imagination is WAY ... | The Blair Witch Project isn't even remotely scary, and its current position as the gold standard of the American horror genre is a farce (Warning: Spoilers) | 0 | 2015-03-27T21:40:05 | 85 | 2 | null |
I'm going to take a different approach. Sick time should not be counted at all. If you are really sick and contagious or otherwise not yourself enough to focus on the work, then showing up is doing more damage than it is worth. My company doesn't count any sick days against you and it is great for both health and moral... | Companies should not separate sick time, vacation time, personal time; it should all come from the same pool of hours. | 1 | 2014-07-09T04:24:26 | 56 | 7 | 18 |
To reduce pollution and conserve water in drought-stricken areas, the most efficient activity to curb (through taxes or other non-financial incentives) would be meat consumption. Meat production takes in vast quantities of planted crops (or forage), which require irrigation, and the runoff from those fields (fertilizer... | Bottled water should be more heavily taxed to sponsor water conservation/tap usage | 1 | 2016-10-09T20:37:14 | 228 | 14 | 1 |
It seems as though every qualm you have sited about the sport of basketball stems from the pace of the game. Every single possession in basketball must end with a missed basket, a turnover, or points all within a 24 second period; because of this fast-paced aspect of the game, the opportunities to score are greatly inc... | Basketball is a poorly designed sport and is not fun to watch. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-27T22:01:30 | 202 | 53 | 1 |
A massive error in the map, south east asia may be muslim dominated but they are not even close culturally to the middle east. You could even say that the Nordic region is different from western Europe. Just because places are different does not mean they are in conflict with each other and competing against each othe... | I believe the clash of civilizations is real and happening. CMV. | 0 | 2013-10-22T16:11:14 | 82 | 12 | null |
When you give money to someone, you know that money is going to them, to help them in whatever way they choose. It's charity. You want to make their life better, do so. If you don't, or you think you need the money more, then don't give it to them. Your couple of bucks isn't going to make someone not homeless, but it m... | I shouldn't give change to homeless people on the streets. | 0 | 2015-05-28T23:20:33 | 118 | 1 | null |
I smoked for ten years and thoroughly enjoyed the benefits you mentioned. Now that I've quit, a number of related comments in no particular connection or order: * I frequently take "fresh air" breaks while at work and sometimes while out at bars and clubs. During these fresh air breaks I shoot the shit with smokers, ... | Nothing can replace the social value of smoking tobacco | 1 | 2014-06-10T23:17:56 | 94 | 2 | 1 |
Is there an ideological inconsistency with saying "Murder is wrong, except in cases of self defense"? I don't see why these exceptions can't be considered part of the ideological view rather than being an incosistency. I shouldn't have to say all murder is first degree murder in order to be ideologically consistent. T... | "Anti-Abortion with exceptions for rape, incest and health and life of the mother" is idealogically bankrupt. | 0 | 2017-05-24T00:20:03 | 48 | 1 | 1 |
I don't think that people who suffer from genetic diseases or have a low IQ necessarily have a low quality of life, or are unable to be happy. Even if they require a constant caretaker, some people are naturally caretaker, that is what the train to be and that is the role they enjoy filling. | Eugenics Is A Good Idea, Just Gone About In The Wrong Way In The Past | 1 | 2017-04-17T19:34:53 | 67 | 1 | 10 |
Its boring, there's nothing to do. This is pretty much how I feel about city life, only add in that it is crowded and noisy. The only thing to do for fun is boring activities with friends. Like fish or going on a boat ride hunting. All things that not only could be done if you lived in the city with a short drive, but... | There is benefit to living in the suburbs or rurally unless you are raising a family. | 0 | 2016-04-24T12:49:29 | 64 | 11 | 59 |
I don't think it's productive to play Oppression Olympics, I think you should consider that you probably have a cognitive bias stemming from the fact that you were raised in a Muslim environment, get targeted with anti-Muslim discrimination because you're "brown," and presumably know a lot of people who are similarly s... | Muslims are the most discriminated against in general (on Reddit and in the UK) | 0 | 2015-03-18T15:04:32 | 63 | 9 | 3Δ |
The government already confiscates ill gotten gains. If a person is in trouble they have to prove where their money came from and how they earned it. We also have civil asset forfeiture. | Punish White Collar Crime With Seizure of Wealth | 0 | 2017-01-03T17:31:19 | 103 | 9 | 1 |
It's not that Qui-Gon doesn't care about slavery: Tatooine is outside meaningful Republic control. Like Padme says, the Republic wouldn't tolerate it, but like Shmi says, the Republic basically doesn't exist out there. Qui-Gon is one Jedi, and he's on a mission where he's deliberately trying not to attract attention. S... | CMV Qui-Gon Jinn is actual a pretty amoral dude. | 0 | 2015-01-11T17:48:32 | 57 | 1 | null |
There is ALWAYS a better use for any given allocation of funds. Regardless of how effective your idea is, there is always a better one. If you spend your time arguing the case that, "X would be a better use of funds than Y.", then essentially you're arguing that no one should ever do anything, because no matter what th... | 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. | 0 | 2015-10-11T21:54:44 | 535 | 1 | null |
Jobs come and go. If your employer thought that they could get by without you, they'd let you go in a heartbeat. And if you leave on good terms, you will probably be able to command higher wages at your next job. You might be able to find an opening at a multinational that has a job near your significant other is. But ... | 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 | 0 | 2014-06-13T11:41:52 | 41 | 1 | 50Δ |
This is a good analysis of Walter White, but I'd argue that evil is perfectly compatible with nuance, realistic motivations, and good intentions. Those are simply the marks of a well-written character. Even when we're talking about someone as unambiguously evil as Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter, or Col. Hans Landa, we sh... | Walter White is not THAT bad | 1 | 2016-03-04T16:58:00 | 48 | 3 | 38 |
I've been in a thread like this before, so I know this is a mistake to speak up. But here we go: The best pro-abortion argument I've heard went like this: At the fundamental level, abortion is a defense of a woman's right to her body. At no time can a woman be ethically forced to give up her body to another person agai... | I think abortion is wrong. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-04T09:07:30 | 111 | 14 | 1 |
I agree and disagree simultaneously for a very simple reason: *political parties rarely die*. For example... from 1994 to 2006, many were predicting the demise of the Democratic Party. I mean, in that span, they lost their hold on Congress, the Presidency, etc. They couldn't even get Bush out of office in 2004 when eve... | I believe the Republican Party will die within the next 100 years and will be replaced by the Libertarian Party. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-08T17:00:53 | 33 | 4 | 6 |
does treating them like crap make me any better? I think homophobes are flawed, no doubt, but I think it best to look past a persons flaws First of all: what exactly do you count as treating someone like crap? Does exposing these "personal flaws" go too far? While everyone deserves a basic level of respect as a person... | Homophobes deserve the same respect as anyone else CMV | 0 | 2013-11-12T01:09:58 | 44 | 1 | 14Δ |
Whenever he takes one of those little star things and blasts off to another planet, he's going a completely different direction. That is still just a combination of the other three directions. He is still moving in a 3d coordinate system. If you pause the game, zoom out, and saw all the planets in their coordinate syst... | The Super Mario Galaxy games are 4D platformers. | 1 | 2016-06-04T18:31:26 | 29 | 25 | 77 |
This bothered me for a long time too. What eventually changed my mind was realizing there are two definitions of pride at work. There's pride as in being happy about a positive quality in yourself, whether inherently or because of an accomplishment, and then there's pride as in the opposite of shame. When people say th... | For the sake of consistency, 'black pride' or any racial pride should be viewed the same way as we view 'white pride'. | 1 | 2017-01-02T07:50:03 | 145 | 18 | 18 |
, it actually makes financial sense (in the short term) to do so. He will have more time to devote (less babysitting) and essentially the same cash on hand. This is something of a flaw with the current system, in than that it doesn't curve well. You've described a situation where advancement doesn't feel like advanceme... | Welfare benefits incentivize reliance | 1 | 2016-01-06T21:06:43 | 217 | 71 | 1 |
I think one place that your analogy breaks down is that sexual relationships can be abusive simply because of the power involved. If your boss, client, or coworker has heavy influence on your career, this can be abused for sex (sometimes unintentionally as the abuser might think he's flirting within reason). The analog... | The idea that businesses or the government should ever be allowed to outright ban employees from dating each other has no place outside of totalitarian countries like China or North Korea. | 1 | 2016-10-16T20:33:23 | 217 | 54 | 4 |
There's a lot you're not seeing here. 1. Cps where I live also deals with food stamps, cash assistance and medical assistence. Taking the child from their unfit parents is only part of the institutions purpose 2. You might not see a lot of the good they do because your experiences seem to be related to infants. First ... | Child Protective Services (CPS), while a good concept, is virtually useless in practice | 1 | 2015-01-21T22:14:47 | 177 | 1 | 1 |
I think the problem you've perceived, that uninformed, politically over-charged voters end up voting the wrong people into office, is partly the result of low-voter turn out. I say this because, [according to Gallup](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167162/state-union-public-weighs-key-issues.aspx), the average American has ... | Increasing voting turnout while ignoring voter comprehension is more detrimental to society then creating voting requirements. | 1 | 2014-05-18T00:42:17 | 79 | 10 | 3 |
There are several things that can be addressed here. I will try to write them down in a list. 1. If we worry about the "consent" part - this is valid in any type of porn, not just rape porn. Especially with the non-consent being as thin as "she needed money". 2. Being raped is actually quite high among the reported sex... | I think rape porn is despicable and that it should be made illegal in the U.S. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-17T00:52:38 | 59 | 2 | 3 |
One problem is, everything gets murky when you try to make general rules. It's possible everyone thinks killing an innocent human being is wrong, but not everyone agrees with the precise definitions of "killing," "innocent," and "human being," resulting in disagreements for specific situations. Then there's the added c... | Absolute morality cannot exist without the existence of a omnipotent entity | 1 | 2016-08-15T20:07:00 | 117 | 11 | 25 |
If the word "choice" has any meaning, it must be able to be overridden by one's conscious decisions. If I try and try to enjoy tomatoes but cannot enjoy them, then liking tomatoes is not a choice. Maybe it had to do with life experience, maybe not - but even if it did, choices are things that I can consciously elect. M... | I believe being gay is a unconscious "choice" that results from life experience | 1 | 2015-11-21T20:56:11 | 54 | 36 | null |
Trump was elected by people who are likely to agree with this. It doesn't make sense if your motives are something different than his are, but it makes sense *if* you're interested in representing people who voted you in. Leaving it up to states is also throwing a bone to the libertarian crowd, while letting the most l... | Leaving transgender rights in the hands of the states makes little sense and opens the door to discrimination | 0 | 2017-02-23T19:37:24 | 115 | 0 | 49 |
I know deltas have already been given, but I'd like to chime in too: The first factor is that frontal lobe development makes emotions weaker as one grows up. Fair point, but stronger emotions do not necessarily make for better sex or relationships. The second factor is that as people grow up they become world-weary a... | Sex and relationships are best in high school | 0 | 2017-02-23T15:35:44 | 80 | 1 | 18 |
There are simply things some people won't be able to achieve if they have kids, and there's the possibility that those potential achievements might be far more valuable to mankind than the act of continuing a bloodline. See, it's not that people consider their gene's inferior; rather, it's more like someone is willing... | I think that people who don't want children are actively deciding that their genes and bloodline and everything that they are is not worth preserving and are therefore inferior to people that do. | 1 | 2014-07-15T20:25:08 | 50 | 6 | 19Δ |
If you consider politicians that have been assassinated, they are disproportionately of the left (i.e., would have been killed by a member of the right). | The political right is more violent than the left. | 0 | 2017-03-02T09:13:18 | 77 | 1 | null |
The main thought to keep in mind is that literature, like film, music, art, and mathematical proof, is a product: every single word exists in its place to achieve an intended purpose. Now, sometimes that purpose is to take up space, to add a little color. Sometimes that purpose is to serve another word in its desire to... | Literary Analysis is useless. | 1 | 2016-09-23T00:51:18 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
I feel like this is due to basic biological differences in how men are built to generate infinite sperm, but women have a finite availability of eggs and reproductive ability (age and fertility, physical toll of childbirth, menstrual cycle). While modern birth control methods effectively neuter this argument, I think t... | I think that it is MORE okay for men to have a large number of sexual partners than for women to have a large number of sexual partners, CMV. | 1 | 2013-10-20T13:31:00 | 76 | 9 | 14Δ |
I wouldn't pretend to know about addictions to porn, so I'll leave it to someone else to chime in on that. I can, however, somewhat comment on the degradation of women. the first criticism is the degradation of the image of women in porn, that degrades the image of women in general, and might lead to abuse. I certainl... | internet pornography is mostly harmless to society | 0 | 2016-11-06T16:37:23 | 64 | 10 | 5 |
You're getting too caught up in your hatred for the idea of criminals, and not looking at the message that what we do here sends to the impoverished youth of America who are at a high risk for being in gangs (or are already in them); Do we want to say "If you do these things no matter how much you regret them, you'll h... | Mark Wahlberg doesn't deserve a pardon. | 1 | 2015-01-21T16:52:14 | 87 | 12 | 43 |
Nobody is afraid of women. Most rape is by acquaintances, not in dark alleyways, so you don't have much to fear from strangers. Most violence is by strangers, and men are more likely to be attacked, so men have more reason to be afraid around strangers than women. If I sleep around, I am a slut. If a man sleeps around,... | I believe that if you are born a white male, you have it easier than the rest of us. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-10T19:56:12 | 289 | 201 | 62Δ |
I don't follow the "AI wipes out humanity" trope. My most basic problems are "Why ?" and "How". The "how" is often covered as global networking; basically the AI will gain access to every network and therefore gain control of nuclear weapons an such. So I guess it *might* be possible in that case. For that to happen, ... | ''Artificial intelligence is an unnatural abomination and a threat to Humanity." | 1 | 2014-08-03T23:54:18 | 51 | 2 | 18Δ |
The value that comes from reading old philosophy is that we learn how current philosophy has developed, and what questions are currently being tackled. A majority of the time a big work of philosophy will be written as a rebuttal to another big work, but not as a rebuttal to the whole work. Most philosophies have a lot... | I don't think there is any value in the readings of ancient philosophers. | 0 | 2015-09-02T20:50:16 | 48 | 7 | null |
I think that you are viewing the justice system as more of a way of getting revenge than what I believe is its true purpose, which is to protect people. I don't think the point of our criminal justice system was ever to get back at people, or exact some kind of vengeance on people who've done wrong. From the legal stan... | The punishment should fit the crime. | 0 | 2017-03-07T22:32:32 | 61 | 13 | 86 |
The united states relies, in large part, on prosecutorial discretion in whether to charge or not. The idea is you write the laws broadly to capture everyone, and then you leave it to prosecutors as to who to actually hit with charges. This system results in three bad consequences 1) people get charged who really ought ... | Today's FBI press conference shows without question that Hillary Clinton is above the law and is not being held to the same standards as less connected, powerful and rich Americans would be. | 1 | 2016-07-05T20:57:01 | 804 | 690 | 32 |
As an aside, conservatives will never own their emotions regarding Donald Trump's election, because to do so would be admit that they are pro-hierarchy, anti-progress, and uninformed. Until such a time that one of these qualities change, they will always blame liberals for their own actions. I feel like you just made y... | Liberals and Conservatives are both correct about the rise of Donald Trump, but assign different blame. | 0 | 2017-02-14T19:11:59 | 127 | 8 | null |
Well, in the book you're talking about ~7+ generations. After 7 generations, any individual cultures that may have been brought in by the crew will almost certainly have been lost to a more homogeneous "ship" culture. Essentially making the crew into a single "tribe". You can see this on a broader scale with our modern... | Interstellar travel is unfair to the children born during the voyage | 1 | 2015-11-26T12:01:04 | 52 | 1 | 49 |
What if the kid that is being bullied was doing another activity, such as soccer, or going camping and these bullies who aren't even participating show up and terrorize the kid while just trying to do what they enjoy. No one does anything about it, is the appropriate response to just stop doing that activity and never ... | I think that a simple solution to cyberbullying is blocking bullies or simply powering down the device. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-14T19:17:05 | 210 | 4 | 8 |
For this I can cite personal experience. It came up in conversation with someone and I said I thought the movie looked like it was gonna be bad, and they immediately got all hostile and made some wisecrack like "oh yeah because women aren't funny right?" or something. Anyway, I think it's clear the marketing people *ar... | The Idea that Anyone Criticizing the Ghostbusters remake will be branded a misogynist is a fabrication, motivated by people's desire to feel persecuted by feminists. | 0 | 2016-07-11T08:37:00 | 325 | 60 | 3 |
a vegan is not harming anyone with their diet. Do you know how many animals die during production of fruits, vegetables and grains? Tractors kills mammals, pesticides kill insects, birds also die, not to mention earth worms. Let's face it Vegan diet kills plenty of animals. Yet vegans insist on feeling superior becaus... | It doesn't make sense for a meat eater to tell a vegan "I don't tell you what to eat, so don't tell me" | 0 | 2016-08-06T17:07:09 | 259 | 17 | 121 |
You can't reasonably say that "most people are good" simply because a specific subset of people are. That would be like me spending time on reddit and saying "most people support Bernie Sanders," when current polling clearly shows he's around 50% at best. Just because a vocal population has trouble being "evil" says no... | The fact that so many people have trouble with "renegade"/"bad guy" playthroughs in video games suggests most people are fundamentally good/moral. | 0 | 2016-02-22T19:16:33 | 74 | 2 | 3 |
Such a society would strengthen the best individuals. An intelligent, good looking, hard working person would certainly do best in such a society. Indeed, such a society may be best in terms of overall production however you choose to measure it (GDP, etc.) because it incentivizes people to work hard. However, I don't ... | A culture of superiority, insecurity, meritocracy, and competition is good for everyone. | 0 | 2015-12-13T10:42:08 | 54 | 1 | null |
I get the distaste for Donald Trump. But being fundamentally selfish and not caring for the American people is not something unique to Donald Trump. It's probably the unifying characteristic shared by most prominent politicians. Is Hillary Clinton any less selfish? As for him stiffing contractors - The guy has been do... | Donald Trump is fundamentally selfish and does not care about the well-being of the american people | 1 | 2017-03-10T06:40:16 | 136 | 38 | 1 |
The Afghanistan War was fought to protect your freedom. Which freedoms? The freedom to not be bombed by terrorists on your home soil, kidnapped while traveling abroad and beheaded, the freedom to travel on airplanes and boats across the skies and seas without fear of terrorist hijacking, etc. (We'll say these are your ... | I was born in 1979. I do't believe there has been a single war in my lifetime that was fought to protect my freedom. | 1 | 2015-06-09T21:11:07 | 553 | 138 | 1Δ |
I think you're probably focusing on some sensationalized news, unless you have specifics in mind that you can cite. Striking sucks for the strikers - they are on reduced pay (or no pay), have no idea how long the strike will last, know that there's a risk they will be replaced and know that people are going to give the... | Unions and their workers who goes on strikes disrupting public services costing valuable time and money of the tax payers, essentially holding innocent people on ransom and causing major financial troubles are no different than group of extremists. | 1 | 2016-12-15T21:52:00 | 30 | 12 | 201 |
Many of the things which people refer to as values are situational. At their base, they are just the foundation of behavioural rules. Here's why it's best that children not automatically inherit the values of their parents. 1.) Survival. A lot of cultural values reflect the technological and environmental context of th... | There is no point in having kids if you can't ensure they'll share your values. | 1 | 2016-03-05T12:43:18 | 104 | 5 | null |
And that is where I would say absolutely, yes! And that is why it is a philosophical discussion. You can argue that it can be heard because the sound waves would be perceivable by something with that capability, and I could argue that something isn't perceivable if there is nothing to perceive it - the consumer of the ... | If a tree falls in a forest with no one around to hear it, it DOES make a sound. | 1 | 2016-05-11T19:00:09 | 51 | 3 | 26 |
The women that I see and talk to day-to-day aren't there to meet men, so it doesn't seem appropriate to ask them out. Every girl has stories about men being too forward (to put it lightly), and I don't want to add to their creep collection. I just want you to know that I personally gave up on women. It's really dangero... | It's impossible for a man to meet women without being rude and/or disingenuous. | 0 | 2016-08-15T01:24:48 | 54 | -2 | 6 |
Hi there. English teacher here. In a GOOD English class, there is A LOT going on in terms of skills being taught, that go far beyond just writing coherently. 1) When you are writing an essay, you aren't just practicing the writing and grammatical skills that you need for almost any career, you're also practicing compl... | I believe that English classes should be removed from English-speaking countries. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-08T19:33:28 | 33 | 6 | 1 |
Don't you think it's a bit unfair for you to make a post that says almost nothing about Clinton and talks a long while about the other candidates, then concludes by saying don't talk about the other candidates? Regardless I will try to abide. 1) Clinton is the most knowledgeable and thoughtful candidate. Just listen to... | I will not vote for Hillary. | 0 | 2016-10-04T04:05:59 | 60 | 2 | 20 |
1. A major goal of prisons are rehabilitation, and numerous religious groups are involved heavily in rehabilitation. Denying people this social contact is tantamount to pushing them into gangs and making them more dangerous. Prisoners should have safe clubs they can join, like religions. http://www.leaderu.com/humaniti... | I do not believe that prisons should have to accommodate the religious obligations of inmates | 0 | 2014-10-21T21:47:56 | 135 | 3 | 61 |
I believe the death penalty is, it seems, the best deterrent to violent crimes. The deterrent effect of the death penalty is controversial and it's possible to pull up scholarly articles which claim either that it is or isn't effective at deterring future crimes. A synopsis of a common argument against the deterrent po... | I believe the death penalty is appropriate. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-24T00:53:06 | 77 | 1 | 11 |
I kind of agree and I don't eat egg whites only. I eat whole eggs. But I disagree with OP's point that egg whites are a "complete waste". Depending on the diet and goals and how you piece together what you eat every day, egg whites may be perfect. Also, you can't say aside from protein egg whites are empty calories, I... | Egg white (e.g. egg white omelette) only dishes are a complete waste and are not worth being included in one's diet | 1 | 2015-05-08T23:47:21 | 74 | 3 | null |
I'm a trans man. A trans man who loves to paint nails, cook, and take care of children. I don't follow gender roles, gender roles don't dictate my gender identity. | Transgenders only enforce gender stereotypes. | 0 | 2016-07-17T21:27:52 | 100 | 1 | 2 |
If someone recently added you as a friend on Facebook then any content they posted prior to adding you wasn't intended for you (I'm under the impression that most people have their profiles set to friend only, or at least believe their content is for friends only). If you go back through their history you are viewing c... | It's not "creeping", "snooping", or "being a creeper" to browse social media content that presumably was put there for exactly that purpose. | 0 | 2015-05-22T15:19:19 | 199 | 4 | 1 |
the ideal situation is for the child to be with 1+ adult to be giving your child one-on-one attention all day long, but very few people can afford that. That being said, there are good day cares. My sister sent her kids to one that only had about 6-7 children at a time, the woman did lots of activities with them, they ... | I believe children ages 0-4 are better off being cared for by a stay-at-home parent than being put into full-time daycare. Please CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-13T05:08:14 | 64 | 3 | 1 |
It's not really the best excuse for her shortcomings, but perhaps you should take into consideration that Janeway is really a science officer who in my mind only took command training so she could be a captain of a science ship. Picard was one of the top captains in the fleet and captain of the flag ship, Kirk was defi... | I think Kathryn Janeway of *Star Trek: Voyager*, was the worst Trek captain, by a mile. CMV. | 0 | 2013-10-07T19:03:10 | 180 | 11 | null |
You have a crucial misunderstanding of the Supreme Court they are not meant to uphold the law or else we would still have Plessy vs Ferguson they are meant to interpret the law. Laws age and some don't apply now and some do more, if the SC was only supposed to uphold laws prohibition would still be a thing. Bipartisans... | The Democrats should filibuster any Supreme Court nominee that President Trump puts forward. | 0 | 2017-01-31T18:21:49 | 78 | 6 | 3 |
They can't commit suicide by self-immolation. In their view only Allah has the power to punish by burning. That is why when ISIS executed the Jordanian pilot shot down over their territory by burning him alive, Saudi Arabia objected by saying that they should not have burned him as only Allah is allowed to do that. Th... | Fundamentalist Sunni Muslims would make a much more effective political statement by self-immolating in Western host nations than they would by killing Western civilians at random | 1 | 2016-08-27T22:31:37 | 30 | 1 | 1 |
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but there's a specific reason why vocals in extreme metal are growled. A vast number, I would claim an overwhelming majority of extreme metal bands are fronted by guitarists, and as a result the music is very guitar heavy. If you listen closely to the verse of an extreme metal s... | I don't hear any musical quality in the screaming vocals found in many genres of metal music. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-10T07:51:11 | 636 | 5 | 1 |
you create social division Your approach would disenfranchise 30% of the population of what is by and large middle class working families. Additionally, the poor are *also* net recipients of tax dollars, so they're out. So you've essentially lopped off the bottom half of the socioeconomic ladder from voting, and given ... | People who are net tax payers should have a vote. Everyone else, including government employees, should not get a vote. | 0 | 2014-10-24T00:16:39 | 60 | 1 | null |
This assumes that all crimes are premeditated. What if someone walks into a store with no intention besides grabbing some beer but ends up in an altercation with another customer? Or is quick to temper and gets angry at the clerk? Or simply sees a crime of opportunity and goes for it? Had the store banned the firearms,... | There is no good reason for a store to ban the concealed carry of firearms unless they have their own armed security (USA) | 1 | 2015-02-23T02:56:51 | 54 | 8 | 41 |
Historically Hamilton was a large advocate for war and using the military to settle disputes. The musical references this when he says as a kid in the Caribbean he wished for a war and his constant badgering of Washington to give him a command. This doesn't distinguish him from other members of the revolutionary cohort... | Alexander Hamilton is the villain of the musical "Hamilton" | 0 | 2017-07-06T22:25:28 | 88 | 31 | 265 |
I do not think the trans community has enough people/support to push their issues without LGB help. Together the LGBT can push for everyones issues and together focus on areas that need more help. If the trans were alone they would have a much harder time accomplishing anything. | The 'T' in LGBT should separate and become their own community and political entity. | 0 | 2015-02-12T18:56:29 | 249 | 4 | null |
here, you'll watch the reasoning skills i learned from analytic philosophy be put into practice. first, you would say that philosophy is not rigorous. the premise of this argument is that philosophy is not axiomatic, or not enough like math, according to you. frankly, i don't see why "not axiomatic" must mean "not rigo... | It is not worthwhile for me to study philosophy | 0 | 2016-02-05T16:55:39 | 62 | 2 | 4 |
I'd call the murder of +20 people and the severe maiming of dozens more a more-than-successful attack, regardless of how society reacts to it. I'd call it a rounding error. If we're looking at the attacks that kill at least ten people, then Europe lost 117 people in 2015, and that was a bad year [(source)](https://en.w... | Terrorism doesn't "win only if you give in to fear and anger". Terrorism wins anyway, and it's beating Europe *badly* | 1 | 2017-05-26T23:51:11 | 170 | 6 | 6 |
I would say that if you can't comfortably fit into a seat, you should buy a different class of ticket. The same line of thinking applies to obese people who need two tickets because they overflow into other seats. The onus is not on other passengers to make these people comfortable. | I believe it is socially rude to fully recline your seat on an airplane flight. | 1 | 2014-10-03T22:57:34 | 309 | 9 | 18Δ |
Not sure if OP means violence instead of anger. Anger is an emotion and like all emotions is a very honest assessments of whats happening in your life. If someone told you to leave 5000 dollars on your back porch and they will drop off a car later and snag the money, only to show up and take the money without giving y... | I think anger and rage is a character flaw. It has no purpose for interpersonal or societal interactions. | 0 | 2014-11-27T02:28:05 | 24 | 1 | null |
Someone else already changed your view, but surely this will as well. This is and anecdote by the way, but still I think you will appreciate it. My dad ands friends were kids would try to kill cockroaches in different ways, most of them failing. They put a cockroach in bleach for around 30 minutes and it didn't kill i... | The best way to dispose of a single cockroach is by trapping it under a disposable cup, sliding a piece of cardboard underneath, carrying it to the bathroom, and flushing the vile creature down the toilet. | 0 | 2015-09-11T21:42:54 | 101 | 2 | 2 |
Meat production is only the largest *single* contributor to global warming if you split apart other contributors in odd ways and combine things oddly for meat production. The 18% number in this conspiracy theory is very, very hard to justify. [This](http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html) is a *far*... | Reducing meat intake is the most important thing we can do to help the environment | 0 | 2015-09-28T03:54:39 | 92 | 23 | 131 |
DNA evidence [suggests](http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/11/2047.short) that we have [twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors](http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/the-missing-men-in-your-family-tree/). One way to interpret this is to say that, throughout recent human evolution, two females s... | Humans had a bonobo style sex life at the start and we should have it again. | 1 | 2016-12-20T18:59:41 | 86 | 17 | 15 |
I grew up solidly in the participation award era of the 90's. Know what? It didn't really teach me that I win no matter what. Because the participation trophy's sucked. 1st palce? Huge awesome trophy. 2nd and 3rd? Cool medium sized trophies. Shit you could be proud of. The rest of us? These junky little trinkets that p... | Children who do not get 1st-3rd place DO NOT deserve a trophy for simply participating | 1 | 2015-06-25T22:20:28 | 244 | 482 | 8 |
there isnt really a any character development in the matrix Did you watch it? Neo and Morpheus definitely develop across the 3 films. Trinity and Smith a little less so, but still their views and attitudes change throughout the films. This is what character development is, right? and neo is pretty much the same way. W... | I believe that books are better than movies at delivering a complex plot and character development. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-28T10:23:20 | 77 | 1 | 1 |
Then why not support restraining orders against the offenders? I'm a straight guy. I have gay friends. It would be unfair if we only frequented "non-gay" bars. I enjoy gay bars because I enjoy my friends. If I were suddenly barred from attending based on my orientation you can guarantee there'd be legal action taken fo... | I think straight people do not belong in gay bars. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-20T03:39:20 | 85 | 4 | 1 |
The trouble is that a lot of people don't like the prequels, and many who do might not like them if they weren't already Star Wars fans. Getting someone to commit to watching six movies that are generally considered to only get good around the third isn't an easy sell. Machete order solves that problem to an extent, bu... | Watching the Star Wars movies in order of release (4,5,6,1,2,3) is one of the worst ways to introduce new or casual fans to the franchise. | 1 | 2017-04-10T22:39:11 | 67 | 7 | 100 |
If we raise taxes sufficiently we definitely could afford it. The question is whether or not it is worth raising the funds for. None of this really matters anyway because congress will never let this happen. | America can't afford universal healthcare or free college education. | 1 | 2015-06-30T19:41:27 | 181 | 6 | 4 |
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