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They *already* determine "what is a church and what is not" for tax purposes. There are fairly extensive laws about what you have to do to be considered a church. And there really do *have to be* otherwise anyone could say they are a church. The *argument* is that churches that aren't actually fundamentally charitab... | Religious organizations - specifically churches - should not have to pay income or property taxes. | 1 | 2016-09-23T01:55:12 | 45 | 1 | 192 |
Expert witnesses are commonly used in court cases. There are many standards to call them on, but one notable one is the Daubert standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_standard This requires a theory to be tested, peer reviewed, have high reliability, and to be generally accepted by the scientific community. It... | Assertions that "a majority" of scientists have a particular view undermines the nature of science and its role in understanding the world. | 1 | 2015-11-13T02:24:34 | 198 | 2 | 87 |
But there are other ways to do that - condoms, pulling out, avoiding sex for the few days around ovulation First things first - one benefit of birth control being covered by insurance is that more women will talk to their doctors about different methods of contraception instead of going on "common knowledge" that could... | Birth control shouldn't be covered by health insurance. | 0 | 2014-06-28T20:29:20 | 113 | 2 | null |
Not all religions believe they have an exclusive path to the truth. You can say "other religions are also true and are good for other people, but this one is true and is a good path for me" without having to study every single religion and reject each one. Just like you can pick a city to live in without studying and r... | Choosing a religion is foolishness (illogical), there are no logical basis to reject all the other religions and choose only one. | 0 | 2017-03-16T14:20:26 | 62 | 2 | null |
I've never met someone who's religious who came to their beliefs through processes of logic. I assuming you mean the belief in the existence of god? There are a number of works which do argue for such beliefs--which I'm sure you might already be aware of (e.g., cosmological arguments, ontological arguments). Even if yo... | I think religious people are incapable of logical thought, CMV | 1 | 2013-12-06T18:42:41 | 83 | 1 | 5 |
While I agree that poverty in many cases corresponds with dense Black populations, it's important to consider that this poverty bears no causal link to the race itself, but rather to what Black people have had to endure. I.e. In the United States, years of racism disadvantaged African Americans, resulting in limited ac... | No city populated by almost all blacks is doing well on the planet. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-21T23:30:20 | 93 | 15 | null |
Firstly, we're talking here about a professional service, in a mental health / medical context. Flowing from that, there should _accountability_ for the offering of, efficacy of and professional validity of services offered within that context. If you want to sit around with a friend and try to turn off your gay (i re... | Because I don't care what consenting adults do, I don't believe conversion therapy should be banned. | 0 | 2016-12-08T18:20:16 | 17 | 2 | 47 |
Please explain how you thought she was unfair. I see no evidence of this. She had no obligation to stay in a relationship with someone who frankly admitted he was physically unattracted to her and breaking up with him so she could presumably find someone who was physically attracted to her is in no way unfair to the ma... | This Woman Was Unfair To This Man. | 0 | 2014-07-15T01:19:15 | 237 | 5 | 14 |
The average gun owner buys weapons for ENTERTAINMENT and EMPOWERMENT, not practical purposes. Be that as it may, it still doesn't mean that guns are fetish objects. What about a person who practices fencing, or iaido? Or even who plays golf. These activities can be entertaining, and they can be empowering in competitio... | Guns are fetish objects. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-30T19:40:32 | 157 | 18 | 1 |
A lot of people doing it doesn't make it right. http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/109319269825/one-week-of-harassment-on-twitter Told she deserves death threats, rape threats, was told to kill herself, etc. etc. | Anita Sarkeesian is a horrible game critic and is bad for the gaming community. | 1 | 2017-04-15T05:15:53 | 76 | 19 | 29 |
Business people acting overly extroverted can be traced back to Dale Carnegie and other Depression-era self-help writers. At a time when there were so many people trying to sell so many things and make a living out of so many venues (since, ya know, everyone was struggling just to get by), you had to make yourself stan... | introverts are disadvantaged in the modern North American business world | 1 | 2017-01-18T03:15:25 | 40 | 61 | 1 |
When I first started working the jail, I thought like you did, that child support holds were bullshit. How could forcing the person to be in jail help them pay their child support back? But then I listened as those guys made their phone calls, or saw their judgement come down. I'd say 99% of them were in the "refuse to... | Jail time for unpaid child support is a modern day debtor's prison and also doesn't make sense as a concept. | 0 | 2017-02-10T21:12:10 | 382 | 5 | null |
The primary motivation behind this mentality, as I understand it, is that these things are largely not within one's control, and therefore it is morally wrong to treat them differently as a result of those characteristics. i don't know for how many people this is the primary motivation, but for me it is not. the primar... | You cannot change your political opinions by choice, and therefore they should be treated no differently than religion with regard to civil rights. | 0 | 2017-01-27T23:58:12 | 61 | 1 | null |
I think you more or less were spot-on with some of your examples of "black culture", though to be fair, it's hard to tell what is real and what is just coming from rappers in the media sometimes. But try to think of your underlying assumptions when you list the degenerate aspects. For instance, #5... the assumption her... | I think parts of black culture are degenerate and, when taken as a whole, is inferior to mainstream culture. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-27T06:52:36 | 136 | -4 | null |
The cosmological argument is a dumb "because science doesn't have an answer, the answer must be God" or something to that effect. This isn't what the [cosmological argument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument) is. Basically the argument is that everything happens from some *cause*. If you throw a ball,... | Pascal's wager is the best argument for any religion | 1 | 2017-06-08T02:08:21 | 112 | 1 | 29 |
I've heard quite a lot about how women's bathrooms are often more disgusting than men's. Why would I want that? And you are grossly wrong if you thing most people would have no issue with this. It adds a sexualized aspect to a bathroom that no one wants or is asking for. | In new buildings, public restrooms should be unisex. | 0 | 2015-09-22T05:57:59 | 26 | 1 | null |
Aging is caused by evolution, it's pretty much a fundamental component of life. | Suicide by Aging is a thing. | 1 | 2016-08-27T06:01:00 | 61 | 3 | 1 |
The danger, as ever, is who gets to be the final arbiter of truth? With so many political causes with politicised data and politicised interpretation of that data, who decides what is and isn't the correct interpretation and the correct policy to deal with that interpretation? What policies do people have to be aware o... | People should have to past a test to vote. | 0 | 2015-10-29T06:30:37 | 37 | 3 | 48 |
US intervention hardly needs to be direct military defeat of every ISIS member. The US can stop them from taking further territory, and that would put a huge damper on their expansion: they lose momentum and with it much of their fear and support. The US can sponsor other forces (whether the Peshmerga, the Iraqi govern... | "Civilian Blending" is an unstoppable strategy. The U.S. can't defeat IS without enormous and unacceptable civilian casualties. IS is going to win. | 1 | 2014-08-14T21:05:19 | 28 | 8 | null |
is a harm to the structure of the status quo. Many people (especially in areas where there is a high density of religious people) feel the same way about bisexuals, so I don't think that you can claim that something which is different is a "harm to the structure of the status quo" in a negative sense. Every "progressiv... | Islam is incompatible with today's society. | 1 | 2015-05-19T17:40:54 | 197 | 6 | 1Δ |
So I just want to point out: Many conservatives are deeply religious Christians, many conservatives are not. To use the words "conservative" and "conservative christian" as synonyms is a really strong generalization, one that bothers me even though I'm neither conservative nor religious. That said I'm sure your view do... | Opposition to homosexuality, although wrong, is not necessarily malicious | 0 | 2017-03-28T22:38:51 | 67 | 10 | null |
First off, I also thank you for posting your views and engaging in dialogue about them. I can understand and appreciate every single reason you dislike the DNC / Hillary. I was scared of Hillary too, she is hawkish and I don't trust everything she says because she is a very good "politician", so again I understand the ... | I support Donald Trump | 0 | 2017-01-31T07:45:37 | 1,516 | 15 | null |
Why does an objective, universal moral system need to originate from a god? I can just as easily say that the fabric of the universe is set up so that we have consciousness and will all feel the bad consequences of our actions in an afterlife, due to yet undiscovered scientific laws of the universe. The above doesn't ... | The "Divine Command" Theory of Morality Is Correct. | 0 | 2016-09-06T15:49:50 | 35 | 1 | 2 |
Well, not exactly. Most religious people believe there is a "purpose" to life, and that there is work to be done here before they die. When faced with death, one often reflects on their life and they might begin asking the question "did I make the right decisions?", or "did I use my time wisely"? This question can caus... | If religious people truly believed in heaven, they would be happy that they're dying | 0 | 2015-01-11T23:18:47 | 124 | 29 | 15 |
I think a more consistent perspective with your views would be to say that gender does not exist. That is, we have a biological sex, and we have societal gender roles, but we are only gendered to the point that our behavior aligns with these roles. So, "Male" people (of any sex) are just people who usually behave in a ... | The notion that there are non-binary genders and gender fluidity is untrue. | 0 | 2016-07-15T10:06:49 | 153 | 0 | 1 |
Two ideas to consider: bodily autonomy and biological inequality. 1. People have rights over their own body. I can't demand you give me your extra kidney, even if I tell you I'll take care of all the hospital costs, there's chance you will suffer and die, and it's your body, so you should have a say. I can't demand tha... | The father should have equal rights when choosing to abort a pregnancy | 1 | 2016-01-02T00:13:58 | 256 | 28 | 1 |
You seem to have a somewhat misguided view of how things are going in the US. Just because a lot of politicians and media outlets like to prop up bad press for garnering political support/ratings, doesn't mean that things are really all that bad. The US ranks highly on almost any measurable scale. Also it's good to rem... | I believe that The United States has no right to claim that it's the greatest country in the world. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-05T08:20:37 | 88 | 21 | 3 |
If feminists put a lot more effort into encouraging women to go for STEM jobs, rather than just bitch about a 20-25% gap that is in actuality a 1-7% one, I'd be supportive, but I can't stand behind this movement when it is a distraction. Feminism loves to encourage young women to pursue STEM -- and they try to make the... | The only feminist cause I sympathize with is reproductive rights and everything else I am disinterested in. | 0 | 2017-05-17T03:07:34 | 100 | 8 | 6 |
1 in 68 children have now been diagnosed with autism. That is insane. Now what does that tell you? It tells me that two things are happening: A, we are either getting better at identifying it or the term "Autism" is too broad; and B, people are adapting to the way our society works by mating with those who have the bes... | Autism is caused by our dysfunctional modern society | 1 | 2016-09-06T10:20:34 | 56 | 2 | 7 |
The only places UBI are successful are places with large oil reserves in relation to their population size. That is, the government is capturing large revenue streams from nationalized resources that don't require taxed income from their population. The US does not have reserves the size necessary to make this work. UB... | Universal Basic Income both necessary and more effective than most welfare systems. | 0 | 2017-05-26T09:03:19 | 78 | 3 | 2 |
Making it an option will divide the students into typers and hand-writers. This is not inherently bad. But typing is different from hand-writing. You listed all pros of typing. Hand-writing students would be at a disadvantage, which can be quite serious. It really depends on what you want to achieve: Of course, you cou... | All students, when writing any word-heavy examination in middle school and up (including HS and university/college), should have the option to type | 0 | 2016-12-23T23:17:34 | 44 | 3 | null |
American made doesn't mean that only Americans are employed. It means that the manufacturing is located in America and is American owned and so directly supports the American economy. By supporting American made products, you are spending your money in a way that supports the American economy rather than the fiances be... | Insisting that your company/product is "American-made" is inherently racist. | 0 | 2016-08-29T17:36:34 | 52 | 2 | 71 |
It is any defendants 6th amendment right to know their accuser and be allowed to stand against them in court. Seeing as my accuser in this case is a camera, I don't see how that is possible. I feel as though this denies me my right to due process. Not really. Documentary evidence is used in court all the time. If a cor... | Photo ticketing cameras are unlawful and should not be used | 1 | 2016-08-05T17:27:36 | 28 | 24 | 227 |
So is your view changed? | It should not be legal to inquire about race/ethnicity or criminal record on job applications. | 1 | 2015-10-16T18:17:41 | 44 | 2 | 71 |
I think a distinction should be made between ‘wisdom’ and ‘knowledge’ – what you’re saying seems to be assuming that a non-ignorant (knowledgeable) person is also wise (can apply such knowledge effectively). I agree that a wise person has better grounds to find happiness, for the reasons you mentioned – but if a person... | Being happy is not a sign of "ignorance", and being more intelligent than most people would not make you less happy. | 0 | 2016-10-17T03:12:18 | 39 | 6 | 1 |
Nordic countries are far smaller and much more culturally homogeneous than the USA or other western non-Nordic nations, I think this is a primary reason for their relative economic success | I consider the Nordic model the best socio-economic model to base a country around & the best compromise between the right and left | 0 | 2014-10-24T18:43:38 | 537 | 0 | null |
You could do what some friends of mine have done, and take the third option. That is, post something along the lines of "I've been having a rough time lately and sometimes like to vent about it online and receive support from friends, but I know that this can be annoying or intrusive to some people. So, if you *want* t... | To post, or not to post one's struggles with mental illness on social media? I say not. | 0 | 2015-05-04T01:53:10 | 20 | 1 | 1 |
Actually there is an interesting piece of research that suggests that attractivenes is a loss for women in careers if the higher ups are also women. http://www.livescience.com/9038-attractive-women-hired.html Stereotypical isn't it? Apparently men are more likely to hire both attractive men and attractive women but wom... | Being attractive makes life easier in everything. | 1 | 2017-04-28T15:08:45 | 41 | 52 | 5 |
I feel the opposite. I think both would be toxic for the country, but I feel like Cruz would be less reliant on executive power and would be on the same level of effectiveness as Obama in terms of dealing with Congress. Trump, on the other hand, I could see being much more reliant on expanding executive power and using... | Ted Cruz would be worse for the US than Trump | 0 | 2016-04-16T20:45:49 | 144 | 6 | 4 |
I'm a homeschooled high school student! The internet is great for learning. **If you felt like it** you could find resources to aid/expand on pretty much any subject, but a big part of building a curriculum and a big part of education in general is practicing and setting goals with guidelines, not just learning it once... | I think High School is an obsolete institution and it's purpose can be replaced by internet learning | 0 | 2014-09-16T10:40:05 | 65 | 3 | null |
I took piano lessons when I was a little kid for two years and my mom let me quit at age 10. Now I'm 21 and in the past few years I've taken up piano again and I really love it, but I'm not nearly as good as I probably would be if I kept taking lessons. I really wish my parents wiuld have encouraged me to stick with it... | I believe that parents making their children have music lessons is a waste of time. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-05T17:13:20 | 35 | 1 | 7 |
This requires you to have a lot of information about the second choice of the people who want "good" to win, which doesn't seem realistic. Favorite betrayal in IRV relies only on considering which is the more likely result of voting the lesser of two evils candidate over your favorite minor party candidate: 1. Top-rank... | Single Transferrable Vote (STV) is the best voting system. | 1 | 2015-03-01T15:59:36 | 106 | 2 | 3 |
Taking that a step further, pettiness reduces you to their level. You might take some satisfaction from having your own standard, higher than theirs. Although having a high standard for that reason might, itself, be petty. At least it would be harnessing pettiness in a constructive way, though. | It is okay to be petty. | 1 | 2017-03-14T22:59:43 | 20 | 1 | 6 |
I'm not sure what kind of bathrooms you want to have. By unisex toilets do you mean 1 toilet per room, anyone can use it? That is space inefficient and costly to make. Gendered bathrooms are faster for the space and cost. Do you mean 1 toilet per stall, multiple stalls per room, maybe some urinals with decent privacy, ... | All toilets should be unisex. | 0 | 2017-02-21T01:06:40 | 188 | 2 | null |
As for the Religious basis for the "Popemobile": Luke 4:9 - 12 *And he (Satan) brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee. And in their hands the... | The Pope driving around in fireproof glass is an admission of lack of faith | 1 | 2015-04-27T22:22:01 | 337 | 8 | 6Δ |
Your post is based on crying babies being unbearably annoying to you, which is an emotional argument. While yes, the sound is piercing, you're proposing significant financial penalties (or banning) certain categories of people that you personally find offensive. That's a slippery slope to blatant discrimination. Not al... | On airplanes, tickets going to passengers with babies should cost 3-5x more than regular tickets, or they should be banned altogether. | 1 | 2017-04-23T13:41:45 | 91 | 0 | 1 |
I believe that the population of Iceland is very low (like the size of a suburb) because I was told so by an acquaintance last weekend. I haven't bothered to check an official source let alone perform a rigorous survey. Am I evil? Do I a moral obligation to gather strong evidence concerning this belief? | It is morally indefensible to hold a belief without sufficient evidence. | 0 | 2017-06-27T02:17:37 | 62 | 1 | null |
If 70k were some sort of ceiling on earning, then sure, i could see not needing more. prices for goods would likely be lower. luxury items would cost less due to people needing to be able to afford them. food costs would have to go down, or higher priced items simply wouldn't exist due to a lack of a market for them. ... | I believe a $70,000 individual annual salary is more than enough to live damn comfortable anywhere in the US | 1 | 2014-05-29T19:53:03 | 114 | 11 | 1 |
You can already leave if you don't like it, but freedom of migration is class warfare on the lower class of any country, and the US is totally unwilling to give up any form of sovereignty to choose who can enter its country. That's why illegal migration is such a big deal to many americans. Plus that wouldn't reduce an... | The majority of the US' problems could be solved easily if the US signed EU-style freedom of migration deals with the EU and Canada. | 0 | 2016-06-23T15:36:26 | 41 | 9 | 12 |
I think the issue comes from the assumption that people are "refusing" to learn the local language out of stubbornness, and that you (or anybody else who says things like this) would do any better if you had to move to a foreign country for some reason. Learning and and *using* a new language as an adult is hard, and ... | I think that anyone who lives in a country must learn the native language. | 0 | 2016-12-14T21:21:17 | 71 | 5 | 3 |
Here's an idea... let's take all the people in a country, line up all the people that make the things everyone else buys/uses, and rob those people blind. Wow! Why didn't I think of that?! | The USA should enact a one-time mass-redistribution of wealth to correct the 1%/99% imbalance along with a Basic Income and the outlaw of Renting. | 0 | 2014-04-06T18:35:13 | 426 | 0 | null |
Reasons why someone may not be an asshole if they litter: - Items left in a park may have simply been forgotten. - People might be giving in to peer pressure. If all of their friends aren't correctly disposing of their rubbish it's hard to be the guy who does. - Inability to think through consequences. Some people may ... | 100% of people who litter frequently are assholes. | 0 | 2015-11-08T03:36:04 | 119 | 28 | 1 |
Karate student here. We have a few types of learning, and we learn the canned moves. We learn how to perfectly execute a shuto sakotsu uchi, a downward knife hand strike. We learn how to do a perfectly formed inside middle block. We even hold separate courses on "street self-defense", teaching how to get out of holds a... | I believe that canned techniques for self-defense won't really help someone in a real life situation. CMV. | 1 | 2013-07-06T21:18:12 | 39 | 9 | 13 |
Not necessarily. All you have to do is convince them that the outcome of not having the abortion is worse than 1 murder. An analogy that comes to mind is with war; most people are against killing other humans, until it comes to a need to go to war. In that example, people who are normally against killing people approve... | If someone truly believes that abortion is murder, then that person is justified in non-violently protesting legal abortions. | 1 | 2016-06-27T23:41:20 | 56 | 12 | 9 |
I think we've successfully boiled the argument down to this one particular point: any context in which we would want to invoke free will is one in which a compatibilist definition is superior. I agree. In a discussion about whether or not free will is an illusion, insisting on a compatibilist definition that assumes fr... | belief in free will implies belief in a soul or other supernatural entity | 1 | 2014-04-22T16:04:34 | 99 | 1 | 1 |
Dude. *Dude.* Did you completely forget about Scar? I mean sure, Maleficent is pretty bad, but she's just evil for evil's sake. Throwing a fit for not being invited to a part is petty, not evil. The best villains are the ones who have to put time and effort into their evil plots, they don't just use magic to make thin... | I believe Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty is the greatest Disney villain of all time. CMV. | 1 | 2013-07-17T19:09:12 | 352 | 294 | 127Δ |
The question is, though, whether infinite moving forward is possible...I think that human development has reached a point where laws of nature don't stand anymore. I want to point this out because it's something that you have wrong off the bat. Not that the world is infinite or that the universe is unlimited, but that ... | I believe that humanity is reaching, or has already reached, a point, where capitalism, egoism, materialism, and even states and nationalism has no place. | 1 | 2016-05-11T12:14:01 | 70 | 13 | 1 |
The points you bring up are certainly not from the majority of liberals. The far left is loud and stupid, just as the far right is, but those beliefs are exclusive to those fringe groups. Not all liberals think cishet white men are all rapist pigs, just as not all conservatives think that Muslims are all rapist pigs. ... | The liberal left has severely lost its way! | 0 | 2017-03-15T06:10:43 | 211 | 1 | null |
I thought this exact same thing until just a couple of weeks ago, when I saw it just a little differently. You are absolutely right that the people you're directly protesting aren't going to listen, but who MIGHT listen is someone else who's on the fence, and wondering if they should take the leap. I'll give you an exa... | Peaceful demonstration does not affect government policy | 0 | 2017-02-16T23:03:43 | 43 | 8 | 83 |
I think you misunderstand the term "nice guys". The subreddit description reads: "For all the self proclaimed "nice guys" who are actually manchildren or douches." This subreddit is not mocking guys simply because they are nice. Who doesn't love a genuinely nice person? it's mocking guys who act nice towards women beca... | The criticism of "nice guys" (as seen in r/niceguys) is not valid. | 0 | 2015-08-16T09:23:20 | 288 | 10 | 4 |
It might help to approach the problem historically. While America is certainly founded on libertarian virtues, it's really its history of immigration that perpetuates its ideologies. Generally speaking, America has the largest amount of non-refugee immigration of any country. And in almost any metric of diversity Ameri... | I think that Americans are totally disillusioned about the importance of their individuality and the concept of "freedom". CMV. | 0 | 2013-05-29T12:46:06 | 156 | 1 | 2 |
I agree your success depends much more on your actions in college rather than just the name. I think what you're able to do outside of the classroom is far more important than just the degree you got. However, what I observed in my search for colleges and in my experience hiring recent college grads is that opportuniti... | There is too much stress placed on going to the perfect college. Your success depends on your actions, not your diploma. | 0 | 2015-10-20T21:49:27 | 62 | 1 | 20 |
despite wanting to respond with something along the lines of “I don’t want to become like you” after seeing what drinking does to friends and classmates. It really isn't like that. I used to be secretly quite stuck up about this issue when I was 16, 17, but then when I came to uni this year I went out to clubs and dra... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 0 | 2015-01-18T20:37:51 | 446 | 4 | null |
It's hard to make this point without ever having seen Tarantino at work, but his skill goes beyond "just" putting the words on paper, writing excellent dialog and coming up with cool and interesting scenarios. It's also about projecting a certain vision, making good lightning, music and camera choices and making sure t... | Quentin Tarantino IS Not A Good Director | 1 | 2015-10-01T16:00:45 | 18 | 14 | 7 |
The whole point of FtN is that you, the (presumably hetero cis) male observer are not the center of the universe, and your feelings about breasts, whether sezualized or not, are not a reason for a woman to cover up. It's not that they are or aren't sexy to you or sexy to society, it's that your feeling about them is no... | The goal of "Free the Nipple" should not be to desexualize the female breast and nipple, but to admit they are sexual just not obscene | 1 | 2016-10-01T05:31:57 | 471 | 57 | 1 |
Not that this will change your view, but there are a couple assumptions you make that I'll challenge. Firstly you equate gross size with importance both for population and GSP. This is interesting but there's always going to be a biggest in these categories unless you divide the states perfectly evenly. I don't think t... | California is the most important state in the US. | 0 | 2015-12-05T02:28:44 | 597 | 4 | null |
Cost of travel is cheaper. You only have to go to the grocery store once for the week (or longer if you want to buy more stuff). With fast food, you have to make multiple trips per day. Since you are eliminating travel time, the cooking time at home becomes negligible. You are spending time cooking instead of making tr... | I don't get the argument that fast food is cheaper. In no way does this make sense. | 0 | 2017-06-30T19:27:36 | 70 | 35 | 17 |
I ultimately have mixed feelings about MTG because there's a lot to look at. In a constructed format (for any game) I seek to eliminate randomness from my playstyle. Sure. It looks like you're a "Spike", you want to show how good you are at the game and hence randomness really doesn't suit you. Even from a mental persp... | I believe Hearthstone is ultimately a poorly designed card game. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-03T01:31:29 | 79 | 2 | 13Δ |
(1) is the US expected to front the bill for all this? What is the US getting out of it? (2) you say to do this for the "sake of the world", but then only go on to say it's because of human rights violations in those regions. How are those human rights violations connected to the "sake of the world"? I don't see how, e... | The United States can and should (and to a degree already does) act as the "World Police" | 0 | 2017-03-15T20:15:40 | 98 | 8 | 10 |
I guess another way of looking at it is, if your not financially smart enough to turn 10m into more money and live comfortably, then you will probably blow through both winnings so no difference. | In the lottery, it is worse to share the jackpot than it is to win the entire jackpot | 1 | 2017-01-30T17:34:38 | 84 | 1 | 1 |
It is all a cost benefit allowance. Yes, deaf people *may* have a *slightly* higher risk of causing accidents (but without statistics, that is a big maybe and the risk must be negligible if it exists). The question is, is the risk big enough to justify banning people from driving? Is the cost of banning them outweighed... | deaf people should not be allowed to drive | 1 | 2014-10-08T20:05:42 | 44 | 1 | 10 |
One of my friends in gradschool was a recovering/relapsing alcoholic. And when she kind of came out with that information we did realize exactly how much of our faculty included drinking. Our end of term parties were held at pubs. We're all 22+ so there was certainly alcohol. We had karaoke nights. We went to the bar a... | It is ridiculously harder to socialize in life if you don't drink alcohol | 1 | 2014-03-27T00:20:51 | 117 | 142 | 5 |
I would definitely prefer this method for when I'm sitting an exam. However, I believe that the most concerning part of this within its potential practise is that it would be much easier for students to plagiarise when each fellow student's work is illuminated on a monitor in close proximity to them. You may suggest a... | All students, when writing any word-heavy examination in middle school and up (including HS and university/college), should have the option to type | 0 | 2016-12-23T23:07:06 | 44 | 3 | null |
I agree with these people that the punishment should be severe enough for rape to prevent them from happening altogether By killing the offenders of non-murder crimes, you create more incentive for these offenders to just kill their victims to make it harder for them to speak at their trial. I'd also say that that stat... | Extreme Crimes should be dealt with extremity. | 0 | 2017-05-05T18:22:20 | 27 | 1 | 4 |
My 6-year old PC is still good for playing the latest games in 4K, and has been able to for 2+ years since I did its only upgrade (graphics card) back then. More game choice on PC MUCH cheaper games on PC, especially when buying them a few months after release, console game prices start and often stay much higher and... | It is better right now to buy a console than a budget PC | 0 | 2017-02-24T11:09:09 | 58 | 1 | null |
Ok, thank you for your clarification. 2 problems I see with this view. 1) The vast majority of cults that I am aware of are based around a leader of some sort. With this in mind, why would we then propose that this first century cult that later became Christianity didn't have a leader? We can see all kinds of modern da... | The Jesus Myth Hypothesis is Plausible | 1 | 2015-05-28T00:50:07 | 171 | 1 | 4Δ |
The legality part of your argument has a lot of strength but the idea that these actions shouldn't be socially condemned in any way falls flat. Society requires standards and evolves by rewarding behavior it agrees with and ostracizing behavior it disagrees with. While in principle a humanist view finds nothing wrong w... | I have no problem with cannibalism or necrophilia CMV | 1 | 2013-07-08T01:38:41 | 91 | 3 | 1 |
Realistically, there comes a point where confronting idiocy becomes pointless. Holocaust denialism has been confronted thousands upon thousands of times in the past, yet there are still individuals who believe in this nonsense. Look at other things like the flat earth "theory"- no matter how many times you show that t... | CMV We should confront Holocaust denial not dismiss it. | 0 | 2017-06-20T04:10:20 | 77 | 35 | 36 |
There are a number of factors that can affect the grades someone gets that has nothing to do with intelligence or how much you care about the class. As some examples: their level of familiarity with the subject before taking the class, how much time they have to devote to the class, how well they are sleeping, general ... | Grades measure intelligence if you actually care about them. | 0 | 2017-01-03T08:06:30 | 57 | 1 | 80 |
One clue that might help you understand the puzzle is this: Most of the violence that targets "gay men" really targets gender non-conformity. If a gay man blends in (i.e. fits within the current cultural norm of masculinity) he is much less likely to be a victim of homophobic violence than a guy who breaks gender norms... | Using the LGBTTQQPAAS2 acronym doesn't represent the gay community and so shouldn't be used. | 1 | 2016-06-17T19:31:38 | 751 | 26 | 1 |
Couldn't they just bring in more immigrants to compensate? Instead of forcing women to have unwanted children the immigrants would be having children. | Japan ought to ban abortion | 1 | 2014-12-31T14:41:57 | 77 | 4 | 1 |
I'd argue you are taking your evidence from experience in college. Since you didn't give context for this I can only assume you mean by and large across society. In this case no, it is not more socially acceptable to drink too much to become intoxicated enough to become incoherent/imbalanced. There's a huge world out... | I believe it is more socially desirable for a person to drink too much than to drink sensibly | 1 | 2014-10-03T20:53:19 | 51 | 5 | 1 |
1. Pokemon has been easy for its entire existence. EV training might be easier with the advent of super training, but Pokemon has never really supposed to have been challenging. Gen II was the first one I played, and I beat the game when I was 6. I'm not going to argue things haven't gotten easier - one of the reasons ... | Pokemon games have gotten progressively worse recently, and nobody should buy Sun/Moon | 0 | 2016-09-19T22:22:32 | 92 | 2 | 21 |
The whole argument about God existing or not, Jesus existing or not should be set aside for this time. I have no problem with people saying "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" or "Blessed Ramadan" or whatever. I know your intentions and understand its a positive message. What I do have a problem is that some anti-th... | No One Should Feel Offended by Christmas | 1 | 2014-12-09T03:38:13 | 98 | 0 | 52 |
I believe that you're right in at least one sense: hypersensitivity to racial issues creates an unnecessary tension between races. Witness the way black people stereotype white people (like, in Tyler Perry movies or whatever) tripping over themselves trying to prove that they're not racist to black people. Well, a lot ... | I believe that the more we highlight racism in our modern society, the more prevalent it becomes. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-02T06:19:02 | 83 | -3 | null |
In a 4 way race with Trump (C), Sanders (I), Rubio (R) and Clinton (D) with all of them getting a reasonable amount of popular support, it is virtually impossible for Trump or Sanders to win - even if they have more support than Rubio and Clinton. You're forgetting about the electoral college. It is a race to 270 elect... | Trump losing the (R) primary and Sanders and Clinton splitting could end the two-party system. | 1 | 2015-12-18T20:02:39 | 43 | 1 | 2 |
I'm a college mathematics instructor who deals with a lot of paperwork and assignments. This is misguided for a number of reasons: 1. There needs to be a schedule. Homework is due every Friday, say. If someone has a late assignment, I'm not choosing whether to give them a penalty or not, I'm choosing whether I want *al... | Teachers shouldn't count an assignment as late unless they've already graded it. | 0 | 2014-09-24T11:59:21 | 48 | 2 | null |
Would you say the same thing about children who conform to gender roles? When you see a girl in a dress or a boy playing with toy soldiers, do you see parents forcing their views onto their kids? How about Disney movies portraying exclusively heterosexual romances? | LGBT children are the result of parents forcing their views onto their kids, which I see as child abuse. | 1 | 2017-02-25T20:57:34 | 67 | 12 | 2 |
Subjects such as gender/specific culture studies, economics and sociology etc. are completely ideological. This may be true, but does it mean that it isn't valuable, or as valuable as a hard science? It might just be harder to find objective truth. In that case, do you think that the fact that it's harder to obtain obj... | STEM studies are inherently superior to humanities | 0 | 2014-06-15T20:31:22 | 30 | 1 | null |
Before I had kids I'd agree with most of your proposal. I used to fly 1-3 times a month for work, usually on longer flights (3-9 hours). Before I had accumulated enough miles to get the status for upgrades to Economy Plus or Business, the system we bought our work tickets through was a discounter for businesses that of... | Children under the age of 6 should be seated together in the same section on the airplane (together with their guardian(s)), at the back of the plane. | 1 | 2015-09-10T06:02:31 | 269 | 6 | 7 |
It doesn't stop odors because it's not even remotely hermetical Doesn't need to seal to stop odors. The cover, at the very least, reduces the airflow in the bowl. This will reduce odor. Here are some other points to consider: * Prevents things from the nearby sink from falling into the toilet. * Prevents liquid from be... | The lid of the toilet serves no purpose. | 0 | 2015-05-18T16:01:54 | 51 | 18 | 24Δ |
I also have trans friends who have expressed their discomfort with drag shows. However, it has more to do with the fact that the public in general (i.e. people really not familiar with queer folk and queer culture) tends to lump gay people, crossdressers, and trans people in the same category, and thus gives people the... | I believe that drag performers are participating in the equivalent of blackface/minstrel shows for transgender individuals. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-23T23:03:45 | 113 | 3 | null |
The state would never pass a law requiring a paternity test because paternity fraud is in the interest of the state. If the mother can't fool a man into raising the kid then the state would have to chip in. Perhaps she fools Dale into raising Chad's baby because although Chad is well-endowed and has tattoos and a motor... | Paternity tests should be mandatory and part of the birth certificate process to protect male reproductive rights, and agency. | 0 | 2017-03-07T02:18:38 | 170 | 1 | 1 |
While you may not fully understand the effects of certain actions or words on your own being. Those that do usually suffer from mental illnesses that can cause devestation reflection of an event or memory when brought up. I have ptsd and while i've learned to recognize when i will be triggered it still happens sometime... | 'Triggers' aren't a real thing. We should all be able to overcome our issues and not project them unto other people. | 1 | 2015-08-08T02:20:38 | 283 | 2 | 1 |
I think that instead of "courage" the better word might be "gall." It's not like Apple is killing of some struggling tech that's just costing them money- Headphones are the de facto way of listening to music and sound for millions of people and devices. They can be inexpensive, are reliable, and don't require charging... | Removing the headphone jack took courage | 1 | 2016-12-07T19:20:19 | 28 | 22 | 7 |
While technically dreadlocks have been a thing in a variety of cultures all around the world forever, they really gained their footing in North America when reggae and Rasta culture became popular in the 70s. This was mostly among black youth, and then white people began appropriating that look due to the popularity of... | White dreads aren't culture appropriation | 0 | 2015-09-03T23:59:02 | 29 | 6 | 25 |
One significant advantage to less regulation is that it leaves things more open to changes based on new inventions, new developments, and new ways of thinking. Even if a regulation perfectly captures a situation today and provides the objectively best outcome possible, that's no guarantee that the regulation will still... | Effective regulation/taxes is better than less regulation/taxes. | 1 | 2017-06-29T03:35:00 | 277 | 29 | 8 |
I play both on PC and console. Consoles are more efficient at their task because they are built around playing games. Instead of running multiple tasks at once with a game running in front of them, a console can dedicate the entirety of its resources to running a game. Hence why emulators are extremely resource-intensi... | Current Gen consoles seem like a waste considering they are similar to both each other and PC's. | 0 | 2014-04-21T22:20:47 | 65 | 2 | null |
I wouldn't assume that companies like Facebook are making their money through sponsored ads. They do have sponsored ads, but that's a small part of what they do. Facebook sells your information to other companies which use that information out-of-band (i.e., outside of Facebook). One big trend happening right now in th... | "If the service is free, you are the product" is easily evaded by individual, consumer-based choices | 1 | 2017-02-19T23:15:19 | 36 | 3 | 2 |
So, this is going to be a slightly long response and, considering I'm writing well after this post has shot up in popularity, I probably won't get many responses. But here we go anyway. We will split the argument into several segments in order to answer all the points that you brought up. The first is the freedoms that... | America is not exceptional bastion of freedom anymore | 0 | 2017-06-23T06:14:07 | 1,111 | 2 | null |
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