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"sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." An immense amount of cognitive, social, and emotional development happens between the ages 5 - 18 (school years). Compromised development can have damaging effects not only psychologically, but on the actual structure and functioning of the brain. Stu... | bullying is only more of a problem today because kids are not encouraged to stand up for themselves. | 1 | 2017-04-26T07:50:06 | 40 | 1 | 1 |
There are kind of two levels to this: 1. Democratic policy, compared to Republican policy, makes the middle class and poor wealthier. Republicans favor less taxes on the rich and fewer dollars in welfare programs than democrats which directly increase the wealth of the non-wealthy. A good example is Obamacare's premium... | Americans in the rust belt are not voting against their best interest when voting republican. | 0 | 2017-04-25T19:58:27 | 240 | 2 | null |
I generally agree with your post, however I think the method could be better. In order for you to perform the "block," you need the help of another driver who is also going the speed limit. So instead of waiting to change lanes until you spy a speeding car, I think you should just always drive in the second lane since ... | Changing lanes in a school zone to block a speeder is morally acceptable and possibly responsible | 1 | 2016-12-23T21:21:00 | 96 | 9 | 5 |
The laws of the universe seem to have been framed in such a way that stars and planets will form and life can emerge. And the puddle thinks "this sidewalk is perfectly shaped so as to accommodate my present form: it was created to fit me and only me." That's just the puddle not realizing that it is what is doing the co... | It is not unreasonable for me to think there is a God of some kind. | 0 | 2015-12-31T20:52:54 | 62 | 3 | 2 |
Adoption is easy and cheap if you really want to do that. You can very easily get a child from the foster care system. They may even pay you a ton of cash for the child. The problem is, people want smart beautiful well behaved young white children. Those are harder to get. Anyway, the US has a collapsing social securi... | Laws should be in place for procreation | 0 | 2017-03-29T17:31:05 | 134 | 1 | 107 |
A purely religious organization can absolutely discriminate on the basis of religious belief. A catholic church doesn't have to perform a gay marriage. We protect religious organizations because their *purpose* is religion. What we're talking about are businesses in secular industries wanting to deny service. The purpo... | Religiously affiliated companies should be able to deny service to people that violate their religious beliefs. | 0 | 2017-03-22T01:27:08 | 83 | 1 | 22 |
Social: Preening happened before the internet, it was just not as widespread, meaning that it happened in smaller circles and only those circles knew about it. The learning happened in schools and libraries by "nerds" before it was cool to be one. The only difference here is that the preening is accessible by people wh... | Humanity has gotten stupider with each generation. CMV | 1 | 2015-12-22T20:20:17 | 30 | 3 | 1 |
If, by chance, the third party actually does well one year (think Perot in 92), then it will force one of the main parties to absorb many of the planks and policy positions of the third party. This is the nature of a first past the post election system (which we use in the US). In the long run, FPtP systems tend to bec... | I think that voting third party in a presidential election is, overall, a waste of your vote. | 1 | 2014-04-30T03:58:09 | 61 | 7 | 6 |
Or maybe you just like plots and characters and different stories. I'd say my approach was different - if the material is in the game, it's there for a purpose. It was there to be seen by players and to be experienced by them. And sometimes, tragedies are more fun than victories. I did do the completionist run! I had ... | There is only one "right" way to play the Mass Effect series (spoilers) | 1 | 2014-12-30T10:42:01 | 35 | 6 | 3 |
I think the problem with this is many kids are advised that going to an expensive school is a good ideal. Parents, guidance counselors, financial aid counselors at the college, they're all telling 17 and 18 year olds that this is a good idea. And these loans are subsidized by the federal government and most of their pe... | If you graduate from a 4-year university with more than $100,000 of student debt, you have no right to complain about that debt. | 0 | 2016-01-11T18:06:36 | 114 | 3 | 23 |
it adds much more scrutiny to the country and the city itself Which can be a good or bad thing depending on how things play out. Sometimes hosting the Olympics can stimulate political change and result in progress, but not always. provide one example of the increased scrutiny of the host city having a positive effect o... | The Summer Olympics should be held at a permanent, non-moving (or rarely-moving) location | 1 | 2016-08-05T05:06:53 | 61 | 1 | 1 |
Yes, much of the time. Either that, or simply the humans involved don't give half a fuck about the animal. You are really mistaken in this regard, at least if you are speaking of the animal research that ALF targets. The [NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/olaw.htm) has many stri... | I believe that animals deserve the same rights as human where possible and that it is moral to non-violently liberate them from places of abuse, eg factory farms, slaughterhouses and animal experiment labs. | 1 | 2014-08-28T17:33:53 | 185 | 1 | 1 |
What is the cost to a university or institution to subscribe to a journal? If I remember correctly it's often in the tens of thousands. Now think of all the journals a university subscribes to. If every journal became open access, it frees up a lot of cash that a university could use to cover publishing fees. EDIT: I f... | I believe universal open-access to scientific journals is detrimental overall. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-07T05:06:28 | 24 | 2 | null |
I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: - [/r/notcirclejerk] [The use of recreational marijuana should be legal in all 50 states.](https://np.reddit.com/r/notcirclejerk/comments/3pijsr/cmvthe_use_of_recreational_marijuana_should_be/) [](#footer)*^(If you follow any o... | The use of recreational marijuana should be legal in all 50 states. | 0 | 2015-10-20T20:16:18 | 121 | 1 | null |
One of the reasons for America and the West's world dominance is the ever-reaching popular culture. Politics, values, brands - it's reaching everywhere and is making more and more difficult for locals to compete. It's non-stop advertisement of a certain way of life, and this way of life suits the West way better than e... | Cultural Appropriation is not an inherently bad thing; it is an integral and necessary part of the evolution and change of worldwide cultures. | 1 | 2015-12-15T19:09:17 | 164 | 2 | 1 |
I believe every person who wants to be free and own things must be able to protect it. So this isn't an uncommon opinion in the least! This issue has been discussed by philosophers for hundreds of years. One political philosopher who tackled this issue is Thomas Hobbes, who wrote 'Leviathan.' He argued that in our [na... | I think thiefs and charlatans are in their right to do what they do and if someone falls for it this person deserved it for being too stupid. Please CMV | 1 | 2013-08-09T21:09:18 | 20 | 2 | 3 |
4: Pacifists: Need I really elaborate? If you won't fight or kill, you will be dead in no time. History is full of highly successful pacifists. Let's take one example: priests, monks and nuns. Christian orders like the Franciscans, Dominicans, Cistercians, monasteries, convents etc. all preached and practiced a doctri... | If a total catastrophic breakdown of society were to happen, liberals would be primarily useless. | 1 | 2014-10-23T05:00:04 | 85 | 7 | 18 |
Well, with regards to art - ability to criticize it is almost the entire purpose of art. Personal interpretation and preference are integral to the art viewing/listening experience and anyone who thinks you should not be able to express a differing opinion is simply being silly. However, people who truly believe they a... | I believe that just because someone "Can't do better" does not disallow their right to criticize. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-05T16:54:30 | 218 | 1 | null |
Just like there are Christian groups and communities who advocate harmful and vitriolic fundamentalism, so too are there Muslim communities and countries where hateful and violent beliefs are enshrined and normalized. and how many of these christian or Jewish communities are beheading people or throwing gays off roofto... | Islamic terrorism is fundamentally about anti-Imperialism, not Islam | 0 | 2015-12-25T02:02:24 | 223 | 0 | null |
An analogy is appreciating great music or great food. The top level chefs, when making food are paying attention to the finer details and are using processes that can be tedious to the average person. You can still appreciate the final product in that you understand that there is a lot of work involved in the creation ... | When laypeople say they "love science," they more specifically mean that they "love" the *idea* of science, rather than the nitty-gritty minutiae of science. | 0 | 2014-05-31T00:01:51 | 30 | 1 | null |
By adding a new person to the world, I would contribute to overpopulation and the depletion of resources that is already straining existing people. The dangers of overpopulation are vastly overstated in the media. More of an issue is wasteful lifestyles and excessive breeding in areas with no concern for supporting the... | There is no unselfish reason to have biological children | 0 | 2015-03-24T18:02:48 | 295 | 1 | 7Δ |
The issue I have with these kinds of arguments is that there is no null hypothesis. In other words, it's almost impossible to imagine a behavior that couldn't be rationalized to have some selfish motivation. If i give an obvious example that should contradict your idea, like that some people would sacrifice themselves ... | Human beings are without exception selfish in everything they do. | 1 | 2016-11-23T00:34:42 | 30 | 9 | 33 |
There are probably very few women who would *want* to show their whole breast in public, even breastfeeding. If there are people saying women should be able to breastfeed uncovered anywhere they want, they're a small minority and not what the pro-breastfeeding people at large are standing for. Any mother I know, and an... | The argument that public breastfeeding should be acceptable because it's natural doesn't stand up to scrutiny. | 1 | 2016-12-19T10:35:24 | 73 | 13 | 1 |
Let's look at the example of Christians who deny their children medical attention because they believe that they can be cured with prayer. Those children die. Do you respect the religious beliefs that lead to those dead children? | I believe that everyone should be able to respect everyone else's religious beliefs. CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-09T19:57:32 | 24 | 1 | 3 |
I'll be happy to work as hard as I can They all say that. I'll try hard in high school, I'll try hard at the university, I'll try hard at my job, I'll try hard at my next job. These are just another way of saying "I'll try harder tomorrow". They won't try harder tomorrow. Nothing will change when you get a job, there ... | I think that it doesn't matter whether you graduate top of your class, or bottom, so long as you graduate. | 1 | 2014-12-01T20:20:50 | 69 | 82 | 3 |
There is no such thing as "objectively good" genes. There can't be. The difference in genes are random mutations, and as such, there is no objective "better". Think about it like this. Sickle-cell disease is a genetical disease - it's in our genes, and there is nothing short of eugenics you can do to get rid of it. Ho... | Although I don't like the idea of eugenics, if there is such a thing as objectively good and bad genes then we have a duty to propagate the former and eliminate the latter. | 0 | 2016-11-24T13:12:26 | 53 | 1 | 1 |
It's not that hard to come across a presentable suit for very little money. If you are looking for a job and have multiple interviews to go to, it is a reasonable investment to spend $50 in a thrift store, or during some crazy sale. Truthfully, I'm not really sure one way or the other if the suit thing is institutional... | The culture of expecting suits for entry-level job interviews is institutionalized classism that is unfair to the poor | 1 | 2016-11-26T04:33:52 | 50 | 71 | 10 |
That doesn't really hold. If person 1 was talking and saw a group of people that were from his own family (and therefore exact same race) but they were looking suspicious, he would not kept walking normally all the same. That's not racism, that's common-sense Unless you're defining that the person is worried necessaril... | We are all racists, but some of us can control it | 0 | 2016-11-14T17:35:08 | 156 | 6 | 16 |
I) Every discipline uses models to explain the world--and models are sparse, imperfect representations of reality. But to advance a discipline, you sometimes have to treat models as if they are wholly true, so that you can see where they work and where they break. If you just shrug and say, "Maybe. Who knows?" all the... | Everyone outside of the hard sciences needs a massive slice of humble pie | 0 | 2017-06-27T05:39:25 | 123 | 1 | null |
Many people voted for Trump as the better of two evils. You don't mention Hillary at all in your post, which is very much the center of some people's decision. Many republicans didn't even want Trump to be the candidate. Trump got more votes than any other republican primary candidate, but still got less than half of t... | Everyone who voted for Donald Trump did so out of malice or stupidity | 0 | 2017-01-24T01:18:47 | 73 | 19 | 14 |
To build a decent gaming PC it seems like you have to spend about 600-800, and that isn't even including the monitor (most people already have a TV for a console). While a PS4 only costs 400. An important factor in comparing PC and console performance is FPS and settings. Yes, if you want to run the latest games at 60 ... | Gaming Consoles are better than PC's for people on a budget | 0 | 2015-10-02T19:11:09 | 221 | 44 | null |
now I have to admit that at least half of us are. at least half of our voting population. Voter turnout was higher than expected, but its still nowhere near 100% of our population, nor do I feel is it a representative sample of America. More than half of this country supports him and therefore the things he represents.... | Trump's victory proves that Americans on average are racist, ignorant, and/or sexist. | 0 | 2016-11-09T16:28:31 | 307 | 7 | 9 |
All right, so if you'd be okay with having some male hours and some female hours, what do you think of the reasoning in my last paragraph? Women have expressed interest, and so they have been given hours. However, if men don't express interest, I don't think they need to just do it anyway for the sake of it, because if... | I believe that women's only hours at gyms are sexist and shouldn't exist CMV | 1 | 2013-07-05T21:07:59 | 685 | 14 | 54 |
This isn't necessarily a response to the bulk of your CMV, but more to the idea that there have been no successful communist societies that haven't devolved into authoritarianism. Have you ever heard of kibbutzim? A kibbutz is essentially a small, Israeli, effectively communist collective. They're traditionally agricu... | I believe Communism has spelled nothing but authoritarian disaster in practice, and anybody seriously endorsing it in the 21st Century should be ridiculed profusely | 1 | 2015-04-09T11:21:49 | 53 | 23 | 4Δ |
You're misunderstanding your Econ textbook. It might have a supply and demand curve in it, but all the rest is your own editorialization. Just run your thought experiment in reverse. Would a very slightly sub subsistence minimum wage increase total employment? Probably. The world is full of people who will, and do, wo... | I believe that increasing the minimum wage would increase unemployment, or harm the workforce beyond the benefit of the pay raise. | 0 | 2017-01-03T20:54:24 | 54 | 2 | 6 |
I didn't mean to suggest an equivalence, just to say that efficacy is unrelated to ethics. I'm pretty sure I've engaged in something that counts -- though I think its different between friends, as opposed to strangers/the bar scene. Light teasing among friends (who might hook up eventually) is contextualized by preexis... | r/TheRedPill, albeit sexist, would benefit most men's lives. | 1 | 2017-06-17T21:52:48 | 119 | 7 | 7 |
I am all for free choice, but doesn't the government/society have a role to play in making sure that I don't make rash/ill-informed choices even though it is legal to do so? I think of betting as a form of entertainment. You go to a cinema, they take your money, you get entertainment. You place a bet, they take your mo... | Betting should be illegal. I think it is unethical to take someone else's money even thought it is "legal" to do so. | 0 | 2017-06-19T15:30:27 | 32 | 8 | 4 |
My mom is a big fan of "alternative medicine", specifically ancient Chinese medicine. While the ying/yang hot/cold ideas behind it are a little sketchy, the truth of the matter is that it does work. While the science has yet to be proven, the basis behind the alternative medicine is that the different chemicals in the ... | I believe that "alternative medicines" and treatments are useless. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-12T18:42:49 | 62 | 1 | 1 |
"According to numerous studies and other sources, children raised under a strict controlling, punitive tiger mother has taken a chronic negative social and psychological toll on young Asians as well as children from immigrant families of Asian ancestry who live in other parts of the world outside Asia. Children raised ... | The tiger mom parenting method is the best | 0 | 2016-10-23T18:13:21 | 21 | 1 | null |
Okay, here are a few possibilities you may not have fully considered. a) Humans will merge with machines in some sense, becoming cyborgs with godlike intelligence. I.E. we'll all have a computer wirelessly connected to our brains that becomes an added-on part of our minds. That will allow us to remain relevant, since ... | Civilization will culminate in either socialism or feudalism | 1 | 2017-03-01T19:46:40 | 130 | 3 | 1 |
- Most films designed with 3D in mind are filled with cliche pop-out moments, such as a character pointing out of the screen towards the audience, or a baseball being hit out of the screen. Those cheesy pop-out effects are regarded bad practice among filmmakers who perceive 3D filmmaking as another form of art. Just li... | I believe 3D is a childish gimmick, contributes nothing to a film's quality, and makes the industry inaccessible for new filmmakers. CMV | 0 | 2013-05-18T12:35:52 | 157 | 2 | null |
They did include one. Article V of the Constitution. The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, **on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states**, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in ei... | There should be a legal and peaceful way to 'reset' government. | 1 | 2016-08-10T23:51:45 | 65 | 18 | 34 |
The sole reason of marriage might not be reproduction, but it is a huge reason and the most common outcome. This can't be ignored only because it's not the _only_ reason. Also, incest is a close relative of abuse. A parent, older sibling or close relative can easily groom and manipulate a child to become their fan, lo... | Because the sole reason for marriage isn't to reproduce, incestuous marriage shouldn't be stigmatised | 0 | 2017-04-02T21:16:18 | 77 | 1 | 15 |
NWA, Dr. Dre, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar. Those are all of the WC artists that you list. That's not indicative of a broad knowledge of western offerings. One question is, how do you define talent? It is certainly not wholly expressed by an analysis of unique words used. I would, incidentally, be very curious abo... | East Coast Hip Hop is superior to West Coast Hip Hop - and it's not even close. | 1 | 2015-02-05T23:24:16 | 68 | 1 | 1 |
I'd actually argue that elements of manual transmissions make them *easier* to steal. To begin with, most manual transmissions can be taken out of gear(neutral) without a key. This means that your car can simply be, well, rolled away if the thieves have enough time. They could also push your vehicle into a secure locat... | A manual transmission is a better deterrent to theft than a car alarm | 1 | 2017-05-27T00:08:38 | 57 | 12 | 32 |
Have you ever... looked at porn? accidentally clicked on a link that led you to something that was clearly illegal (i.e. weird porn)? downloaded media you didn't pay for? posted a picture taken by someone else that you didn't credit (or check to make sure you had distribution rights)? made statements in criticism of yo... | Why should i care if i get tapped by a company such as NSA if i dont have anything to hide? | 0 | 2013-12-20T22:16:25 | 98 | 10 | 82Δ |
If it is justifiable it is by definition not murder. Murder is not the killing of another person, it is the unjustified killing of another person. Killing in self defense, in defense of another, as part of war, or as your job as an officer of the State for a legally prescribed execution are all justified killings and ... | Murder is sometimes justifiable | 0 | 2016-08-19T05:02:53 | 40 | 2 | 52 |
Plenty of websites find ways of embedding advertising inside of their main content. As an AB user, I see Reddit's adverts for subreddits in the sidebar all the time. Other sites like FB and Tumblr put the ads into your feed along with content you request. While it's easy enough to block that content in a desktop browse... | Ad block will lead to the end of near-ubiquitous free website access. | 1 | 2014-10-16T02:02:22 | 39 | 1 | 1 |
Great Barrier is the largest and closest to Australia. Losing it means losing a ton of fishing stock. There's no easy or close replacement for Australia. | I don't think there's any good reason why we should waste our money and time to save the Great Barrier Reef | 1 | 2016-12-12T17:26:57 | 48 | 9 | 164 |
I don't believe there is actually a substantial amount of hypocrisy here. The kind of people who are against animal testing of rats also tend to be against extermination of rats. There are even product lines for humane capture and release of pests that are marketed to these people. | I believe that animal testing should be without any restriction for any animal that is considered a plague and killed routinely, such as rats, flies, birds, cochroaches and such. | 0 | 2016-08-05T17:53:23 | 58 | 2 | 23 |
I would note a few things: 1. Trump maintaining just 51% of his 2016 support in 2020 would be an electoral _disaster._ If he went from 63 million votes to 32 million, and say 25 million of those went to his democratic challenger, that would be a roughly 75% to 25% demolition in the popular vote. At that size of swing, ... | Most of Trump's supporters will continue to support him in 2020 no matter what he does in the meantime | 0 | 2017-06-01T03:01:59 | 107 | 4 | 262 |
One without his hand will be marked forevermore as human garbage, and others will avoid him as such. This alone is a good reason not to do it. Two reasons: 1. You'd automatically make anyone who lost a hand in an accident or due to amputation look like a thief and make life very difficult for them 2. Once such a person... | Amputation is an appropriate punishment for theft. | 1 | 2016-02-25T08:00:23 | 82 | 21 | 1 |
I think there are a few reasons people are hyped about Overwatch in particular. 1) It has room to grow. Overwatch has only just been released -- I think people anticipate a lot of growth in the future because it's a pay-to-play game developed by a studio with a reputation for long-lasting, globally-popular behemoths (... | Overwatch is overrated, and wouldn't be nearly as well embraced by the community if it was made by another company. | 0 | 2016-06-30T21:53:57 | 62 | 1 | null |
There are plenty of men who shouldn't have children, and still do, for various reasons. They don't like them, find them annoying, are easily frustrated by them, and yet still become fathers. I'm all for people who don't like children to, you know, not have any. Call them disgusting, ugly, gross, whatever. Hate kids all... | The negative view of children that most male redditors have is unhealthy and we need to stop encouraging it. | 1 | 2014-12-19T21:18:04 | 55 | 18 | 2 |
That's only based on the strictest definition of the word. [Modern dictionaries](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural) have definitions of natural that separate it from "artificial" ingredients. Furthermore, they also have definitions that separate it from the unusual or unexpected (As in something is only... | Natural is a meaningless word | 1 | 2015-07-16T15:35:41 | 58 | 35 | 46 |
I don't feel my accelerated political engagement and crystallized knowledge of the rhetorical grounding (or lack of) of the Republican party is my worst. I feel like this serves a public good. Obama said himself at his last speech as President that the power and dexterity of government must rely on people's desire to c... | Donald Trump Brings Out the Worst in Almost Everyone | 1 | 2017-02-07T23:47:58 | 122 | 8 | 12 |
However, when finally above the operating table, Anna will not have an institution step in and give her extra time to perform a heart transplant on a dying patient; she either gets her assigned job done on time or there are consequences. When someone with ADHD enjoys an activity, they usually don't have a problem conce... | Students with mild disabilities should not be given extra examination time. | 0 | 2016-11-16T17:53:51 | 53 | 5 | 65 |
Like you say, it has opposite meanings in technical and common parlances. That doesn't mean people are incorrect when they use it in common parlance, and it doesn't mean that people really mean "shallow learning curve". When I use the common definition of theory, I'm not wrong. When I say I 'could care less', I'm not w... | The term "steep learning curve" is used incorrectly what people really mean is "shallow learning curve" | 0 | 2015-01-03T03:30:50 | 41 | 0 | 14 |
I'm aware that zoos are also responsible for the conservation of endangered species but it seems to me that many of those efforts could be continued in an environment other than the typical zoo Zoos are an extremely public place, and exposure that the animals get through public viewing helps raise awareness of issues... | Zoos are unnecessary and unethical in the 21st century. | 0 | 2016-08-25T00:05:16 | 62 | 3 | 3 |
I think you're making a lot of logical leaps here. Boys are more likely to choose to be involved in music and the arts when they are not dominated by girls and vice versa for girls' involvement in sports and shop. This assumes that it's because of the integration that boys and girls tend to migrate toward these fields... | Gender Segregation in K-12 is great and should be allowed in public schools. | 0 | 2016-02-05T18:03:51 | 92 | 22 | 61 |
What's being described sounds as if there's an assumption that current standards were manufactured by one side to purposely disenfranchise the other, which isn't true. What you're describing as privileges don't necessarily benefit women and haven't been created by women but by a collective. And in instances where a wom... | There exists a large percentage women who want a standing double standard, where they receive full equality with men but still enjoy cultural "privileges" that they have classically enjoyed as part of male dominated culture. | 1 | 2016-02-27T20:45:06 | 704 | 48 | 1 |
It hurts the quality of my life if you complain and get my loud music shut down. How come your rule doesn't apply there? | Any action performed by a person that reduces the quality of another's life should be illegal. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-23T00:15:06 | 65 | 1 | 30 |
well i agree with you that TRP isn't for everyone. some guys get lucky man, 1 or 2 relationships and they find a person who matches great with them. TRP isn't for them. hmm, i can see how your history does that for you. but i think it might be because you sort of already run a few TRP policies yourself. from what you s... | TheRedPill theory is just an out for men who have had shitty relationships all their lives. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-26T07:31:24 | 192 | 5 | 4 |
I have a few responses: I am going to assume that you have the views you do because you believe that an opt-out system would create more available organs. A study from University of Chicago in 2006 found that opt-out systems reduced the number of available organs. http://chess.bsd.uchicago.edu/ccehpe/hew_papers/winter_... | I believe organ donation should be mandatory - or at bare minimum, opt out rather than opt in. | 0 | 2014-10-15T06:15:32 | 33 | 1 | null |
Before you grant power to someone, you should first imagine how that power could be used in the hands of your worst enemy, and that's true regardless of what you believe. It's easy to envision a state-controlled media and education system when you imagine that it's YOUR side controlling everything, but what about when ... | The media and education system should be state controlled. | 0 | 2017-06-23T18:19:41 | 333 | 6 | 90 |
95% (20-30% can stay in state) of all income earned by anyone and anything by doing anything. All of it goes to the government. That money is then given back as a flat income at the poverty line to everyone. If being too rich/too poor is one of the biggest problems associated with: crime, contaminating the environment... | I think a ridiculously high flat tax could save the USA | 0 | 2017-03-30T06:19:34 | 61 | 2 | 33 |
A few questions: What are "simple questions", and what should their relevance to the matter in hand be? A central part of politics is legislation; should you be required to know the legislative process in the US in order to vote? How big part of British legislation that originates in Brussels? Both of these are very re... | People should have to pass a test in order to vote on important issues | 1 | 2017-01-15T15:18:39 | 51 | 21 | 1 |
I'm saying leave the Constitution alone, and work on auditing/revising/removing the countless other laws that are on the books. | The US constitution and its amendments need to be re-written or updated and should be every 100 years or so. | 1 | 2015-08-20T19:56:54 | 307 | 8 | 1 |
Thanks for your question! It's a recurring one that many in the Perl community often have had to answer, and I think it's good to have the opportunity to do it in this forum too. Perl is a terrible programming language and should never be used for any program longer than a dozen lines when Python is an option I'm inte... | Perl is a terrible programming language and should never be used for any program longer than a dozen lines when Python is an option | 1 | 2016-10-15T16:23:36 | 64 | 19 | 1 |
You make several arguments, whose essence can probably be summarized in the following points: 1. aesthetics ("This equation / property is more appealing if we express it in terms of tau") 2. learning curve for beginning students 3. changing the status quo is worthwhile if the new status quo is better The first one is a... | Tau is greater than pi | 1 | 2017-02-17T19:41:02 | 78 | 3 | 1 |
I think the reason you haven't had your view changed is because people take the wrong approach trying to convince you. My approach is going to be this: whether religion is correct or incorrect is completely irrelevant. Believing in a religion isn't about being right, it's about being happy. I mean, let's face it. The i... | Being religious in modern times is synonymous to being delusional | 1 | 2016-01-26T23:54:22 | 107 | 0 | 5 |
The Russian ambassador is a noncombatant. He's not part of the military and likely has had very little if not nothing to do with the airstrikes in Syria. Would someone be justified in murdering a secretary from the Embassy, because they too are working for(therefore supporting) the Russian government? | Today's shooting of the Russian Ambassador isn't an act of terrorism | 0 | 2016-12-19T21:35:22 | 37 | 12 | 13 |
As a result of this, you come across a lot of men who have been technically raped but who simply get over it extremely quickly despite feeling dirty, violated etc as other guys around them just say stuff like 'You got laid dude quit complaining'. Essentially, society acts to minimise those bad feelings, allowing the ma... | I believe society causes more trauma for rape victims | 0 | 2014-11-20T18:44:09 | 120 | 1 | null |
First, let me be clear on one thing: I’m leaving cannabis out of this CMV. Cannabis is now very accepted as it is legal and decriminalized in many places, not to mention medically legal. As a drug, it’s no longer taboo, it’s just a healthier form of smoking that can’t kill you (but can still be bad for you). However, I... | Using illegal psychedelic drugs is unnatural, disturbing and shameful, and therefore, and I believe that anyone who does use them needs immediate mental help. | 1 | 2017-02-01T21:42:48 | 125 | 1 | 1 |
But I think if someone have a belief and that doesn't affect you, Why you should attack them like that?. They see religious people like uncivilized creatures, it's something that I can't understand at all. Because religious beliefs DO affecy other people. Religious people INSIST on trying to pass laws based on their r... | People nowadays is more liberal and tolerant to different ideas of all the people. But, Why most of them still hate religion and their followers? | 0 | 2015-12-04T14:04:13 | 15 | -1 | 83 |
My argument is simple: graduation is simply for the parents. Seriously almost every time it is for parents to boast about their child. From Pre-school to College that's pretty much all it is. I didn't want to walk in College but parents threw a fit (much like children would) and I had to do it. It is already kind of c... | Graduation for infant and primary schools are ridiculous, and cheapen the meaning of a graduation. | 1 | 2015-05-13T17:03:42 | 32 | 33 | 1Δ |
Videogames provide no net positive for players. Videogames are proven to treat, ease up and relieve [anxiety, depression](http://geekandsundry.com/how-video-games-can-help-with-depression-and-anxiety/). And there is a plenty of research int othe question of Alzheimer dissease and dementio. Where videogames could potent... | Videogames are always bad for humans overall | 1 | 2017-02-09T01:39:41 | 39 | 1 | 24 |
I think entertainment value is absolutely part of the equation. If we're actually going off of true musical ability, then there probably weren't more than 2 deserving Grammy winners last year in ANY category. There are people on Broadway, or singing in Italian operas, who have actual talent, whereas even the people we ... | Rappers don't have any real talent. | 1 | 2015-08-18T18:02:33 | 69 | 0 | 44 |
I think the real problem is that there shouldn't be paid sick day "pools". Being sick is a contingent event that you can't plan for and should be accommodated by the employer to every reasonable degree. Some people have been with a company five years and never taken a sick day. Others get a serious illness in their fir... | Companies should not separate sick time, vacation time, personal time; it should all come from the same pool of hours. | 0 | 2014-07-09T16:28:38 | 56 | 1 | 17Δ |
So would it be more correct to say that an ethical vegetarian diet is morally defensible, just not as it is commonly practiced in the U.S.? | I believe an ethical vegetarian or vegan diet is morally indefensible and delusional. | 1 | 2014-05-06T17:31:11 | 353 | 45 | null |
There has been politicians with the same kind of ideas (Islam is threatening, we cannot accept more migrants) in Europe for years: From Marine Lepen to Viktor Orban while passing by Geert Wilders, Nigel Farage or Norbert Hofer (and I could list a dozen more) Trump is really nothing new for most of western world. The on... | Win or lose, Donald Trump has positively altered the political landscape of the West. | 1 | 2016-09-27T13:44:26 | 40 | 3 | 10 |
Interpersonal worth - If you have positive relationships with others as friends, family, significant others and so forth, you enrich their life and you are important to them. How do you measure importance of such a thing? a "positive" relationship either means you have an ideal in your head that doesn't represent reali... | My life is worthless and this is true from multiple legit viewpoints. | 0 | 2017-03-07T23:53:19 | 117 | 1 | 14 |
Three things to consider: "Entertainment" isn't a set thing. You're not getting X units of entertainment. The value of that entertainment is whatever you set it as. You might be entertained for an hour and a half at the movies, but that entertainment might be very mild compared to the 15 minutes you enjoy the latest is... | A comic book priced at $2.99 or $3.99 is disproportionately expensive to the amount of entertainment that can be garnered from it. | 0 | 2014-08-12T03:24:59 | 161 | 1 | 5Δ |
Point 1. I think that one of the biggest reasons they have bathroom segregation is because of the potential social awkwardness between genders. Imagine this guys...You're completely destroying this bathroom. Maybe you had some re-fried beans for lunch, or maybe that sushi from last night just isn't sitting right, rega... | I don't see any reason why single use restrooms should be gender oriented. CMV. | 1 | 2013-09-02T07:03:21 | 359 | 9 | 1 |
If you grew up with Nirvana then you might be a little unfamiliar with the milieu in which grunge formed. Nothing sounded like that before. The 80s had been dominated mainly by smooth electronic sounds. All production was relatively clean and slick, not only for pop and rock but even for metal and, dare I say it, indus... | Popular 90's grunge is inferior compared to all other commonly listened-to music genres. | 0 | 2014-09-04T05:00:07 | 35 | 1 | 4 |
Here's the thing, weed is different for everyone. While some people (who are usually inclined to be lazy people) do suffering from becoming more lazy after smoking weed, that is most definitely not true of everyone. It's not even common among the people I know who smoke weed. And regardless, as other people on this thr... | I am morally unable to accept marijuana, CMV | 1 | 2014-01-15T03:41:48 | 78 | 15 | 6 |
The point of school is to learn how to learn. You aren't learning calculus, you are learning problem solving. You aren't learning American history, you are learning how to write essays. You aren't learning literature, you are learning critical thinking. With those skills, you can learn how to do anything. The stuff you... | In-depth classes in high school for "core courses" (math, english, science, etc) should be optional and replaced with mandatory classes on political systems, home economics (mortgages, tax, jobs, benefits, healthcare, etc). | 1 | 2017-05-04T19:07:00 | 49 | 42 | 148 |
No matter how hard you work you will never be richer than bill gates. The average person has almost no chance of seeing the wealth of the top 1% no matter how many years of effort they put in. Why define success this way? With hard work you can rather reliably see an income in the top 5%, and the top 1% with certain ca... | Hard work doesn't matter | 0 | 2014-12-15T01:20:54 | 38 | 1 | 5 |
So you changed your view on them because they seem to be pro Trump? They have always been after the same people, now that it seems that they are pro-Trump because the corruption they are exposing is somehow glorifying Trump, you've found a way to perceive them negatively. If say it was benefiting someone you liked, lik... | WikiLeaks has devolved into a political organization with an agenda beyond freedom of information | 0 | 2016-08-12T08:02:18 | 135 | 1 | null |
Wouldn't a compromise work better? I understand using upper case and lower case letters and numbers, but requiring special characters, disallowing strings, or - in the case of one piece of software I have to use at work - disallowing double characters (eg 55, the Ls in yellow, etc) make it harder to come up with passwo... | Websites should relax their password policies. (X-post GUE) | 1 | 2015-01-26T12:43:07 | 247 | 2 | 9 |
To identify with what Batman won't do, you have to look at what the Joker is doing and I'll try not to piggie back on other comments that you've Delta'd. Taking from the in-universe model, the Joker's main goal is to basically prove that anyone is just one bad day away from abandoning all of their morals. That under th... | Batman's justification for not killing the Joker is illogical, irrational, and irresponsible | 0 | 2016-03-28T04:41:23 | 81 | 3 | null |
I'll start out by saying I pretty much entirely agree with you. I've never really thought of it exactly as you've laid it out, but after reading your post, it really resonated with me. I've always been bothered by people equating the "need" for sex with the need for food, water, sleep, etc. (a la Maslow). That is just ... | I believe my sex drive is a scam designed to benefit the continuity of the species at my expense. | 1 | 2016-05-01T22:52:42 | 49 | 8 | 1 |
The medical professionals treating me need to know that my hormonal sex is female. I forgive you for not comprehending how significant the effects of hormone replacement therapy are, because the medical establishment has done a poor job researching this issue (not enough profit incentive). For the majority of procedur... | While gender can be decided upon by the person, sex cannot due to genetics and sex, not gender, should be used for medical and other information on forms (as well as gender if necessary) | 1 | 2014-08-26T19:19:27 | 759 | 32 | 3 |
Your logic seems self contradictory to me. It's wrong to force your morals upon anyone else - except about forcing their morals upon others? Why are you so certain that forcing morals upon others is a bad thing? If you were truly ***absolutely certain*** that forcing morals upon others was a bad thing, then you wouldn'... | I believe it is wrong to push your morals on someone else CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-02T02:06:37 | 40 | 1 | 13 |
It's hard to definitively say that the industry will or will not crash in 10 years, since a) that's a really long timeframe (something like a third or a fourth of video gaming's lifespan!) and b) predicting what anything will do in even a year or two (let alone 10) is nearly impossible. That said, some things to ease y... | I believe the game industry will crash relatively soon (within 10 years) | 1 | 2016-09-29T18:20:33 | 41 | 2 | 22 |
If you want a healthy population, evolutionary speaking, you want to have the best possible breeding partner. This is still very much so active in our brains, even if subconscious. And the concept in sexual selection is that because we're a slow gestating species, and because it takes so much food, energy and time to g... | I apparently have very sexist views on reality. Apparently that's not okay. Help me out? | 1 | 2015-09-30T18:02:00 | 760 | 52 | 14 |
Except for the fact that Trump's daughter and Putin's girlfriend know each other well. The article you yourself link to supporting this states repeatedly that Wendi Deng dating Putin was a rumor, and the sources they site of the rumor all themselves refer to it as a rumor. Then your article mentions how [Deng herself h... | Trump's administration is using Russian-developed misinformation tactics. | 1 | 2016-12-04T01:17:09 | 156 | 8 | 5 |
I don't think it necessarily is. Appetizers are often taking the best parts of sides and putting them into a more composed dish, and leaving out the bulk that makes them meh. But if the restaurant has a delicious chimichanga, I'm not going to hold the 'meh' rice and beans against it. The burrito bites don't suddenly st... | Appetizers taste better than entrees. | 1 | 2015-12-11T17:19:44 | 28 | 0 | 56 |
But either their parents or some relative who loves them did achieve the American Dream. Someone in the chain first "made it against all odds." Sure, but they didn't. Doesn't it detract from the American Dream to tell parents: "no matter how hard you work, or how successful you become, your children must still work ju... | CMV Use of the term "trust fund baby" is counter to the American Dream | 1 | 2016-11-27T02:03:03 | 17 | 8 | 29 |
Changing and moving on represents a very important part of who you are today. It represents a new found strength of character. You can't share that defining process with her, because you don't want to tell her how it came about. That's a shame. | I don't think it would be a good idea to tell my future wife of a certain negative part of my past | 1 | 2014-11-13T19:51:59 | 312 | 1 | 1 |
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