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Depends on the context of dating, but if you meant long term relationship type dating, then for me, nothing. It depends on the person. Period. I don't care if they were/are a porn star, as long as their priorities, goals, ideals, and morality are in alignment with mine. That said, the CMV context is that it is hypocri... | Regularly watching porn while refusing to date ex-porn stars is hypocritical | 1 | 2015-11-08T21:04:49 | 48 | 3 | 4 |
Well first off, a banana is just a big starchy berry. Most species of plantains are eaten as staple foods, not as tasty fruits. Because of this, for many people it tastes chalky and is really only edible for about five minutes in between the inedible phases of green chalk and brown mush. Yes, during those five minutes ... | The banana should be the fruit winning gold medal, while the strawberry has no place on the podium at all | 0 | 2016-08-22T03:39:52 | 148 | 2 | null |
So I trudged through all the top-level comments and, while I saw some good arguments, there was mostly just one common theme: a simple majority is sufficient and/or necessary. Now I agree with most of what you said. I find all your arguments extremely compelling and I feel very similar to you. However, I feel the concl... | Drastic changes like the Brexit vote should require a "super" majority in order to go forward. | 1 | 2016-06-26T12:13:19 | 99 | 3 | 2 |
1 - The term is not being used more now than before. It's always used a lot. Not weird. 2 - The peaceful transition of power is unusual in the history of the world. This is **especially** true for world powers. The Roman Empire is a classic example, but the reality is that [all but five](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... | The fact that people are making a big deal about the "peaceful transition of power" is extremely alarming, and I think that the peaceful transition of power is something the US and other developed countries SHOULD take for granted. | 1 | 2017-01-25T00:05:39 | 54 | 1 | 3 |
My thoughts on the matter, for whatever they're worth. I'm not going to approach this question by arguing whether or not someone who is homeless deserves assistance. 'Deserves' in this context is incredibly subjective, and as many of the comments here suggest, quite difficult to draw a hard and bright line for. Alterna... | I mistrust and don't believe in providing for the homeless. Please CMV | 0 | 2013-11-20T05:54:39 | 81 | 1 | null |
When humans work in groups, the group has a higher intelligence than the individuals. The entire human race, combined, has more intelligence than any one individual. That is why the human race accomplishes things that no one individual does. I'm not sure of the technical term for this, but this will also be a factor i... | Artificial general intelligence will probably not be invented. | 0 | 2016-09-17T17:17:10 | 86 | 2 | 1 |
I don't think it's possible to be a true Christian if that means not breaking the laws of Christianity. The whole point of Christianity is that no one is able to fulfil the law, because we're all sinful. But it doesn't matter in terms of a Christian's salvation; Jesus died to take the punishment for sin so any person w... | I believe that homosexuality and Christianity are incompatible. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-19T21:55:43 | 248 | 30 | 1 |
To understand policy-making, think about goals and means. What goal does this law accomplish? Do you want to promote humane treatment of animals? Why not take a direct approach? I doubt that psychological mind games would be any more efficacious than simple regulation. Do you believe eating meat is inherently unethical... | I believe all meat eaters in the developed world should be required to personally kill, skin, and cook an animal at least once. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-31T19:20:34 | 78 | 27 | 2Δ |
Not surprisingly, most people are terrible at creating and adopting new words *on purpose*. Ten times out of ten, when you make up a word to describe something in your own life the word is going to make it through about three sentences before even you get bored of it and use something else instead. Language gets even w... | Using the LGBTTQQPAAS2 acronym doesn't represent the gay community and so shouldn't be used. | 1 | 2016-06-18T02:11:16 | 751 | 1 | 3 |
Even if this law were passed, things would not get better politically; It doesn't change anything. Instead of giving Senator Joe Blow a campaign contribution, I'll simply: * Offer him a spot on the Board once he retires. * Put his spouse/kid on the Board. * My company will purchase a piece of land, for *way* above mar... | The single-best thing we can do for our (US) political system is get rid of corporate campaign finance immediately. | 0 | 2015-10-06T18:33:29 | 39 | 1 | 3 |
It actually doesn't cost money to help the earth, except that people are making choices that don't help and/or do cost. For example its cheaper not to eat meat than it is to eat meat. Meat is horrible for the planet in that we need a ton of land to have the animals and even more land to produce food for them.. and they... | Helping the earth shouldn't cost money. | 0 | 2017-04-19T16:34:33 | 22 | 1 | 7 |
I guess I can clarify a bit that when I say "quiz bowl style event", I don't mean a game show with a scoreboard. I mean a conference room with the candidate, a TV camera, a moderator, and a computer. That's fair, but at this point you're really moving the goal post on this CMV. To ask for a quiz bowl style event in the... | One of the Presidential Debates should be a quiz bowl style event rather than a head to head debate. | 1 | 2016-09-15T22:57:52 | 234 | 1 | 1 |
You seem to contradict yourself, wanting to preserve the natural process of evolution on one hand, yet wanting humans to not change on the other. Consider the invention of fire. This allowed our ancestors to spend far less calories on digestion, and as a result, were able to spend far more calories on their brains, lea... | To ensure our survival and our humanity we must Stop science research in some areas, despite their benefits. | 1 | 2015-03-05T16:34:17 | 44 | 5 | 7Δ |
Stop thinking of voting as whether or not you tick a box or write in a name. Come election, every citizen is accounted for. If you vote, we take into account whom you voted for. If you didn't vote, we acknowledge that too. There's no such thing as not participating in an election, even if you don't vote. Everyone parti... | There is nothing wrong with not voting | 0 | 2017-05-02T22:19:47 | 28 | 1 | 13 |
Again, people put it in a way that as long as you know what traits you need to have, you already know how to get there. You don't just go to an inconfident men with personal issues caused by a long history with no success to build up his confidence and tell me "you should be confident", that's just mocking him as if he... | People keep dismissing TRP, but it's the best path to take for a man's self-improvement. | 1 | 2014-11-12T16:59:56 | 94 | 3 | 8 |
I think your first problem is assuming that religion was "made," like as a deliberate choice, rather than emerging organically among people. You don't not rape someone because religion says that its bad but rather because rape is morally bad. However, the problem is that for some people morality alone will not stop th... | I believe that religion was just made up to keep people in check. | 1 | 2016-03-27T01:02:55 | 48 | 12 | 7 |
You're half right. Generally speaking, conservatives avoid creating or endorsing new solutions to problems, and they oppose a great many things that are good ideas. But, believe it or not, conservatives *do* have the betterment of society in mind, and they play an important role in the proper development, growth and im... | I believe Conservative stances and policies are harmful to progress in society. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-19T06:00:22 | 34 | 25 | 11 |
If you think there's some list of 'stuff everyone HAS to do to not be lazy', then I can't change your mind. Such a list does not exist. I've written eight novels in the past ten years. Flossing? Don't care. If everyone thought weight was important, we wouldn't be having this discussion. | All obese individuals are lazy | 1 | 2016-07-25T19:54:05 | 181 | 5 | 1Δ |
Take a look at another thread that was just recently started in [r/islam: Thread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/50kz9d/muslims_of_reddit_what_are_your_feelingsopinions/) Take a look at the commenters that replied. The overwhelming majority of them don't seem to condone any violence towards gays, and would ra... | Islam is Evil. | 1 | 2016-09-01T23:30:00 | 198 | 5 | 1 |
The idea that truth is relative tends to be used to discourage people from strongly emotionally holding stereotypes about reality to be accurate. For example "Murder is wrong" is a statement that could easily be something objective about reality- maybe all people see it as immoral, or god has declared it immoral, or it... | Truth is not relative. Perception is. | 1 | 2016-10-29T21:58:01 | 56 | 4 | 84 |
If we don't have free will, how can we choose not to punish people? | I don't believe that free will exist and therefore I think we should not punish people | 0 | 2016-03-01T19:13:08 | 60 | 1 | null |
Basically it boils down to something like this: Insurance, no illness: mildly inconvenienced financially. Insurance, major illness: moderately inconvenienced financially. Savings account, no illness: No inconvenience financially. Savings account, major illness: I don't care how much money you saved, it's not enough. ... | The money I spend on insurance would be better spent on a savings account. | 0 | 2017-02-01T22:46:46 | 54 | 1 | 20 |
It really depends on how it's implemented, I believe the idea is that the money would come from the most wealthy in some way - there's no doubt that it will have to be a redistribution of wealth from the top to the bottom in some way to work. Some people(Bill Gates included IIRC) argue for taxing automation technologie... | I don't believe an Universal Basic Income would work, nor that it would be fair | 1 | 2017-03-11T20:12:09 | 50 | 1 | 69 |
This is a debate that's been raging where I live (Calgary, Alberta) as our most recent provincial government is moving min wage from $11-$15 over the next few years. We also just came down off a serious workforce shortage during the oil boom. I work in middle management for a large fast food chain, so this is where my ... | Minimum Wage is a bad policy that hurts a vast majority in order to help a tiny minority. | 1 | 2017-02-27T21:36:48 | 41 | 5 | 1 |
Ha, no, but I think most people aren't well-informed and lack the knowledge base to accurately assess risks. Anyway your CMV title asserts the positive "no one in the US or UK has a reason to be afraid of terrrorism". I've demonstrated that at least one person in the US (me) has a reason :P | I dont have any reason to be afraid of terrorism and neither does anybody in the US or the UK. | 1 | 2014-09-22T03:36:23 | 230 | 1 | 1 |
Not everyone is a parent, but most people have had parents. They are simply seeing the same relationship, and what works and doesn't work, but from the other side. If they were physically disciplined by their parents, and are still seeing the lasting effects of that as they have grown into adulthood, they are perfectly... | Non-parents’ views on parenting are worthless to parents. | 0 | 2016-01-24T18:07:53 | 43 | 2 | null |
I can see a number of problems with this. First, how do you define "fast food"? Is it the entire offering at a "fast food" restaurant, or just items that meet certain criteria, such as fat or calorie content. If it's the first, you've just seriously impacted tens of thousands of outlets, and the places that don't quali... | Fast Food needs to be taxed in order to help America’s obesity problem | 0 | 2016-02-15T18:24:22 | 50 | 19 | 156 |
Atheism is not the "belief that there are no gods". It is a rejection of the god claims that the atheist has been presented with. On top of this, an atheist *can also* believe the positive claim that there are no gods, but that's not a key part of being an atheist. | I think that atheists are just as illogical as they think theists are | 0 | 2014-04-05T11:10:20 | 82 | 0 | null |
Moral rights and responsibilities go hand in hand Why? I see no reason to see these as connected. | I think there is no rational moral justification for animal rights as a moral issue | 0 | 2014-06-10T17:07:40 | 85 | 1 | 6Δ |
most religions teach that their god is the only one and all others are wrong I'm not sure this is true. It is common to see the view among monotheistic religions that followers of other monotheistic religions worship the same god, especially among the Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam (also Samaritanism... | I do not only think that church as a organisation is bad, I think that any religion is fundamentally wrong. | 0 | 2015-12-25T12:58:47 | 134 | 2 | null |
Truly an Atheist is one who doesn't believe in a god. It doesn't mean I know that there isn't one. Either way the logic of "who am I to say there isn't a deity?" is the same as the religious. It doesn't matter what you think. If there is, there is and if there isn't, there isn't. | I associate Atheism with close-mindedness and lack of empathy. | 0 | 2015-12-25T05:33:23 | 65 | 1 | null |
You are just exposed to the wrong movies. You absolutely **NEED** to see [Castaway On The Moon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1499666/?ref_=nv_sr_1)! It is phenomenal and being stranded on an island is portrayed as a good thing. However, you'll have to be ok with subtitles (unless you are fluent in Korean). Anyway, becau... | I would enjoy being shipwrecked on an island. | 0 | 2014-05-01T16:25:22 | 47 | 2 | 2 |
1. It is pro tanto wrong to make animals suffer This is an unfounded assumption. Im not saying it is wrong to assume so, but there is no logical reason why we should believe that in the first place, until proven. 2. If it is pro tanto wrong to make animals suffer, then it is pro tanto wrong to kill animals See 1. Al... | I'm a vegan. Change my view. | 0 | 2016-07-20T16:16:38 | 144 | 1 | null |
America doesn't have the luxury of not responding to important geopolitical events. You're right about this. But the dichotomy you're assuming doesn't exist. People don't get mad when the US intervenes with economic sanctions or political dialogue; people get mad when the US intervenes by shooting people. That's not al... | I feel like the American's get a bad rap no matter what they do. I realize that their reputation was seriously hurt by their "War on Terror", but when there is a conflict anywhere in the world, if they intervene, they get shit on, and if they don't, they get shit on. | 1 | 2014-05-19T03:22:21 | 90 | 1 | 1 |
You defend PETA's euthanasia practices as utilitarian. They treat death with a rational and dispassionate approach. And you agree with them that animals are worthy of the same or mostly the same rights and protections from cruelty as humans. But if we treated humans the same way, it would be monstrous. We'd be euthaniz... | I agree with PETA. CMV. | 0 | 2013-11-15T22:50:44 | 138 | 5 | 3 |
First off, this whole thing seems like a bit of a straw man. Can you cite a specific university's policy, so we don't have to choose between speculating and taking your word for it? He's still responsible for his actions in spite of the fact that he is drunk. Why shouldn't people who become more promiscuous when drunk ... | Consent feely given while mildly intoxicated should still count as consent | 1 | 2016-12-14T17:37:51 | 413 | 200 | 6 |
I don't mean "Doesn't work at all" as "has no effect", but colloquially as "so minimal it's not worth bothering", like gardening with a plastic spoon from one of those ice-cream shops. The salient point being that making the change you're advocating will have no effect on the overall discussion, opinions, or views of ... | ShitRedditSays should require np links | 1 | 2016-01-26T19:41:33 | 191 | 6 | 6 |
I would like to understand exactly what do you want. Like some examples of specific thibns that are now a xertain way and shouldn't. LGBT people are "protected" in a very specific way. That protection doesn't make them special, rather it makes the normal in the eye of society. The argument for every bit of "protection"... | Addicts should be a recognized, protected minority group. | 0 | 2016-06-15T23:31:47 | 63 | 1 | 4 |
You keep replying to the same comment, rather than to my answers, which means I just have to repeat what I've already said. This is a question that has been legally settled. If you want to argue against it, you have to argue against the logic of the existing legal structure. There is a big difference between the estab... | I do not believe that prisons should have to accommodate the religious obligations of inmates | 1 | 2014-10-22T20:09:17 | 135 | 3 | 7Δ |
The one thing that truly sets Christianity apart (most religions incorporate the golden rule or rules about hospitality and charity) is the eminently results-oriented call to forgive those that hurt you This isn't unique to Christianity. Buddhism teaches a similar concept. Buddha: "If anyone should give you a blow with... | Christianity's call to turn the other cheek in the face of personal insult or violence sets it apart from other religions, it's a revolutionary moral call. | 1 | 2017-02-15T21:22:52 | 90 | 27 | 182 |
Regarding your example about Weezer, there was a Bestof'd post explaining that change a little while ago. In essence, Matt Sharp didn't have writing credits on any of Weezer's popular songs, and the change had more to do with personal stuff going on in Rivers' life. http://np.reddit.com/r/weezer/comments/2eiwjn/rentals... | "Going solo" or a single member of the band "taking the lead" leads to a sharp decline in quality in that musicians body of work. | 1 | 2014-09-04T19:43:38 | 50 | 3 | 1 |
Well, Goku would let Batman go so he could 'escape' the first encounter. Goku has no weaknesses that Batman could find. I don't know/care if Goku can beat superman, but superman has Kryptonite so Batman could exploit that. What does Goku have? Sorry I'm really late, but nobody mentioned him and I feel that Most charact... | I believe that Batman always wins the "who would win in a fight" game if he can escape the first fight. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-18T21:42:47 | 100 | 1 | null |
I think you're just wrong to frame taxes merely as "paying for services". That's just not the right way to think about it, and I can't think of any tax system that has ever really claimed to function that way. Think of it this way: We can expand your pizza example even further. Pablo has another competitor, Steve. Stev... | I can't wrap my head around why individuals who earn more money should be forced to pay tens of thousands more in taxes, when they utilize the services as often as anyone else. | 0 | 2015-07-12T04:45:10 | 77 | 14 | 48 |
I would argue debate is the MOST important part of religion. Without it, religion can (and has) led to terrible situations. The "do it or die" type of governments (thinking about old world monarchies) churned out awful practices that were more about political power than following religious beliefs. Since no one could c... | I think debating religion is a fun game, but ultimately pointless. | 1 | 2016-04-08T19:40:35 | 139 | 3 | 2 |
The United States already spends more per capita on health care and higher education than places like the UK and Canada. Why? Because everything costs more. healthcare costs are massive because we don't have a single payer negotiating for the best price on things. College costs are massive because schools see student l... | America can't afford universal healthcare or free college education. | 0 | 2015-06-30T23:09:20 | 181 | 3 | 3 |
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that americans use 9/11 as the primary justification for invading Iraq. That was never the reason for invading Iraq. We invaded Iraq under the (false) pretense that they had weapons of mass destruction and were planning on using them. 9/11 was not the primary reason for the ... | I don't think that 9/11 was that big a deal. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-20T19:27:48 | 278 | 108 | 23 |
Here is the thing. Without evidence, saying that something might exist is like saying that there is a pink dinosaur on the moon. It doesn't really matter. Most Atheists aren't anti God. They just don't believe in things without evidence. If there was indisputable evidence that something like God exists most atheists wo... | I'm convinced no one can be completely Athiest, because denying that there MIGHT be something out there is just as ignorant as a lot of Athiests claim religion is. | 0 | 2015-02-16T10:25:15 | 83 | 3 | null |
It's very difficult to change someone's views on something that is entirely subjective. The answer is: City life is preferable to country life, unless you prefer country life more. Some people like the more slowed down/relaxed nature of the country. Some people like the big open spaces, with the ability to do more acti... | City life is hugely preferable to country/small town life | 1 | 2015-07-15T21:11:07 | 26 | 16 | 6 |
I don't know. This was my first time doing this | The mainstream media has a liberal bias | 1 | 2017-01-30T05:16:56 | 119 | 4 | 1 |
Sometimes you are just so disgusted with or opposed to something that you will make a point of explicitly disavowing yourself of that quality/thing. As you state, religion is a huge thing. I live in a secular country, and even though you can safely assume that people aren't particularly religious unless they say so, yo... | The "New Atheism" is a religious movement. | 0 | 2015-02-16T11:52:52 | 159 | 1 | 4 |
The oculus can be pretty awesome for immersion. Granted there will always be people who go over the top for the sake of video views.. but it does effect you. For example, when I first started using the rift I could barely stand up with it- Going up to a large mountain in skyrim made me REALLY not want to fall down... I... | "Oculus Rift" overreactions are fake and are just people hamming it up for the camera | 1 | 2015-01-25T00:22:36 | 31 | 11 | 2 |
Yes. I've mentioned two studies, conducted by psychologists, that state that the symptoms of depression are removed following a course of SSRIs, in half of all cases. As far as the field of psychology is concerned, these people are "cured". I don't know if they can be as happy as someone else, because there is no basel... | Severe depression is incurable | 1 | 2014-06-25T17:49:44 | 26 | 1 | 8 |
I do believe there is a series of points that may counter this: First, I don't believe your 'polling' should be taken at face value as representing the average atheist. Even if the average atheist wasn't willing to change their views in light of certain arguments or evidence doesn't mean that their position is not fa... | Atheism is not a falsifiable belief | 1 | 2014-10-24T07:09:20 | 318 | 2 | 1 |
I believe social assistance is necessary for those who are incapable of working due to mental or physical reasons, In Canada, this already exists. Depending on what province you live in it's called different things. In Ontario, it's called ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program). This program still encourages indivi... | Competent individuals shouldn't be allowed to get social assistance. | 0 | 2015-11-24T18:19:06 | 43 | 1 | null |
Financial reward is only good for short-term motivation. Sure, if you offer me $10 to lose 10 lbs, then people can go ahead and make cuts in their diet and work out a little more and can drop 10 lbs. But it's not an economically viable solution. If you offer too much money people will take radical steps to get a quick... | Obese people should receive financial incentives to lose weight. | 1 | 2015-12-15T22:54:31 | 40 | 3 | 17 |
The [Justice Department's Ferguson Report](https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf) is long, but it has some key points from its summary: **Ferguson’s approach to law enforcement both reflects and reinforces racial bias**, including ste... | the current conversation about racial statistics and policing is misleading and will make society less safe | 0 | 2016-07-10T23:53:12 | 107 | 5 | 12 |
Crisis simulations for astronauts or pilots involve re-enacting situations where methodical, definitive actions solve the simulated problems. However, a crisis simulation for a politician or presidential candidate would be far more difficult to carry out. It would involve social situations where an action could have a ... | Crisis simulations would be better than debates. | 1 | 2015-08-01T02:05:59 | 62 | 4 | 1 |
However, I do think it is completely unreasonable to automatically spread a liberal amount of the Devil's Condiment on most every prepackaged sandwich! Where do you buy prepackaged sandwiches? What you linked was subway, which obviously the consumer controlls how much mayo goes on. In conclusion Mayo is gross! Not to m... | Mayo is EVIL, and should come on the side! | 1 | 2016-10-03T21:48:33 | 52 | 16 | 71 |
I could see this happening in the NBA. It's already established with the MLB, or at least a similar system. Although, with the NFL surely you have to see how dangerous this could be. You're talking about drafting kids out of high school to go up against 30 year old guys twice their size? Football is too physical for th... | US sport leagues should create minor league affiliates instead of using college as their scouting ground | 0 | 2015-11-29T19:05:07 | 59 | 1 | null |
Trump voters just cared more about economic issues than social issues. During the Obama years, the economy has been steadily growing, unemployment has been shrinking, and Clinton promised to continue on the same path. Of course, no presidential candidate has ever NOT promised to improve the economy. It's not enough to... | Shaming Trump supporters is not going to do any good for the Democratic party | 0 | 2016-11-23T12:50:55 | 97 | 11 | 18 |
What you're describing is a Cautionary Collision Warning System. The NHTSA has [guidelines](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwidqZ7DtsTQAhXnJsAKHfkRDOYQFgggMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhtsa.gov%2FDOT%2FNHTSA%2FNRD%2FMultimedia%2F... | Motor vehicles should indicate to the driver when they are using an inappropriate following distance (a.k.a tailgating) | 1 | 2016-11-25T19:38:57 | 125 | 137 | 3 |
For primaries, every vote does matter. Most states operate under a proportional system - delegates are awarded based on the portion of the vote that each candidate got. Your vote very well could be the one that makes the difference between a candidate getting 2 or 3 delegates. The general is a different beast, since y... | For the educated middle class, voting in the U.S. is a useless waste of time. | 1 | 2016-03-01T17:11:25 | 33 | 5 | 1 |
Suppose persons A & B both want to kill their (respective) spouses. A fails (the gun jams, for instance and he is immediately arrested), but B succeeds. I can see why there might be a compelling reason to say that Person A is just as *morally* guilty as person B, after all, both acted in truly despicable ways, bu... | People should be punished for "attempted" crimes (attempted murder, conspiracy to commit fraud, etc.) with the same severity as if the crimes were carried out successfully. | 0 | 2016-10-05T19:06:35 | 248 | 24 | 14 |
Trump is at least as bad on pretty much all of the negative points you raise against Clinton. For example, while I think it's true that the only thing Hillary Clinton has been consistent in is her consistent change of policy, changing with time and audience. It can also be said that it doesn't take a genius to figure... | Trump is the better alternative to Clinton | 0 | 2016-07-16T20:20:20 | 86 | 6 | null |
I can only speak for NY, but as a teacher, every certified person in school had to attend a workshop on DIgnity for All Students Act (DASA). This act basically says that schools are safe places for students and cannot be discriminated against on any grounds. This act and the courts have decided that teachers and admins... | If schools refuse to punish bullies than their victims should be able to fight them. | 0 | 2015-12-03T13:51:15 | 353 | 7 | 1 |
To me, it's more like invoking the standard normal curve. People like to throw extremes out in arguments if they don't like what you are trying to say. This is something that consistently drives me nuts when I get into it with people. I'll throw out a generalization and the counter to it is something along the lines of... | Common sense is a bs statement used to "win" arguments without any actual proof. | 0 | 2016-02-09T16:05:57 | 144 | 1 | null |
It's multi-billion dollar company trying to cash in on the plight of the lower class and disadvantaged. Pepsi probably doesn't give a shit about the struggles of the oppressed yet they pretend to *get it* by making a cringey commercial. It's patronizing. | The Pepsi commercial is not a big deal | 0 | 2017-04-13T02:39:59 | 67 | 1 | null |
I'm going to take a different route to changing your view and try to provide other, smarter decisions you can make with your body. I won't argue that a vasectomy is a bad thing (many others are doing that) but lets look at the benefits compared to the alternative, wearing condoms. You are *slightly* less likely to have... | As an 18 year old man, the smartest decision I can make with my body right now is to get a vasectomy. | 0 | 2015-12-19T20:22:25 | 222 | 3 | 1 |
I appreciate that schools and the pupils want to celebrate the end of their time at that school, but placing children in garishly-coloured robes at the age of 7 only cheapens what a 'graduation' stands for. In your view, what *does* a graduation stand for? Graduating from primary school may not be a milestone for you, ... | Graduation for infant and primary schools are ridiculous, and cheapen the meaning of a graduation. | 0 | 2015-05-13T16:20:24 | 32 | 3 | null |
I think i agree with you but here are some advantages to the current system: 1) Not stopping the clock when the ball goes out of play encourages the players to continue playing quickly. Especially if they are losing in the final minutes. This makes the game much more exiting. If the clock were to stop, once the ball we... | The soccer/football time keeping method (counting up to 90 + injury time) is inferior to the counting down and time-stop methods used in other major sports. | 0 | 2014-07-14T09:46:35 | 181 | 2 | null |
I have one hole that I didn't see countered. I think eventually North Korea will have to be reintegrated into the rest of the world, what they have now is unsustainable, I don't know how the sustain it now even because none of it makes any sense. However the main reason they don't is that upsetting that balance of powe... | I believe that the UN/Nato should militarily remove the North Korean regime and integrate it with South Korea. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-04T22:46:21 | 199 | 2 | null |
I don't think being comfortable with yourself and wanting to lose weight are incompatible. "Fat acceptance" sounds to me like it's accepting being overweight as a sort of aspect of your personality. It's really just superficial. If somebody is glorifying obesity as a part of themselves, or a good way to live or somethi... | I like the "fat acceptance" movement for the most part. Please CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-16T16:58:56 | 36 | 5 | 1 |
While I agree that neither site represents true pro President Trump or Anti President Trump sentiment, I would argue that T_D is one of the only places on Reddit you can have pro President Trump views. Go to r/politics and/or r/worldnews and make a positive statement about Trump... see what happens. Yes, I understand t... | /r/The_Donald and /r/MarchAgainstTrump are equally toxic, and neither represent real pro-Trump or anti-Trump sentiment | 0 | 2017-05-12T21:26:10 | 61 | 1 | 1 |
Morality didn't exist prior to human civilization That's like saying physics didn't exist before humans. It did, it's just that we have now explored and discovered it If morality was objective, debates would be get different I think you are conflating the concept of morality, and values / virtues. Morality outlines wh... | I can't even conceive how morality could possibly be considered objective | 0 | 2017-05-09T16:00:57 | 105 | 1 | 1 |
The issue with taxes are the impact it has on the person you're taxing. Firstly, a 15% flat tax would be a significant decrease in tax revenues, so that's unrealistically low. The issue with taxes is what activity are the people you're taxing giving up to pay for the taxes. The more someone earns, the more likely that ... | I do not believe in a progressive tax system. Change my view. | 1 | 2015-06-21T22:53:46 | 29 | 41 | null |
Eh...he's Slytherin. He may lack (all) self control (awesome for the guy with his finger on the button!), but he is dominated by his anger and petty need for revenge. Utterly dominated. that's Slytherin. He may lack elegance and class, But in his mind, he's trying really hard, and has, in his view, attained those quali... | Donald Trump is a Gryffindor | 0 | 2017-07-01T23:13:07 | 32 | 1 | null |
Meat processing and butchering is associated with some of the highest rates of injury and death of any industry in the United States. The workers are almost overwhelmingly poor and brown, and often illegal immigrants. They are being exploited so rich Americans can have a diet that has far more meat than most places in ... | I believe animal rights is a bourgeoisie social issue and undermines the struggle of the poor. | 1 | 2016-04-12T01:11:23 | 34 | 2 | 18 |
I went to a catholic school for a number of years and was required to read the bible and thus got the catholic point of view. Afterwards I studied two years of protestant views and then a year of Islam. That being said I am not religious. I do think reading religious texts like the bible is necessary because it teaches... | I think literature (and Bible, but that's just my country) should not be taught in high-school. It's a useless subject for a large majority and a completely uninteresting subject for most kids. | 0 | 2015-04-03T02:49:30 | 46 | 1 | null |
Frankly most websites worth their salt have your bases covered in the case of a brute force attack. Limiting the amount of attempts and disrupting mass attacks is the bulk of **their security concerns** not yours. The correct horse method works best if there is a super computer is trying to crack your password. Most pe... | Websites should relax their password policies. (X-post GUE) | 0 | 2015-01-25T21:29:32 | 247 | 39 | null |
I know reddit doesn't like to hear this, but marriage isn't the disproportionately massive risk for men that the horror stories make it out to be. I'm not going to say there aren't any inequities that need to be hammered out, because as a historically gendered institution, there are still remnants of that, plenty of wh... | I don't think there are many good reasons for Western men to get married anymore. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-19T07:17:00 | 142 | 57 | 61Δ |
You're not wrong that black history is really depressing, and between that and all the police shootings and stuff that you see in the news I can see how you'd come to think this about white people. I do believe that there are white people who find it hard to empathize with black people, but it's not because they're ev... | Almost all white people are inherently racist/evil and blacks should segregate | 0 | 2016-10-19T19:32:40 | 232 | 3 | 3 |
As an electrical engineer with very intimate ties to the auto industry and the UAW this is a disturbing question imo. Unions nearly destroyed the American auto industry. They would almost certainly do the same in the engineering industry. Unions destroy moral and motivation. Why would you work hard when your co-workers... | Software engineers (and engineers in general) should be unionized | 0 | 2016-04-27T03:19:00 | 124 | 1 | null |
1) You say that it's unfair to stigmatize smokers but not obese people, and so the solution is that we should stigmatize obese people as well. However, wouldn't an equally reasonable solution be to stop stigmatizing smokers? Thereby removing the unfairness. 2) What about people that are overweight due to medical condi... | Obese/overweight people should be stigmatised just as harshly as smokers are in today's society | 0 | 2016-12-12T22:55:58 | 76 | 2 | null |
The government enforces those regulations via lawsuits, and if it were to promulgate a regulation like this and attempt to enforce it via a lawsuit, it would likely lose, because it steps too far outside the bounds of what Congress has statutorily authorized them to regulate. You were confused by a use of the term that... | Devices incapable of hovering should not be permitted to call themselves hoverboards. | 1 | 2015-12-10T16:54:44 | 228 | 5 | 181 |
The quality of life maintained by wealthy people is predicated on the existence and subjugation of some sort of underclass. For an obvious example, the aesthetic quality of their homes will succumb to entropy as their gardeners and maids disappear. Other "wealthy people" may still "buy their products"... while their ... | Realistically, hurting the majority of poor people will not hurt the majority of wealthy people in any significant way | 0 | 2016-10-14T08:10:26 | 76 | 8 | 2 |
Sure, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I wonder if your Boston/NYC experience has skewed your experience - those are super gay-friendly cities where the pride parade is almost superfluous. In many cities, those parades are actually needed. For most of the country (and most of the world), it's better ... | If straight and cis people attend a Pride parade, they should spend some of their time there volunteering. | 1 | 2015-07-17T18:34:39 | 64 | 4 | null |
Thus I submit that simply saying that anything can be art because it's "subjective" is like confusing how one views a work, with the work itself. You may kinda have a point here, but on the other hand, "anything can be art" is a little misleading. If I put a crucifix inside a jar of urine and call it "art", I'm not say... | Modern Art is not "Real Art" and using the argument that it's subjective is a poor argument. | 0 | 2016-12-04T21:05:53 | 710 | 1 | 8 |
If something was outside the Universe, it would also be part of the Universe too. Exactly. Which means that nothing is outside the universe. | "Nothing" is NOT REAL! | 1 | 2017-03-12T02:44:13 | 32 | 4 | 3 |
The first civil wars were politically motivated, not religious. correct, but the fundamental issue was the legitimacy of rashidun rule and their succession of the prophet, against that of Ali. The Kharijites also broke off due to their perceived corruption of the position of the Caliph. By the second fitna, both Sunni... | Islam is not an inherently violent or evil religion. | 1 | 2016-08-27T07:51:37 | 72 | 1 | 1 |
I'm not sure about WiiU right now, since it's the only Console I don't hate It's got a bunch of really good exclusive titles. That's the only *major* difference between *any* games platforms. For the most part, you can get any game that's on PC on PS4 and Xbox One. But the best games on WiiU are *only* on WiiU. I don't... | PC is the master race of gaming. | 1 | 2014-08-07T19:55:02 | 85 | 2 | 8 |
Speaking solely on the killing of animals being morally unjustified; morality is inconsistent, and you have to accept that before continuing with your argument. People have different views on the value of life and different values for different lives. That said I still value the lives of animals, but I have to draw th... | being a vegan is morally right for me. And probably for you. | 0 | 2016-07-08T01:12:17 | 287 | 0 | null |
Well the title of your CMV is "I don't think it's detrimental to servers if ***I*** don't tip them." *[Emphasis added]* If you want to talk about some hypothetical world in which no one tips servers, then that sounds like a whole new CMV thread. In this one, ***your*** lack of tip is having effects on the servers you e... | I don't think it's detrimental to servers if I don't tip them | 1 | 2014-08-03T21:34:55 | 85 | 7 | 2 |
California's water problem isn't that there's not enough water, it's that there's not enough water to satisfy demand at the crazy low prices California charges for the water. If farmers, industry, and households had to actually buy water in a free market, the price would rise, substantially for farmers, less so for hou... | Southern California should not exist as a major settlement | 1 | 2015-03-18T06:19:19 | 78 | 137 | 67Δ |
But it's wrong to hurt someone on purpose. Why? Ignore the subjectivity of what equates to "harm" for the moment and let us consider if there is ever a justification to harm someone deliberately. Suppose for example you are acting to protect people from said person who is going to harm them in turn; surely stopping tha... | Right and Wrong do exist | 0 | 2017-05-26T00:53:03 | 77 | 1 | 3 |
Just because I don't want to watch my daughter have sex doesn't I shouldn't have sex. People don't like seeing their family members sexuality but that doesn't mean sexuality is wrong. | If you are not comfortable having your daughter doing porn you should not watch it. | 0 | 2015-03-31T00:54:47 | 61 | 1 | null |
Speaking as a fat guy, I'll try to change your view Balding guarantees jokes. Big noses, ears, chins, heads, hands, feet...all will bring in the jokes. But don't even think about mentioning someone's weight...that's mean. These actually aren't commented on a lot. I've heard rooms go silent on someone insulting an ugly ... | I don't agree with the social shield around fat people. They got that way via choices and I don't feel cruel for being disgusted by them. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-24T04:55:46 | 81 | 2 | null |
1) ALL of the buildings in the complex were damaged by massive buildings falling on them, building 7 just got the worst of it. IIRC, building 7 fell about an hour after 1 and 2, and firefighters had already evacuated because they could tell it was on the verge of collapse. 2) If you watch video of the towers falling, y... | I believe 9/11 was an inside job. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-18T04:37:07 | 1,727 | 8 | 1 |
I'll start you with [this](http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/09/20/medicare-is-more-efficient-than-private-insurance/) for #3, but if you look deeper into the issue you'll find that there is more evidence for government programs than there is for using federal contractors/privatization. I'm not sure if you read my di... | The US couldn't successfully implement a single-payer health care system | 1 | 2016-01-03T04:37:17 | 61 | 3 | 1 |
You learn bigger words and more complex language so you have the tools to speak to anyone in any context, not just to the masses. Language is used to convey ideas and the more specific words you have at your disposal, the more accurately you can convey your message to others, the better. Being able to deliver your mess... | I shouldn't learn more advanced vocabulary if barely anyone would understand me. | 1 | 2017-01-21T01:17:12 | 19 | 14 | 44 |
No offense, but it's not really something that you can choose or not choose to believe in. Gender is based on objective observations of the behaviors and social norms of the sexes across all human cultures. Just because gender theory isn't an empirical science doesn't mean you should just ignore it or pretend it doesn'... | I don't believe in gender, other than biological sex. As in, I don't believe in any set gender norms/the existance of a non-biological gender. | 0 | 2015-07-14T06:46:20 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
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