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When is it ever a necessity? What goal or purpose are you assuming? | I think that having children today in a developed country is more of a hobby than it is a necessity. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-15T14:47:44 | 62 | 1 | 14Δ |
Instead of telling me "Well they haven't hurt anyone" or "It's peaceful" , tell me if you went downtown in your city and took a federal building with guns, would that be legal and allowed? It's not legal nor allowed, but that only makes them criminals. In order to be called terrorists, they need to have committed Acts ... | The Oregon "Militia" are Terrorists, and if they were not white but instead from a brown/middle eastern ethnicity, doing the same thing, same reason, they'd be called Terrorists immediately | 1 | 2016-01-14T16:07:58 | 144 | 1 | 3 |
I'm not sure you understand probability... | Extraterrestrial life is not a given and assuming it must exist is a form of religious belief. | 0 | 2016-08-26T22:35:07 | 308 | 0 | null |
However, I don't believe any child under 18 has enough of a grasp of sexuality to truly understand it, and assigning labels at such a young age may force their brains to develop with that typecast as opposed to outgrowing a potential phase. Sexuality and gender are not the same thing. Most of the research into gender i... | Boys and Girls below the age of 18 are not mature or developed enough to determine their gender is not the one with which they were born. | 0 | 2017-03-08T20:03:42 | 456 | 1 | null |
What about gun deaths that are committed by the owner? Suicide, domestic violence, accidental discharge, etc. | Using an RFID based gun locking system would prevent nearly all American gun deaths | 1 | 2017-04-07T06:33:32 | 77 | 4 | 8 |
* Google is very powerful, but it's stuff is used mostly in the US and in English speaking countries. People in places like China would largely be unaffected. * If Google search went down, Baidu, Bing, Yahoo, and many other search engines would still work. * Gmail is popular, but only 425 million people use it. 1.2 bil... | I think Google is the most powerful company in the world. | 1 | 2015-02-02T15:05:51 | 90 | 108 | 33 |
I don't think the example you gave about the Titantic would be considered "politicizing a tragedy". After all, the FAA investigates all plane crashes and recommends safety improvements, that's hardly political. The idea behind politicizing a tragedy is to use a tragedy to advance an agenda you already support, for exam... | I think there is nothing wrong with politicizing a tragedy. | 0 | 2016-08-09T22:13:39 | 39 | 7 | 136 |
The weeding out of the weak and burdensome is a natural result of biological evolution No it isn't. The natural result of evolution are organism who survived. Nothing more, nothing less. Some organisms died out because their flaws were too great, some died out just because of bad luck. Nothing guaruantee's the humans w... | Social Darwinism is the logical conclusion of evolution. | 0 | 2017-01-19T19:08:50 | 31 | 1 | 21 |
Is that not the goal of life? To improve and advance our lives and those of others? If you consider being happy an improvement to being sad and that some people feel happy consuming fiction then it might make more sense to consume it . | Consuming fiction in any form (i.e. books, comics, movies, sitcoms, video games, music, etc) is a waste of time. | 0 | 2015-08-30T12:29:50 | 51 | 5 | null |
It is possible to be pro-choice and still think abortion is unethical. Just as it is possible to be vegan and still think that meat or eggs should not be made illegal. There is a difference between making a choice for yourself versus making a choice for others. My view is simple. Abortion is the killing of a life form... | If somebody refuses to eat meat because they don't want to support killing animals, then it is hypocritical for that person to be pro-choice. | 0 | 2016-03-03T20:38:28 | 75 | 1 | 27 |
Could you explain how you think institutional racism came into existence? I'd argue that racial prejudice is the cause of institutional racism. If people didn't make these quick judgements, for example: "black people aren't smart enough to vote", then there wouldn't have been a problem with allowing black people to vot... | Institutional racism and racial prejudice are different things, and our focus on prejudice not only is a waste of time, but it can make it more difficult to discuss the more important realities of institutional racism. Please, CMV. | 1 | 2016-05-25T07:34:22 | 78 | 3 | 2 |
So there is a lot to cover here... First, the three items mentioned as strategies for bring back jobs are pretty complicated as far as impact, but basically, the idea is to make it cheaper to do business in the US so that offshoring jobs is a worse option for businesses. Remember that the consumers in the equation are ... | "Good-paying" factory jobs won't come back to the United States. | 0 | 2016-08-22T19:26:54 | 101 | 4 | 3 |
I guess I don't see any value in it, because it's just another exchange rate, and doesn't have the increased protection being a petro-dollar gives it. It seems like printing new money would only be for devaluing currency and could lead to a massive depression. Plus, what would happen to the national debt? if one regio... | The United States needs to move away from the U.S. dollar and create regional currencies | 1 | 2017-05-23T20:18:57 | 42 | 1 | 70 |
Child obesity isn't an example of abuse. It is an example of neglect. Parents don't intentionally make their children obese. Their children become obese because they neglect their health. It's a lot like a child perpetually having lice. That is neglect, not abuse. Neglect is a serious, awful thing and is still treated ... | Child Obesity is Child Abuse | 1 | 2016-07-18T04:19:15 | 300 | 36 | 1 |
Oceans. | Had planes never been invented, the world would be a better and safer place in terms of transportation | 1 | 2015-01-17T22:50:17 | 82 | 45 | 14 |
Please explain how a world without religion "is harmful to society as a whole"? Are you not aware of what is going on in Syria? Those people believe in the SAME god, and they are killing each other over semantics. | I believe antitheism is ultimately a destructive force and that people should be able to worship any fictional deity they choose. CMV, Reddit. | 0 | 2013-08-28T22:22:35 | 173 | -1 | 1 |
Healthcare aside... (and I'll try to keep the rest of this short) Bernie's free college plan is another point of contention for me. I'm a current college student about to graduate with relatively favorable student loans, 50k in all federal. Bernie's free public tuition is bad because it absorbs the costs of public ins... | I am a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter and moderate liberal democrat. | 1 | 2016-02-28T20:01:38 | 74 | 2 | 2 |
There are plenty of conditions under which it would be unsafe for someone to slam on their brakes in order to avoid a red-light fine. This sort of behavior is dangerous in icy and rainy conditions, and even in fair weather, older model cars without ABS may end up skidding. The length of yellow lights should be set to a... | It is perfectly fine to shorten the yellow signal when installing traffic light violation cameras | 1 | 2014-09-19T06:18:18 | 91 | 4 | 6 |
I have never watched or listened to an advert, then gone and bought something as a result. You don't need to do that for advertising to work. It needs to effect you when you are weak. So you are inviting people over and want to have a good time with them. What pop do you get? Some brand you never heard of or Coke? No... | I am completely unswayed by TV advertisements, and I think that advertisers must only be able to convince children and the unintelligent through ads to buy their products | 1 | 2014-06-01T03:32:50 | 32 | 11 | 52 |
This is an interesting semantics question more than anything. I would argue that humans invented language, so words mean whatever we say they mean. The first definition on Google is "existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind." If we choose to define natural as "not man-made" then that's what natu... | Everything is "natural" | 0 | 2017-02-16T09:56:11 | 29 | 2 | null |
Here are, as I see it, some general benefits to learning and thinking about mathematics (as an answer to your question). 1) Assuming you think the math you already know is useful: The more higher level math you learn, the better you understand the math you already know. Part of this is just practice, but a much bigger ... | I believe that most people, unless they're going into a STEM field, have no use for math beyond basic arithmetic. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-03T22:15:16 | 25 | 3 | 1 |
There are a few points I want to make. I'll start with the airplane analogy: Remember on airplanes when they do the boring safety speech? There's always a part that reminds you to put the oxygen mask on yourself before helping any children or dependents. The logic behind this is pure logic: if you pass out yourself, yo... | sending your children to daycare because you want to continue your career is selfish and bordering on abandonment | 1 | 2016-03-05T07:44:59 | 50 | 26 | 1 |
But in seeking this out, aren't you prioritizing the state of peace and tranquility over stress? And in "letting thoughts go" aren't you prioritizing focusing on 'breathing' over focusing on anything else? Yes. Like I said, mindfulness does not use the absolute form of the word judgement that you are using. Any conscio... | Mindfulness is paradoxical and nonsensical | 1 | 2016-04-19T23:45:21 | 43 | 3 | 3 |
The DNC's charter contained a declaration that they would run fair and objective primaries. Under that charter, the organization took donations for the purpose of running their operations, which include running fair and objective primaries. Because they openly declared that they would do that, they have an obligation t... | The DNC had every right, and in fact should feel obligated, to do whatever they can to get the candidate they wanted to win the primary | 1 | 2017-06-03T17:53:20 | 68 | 11 | 25 |
For some reason, having superpowers is something I think about a lot, but the one that I keep coming up with is actually stopping time, not reversing it. Like some people said, reversing time for everything but your brain could cause lots of problems. For example: If your brain changed size in any way, what happened to... | Rewinding time is the best superpower for daily life | 0 | 2015-11-04T02:14:01 | 111 | 1 | null |
Right, and isn't putting your own comfort above everyone else's comfort and health selfish? This was my initial question to you. The person buying groceries before picking up kids, visiting Grandma on a whim, etc. Are those people selfish for putting their own comfort above everyone else's? From the context of your ans... | Cars make the quality of life of (almost) everyone worse, except for the actual user. | 1 | 2016-02-15T14:10:47 | 120 | 5 | 2 |
You had every right to be, thank you for giving me another chance! And again, I'm sorry for my insensitive comments. I'll try to do better in the future. =) It's okay, I understand that it can be hard to get your head around if you're new to it, trying to understand and empathize with other people is all you can really... | Instead of allowing/encouraging people to identify as queer/trans/etc, all focus should be on dissolving the norms surrounding gender etc. | 1 | 2017-02-07T00:59:21 | 50 | 4 | 8 |
That doesn't solve the issue though. My favorite linear games don't just have a difficulty curve, but rather that abilities you develop over the course of your game directly grant you access to new areas, therefor making it feel like the world is gradually opening up as you progress. If you try to do this in an open w... | From a pure gameplay standpoint, open-world is inherently better than linearity in video games | 1 | 2017-05-06T07:47:42 | 99 | 1 | 10 |
How is it that immigrants are willing to adapt and move to a new country but they don't move within their own country? You're not comparing like for like. Lots of Americans move and adapt, whilst lots of Mexicans never emigrate. Do you also have no sympathy for those Mexicans who stay in Mexico when your parents left? ... | I have no sympathy left for Americans who refuse to adapt to new socioeconomic realities but voted Trump in. | 0 | 2017-01-20T12:22:33 | 52 | 3 | 2 |
I'd just like to leave [this post](https://np.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/3cik4o/inc_magazine_describes_paos_apology_as_a_madlibs/csw49ac) here which explains why lots of people dislike Ellen Pao. There is a common complaint that Ellen Pao is simply an asshole; and that is a perfectly legitimate complaint to hav... | Reddit will go in exactly the same direction under Steve Huffman and no one will care, Ellen Pao was a martyr | 0 | 2015-07-11T06:24:25 | 134 | 42 | 4 |
But the whole equal wealth thing has been done before, and it sucked because the people in charge were corrupt as hell. I would argue that this was because they used bureaucracy and law (which needs enforcing) instead of infrastructure and design. If you want to have a factory run by workers, you need some means to ke... | Our wealth and professions should be governed by socialist/communist robots. | 1 | 2016-03-16T20:38:49 | 22 | 2 | 4 |
Whether or not your view will be changed will probably come down to if you're open to thinking that your experiences may not be the norm, that you may be experiencing a lot of confirmation bias, and that there are other ways to interpret the situations you've experienced. They aggressively dominate conversations, conde... | I think women in general, as a whole, are better people. | 0 | 2016-07-17T16:18:28 | 39 | 3 | 4 |
To address the issue of iPhone exclusivity: There are lots of good things that iPhone has, and indeed some of them (Facetime comes to mind especially) really are exclusive to iPhone. However, because Android is so customizable and doesn't exercise tight control over what sort of apps you can have, you can almost always... | I plan on buying an iPhone 5s. CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-12T06:40:14 | 73 | 17 | 1 |
Would we be paying citizens for this military service? Or is this something people are "voluntold" to do? Where would that money come from? There's already huge battles in Congress when it comes to military spending (and the budget in general). Why spend all this money on forcing people to conscript to the military whe... | The US should implement mandatory two years of military service. | 0 | 2016-07-06T19:51:27 | 35 | 1 | 6 |
Why take the chance on it when I don't even know what my chances are? This runs both ways. Why assume the worst if you can't predict the future? It's why pessimism makes as much sense to me as optimism. It's an attitude about something that has not happened. It should have very little effect on how one relates to the p... | Life, in general, has no point | 1 | 2017-02-06T09:11:42 | 41 | 2 | 261 |
How many times have you seen groups of students calling for university staff to be fired or otherwise removed because of a differing opinion? Exactly! How many times have we seen that? I believe what you are argumenting against is a very extreme case and a natural byproduct of an otherwise just movement. Per definition... | Safe space and victim culture is going to create a generation of losers | 1 | 2016-05-15T18:47:41 | 264 | 80 | 1 |
Honesty if some sicko did this to your child and caught them what would you do? This is an emotional appeal. It doesn't really stand on its own as an argument. I chose the age of 30 because I believe the age gap between 30 and 17 (or younger) is too big Why do you believe this? What if the younger person's parents appr... | I belive that men over the age of 30 who have sex with a minor should be castrated. | 0 | 2014-07-06T05:47:39 | 26 | 6 | 6 |
Right before that clip he mentions that 46% of Americans have an opinion on the matter. Having an opinion implies that you are somewhat informed. So one should expect at least 46% of American to have a general idea of what's going on. | Expecting an average citizen to be knowledgeable about ANY ONE topic is unreasonable. | 1 | 2015-04-08T06:42:54 | 52 | 12 | 5Δ |
Most simply, pineapple is 87% water. EIGHTY-SEVEN. Who dares to disgrace the sanctity of pizza with the addition of fruit? Yeah! Let's keep all high-water-content ingredients off of a pizza! Including: - tomato (94%) - capsicum AKA bell pepper (92%) - pineapple (87%) - jalapeno (82%) - cheese (30-80%) Hmm. Hell, even ... | Pineapples do not belong on pizza. | 0 | 2017-04-03T03:28:36 | 24 | 2 | 14 |
Hard skills get you in the door. Soft skills help you climb the ladder. It depends a lot on your industry (at my job, for instance, you *cannot* become a manager unless you've worked on the phones with the help-desk) but typically I wouldn't say they're *more* useful, just used *differently*. As you pointed out: no amo... | Social skills are more useful than qualifications | 1 | 2016-03-11T22:47:54 | 26 | 14 | 79 |
"If every student in America is now able to get a college degree, won't the value of degrees plummet?" The thing is that we don't need to implement free college for the value of a degree to plummet because we live in an era where the college degree is expected of everyone. Since it is quasi-mandatory, having one is no... | While an attempt to make positive change, free college education while ultimately lead to extreme market saturation making a college degrees valueless | 0 | 2017-04-11T04:56:56 | 92 | 1 | null |
Not all jobs in the Army are infantry, and even infantry has positions that many would be considered combat support. The biggest thing about the age argument is that the Army, like any organization, needs to make their recruitment goals. I've seen the enlistment age climb as high as 42. Would I put them in as a privat... | There should be an age limit in the military, in terms of combat. | 0 | 2017-04-24T20:34:52 | 66 | 3 | 1 |
Since your post specifies that you are classifying coffee as an herbal tea rather than a proper tea, I will address that alone. Most commonly, I will see one of the qualifying factors for something to be considered herbal tea is that it lacks caffeine. This is an important factor because when drinks are ordered, many ... | Coffee is just tea | 1 | 2017-01-28T01:52:28 | 65 | 1 | 82 |
While this is not teleportation, it is somewhat related: Imagine a world where a good enough AI exist and you can connect your brain to a machine so it can download your brain configuration. In essence, this machine can make a copy of your consciousness. Suppose that this machine is so exact that when the program run, ... | There's no good reason to be worried about teleportation killing you | 0 | 2016-09-04T19:19:25 | 202 | 1 | null |
I get your point- saving some species or habitat just so it's still around doesn't seem to justify the often extreme cost of doing so. I'd point out two things though: 1. These things usually cost so much to save because rather than do a little bit of inexpensive conservation over time, we ignored the issue until it be... | It is not worth the money it costs to conserve biodiversity | 0 | 2015-05-19T05:10:05 | 36 | 13 | 2 |
Universities exist in part to promulgate intellectualism. Given correlations in race and socioeconomic status, some portion of this depends on admitting graduates who will best "reach down". An upper/middle class URM graduate can touch a wider URM community, and still beneficially increase the number of campus perspect... | Race should not be a factor in college admission | 1 | 2016-08-05T10:34:43 | 194 | 4 | 2 |
The part of your view which I would most like to challenge is when you say ''We all know that there are extraterrestrials up there and down in the depths'' ... I challenge your use of the words ''all'' and ''know'' because most people don't know this, and most of those who believe it don't have any evidence which can p... | I think that Malaysian Flight MH300 was interfered with by Aliens. CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-15T19:41:52 | 40 | 3 | 30Δ |
As other people have suggested, you need to communicate with him and let him know the things he does that are bothering you. Communication is key to all relationships. Your friend might get his feelings hurt momentarily, but he'll eventually think about what you said. Something I've learned in life: everyone has their ... | I think that because my best friend is sometimes a dick, I should stop being his friend. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-18T20:25:29 | 16 | 1 | null |
If the President and/or staffers in his administration broke the law and we do nothing about it, then we are setting a precedent to ignore criminal officeholders in the future. We've started to see how corrosive and dangerous it can be to ignore criminal behavior from wealthy, influential people (the Financial Crisis).... | As a liberal, impeaching or otherwise removing Donald Trump is a bad idea and will only result in a stronger and harder to oppose Pence administration. We should want Trump to remain for the duration of his term and hope for a strong showing in 2020. | 1 | 2017-05-18T23:32:16 | 159 | 351 | 38 |
Many subs (for example, /r/KillLaKill) use NSFW tags as a way of marking spoiler posts. If you couldn't use NSFW tags on text posts there'd be no way for these subs to mark spoilers on text posts. | The NSFW tag should be reserved for images and not used for text posts | 0 | 2014-07-23T00:05:31 | 44 | 5 | 28 |
Ah. We call an open-faced sandwich a sandwich because they're basically the same, but an open-faced sandwich isn't "sandwiched" (pressed between two things). A sandwich needs to be partially compressed between two pieces of bread, or perhaps between two sides of one piece of bread. By that logic, I include the taco and... | I believe that pizza is a kind of sandwich. CMV. | 0 | 2013-11-24T00:44:57 | 52 | 5 | null |
You can't just give it back. It's not like it's all just sitting in a bank somewhere. You're talking about selling their homes, selling off their companies, etc. That kind of wealth is usually tied up in property that can't be returned without confiscating it from whoever bought it. And in the case of a company, it's i... | Punish White Collar Crime With Seizure of Wealth | 1 | 2017-01-03T19:18:27 | 103 | 50 | 2 |
I'm a man who was raped by a woman. Question: Is labeling something rape the only way sex crimes can be taken seriously? If so, what happens to those, still not included in the new definition of rape, who were "only" violently sexually assaulted? Or just violently assaulted? Also, it seems we use the word rape to insp... | The definition of rape should include men "made to penetrate." CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-26T03:48:51 | 159 | 4 | 45 |
Look at it from this point of view: Everybody who does have a political impact on the events that happen must be politically educated. The truth is that individual people can't change *everything* *everytime*. But, the people who end up changing something do so because they knew about it and wanted to act. Imagine a p... | I believe that being well educated on political events is a waste of my time because I have minimal influence on these events. CMV | 1 | 2013-09-22T15:52:22 | 124 | 1 | 2 |
Most serious religious thinkers recognize that the "good-rewards, bad-burning" is mostly horseshit used to sell books ("Marx' opium of the masses"). But for a thinker, religion serves as a medium or framing device to help us explain the parts of human existence that exist beyond empirical thought. Science can tell me ... | Most religion is a coping mechanism to deal with the inevitability of death. | 0 | 2016-04-27T08:07:32 | 396 | 1 | 1 |
I'm looking for a legitimately rational argument that supports belief in some sort of higher power. You won't find one. What were you expecting? *"Well OP, you clearly haven't heard of the Equation that Proves God Exists™"* My question is: why does it have to be rational? Why does absolutely everything in life have to ... | there is no rational reason to believe in the Christian (or any other religion's) God | 0 | 2015-04-07T02:10:01 | 47 | 2 | 4Δ |
Also, how can you run a program of immigration whilst providing a UBI? Its almost laffable to evem suggest open borders could function in conjunction with any form of UBI. Seems quite unequal and unethical. Why? Sure an UBI will increase immigration - if granted to all residents, which I think it should. But immigratio... | Universal Basic Income is a bad idea because relying on the government to survive is degeneracy. | 0 | 2017-02-18T19:47:04 | 74 | 1 | 3 |
If you think Obama was hated by Republicans, just wait until (if) Hillary is in the white house. Most democrats won't even like her and won't show up to the polls in 2018. The chances of her having a house/senate that will allow her to pass sweeping gun controls is extremely unlikely. I'd actually worry less about a Cl... | I believe Hillary Clinton will, if elected, make good on her threats to push for and enact sweeping Gun Control laws that will render the 2nd Amendment useless. | 1 | 2016-04-19T08:16:16 | 49 | 1 | 1 |
Man, I really don't know where to start. My younger brother has this same mind set and it's hard to even try to share a different perspective because he can't mentally get past the one major concept about our society that it is built as a marketplace. Obviously you sound very entitled, you should have a feeling of self... | The typical 9 to 5 will lead you closer to feeling enslaved, than to being truly happy. | 0 | 2016-03-31T00:45:10 | 43 | 4 | null |
You say that this is necessary because "so many people abuse the welfare system" but how do you know that? Are you basing that on your own experiences? If you are, then that's te problem. How many people on welfare do you know? It can't possibly be more than 1% of the total US population on welfare, so your sample isn'... | I believe that if you collect welfare the government should be able to monitor and control all of your spending. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-08T20:59:17 | 66 | 12 | 7 |
of course it couldn't be *morally* justified because **war cannot be morally justified** People who think so, especially via religion, has their head up their asses. in my opinion War is never a morale action, it just what we deem a necessary action. The nuclear bombing was justifiable from the point of view of a count... | the nuclear bombings on japan can not be justified . | 1 | 2015-08-09T22:26:30 | 38 | -1 | 1 |
Islamophobia is correctly named. There are a lot of people genuinely afraid of Muslims. Like, want to go into a corner and call the police afraid of Muslims. Homophobia is slightly less literal. The fear is less visceral. Its more fear of the unknown or fear of the odd or the strange. The fear isn't that they will kil... | Homophobic, Islamophobic, etc are stupid words | 1 | 2017-03-06T07:24:01 | 36 | 15 | 21 |
Two points I haven't seen mentioned. 1. Debate in all of it's forms enhances and sharpens critical thinking skills. It makes you think and decide what is a valid or invalid argument. 2. While you might not change your mind, debate will sharpen your opinions by hearing opposing viewpoints that you haven't heard before ... | I think debating religion is a fun game, but ultimately pointless. | 1 | 2016-04-08T22:13:23 | 139 | 1 | 3 |
The fact of the matter is that the US obtained our military objectives and got the surrender of the Axis powers. That means we won. We also came out of the war with a booming economy and new military strength that catapulted us from the status of a World Power to that of Super Power. That means we won. Also much of J... | The United States lost World War II | 1 | 2015-06-13T08:34:09 | 49 | 1 | 11Δ |
Yeah, and it doesn't work for some people. That's true of literally everything. If you're looking for something that people do that's optional and that also applies to everyone then your view is simply unfalsifiable. What do you expect me to do with that? | Giving up a well-paid, stable job to live abroad is stupid when you already live in a developed country | 1 | 2016-10-01T19:06:03 | 117 | 1 | 256 |
You can also make more hits in the same time period, essentially cancelling out the additional damage of two-handed weapons. This is not true. 2 handed deal way more damage in shorter period of time. That's kinda their thing. If you spec adequately you will deal always more damage with 2 handed. They are more versatile... | Skyrim's One-Handed Weapons are Objectively Superior to Two-Handed Ones. | 1 | 2017-03-04T13:26:21 | 71 | 168 | 25 |
What do you mean by generally? If you mean more than half, then I don't think you'll find any argument. Clearly many men find flat chests attractive, but it's a minority. | Men generally do not find flat-chested women attractive bust-wise | 0 | 2016-10-28T20:18:19 | 41 | 2 | 26 |
"Mental illness" is quite a broad term. Generally, it does not involve severe psychosis at all. It's just some erratic perception of the world. Minor or moderate delusions, if you prefer this term, but definitely not psychotic rage. As a result, a lot of people who consider others inferior, worthless or even hostile ma... | I believe that the mentally ill are unfairly scapegoated for mass shooting and this is harmful to people seeking care. Change my view. | 0 | 2016-07-17T15:00:24 | 108 | 2 | null |
While employers don't really look at your grades in college they do look at what school you went to. If you went to Harvard you get much more respect than if you went to the local community college. You need good grades in high school if you want to get into a good college. Good grades can also get you into AP classes ... | "Good" Grades in highschool is useless and I should just only care about going to (Example.)trade school | 1 | 2016-06-07T08:40:13 | 26 | 11 | 10 |
"But chemical weapons are indiscriminate" -- So are bombs. Furthermore, this distinction falls apart if one intends to kill everyone in a city block. Whether that is done with gas or artillery is irrelevant. The result is the same. Chemical weapons are indiscriminate *and* difficult to control once triggered. If you're... | There is no moral distinction between the offensive use of chemical weapons and the offensive use of explosive material that blasts shards of super heated lead and steel in every direction. | 0 | 2017-01-04T15:51:28 | 160 | 1 | 1 |
I'm not an expert, so please feel free to /r/askscience to confirm. In order for a satellite to stay in a fixed position over the earth, it needs to be at a fixed distance, over the earth's equator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit That means there is not a 3 dimensional space available, nor a 2 dimen... | Space Debris is not a problem for the foreseeable future | 1 | 2015-08-11T01:34:43 | 41 | 4 | 12 |
Isn't it more likely that a lot of people remember the "e" spelling because: it is a children's book and children are just beginning to learn how to read and would most likely hear "berenstein" more often than recognizing the word on the page, and associate it with other, more common names like Einstein or Frankenstein... | I believe the spelling of "Berenstain Bears" was always "Berenstein Bears" and we are now living in an alternate reality. | 0 | 2016-10-19T21:19:07 | 50 | 25 | 80 |
It seems to me like the average person associates much of their sense of identity with these opinions and as a result no one is willing to compromise on anything. Let us oversimplify the opposing views on issues that you brought up. **Abortion:** Pro: Women should have the right to chose what happens to their body. If ... | Polarization and Extremitization of Opinion/Attitudes in America Eats Away at our Integrity as a Country. | 0 | 2016-01-27T02:37:36 | 21 | 1 | 3 |
What if you weren't the one who ended the relationship, and/or you still like to masturbate to naked photos of your ex? | After your relationship with someone ends you should delete all naughty photos of them. | 0 | 2014-08-10T21:58:28 | 106 | 31 | null |
The roots of the US's relation with Saudi Arabia has nothign to do with fighting against terrorism and terrorist ideology. In February 1945, on his way back from the Yalta Conference, President Franklin D. Roosevelt [met Ibn Saud](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/27/the-first-time-a-u-s-preside... | The support of Saudi Arabia is one of the worst foreign policy decisions that the US and its allies has ever made. | 1 | 2016-09-20T03:51:35 | 215 | 309 | 6 |
I think it's like the phrase, "You need to spend money to make money." Just as it's impossible to avoid blowing money trying to make more money, it's impossible to seek happiness without running into unhappiness. That doesn't mean you need war, or rape, or any specific avoidable suffering. However, some kind of shit w... | The phrase no happiness with out sadness is bullshit. | 1 | 2016-08-06T23:59:50 | 25 | 5 | null |
Learning a musical instrument opens up a person to many possibilities. 1. Musical enjoyment- when you understand how music works, it allows you to enjoy music more and get more out of it any time you listen to new music. When you really get into it, you'll get feelings you never had before. I think part of this is und... | I believe that parents making their children have music lessons is a waste of time. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-05T16:27:59 | 35 | 4 | 1 |
I know you've had your view changed, but others will read this thread as well, so [here's a good list](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4r2yxs/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is/) of examples of Trump's racism. Here's a subselection of the things he has done, said and believed: * Trump violat... | Donald Trump is not racist towards black people. | 0 | 2017-01-30T00:23:20 | 188 | 56 | 2 |
I do want to begin by saying I don't have much Bulgaria-specific information. If it's ok with you, I'd like to assume some of the findings are somewhat generalizable though. First, it may be the case that the average voter isn't actually all that ignorant. It turns out that voters are actually fairly knowledgeable abou... | Voting should require a lincese | 1 | 2015-03-23T01:27:30 | 63 | 1 | 16Δ |
I think views like this are due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what victim blaming is. Victim blaming is telling someone after the fact what they should have done differently. Telling someone how to prevent things from happening in the future is not victim blaming because they are not yet a victim. | Anti-Victim-blaming culture is suppressing the spread of helpful information that can prevent rape. | 1 | 2015-08-05T17:55:36 | 391 | 36 | null |
I live in an apartment, no yard, no dog park. He can go outside only when I take him on walks. Me and my wife work, and he stays home alone if we work at the same time. I agree with a fair amount of what you are saying, he COULD have a better life. But the existence of a better life does not necessarily mean his life i... | I believe owning a dog as an indoor pet only is cruel. | 1 | 2016-01-31T07:34:11 | 39 | 3 | 1 |
As someone allergic to grass this is one I can't argue lol. | There is too much grass in the United States | 0 | 2017-03-08T14:16:27 | 247 | 2 | null |
Schools DO hold all students to the same standard for admissions, college athlete or no. That standard is "How much money will you make us?" Did your parents go here? Then you're probably not going to drop out, your parents will pressure you to keep your grades up, and there's a decent chance you'll send your kids here... | I believe that college athletes should be held to the same admissions criteria as all other students. | 1 | 2015-02-12T00:10:20 | 218 | 17 | 15 |
No, the prequels are *subjectively* bad. Phantom Menace is slow, stuffed with exposition, and holds little relevance to the rest of the story hence why it is cut out of the machete ordering. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are good movies, not great but good. The main complaints people have are as follows ... | The Star Wars prequels are objectively bad and there is nothing redeeming about them. | 1 | 2017-03-25T04:17:59 | 37 | 12 | 45 |
Why not? At least they're out there and trying, and if a little medal is enough to encourage them/inspire them to keep trying, I don't see the issue. You might say it teaches one to accept mediocrity, but I think it teaches that winning really isn't important, and as long as you tried your best and had a good time, tha... | Children who do not get 1st-3rd place DO NOT deserve a trophy for simply participating | 0 | 2015-06-26T20:18:18 | 244 | 1 | null |
Yes, but the ambiguity you suggest is exactly why there can never be a "correct" answer. This is an optimization problem with a moving target, imperfect measurement, and disagreement over the relative weights of metrics to be balanced in the optimizations. I usually describe it this way: *equal opportunity* is a level ... | Equality of outcome is malign; equality of opportunity is nonsense | 1 | 2014-09-25T18:02:48 | 36 | 4 | 10 |
My biggest reason for supporting Hillary are Bernie's views on tariffs. Now, there are good justifications for tariffs- it's just that Sanders doesn't use these justifications when arguing for them. One of the arguments against trade is that free trade results in a trade deficit, which is true. However, [economists gen... | Hillary Clinton supporters dont know what they're talking about, and dont want to listen to anyone who does | 0 | 2016-06-01T01:54:47 | 52 | 1 | null |
You're already doing a lot of projecting. You're almost cold reading yourself. For all your examples you listed a reason that might have, have been the one because it matched your idea. Do you know your linkage is a correct one? I also hate animal cruelty, and I've never hurt an animal (knowingly) in my life and have... | What we most hate in others are traits we have, and hate, in ourselves | 0 | 2015-07-23T18:49:12 | 38 | 1 | 7 |
But Hell seems like it will just be a hedonistic paradise so we are ignoring the whole Dante's inferno type stuff? How is this a interesting topic since it's predicated on a conception of hell christians will reject? | Choose Satan because he won't judge you, but Jesus will | 1 | 2015-05-04T04:07:13 | 40 | 5 | 2Δ |
Feminism is for gender equality. Equalism is for generic equality. Racism is for race equality. Preferring another term is fine, but word choice for a concept in the public lexicon isn't about the narrow definition of the word, but what the word symbolizes. Feminism is the symbolic word for gender equality. Maybe in th... | "Feminism" shouldn't be used when talking gender rights, "Equalism" should be used. | 1 | 2016-06-16T06:23:23 | 129 | 13 | 2 |
What about to a job interview? Or when you need to do work like carry logs you just chopped? The splinters would ruin it! | The best time to wear a striped sweater is all the time | 1 | 2017-05-03T07:13:43 | 49 | 4 | 2 |
Durring that time period in real life the british viewed the germans as bad guys and the germans veiwed the british as bad guys. The story is told from tge perspective of the british, so it makes sense that the germans are depicted as the enemy in many parts of the film. The film did go above and beyond by depicting th... | The depiction of Germany in the new Wonder Woman movie is simplistic, historically inaccurate, harmful, and unnecessary | 0 | 2017-06-15T19:32:37 | 74 | 2 | 4 |
It depends on how you define critical thinking. At it's core, critical thinking is about making clear, reasoned judgements, but here are various [other definitions.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking#Definitions) Playing an instrument and solving mathematical problems does involve using your brain to figu... | English in American high schools is an unnecessary course | 1 | 2016-10-10T07:54:55 | 60 | 4 | 96 |
Do you think it is wrong for a lion to eat another animal? | It's unnecessary selfish to kill animals for meat, CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-07T03:00:10 | 280 | 0 | 28 |
I spent years experimenting with recreational drugs. I've done just about everything you can think of at least once. I also no longer partake in any kind of mind altering substance, including alcohol. I regret neither my decision to have experimented, nor my decision to live a life of complete sobriety. Just my backgro... | It is NEVER a good idea to partake in recreational drug use. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-12T09:48:03 | 58 | 38 | 10 |
So, there are a couple ways to look at this. Chivalry of men, in general, towards women, in general, is in fact sexist. However, nothing is stopping you from having chivalry within your own relationships. If you like to be treated in a chivalrous way, and your SO likes treating you that way then you are a great match. ... | You can't have both feminism and chivalry | 1 | 2015-11-13T21:39:47 | 66 | 1 | 2 |
Economists disagree on solutions though. And this is what politics is all about; not necessarily disagreeing on which problems exist in the world, just solutions. How do you decide which economist is right? How do you decide whose vote is more important? What about the person who wrote the billboard from scratch? Did t... | “One person, one vote” is not a fair voting system | 0 | 2016-05-04T20:17:55 | 30 | 4 | null |
One issue is that married couples can chose a lifestyle where one is completely financially dependent on the other. There's nothing wrong with that, for example the husband could work and the wife stays home to maintain the house/kids (or vice versa). But it becomes a problem when they get divorced. Through the marriag... | I believe that after a marriage is over, both parties should walk away without receiving ANYTHING, for example alimony, from their ex. | 1 | 2014-08-08T08:21:16 | 172 | 13 | 5Δ |
So you've defined god as being "whatever came before the Big Bang". Setting aside some theories which say that there wasn't a "before the big band," that's a very different definition than what anyone else is thinking of when they say "god". Statistically speaking, life shouldn't even exist because it is ordered perf... | Statistical Thermodynamical Basis for the existence of God through Entropy | 0 | 2015-07-22T21:36:33 | 36 | 4 | 3 |
Enabling harassment outside a clinic providing abortion can cause extreme mental and emotional anguish to patients, some of whom might also be survivors of abuse or proceeding with abortions after the discovery of serious complications. You never know what someone's dealing with. Making an already difficult procedure ... | There shouldn't be "buffer zones" around abortion clinics, and anyone should feel free to stand outside of the clinic and shout about their opinion on abortion. | 0 | 2016-02-01T13:28:11 | 187 | 1 | null |
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