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You absolutely should vote. Even more to the point, you should make an informed decision, but for the moment I'll accept your premise. Other posters have done a good job outlining some practical reasons why you should still vote (things like making your demographic more influential). I want to perhaps address a fundame... | I believe that if you aren't sure about who to vote for, it's better to not do it at all. CMV. | 0 | 2013-05-09T05:15:13 | 81 | 1 | null |
Natural and supernatural (or even two supernatural) causes can contradict themselves, so even testing for them can not reliably support the validity of natural laws. Therefore any assumptions about our universe can't rely on natural laws being true. We can assume natural laws are true because they are repeatable and pr... | a universe allowing for events having supernatural causes isn't too different from a solipsistic universe | 0 | 2015-03-05T14:55:03 | 53 | 1 | 20Δ |
The whole concept of religion can be very helpful to society. As others have pointed out, it can be a personal tool. However, I feel the need to point out religion can also be of value for the community as a greater good. I'm not religious myself. You already mention that you can see why religion has value in communiti... | There is no useful role for God/religion in modern society. | 0 | 2017-01-30T12:38:40 | 103 | 1 | null |
You could argue it's hypocritical, but I dont think it's a fallacy or illogical (unless he explains more of his reasoning). The point is to show dislike for the law and solidarity with those it effects; "if you treat people like this I won't bring my tour to your cities and support those economies". Springsteen can say... | Refusing service to people in North Carolina due to their recent LGBTQ law is a logical fallacy. | 0 | 2016-04-16T19:06:55 | 69 | 5 | 3 |
Isn't this the entire reason behind ethical veganism? By not eating animals, you are serving their right to exist. I'm not saying that no vegan believes that, but I have never seen one that says that. I certainly don't say that. We don't serve animals, we just don't harm them. There's a difference between beating and k... | The most ethically vegan thing to do is to commit suicide because human population impacts animal life more negatively than eating them. | 1 | 2017-01-12T00:01:31 | 46 | 4 | 2 |
You don't know enough about the Kennedy assassination to have a solid enough opinion about whether it was a conspiracy. - That Kennedy quote is fake - There was no "huge parade," Oswald managed to get three miles away from the scene, killed a cop, then tried to hide in a movie theater. - The killer's killer was not sho... | I feel like JFK's assassination was an inside job. I feel like the government DOES inside jobs . | 0 | 2015-11-06T00:07:50 | 36 | 4 | null |
If I may, as I see OP has already awarded a delta to /u/hamataro for the point that the comparison to the rise of the Nazi party is valid, however I would like to offer an alternative view. Your view is that "accusing someone of being a Nazi" is a.) Emotional blackmail b.) Insulting to the victims of Nazi Germany c.) ... | The recent increase of accusing the opposition of being like Hitler or being a Nazi is emotional blackmail that is insulting to the actual victims of Nazi germany | 0 | 2017-02-21T17:39:08 | 364 | 1 | null |
I just came here to say they are the same. Neither one anyone should care that deeply about... | Drawing Mohammad for no other reason than Muslims don't want you too is no different than saying nigger for no other reason than black people don't want you to. | 0 | 2015-05-14T05:46:49 | 815 | 0 | null |
To change your view, would you have to be convinced that *all* pornography is art or that *some* pornography is art? | Pornography should not be seen as art | 0 | 2015-09-07T21:30:33 | 42 | 3 | 12 |
It was a total flop in Australia (I am Australian). They wasted valuable parliamentary time eliminating regulations that were not active and have not been applied in decades. They supposedly saved $13m, but even that is likely an overestimate. The big stuff - which is the hard stuff, because of rent-seeking, think the ... | Trump's 2 for 1 regulation order is a good idea | 1 | 2017-01-31T09:57:52 | 45 | 1 | 9 |
Facts are true, assumptions based on facts are not always true. If it were true that 100% of black people walking toward you on the streets were muggers, then it would most definitely not be racist to expect to be mugged. Because factually, all blacks mug people and no assumptions were made based on race. It is not t... | It's not racist if it's true. | 0 | 2016-07-12T20:55:59 | 144 | 7 | null |
You have a major unrecognized assumption. You assume that it is as easy as going down to some place and paying $10 to get an ID. If you do not have an address (that is, very poor) it is essentially impossible to get an ID. If you don't have a birth certificate, which is more likely if you are poor, (not born in a hospi... | IDs should be required to vote | 1 | 2015-08-18T22:06:57 | 61 | 2 | 1 |
So I have a question about that. I don't really have a 'familial culture', and I'm not really sure what you mean by 'personal heritage'. I have approximately as much Scottish as I do Blackfoot Indian, and I have a bunch of other things as well. What is a guy to do? | CMV I believe that if you honour your personal heritage and familial culture you should only marry and have children with members of your own race and culture | 0 | 2013-05-03T05:13:10 | 80 | 1 | null |
I'll try to address each of your points individually: Big business wins. That's true, but economics isn't a zero-sum game. Businesses doing well doesn't mean workers or consumers are doing badly. Developed countries lose Completely untrue. As a consumer, having businesses from different countries competing to serve me... | Free Trade only benefits big business, and is detrimental to developed and developing countries. | 0 | 2015-08-11T19:36:09 | 78 | 19 | null |
I would argue that only looking at one piece of a persons work does not provide enough insight to say that they are a jerk. I recommend reading some of her other books, Anthem is fairly short (about 200 pages) and is actually kind of an interesting take for post-apocalyptic literature The message conveyed in Anthem de... | Ayn Rand is a Jerk | 0 | 2017-02-21T08:58:59 | 43 | 1 | null |
HOAs (of some kind) are probably necessary if there are any significant pieces of shared property or shared expenses. Examples: building infrastructure in condos, security guards for walled neighborhoods, neighborhood swimming pools/parks, shared private roads, etc., etc. In order to have such things (generally referre... | I believe that HOAs (Homeowners' Associations) decrease property values by scaring away potential home buyers. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-26T22:15:00 | 70 | 4 | 96Δ |
How you want to define sect is up to you, and Christianity certainly is connected fundamentally with Judaism in a way that would fit some definitions of a sect. Most Christians however would probably feel like it's a little weird to think of them as a sect of Judaism precisely because they believe the New Covenant (Ch... | Christianity differs no more from Judaism than Sunni Islam from Shia Islam, and thus is no more than a denomination of Judaism | 0 | 2016-10-18T21:14:37 | 42 | 6 | 14 |
Han Solo is one of the most iconic roles of all time Star wars, being one of the most iconic movies of all time is going to suffer from this no matter what. The fans will be upset no matter what because the nostalgia is SO strong. The Star Wars Saga should be exploring new ideas, not treading old ground You can explore... | The Han Solo movie is a bad idea [TFA Spoilers] | 1 | 2016-01-12T05:57:42 | 192 | 127 | 28 |
I actually dropped out of Marine Corps Basic Training because I held the same view that you do...almost. I don't think it's abusive, I just have my own moral speculations about it, which is not to say I'm anti-military. Here's the thing: 1. You pretty much know what you are getting into. There are thousands of videos, ... | Basic Training / boot camps in the US Armed Forces are institutionalized emotional abuse. | 0 | 2014-05-01T14:42:37 | 21 | 2 | null |
If individual humans do not understand the purpose of society, how is it that you know what is good for society? Isn't that a bit like trying to give someone driving directions when you don't know where they are or where they want to go? | CMV the purpose of society is not to provide a good quality of life for all individuals | 0 | 2014-02-03T08:07:19 | 133 | 2 | 4 |
the second time he doesn't recognizes the arcane rules of wand ownership. That one really isn't fair. He did understand the rule, he just was mistaken about who "defeated" Dumbledore and thus how the ownership progression went. He assumed that when Snape killed Dumbledore, Snape became the owner of the Elder Wand. Thus... | Voldemort is an awful villain. | 0 | 2017-05-17T01:02:45 | 70 | 6 | 125 |
I would say that you could be biased on this. World is definitely more tolerant now than it has ever been. Now we just have access to so much more information and it's so easy to upload information now we upload and post things just for the sake that it's so easy. And because of this you are most likely experiencing th... | The world has become more intolerant today | 1 | 2016-06-28T15:19:50 | 66 | 20 | 1 |
My opinion probably won't be popular but whatever, it is what it is. First of all I want to say that characters are portrayed this way because this is how consumers want them to be portrayed. I play lots of video games, and in most of them, males are often pictured as very burly and manly characters while females are ... | Anita Sarkeesian and similar feminists actually have a point about the portrayal of gender roles in video games. | 0 | 2016-12-06T01:44:31 | 617 | 0 | 2 |
Quitting meat consumption has a much bigger impact compared to driving a more fuel efficient car or limiting gas to help reduce global warming. The metric that can be used to make this comparison is CO2e (CO2-equivalent emissions), which can compare carbon dioxide, methane, and other emissions combined for their effect... | You don't care about global warming if you aren't vegan (or you're at least hypocritical in speaking and not acting). | 1 | 2017-03-22T06:46:51 | 50 | 6 | 3 |
Actually, what you said is in direct contradiction to the truth. When people look at these images, what they see is a pinnacle of beauty, ie the very thing that they should strive for. It is human nature to succeed and be the best. Just look at academics where students fight for the top grade. It's the same thing. [Th... | I don't think mass media presents an unrealistic/harmful example of body image for people to strive for. | 1 | 2014-05-30T23:40:25 | 34 | 7 | null |
My pieces of paper aren't paper and they're not green. So there's that. But more to the point. Money doesn't give you happiness. Power does. More specifically agency. The ability to do things. If I buy a yaght, what I have really done is translated a desire into reality. I want a yaght and poof! There is one! Aren't I... | Moving around small green pieces of paper is the best way to increase happiness | 0 | 2017-01-20T18:22:50 | 42 | 0 | 8 |
The open-source development environment is called ***Linux***. You have: - gcc: One of the best optimizing compilers in the world for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, - Others: Industry-standard interpreters for Perl, Python, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, and craptons of other stuff - vim, emacs: Extremely p... | I believe Microsoft Visual Studio 1998 runs rings around any current open source development environment. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-27T17:03:28 | 48 | 33 | 10 |
I suppose it is more accurate for me to say God is the Earth in this context. ... I'm more defining god as the creator, where the Earth is what created us. We are utilizing the Earth to survive, and it has given us all the tools necessary to live. This is even worse. The Sun is not part of Earth. Without the Sun, the l... | God is nature, the devil is knowledge and technology. | 1 | 2016-08-23T02:06:21 | 44 | 1 | 92 |
I'd say "it depends". Because we live in a capitalist society, your statements are true. However, if we lived in a communistic money-free utopia where there was enough for everyone and noone was evil blah-de-blah, your statement would be false. Your statement is invariably tied to a capitalist society, but a capitali... | Moving around small green pieces of paper is the best way to increase happiness | 1 | 2017-01-20T19:42:09 | 42 | 2 | 2 |
People spend money and time on what they enjoy. This argument is the same thing we see with "video games are a waste of time and money" "fancy dinners are a waste of money" or anything else. People enjoy what they enjoy, and they devote resources to what they enjoy. | I believe that Christmas (and other holidays) is a waste of time and money. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-25T19:01:41 | 34 | 2 | 15 |
There is one thing I wish everyone in the world could comprehend. It is a fact, that although terribly simple, is something that people seem to reject over and over and over again. If people could only recognize this fact, accept it, and work with it, I believe the world would be a much better place for *everybody*. Th... | A majority of reddit users believe in practicing abject racial prejudice | 1 | 2017-06-24T05:53:05 | 50 | 17 | 19 |
First of all, I agree with you on the point that "minors can't provide consent" is ridiculous. Minors can provide consent; it's just that consent alone is not sufficient when it comes to relationships between adults and minors. Why can't minors consent? Why does the threshold for having the mental ability to consent be... | I don't believe that "minors cannot provide consent" is a legitimate argument in support of statutory rape laws. | 0 | 2014-08-10T23:44:35 | 139 | 1 | null |
But floods aren't limited to large bodies of water overflowing. If it rains too much and the ground is too saturated it will begin to flood - even if you're a hundred miles from the nearest large body of water. But you're also just kind of ignoring what natural disasters are. They're disasters brought on by nature. I'... | Flooding is not a natural disaster, but human stupidity. | 0 | 2017-02-08T18:49:41 | 88 | 2 | 2 |
I work in restaurant, and so using pencils for writing checks and labeling on the fly is more maintenance than it's worth. They are not as durable and any sort of rough housing makes the pencil prone to breaking. I just need something that is quick, durable, and adaptable to any surface without the risk of being rubbed... | Pencils are superior to pens | 1 | 2015-10-26T01:40:58 | 70 | 1 | null |
You'll find that the amount of work it requires (remembering the name Horatio for the rest of your life) is much less than the amount of work required to memorize a new number every time you go to a restaurant and actively listen for that number. Numbers do have some advantages, but when it comes to "actively working",... | Eateries where everything is take away should call out numbers rather than names. | 1 | 2015-01-28T22:20:49 | 36 | 3 | null |
Here's my attempt to CYV: This deaf kid just had the best movie experience of his life. He will always remember the first time he saw a monster movie with his family in the theater. He couldn't even contain himself. His excitement was palpable. Oh, did he make some noise? So sorry to inconvenience you. Sometimes people... | There was a child who was deaf in my showing of Jurassic Park. He was very noisy. I don't believe he should have gone to the movies, and I think it would have been okay if he were kicked out for being a disturbance. | 0 | 2015-06-16T23:55:35 | 258 | -3 | null |
Having a wedding can be the single happiest experience in your entire life. You don't need a bunch of money to have one. My wife and I got married after 12years together. I thought getting married was bullshit. I seen too many marriages fall apart but I took the leap. We got married and her parents paid for it. They h... | I do NOT want to have a wedding, despite my family's (and his family's) wishes. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-18T16:06:27 | 309 | 14 | null |
Fast food is a famous culprit, but it's by no means the only culprit. About 6 months ago now, I noticed myself starting to put on some weight and I was curious as to why, since I tend to 'eat right'. Then I did some digging. I'd been having a kale and soba salad for lunch from a hipster cafe near my work, and it turned... | Fast Food needs to be taxed in order to help America’s obesity problem | 1 | 2016-02-15T22:55:23 | 50 | 2 | 7 |
TL;DR- Last paragraph. When the second amendment was written, it was reasonable to think a well-armed populace would give the government pause when considering action against the will of the people. As you pointed out, this idea is completely outdated. Our military is so large and advanced that most nations cannot oppo... | Cmv: The second amendment to the (U.S.) constitution should be repealed | 0 | 2016-12-21T21:15:20 | 138 | 2 | null |
I have never tried a sip of alcohol, and have no interest in doing so, because of an abusive alcoholic father, long lines of alcoholism/addictive personalities in both sides of my family, expenses These are all very good reasons to be wary of alcohol, and honestly I'm not sure I would recommend you ever start drinking.... | I've never had one sip of alcohol, and I don't have any interest in ever trying it. CMV, please! | 0 | 2013-06-24T22:53:11 | 59 | 3 | 6 |
If a little girl picks up a hot wheels car once and her parents go out to buy her some GI Joes, Lego sets, a football and a dirtbike, then I'd say the parents are a bit too overeager, but you're overreacting. If a little boy picks up a barbie doll once and the parents call the doctor about starting hormone therapy tomo... | LGBT children are the result of parents forcing their views onto their kids, which I see as child abuse. | 1 | 2017-02-26T02:47:15 | 67 | 3 | 1 |
What sort of gender studies are you talking about exactly? Have you taken any? I took a couple for my GE requirements and found them fairly fact-based. History of Women in America-- facts about the historical roles and political movements involving women. Women and Careers--a class about jobs, women's involvement, and... | Gender Studies is a Pseudoscience with a deep ideological bias and shouldn't be taught in publicly-funded Universities. | 1 | 2016-05-08T09:22:53 | 153 | 25 | 3 |
A lot of people still want separate bathrooms. While I might agree that unisex bathrooms are the eventual way to go, I don't see why we need to force unisex onto people who aren't ready for it. If I'm opening a business, I want to have publicly available bathrooms that people want. Sure, add a unisex option. | In new buildings, public restrooms should be unisex. | 1 | 2015-09-22T00:38:58 | 26 | 2 | 4 |
I don't think it's a waste of money. In short, we conserve pandas because people like them. Whoever spends the money on keeping pandas around has already considered this, and he thinks it's worth it. Many other things, such as music and balloons could be considered a waste of resources if people didn't like them. | Trying to save the pandas is a waste of time, money, and resources. We should let them go extinct. | 0 | 2015-08-30T22:04:50 | 50 | 21 | 4 |
"How can you put that disgusting filth into your body? Don't you care about animals? Ugh. I'll be in my Prius." Yeah fuck you too buddy. Except I actually haven't, and I've known a number of vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians, etc. Seriously, I hear this trope repeated over and over, the "judgy vegetarian" but I *never ... | I don't like most vegans CMV. | 0 | 2013-11-18T18:03:09 | 26 | 14 | 6 |
I agree to an extent, and have actively encouraged people to call themselves "equalists." But feminism is not necessarily equalism. Feminism can be as sexist as chauvinism. My SO, whose mother is so feminist as to be actively misandronist, played around with the idea of feminism before I convinced her that feminism is... | I think that if Feminists are so much about equality, they should rename themselves to Equalists, and should encourage healthy discussions with men and include men in their groups as well. They should also stop trying to change every word in the dictionary that has "man"/"men" in it. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-10T18:07:03 | 410 | -3 | 1 |
Here are two situations: 1) A man plans to kill his wife for months. He does so, and he feels no remorse. 2) A man doesn't see his wife behind the car as he backs out of his driveway. He kills her, and is immensely remorseful. You can claim that #2 isn't really murder because it wasn't intentional (and I'd imagine most... | I believe that motive shouldn't be taken into account in murder trials. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-26T02:11:21 | 43 | 5 | 8Δ |
1) a libertarian economy is not interfered with by the goverment. You want to force people to sign slavery contracts? it's allowed. You need to read up on libertarianism. The **one** overall principle is that use of force is forbidden. | CMV - in a truly libertarian economy, unions would rapidly become very powerful players, leading to a restablishment of a welfare state | 0 | 2015-08-09T19:00:10 | 204 | 7 | null |
How about in business situations, if you were the boss and an employee didn't believe it was a real thing would you send your employee to meet with a client who used "it" instead of him or her? | People should not be expected to use a trans person's preferred pronouns if they don't believe that transgender "is a real thing." | 0 | 2017-04-03T23:28:58 | 131 | 7 | 49 |
Generally speaking, I agree with all of your predictions. However, there is one possibility I'd like to point out: With many upcoming positions in the Supreme Court, it will be difficult for progressive movements to gain ground in the future. It's not unfeasible to think that we could move backwards as well, rescinding... | The next four years of Trump and a large Republican Majority are going to be awful | 0 | 2016-12-06T08:43:55 | 231 | 9 | 20 |
This does not align with what I see around in life. Anyone who is even remotely successful or good at something, puts in a lot of effort. Several of them had a natural affinity for their craft, but that simply isn't enough to get to the top. Now if you are arguing that someone with great talent, can put in lesser amou... | If you're REALLY good at something, practice is more or less arbitrary | 0 | 2017-02-04T22:04:58 | 38 | 1 | 1 |
The flaw in this argument is that these calculations typically assume marijuana maintaining it's current black market street prices. But any black market product will have a massive markup solely from the risk involve with producing and distributing it. Remove that risk, and the price--and by extension the potential ta... | Legalizing Marijuana Will Not Help the Economy | 1 | 2015-01-22T17:41:43 | 105 | 1 | 1 |
Okay, we've actually reached the point where I don't think I can say anything more without major spoilers. Let's just say Hydra still has at least one head left with a great deal of power and influence, to the point where even if an Avengers-backed Scarlet Witch read his mind, it's highly unlikely that the UN would be... | the more reasonable, sensible and rational side in Civil War is Tony Stark's. | 1 | 2016-03-29T20:46:56 | 25 | 5 | 24 |
Not all women miss periods. Some women are on birth control that stops periods entirely. Google "I didn't know I was pregnant". Seriously. | A 'financial abortion' law for men is feasible | 1 | 2014-12-24T05:32:43 | 366 | 5 | 14 |
I can't help but wonder why everyone just accepts that a fetus isn't alive, and are kind of ignoring the moral implications of what if it's not? It's not that I think the fetus is necessarily alive, it's more along the lines that I don't think that you can prove that it's not alive (I genuinely don't think we will ever... | I'm anti abortion, and I feel like an asshole for being so. | 0 | 2015-05-10T06:00:29 | 188 | 1 | 1 |
I don't believe in trans/nb (non-binary)-ness because I do not feel gender. I am a woman, and I accept that I am a woman, but is not something I feel, it is just something that is. Nonbinary is a little harder to explain, but with transgenderism, could you not consider it as being something that is, as in they are just... | I do not believe trans/nb people are valid | 1 | 2017-01-04T09:09:53 | 218 | 9 | 26 |
There are many cases where it's not racist. 1. You live in a racist society. If you are in a racist society, then marrying someone of a discriminated-against race means subjecting yourself to significant discrimination. Not wanting to deal with that kind of baggage isn't racist. 2. Race is culture in your location/situ... | I believe that the unwillingness to date a person of a specific race is not due to “personal preference”, but is in fact racist. | 1 | 2016-02-06T18:37:05 | 70 | 10 | null |
You don't see people committing suicide over being beaten up, [Wiki list on kids who committed suicide due to bullying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides_that_have_been_attributed_to_bullying) The first one committed suicide because he got beat up. And that's only the surface of what people put there. The... | Rape is not a big deal | 0 | 2017-04-27T17:07:06 | 107 | 7 | 2 |
The preservation of religious traditions is completely false since by submitting to the Imperial Cult one acknowledges one's other religious beliefs as not being absolute truth. Not sure how that follows, or what it even means. Can you give a concrete example? By demanding that Christians do things such as allowing f... | Christianity is under attack in the western world | 0 | 2017-06-04T00:40:29 | 219 | 1 | 43 |
In my experience there are two ways people solve jigsaw puzzles. One way is your way: they match shapes and colors on the pieces themselves and build the puzzle that way. The other way is my way: we use the patterns on the pieces to figure out where they go in the larger picture (using the box). I get a lot of enjoymen... | Using the box when you're making a puzzle is cheating and defeats the purpose of the puzzle. | 1 | 2015-06-11T21:04:07 | 21 | 16 | 9 |
You made a lot of points so I'm only going to be able to respond in quick-fire fashion. Firstly though, I want to mention that someone else has already pointed out that most of the problems you listed are either equally or more severely present than in religions besides Islam so I won't bring those arguments up. **I w... | Islam is the worst major religion. | 0 | 2016-04-10T11:53:42 | 252 | 1 | null |
Is he somehow prevented from insisting upon a condom, though? No, of course not. The only reason why I brought that up was because I was expecting you to extrapolate that there are people out there who think taking a bc pill means no baby. Hell, there are people out there who think a bc pill will protect them from STD'... | If men don't want to pay child support, they shouldn't have sex with any woman they don't want to be the mother of their child. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-01T03:23:18 | 511 | 15 | 4 |
Feral humans, who have grown up away from society, have no more language or numerical ability than chimpanzees. The fact though, that we have developed these abilities and no other species on the planet has seems to indicate that we are in fact much more evolved. The ability to pass down such complex ideas and knowledg... | Humans are not nearly as highly evolved a species as we think. | 0 | 2017-05-22T20:23:59 | 58 | 4 | 13 |
I don't think your 4th point makes much sense. How exactly would extra pronouns make things less clear? Under the current system, the singular "they" can refer to male, female, and other identities, which is about as unclear as things can get. Even if you don't know the exact definition of "xe," for example, it's at l... | He, she, they. That's all the pronouns you are getting. | 1 | 2015-09-01T01:02:10 | 285 | 38 | 19 |
I haven't seen a board game type post here before, pretty cool topic. It isn't necessarily shorter downtime. I'm not a hard-core board games player, but I do own quite a few (popular) games. I mostly enjoy games that are either strategy or deception like pandemic, settlers, coup or resistance. In between turns for pan... | Simultaneous movement is, all other things being equal, always better than sequential movement in board games. | 0 | 2016-04-29T21:39:54 | 39 | 1 | null |
The teachers felt that in order to allow for the kids better success than they needed to cheat. It is the fault of the lawmakers for putting the same standards on the schools for kids in the poor areas of ATL as those in the rich suburbs The teachers knowingly broke the law. Whether the law is correct or not is not wh... | The recent cheating scandal involving teachers Atlanta is not the fault the convicted teachers but instead of high standards placed by standardized testing and thus the teachers should not be convicted | 1 | 2015-04-15T04:50:31 | 37 | 2 | 1Δ |
I use throws on my couch all the time, to pad out a wedge against the arm so I can sit with my legs up and lean comfortably to the side(kinda like [this](http://i.imgur.com/BYpGTDG.jpg)) - a great position for relaxing to read in! | Throw pillows are only useful for aesthetic purposes. | 0 | 2014-06-24T03:54:25 | 27 | 3 | 15 |
Even if this were implemented, it's so specific as to be completely ineffective. You're not going to change the nature of advertising by legislating specifically how you can use a word. It would take advertisers about 30 seconds to figure out some buzzword or a turn of phrase that's going to mean the exact same thing.... | It should be against the law to describe something as "free" if a purchase is required to obtain it | 1 | 2014-11-22T17:18:00 | 37 | 1 | 33 |
Quick questions: do you think the same thing about, for example, Todd from Scrubs (or a real-life equivalent who is not intended to be a parody)? Would you feel the same way if a cis girl acted in the way you describe? If you're just as bothered by a macho straight man as a queen, then it seems you're bothered by anyo... | I don't think that flamboyant, over-the-top behaviour is a real characteristic of homossexuality and people who do that are faking or insecure. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-10T23:46:38 | 89 | 3 | 29Δ |
The point i was starting to make was that by the time you have an anarchist system that is workable its not really an anarchist system anymore. Its a small state. The label is confusing, so many people call themselves anarchists and end up wanting government (i'm not saying you are but people in this thread have specif... | I can't see any logic in the anarchist ideology. Educate me and CMV | 1 | 2013-10-01T07:35:12 | 314 | 2 | 4 |
What about cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, etc that we eat? None of these are "predator" animals. A dog is naturally a predator animal that is descended from wolves which eat meat. As we were once hunters and still are we have a very strong connection to other hunter species and respect them. Its because we can form hu... | People complain about the chinese dog festival (Yulin) but not about all the other animals that we, westerners eat, that's hypocrisy. | 0 | 2016-06-19T23:09:21 | 502 | -1 | 3 |
Think bigger than *a particular class* that has been misguidedly drawn up into a stereotypically "masculine" and a "feminine" topic. This opinion piece might provide an alternate insight on fully single-gender schools: You see, the beauty of educating teenage girls in a single-sex environment is that, for those five o... | Single gender schools are discriminatory because there is no such thing as "separate but equal" | 1 | 2016-12-15T20:59:27 | 349 | 365 | 21 |
Buy a gun and and practice at the range. Hopefully you can obtain a concealed carry permit. Mace is an option as well. Can't fix people but you can boost your sense of security. | I don't want to be afraid of random black people on the street. I was just attacked. Again. | 0 | 2017-01-07T00:33:06 | 393 | 7 | 0 |
When I was young my family flew from Canada to New Zealand. My sister was a baby at the time. She flew for free. My parents did not do this in one long flight. We went from Canada to Hawaii. Hawaii to Fiji. Fiji to New Zealand. I don't remember the flights much but my parents said that my sister was good. They kept h... | On airplanes, tickets going to passengers with babies should cost 3-5x more than regular tickets, or they should be banned altogether. | 0 | 2017-04-23T06:27:30 | 91 | 0 | 7 |
I will contest that conservative ideologies *feel* like they are more sympathetic to conservatives, but Liberals *know* that their ideologies will do orders of magnitude more good than conservative ideologies. Donating a few bucks to a charity or volunteering at a soup kitchen *feels* like you are solving the problem a... | Politically liberal ideologies are less sympathetic and caring than conservative ones | 0 | 2017-05-08T22:54:04 | 192 | 2 | 14 |
**On Children**: They're human too. They're just less equipped to handle their own emotions and impulses. They don't act out because they're bad, but because they're struggling to adapt and react properly to their circumstances. They may be annoying to you, but to others (who are more able to empathize) they are endear... | Having children is one of the most selfish things a person can do | 0 | 2017-07-06T22:15:14 | 47 | 2 | 4 |
Awful in comparison to what? 1) So, we have an inner reason to help other people. Whats the problem with that? If helping others is something I do because it makes me feel good, isn't that something that is a good point in favor of humans? 2) Not being a completly one-dimensional being is bad, let alone awful? If the... | Humans are Awful | 0 | 2015-10-19T15:26:49 | 61 | 1 | 4 |
Personally I am pretty pro right to second amendment but I am also pro gun legislation. So for me I am in a bit of an interesting position. I can see some of the arguments on both sides of the debate, and I honestly think that both sides of the debate are going about it all wrong. On your first point I see the point yo... | Cmv: The second amendment to the (U.S.) constitution should be repealed | 1 | 2016-12-21T14:20:46 | 138 | 3 | 51 |
I don't see the connection. I'm not claiming that it is wrong to eat meat, I'm saying that your defense of eating meat is not a good one. What we evolved to do is only relevant if we have no other choice. Given that many people do have the choice, the matter is still open whether it is moral. The question isn't settled... | We are omnivorous, we should eat less meat, but to say it is immoral to eat meat is false | 1 | 2017-03-11T19:47:46 | 79 | 2 | 28 |
Full disclosure: I am currently serving, and have recently worn my Dress uniform to both my sisters wedding and my grandfathers funeral. Neither my sister, her husband, or my grandfather served in the military. I hate wearing my uniform in public. You are right: I get comments, hand shakes, and "Thanks for your servi... | Wearing your military uniform to a wedding or funeral is highly narcissistic. | 1 | 2017-05-16T19:00:06 | 111 | 269 | 1 |
First, as mentioned before what you're speaking of is eugenics and there are many historical examples of countries practicing eugenics. Including America, in the early 1900s we sterilized people in prison and the mentally and physically disabled.. And guess what? We still have mentally and physically disabled people an... | We Should execute the weak to improve the human genepool and reduce overpopulation | 0 | 2015-09-15T06:42:24 | 64 | 1 | null |
Homeschooler here, as well as someone who's been in public and private. Now dual enrolling at a college instead of taking highschool classes, all state funded. First CMV I've replied to, sorry for the terribly long post. I can only ask that you read it without rushing through it, skipping it, etc, then reply with your ... | I think that private schooling and homeschooling should be made illegal, and everyone be forced to attend public school. | 0 | 2015-08-25T10:26:40 | 148 | 4 | null |
Parents getting special daily schedule considerations. Of course, family is more important than job. Parents are always "not it" when someone has to work a holiday. Same as point 1. Dad wants to spend time with his kid Childless employees are not 'selfish' for demanding equal treatment. Of course not. I would prob... | Parents should not be given special treatment by employers at the expense of their childless colleagues. | 0 | 2014-04-13T04:46:11 | 65 | -3 | null |
This is simply a case of recall bias. You are likely unaware that Madonna was once a member of Breakfast Club. You probably forget (unless reminded) that Michael Jackson was part of the Jackson Five. When you think of Beyonce, you probably don't immediately remember Destiny's Child. If a band is great, it is likely to... | "Going solo" or a single member of the band "taking the lead" leads to a sharp decline in quality in that musicians body of work. | 1 | 2014-09-04T19:21:50 | 50 | 48 | null |
Because Sanders threatens to put front-and-center issues that the duopoly has up until this point agreed to stay quiet on (many of which are issues a significant majority of the country believes should be addressed), he need not exercise the specific powers of the office to have an impact. I think you're overestimating... | Bernie Sanders has a better chance of being assassinated by his own government before Jan. 20, 2017 than he does of being sworn office in on that day. | 1 | 2015-06-04T21:32:22 | 43 | 1 | 84Δ |
Against. The heartwarming stories of service are biased toward the people who found it appealing, and ignores the vast number of individuals who couldn't care less, or actively disagree with the practice. I went to a middle school that had a community service requirement to pass 8th grade. It turned (and continues to t... | I believe that community service should be a graduation requirement for high school students. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-03T22:41:22 | 65 | 1 | null |
So internet availability and cheating concern is not a problem. Many word processors have features like auto correct which will get rid of all mistakes in a students' work. This could potentially be phased out but other features like that still exist, making it hard to negate. This would mean much more preparation for ... | All students, when writing any word-heavy examination in middle school and up (including HS and university/college), should have the option to type | 1 | 2016-12-24T00:16:15 | 44 | 1 | 1 |
The society: as we all know, not all humans are equal. Bullying is a way for the fitter humans to rise above weaker humans. Yes stronger people bully weaker people. No idea what you insinuating. The stronger kids become physically abusive assholes. While the weaker kids get suvere mental issues. | Bullying is a natural and beneficial human activity. | 0 | 2016-10-17T02:18:38 | 100 | 1 | 11 |
A person can invest millions building a giant skyscraper that will become known all around the world until it crumbles long after the original owner is gone. Up until that happens, no one would have be able to "copy" that skyscraper without themselves spending millions to build a replica. A person could also spend mil... | Copyright protection should last 15 to 20 years at most. | 0 | 2016-07-13T23:35:09 | 557 | 2 | null |
...like are you arguing that IQ is useless? I mean, really? No, you're not going to just use IQ as the sole metric for determining whether somebody can do a job or not. That would be dumb. Just like accepting any applicant with the right degree would be dumb. It's a contributing factor. Say you're an employer and you i... | IQ should not be used as a measure of cognitive ability | 1 | 2017-05-26T16:01:27 | 50 | 1 | 24 |
What do you mean by "mostly the former"? If you mean to say that you can't reach extreme success with minimum talent and extreme effort, then that's true. But it's not clear how that makes talent more important. As stated earlier, I could point to elite individuals with extreme talent who would not be elite if not for... | If you're REALLY good at something, practice is more or less arbitrary | 1 | 2017-02-04T22:18:41 | 38 | 3 | 27 |
Why can't I chose to die? Well you can. There won't be anyone who will stays with you 24/7 to make sure you don't kill yourself. In my opinion, it is not fair that I should have to stay alive for someone else. What do you mean you should **have to** stay alive? Again, no one can force you not to kill yourself. It is d... | It is MY right to decide my fate, and that right should extend to suicide as well. | 0 | 2015-04-06T02:48:53 | 147 | 12 | 2Δ |
This is one issue where the philosophical dynamic trumps the well-reasoned and statistically backed argument you made. What you did was show the unlikelihood of a gun benefiting a resident in a home-invasion situation on a macro scale, however, those who defend the the right to own weapons for home protection see the i... | These statistics on home invasion absolutely dismantle the argument that we need guns for defense in the home | 1 | 2015-12-25T01:06:55 | 217 | 10 | 1 |
I dislike the idea of a UBI being "free money" in the sense that it secures you from harm. What I think is a better alternative is "free pressure release". I'm in Canada. In my region renting a room costs about $600/month. That is 55 hours of work at minimum wage, or about 7 average work days. I think providing that to... | I don't believe an Universal Basic Income would work, nor that it would be fair | 0 | 2017-03-11T13:51:29 | 50 | 1 | 42 |
1. I'm sorry your experience with child care was vanilla, but that doesn't mean that's true for everyone. Where I worked we tried to make memories. We cooked with the kids, took them on fun adventures, read stories, exercised their brains. 2. Anyone can do it. Anyone can be a parent too, in fact it's less training and... | A Stay at Home Parent Should Be Required | 1 | 2016-08-05T02:42:47 | 72 | 3 | 11 |
If we are talking about committing fraud by making someone believe the alternative therapy has better success than it does, then I agree with you. However, if a grown adult decides to undergo an alternative therapy, it is not unethical to support their decision with money or encouragement. One could make the argument t... | Donating to someone's alternative medical treatment is unethical and evil. | 0 | 2015-11-17T18:24:42 | 75 | 21 | 2 |
This is an argumentum ad metum, or argumentum in terrorem. That was an example. Animal testing, especially in terms of medical testing has prevented the spread of many diseases. ALF does not differentiate between which animals get freed, only that they do. Now the main problem is that what happens if they break someth... | I believe that animals deserve the same rights as human where possible and that it is moral to non-violently liberate them from places of abuse, eg factory farms, slaughterhouses and animal experiment labs. | 1 | 2014-08-28T01:46:53 | 185 | 1 | 4 |
The point about /r/all doesn't hold water, in my opinion. If you don't want to see certain subreddits, don't browse /r/all. That's the point of it. They all show up. Also, there are ways to exclude a subreddit from /r/all on an individual basis. | Reddit Needs To Take More Action Against Trolls, Hate Speech, And Other Despicable Actions That Ruin The Reddit Experience For Others | 0 | 2016-11-30T00:39:54 | 308 | 2 | 4 |
Does a life have to be remembered in order to have meaning and purpose? You're right that in the grand scheme of things what ever you do may be a small drop in the cup-if not a much larger ocean. I don't think that should be what drives you. Life can be fun, joyful, sad, and inspiring. And there are many external and i... | I believe that life is meaningless | 0 | 2017-02-19T03:02:40 | 34 | 7 | 3 |
Ive read many of yours and others' comments and I think the issue might be your understanding of the gay marriage debate. No one's arguing that not having legal marriage prevents gay people from having loving relationships; they're arguing that they should get the same legal benefits as straight partners. It doesnt mat... | I believe that the Gay Marriage discussion isn't as important as the media portrays it to be | 1 | 2014-12-21T08:00:31 | 73 | 2 | 2 |
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