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You asked "Is there a good reason to dismiss him as a candidate? More importantly, who is real competition for him?" The fact that he can't win is a good reason to dismiss him. "None of the above" is competition for him. He can't win the Republican nomination. | Trump is the everyman's candidate | 1 | 2015-08-31T21:49:46 | 79 | 6 | 130 |
It is one of the oldest feminist blogs, they used to be a lot more active, but their writers spread out. They are actual feminists, not feminism lite like jezebel etc. They don't write clickbait. http://www.vox.com/2014/11/8/7157065/dunham-child-abuse http://www.salon.com/2014/11/03/what_dunhams_defenders_are_missing_h... | Political Polarization appears to be killing progress on pretty much every issue and we are doomed if we don't reverse course | 1 | 2017-02-25T07:42:58 | 155 | 8 | 1 |
Typically those people enjoy their loud car, so they don't miss an opportunity to gun it. This is logically flawed, and probably stems for a confirmation bias. The correct conclusion to draw is that people who don't miss an opportunity to gun it, are more likely to modify their factory exhaust. There are a lot of peopl... | I believe purposefully loud vehicle exhaust should be made illegal for street legal cars and trucks. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-30T23:30:24 | 354 | 10 | 3 |
I guess a better metaphor might be getting drunk. No one cares if you got drunk once at that one party. It is when you get drunk twice a week, every week, that it becomes a problem. Having a high number of sexual partners can indicate that someone has trouble forming stable relationships, which can cause shame for even... | No rational person can be ashamed of having a high number of sex partners. | 1 | 2014-11-18T01:20:17 | 104 | 1 | 2 |
OP, this is the perfect comment. u/simonjp is giving you great information. Listen to what this person says. He is spot on. Getting married to a foreign national and then trying to get benefits from their country is a long, complicated process that often takes lots of time and costs thousand of dollars in legal fees.... | It's a good idea to marry my best friend of two years, (dating for only 3 months), in order to save 195K pounds (301K US dollars) in tuition | 0 | 2015-09-15T03:32:16 | 55 | 1 | 28 |
Because [happier employees get more done](http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/happy-employees-are-more-productive-employees.html). Sick employees are even less productive. So if I'm feeling burnt out at my job because I don't get to take a vacation, I'm going to slack off more at work while I find a new and better job,... | Employers shouldn't pay for employees vacation time or sick days; if you're not at the jobsite working you shouldn't get paid | 0 | 2015-03-27T20:34:06 | 92 | 4 | 57Δ |
Third, if college athletes were to be paid, how much would they receive and would each player across each sport be compensated equally? You're conflating arguments. Most people don't argue that all NCAA athletes should be paid in addition to scholarships. The argument is normally that they should be ALLOWED to be paid ... | I do not believe college athletes should be compensated for participating in athletics, particularly with the rising cost of college | 0 | 2015-10-21T01:13:27 | 89 | 1 | null |
Rituals matter only in what they mean to the participants. For you, it may be an outdated practice rooted in misogyny... but for him it's a sign of bonding and of a life changing experience. Much like marriage itself, it's a symbol that one can wear proudly. So the question is... if it means that to him, don't you want... | I, as a man, don't want my fiancé to take my last name despite being HIS wish. Please CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-20T08:37:56 | 41 | 2 | 6 |
Although I'm sure OP is American, the UK law on attempts e.g attempted murder rape etc are pretty much what OP is saying. If someone points a gun at a person and doesn't realise the gun is jammed until he pulls the trigger, he'll most likely get the same life sentence as if he killed the man. It's done on more of a ca... | People should be punished for "attempted" crimes (attempted murder, conspiracy to commit fraud, etc.) with the same severity as if the crimes were carried out successfully. | 0 | 2016-10-06T00:35:42 | 248 | 1 | null |
There's many many more races than just the presidential race, and those have a much bigger difference on your daily life. The state legislature and local city council have a direct impact on your daily life and the fact that you're in a conservative state doesn't mean that city council member of legislative representat... | I think that everyone has a right to complain about the election, even if they did not vote. | 1 | 2016-11-17T05:59:09 | 42 | 13 | 20 |
Like many have said, you cannot generalize the whole south as one giant cesspool of racism and intolerance. I grew up in a small South Louisiana town. I went to Catholic private schools from kindergarten to senior year. We were always taught tolerance. I can only count a handful of racist peers. I once saw someone make... | Maybe I'm a bigot, but I despise the South. | 0 | 2015-06-29T19:41:11 | 94 | 3 | null |
Businesses operate under a social contract. They get to benefit from tax funded incentives, copyright/trademark protection, police protection, public education of workforce, infrastructure, etc. Why should tax payers pay for all that, and accept discrimination in return? We also have to decide what we want as a society... | An employer should be allowed to discriminate against anyone for any reason. | 1 | 2016-08-17T22:20:16 | 107 | 21 | 57 |
Sorry, never got the update. | You should have to pass the citizenship test to vote in the US | 1 | 2015-05-10T18:12:15 | 95 | 1 | 4 |
But your claims rest of the fact that Sanders could turn out voters. But we tried it, and we know he can't. He got crushed. Not narrowly beaten, beaten by a huge amount. | Bernie Sanders could have defeated Donald Trump, had he been the Democrat nominee. | 1 | 2017-01-14T12:11:21 | 48 | 11 | 7 |
I agree with you, and I am adamant in the fact that most modern "art" isn't art anymore. But art has changed. It now has more to do with who you are and who knows you. Like you said, a fair amount of modern art cannot be told apart from something a toddler or deranged person might do. It is considered to be great art p... | If all a modern art piece does is make you question whether it's art, it's terrible. | 0 | 2014-11-27T09:24:38 | 111 | 1 | 1 |
the ultimate meaning of life is to use energy. Every instance within this universe does one thing in its basis, and that is react to energy, so it can spend it. The planets crush themselves at the core to spew molten lava weakening its magnetic core in the process. Humanity, a relatively successful species on earth inv... | The ultimate meaning of life is poop. Human beings are the vessels for the carrying, transport, distribution, and ultimate deposition of poop. Poop is the true traveler of the world; we are merely their vehicles. | 0 | 2016-12-13T11:02:46 | 21 | 2 | null |
Most of the things people discuss on "news" stations aren't objective truths. People look at a set of information and make conclusions based on their biases. If people discussed the wage gap, would you say that the people who say women make 77 cents on the dollar because of sexism are lying? They aren't giving the whol... | Media outlets should only be able to call themselves “News” with a rolling 2-3 month average of ~95-100% verified true statements. If they dip below, they must be called something else and/or be sanctioned. | 0 | 2016-05-20T01:17:43 | 288 | 1 | null |
I think you are missing the point, whether the statement is a non-sequitur or not, the underlying statement is quite important. When a persona says something along those lines they are trying to politely tell you to back off because nothing you say will change there mind. And it is important for you to do so because at... | 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 | 2016-08-06T17:27:33 | 259 | 3 | 10 |
Personally I meditate to make my brain bigger: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/02/meditation-found-to-increase-brain-size/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512134655.htm And meditation also shrinks some of the brain areas associated with stress/anxiety: http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/meditation-an... | I believe that what most people think of as meditation is overrated, and shouldn't be elevated as something special or unique, CMV | 0 | 2013-12-23T19:56:22 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
Is it unreasonable for employers to expect the people they pay money to work are giving their 100%? The fact that someone is turning up to their employment under the influence of illicit drugs, or alcohol, tells me (as an employer) that you: 1). Don't care about doing an effective job; and 2). Don't care that your co-w... | There is no good reason to drug test any white collar worker | 0 | 2015-06-11T18:57:16 | 68 | 2 | null |
1. You can choose your gen ed classes. I find it hard to believe that Audio Engineering is the only thing you have any interest in whatsoever. You don't like writing? Or literature? You don't have any hobbies that could be related to any other class? 2. Those gen ed classes give you a certain base to work off of. They ... | I believe that if you know exactly what you want to study in college, then gen. eds should not be a requirement. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-11T23:45:00 | 55 | 7 | 1 |
There are secular arguments against incest that don't involve problems of consent, power, or reproduction. Incest is immoral because it puts more important relationships at risk. Similar to the reasons it can be immoral to mix business and romance. Familial relationships are important to a healthy, happy individual lif... | People who use the traditional arguments to support Gay marriage should also support every other form of forbidden marriage. | 1 | 2016-12-29T17:11:22 | 209 | 76 | 1 |
consider that children with severe mental deficiencies will never be adopted. Saying that you would like to put them up for adoption is just saying you want to make it not your problem, and leave them to the state to figure out. I too would be completely unequipped to raise a child with any form of mental deficiency. ... | If I have mentally challenged children, I will abort or give them up for adoption. CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-29T01:17:30 | 77 | 6 | 3 |
You are thinking of this issue from your perspective. Instead, think of this issue of society's perspective. Society is established for several reasons. These reasons include the management of things (public services like roads), security (the military), and safety (the police, prison). The members of the society creat... | It is MY right to decide my fate, and that right should extend to suicide as well. | 1 | 2015-04-06T04:48:57 | 147 | 1 | 2Δ |
It is admittedly a corner case, but I use a motorcycle for primary transportation to and from my coffee plantation in the Carribean, and I don't think it is a stupid thing to do. The road is very basic, and the 20km commute takes half as long on a motorcycle as it does in my jeep. Often, the road is impassable in place... | Using a motorcycle as your primary means of transportation is a very stupid thing to do | 0 | 2016-06-01T05:52:23 | 173 | 1 | 4 |
These cereals are lower prices specifically because the quality of ingredients and packaging are not the same. Notice how the other brands have a bag on the inside of the box? It preserves freshness better. Common sense. | Bagged Cereal is superior to boxed cereal in every way | 0 | 2015-07-11T20:43:30 | 34 | 1 | null |
It seems like this might be sort of specific to where you are. For instance, where I live I don't really worry about bugs getting into the car cause we don't have that many, and we don't really have rain storms that sneak up on us, I'm pretty cognizant of when it is going to rain or not so I don't worry about getting w... | It's better to leave the car windows up when parking in the sun. | 0 | 2017-06-12T22:01:44 | 33 | 11 | 45 |
The state legislatures are usually more representative. Looking through wikipedia, it seems that yours is fairly balanced. The rich usually have better connections, but that doesn't always translate to successful campaigns. The information I can find is mostly for Congressional elections, but [self funded candidates](... | I can't understand why I would vote to raise the salaries of legislators | 1 | 2014-10-18T13:41:28 | 26 | 18 | null |
I don't think the proportion in the US that go to a top university is particularly lower than anywhere else. My instinct is it's fairly high in the western world but maybe not at the top. I also agree it would be interesting to see a comparison of outcomes for college graduates in different countries, but I'm not aware... | America is no longer the leading country in the world. | 1 | 2017-07-03T18:56:06 | 59 | 4 | 2 |
We've already outlawed cruel and unusual punishment. We have already sentenced the criminals: it might not appear fair, but it is the way we've decided to meter out justice. Allowing people to be raped in prison is not an additional punishment, it demonstrates that we do not have control over how we meter our justice. ... | I do not feel sorry for them when a vicious murderer, rapist or child abuser is raped in jail. | 0 | 2014-04-24T23:08:22 | 94 | 2 | 9 |
If the government bails out a failing company like GM, the banks, etc, they should demand equity in exchange for the bailout. This is what did happen during the recent financial crisis. E.g GM - http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/31/news/companies/gm_bankruptcy_looms/index.htm?postversion=2009053112 The U.S. government will... | If the government bails out a failing company, they should demand some equity in the company | 1 | 2016-10-07T19:44:12 | 67 | 205 | 97 |
Summers in Alaska are [considerably warmer](http://www.alaska.org/expert-advice/weather-climate) than that. I would suggest that what you really are saying is "I hate the idea of living in Alaska (which I wouldn't even attempt to change) *and everyone else should too*" (which seems wrong on the face of it). Would you... | It's a terrible idea to live in Alaska | 1 | 2017-03-24T20:00:00 | 86 | 2 | 29 |
The first argument i came across was a simple one. The argument relies on something not being experienced can be measured at all and that really it is the same thing. The first two positions I think most could agree on, feeling pain is bad, feeling pleasure is good. However the next two positions are really the same an... | Benatar's asymmetry can't be countered or attacked logically because the majority of prolife arguments are a victim of supporting the biological fallacy that life is worth it and we are destined to pass our genes. | 0 | 2017-03-28T03:23:45 | 55 | 2 | 11 |
Rorschach blots don't have any real meaning either, people project meaning onto them and through discussion better understand their own emotions, I think the same can be done with dreams. While the events of the dreams themselves have no meaning, the processes by which we try to understand them do. | Cmv: There's no inherent meaning to dreams and things like dream dictionaries are hokum. | 0 | 2016-05-31T00:14:52 | 61 | 10 | 9 |
I don't know any serious proposal that suggests colonization of another planet is an escape boat for humanity. I've heard the argument that having humans on multiple planets might be a good idea in the event of a singular catastrophe like an asteroid strike. But no one is suggesting that we should abandon earth. I thin... | Colonizing another planet isn't the solution to our immediate crisis (next few hundred years). Traveling to another world just to deal with an uninhabitable planet is a waste, when we could learn to colonize and live on the increasingly uninhabitable planet we're already on. | 0 | 2016-08-20T00:49:04 | 42 | 1 | 3 |
I agree with your sentiment, and I would also like to add that in Biblical times, people probably got married much younger, so you had teenagers having sex just the same and it was totally fine. But, I think you are ignoring the religious and spiritual significance of marriage in the eyes of God. The idea of saving you... | Religions should not frown upon pre-marital sex. | 0 | 2014-09-14T18:35:29 | 92 | 5 | 47 |
There are many directions to attack this from but the one that speaks most to me is this: drugs aren't necessarily a good thing but drug prohibition has been a terrible thing. Below are some summarized points. * "If drugs are illegal people won't do them" is a factious argument. Just because you tell someone not to do ... | Illegal drugs should stay illegal. | 1 | 2014-05-21T07:40:42 | 96 | 1 | 2 |
Eh, I don't think there should be some monetary reward/punishment because you are not encouraging people to study policy and give an informed opinion but to simply to check a box, to either receive or avoid some monetary factor. I think if you want to increase voter turn out to make election day on the weekend. This g... | (United States) There should be a penalty for not voting or a reward for voting in order to increase voter turnout. | 1 | 2017-04-30T01:39:45 | 33 | 9 | 5 |
I think part of John Oliver's argument was that the way the Miss America program counted scholarships was ridiculous - the winner would have scholarships available to hundreds of different schools (although she could only pick one of them). So they would count the winner of the pageant as having won something like $50 ... | Miss America program providing scholarships based mostly on outward appearance is no more reprehensible than sports teams providing scholarships based on athletic ability. | 0 | 2015-09-20T23:03:44 | 57 | 14 | 10 |
I don't think it's too surprising that these types of studies pop up in popular media too, they operate on the same bias - the number of people who will read an article about feminism is generally higher than those who will read an article about evolution. Hold up, I'll find the lecture... http://www.youtube.com/watch?... | I think Evo-Psych is bullshit. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-13T02:16:13 | 92 | 2 | 1 |
You have little influence over political events because you chose to have little influence. There is nothing stopping you from getting more involved if you want to. Sure, its unlikely that you'll be the one making the decisions, but the decisions being made is based on the opinions of the population about the issues, a... | I believe that being well educated on political events is a waste of my time because I have minimal influence on these events. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-22T13:55:24 | 124 | 4 | null |
In Job Interviews, you're always asked to wear nice clothes, have an attractive-looking resume (well-formated and organized even before it's read) and clean and groom yourself so that the interviewer will see you as a good candidate for employment. That's social custom, but it's not necessarily an accurate way to find ... | "Don't judge a book by its cover" is a useless lesson due to the importance of first impressions | 1 | 2017-04-30T07:02:40 | 25 | 4 | 119 |
But you said that whether or not you were responsible (i.e., by having sex) it doesn't matter. So, let's say there was a teleporter accident that caused the second head. You knew it was a risk going in. It will take 9 months for science to clone a body to host the head. Are you still free to kill it? | Whether abortion may or may not be morally wrong, it should still be legal. | 1 | 2015-06-18T22:48:09 | 298 | 14 | 108Δ |
While this does make coordinating schedules slightly easier, it makes it much, much harder to plan them. In the current state of things, people wake up and go to bed at relatively consistent times around the world, especially in developed countries. You know that, if you call a friend when it is 5 PM for them, then the... | I think we should abolish timezones and have a universal time across the world | 0 | 2014-04-26T03:09:31 | 26 | 2 | 10Δ |
I think that when someone who isn't mentally stable plays video games, it can defiantly lead to them doing irrational things like hurting others. You're blaming a benign catalyst for the extreme behavior of a mentally unstable person. This is akin to saying that the [Charlie Hebdo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie... | I love and play video games all the time, and I believe they defiantly can lead to violence in people. | 0 | 2015-12-28T21:25:29 | 20 | 1 | null |
all of this sounds really expensive. The Us government can barely afford what it's spending now, with roughly 13k/a student, trillions in health care, billions in NASA budgets. How are you planning to fund all these programs? Also, why would you expect a different outcome to this massive spending? I challange you view ... | I think an ideal society would be run by technocrats that heavily fund education, healthcare, and science. CMV | 0 | 2013-10-01T16:59:13 | 49 | 0 | 2 |
It's worth noting that many elderly African Americans were born outside of hospitals due to Segregation, and were never given birth certificates. Many African Americans also have names misspelled or birthdays wrongly listed on birth certificates. The "separate" black hospitals back in the 50's and 60's weren't quite "e... | IDs should be required to vote | 1 | 2015-08-18T22:42:39 | 61 | 1 | 9 |
I'm going to try and shift the tone of my 'rebuttal' to your CMV from trying to convince you that it's okay for your boyfriend to smoke weed, to why the actual problem isn't his smoking weed. It appears that your tendency in this situation is to decipher a 'right' and a 'wrong' person in the situation (i.e., you are s... | I am against my SO's use of marijuana. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-30T12:31:02 | 54 | 3 | 5 |
Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children because of an anti-vax agenda (assuming the child has no MEDICAL reason to not be vaccinated) are in my opinion guilty of child neglect/ borderline abuse. They are neglecting to protect their child from harm, and purposely putting their child in harms way (neglecting t... | Parents who opt out of vaccinating their children are guilty of child abuse | 0 | 2017-06-24T13:17:37 | 62 | 6 | 4 |
I'm not sure what makes you think scientists want to become politicians. If they wanted to be politicians they would probably work in politics. | Future government structures need to include scientists who are not voted in by the general populace | 0 | 2015-01-29T14:20:58 | 30 | 1 | 7 |
The poor have the least political power. Yes poor/middle/upper middle class people can vote, (yet the majority still does not) but IMO the system is rigged because of the huge amounts of money being pored in by millionaires/billionaires/companies. At the local level, we have more of a say then on the federal level beca... | The poor have too much political power | 0 | 2014-04-04T11:17:09 | 129 | 2 | null |
Isn't it funny how the Red Pill ideology seems to base its self-worth on women having sex with you? The modern conception of masculinity might be problematic, but that conception is even worse. A proper view of masculinity should be based on being a good man, not on picking up women. The Red Pill has nothing to offer a... | The concepts of masculinity/sexuality presented in the Red Pill and books like The Rational Male are logical/reasonable | 0 | 2017-04-04T18:02:57 | 115 | 33 | 1 |
That's actually kinda messed up. Imagine if this were applied to genders when the first language was being invented by humans: Imagine if human males said "I'm fine with creating a word to label females - 'women' - but we don't need a word for us human males - just 'human' will do." Humans by gender have two labels: ma... | The Term "Cisgender" Can Be Offensive and Problematic | 1 | 2017-06-30T02:11:23 | 45 | 48 | 17 |
This comes up a lot in economic debate and the problem is that reducing any complex reality to a simple rule will, at best, produce a useful guideline and, at worst, lead to disastrous results. "Trickle down" is more accurately called "supply side economics" because the idea is that more production equals more wealth.... | There is no hard data that shows "trickle-down economics" or tax cuts for the highest brackets actually produce jobs and benefit the middle class. | 1 | 2017-04-27T19:54:26 | 244 | 362 | 6 |
It's a very common misconception. Here's a surprise fact - **Christianity is older than Judaism**. They both branched from the same old dead religion (called by historians "[Temple Judaism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple_Judaism)"), but they have very little to do with it, except for keeping some of the bo... | Christianity differs no more from Judaism than Sunni Islam from Shia Islam, and thus is no more than a denomination of Judaism | 1 | 2016-10-18T22:20:50 | 42 | 14 | 2 |
You just sound like the standard democrat. Socially liberal, fiscally centrist. (by American standards) | I am an outcast in today's political climate and do not have a "political home" | 0 | 2017-03-08T07:17:54 | 56 | 6 | 9 |
What you're saying, then, is that torture in general is OK. Let's be clear about this, because there's no difference between the US torturing people to protect the state and, say, North Korea torturing people to protect the state, except that we happen to like the US and not North Korea. You are saying that torture som... | I don't have a problem with the U.S. torturing people. | 0 | 2014-12-23T06:35:33 | 36 | 1 | 5 |
Most oil contracts in Iraq are not held by US companies, but Chinese ones. Most Iraqi oil is not sold to the US. The "US fought for oil in Iraq" narrative only works in the sense that the world market is hurt by the disruption of Iraqi oil. 2nd Edit - And if that seems like a selfish thing for the world to do, consider... | The USA's renewed military action in Iraq shows they are protecting their oil interests in the region as no action has been taken in similar circumstances in Syria | 0 | 2014-09-16T15:27:13 | 53 | 40 | 82Δ |
I was in GATE, and I have family members that were in special ed and an aunt that still assists with special ed (not just children with severe mental disabilities, but also just slow learners) children in schools. For one, GATE classes are *slightly* harder, but at an accelerated pace as to cover more during the year. ... | I think classes for "gifted" kids (like GATE) meant to provide extra enrichment should instead be offered to struggling students who would benefit more from them. CMV | 1 | 2013-09-05T16:49:08 | 360 | 47 | 1 |
I would propose that the reason that the show began to falter was not because of a inability of the art form to be translated through television, but that the show never really progressed in any way and it ran out of material. Eventually the show just turned into "Watch Wayne Brady sing stuff! And Colin and Ryan do th... | I don't find Whose Line is it Anyway funny, and believe Reddit only pretends to enjoy it because of its unpopularity in the general public and cult status. | 1 | 2015-06-08T20:20:25 | 43 | 15 | 3Δ |
What if the person's issue with killing an animal for sport isn't that the hunter enjoyed it but that they're wasting perfectly good meat. | It is Hypocritical for Meat-Eaters to Oppose Hunting For Sport. | 1 | 2017-02-10T03:48:41 | 25 | 16 | 1 |
What do you believe is accomplished by eating food that's unsafe for you? It won't bring the animal back or make anyone else less hungry. One way or another that food is going to become waste and your choice in the matter is whether or not you let it harm you in the process. | Wasting food is a horrible, selfish thing to do. | 1 | 2017-02-07T22:08:48 | 46 | 2 | 92 |
I agree with you that the degree of hatred for Comic Sans is overblown, but at least at the base level it has some justifications. The oft-cited reason that it looks unprofessional is totally accurate—it wasn't designed to be professional! In evaluating the effectiveness of a particular font, it's important to consider... | Comics Sans is just a font and the hate it receives is irrational and overblown. | 0 | 2016-08-06T17:59:41 | 75 | 1 | null |
I see two "flaws" with your argument, and would like to ask one clarifying question. **Flaw 1** The reasons why I believe this are that the great majority of creationists and religious fundamentalists are from the South You're making the assumption that all creationists and fundamentalists are dumb. If that's the claim... | I think that Northerners are smarter and more educated than Southerners (in the United States). CMV. | 1 | 2013-04-14T21:08:27 | 103 | 64 | 3 |
How do you make that assessment? That's like saying Einstein could've come up with general relativity even if he never learned math. What are you talking about? The reason they are legendary is 1% talent and 99% that they practiced their craft in almost every waking moment. The proof is in the pudding. The people who ... | If you're REALLY good at something, practice is more or less arbitrary | 1 | 2017-02-04T21:47:34 | 38 | 2 | 1 |
Thanks for the clarification. So your view is both on the definition of consciousness and the ethics of replicating it. A lot had been said thus far, but here's what I have. Your definition is most consistent with the model of the mind proposed by cognitivism. (in one sentence, it could be described as the mind being ... | I believe that simulating a human brain on a computer will produce a being that has the experience of being alive, and that it would be wrong to create such a simulation if we are not going to give it all the rights and protectioms that any human being deserves. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-13T01:27:37 | 81 | 2 | 2 |
I almost awarded you a delta. Cool, I'll keep trying then : ) Here's the catch, and I might have done a poor job stating this in my thesis, but I'm not just talking about the belief. Many Christians believe that oral/anal sex is bad, but you don't see them making the same efforts to campaign against their legalization.... | The active opposition to gay marriage in America cannot be accurately considered a religious belief | 1 | 2015-09-03T20:03:03 | 262 | 4 | 3 |
Whenever I see "Happy Holidays" it gets me thinking. Why say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas? Because everyone has holidays but not everyone is Christian? "Happy Holidays" is an inclusive greeting whereas "Merry Christmas" isn't necessary so. Promoting the Christian facet of what has become a secular holiday ... | No One Should Feel Offended by Christmas | 0 | 2014-12-09T04:08:54 | 98 | 3 | 1 |
Actually I think if the whole world went against the US they would probably fail to win. Not only because of the military power of the US but because a large part of the population is armed and trained. The only feasible way to defeat the US is with nuclear weapons and even that is hard to do if you think about the adv... | Institutions of higher education should prepare students for total war | 0 | 2017-01-21T23:41:44 | 31 | 2 | null |
Little kids are shy as fuck around strangers I have a 5 year old niece and she chats-up strangers all the time. At the store, on the street, you name it. Time to make her some margaritas? edit: spelling | The age a person can first make small talk with strangers is a good indicator of when they can drink alcohol. | 0 | 2017-03-19T23:42:40 | 25 | 2 | 154 |
I'm curious if there is any correlation between a high number of sexual partners and risky sex If you mean risky sex practices, I was under the impression that there is a correlation, although I don't have a link for you. I'd like to cyv on 'safe sex' though - there is no safe sex. Condoms help enormously, but there's ... | There's such a thing as "too many sexual partners," even if it's all safe sex | 1 | 2014-05-20T04:20:53 | 40 | 2 | null |
1. It would simply be impossible to implement. It's akin to alcohol prohibition. Everyone can do it. It's incredibly easy. You can't stop them without tyranny. 2. Let's be realistic. In the US, making it illegal to have kids without passing the proper test is only going to result in Black people committing crime: the c... | Parents who want to conceive should have to take the same tests as those who want to adopt. | 1 | 2015-01-24T08:21:37 | 252 | 3 | 1 |
Atheism isn't a belief; it is the lack of a belief. Specifically, it is the lack of a belief in a deity. Atheism is simply the statement, *I do not hold a belief in a god*. It is no different from the lack of a belief in pink unicorns. That is fundamentally different from saying that pink unicorns do not, or cannot, ex... | Atheism is not a falsifiable belief | 0 | 2014-10-23T17:39:50 | 318 | 1 | 10 |
I would say there's too many variables at play to designate one type of person as normal as then too many people are outliers. Take, for example, ethnicity. While the largest ethnicity group is Chinese, there are more non-Chinese as a whole, so how can an overall (in the scale of the global population) minority be cons... | There is a 'Normal' state and Homosexuality and Autism and the like are irregular states. | 1 | 2015-08-17T01:51:21 | 62 | 5 | 1 |
Would they then be Athiestic? Theism is merely a belief in Gods, so any religion without that feature is atheistic. Do you have any examples? Depending on the form, Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism lack deities. There are likely many others, especially if you look for small and tribal religions. | I'm convinced no one can be completely Athiest, because denying that there MIGHT be something out there is just as ignorant as a lot of Athiests claim religion is. | 1 | 2015-02-16T07:05:35 | 83 | 4 | 39 |
I meant that philosophy is axiomatic because it is mostly based on establishing several premises then expanding on those to create full fledged arguments. Mathematics is the same way. Philosophy is a valuable subject for a math major because it helps you translate your analytical and deductive skills into a more under... | It is not worthwhile for me to study philosophy | 1 | 2016-02-05T17:23:49 | 62 | 6 | 1 |
I am going to provide a rebuttle to your general statement of "I believe fast food is bad for the economy" **from a more empirical standpoint** by illustrating some economic ramifications of increasing fast food "minimum wage" and touch what a decrease healthcare spending could do to healthcare jobs: In 2012, the fast ... | I believe fast food is bad for the economy CMV | 1 | 2013-08-22T02:39:40 | 124 | 2 | 1 |
I think it's simply a matter of preference, similar to hard vs. soft science fiction: Some people who read/watch sci-fi just find it dry if it tries to maintain some realism and exactly defines the applications and limits of its technologies; they prefer the sense of mystery and the overall atmosphere generated by tech... | "The Lord of the Rings" is a great example of how not to write a story. | 0 | 2017-02-23T23:26:07 | 120 | 1 | 2 |
I'm pretty sure there is one condition where Donald Trump might lose a supporter. What if he kills someone who's loved one supported Trump ? A father/mother/wife/husband/brother etc would have no respect for a man that killed their own kin. Remember Trump had 62 million voters, roughly one fifth of the population. The... | Donald Trump could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any supporters | 1 | 2017-02-09T05:16:03 | 306 | 3 | 1 |
Disclaimer: I am neither American, Christian, nor Republican. The two-party system lumps a lot of opinions, personalities, and beliefs into two labels. So the first thing to point out is that voting either way cannot make you a good or bad Christian. Only the motives for your vote can impact that, as well as your perso... | Republicans are unchristian. | 0 | 2016-12-23T22:29:03 | 517 | 2 | 4 |
Should there be government subsidized support for the suicidally depressed? If so why should trans people be denied a treatment which is known to drastically reduce the likelihood of suicide. Around 40% of pre-transition trans people commit suicide, this isn't making life a bit more comfortable for a handful, this is a... | Subsidized gender assignment surgery should take a backseat to critical life saving surgery. | 0 | 2016-05-05T21:30:12 | 300 | 1 | 3 |
I think the issue is that we DO normalise rape, as long as it's not called rape. [Nearly one third of men will admit that they would rape a woman if they could get away with it, as long as the word 'rape' is not used and is replaced by words like 'force to have sex'.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/college-me... | Western Culture does not normalise or excuse rape. | 0 | 2016-08-16T14:51:47 | 1,013 | 85 | 1 |
By this logic saying that the Westborrow Baptist church are all secret fag lovers I've just commit hate-speech. Yeah, it's hate speech. It's kind silly, and there won't be any legal repercussions for it, but it is hate speech. If you wanted an example of something that *would* have legal consequences (in the US), you w... | Attempting to ban "hate-speech" is, itself, hate-speech. | 1 | 2016-02-09T00:34:14 | 122 | 3 | 3 |
I would imagine that a pertinent question would be "Why are black communities in perpetual poverty?". You've just kind of moved the problem back one step, but you haven't refuted that black people don't face systemic racism as poverty and racism aren't mutually exclusive. Consider, for a moment, that black people are l... | I don't think that national institutional racism exists. | 0 | 2015-12-20T23:34:56 | 293 | 19 | 15 |
War, more and more dangerous weapons, corporate greed, government corruption, global warming, mass extinction, these are all issues that other alien species would likely encounter. This sentence, I think, relies very heavily on the assumption that sentient alien species are much like human beings. But this may not nece... | It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself. | 0 | 2014-12-10T05:42:15 | 58 | 30 | null |
Plus, talking about mental health problems makes some people uncomfortable, and they pull away. Addressing this specifically, don't you think that people being exposed to mental illness on more casual platforms such as social media would lessen their awkwardness when confronted with the topic and ultimately help the co... | To post, or not to post one's struggles with mental illness on social media? I say not. | 1 | 2015-05-04T00:14:45 | 20 | 12 | 2Δ |
Well, thanks. If you can stomach my delta-whoring one moment though... If the two are intertwined, and both are necessary for progress, then either of the two cannot be said to be more important, since each is required for the other's expression. Therefore emotion is not superior to logic, since the expression of emoti... | Emotion is more important than Logic | 1 | 2014-04-01T23:42:57 | 58 | 1 | 9 |
First of all, many photo ID laws don't require just any photo ID, they require a government issued ID, which means a passport, a driver's license, or a state ID (given as an alternative for a driver's license). Many of the things you describe will accept other IDs (like a student or work ID). It's not as hard as you'd ... | I don't see anything wrong with requiring presentation of a photo ID. | 1 | 2016-02-15T20:45:55 | 39 | 9 | 10 |
If your view has been changed, the convention is to give the person who changed your view a delta | The system of Significant Figures that we use in most sciences is an inherently flawed system. | 1 | 2014-04-28T08:39:00 | 39 | 3 | 2 |
With current technology a flying car (a vehicle that could operate on the highway and in the air) is technically possible, but not feasible for reasons that have to do with the limitations of humans rather than the technology. However, self-driving flying cars could potentially overcome that limitation. Though it would... | Flying cars are ridiculous and should never become a "thing." | 0 | 2015-03-17T19:13:11 | 20 | 1 | 2 |
I don't think you understand how most followers of Islam that get to a Western country act over generations. Overtime, most people will become more and more secular and moderate in their religion, as is the case with Judaism and Christianity in the Anglosphere and the rest of Europe, while a small minority tries to dou... | Osama Bin Ladin's legacy includes the current spreading of Islam, through the Syrian refugees, into the west? | 1 | 2015-09-11T18:20:46 | 27 | 7 | 16 |
I think that a better route in life is to find a career that pays well and affords you free time. It doesn't matter if you find this job fascinating as long as you can tolerate it 5 days a week. This is something a lot of people say when arguing for someone to do a "practical" major like accounting. Essentially, "you s... | You should not try to make a living off of something you are passionate about. | 0 | 2016-06-17T12:44:24 | 35 | 2 | null |
I use Reddit for work, (and so do lots of other folks). If we "shouldn't Reddit at work" we'd be unable to do that part of our jobs. | You shouldn't reddit at work. | 0 | 2014-12-23T23:02:28 | 154 | 1 | null |
By that logic, John Wilkes Booth almost certainly contributed a higher value to society than Harriet Tubman. | CMV the societal worth of human life is measured by earned income | 0 | 2013-12-25T17:46:00 | 92 | 8 | 23Δ |
Farms suck. Your kid will be isolated from his/her peers. And the group of people he/she chooses to be with likely will be a group of people he/she doesn't really like, but just doesn't want to be alone. And when hormones kick in, what are his/her dating options going to be? The farmer's daughter/son who lives 5 miles ... | The best place to raise kids is in a farm. | 0 | 2016-08-09T06:34:16 | 84 | 2 | null |
You might disagree with it, but it's not "hypocritical". If my belief is "do not kill animals unless you are going to utilize it to support your own life as part of the food chain", then sport killing is wrong, and eating meat is fine. This is definitionally not hypocritical. | It is Hypocritical for Meat-Eaters to Oppose Hunting For Sport. | 0 | 2017-02-10T03:53:24 | 25 | 2 | 65 |
The world is over-populated. As there are many hereditary cancers, there will be a continuous volume of deaths by cancer. Can you explain why you think this is a reason that a cure for cancer exists? Or how you are judging that the world is overpopulated? Cancer Research makes an average of 4.8 billion dollars a year. ... | The cure for cancer exists, but it is kept hidden from the public. | 1 | 2017-03-01T23:15:21 | 22 | 9 | 22 |
Extrovertedness and introvertedness is a scale. It's not an on/off button. But no, I don't really have a desire to make more friends. I'm perfectly fine spending days without talking to anyone, including anonymous people online. I'm naturally like this. I always have been. Freshman year I tried the whole hanging out wi... | I belive that everyone is naturally extroverted. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-24T18:39:47 | 48 | 5 | 27 |
They know that if we're drawn into the area again they will be able to wear us down just like every resistance fighters have been able to do against an occupying country since the beginning of nation-states. Not only will we never be able to "kill them all", but new sympathizers will be recruited because of our occupat... | Any military action against ISIS/ISIL/Daesh means a commitment in blood, treasure, and time the US cannot afford. | 0 | 2015-12-22T01:40:09 | 101 | 1 | null |
First off, what would you define as "alternative medicine." There are many practices that are less refined but more effective than using western type medicine. Take the use of maggots as debridement of dead tissue for example. It's is completely and utterly disgusting, but it's also 100% effective with less trauma from... | I believe that "alternative medicines" and treatments are useless. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-12T07:57:01 | 62 | 7 | 7 |
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