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Maybe you should stay away from social media for a little while (this may include Reddit too). I feel like both sides of the political spectrum just look insane thanks to the internet and the ability to post whatever thoughts you have regardless of how asinine. | The left could never defeat the right with violence and it is stupid to even try | 1 | 2017-02-01T22:12:46 | 72 | 13 | 1 |
Billions of years of evolution have hard wired us to replicate and pass on our genetic material. We wouldn't exist without that desire. The feelings of affection we have towards children are an evolutionary adaptation to increase the likelihood that our offspring (who have our genetic material) will grow up and be able... | It's egoistic if you want children but are unwilling to adopt. | 1 | 2017-06-28T17:22:26 | 82 | 13 | 1 |
If the goal is to save the environment via reduction of one's carbon footprint, there are many ways to do this. You can eat as you described, sure. You can also take public transportation more often. You can only purchase clothing from companies which are environmentally friendly. You could, while maintaining your diet... | There is no way to justify eating meat, dairy, or eggs. | 0 | 2014-12-03T04:40:52 | 145 | 0 | 1 |
I always unblock ads on websites where I think it'll matter and where the ads aren't intrusive. Unfortunately, many websites have ads that make it difficult and/or distracting to use the website in question. At that point it's just easier for me to block the ads. If a content creator wants to ensure that they are paid... | Ads are an important part if the internet, and using adblock is an insult to website and content creators, and makes internet content much worse. | 0 | 2017-06-22T13:51:03 | 67 | 1 | 9 |
Open borders, free trade and global citizenship would mean that the world would have to dismantle the nation state all togther. One world goverment, universal laws across the board from human rights to employment laws. A world language. Now this starts to get really really tricky at this point. First, Imagine the Massi... | Open borders, free trade and global citizenship should be a key goal of our current society | 0 | 2017-02-22T17:41:54 | 296 | 20 | null |
Ok, so... let me say that depending on the circumstances I actually agree with you that not voting isn't "wrong". The problem is I don't think those circumstances obtain in your case. Democracy is supposed to be a check and balance on how bad government gets. If you're perfectly satisfied with the government you're get... | There is nothing wrong with not voting | 1 | 2015-09-12T19:00:47 | 139 | 1 | 131 |
This doesn't work because of the burden of proof. One side (the accusing side in most cases) is going to have a lot more work to do than the side that's on defense, because the responsibility is on THEM to dig up facts that prove their case, to find witnesses, etc. It's going to be a lot more time and effort than the d... | The fact that rich people can afford better/more lawyers than poor people is a fundamental miscarriage of justice. In order to combat this problem, each side in a legal battle should be forced to contribute equal money to their own counsel and their opponents counsel. | 1 | 2014-11-06T21:05:13 | 98 | 25 | 30 |
I don't really have enough time to skim through all the comments at the moment, but even seeing your second edit, I don't understand why you are under the impression that getting a lesser trophy than the winners teaches you that losing is okay.. Anyone who played organized sports, but got a participation trophy, was *n... | Children who do not get 1st-3rd place DO NOT deserve a trophy for simply participating | 0 | 2015-06-26T05:33:09 | 244 | 2 | 1 |
[Take a look at this.](http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-obesity-and-smoking-do-not-cost-health-care-systems-money/) The TLDR of it is that it actually costs more to provide healthcare to healthy people than to smokers, drinkers, and overeaters because people in the latter group will die off be... | On the whole I'm Pro-Universal Healthcare, but I'm having trouble reconciling that view with my view that universal health care would be subsidizing unhealthy life-styles. | 0 | 2015-10-23T18:03:26 | 40 | 6 | 46 |
The first reason is that underestimates the power of the public. Just because the state is not infringing your right does not mean others cannot. With other rights this is accepted as part of the system. For instance, if a company refused to serve or allow access to black people that would be considered a violation of ... | The idea that free speech doesn't apply to private entities is ridiculous | 0 | 2015-08-06T23:46:20 | 74 | 2 | null |
A raindrop has negligible impact on the world, yet when a bunch of them get together, they can flood New Orleans. A single termite is really fucking small and has pretty much no thoughts, but a termite colony can destroy a house or build amazing structures. Individuals are the base unit of groups, and groups do everyth... | I believe that most people have negligible influence on the world and therefore their views are meaningless, CMV | 1 | 2013-05-18T19:47:24 | 24 | 12 | 21 |
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and scientists are more than 90% certain that it is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.[3][4][5][6] These findings are recognized by the national science academ... | I am not sure if global warming is a real issue. CMV either way. | 1 | 2013-04-23T18:44:19 | 76 | 32 | 7 |
In the short run, colonization is not a bad deal for much of the colonized, especially those that do direct business with the colonizers. In the long run, it's always going to be a slow hollowing out of the colonies wealth and destruction of their ability to develop indigeneously. The reason is that a colonial relation... | Colonization isn't that bad. | 0 | 2017-03-14T02:23:00 | 78 | 1 | null |
Oh I'm totally open to that. I ardently believe that. You can in fact read my recent defense of them [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/5clf5j/cmv_im_having_a_hard_time_respecting_people_who/d9xdscf/). All of the negativity here is focused specifically on Trump and are directly linked to things he ha... | The Trump Protests are Counter-Productive | 1 | 2016-11-13T06:08:20 | 349 | 2 | 13 |
The publisher already made their money for each physical product from the first sale. And [they can even charge more for products](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080929/0051052392.shtml) if buyers know upfront that they can legally resell these products on the secondary markets. More importantly, the number of peo... | Buying used books/games/records is no better than pirating them. The original artist still doesn't get a cut. | 1 | 2015-11-27T22:01:26 | 43 | 2 | 20 |
I think your definition of "great" leaves a lot to be desired. In particular, I think a great leader must be trying to lead their "team" to do something that itself is actually "great". But that aside, if you look at the details of how he lead, you will find that he made tremendous numbers of mistakes in actually dire... | Hitler was a great leader. | 1 | 2015-10-20T20:47:34 | 29 | 4 | 135 |
Except in reality there are dozens or hundreds of variants of things that could work. Without the discussion of what "should" how can we distinguish between the various choices and pick the one that works best for us? The Occupy people weren't unified by a core statement of anything. They were just mad at things. Any t... | I feel that the majority of arguments offered by people on CMV and any forum of debate in general exist in an imaginary abstract space with little application to the real world and are thus mostly a waste of time. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-04T01:33:17 | 27 | 1 | 70Δ |
Some economists and CEOs (such as Steve Jobs, I believe) talk about "spending through a recession", where you keep hiring and developing even as the market plunges, so that when the market recovers you are in a far stronger position than competitors who cut back on staff and research. And it's like that for the human r... | I think it's economically and socially irresponsible to have children right now. Please CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-11T19:11:36 | 102 | 9 | 78 |
I don't think your average guy is watching that kind of porn. You're taking about something extremely specific and trying to apply it to a very general group. That's not how things work. That being said, if that is your kink, you can find someone who can make that happen for you. You may need to travel, or pay but you ... | Due to the way sex is portrayed in the media, and several other factors, the majority of American males will never have a truly gratifying sexual encounter. | 1 | 2015-05-11T21:11:46 | 61 | 1 | null |
The human mind, looking outward at the world, inevitably reaches a point where it realizes the harsh and undeniable reality of things. Society is going down the pooper in more ways than a few. And people of the world, even those living in more progressive nations, are all subject to a common core of human suffering. ... | Some people are, for lack of a better word, "destined" to suffer irredeemable lives of misery; and furthermore, these people will always exist, in non-negligible numbers, until and unless there is some radical and (presently) incomprehensible paradigm shift in technology and/or human culture | 1 | 2014-10-26T16:56:16 | 89 | 3 | 1 |
When I was reading about these shows I also had the thought that the dogs really might not be happy. As silly as this sounds, it just seems like these dogs are being exploited and not being allowed to be socialized or act like normal dogs. Far from it: I've shown dogs for almost 30 years now. There are two basic sort... | Dog shows centered around purebred dogs are inhumane and promote unhealthy breeding of dogs. | 0 | 2015-10-23T15:34:01 | 127 | 0 | null |
This could be said of an enormous number of skills. Obviously it would be better if everyone on earth knew how to swim but why bundle it with a college education? Since they are paying for the class you are not giving anyone any options they didn't already have. You are just removing options in a way that seems pretty ... | Colleges should have mandatory swimming tests as a requirement for graduating | 0 | 2016-11-30T08:12:59 | 53 | 3 | 15 |
people who are actually familiar with the law system and studied law to make the kind of decisions that a jury does ...can still be... biased, or often has an agenda, or racist, or sexist, or hates a certain thing like old people or unions, or is simply just dumb, any one of these leading to poor and unjust decision ma... | A "Jury of your peers" is an untrustworthy, unjust way to come to a verdict in law | 0 | 2015-07-13T22:49:49 | 65 | 3 | 1 |
You just took away the right to vote from everyone that earns less then a certain dollar amount. You took away the right to vote from most of elderly. you also took away the right to vote from every single teacher in a public school and every single police officer and fireman. Since you're taking away the right to vo... | People who are net tax payers should have a vote. Everyone else, including government employees, should not get a vote. | 0 | 2014-10-21T04:45:13 | 60 | 1 | null |
And how should this AI deal with competing interests? What if we want high welfare spending but low taxes? Will it run a deficit? What if most people want to enslave blacks? Would your AI legislate a holocaust? Presumably not. You would define some things which would be unacceptable. You would define some rights, or so... | All governments should be replaced with computers. New legislation should be determined by A.I without human interference. | 0 | 2016-04-17T21:42:43 | 29 | 5 | 1 |
it's morally wrong NOT TO raise your children with you personal values. Are you saying a mother that think that eating pork sends you to hell should feed pork to their children ?? I'm a strong atheist and still, I think parents should teach their children what they believe to be true and good. If they believe religion ... | I think that it's morally wrong for parents to raise their children with their personal religious/philosophical beliefs. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-30T13:56:34 | 79 | 1 | null |
You don't like the two main parties, and you are given the choice of a third. Unless people vote for a change you will never get one. The third party may not win the next election, but if everyone took that view they never will. Getting a few percent, they will not change things, but getting 10 or 15% will make the oth... | I do not vote | 0 | 2014-12-14T18:23:40 | 84 | 39 | 3 |
I thought Ken Ham made a very strong point that both he and Bill Nye observed and were dealing with the same evidence but that each came to very different conclusions based on that evidence. Playing devil's advocate here, but to Ken, the evidence supporting that there is a creator is as obvious and as authentic as obs... | I believe you should never hold a belief so firm that your mind cannot be changed. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-13T23:12:10 | 116 | 0 | null |
While I mostly agree with you, I think you're downplaying two issues. In the primaries, it's really just Sanders & Clinton. The middle class has been shrinking but it just vanished after '08. The American people don't just want a better economy. Most want restitution. Most want to have opportunities afforded that w... | Bernie Sanders is never going to win the Democratic nomination. Even if he did win the nomination, he will never win presidency. | 1 | 2015-07-12T08:45:53 | 157 | 5 | 25 |
It's difficult to sell you on someone when you don't give reasons you dislike her, but here's generally why I prefer her over Bernie, with points in order of importance to me: 1. I legitimately don't know if Bernie Sanders could win a general election, even over Trump, and I definitely think he'd cost Democrats Senate ... | Hillary Clinton supporters dont know what they're talking about, and dont want to listen to anyone who does | 1 | 2016-05-31T23:49:43 | 52 | 42 | 1 |
It's a fine ideal, but there are some practical issues and some issues with your OP. First the practical: * Existing buildings have the bathrooms built with gender segregation in mind, they are smaller and plumbed differently. Making them both for both genders will require a massive amount of work and money. * Women n... | CMV - I don't really think bathrooms should be separated by gender. | 1 | 2014-11-07T20:45:15 | 175 | 8 | 2Δ |
While communism has failed repeatedly in countries it has been proven to work well on the small scale. Large families, employee run companies and small comunities use communist ideals and function just fine. | Communism has never, ever worked and will never, ever work as people are inherently self-serving and those who advocate for it are idealistic idiots. | 0 | 2017-04-21T00:49:48 | 343 | 4 | 4 |
yes, other paradigms can occur, but it is not possible to have a highly advanced organism and not have it clash with the current dominant species of the planet. Big claim. BIG, big claim. I'm going to need proof of that, please. You don't even have precedent for two fully sentient species interacting with one another. ... | Intelligent Machines will destroy us and we have no right to complain. | 1 | 2016-05-02T22:32:21 | 67 | 1 | 19 |
I actually can't reach LShift from ESDF. When using ESDF, I find the only key that is easily within reach of my picky to be A, Q, and CapsLock. From WASD, it can reach TAB, CapsLock, LShift, and LCtrl. In terms of other keys reachable: 1, 2, 3, 4, Q, E, F, G, R, T, C, V, X, Z, ALT, and Space are easily reachable from W... | ESDF is better than WASD for playing first person shooter (FPS) games. | 1 | 2016-05-05T10:04:31 | 43 | 1 | 59 |
Have you tried reading novels set in the heartland? A lot of American literary classics (Sister Carrie, Winesburg Ohio, Little House on the Prairie, O Pioneers) are set in the Midwest, but there are also more modern stories that explore cultural ideas like small-town isolation, racial and gender tensions, the resilienc... | The American heartland is devoid of cultural and meaning. | 1 | 2016-10-25T18:13:25 | 107 | 5 | 39 |
Neckbeards aren't just ridiculed for their hobbies and interests and social awkwardness (like nerds were back in the 80s and 90s). Yes, like you said, they do often have 'fringe' interests (like anime/manga, RPGs, My Little Pony etc), but simply liking those things and being socially awkward does not make you a neckbea... | The treatment of 'neckbeards' by our culture is regressive and wrong. | 0 | 2016-03-12T04:12:41 | 54 | 3 | null |
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/expanded-homicide-data/expanded_homicide_data_table_3_murder_offenders_by_age_sex_and_race_2014.xls woops, that last one was victims, not offenders. Stats in other crimes are, if anything, even more male, but murder is widely rega... | the 'Red Pill' is no worse than the 'Blue Pill'. | 1 | 2016-06-06T23:21:40 | 104 | 5 | 9 |
If I had something to hide, I'd use TOR and VPNs. And NSA wouldn't be able to anything about it. So I don't see how they make the world safer. Would you be ok with surveillance cameras in your home? What they would record would only be available to NSA. Does that feel ok as well? If it does, then I suppose I am unable... | I don't care about mass surveillance or the NSA. I do nothing illegal so if they check my emails, screen my bandwidth usage, or monitor my phone calls I couldn't care less. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-12T13:23:53 | 72 | 6 | null |
Being proud if being a productive member of YOUR country doesn't necessitate a feeling of superiority to other countries. I can love the USA and be proud of it without claiming to be better than the UK, for example. | The pledge of allegience and other rituals of national identity are holding society back. | 0 | 2015-06-01T18:14:28 | 99 | 1 | null |
There's a kind of determinism in your argument that says "It is this way right now and it's the only way it can be". Society needs unskilled labour. We need janitors and shelf stockers and burger flippers and they will exist in any context. It is a kind of cruelty to insist that we must have these jobs, and they MUST ... | Not all jobs should be required to pay a livable wage. | 1 | 2017-06-19T19:57:04 | 107 | 17 | 3 |
The hypocrisy comes from the fact that, at the same time that some humans enjoy something and consider it a trauma at the same time. This doesn't match any definition of hypocrisy I've ever heard, even if it was true. Any given traumatic event could have positive parts; there's nothing weird about that. Imagine getting... | Many people are hypocrites regarding rape, they refuse to admit that they are animals, that is where the so called trauma comes from. | 1 | 2017-02-13T19:18:16 | 133 | 2 | 59 |
Gender identity =/= gender roles. **Gender roles** are OBVIOUSLY cultural and changeable, we know for a fact about historical male clothing styles that are feminine by modern standards, there is nothing inherently masculine or feminine about calling yourself "Andrea", (masculine name in Italy, feminine in most of Euro... | Transgenders only enforce gender stereotypes. | 1 | 2016-07-17T10:32:33 | 100 | 95 | 18 |
Here's a comparison: IQ tests may not appear important to society's advancement, but testing everyone's ability to throw a toad definitely isn't. Testing is obviously important, so what's the difference between IQ and throwing toads? The difference is that IQ tests a range of various mental abilities, and while you m... | I don't believe IQ is important to society's advancement CMV | 0 | 2013-07-10T07:01:55 | 57 | 2 | 42 |
Any attack which could reasonably result in the death of the victim. It could be armed robbery, with merely the threat of a deadly weapon. You're essentially incentivizing murder. By having the same penalty, not only are you not giving criminals a reason not to kill, but you're effectively penalizing them for *not* kil... | Any crime in which a person's life is threatened should result in the death penalty (or essentially, be equivalent to murder) | 1 | 2015-11-03T03:18:38 | 39 | 25 | 4 |
I'm very aware that this is practically impossible to implement. I'm arguing how theoretically, if we could implement this, society would be far better off for it and approach a near-perfect meritocracy "Gravity is such a drag, I propose that gravity should turn itself off when convent, not only could we fly but some o... | familial inheritance should be replaced with societal inheritance | 0 | 2015-04-14T00:18:55 | 138 | 7 | 22Δ |
Once you start getting past 70, you really don't see very many obese people. Most have passed by that point from health complications due to their weight. The people that are left generally lived healthly lives, but their bodies are breaking down as a consequence of 7+ decades of wear and tear. Father Time shows no mer... | I believe the majority of mobility problems of the elderly is self inflicted. | 1 | 2016-08-30T19:24:55 | 66 | 2 | 1 |
Here in Houston, where there are no zoning laws, they are an absolute must if you want to live in a place that guarantees your neighbors won't turn their house into an Automotive body shop. So, Deed restrictions are a huge part of why I sought to move into one. In most places though, it's to make sure everyone does t... | I believe that HOAs (Homeowners' Associations) decrease property values by scaring away potential home buyers. CMV | 0 | 2013-07-27T08:50:47 | 70 | 1 | null |
You -do- have a point, in that humans tend to keep around things that are useful to them. There are two huge problems with that, though. One, most things in nature, particularly animals, -aren't- useful to humans and would be difficult or impossible to make useful. Domestication requires animals to already have pack/he... | Want a world with more trees? Use more paper. Want to keep endangered animals from going extinct? Turn them into food. | 1 | 2015-04-11T17:44:45 | 23 | 5 | 1Δ |
But that's not the fault of the minimap. In Total War games, on the easier difficulties, they do suggest where you want to start conquering to expand your empire. That’s fine, it’s ok to lead new players. These tips are also disable-able. Likewise, a minimap in a game where the fun of exploration but “can I kill all t... | Minimaps are overused in games, and often detract from the gameplay of the title they're in. | 1 | 2017-03-14T15:59:31 | 24 | 29 | 41 |
these dull excerpts of writing Well, that's probably the root of your problem. If you were analyzing Harry Potter, say, for the Nazism themes throughout the series, or foreshadowing in Snape's story, would you feel differently? No, it's unlikely you will be asked to do a literary analysis once you're out of school. But... | Literary Analysis is useless. | 1 | 2016-09-22T19:52:58 | 26 | 16 | 183 |
1. Our evolution includes our knowledge. Smarts is one dimension, knowledge is another. You are more knowledgeable about calculus than pythagoras and that is the result of capacities in humans that derive from the evolutionary process. Again...you're disconnecting the actual world from evolution here and imaging that w... | Humans are not nearly as highly evolved a species as we think. | 1 | 2017-05-22T20:27:03 | 58 | 3 | 90 |
I really believe that with the amount of small arms available in the US wouldn't be able to physically subjugate an armed uprising. Yes the us has the most advanced military in the world and we have been fighting the same insurgency fo the last 12 years. As others have pointed out, the technology available to terrorist... | Cmv: The US government would hard pressed to supress a local insurgency | 1 | 2015-10-13T22:18:43 | 40 | 3 | 3 |
What about people getting hypoalergenic pets? They wouldn't get a regular pet because of the allergies, but they would get a hypoalergenic one. is that always wrong? | It's always a better decision to adopt a mutt from the pound than to buy from a breeder. | 1 | 2017-05-10T18:32:16 | 95 | 4 | 69 |
About the title of your post and what seems to be your main hypothesis (healthcare as a "human right"): what do you mean by "human right"? Is it an ideal or a policy we should enforce? Most people would surely agree that giving free healthcare to every human is a good thing. Unfortunately, less people would be willing ... | I believe universal healthcare should be a human right. | 1 | 2015-02-24T14:37:14 | 863 | 1 | null |
Let's just assume that's he's racist and sexist, for the sake of discussion. People can still vote for him without being either. Perhaps you're a single-issue voter; you care only about, say, economic issues, and you feel he has the best ones, and you literally don't care about anything else. You could just vote stra... | A person who plans to vote for Trump is racist and sexist, at least to some degree | 0 | 2016-08-21T17:02:08 | 106 | 8 | null |
Sure. Here's a [pretty thorough report](http://public-policy.huji.ac.il/.upload/segel/ClaudeBerrebi/EvidenceAbouttheLinkBetweenEducation.pdf) from an Israeli professor at Hebrew University, studying the demographics of Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists. The conclusion is that economics aren't really correlated - and... | The world seems to host more Islamic extremists than other religious extremists because of poverty. | 1 | 2015-01-13T06:41:28 | 65 | 3 | 11 |
My problem with your position is your proposed punishments. Fining parents who are in poverty will only make the situation worse. Jailing parents only diminishes their interactions with their kids, not improves. Problems like this are solved by improving the situation, not punishing those who are in the situation. If t... | Apathetic parents should be held accountable when their young children break the law | 1 | 2016-09-16T18:00:46 | 153 | 3 | 1 |
We are rapidly reaching a point where automation will completely replace all entry level and medium to low skill jobs. No, we're not. This has been debated ad nauseum in other CMV posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/3mmwtm/cmv_to_effectively_deal_with_automation_societies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ch... | I think that we should abolish the minimum wage and replace it with universal basic income. | 0 | 2015-10-09T20:00:01 | 363 | 8 | 18Δ |
Here's the thing: there *is* no correct answer. There's no way to determine the truth, because no such truth exists. It's all completely subjective, like aesthetics. Morality is a person's *opinion* of an action, and opinions are neither true nor false. Now, some opinions are easier to hold than others. Humans have a ... | I believe it is wrong to push your morals on someone else CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-02T03:38:43 | 40 | 3 | 5 |
I know a considerable number of people (both male and female) who have hangups about using public restrooms. There are people who won't poop unless they're alone, there are people who won't use urinals, there are people who worry about changing their menstrual pads in public restrooms because the wrappers and disposal ... | Bathrooms divided by gender are useless. | 1 | 2015-03-12T16:32:43 | 477 | 1 | 18Δ |
For sure, the knowledge exists, the knowledge how to become GOD. If you're saying that it MUST be possible that humans can turn themselves into gods, that's not true. Even if you assume God is capable of all things, aka omnipotent, people generally assume that this excludes impossibilities. For instance the classic, "C... | It is possible to become God himself/herself | 1 | 2016-09-14T05:07:25 | 51 | 1 | 1 |
Personally, I thought the film was alright. I strongly disagree that the fight was an "exam" however. The film opens incredibly, to the fight in Metropolis where carnage is left across the city area and Bruce Wayne sees and feels it with what seemed like a close employee of his - Jack - dying and Wayne seeing a crushed... | In the "Batman vs Superman" movie, the universally ridiculed "Martha" scene is actually brilliant. | 0 | 2016-11-04T18:36:16 | 120 | 4 | null |
When banks make bad loans to people who do not have the means to repay them they lose their money and, hopefully, learn to stop doing that so as to avoid wasting the money of their investors in loans that can't be repaid. When bad debts are made there are two morality tales we can use to understand that, the profligate... | The greeks are acting like entitled children. | 0 | 2015-07-15T19:18:23 | 46 | 0 | 1 |
I'm not saying you shouldn't spend less time with it than the average physicist, just that you should spend more time with it than the average high school and later college student. After all, if you are planning involvement in politics at any level, we would benefit from having people with strong backgrounds in advanc... | I believe people should be able to chose an area of focus in their education earlier than college. CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-14T03:40:48 | 27 | 3 | null |
I want to give you a little feedback regarding cancer, immune compromised/suppressed patients, and transplant patients to maybe help counter your second paragraph. As an adult, I've had 2 years of chemo followed by a bone marrow transplant last summer, and there were a few younger people there (16-20 year olds; most o... | It's unethical for pediatricians to not accept unvaccinated children into their practice. | 0 | 2016-09-24T22:56:27 | 157 | 3 | null |
I know So which is it? Is your view on alcohol changed or not? Or is it a clash of your logic and emotions in your head? Trust me, it's usually better to roll with your logic in a situation like this. Do you have a friend you could confide in this about? Someone who would be understanding, yet still excited at the thou... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 1 | 2015-01-19T18:11:15 | 446 | 1 | 1 |
I just mean the length of them I have as short attention span as the next youngin. But I prefer long books. Because I simply like longer stories to get invested in. And I dont care about short novels. Again, this has nothing to do with attention span. Its merely a book preference. Also I must point out that I am 20 ye... | I think humans' attention spans are getting too short, and it will become a real problem. | 1 | 2016-08-25T23:53:10 | 24 | 1 | 8 |
Here's a big point on homeschooling that no one has mentioned yet: Military families. My dad was active duty military when I was growing up and as a result we moved 10 times before I turned 13. If we hadn't been homeschooling then that would have meant changing school every 8 to 18 months. Many times these moves took ... | I think that private schooling and homeschooling should be made illegal, and everyone be forced to attend public school. | 1 | 2015-08-25T01:02:35 | 148 | 3 | 1 |
As a researcher I certainly understand your position and agree with it on a lot of levels. I think you are missing one thing though. In ancient culture, religion was actually man's best attempt to understand things. We saw things happening in nature. Things being moved. People died suddenly from disease. Weather did we... | Religion is the opposite of science. | 1 | 2016-10-26T23:35:56 | 39 | 6 | 26 |
Lets say somebody is sharing a secret with you. This secret is very damaging to their reputation and they are telling you with expectations of confidentiality. You record your conversion without their knowledge in what you think is a secure method of recording. Problem is it's not secure enough and somebody gets a hold... | If I am part of a conversation, I should be allowed to record it without informing the others | 1 | 2016-05-25T13:25:10 | 58 | 16 | 5 |
God this is difficult as your view is one I'd want turn fight for, not against. But let's consider I didn't hypothetical that still meets your above criteria. Instead of a 12 vs 16yo bring the ages closer. Suppose it's a male one year (heck, even one day would work) below the age of consent (14 in this example) and the... | It is unjust to require men to provide child support for a child if that child was the result of statutory rape by the woman. | 0 | 2017-02-07T18:01:21 | 352 | 0 | 1 |
I don't want to be prejudice. But I feel with little other common traits, my brain is now searching for a common trait to be weary of. I don't want it to be skin color. You're going about this the wrong way. Instead of being reasonably prejudiced, you should shake your fear by confidence and arming yourself appropriate... | I don't want to be afraid of random black people on the street. I was just attacked. Again. | 0 | 2017-01-07T02:28:02 | 393 | 1 | 3 |
I edited my comment above, so if you didn't already see it: if you believe everyone should have the right to assisted suicide your CMV isn't as much about should prisoners deserve the right to assisted suicide, it's more either "CMV allowing assisted suicide for everyone is wrong" or "CMV prisoners shouldn't be denied ... | Prisoners should have the option to end their life. | 1 | 2015-06-04T13:10:55 | 63 | 3 | 2Δ |
Your argument is based around the false asumption that it is somehow more natural to date within your own race than outside of it. Sure, dating within your race is more common, and we can probably think of a number of reasons for that. But we never question white people who prefer to date white people. It would be equa... | People of color who have a preference for dating white people probably have issues with internalized racism | 0 | 2016-10-23T13:40:46 | 75 | 5 | 1 |
Currently, the case in the US is that patients are approved for experimental drug use on a case-by-case basis. Patients often have to make requests multiple times before being approved, and for the few that don’t get rejected, it’s often too late. This is often an extremely bureaucratic process as well. I would say eve... | Terminally ill patients should be allowed to try non-FDA, experimental drugs if allowed by their doctor | 0 | 2015-12-07T19:33:34 | 92 | 3 | 1 |
Christianity spent about two thousand years as an absolutely barbaric death cult. Even the nice places in Christendom were abominable holes compared to the first world in the 21st century, and huge swaths of their awfulness were viewed by the contemporaries as religiously based. With the sheer scope and duration of th... | I believe that Christianity is the superior religion. | 0 | 2017-03-10T20:17:56 | 116 | 4 | 11 |
What if he proposes Merrick Garland? | The Democrats should filibuster any Supreme Court nominee that President Trump puts forward. | 1 | 2017-01-31T18:18:20 | 78 | 35 | 10 |
There are better arguments than Pascal's Wager, but there may not be any that *you* would find compelling. What I mean is, if Richard Dawkins and I stood before a room of 1000 randomly selectes people, I could present a bunch of arguments supporting the existence of God's, and Dawkins could present his rebutted, and we... | Pascal's wager is the best argument for any religion | 0 | 2017-06-08T03:46:25 | 112 | 1 | 2 |
I'm pro-choice, but I find a lot of logical flaws in your reasoning here. The foster care system needs some serious reform, but encouraging abortion won't necessarily help anything or reduce kids. Many children in foster care were not "given up." Most children who are given up while they are babies are adopted - there ... | CMV I am pro-abortion and believe that abortion is better than foster care or adoption | 1 | 2014-02-14T14:25:27 | 160 | 3 | 5 |
Edit: ok so most of the reply are basicly capitalism says their worth it cuz people pay for it. This is not a good argument because capitalism is not a good system to distribute resources. Maybe your CMV post shouldn't have been about pro athletes then. Lets say 10,000,000 are willing to pay $100 each to be entertain... | pro athletes don't deserve to be paid millions of dollars | 1 | 2017-04-29T19:33:25 | 63 | 12 | 34 |
I'm curious as to what major gym holds such policies in the first place, I go to 24 usually and the free weight section there is predominantly male and very few women ever venture in there. One reason is that fact that some of them can feel a bit intimidated by some guy bench pressing 400 pounds. Hell even some beginn... | I believe that women's only hours at gyms are sexist and shouldn't exist CMV | 0 | 2013-07-06T02:06:01 | 685 | 0 | null |
I happen to know a few Olympians in the sport of cycling and one 13 year old that everyone in the local scene thinks is headed there. There are stories about some countries (specifically PRC, but others as well) and I won't speak to those as they tend to have a list of human rights complaints of which the deprivation o... | At the age Olympians must start training, it's akin to child abuse. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-12T19:38:31 | 312 | 2 | null |
First, they are illegal Irrelevant, at least for the argument you've made. Legality has no bearing on morality, shamefulness, etc. It used to be illegal for women and non-whites to vote. It used to be illegal to engage in homosexual sex. It used to be illegal to smoke marijuana. Clearly, "illegal" doesn't automatically... | Using illegal psychedelic drugs is unnatural, disturbing and shameful, and therefore, and I believe that anyone who does use them needs immediate mental help. | 0 | 2017-02-01T19:56:27 | 125 | 12 | 5 |
I think, as with all views on issues with democracy, that it helps to understand what the purpose of democracy is: It's not to get a good form of government that synthesizes all of the best ideas of all of the people to result in an optimal outcome. A competent, benevolent dictator can be more or less proven to be a be... | Low information voters who are not interested in learning political issues should be discouraged from voting. | 0 | 2015-08-20T18:22:51 | 44 | 1 | 119 |
First off, separating 50 years ago from 100 years ago (given 1965 is fairly different from 1915), lets just address 50 years ago. In 1965, you still needed transportation, so we will call that a wash. If anything its cheaper now than it was. Yes you need a cell phone, but you no longer need a home phone, so that is pr... | It's no longer reasonable to expect to raise a family on a single blue collar wage due to all the monthly billed, modern "necessities" we have compared to decades past | 0 | 2015-02-02T21:02:28 | 45 | 2 | 5 |
Not brave - Dealing with cancer or another ailment: The status quo of the bravery idea is the situation of safety, where the person that is not acting bravely is the one who is acting in the safest manner possible. To fight through an ailment, then, is to act in the safe way to prevent your own death, and to act in a p... | Bravery is only recognizable when one who otherwise wouldn't have been in danger subjects themself to that danger. People battling cancer, then, aren't brave because they have to fight the fight regardless, they have no other realistic choice. | 1 | 2016-05-04T21:13:37 | 40 | 1 | 7 |
Abolishing the Second Amendment is a severe overreaction to American gun homicides. Your claim of 3.21 deaths per 100 ppl is way off. That would equate to 11 million homicides a year. Even the Civil War didn't hit that. The approximately 30,000 gun deaths in America come from incredibly diverse root causes. 2/3 of the ... | The 2nd Amendment Should be Abolished. | 1 | 2016-12-15T09:09:48 | 187 | 5 | 1 |
I agree with you. The America is a republic thing is a straw man in my opinion. I do think your point two is flawed. I am in favor of having senators, but i still think it's fine for me to be angry when they break campaign promises. Electors in the college get their positions by promising to vote a certain way. Renegin... | The 'America is a Republic, not a Democracy' is a poor rebuttal to a criticism of the Electoral College. | 1 | 2016-12-11T21:30:47 | 146 | 0 | 17 |
They aren't just "pointing out bigotry". They are actively toxic to the reddit community, orchestrating vote brigades and even doxxing people. http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/comments/1yhswb/a_brief_compilation_of_srs_doxxing_brigading_and/ | I don't think SRS (/r/ShitRedditSays) is as bad as people make it out to be, and is just pointing out bigotry. | 1 | 2014-05-11T22:51:09 | 107 | 23 | 24 |
When a man cheats, it's pretty much always because he finds another woman hot. It's not emotional, but based on appearance. Evidence for this? The main cause of cheating in relationships by either party is a dead sex life. But, when a woman cheats, it's because she isn't getting any attention from her man. Or it co... | it's fine for women to cheat. | 0 | 2014-11-10T07:12:41 | 28 | 6 | 1 |
The "euphemism treadmill" definitely exists, but I don't think you can say that "marginalized groups" are necessarily involved in the branding. Usually, it will be decided by a select few individuals, or the term will be modified for accuracy. "Person of color" for example refers to anyone who is non-white. There wasn'... | Marginalized groups brand benign words as offensive to shut down (sometimes legitimate) criticism of their culture | 1 | 2015-09-16T18:36:57 | 208 | 274 | 5 |
There is a notion that the two party system is flawed because you can't vote for someone who perfectly aligns with your views. However, except for a few locales where no one else is allowed on the ballot, that simply isn't how it plays out in practice. Third parties exist in the USA in abundance. They don't succeed at... | A two party system actually limits democracy. | 0 | 2016-07-28T21:32:41 | 158 | 7 | 21 |
What you're missing is circumstance and introducing this tax. Contrary to what many think the rich do not live a lifestyle where they can lose income and stay afloat. In fact many live a progressively more expensive lifestyle as income rises. This is one of the reasons the rich are so protective over their assets. So ... | A slightly higher tax rate for the rich doesn't remove the incentive to work | 0 | 2014-08-22T19:56:45 | 217 | 2 | 1 |
I study media representations a little bit and might be able to address the points you raise. You first point, that there are a ton of bad-ass female characters, may seem subjectively true but in the general demographic context of video games it is incorrect. There are certainly quite a few notable examples of bad-ass ... | The way women are portrayed in video games has no negative effect on society | 1 | 2015-07-10T01:48:57 | 43 | 41 | 3 |
So, let's talk a bit about something you didn't mention: compelling state interest. Compelling state interest is defined as something so important that it outweighs individual rights. One of the main tactics lawyers used against gay marriage was to prove that the government had a compelling interest to define marriage ... | People who use the traditional arguments to support Gay marriage should also support every other form of forbidden marriage. | 0 | 2016-12-29T21:53:00 | 209 | 2 | 4 |
I think the easiest way to refute this (and this is coming from a Christian) is to point out that Christians don't *have* to do anything except believe in the deity and the redemptive work of Christ. Regardless of what Jesus would want, Christian salvation is faith-based rather than works-based by definition. Sure, con... | Christians are obligated to take in Syrian refugees | 0 | 2017-01-30T00:29:47 | 112 | 1 | null |
If the damage and death and heartbreak were solely isolated to those voters who elect a destructive leader then perhaps you would have a point. However, that is clearly never the case. Everyone who votes against a destructive leader does not 'deserve what they get.' Every child and felon and documented resident does ... | I agree with Kevin Spacey that we as Americans "get [the president] we deserve", especially if our next president is Donald Trump | 1 | 2016-03-18T09:34:16 | 27 | 26 | 2 |
You make this sound like some sort of bizarre trade between blacks and whites for their rights. A group like Black Lives Matter is not looking to have a conversation like this: Black People: Hey white people, we'll trade you getting rid of single-parent households if you give us not illegally searching our property. Ma... | Black Americans need to change their own culture if they want to experience more equality. | 0 | 2016-08-14T04:13:16 | 290 | 6 | 2 |
So I have three main points. You've very specifically referred to transsexual people rather than transgender. But the latter is far more commonly used to describe the many people who identify as a gender different to the one assigned to them at birth. Many of them are happy without gender realignment surgery, or only ... | Transsexual people reinforce Genders and Gender Stereotypes. | 1 | 2016-05-11T09:14:43 | 93 | 15 | 1 |
The second factor is that as people grow up they become world-weary and cynical That's not really a guarantee. I was *much* more cynical in high school than I am now. Sixth is that you can brag about a sexual relationship in high school but not elsewhere. You absolutely can brag about sexual relationships outside of h... | Sex and relationships are best in high school | 0 | 2017-02-23T18:17:13 | 80 | 1 | 2 |
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