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I think you are on the right track, and you clearly have put a lot of thought into this, but I'll try to posit another power for your consideration. A different version of this power would being able to make 'save points' with no limit, similar to a video game. This has some benefits and downsides from Rewind. **Saving... | Rewinding time is the best superpower for daily life | 1 | 2015-11-04T00:43:32 | 111 | 3 | 1 |
I agree that authoritarianism is a really bad system. But do you have any arguments against Marx or Engels? Have you even bothered to read them? | Marx and Engels shouldn't be taken seriously. | 1 | 2016-04-27T05:14:52 | 36 | 5 | 2 |
but in the end they aren't paying taxes They are paying taxes. Illegal immigrants for example, pay into Social Security because of payroll taxes and never receive any benefits from it. Illegal immigrants also pay sales taxes, while receiving much less in terms of public services than American citizens. | Illegal immigrants should be deported from the USA, and we should not cater to their needs | 1 | 2015-06-11T23:58:52 | 43 | 1 | 4 |
Murder requires malicious intent either planned ( Murder 1) or not planned ( Murder 2). The various types of manslaughter are illegal killings without malice or due to negligence. Getting drunk is not having malice, but it is being negligent if you drive so killing someone when drunk driving it is vehiclular manslaught... | Drivers who cause a fatal accident while under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs should be charged with murder. | 0 | 2016-08-19T06:02:30 | 30 | 1 | 52 |
I believe that if you live in a society you owe it to society to make sure that no one goes without the basic necessities of life Based on what ethical, political, or economic doctrine? I believe these necessities should be provided by a combination tax dollars That means they aren't free, they are just government di... | The basic necessities of life should be provided to all humans for free and money should not be part of the equation. | 0 | 2017-06-05T22:17:02 | 53 | 6 | 14 |
She has a job. She has a good job. A great job, even. She's well-respected by those who know her, and will go down in history as an effective and strategic leader. Your suggestion is that she should give up her position as the highest-ranking elected woman in the nation because some people who don't live in the dist... | Nancy Pelosi should retire from Congress for the benefit of her party. | 0 | 2017-06-22T06:15:32 | 186 | 1 | null |
I think empathy towards the other viewpoint is important, even if I don't change my mind, so I enjoy reading about why others feel the way they do. I haven't had my mind changed much, but I do feel that I have a better perspective about what drives others opinions on different matters, which in turn makes me a more tho... | r/changemyview is essentially "Teach me How to Groupthink". | 0 | 2015-08-25T15:24:09 | 82 | 3 | 9 |
No one raindrop thinks it is responsible for the flood. Hardly any state has much more than 50% voter turnout. If everyone who thought this actually got out and voted anyway, they could literally do anything they wanted. But I see your point, so vote third-party. What your vote can do is show the country that they don'... | My personal vote does not and will not ever matter in a presidential election | 1 | 2017-01-30T20:56:26 | 51 | 14 | 82 |
This assumes that the ground for the morality of abortion are that either killing the fetus is OK or that it isn't a life. However, if you are pro-choice, you likely believe that the morality of abortion is derived in the fact that the women's domain over her body supersedes any other living thing's right to use as hab... | If abortion is morally acceptable to you, then a male form of contraceptive that doesn't prevent pregnancy, but instead causes a miscarriage between the 8th and 10th week of pregnancy should also be morally acceptable to you. | 0 | 2017-02-10T03:07:20 | 149 | 10 | 65 |
Are you arguing that collage is affordable, or more affordable than people imply? Because while I would agree that there is likely some exaggeration, for many people it is completely unaffordable. Not everyone gets the best case scenario, and if you make less than $30000 a year, then paying minimum of a third of a year... | College is not unaffordable in the US. | 1 | 2015-08-31T17:56:13 | 46 | 2 | 11 |
he let's 5 years olds with cancer die on a daily basis because he can't be bothered. If there really was a heaven then this isn't neccesarily a bad thing to let happen. Ebola, death, murders, disease, wars, birth defects, bullying, violent protests. Sure God could fix all those things but half of them include the free... | If the Christian God does exist, he should not be worshiped. | 0 | 2015-04-19T22:38:09 | 430 | 31 | 3Δ |
So you're automatically assuming everyone has the same hand size and finger spacing? You say you have small hands, but perhaps you have a wider spacing between each finger because my pinky rests naturally between Lshift and Z using your position. It also becomes exceedingly difficult for me to reliable hit the 1234 key... | ESDF is better than WASD for playing first person shooter (FPS) games. | 0 | 2016-05-05T12:09:10 | 43 | 1 | 1 |
The ideal that people should be compensated for their work is a good core theme to have. However, not *all* employees and work will fit into this theme easily. For example, police officers being paid on commission could incentivize corruption, negative outcomes, and potentially unethical behavior. | I think that all employees should be paid (at least partially) on commission. CMV. | 1 | 2013-10-22T03:26:18 | 37 | 2 | 82Δ |
Ends unnecessary suffering. The child won't have to suffer anymore, as they are dead now. To get to the point where they are dead, they have suffered. Not treating their illness means more suffering and since we could have prevented it, its unnecessary suffering. Doesn't your justification support not treating any ch... | As a society, we should not use public resources to cure or treat children with chronic illnesses. | 1 | 2015-08-03T23:01:59 | 51 | 3 | 64 |
It's no secret that black people are some of the greatest athletes. When they got into basketball, for example, they completely dominated everyone. That is cultural mate. Groups that favors certain sports, will become the national representation at those sports at higher rates. [US soccer team](http://www.ussoccer.com/... | Black People are Better | 0 | 2017-05-02T22:04:01 | 286 | 2 | 32 |
I guess this sort of depends on what your definition of "wrong" is, but companies exist to make money for their shareholders. United's handling of this situation has lost *hundreds of millions of dollars* for its shareholders, and *severely* damaged the company's reputation. In the sense of accomplishing its business o... | United Airlines did nothing wrong. | 0 | 2017-04-12T16:46:25 | 72 | 2 | 15 |
Having a monogamous relationship is like having a steak. A good one is really, really good. But a mediocre-to-bad one is kinda worse than having nothing at all. Being monogamous in a shit relationship is not something that I think many people would advocate, and I'd agree that forcing such a thing might cause mental he... | Monogamy is outdated, unnecessary and causes mental health problems. | 0 | 2017-05-23T23:26:22 | 34 | 2 | 39 |
Social norms are intuitive, informal statistical analysis. Nobody sat down one day and said, "I think women should wear high heeled shoes" Men wore 'em a couple hundred years ago. But some dedicated women started wearing them and men gradually stopped wearing them. Now, we mostly see women wearing high heeled shoes, an... | I think social norms are holding us all back. | 1 | 2017-03-20T18:25:44 | 18 | 6 | 28 |
No one is saying that you shouldn't use available information to make as informed a decision as possible. The warning against judging is meant in the sense of "don't be judgement"- i.e, don't jump to conclusions about people's motivations or characters based on insufficient information. Some examples: You are picking a... | I believe society's development of the view "Don't Judge Others" is not practical and judging others is unavoidable in real life. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-18T16:46:51 | 40 | 7 | 108Δ |
I have a lot of sympathy with your position. I, like many people, and I'm guessing you as well, feel that standardized testing is a waste when students could be learning far more useful skills and applying far more of their talents and abilities. HOWEVER, the science on IQ testing is really well established: standardi... | Testing is NOT and adequate gage of intellectual abilities, no matter the subject. | 1 | 2014-12-17T04:59:36 | 51 | 1 | 17 |
Intelligent design, just like the Universe-is-a-computer-simulation, are both only inside the range of speculation and not in the domain of science. Speculations, even from Scientists, do not become science until they are proven with evidence or can help us make predictions. Scientists have no trouble entertaining the ... | Opposing intelligent design as a valid scientific theory shouldn't be the same thing as believing every biological feature definitely evolved. | 1 | 2017-05-15T08:08:20 | 42 | 4 | 98 |
Why should i (employer) need a reason to let go of an employee? if i no longer want them, i should be abel to fire them. After all, it is my business and i pay for them? just like they can quit to find another job without owing me anything. I mean, even if i dont personally like you, its my business, i should be able t... | "At will employment" should be banned in Michigan. | 0 | 2015-05-08T18:36:11 | 35 | 2 | 6Δ |
In order to change your view, I would ask what you think the Department of Education *does* where her lack of experience in a public school system would hurt her? The vast, vast majority of the ED budget goes to Pell grants, Title 1 (low income) grants, Special Ed Grants and others. They don't control the content of cu... | Betsy DeVos is not qualified to serve as the US Education Secretary | 1 | 2017-02-08T01:46:32 | 492 | 215 | 1 |
I think your view is skewed because it is an incomplete view of what we call happiness. Essentially, the pleasure center of the brain is presented with chemical stimuli that either trigger the release of dopamine or not. So, we eat a cheeseburger, our taste buds confirm that in fact it's a cheeseburger (something fatte... | I think that doing any kind of drugs are wrong, because they give only temporary happiness. CMV, please. | 0 | 2013-10-18T07:03:04 | 27 | 2 | 5 |
True, but I could argue that the father in this analogy is only mortal, and therefore can only know his son so well. If we are discussing an omniscient God, then he would know the son perfectly, even his psyche, and would be able to recognize that there is no influence strong enough to break the son from his current st... | There can not be an omniscient all-knowing God if humans have free will. The two can't coexist. | 1 | 2014-08-17T23:27:18 | 131 | 1 | 3 |
The reason most people think that it is discrimination to refuse to serve homosexuals, but okay refuse service to those who wish to discriminate is the reason service was refused. For those who will not provide service to homosexuals, they are refusing service based solely on their sexual orientation. If you refuse to ... | Business owners should have the right to refuse service whatever the reason. | 0 | 2015-03-29T19:14:09 | 164 | 2 | null |
My dog goes where ever people are. She hardly spends time outside unless myself or someone else she likes is out there with her (even when there are other dogs around she prefers people though that may just be because she's old and not as energetic as younger dogs). For that reason I walk her daily for about an hour an... | I believe owning a dog as an indoor pet only is cruel. | 0 | 2016-01-31T10:53:16 | 39 | 1 | 1Δ |
You are misinterpreting training as a guarantee that someone can do the job well. Plenty of people can pass tests, go through courses, etc and still have issues down the line. All that initial training and testing is to weed out people who are obviously not qualified and ensure there are standards of basic knowledge/sk... | No one should ever be denied a job because of a mental illness. | 1 | 2015-07-27T00:59:21 | 45 | 1 | 1 |
Nobody should be forced to have children if they don't want them. If anything, you have it backwards. Men should be allowed to tell women to have an abortion if it's his child, not telling women to keep the baby. There is ALWAYS long term consequences for the woman to have the baby, even if it isn't viewed as dangerous... | No one should get an abortion if it is against the father's consent | 0 | 2016-11-13T22:57:15 | 143 | 4 | 3 |
Your policy actually creates an incentive for the government to offer tax incentives in order to disenfranchise people. For example, a politician might propose a generous tax break for students, knowing that in doing so, they'd disenfranchise many of them. It would be relatively cheap to buy out, say young people from ... | I think the only people who should be allowed to vote in an election (any election), are people who pay taxes into the pool of money governed by the election. | 1 | 2016-03-22T03:21:06 | 53 | 31 | 103 |
the absolute best example is the use of the term "jew". When you describe someone who is jewish as a "jew", it can have absolutely no problematic value. a sentence like, "the guy in the synagogue is a jew" is perfectly descriptive and not offensive in any way, and therefore is not racist. But the history of oppression... | Reverse racism is a real thing. | 1 | 2015-05-13T04:08:07 | 75 | 3 | 7Δ |
The problem isn't coins. Coins can be very, very handy. They problem is outdated denominations. Pennies are not a meaningful sum any more, and nickels are not much better. In Canada, it felt like all the change we have was a nightmare until we got rid of the penny. When there are only larger denomination coins to deal ... | Coins are outdated and should be removed as legal tender | 0 | 2014-04-27T23:16:07 | 56 | 1 | 5 |
This is mostly true of some areas (Michigan is a great example). You still run into the fact that there is some energy usage in processing the water before it is done cycling back through, but that is a minor concern for a place that is as rich in water as Michigan. However, this does not apply to all places. In some p... | "Wasting" water isn't wasting anything. (IE - leaving the sink on while you brush your teeth, full-flush toilets) because the water just reenters the water cycle and never goes anywhere. | 1 | 2015-11-30T21:22:23 | 66 | 1 | 47 |
They do - spin off games use different battle systems all the time. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon uses a different system. So does Pokemon Go. So does the TCG, and Pokken, and so on and so on. Pokemon has had a dozen different battle systems over it's lifetime. The main series is there to make incremental improvements to a s... | Pokémon needs an entirely new battle system | 0 | 2017-04-14T23:09:16 | 34 | 24 | 93 |
I don't think the name of a movement is going to impact how it is perceived or what goals it achieves. People need to stand up against those that give feminism a bad name instead of sitting on the sidelines and either doing nothing or thinking that being on the other end of a keyboard reminding everyone that "not all f... | I don't think "feminism" is the right word for it anymore, and calling that makes it difficult to achieve the ideology's modern goals. | 0 | 2014-03-27T23:13:03 | 505 | -1 | 2 |
I went to school for art and I make 6 figures as an artist. I find your view, frankly, insulting. I find it offensive because you don't seem to think art/design is a legitimate discipline or a likely way to earn a living. It isn't a fool's errand to strive for an art degree if one does it correctly and focuses on the r... | Art should not be treated as an academic discipline | 0 | 2015-04-27T03:34:53 | 63 | 5 | null |
Name any professional career (I'm assuming that the role of a school is to educate you so that you can develop a certain skill and practice it in the world instead of merely becoming an unskilled laborer) and I'll be glad to explain how High School level English classes would be incredibly beneficial. | English in American high schools is an unnecessary course | 0 | 2016-10-10T05:45:19 | 60 | 3 | 2 |
What about reckless behavior, where you may not actually harm someone, but you greatly increase the odds of you harming someone? Ex. Drunk driving or firing a gun into the air | If you aren't directly hurting someone, what you are doing isn't wrong | 1 | 2015-09-04T16:45:59 | 57 | 13 | 25 |
You say you want to quit reddit then list essentially 7 reasons for you not wanting to quit: 1. It is a great place to get information that may change your mind on a subject 2. Reddit is the best website. It gives you links to everything else you want to see and provides you with content you are satisfied with. Your a... | I should quit reddit forever | 1 | 2015-03-04T17:57:56 | 47 | 83 | 5Δ |
I disagree mainly because what you and I consider "life" or "another person inside the mother" is very different. Almost all (and I mean almost every single case ever in history) abortions happen before a baby has even developed all basic body parts. The baby is by no means alive yet, just as much as an egg from the su... | Abortion should only be legal in extreme cases (danger to the mother's life, rape, etc.) | 0 | 2017-04-16T09:03:14 | 79 | 1 | null |
For fundamentalist Sunni Muslims wanting to discourage Western involvement in the Middle East, self-immolation would be a more effective political statement than terrorism. You would be right if this was the reason why they were bombing, shooting, and cutting up people in the streets, but the real reason is that they w... | Fundamentalist Sunni Muslims would make a much more effective political statement by self-immolating in Western host nations than they would by killing Western civilians at random | 0 | 2016-08-27T16:32:31 | 30 | 3 | 6 |
Let me try to pick at least one point. "It can never be morally correct to fight in a war if it isn't strictly for self defense." If we hadn't been attacked in WWII, I believe it still would have been justified to stop the Holocaust (not self defense on our part). We were attacked though and a lot of noise was made abo... | As a black man I wish the Confederate States of America woulda won the civil war | 0 | 2014-05-24T12:53:08 | 22 | 6 | 2 |
I fully understand that China is a threat in your eyes. But I don't really see it that way. Why should China not be able to build aircraft carriers when you are? On another note, China is way too big, seen from an international trading economy, to declare war and be a real threat. A famous economist called Frederic Bas... | The United States of America needs to have a massive defensive budget, and honestly needs to be larger. | 1 | 2017-06-26T20:52:51 | 40 | 7 | null |
There are a very long list of issues why not only the bad guys have something to worry about. That mentality is very much troublesome. I think one worrying aspect is that it's been done on dubious legal backgrounds and as courts like the European Court of Justice I think it was recently came out with legislation agains... | Only criminals should be worried about government snooping | 1 | 2014-07-13T02:44:03 | 77 | 2 | 2 |
1) Most mainstream media (movies, TV, magazines, websites, porn, etc.) focuses on very attractive women (and men). Most people (maybe 80-90%) don't get anywhere near those standards. Yet the media offers what becomes, in many cases, the yardstick by which we judge attractiveness. This means the pool of attractive poten... | 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. | 0 | 2015-05-11T18:16:12 | 61 | 3 | 3 |
I could have sworn the rhyme was "If a woodchuck could chuck wood then a wood chuck would chuck wood?" | A woodchuck cannot chuck any amount of wood, and to focus on the hypothetical amount possible is a waste of effort. | 0 | 2016-06-21T00:03:51 | 26 | 1 | null |
I read something really interesting on here recently that I can't find right now. The gist of the post was that the military is the one thing that America buys almost exclusively American. Because standards of living are so high in the USA, this has to be factored into the "price" of such procurement. If we "outsourced... | The United States Government spends too much on the defense budget. | 0 | 2017-05-17T23:49:45 | 84 | 2 | null |
I talk back to vent anger and to prove a valid point. This is exactly why you don't talk back. Its impulsive and antagonistic. You need your parent to calm down before they will listen to you and the best way to do that is to be calm and silent yourself and wait for a good opportunity to make your point. Probably not e... | Kids should be able to talk back to authority during a dispute | 0 | 2017-03-02T03:20:58 | 55 | 10 | 21 |
[This](http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php) is a very good site for data that suggests man made climate change and attempts to refute common arguments. I'd recommend checking it out and I will get some of my responses from it. temperature measuring device built in the 60s showed an increase in temperature sinc... | I don't believe mankind is responsible for Climate Change through over-production of CO2. | 0 | 2016-07-17T19:43:34 | 65 | 3 | 1 |
Women get harassed on the street on a regular basis. [The studies that have been done on it show that it's a major problem.](http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/resources/statistics/statistics-academic-studies/) This is a systemic problem. While not all of these end in assaults, they can sometimes be scary. Once I was ... | It makes no sense that women are more afraid of walking around alone than men are | 0 | 2014-06-01T11:09:34 | 188 | 1 | null |
I think we need to address the elephant in the room here. When you say women would be "uncomfortable", what do you mean? Do you mean they fear being sexually assaulted or raped by someone simply because they have a penis? This is the only implication that can even start to justify not having transgendered bathroom. If ... | Almost all (98%+) women would be uncomfortable sharing a facility like the one pictured with a transgender woman that has a penis. | 0 | 2015-09-03T02:11:01 | 175 | 9 | null |
So I looked at the study, and in their conclusion, they state: child sex-abuse, despite a brief upswing toward its pre-democracy rate, resumed a decline that had begun, for unknown reasons, in the early 1970s. This shows that cases of child sex abuse **were already decreasing before child porn was legalized**. You can ... | I think viewing child pornography should be legal, because it results in fewer children being victims of sexual abuse. | 1 | 2015-05-30T20:37:35 | 85 | 6 | 18Δ |
The DNC has filed no calls for recounts and has filed no official complaints or statements. So they are not complaining at all. Some liberals who are also Democrats are complaining but that is not the same thing as the DNC complaining. | It is highly hypocritical of the DNC to complain about the rigged electoral college system when their own rigged system selected their candidate. | 1 | 2016-11-25T12:14:51 | 48 | 31 | 66 |
There's just no way these guys spend this much time on doing fluff on TV and still find the time to do all the work a POTUS is supposed to be doing. All the actual work is done by "the administration" or "the party", so the actual individual thoughts expressed by the President really don't matter, Do you feel this way... | The President of the United State is not "the most powerful person on Earth" but merely a media puppet. | 0 | 2017-02-24T19:07:33 | 28 | 2 | 60 |
The US spends less money per capita on medical research than ten countries, including Sweden, Germany, Austria and several other European countries. It spends more OVERALL because the US is a very large country. But its % research of GDP PPP is just 2.7%. South Korea's is an enormous 4.2% (it's the world leader). Are S... | I think Europeans should be more grateful to the USA for subsidizing their quality of life | 0 | 2017-05-11T03:17:48 | 123 | 11 | 12 |
One of the problems with consciousness is that we don't yet understand what "part" of the brain is actually conscious. We have good reason to believe that a lot of what the brain does is a result, as you say, of "physical computations that happen in our brain." The trouble is that all of the computations that we've bee... | I believe that simulating a human brain on a computer will produce a being that has the experience of being alive, and that it would be wrong to create such a simulation if we are not going to give it all the rights and protectioms that any human being deserves. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-12T11:26:33 | 81 | 4 | 3 |
Ah yes, of course we are coming to an era in which we can potentially create extinct animals from DNA, which is great. But, are they really that animal. The animal that is created in the lab will not have the same instincts as the one born in the wild because they have no one to teach them the instincts. In essence, th... | I believe humans have no obligation to save endangered animals. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-27T07:28:46 | 26 | 2 | 1 |
They are working for their wages, the only difference is that in some industries those wages come straight from the customer instead of the customer's money going to the business owner and then back to the employees. Tipping essentially cuts out the middle man, and allows you to directly pay the person providing you wi... | I don't like tipping. | 0 | 2015-08-05T16:29:56 | 64 | 10 | 43 |
”Oh, that's just a metaphor" "No no of course creationism isn't true. It's just that people back then didn't know better" Treating the Creation account in Genesis as literal is actually a fairly recent phenomenon. It has classically been viewed as metaphorical or allegorical for literally centuries. Thus, it’s not real... | Being religious in modern times is synonymous to being delusional | 0 | 2016-01-26T22:24:12 | 107 | 20 | 6 |
I'll take a stab at this because I'm a huge soccer fan and used to be a big football fan as well (having a TBI turned me off a bit, that's a different story). I think what it take to appreciate different sports is an understanding of the strategy. Football to the unitiated is just 22 guys running into each other, socce... | I think (American) Football is much more fun to watch than soccer. | 0 | 2014-07-02T04:30:40 | 69 | 2 | null |
One of these is not like the other. Chess is the one that doesn't fit. Chess is a game, while with darts and snooker it's not the same thing although it does still feel weird to call it a sport. The problem is drawing a line where there is or isn't enough physical exertion, as mentioned, shooting and archery are olympi... | Golf, Darts, Snooker and Chess should not be classed as sports by any definition. | 0 | 2014-10-27T03:52:10 | 44 | 1 | 1 |
That's very reasonable reasoning, but it's still not an experiment, which means your OP still defeats itself. Which, incidentally, also proves that gaining knowledge by means of experiment isn't self evident, since you yourself tried to logic your way to an answer rather than try to do an experiment to prove experiment... | I believe that skepticism is the only reliable way to determine truth. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-02T01:01:15 | 87 | 1 | 28 |
I went on a date yesterday with a girl who lived kinda far away, any further and I probably wouldn't have asked her on a second date. I realized if I could teleport suddenly my dating pool extends to everyone in the entire world rather than being limited to a 30 mile radius around where I live. Point being the applicat... | Teleportation would be an very overrated superpower in our world | 0 | 2015-10-24T21:44:03 | 317 | 3 | null |
part 2 of 2 It is interesting to note that the 117 IQ of the Black children (aged 7-10) from the Moore study is similar to the 118 IQ of White adoptees (aged 7) in the MTAS. These figures are also similar to the 119 IQ of Korean adoptees in [this study](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0191886989902468)... | The races aren't equal. | 1 | 2017-03-20T23:57:10 | 248 | 38 | 30 |
I think a lot of comments have already adressed some main issues with your statement. I want to adress something else, and that is that it seems you ignore part of the reasons why a few classic rock artists are considered good: a lot of the artists that you mentioned are so good because they were the first in their gen... | I believe the height of music was the 1960's-1980's, and most music made since then is terrible. CMV | 0 | 2013-10-21T15:38:16 | 87 | 2 | null |
This is a little bit of a grey area, but I think I agree with you in that situation. Convincing eyewitness accounts are often sufficient evidence to convict. I'm speaking of cases where the victim is certain that they couldn't reliably identify the rapist, as well as being pretty certain there is no conclusive physica... | I believe rape victims have a social responsibility to report their assaults to the authorities. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-24T19:27:34 | 953 | 1 | 96Δ |
Several times on this thread you've pointed out that Chinese conceptions of race and racism are vastly different than those in the west. Which is undoubtedly true, but that isn't to say that China has no conception of race or racism. You might find this book interesting. [The Discourse of Race in Modern China](https:/... | This Chinese ad featuring a black man being washed and coming out white is not racist. | 0 | 2016-05-29T17:50:44 | 148 | 7 | 34 |
I agree with your statement that people that believe these things "should" not complain about them. But I disagree with your title that they don't have the "right" to complain about negative events. Everyone has the right to expressions that run inconsistently with their beliefs. My guess is that many people that belie... | People who believe in a higher power that gives people a predetermined destiny/fate have no right to complain about a loved one's death (or any other negative event). | 1 | 2017-02-15T18:59:38 | 31 | 3 | 3 |
The armed forces attract mostly young poor white males who are religious and conservative. Their views are reinforced by their peers, all just like them. When I explain this, many do not realize that I am not criticizing them for being young, poor, white, male, religious, or conservative. What I'm saying is we need mor... | I believe every healthy American should serve 2 years in the military, starting at age 18. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-27T20:20:29 | 38 | 2 | 8 |
Can anyone explain to me why she's so heavily criticized for saying something that makes perfect sense: Mainstream video games are almost exclusively made to appeal to a male demographic, resulting in (arguably) sexist portrayals of women (both narratively and in the way they're presented). I agree. Video... | Anita Sarkeesian and similar feminists actually have a point about the portrayal of gender roles in video games. | 0 | 2016-12-07T04:41:57 | 617 | 0 | 1 |
Let's tackle this first: The strong nationalism back then can easily be considered as a sort of religion in my opinion We might end up having a fundamental disagreement on the definition of religion. Oxford English Dictionary lists the definition of religion to be "The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling... | I believe religion is the main cause of homophobia and a strong factor in other forms of discrimination. | 0 | 2014-09-21T03:01:58 | 45 | 2 | 4 |
Kids of school age spend more than half their lives outside of their homes in school and at other social gatherings. ....In school with (hopefully not children-hating) faculty and at social gatherings with their peers. Why would kids spend lots of time at places where lots of adults gather? | The negative view of children that most male redditors have is unhealthy and we need to stop encouraging it. | 1 | 2014-12-19T23:18:19 | 55 | 16 | 1 |
Three points. (1.) Dismissing people on factors they have no control over is bad, regardless of whether they bear any statistical meaning. If I were a lazy asshole, I could dismiss everyone in a wheelchair as potentially retarded, since people in wheelchairs are significantly more likely to be retarded than other peopl... | It is unreasonable to hold black people to the same intellectual standards as the general population. | 0 | 2016-08-17T23:17:48 | 52 | 1 | 1 |
Influence is a tough thing to quantify, but this seems fun so I'll bite. As my username indicates, I'm going to argue for Dylan. I think Dylan’s influence is perhaps less tangible than The Beatles, but I would argue it’s more far reaching. Dylan became the figure who was responsible for legitimizing pop music as an art... | The Beatles are the most important influential band in the postwar period | 1 | 2017-06-09T18:39:07 | 45 | 11 | 5 |
The smaller the pool, the smaller the chances of unionization. A three member union will face huge financing problem pretty fast. If not, then they're contributing so much that they won't see the advantage of staying in a union. Now, if you manage to unionize a hundred worker behind commons goals, I'd argue there's a ... | Labor Unions should be illegal CMV | 1 | 2013-11-14T02:08:21 | 42 | 2 | 15Δ |
I'll address the statement as written in the title. Let's look at it from a benefit-cost/risk point of view. **Benefit** I would argue that the benefit from such false-flagging is not large because it is unnecessary. Unless you are going to claim that a strong majority of "the vitriol against these women is posted by t... | It is in the best interest of internet feminists to make fake accounts to threaten people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian | 1 | 2014-12-03T02:41:08 | 73 | 2 | 1 |
Soooo many details about scope and definitions need to be clarified regarding the CMV. What constitutes violence? How do we weigh rioting against vandalism against murder? Are we limiting this to the US, the US and Europe, or globally? Are we limiting this to the past 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 years? What constitutes the polit... | The political right is more violent than the left. | 0 | 2017-02-28T22:26:12 | 77 | 1 | 12 |
I discriminate between sports teams I support and sports teams I don't (this is made easier by the fact they usually wear different colours). Discriminating between the teams allows me to enjoy it when the team i support wins. Being able to tell the difference between two countries and saying your prefer one over anoth... | Patriotism is simply rebranded positive discrimination. | 0 | 2017-04-18T20:43:54 | 66 | 1 | 13 |
Just because something is done for selfish reasons, it doesn't mean it isn't a good reason. In many parts of the world, where the social security systems are vastly different, the only people who will care for you when you are old is your kids. I suppose it's a kind of reciprocal arrangement - you looked after them whe... | there is no reason to have children | 1 | 2016-05-25T04:41:25 | 72 | 17 | 6 |
The common trait could be MAOA, the "warrior gene". https://news.brown.edu/articles/2009/01/hotsauce Monoamine oxidase A is an enzyme that breaks down important neurotransmitters in the brain, including dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. The enzyme is regulated by monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA). Humans have var... | I don't want to be afraid of random black people on the street. I was just attacked. Again. | 1 | 2017-01-06T22:32:40 | 393 | 4 | 2 |
Yeah, I guess a completely gendered society would be the ideal one if following my views, which of course is a unachievable thing for humans, as we are divided into two distinct sexes. For now, we indeed do not have the ability to play with gender as we wish. I'm sure many people would like to try all the genders, and ... | Non-binary genders make no sense unless you accept that gender stereotypes, roles and the like are real and should be so. Non-binary genders, therefore, enforce gender roles. | 1 | 2017-04-18T17:13:00 | 325 | 0 | 4 |
All the points you've made are valid. But a lot of them also apply to Trump. He said he was planning on completely abolishing Obamacare. He has an utter lack of respect for the government. But Trump is a lot worse for a few reasons. He has absolutely no knowledge on how to run a country. Ted Cruz, even if it's lacking,... | Ted Cruz would be worse for the US than Trump | 0 | 2016-04-17T11:21:52 | 144 | 0 | null |
I am also in automation, now doing consumer products manufacturing and packaging (I've also done power generation and other stuff). I believe that as someone who has direct experience with the field and with the semi-exact numbers of job losses that can result from proper execution of your role, you (and I) probably ha... | I, as a hopeful automation engineer, have no responsibility to people who may be put out of work by my possible innovations | 1 | 2014-04-18T21:19:51 | 322 | 184 | 7 |
Unfortunately Art is subjective and that will be the excuse on why they don't have to master their craft. I don't agree that Art should glorify the most admirable qualities of humanity though. That becomes a debate of is Humanity "Good" or "Evil" and it's neither. How can humanity think, reflect, learn and grow if the... | Modern Art Schools are Ugly and Dehumanizing | 1 | 2017-02-18T17:58:17 | 95 | 14 | 1 |
I think we learned in 2008 that the Government will allow a crisis to develop into a catastrophe before acting. I think you need to make the best decision based on the facts that you have right now. Noone can really predict what kind of legislation will pass in the future. | I shouldn't work to pay off student loans as they'll all be forgiven in a few years | 1 | 2016-12-19T22:25:25 | 23 | 6 | 3 |
The two are different because evolution is true and white supremacy is not. If someone shot people because he believed they were filled with blood would we have to stop teaching that people are filled with blood? Evolution doesn't justify anything. It is just a fact. Just because something historically happened in natu... | Evolution (or at least the concept of natural and artificial selection) should be taken out of schools for the same reasons that the Confederate battle flag should be taken down. | 0 | 2015-06-29T00:34:16 | 67 | 3 | 1Δ |
Scenario: You're a 175lbs dude carrying 75lbs of equipment and you're shot in the leg. Who would you rather have come to your rescue? An average guy, vs. an average girl? Chances are you'd chose the guy because it's far more likely they'll be able to carry your ass to safety. If you get the average girl, you're more li... | Women don't belong in Combat Arms in any capacity in the Military. | 0 | 2017-06-13T22:15:06 | 85 | 22 | 116 |
The first bomb that I have heard of the Clintons supporting Last I checked the First Lady has no military command/authority. black lives matter protesters who he accused of being related to gang violence and crack because of the color of their skin First, they weren't black lives matter protesters. Second that is not ... | Hillary Clinton poses a bigger threat to Civilians in the Middle East if she becomes Commander in Chief than Isis | 0 | 2016-04-12T18:58:51 | 162 | 28 | null |
I am an airline employee. This would be great for me, as flying standby would be a whole lot easier, but prohibiting over sale would negatively impact many more people. What if an aircraft has a mechanical issue and the only alternative is to use a smaller aircraft? This could cause the flight to become overbooked by a... | Overbooking should be illegal. | 0 | 2017-04-11T08:34:22 | 803 | 4 | null |
I was a virgin until I was 20, and in the years since have had sex more or less regularly. I feel that your attitude about it is what was psychologically damaging, not the lack of sex. Either way, why focus on boys? Do you think girls wouldn't benefit from some educational sex with an adult man? Because I think it woul... | Most adolescent boys would enjoy and benefit from sex with a 18+ woman | 0 | 2015-10-21T22:40:27 | 42 | 14 | null |
It is frankly delusional to suggest Jeremy Hunt (UK Health Secretary) understands health policy and its impact on the NHS more than a medical surgeon who has spent decades within this field. I think this is where the argument's flaws are exposed. It is actually 100% reasonable to say that a politician who has spent the... | I believe Government Cabinets should consist of individuals who are specialists in their field | 1 | 2017-05-08T21:44:32 | 23 | 7 | 125 |
Pledging your allegiance to a flag? That doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't you pledge your allegiance to your country? Hm. The point is that it's a national transcendent symbol. What? According to Wikipedia[1] : "A republic is a form of government in which affairs of state are a 'public matter'". You're pledging allegia... | I believe it is wrong to teach the Pledge of Allegiance in schools (not for religious reasons). CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-11T01:29:44 | 96 | 1 | 5 |
First of all, it is her body and her choice, and something you should respect. Second of all, if you're looking for people to give ideas about how not to be sad about it: not only do you not know what organs will be taken, you don't know if any will be taken in the first place. After she's gone - cremated or buried, n... | My girlfriend is an organ donor. While admirable, I want her to opt-back out. | 0 | 2014-04-21T18:31:22 | 49 | 2 | null |
What about the alternate variation of this thought experiment: Torturing the terrorist won't work because he's been trained to never talk, but you have his completely innocent, five year-old daughter. If you torture HER while he watches, he'll eventually tell you about the bomb. Is THIS justified? | Supposing that the "ticking time bomb" scenario is real, torturing terrorists is ethical | 1 | 2017-01-23T07:55:33 | 38 | 2 | 47 |
So you agree then? Since, surely, even with failed entrepreneurs, more people trying for it will even the odds somewhat. | Universal basic income will, in the long term, entrench inequality | 1 | 2017-05-01T17:08:21 | 102 | 3 | 4 |
Your brain makes decisions on actions based on external inputs and your own thoughts, values, and memories. You do something if it likely "benefits" you and you don't do something if it will likely "harm" you. In other words, if you perform an action, it *must* be because it benefits you, because that's how your brain ... | Every action taken can be attributed to selfishness. | 0 | 2016-02-02T00:48:58 | 42 | 2 | 9 |
2 counters to your view: 1. It sets up an infinite regression. I'm assuming you're a middle class person living in a Western country, in reasonable health (correct me if I'm wrong). So you feel unfairly advantaged by your access to calories, so you give up your calories to eat at maintenance, giving the excess to other... | I should feel guilty for eating at a caloric surplus, because many people in the world and in my country are eating at a caloric deficit. | 0 | 2017-06-27T04:52:36 | 46 | 1 | 2 |
I'll try to be brief. An Omni-benevolent being would look to maximize the amount of "goodness." If you and I are not able to choose our own path, we are not moral agents, therefore good cannot exist. Therefore an omni-benevolent being would want those things that exist and act to be moral agents. You can't be a moral a... | Believing in the Christian god doesn't make sense | 1 | 2017-01-06T23:24:10 | 103 | 3 | 21 |
Poor people did not have enough food to eat. So they started a revolution where they guillotined a bunch of rich people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution | Realistically, hurting the majority of poor people will not hurt the majority of wealthy people in any significant way | 1 | 2016-10-15T02:40:39 | 76 | 1 | 129 |
I'm on your side, but I can see the validity of the opposing viewpoint. There are a few reasons: * I could be diagnosed with cancer today and told that I only have 6 months to live. Cancer is one of those things that will eventually kill you no matter what, but with treatment and a bit of luck that 6 months could stret... | Physician Assisted Euthanasia is moral, especially for terminal patients. | 1 | 2017-04-25T20:35:46 | 151 | 16 | 5 |
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