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Please explain why the following belief that you possess is not an article of faith: "I can receive accurate information about the world from my senses." | Anyone who holds religious views is irrational | 1 | 2017-05-02T03:59:27 | 109 | 19 | 76 |
Nelson Mandela once said "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." Forcing everyone to speak English won't reduce conflict at first because it is still not their language. They are speaking a foreign language with all the misu... | English should be the global "Lingua Franca". | 1 | 2015-11-10T21:32:26 | 50 | 7 | 5 |
because guys were never distracted by girls before yoga pants? That argument always seemed silly to me. Hormone ridden teenage guys are going to be distracted by girls no matter what they wear. | Yoga pants and leggings should be banned from all high-schools and middle-schools | 0 | 2014-07-06T00:54:31 | 173 | 24 | null |
Yeah, because the property is worth more now, so local services that are paid for by property taxes like police and fire coverage are more valuable to you as well. | Property Taxes are Inherently Unjust and Should be Abolished | 1 | 2015-04-12T01:58:43 | 35 | 0 | 18Δ |
I'm not going to dispute that the music industry needs to make adaptations to the way people of this generation want to access content. And that's not exclusive to music--television networks and the idea of the bloated cable subscription are probably in for some tumultuous changes too. File-sharing has changed the way ... | I don't think downloading songs for free which I wouldn't have bought otherwise hurts artists financially. CMV. | 1 | 2013-07-26T23:52:58 | 151 | 1 | 30 |
My problem still is that, in Cardozo-Fonseca (and several other removal cases) the Court uses "intent of Congress" as its paramount guide. They can interpret those laws, and in some cases overturn executive action inconsistent with Congressional intent, but intent of Congress has always been the key. In the hypothetica... | A temporary ban on Muslim immigration is a good idea | 1 | 2015-12-08T17:47:51 | 125 | 2 | 181 |
My personal opinion is that traditional farming is far more humane. When you think about what traditional farming is, it really is a humane way for animals to be eaten that, frankly would be eaten anyway. Cows, chickens, pigs, etc, that live on farms would not stand a chance in the wild. The only thing that makes sens... | I think that hunting is the most morally justifiable way of eating meat. | 0 | 2017-03-19T22:47:22 | 35 | 3 | null |
Problem is there are a lot of things people collect data on to "prove" specific ideologies. Its a real issue in social sciences where there are many ideologies competing. For example there are two major theories about where humans evolved there is the out of africa theory and the multiregional theory. Now both those th... | Ideology should no longer be important. Any new laws or changes in policy of any kind should be evidence based. | 1 | 2016-12-01T14:43:42 | 44 | 72 | 48 |
There really isn't anything fishy about building 7, there were many people all over the place, and you're going to be able to get multiple eye witnesses who will claim to have seen just about anything. There are even people who claim that they clearly saw a missile, not a plane hit the Pentagon. The nano-thermite is ju... | I believe 9/11 was an inside job. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-18T20:21:44 | 1,727 | 1 | null |
I personally have felt more negative, withdrawn, and pessimistic as an atheist. I had the opposite experience. When I shifted to atheism, it felt like the world had more clarity. Everything actually made sense and I could stop worrying about it. Part of that might be that even as a kid, I never really got the concept o... | Having a belief system only based on known facts is destructive to your psychological well-being | 0 | 2016-08-25T06:03:34 | 52 | 2 | 71 |
Fruitarianism is probably the best practical diet to reduce animal suffering. One would only eat fruits, nuts, and seeds that have or would have fallen naturally from the tree. If done properly, a vegan could reduce animal suffering even more following this diet, a lot more, but they choose not to, likely out of conven... | Vegan judgment of others on moral (animal suffering) grounds doesn't make sense. They aren't as morally righteous as they claim. | 0 | 2016-12-27T20:01:48 | 115 | 5 | null |
You're right in that the notion that morality is purely inherent is an old, outdated, Victorian one. Nowadays we recognize that behavior = internal disposition + external circumstances. So yes, external circumstances does play a role. However, internal disposition also plays a role. Be it nature (genetic, disorders, et... | Most people who have committed a serious crime (e.g. murder) are just ordinary human beings who briefly lapsed into a dark, impulsive state of mind beyond their control - and we are all capable of experiencing this same phenomenon under the right circumstances. | 0 | 2016-02-20T19:59:36 | 66 | 2 | 3 |
I too don't like mysoginistic hip hop, but I feel when it's done right, hip hop can be a means for telling a story and conveying a mood. One of my favorite songs is "Hail Mary" by 2Pac. If you listen to the lyrics, it's quite a sad and emotional song. They're very long so I'll give you the link http://www.azlyrics.com/... | I hate Hip-Hop culture | 1 | 2015-12-11T04:51:49 | 34 | 1 | 6 |
The death penalty saves lots of taxpayers money right? Wrong. The appeal process that has to been approved before someone on death row is executed actually costs more money than having to give shelter, food, ect. to a prisoner for life The death penalty is morally alright? I believe that's wrong. If we have the money a... | I am a firm believer in the death penalty. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-06T17:30:16 | 90 | 1 | null |
There is nothing wrong about that. Just don't be one of those people who rant about people not wanting them,even though putting in minimal effort | It's wrong to lose weight/gain weight to fit someone you like's view of you. | 0 | 2014-12-17T23:29:35 | 53 | 2 | null |
Not everyone can be Bill Gates but I believe everyone can have a modest home/apt and money to raise a family. In your title you used the word success. Here you use home and family in place of the word "success", but not everyone would define success that way. I believe success is defined by goals set by the individu... | I believe that any able bodied/minded person is capable of finding their own version of success if they just put in the work | 1 | 2015-05-29T04:32:22 | 24 | 2 | 18Δ |
(I'm new to this sub for the record) Are you trying to argue that (1) we should only care about money and only seek money in life, or are you trying to say (2) a person's worth is based on how much money they make? Anyway, I don't mean to be a bit of an arm-chair psychiatrist, but I fail to see how anything you've post... | Money is all that matters. | 0 | 2016-06-12T11:32:29 | 48 | 3 | null |
The paragraph before that says that it would be almost impossible to build a shelter that would actually work. Beyond just the technological aspect of building the shelter you're also assuming that everyone would want to live in said shelter, which isn't the case. I personally would not and would take death instead and... | We should invest in nuclear defense | 1 | 2017-01-16T07:28:02 | 41 | 1 | 25 |
While your theory on the importance of handwriting could be accurate in 10 years when your son becomes an adult, I find it still very important right now. My first job was at a Jamba Juice when I was 16, in 2006. I climbed the ranks as I worked there over 4 years and eventually became a hiring manager. We were taught ... | I believe that in today's digital world, handwriting is of little importance. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-25T19:04:31 | 52 | 1 | 1 |
Wet hair getting you sick is a total myth though: http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/cold-flu/wet-head-cold.htm And you also don't have to see the benefit of morning showers applied to your life to understand my logic. I've explained to you in concise terms why morning showers are beneficial to me pers... | Evening showers are better than morning showers | 1 | 2014-09-10T20:51:03 | 68 | 2 | 16 |
It's not that they are a problem, but that you close off a source. My point is that you cause an artificial selection of genes. What kind of people are more likely to be poor and uneducated enough to have children despite its illegal status? Probably the people who aren't well off already. Do we have a wealth and ethni... | We live in a society that values having children too much and anyone who prefers having children over adoption is selfish. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-07T23:08:32 | 554 | 1 | 1 |
I think you're right in that it's not laziness, but your alternative explanation does not fit either. I think homelessness is more likely caused [by mental illness](http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf) and [drug/alcohol addiction](http://alcoholrehab.com/drug-addiction/homelessness-and-substan... | Laziness is not the main cause of homelessness in the U.S. | 0 | 2017-01-06T16:44:53 | 290 | 2 | 1 |
I think you have overlooked the fact that Cavendish bananas are exclusively cultivated fruit taken from clones of a mutant tree. They cannot naturally reproduce as they contain only vestigal seeds. This alone should disqualify bananas from the games, as they are clearly the product of scientific manipulation and are t... | The banana should be the fruit winning gold medal, while the strawberry has no place on the podium at all | 1 | 2016-08-21T21:51:30 | 148 | 43 | 1 |
I feel as if the main thing you aren't taking into account is the culture of the "universe" of the hunger games. I cannot believe that the outer districts would simply stand for being forced to sacrifice children from their own communities for the sake of a sporting event whose very overt purpose is solely for the ent... | "The Hunger Games" as a story is completely unbelievable | 0 | 2015-01-23T21:05:39 | 255 | 1 | 1 |
Now, point 2. People who are 'pro-Republic' should therefore be TOTALLY OKAY with these electorates voting AGAINST their state's pick. Why? Because that's what representatives do, they make decisions that the majority did not because they are more well-versed in the realm of politics and law. Therefore, if people are a... | The 'America is a Republic, not a Democracy' is a poor rebuttal to a criticism of the Electoral College. | 0 | 2016-12-12T05:46:00 | 146 | 1 | null |
Who has Bill driven to suicide? At the end of the day, is there any one person you could point to and say "This innocent person would be alive today if it weren't for this scumbag?" To most of us, Bill is not a threat. He's an old man with an old audience, and his relevance is fast fading. He says we can't explain the ... | Bill O'Reiley is worse than Nancy Grace but the reddit hivemind hates Grace more because she's a woman. | 0 | 2015-03-29T15:48:14 | 42 | 4 | 2 |
Thing is, Christianity is not a monolithic religion and they'll argue about hell until the cows come home. Not every denomination believes in hell, and even those that do don't agree on who goes there. The strictest view is that sinners and non Christians will go. Others take the view that only sinners and the non rel... | God existing would be a disaster due to the number of people burning in hell | 0 | 2016-09-16T12:34:55 | 160 | 1 | null |
you do ! delta without the space for the record i totally fucking agree with your post. but i love to argue sides I don't always hold | CMV Students who graduate with arts degrees and complain about the job market got exactly what they signed up for. | 1 | 2017-05-18T08:40:55 | 108 | 2 | 5 |
The responses you've awarded deltas seem pretty spot-on, but I would like to bring up another facet of the issue: Much of the positive work done abroad by the United States is not sexy enough to result in big headlines. American embassies and USAID are present throughout the world — even in places that aren't particula... | At this moment in time, the United States creates more problems than it solves both domestically and internationally. | 0 | 2015-12-28T23:52:41 | 119 | 3 | 3 |
Even if you bring God into the picture, there is still subjectivity. Which god is the correct one? We'd have to subjectively decide which god is correct first before letting that magical being tell us what is objectively moral. Well, generally people making this argument think they know which is the correct god. So unl... | I can't even conceive how morality could possibly be considered objective | 0 | 2017-05-08T22:49:05 | 105 | 1 | 10 |
There are a couple of things to consider. First, you are in high school, and living under your parents roof until at least when you graduate. If you want to keep a good relationship with them then you should respect their authority on this and not smoke anymore. While parents may suck as a teenager, you'll come to appr... | As a high schooler with good grades, a job, good friends, and that's living a happy and safe life, I believe that my parents shouldn't put in an effort to prevent me from smoking weed. | 0 | 2015-04-09T08:46:58 | 134 | 2 | 1 |
**Question One** You're absolutely right, but I want to suggest that you may be misapprehending where the problem lies, here. Your teachers are confronted with this reality: you need to be taught how to read analytically, and most students are extremely unlikely to pick up this ability on their own. So, the lesson has... | I believe that actively reading novels, required in high school English classes, detracts from the overall value and ruins reading for students. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-18T23:47:26 | 167 | 168 | 23 |
i'm just going to address the free speech thing. you have the right to free speech but you don't have a right to avoid the consequences of your speech. the government can't oppress you for anything you say, but if you say something or do something reprehensible people are absolutely free to judge you for it. it might b... | PewDiePie did nothing wrong. | 0 | 2017-02-16T03:45:31 | 72 | 4 | 2 |
I'm a centrist, not because I believe that compromise is the best possible result, but because I draw relatively evenly on ideas from each side in the average sum of my views. Many of my views lean left or right. Some of them could even be considered radical, however it is far more common that I've synthesized my views... | I think moderates/centrists are dangerous | 0 | 2017-04-30T21:29:42 | 29 | 1 | 11 |
The majority of ideological and social conflict is petty. It is driven by emotion, prejudice, and impulse rather than logic and reason. Political capital is allocated to reelection rather than governing. We produce more rabble-rousers and demagogues with selfish motives than statesman with honorable intentions. It has ... | Our Democracy is Broken | 0 | 2016-09-05T13:11:51 | 80 | 1 | 9 |
The decision to take someone's life with force isn't a decision about whether they're a net good or bad for society, it's about fear for your own life. As long as criminals are dying in violent means, it means some part of our society has to make decisions to end lives very quickly. It's only after the death that we ge... | Whenever a violent criminal (burglar, thief, murderer) dies, even if the circumstances surrounding his death are shady (police brutality, vigilantism, etcetera), society didn't lose anything of value and might have even gained from the event. | 1 | 2014-12-11T16:23:33 | 54 | 6 | 16 |
All we are is just what is in our brain Well, we don't actually know what consciousness is in the scientific sense, so this is a bit of a grey area. All explanations of an afterlife are all based off myths and magic, there is no actual scientific approach to how an afterlife would work. We know that nothing is accredi... | I don't think an afterlife (such as heaven) is realistically plausible. | 0 | 2016-10-25T00:15:43 | 39 | 6 | 20 |
"Not seeing color" is ridiculed because it's impossible, and it's impossible for all these reasons that you listed in the OP. Crime rates, education levels, and so on. That being said... Why was I being hurt because an entire race was apparently performing poorly and my entire race wasn't? This point of view is selfi... | Talking about race, racism, and racial issues along with racial preference programs actually makes any existing problems worse, creates new problems, and divides people rather than unifying them. In my opinion "not seeing color" IS the attitude we should cultivate. | 0 | 2015-08-18T00:26:41 | 87 | 3 | null |
Google may have chosen because gold looks better on red than it does on yellow | The banana should be the fruit winning gold medal, while the strawberry has no place on the podium at all | 0 | 2016-08-21T23:17:36 | 148 | 2 | null |
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, but the U.S's reliance on cars is a huge problem and a big part of the 21 drinking age. I would argue that Europe and Asia's 18 drinking age is more feasible because of better public transportation. That certainly wasn't a factor when groups like MADD lobbied for the 21 drinking... | The legal drinking age should be 18 | 1 | 2015-10-16T04:56:52 | 171 | 2 | 2 |
Frankly, the reason why it's emphasized in schools is that it has been and still is the most common PC operating system and that support (for the IT admins needs and from major hardware vendors) is substantial. How many hardware vendors can a school choose from if they want machines pre-installed with another OS? It ca... | Microsoft Windows should not be used in schools | 0 | 2016-09-19T23:47:04 | 67 | 1 | 4 |
It could certainly contribute to it. Gender identity includes bodily things like a desire for certain sets of genitals. As such, in that context gender identity can be very meaningful. | I am in favour of gender abolition | 1 | 2017-06-25T06:31:54 | 68 | 0 | 132 |
That does not mean that you should confront your SO about it. For example, it drives me insane when my SO clips his fingernails where I can hear it. That does not make it ok for me to tell him that he can't clip his fingernails Yes it does, what it doesn't make it ok to do is forcibly stop him from doing so. *Why* shou... | Insisting your SO does not have sex outside of your relationship is a controlling behavior and should not be considered a normal, healthy behavior. | 1 | 2015-06-23T10:34:15 | 40 | 6 | null |
That image was created by Stormfront users cherry-picking statistics to paint black people as genetically inferior criminals. To fight gish-gallops you must counter with your own: * [Let's look at those same stats, but adjusted for population. See how misleading that infographic is?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstT... | Black people are violent. | 1 | 2015-05-07T02:45:49 | 71 | 23 | 13Δ |
Your view assumes that the only important thing is what happens on a grand or worldwide scale. This is the assumption that would have to change in order to change your view. The reason you should change it is that the world and all its philosophical and political movements are large, but they are less meaningful than a... | I believe that most people have negligible influence on the world and therefore their views are meaningless, CMV | 0 | 2013-05-18T22:42:42 | 24 | 2 | null |
Krventre discovers a dead body; the police decide Krventre must have killed him; and locks Krventre up for life. At this point in time Krventre will appreciate all the legal protections defendants have in the non-police state. | I don't think having a police state would be a bad thing. | 1 | 2016-09-04T00:09:41 | 155 | 153 | 3 |
Possible alteration to the "Fear of Vader" argument - it is possible that the Empire was not aware of exactly what had been stolen. In the meeting with the generals aboard the DS, it's suggested that the Empire isn't exactly clear on what's been stolen based on the fact that they say things like "*no matter what* techn... | The Imperial officer in A New Hope should have blown up the escape pod. | 1 | 2016-09-14T14:13:30 | 70 | 18 | 8 |
You stated zero times *to me* that the media is biased. The constitution also does not insure that the media is a check and balance, it insures the media is free. Even if the media were in fact an enemy of the people, it would still be free, even if it were an enemy of the president, it is still free. There is no corre... | Calling the media the enemy of the American people is a way to eliminate checks and balances at a governmental level and creates corruption | 1 | 2017-02-27T20:24:49 | 562 | 18 | 2 |
So...all I need to do is present you with one good reason to have IVF that isn't vanity or personal narcissism at work to get the delta? Okay.... The Orthodox Jewish community has a lot of problems because they've been through some major genetic bottlenecks and are insular in their breeding habits, leaving them with _v... | I believe there is no good reason - other than vanity and narcissism - that an infertile couple should opt for IVF over adoption. Please CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-26T20:45:33 | 143 | 3 | 15 |
It's similar to that of talking someone into killing another person. If I knew you were not stable mentally and you had a bad relationship with your mother, for instance, and told you repeatedly that your life would be better without her in it if you killed her, wouldn't I be charged with being a part of this crime? Le... | Michelle Carter should not have been found guilty for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself in the texting suicide case | 0 | 2017-06-16T22:51:03 | 92 | 12 | 4 |
Ok, well, I agree with that approach, especially when you consider the notion of terrorism vs. terroristic threats (the threats serve the same purpose as the terrorist acts threatened, to change the behavior of the threatened people). Does this count as a change in your view? | Prison is over-sentenced in the U.S. and should almost never be advised for Nonviolent Offenders. | 1 | 2014-12-22T22:37:41 | 146 | 0 | 16 |
Anger and rage by themselves are not flaws. The method of how a person expresses that anger or rage can possibly have no purpose for interpersonal or social interactions. If I see something negative and become angry or enraged that can be the motivation I need to improve a social situation. If you see someone break int... | I think anger and rage is a character flaw. It has no purpose for interpersonal or societal interactions. | 0 | 2014-11-26T21:55:38 | 24 | 2 | 2 |
UBI is intended to replace any income from work so if someone then chooses not to take a job, that would be perfectly acceptable. The idea behind UBI is that it provides your basic needs (basic income) like housing and food because jobs are scarce (think post-automation). Abuse wouldn't be an issue because a UBI is av... | UBI would not be successful in the United States because of various reasons. | 1 | 2017-01-16T18:00:13 | 150 | 9 | 1 |
As someone who loved being homeschooled, and was much better off for it, I can say that you should at least have an understanding of something before you try to make it illegal. First, education takes up an extraordinarily large portion of children's lives and we should be careful when making significant changes. Becau... | I think that private schooling and homeschooling should be made illegal, and everyone be forced to attend public school. | 1 | 2015-08-24T21:25:40 | 148 | 2 | null |
I see what you mean. Think of it this way: With more money, there is more opportunity for new developers to sell their products. People are willing to play different games, partly because successful video games have made it possible for games to be developed. Games like The Stanley Parable and Papers Please have becom... | I believe that CS:GO, LoL, and Dota 2 are "Drying up" the gaming industry | 1 | 2015-07-25T08:02:47 | 43 | 4 | 72 |
I don't see the point in self driving cars It just doesn't seem like something we need. LED lightbulbs aren't something we *needed*, but I'm sure you can see the point in those, right? It doesn't have to be a necessity for it to be useful. | I don't see the point in self driving cars | 1 | 2014-05-29T08:57:48 | 61 | 2 | 1 |
You have an error in logic here: The academic model is designed to "weed" out students to ensure only capable students can continue their post-secondary education. This assumes that only the best test takers are capable of succeeding at a graduate or PhD level. This is actually incorrect. I have spoken with many profe... | University students with anxiety should not be given special privileges when writing exams. | 1 | 2017-03-31T03:46:24 | 35 | 37 | 2 |
I have been. Does that help my case? | Any bartender at a bar that serves cocktails should know how to make a high quality Manhattan, old fashioned or a whiskey sour. If they can't they shouldn't be a bartender. | 1 | 2014-05-23T08:24:47 | 76 | 1 | 23Δ |
Poverty (relative to the surrounding region) alone is not enough to lead to a significant increase in violent crime. However, the *combination* of greater poverty and greater *population density* almost universally leads to such an increase, anywhere in the world and at any point in history (as well as amongst essentia... | Police Officers don't target minority neighborhoods but rather are drawn there by the high crime rate, which is likely related to socioeconomic status. | 0 | 2017-05-21T10:07:52 | 288 | 1 | 1 |
But you can't reduce the amount of empiricism at issue by just pretending that it isn't there. A lot of what we treat as deductive reasoning is just crappy inductive reasoning with parts left off. 1. If no one else is in this room, I am alone. 2. No one else is in this room. 3. Therefore I am alone. That's a deductive... | The deductive problem of evil makes belief in the God of classical theism wholly irrational | 1 | 2017-02-03T00:10:19 | 103 | 3 | 11 |
This type of CMV is pointless. Nobody is going to be able to convince you to be retroactively moved by a film. However, I can assure you that nobody is "faking" their love for these movies, as you suggest. Why the hell would people do that? It's not even as though there's some intellectual clout to be gained by claimin... | Studio Ghibli is overrated and their films more often than not require an adaptation in the western film adjusted viewer's watching habits in order to be perceived as enjoyable | 0 | 2015-07-28T22:34:56 | 35 | 0 | 2 |
The reason that punishments are graded is to deter people from committing even worse crimes - if relatively small violations would be punished harshly than quickly you would end up in a situation where, for example, both rape and murder would have to be punished alike (say, death sentence) and at this point nothing pre... | There should be stricter punishments for minor laws that a lot of people break | 0 | 2017-06-03T13:31:31 | 92 | 1 | null |
The problem here is that it's your relationship with religion that is "like the 1950s". You citing the tenants of the religion itself as defense for your argument leaves me - and probably many others - disconnected from your perspective. The person you're arguing against - those who tell you to "get with it", aren't te... | Saying, "It's not the 1950's anymore, it's 2017" is not an adequate argument for people to change religious beliefs. | 0 | 2017-05-27T15:17:39 | 212 | 10 | 90 |
I put forth that a large percentage of the population, if not the majority, would take issue How do you know? This is a variation on an *appeal to the majority*. This view treats trans people as necessarily objectionable/disgusting by default, *unless* someone explicitly expresses attraction to them. And like you have ... | While a transgender person not disclosing their identity before sex should not be an illegal/prosecutable offense, it should be at least examined as a potentially questionable ethical decision. | 0 | 2016-09-22T00:24:32 | 129 | 9 | 20 |
I think a significant reason religious people report increased happiness is because of the community, and more significantly the sense of togetherness, which is lacking in atheistic circles. A shared faith in something that everyone perceives as both significant and sometimes difficult to handle (all the faithful share... | Having a belief system only based on known facts is destructive to your psychological well-being | 1 | 2016-08-24T22:09:10 | 52 | 3 | 2 |
I believe 9/11 was a big deal. 9/11 wasn't the justification for the war on Iraq, but had 9/11 never happened the war on Iraq wouldn't have either. 9/11 opened the flood gates for America's "war on terror", making it one of the most defining moments in modern history. Notice however, that I said AMERICA'S "war on terro... | I don't think that 9/11 was that big a deal. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-20T20:37:56 | 278 | 70 | 1 |
If you get a tattoo for the right reasons, it'll be a companion for life. My panther is my strength, and it's a constant reminder of what it symbolizes. If you get a tattoo for the wrong reasons, it might be a mistake, but it might also just be a reminder of where you were, mentally and/or spiritually, during that part... | Tattoos are ultimately a bad idea. | 0 | 2014-07-04T08:29:01 | 36 | 1 | 50Δ |
So what's the difference between tagging something as NSFL and saying "contains images/discussions of gore/rape/etc"? Sanctimony and tone policing. NSFL tags and requests are presented in a more friendly manner. You're coming to me on my level with no hostility even if you say "Oh my god! Tag that shit NSFL!" because ... | If you agree with Spoiler Alerts, you should agree with Trigger Warnings | 1 | 2015-07-27T21:29:36 | 113 | 8 | null |
You know that drinking could lead you to these things. You know that drinking is a bad idea. you know drinking is stupid. You choose to drink. You blame it on drinking. You chose to drink. Total negligence if you do something stupid just because you wanted to fuck around. If you do something knowing that it could harm ... | I believe that people shouldn't be legally held accountable for their actions when significantly intoxicated, CMV. | 0 | 2013-03-27T22:11:36 | 57 | 3 | null |
Your assumptions on adoption are incorrect. Children from adopted families usually do worse than natural children from the same family. And by worse I mean they end up making less and are more likely to have spent time in jail. You want birth restrictions in order to give children the best shot at socioeconomic success... | Laws should be in place for procreation | 1 | 2017-03-29T18:13:52 | 134 | 3 | 1 |
Creativity is what separates the technical from the artistic - do you really think that there is no room for expression or imagination in graphic design? Even something as simple as a sign is artistic in the sense that you are trying to convey an idea or thing to as many people as possible in the most simplistic way. T... | graphic designers aren't artists, just highly trained computer software users. | 0 | 2014-08-04T19:42:37 | 63 | 4 | null |
I would much rather take a fixed wage than commission. It'd be great to be rewarded for good and hard work, but in many sectors there are outside factors that determine when there's a lot of business and when there isn't. In all likelihood I would earn more if a large part of my remuneration was commission but those ti... | I think that all employees should be paid (at least partially) on commission. CMV. | 0 | 2013-10-22T15:02:03 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
You don't gain any personal skills by [...] playing video games. [As a sheer matter of science, this is false;](https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201502/cognitive-benefits-playing-video-games) As the article notes, there are skills that games train, such as reflexes and multitasking; beyond that, there... | Video games and TV shows are a waste of time | 0 | 2017-03-28T18:54:17 | 73 | 9 | 5 |
Kanye West is a good producer, but the content of his rap is what makes him great. 90's rap was about thug life and killing cops; 2000's rap was about spending money and having sex. Kanye's rap is excellent because it is about real issues, and because he presents them from all sides. * All Falls Down is about the wort... | The best parts of any Kanye song are the ones where he is NOT rapping. | 0 | 2014-07-28T03:08:42 | 128 | 2 | 39Δ |
I'm a very hard worker, I take pride in whatever I do, and I make sure it gets done right as quickly as it can be done right. But no employer is ever going to know that because I didnt get a high enough score, so my application gets thrown out. How would a paper application indicate your pride in your work and that you... | Online job applications are just about the worst thing to happen to the world | 0 | 2014-07-16T16:53:30 | 63 | 2 | 57Δ |
You know that song I Hope You Dance? I hate that song, but I fully embrace its message. You might only have one go around on this planet, and you can either be a spectator, or you can live life to its fullest. Would you rather be a lonely wallflower, or would you rather laugh heartily or bond with your fellow human bei... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 1 | 2015-01-18T23:02:04 | 446 | 1 | 2 |
So, first off, I love this question, and I'll focus where I've spent more time thinking about, namely if one should want to join the Borg, as opposed to where we will end up. The two issues that you bring up are my two main reasons for my rejecting the hive, but I think that they need to be seriously re-framed. I consi... | I find assimilation into the Borg more enticing than membership in the Federation. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-20T04:10:12 | 39 | 2 | null |
If you define "God" widely enough, your view will be true by (your) definition. If you consider God to be "an entity or energy beyond our comprehension" and science says "we can't explain what was before the Big Bang or how it got there", then science is telling you that "before the big bang, whatever there was, is bey... | I believe some God or extra-dimensional entity caused the Big Bang and subsequently our existence. | 1 | 2015-06-24T02:38:00 | 44 | 6 | null |
First, there is nothing wrong with being smart. If you hang out with people who find intelligence to be a turn-off, then maybe you're hanging out with the wrong people. I mean that. I kind of felt like a fish out of water until I went to grad school. Upon my arrival I found myself surrounded with people who were simila... | I should start drinking to improve myself socially | 0 | 2017-07-06T20:33:38 | 93 | 5 | 17 |
Marx and Engels weren't even communists though, they simply put down the ideas that communists would latch onto. I'm less familiar with Engels, but Marx does raise some valid concerns about modern society, even if his ideologies are a bit oversimplified. What you're describing is authoritarianism, not communism. Stalin... | Marx and Engels shouldn't be taken seriously. | 1 | 2016-04-27T05:35:40 | 36 | 11 | 4 |
In a free marketplace, employers hire employees at a rage for which they will work. Yes, and some people out there would be wiling to work for $5 per hour if it was all they could get. There are also employers who are scumbags and would *love* to pay their employees less than minimum wage. So you're saying that if ther... | I believe that a mandatory minimum wage hurts workers, helps employers, and is a major cause of wage stagnation of unskilled labor in the United States. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-23T00:55:59 | 130 | 60 | 16 |
How do you feel about archery? Golf and archery are quite similar, in that they're primarily sports where making perfect, accurate movements with high levels of coordination are most important. Golf drive distance, which can make a pretty huge difference, is also highly influenced by your core strength, height, and gen... | Golf, Darts, Snooker and Chess should not be classed as sports by any definition. | 1 | 2014-10-23T22:49:43 | 44 | 5 | 7 |
I think you can approach this from 2 angles: First, the reason people have the drive to reproduce is biological - it is how our species survives, something that is so ingrained in us that it is one of the most powerful motivators we know. There must be some minimum number of people who *are* having biological childr... | There is no unselfish reason to have biological children | 1 | 2015-03-24T17:23:58 | 295 | 4 | 3Δ |
I have concluded almost the same thing. One thing I would add though is that many of the jobs that humans do these days are "AI complete" jobs, which means that they would require an Artificial General Intelligence. It is likely that the advent of AGI will either be very good or very bad, and that we will find out one ... | Civilization will culminate in either socialism or feudalism | 0 | 2017-03-02T02:53:08 | 130 | 3 | null |
Russia, ISIS, radical Marxists, and European nationalists All of them? At the same time? you know they are kinda contradictory and not necessarily anti-capitalistic? I have been unable to date as every woman my age is working her butt off just to pay the bills. Statistics show that this is a global trend So women in ... | It's futile to tackle extremism without fixing or replacing capitalism. | 0 | 2015-03-02T15:42:34 | 54 | 19 | null |
If the employer can pay you less, that's his cleverness. If the employee can get paid more, that's her cleverness. While in any given contract, there's some cleverness involved, it's actually just a simple supply and demand relationship. The supply for unskilled jobs always outstrips demand, driving the price of labor ... | Raising minimum wage doesn't help | 0 | 2016-08-04T05:39:30 | 249 | 1 | 3 |
Why? Punishing them more isn't going to erase what they did and it isn't going to deter people from committing these crimes in the future. What does increasing the punishment for these types of people accomplish? | The Death Penalty isn't a harsh enough penalty for many crimes | 1 | 2015-04-07T01:46:49 | 55 | 5 | 37Δ |
No, I'm saying that gendering a kid starts at birth, and kids have reactions to that gendering that can be positive or negative even if they don't have the context to do an official Identification. | I do not believe that kids are capable of being LGBT. | 1 | 2016-10-24T21:15:40 | 40 | 5 | 31 |
There is no requirement to tip me at all... I try to give the best service I can. Maybe the day is busy, so I cannot spend extra time chit chatting with you.. maybe another waitress didn't show up, and I have been on my feet without a break for 7 hours (my shift is normally 5 hours with no breaks - no food.. just allow... | I should not have to pay Tips to waiters or cab drivers | 1 | 2017-05-03T06:59:19 | 71 | 1 | 9 |
I take issue with your third premise, OP, on two counts. Firstly, I would argue that the majority of drunken drivers did not make an informed choice (re: "even if they understand the risks") to commit their particular crime. Secondly, well, this is a larger issue with your post. Societies restrict the behavior of indi... | Arguments that laws that make people more safe (DUI laws, Statutory Rape etc) also make people more free are intellectually dishonest. CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-19T19:47:53 | 116 | 1 | 1 |
Taken to the extreme, you could be caught in an infinite process of swapping two indistinguishable envelopes in a search for ever higher expected value. What gives? This logic is broken because you can't keep applying the same calculation for expected value of the "other" envelope more than once. Your proposed solution... | The two envelope paradox is an unsolvable paradox. | 0 | 2017-04-18T21:25:26 | 100 | 14 | 10 |
If Katy Perry wears those braids, puts on wooden clogs, rides a bicycle, and is holding a tulip, she's probably copying Dutch culture. Those are all Dutch stereotypes. But if she stars in music videos where she eats watermelon, throws up deuces, wears cornrows with gelled down baby hair, and calls someone a thot (that ... | wearing dreads or locks is NOT appropriating BLACK culture | 1 | 2017-05-18T19:22:40 | 677 | 248 | 148 |
Setting aside for a second the debate of sin or karma or whatever. Do you feel you could be experiencing [confirmation bias](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias). Where bad things do happen to you, just like everyone else, but you only remember them because it reinforces your idea that masturbation is a sin.... | CMV : Masturbating is a sin. | 0 | 2014-09-03T22:45:34 | 64 | 33 | 18 |
No, but it means that the general culture puts less emphasis on that than, say, Sweden. On the other side, the culture of the States puts more emphasis on the value of individual freedom and self-reliance. Moving to somewhere that has something you want is not running away from problems. It's not crossing the fence ju... | Giving up a well-paid, stable job to live abroad is stupid when you already live in a developed country | 1 | 2016-10-02T10:40:41 | 117 | 1 | 8 |
Not gonna lie, you actually had me until I got to "far-left media". You immediately lost a ton of credibility with me by bringing politics into it. Poor debate strategy. I would grant that the school was justified in being cautious, even worried, about what he brought to school. I wouldn't have a problem if they even c... | Ahmed Mohamed's (Texas student arrested for bringing a homemade suitcase clock to school) arrest was 100% justified. Moreover, Mohamed maliciously baited authorities and anyone who believes he honestly thought it looked like a clock is a fool, including the president. | 0 | 2015-09-17T16:13:21 | 148 | 12 | 45 |
Two things: 1) the marriage visa application process is extremely lengthy and thorough. They will see right through this ruse and you will be denied a visa after the mountains of money you'll have to dump into it to apply and the first place 2) as far as I'm aware, that's not even how tuition works. I went to uni in E... | 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 | 2015-09-15T16:32:33 | 55 | 1 | null |
I don't think you're a nut. I don't think our views on guns are the same and I also don't think you're wrong in voting only on issues that you perceive to affect you, but to say that it is the right thing to do is just in a gray area. The fact is that your life is affected by things that probably are issues that you d... | I'm a single issue voter and I think that's OK. | 0 | 2015-03-22T16:40:16 | 58 | 1 | 1 |
Crime runs rampant in their parking lots with little care from them. What evidence is there that a) crime rates in Walmart parking lots, and b) that Walmart doesn't notify police when they find out about crime on their property? They ruthlessly crush and destroy smaller companies that work with them That's capitalism... | Walmart is an evil corporation, which is bad for the USA and the world | 0 | 2015-03-18T19:15:27 | 61 | 1 | null |
I see. I think I disagree, I dont think Bernie's real goal is to affect legislation/policy in the coming years. I think his goal is to inspire a generation of voters who will affect politics for decades. He specifically promised his supporter's he would not just end his campaign, and the #1 reason he is so popular is h... | Sanders should drop out after his losses this week. | 1 | 2016-06-09T10:08:32 | 43 | 4 | 3 |
As far as treatment of other animals goes I don't believe in "equal" rights, but I at least believe in preventing unnecessary pain and suffering of some animals. Why some? Well, I would be quite upset to come across someone torturing a cat, say, but I'd not care if the same person was instead burning ants with a magnif... | I am anthropocentric, meaning that my end goal in life is the well-being of humanity, and this should not be slowed down by animal rights. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-04T21:05:58 | 122 | 60 | 20 |
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