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Now picture this, you are a teenager and you don't need anything more than a 7$ per hour wage, you go to a business, and they ask you "how much should we pay you?" you answer "...I think my job will amount to 7$ per hour!" your boss will say "Okay, you got your first job!". With a minimum wage hike, this teenager, desp... | I don't think a minimum wage hike is a good idea. | 0 | 2015-12-31T19:55:54 | 60 | 2 | 42 |
I understand that my circumstances aren't really as bad as a lot of other people have it and that if i just power through this treatment i can get my original lifestyle back (hopefully). I just want to feel like my old self. It looks like you already know the answer. Power through the treatment and don't fuck it up. ... | I should drink at my friends wedding next weekend | 0 | 2017-01-06T19:49:19 | 40 | 1 | 1 |
This one is hard to explain but I'll start out with the opening controversial statements. Communism could be a good thing. Eugenics could be a good thing. Neither will ever work. Eugenics could be a good thing, but every time it has been attempted it has been usurped or corrupted. The same thing can be said about commu... | Eugenics Is A Good Idea, Just Gone About In The Wrong Way In The Past | 1 | 2017-04-17T19:55:06 | 67 | 17 | 1 |
I think even unknown artists play this game because deep down, they're hoping the exposure will help them get a deal with a major studio and they can take advantage of the same system. If you're an artist, and you make a new thing that costs $10 (and has negligible reproduction costs) once a year, you can make a damn c... | No artist is being sincere when he/she makes pro-piracy statements, but is just trying to appeal to the tastes of a young, technosavvy market. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-05T08:31:11 | 41 | 3 | 19Δ |
The one hope I have is that Trump will accelerate nuclear development. China has a massive program developing every type of advanced fission reactor, including molten salt and fast reactors. The U.S. has outdated regulations making this sort of R&D practically impossible, and at least one U.S. nuclear startup (Terr... | Trump's position on climate change will devastate (if not outright doom) the world in the long run. | 0 | 2016-11-14T22:27:14 | 56 | 1 | null |
UBI could be as cheap as we want it to be, the budget is much more controllable than with hundreds of targeted welfare programs. For example, one could just sum the total amount spent on welfare last year, take 95% of that number, and make that the budget for UBI. There, we've saved money. That would be the equivilent ... | I can't understand why both conservatives and liberals wouldn't both be equally in favor of a UBI (as opposed to a welfare state) | 0 | 2017-02-10T00:30:52 | 45 | 5 | 9 |
I do share some of your fears, but you also need to trust in advances in science and engineering to solve many of the problems. Renewable energy is increasingly competitive and a lot of money and research is going into making it the default option. As fossil fuels become more scarce they will become more expensive, whi... | [CMV] I believe that it is too late for humans to avert catastrophic climate change because even if we did make drastic changes now it would not be enough to stop us from going past tipping points | 0 | 2015-08-09T09:16:19 | 68 | 1 | 1 |
I'm going to ask you a different question: is there no one poking fun of any Asian inside their own country? There is no one in a city that looks down on the country people? There are no wealthy that look down on the poor? People that can trace their linage back 10 generations in their homeland don't look down upon peo... | Asians from developed countries in Asia who choose to move abroad to a western country solely because they like the way of life there is being unwise as they will experience racism abroad | 0 | 2016-10-22T17:02:43 | 94 | 1 | null |
If you're referring to people who don't believe that climate change exists at all, then they are likely not the types of people to do anything about it. I can't imagine anyone in any professional capacity whether it's a professor, a politician, or an industrial entrepreneur who thinks that the climate stands still. As ... | Climate change deniers should be held accountable for any future catastrophes that might come as a result, such as Wars and Diseases. | 0 | 2016-11-17T00:14:30 | 61 | 3 | 1 |
Some of your points are completely valid, but there are a couple I think are way off-base. Mainly, your claim that there is no physical labor or risk of injury in retail. My retail experience was at a grocery store where there were no permanent cashiers---we rotated from stocking the shelves to ringing up customers eve... | Retail work is not bad enough to warrant the level of complaints from its workers | 1 | 2017-01-02T19:50:25 | 60 | 27 | 2 |
The Republican Party is not a part of small government. No Republican president has believed in small government, not Bush, nor Reagan, nor (particularly) Nixon. This is because nobody cares about the size of government (or "states rights" or any of that guff). The Republican party is an institution designed to convert... | The principles of the American religious right are incompatible with the principles of small-government in the Republican Party | 0 | 2016-04-04T01:10:03 | 45 | 1 | 7 |
-The American Revolution: It did involve great thinkers and advancement of political philosophy, but the French did it better, No, they did a terrible job and ran their country into the ground. We managed to have a revolution without a crazy dictator. We did it better. World War 2: Significant military power, certainl... | People shouldn't be proud of America | 0 | 2015-07-04T07:23:36 | 85 | 4 | 3 |
In the summer, a lot of women will shave their bikini lines at least. Men or women, its distracting to have hair coming out of a speedo/swimsuit in the crotch. And in what in my experience, just shave it all rather than part because it is just simpler. So shaving for some women is a seasonal thing. | As a man, I find it odd that "shaved" has become the norm for female pubic hair. I don't think it's a fetish that I prefer women with "hair down there." [NSFW] | 0 | 2014-04-30T18:18:40 | 301 | 1 | null |
I think everyone is looking at this from the wrong perspective. Bright line rules are a legal fiction that is necessary in some circumstances. For example, clearly infants are incapable of exercising the ability to vote, and we therefore need a way to determine at what point they are capable of exercising the right. In... | Minors Should Never be Tried as an Adult | 0 | 2016-03-16T18:56:55 | 66 | 7 | null |
Seems like a kind of false dichotomy and circular logic jumbled up. Academic knowledge can be very useful, but comparing the two like this assumes in its premise what it wants to conclude - academic knowledge is just defined as being useless knowledge from the start here. Part of practical knowledge is applying academi... | Practical knowledge is worth more than academic knowledge. | 1 | 2017-01-06T22:25:54 | 37 | 22 | 25 |
Without jumping too far into the weeds, Protestants (and particularly Southern Baptists) pretty much follow everything you describe. 1. Most of the time, praying before a meal is done silently or within ones head (all protestants) -when was the last time you actually caught one of us praying openly and out loud before... | I believe that mainstream Christianity is incompatible with the teachings of Jesus as presented in the bible. | 1 | 2015-01-18T04:45:50 | 39 | 43 | 1 |
Caesar, while his military career is impeccable, is often forgotten about when discussing the other good things he did for Rome. So, I'm not going to mention the military aspect of him. We all well know of the riches and land secured for the Roman people, the increasing quality of military strategy, and the better pay ... | On this date 2058 years ago, in an act of shocking betrayal, Brutus and his co-conspirators killed Julius Caesar. However I believe Brutus is more worthy of celebration than Caesar - CMV | 0 | 2014-03-15T21:11:31 | 73 | 9 | null |
I realize that I may be living in an idealistic world with my rose colored glasses and should doesn't mean does. Maybe we have to have protected classes because people aren't inherently good and without protected classes we would revert back to segregation. Looks like you've answered your own question. Look at the stat... | We shouldn't have any protected classes of people. | 1 | 2017-05-23T18:09:07 | 43 | 3 | 15 |
I would like to turn a little and propose a *better* way to avoid this problem: Father's names may not be put on birth certificates without a paternity test. We have the science to determine conclusively the parentage of a child. Why on earth are we still filling out government forms on hearsay? If someone witnesses ... | A negative paternity test should exclude a man from paying child support and any money paid should be returned unless there was a legal adoption. | 1 | 2016-09-02T17:37:43 | 1,414 | 1,212 | 4 |
You are NOT free to have reproductive health care. If this is about employers (Hobby Lobby, Catholic groups, etc.) then they are free from providing something they disagree with. If it's about abortion in general, those of us who are pro-life view it as equivalent to murder and I agree that you are NOT free to take a l... | CMV The far right/Tea Party/social conservatives do not like or want "freedom" despite claiming otherwise. | 0 | 2015-10-13T23:16:33 | 38 | 3 | 2 |
According to some [theories](https://www.wired.com/2006/07/genius/) there are two types of genius. Some people as you say have amazing talent and would be very good with no effort but great with hard work. Others do middling work with high effort but then just keep getting better year after year with continued practice... | If you're REALLY good at something, practice is more or less arbitrary | 0 | 2017-02-05T00:23:04 | 38 | 1 | null |
I've never felt uncomfortable when I've been in a public toilet with a noticeably transgender woman and I'm not sure why people expect me to? There's a handful of them at my uni and they're usually painfully shy-looking, just trying to get in and out without incident as fast as they possibly can. I make a point of smil... | Public restrooms should be separated by sex (genitalia) and not gender (sexuality/identification) | 0 | 2016-04-12T03:58:02 | 112 | 21 | null |
"Two genders and people who feel more or less strongly about them" is actually precisely one meaning of the phrase "nonbinary". For example, if you accept the feeling more or less strongly, that pretty much automatically allows agender, as that is simply the state of feeling not at all strongly about gender (for a lot ... | There are only two genders | 0 | 2017-04-04T19:50:45 | 49 | 0 | 36 |
I can confidently say that economies are far harder than climate to model. Economies are made of people. People's minds! Minds don't obey the laws of physics. All the significant determinants of climate do follow the laws of physics (and chemistry). Physics, while complex, is nothing compared to behaviors, especially w... | Global warming predictions are epistemologically flawed, and should not be the basis for public policy. | 1 | 2015-06-04T06:04:26 | 534 | 6 | 1 |
I believe the same thing, that people are "selfish" in that their actions always benefit themselves. Example, if I make a sacrifice for my family I'm doing it because it makes me feel better to make that sacrifice than it would for me to choose an alternative. However, this worldview doesn't make me depressed at all. ... | Human beings are without exception selfish in everything they do. | 0 | 2017-03-24T18:43:23 | 30 | 1 | null |
One small issue: what's the difference between "artificial general intelligence" and *actual* intelligence, in practical terms? Your arguments about the Singularity amount to "it's similar to religious crazy talk so it must also be crazy talk", but they don't actually address the root of the Singularity itself, which i... | The singularity is just the rapture repackaged for techies. | 0 | 2015-11-28T04:05:32 | 69 | 1 | 5 |
1)The problem here is you are asserting that these great automations necessarily will happen. It obviously might not necessarily work out as you imagine. 2)There could be negative long term effects that we don't realize. It could result in a highly complacent population. Maybe after thousands of years we stop evolving... | Automation will replace human jobs, and that's a good thing | 1 | 2016-04-01T06:03:06 | 44 | 12 | 3 |
This whole thing about having women go for free has nothing to do with equality but everything to do with business. Think of mainstream clubs, for example, the higher the female:male ratio the more drinks will be sold (since men typically buy drinks for women they find attractive at the club). Furthermore, lots of wome... | You shouldn't get free things based on your gender. | 1 | 2016-06-26T23:36:54 | 65 | 73 | null |
When people are dying across the world due to civil war and starvation, the average person on the street knowing next to nothing about our political system, and the presence of hundreds of other actually important topics of conversation available, what the hell is the big deal about games? Sports are a waste of time an... | I think sports are ridiculous and carry no real value. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-08T03:28:11 | 67 | 36 | 126Δ |
My point is that these people are saying one thing (everyone should be self-reliant) and doing another (gradually sliding their children into self-reliance over an indeterminate period of time). That's always been the case. The whole notion is rooted in Agrarian Paternalism. In other words, "I broke my back to provide ... | People who espouse ideals of self-reliance should kick their children out at adulthood, else they reveal themselves as hypocrites | 1 | 2016-12-23T08:35:07 | 55 | 2 | 12 |
What's worse- the pressure to get a career or the inability to do so? In one scenario, people can make their life choices although one choice is slightly harder to do, in the other, there is only one choice. I don't see why anyone would prefer the latter. And frankly, regardless of your personal opinion, I highly doub... | It's okay to be a woman against women's rights | 0 | 2017-03-24T01:33:37 | 324 | 7 | null |
With some of the reasonings you've made in this thread, I need to tell you that there are plenty of extroverts who neglect their children because they're so extroverted, they'd rather go out and hang out than give time for their children. Just because you like spending time at home doesn't mean you don't want to be aro... | Introverts shouldn't have children. | 1 | 2017-05-16T17:16:56 | 123 | 3 | 2 |
Doesn't the parents insurance cover all of this? Idk what public money your talking about. Taxes do not go into treatment for these kids as the care is billed to the parent's insurance. | As a society, we should not use public resources to cure or treat children with chronic illnesses. | 0 | 2015-08-03T22:51:20 | 51 | 2 | 6 |
Pro guns: Christianity is a very passive religion. It seems that guns are a direct contradiction to many base principles in christianity, such as 'Thou shalt not kill', and just in general to turn the other cheek. Guns are used for hunting, the bible isn't against hunting. There are other issues with this argument, but... | Fundamental christians often have more anti christian political views than atheists | 1 | 2017-02-20T17:20:36 | 60 | 2 | 46 |
The problem with zero tolerance policies is that they don't give administrators any discretion when punishing students. For example, let's say a student is getting bullied, and one day the bully decides to pick a fight with that student. Zero tolerance policies could force the school to suspend both students for fighti... | Zero Tolerance policies in schools are a necessary part of keeping our children safe during school hours. | 0 | 2015-10-14T18:33:22 | 34 | 5 | 46 |
One of the weird things about universities is that [students at the top of their class at a mundane university tend to do better than students at the bottom of their classes at a prestigious one](http://www.anthonysdesk.com/so-you-want-to-be-an-engineer-consider-this/), even when the students at the prestigious place g... | Sports should not have a place in American universities. | 0 | 2017-05-21T06:15:17 | 74 | 20 | 3 |
He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself. | I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. | 1 | 2017-04-01T22:09:13 | 60 | 306 | 100 |
It's all about getting the ratio right. Nobody wants too much milk in their cereal, and too little milk & you're eating barely damp flakes. If you pour a bowl of milk, and then pour cereal into it, the cereal tends to float at the top, held up by the surface tension of the milk. When it's floating on top like that... | Cereal first then milk. | 1 | 2015-07-23T06:56:19 | 40 | 8 | 23 |
I think the important distinction here is between racism and discrimination. Racism, at least to me, is the systematic oppression of individuals of a certain race as a result of the policies in place. Discrimination is the general dislike of a race. The only way for "reverse racism" to actually exist would be if someho... | The term 'Reverse racism' is racist. CMV. | 1 | 2014-02-09T19:49:01 | 73 | 1 | 1 |
OP happy to help change your view on this. Lets start my breaking apart what you are saying. Edh is meant to be a fun casual format of magic the gathering. So I think this is the start of your misconceptions that a lot of people have. It is the false notion that EDH is a "casual" only format. How do you define "casual... | EDH should not be "competitive". | 1 | 2016-12-09T16:16:59 | 120 | 11 | 1 |
Head on the tray is not feasible. It is not a good posture for a person and few people would be able to do it. | Airline seats should not recline | 0 | 2017-03-16T01:16:18 | 26 | 1 | 80 |
First, I think your examples of lifters who eat a lot of shit don't apply to most people, you have to be pretty dedicated to building and maintaining muscle mass to eat like that, and the fact is a lot or most people just don't want to work out like that. So if we accept that the crap food isn't doing something worse t... | "Healthy" is a borderline meaningless term nowadays and some's obsession with "healthy" eating is quite frankly stupid. Exercise is far more important for general health than food. | 0 | 2015-01-29T23:28:43 | 52 | 3 | 16 |
Well I think that the basic flaw is that it doesn't feel like it's justice. Should people who commit crime be in a way better place than where they come first? In what you describe, imagine I am a "prisonner" there because I killed someone, why would I want to leave a place where I can actually have an influence in run... | We should set up self-sufficient gated communities to act as halfway accommodation between prison and society | 0 | 2016-12-20T13:55:44 | 20 | 6 | 9 |
A better way to think about the stigma around facebook stalking is that's it's a matter of social convention and politeness/tact. Would you (or whoever is facebook stalking) feel awkward about telling the person whose old info you're looking through that you're doing so? By the nature of the question (I don't think th... | I believe Facebook is a medium for sharing information/media and that 'friend-ing' someone gives implicit consent for them to view all your content throughout history. ∴ I believe 'Facebook stalking' is completely acceptable, CMV. | 0 | 2013-09-26T07:56:32 | 65 | 0 | null |
I'd say go to parties, enjoy yourself, and try not to focus on the fact that you are not drinking while others are. There doesn't really seem to be much of an opinion to change. If you do not enjoy drinking, then don't drink. However, if you do not like the image of drinkers being at one extreme (immature and destructi... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 0 | 2015-01-18T19:35:41 | 446 | 1 | null |
No single individual will be able to change your mind on something like this with rhetoric, nor should they. To come to conclusions on a scientific topic, we use science, not ethics, normative economics, etc. Furthermore, I think you've already loaded this quite a bit--anthropogenic global warming is not "controversia... | Climate change is not anthropogenic and we humans need not be concerned with it. CMV. | 1 | 2013-11-19T02:12:36 | 55 | 27 | 1 |
Which would you like to take: the red pill or the blue pill? That choice isn't about truth vs. lies. It is a choice about comfort and happiness vs. hard truths. Your view is based on the desire to feel happy. Why? Why is that valuable? Why are you unhappy? What does it say about you as a person that you want to aquire ... | Having a belief system only based on known facts is destructive to your psychological well-being | 0 | 2016-08-24T21:19:55 | 52 | 2 | 36 |
Free trade is a great idea that I support. TPP is not free trade. [Buried in the massive text of the TPP are rules regulating the internet.](http://www.ibtimes.com/trans-pacific-partnership-intellectual-property-law-why-internet-freedom-groups-dont-2171936) This would give restrictions even tighter than the DMCA and co... | I'm a fan of free trade, and probably the TPP | 1 | 2016-10-14T04:28:48 | 77 | 1 | 3 |
Some of the problem comes from an extension of the [Seinfeld is Unfunny](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny) trope. The Blair Witch Project was revolutionary in its time, but its formula has been so overdone now that the original looks dumb (see *Cloverfield* for a fantastic example of this co... | The Blair Witch Project isn't even remotely scary, and its current position as the gold standard of the American horror genre is a farce (Warning: Spoilers) | 1 | 2015-03-28T01:25:03 | 85 | 7 | null |
I think you have two arguments here. That the Warriors are bad for basketball and that the three point line is bad for basketball. I get why basketball "purists" don't like the Warriors. And I am partially in the same boat. But that style really only works because steph curry (and klay "unfinished police sketch" Thomps... | Steph Curry and the Warriors are Ruining NBA Basketball | 1 | 2016-04-21T05:12:09 | 31 | 3 | 6 |
I personally favor Tau over Pi. It was what made the unit circle really click for me. The best argument I can offer for favoring Pi over Tau (does this make it half an argument?) is that the extra factor of two is inelegant. | Tau is Better Than Pi | 0 | 2016-02-13T15:15:17 | 42 | 1 | null |
If AI can reduce the cost of certain essential goods/ services such as healthcare, transportation, food, education, law and order, judiciary, then the society as a whole would benefit and I don't think income redistribution will be needed. Wealth gap is a serious problem especially when certain goods/services that are ... | Most people will be harmed by AI unless we redistribute income | 0 | 2017-07-05T16:32:16 | 355 | 1 | null |
For one thing, the issues facing the poor are meaningless in a country where the poor can't vote. No politician ever has to care about pleasing them. This also leads to an oligarchal structure. Educated people are also subject to short sighted greed just like everyone else. College educated people also tend to be wealt... | The more educated you are, the more your vote should count in an election | 1 | 2016-12-04T04:34:09 | 39 | 8 | 17 |
I do believe that the more we try to be equal the less freedoms we will have i think the phenomenon you are describing - laws intended to make people equal reduce freedom - is a real thing, but it's not a constant. there are plenty of laws that would make people _more equal_ and therefore increase the total number of p... | The more equal we want our society to become, the less freedom that society will have. | 1 | 2014-10-20T21:59:10 | 527 | 3 | 1 |
I think the point of those tests is to make sure that you're physically fit, not that you're better than everyone else. I'm sure there are some grueling tasks, but your argument is that it makes our fighting force less effective or endangers lives. I can't imagine actual combat being that heavily impacted if you're alr... | I think the decision to allow women to serve in frontline combat is dangerous, foolish, and made for the entirely wrong reasons. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-29T11:26:22 | 188 | 0 | 2 |
Right. This answer may be a tad complex and I'm unsure if I can express it well, but bear with me. In practice, whenever you make a statement about something, in reality you say two separate things. Firstly, you say that the thing you are saying is believed to be true; if you say "on my left is a dog" you indicate that... | I believe that just because someone "Can't do better" does not disallow their right to criticize. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-05T19:19:55 | 218 | 454 | 14 |
The qualia of "a taste you can see" has perhaps changed for the new generation of young adults, but the memory of that former, untainted qualia may have remained, at least for some of us. Similar to how you can remember how much it hurt when you stubbed your toe as a child, the actual experience of a stubbed toe 20 yea... | Adults can see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch | 1 | 2016-03-01T21:36:52 | 150 | 3 | 1 |
Some other people have made versions of this point, but it's worth noting that we don't have to guess how effective HIV criminalization laws would be. Since 24 states have mandatory disclosure laws like the one you're proposing, we do have some idea of how well HIV criminalization laws work, and the answer is: not well... | Not Sharing HIV Status with Sexual Partners Should Be Illegal Everywhere | 0 | 2015-12-02T20:35:56 | 181 | 2 | null |
Can we discuss the difference between "racism" and "prejudice"? To me, the example you provided sounds more like "prejudice" because the stereotype is not specifically tied to "race". I think in many cases, when individuals hurl the term "racist" at each other they are really angry about, and are effectively identifyi... | We are all racists, but some of us can control it | 1 | 2016-11-14T23:44:13 | 156 | 1 | 1 |
I'll argue with the "due to". We'll just take for granted that there's a lot more "monthly bills" today than there were in decades past. Cable and smartphones didn't exist in the 1960's (though I think you're discounting how many subscription services used to be necessary that technology has eliminated. No one gets del... | 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 | 1 | 2015-02-02T18:50:13 | 45 | 5 | 4 |
There have been a lot of changes in terms of teaching (preaching) religion in public schools. This isn't a major aspect of education but it absolutely is a part of the American education system that has changed. | Education system is impossible to change. | 0 | 2017-04-25T19:07:33 | 43 | 1 | null |
I read it, I'll explain why I discounted the information. That's an incredibly bad poll if what you want is an accurate view of attitudes. The survey question on life of the mother was "When the woman's life is endangered should abortion be legal, illegal, or no opinion." That is very different from saying "Should it b... | If you haven't experienced pregnancy, you are missing important perspective on the abortion debate | 1 | 2016-05-19T01:04:04 | 130 | 2 | 8 |
Flooding is not a natural disaster, but human stupidity. How does this make it not a natural disaster? What definition of "natural disaster" are you using? A river, a body of water has a natural extension.... but the stupid humans decide to ignore it, many times they build a city near a body of water and then, as Geor... | Flooding is not a natural disaster, but human stupidity. | 0 | 2017-02-08T19:17:55 | 88 | 2 | 47 |
I do not believe that the "original intent" of the writers of any constitution should matter in our modern interpretation of it. It absolutely *must* matter if we are to interpret it and engage is debate to it's meaning and relevance today. In fact, I would argue that before **any** debate can occur, we must first come... | I don't think we should really care what the original writers of a constitution thought. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-04T11:51:04 | 123 | 1 | null |
Unpack what you're saying with that phrase. Are you using it as a compliment to Team A? Is it similar in tone and meaning to "Team A ran circles around Team B"? Then you (not *you* you, specifically or consciously) are **using the idea of rape as a positive, good thing** that Team A did. Team A is so much better that t... | I think it is okay to use the phrase like Team-A 'Raped' team-B in a sport's context. | 0 | 2016-02-08T20:06:36 | 173 | 10 | 2 |
Well, I may not change your view - I believe the reddiquette in saying "don't downvote out of disagreement" is fundamentally flawed through reddit's content and userbase. If everyone solely downvoted content that doesn't contribute, reddit would lack expressed opinions and controversy. Hence, surely the option to view ... | There needs to be different downvote buttons for "I disagree" and "You're trolling." | 1 | 2015-09-01T04:12:57 | 21 | 3 | 1 |
Well it depends. I find male friendships tend to be much more simple and stable, thanks to the fact that men are pretty "simple" people, as in they don't read too deeply into ambiguous things. As someone who tends to overthink like crazy, I really appreciate the down to earth, simple fun I can have with my more "guyish... | I think women in general, as a whole, are better people. | 0 | 2016-07-17T21:54:09 | 39 | 4 | 1 |
Suppose I offered you a cookie. But there's a caveat. You can't eat it. Getting it to your mouth will take time. Only future!you would be able to eat the cookie. And future!you has no way of paying present!you back. Should you take the cookie? Of course. Because cookies taste good. Maybe not to you, but it will taste g... | Animals don't have rights | 0 | 2017-03-02T07:12:50 | 242 | 5 | 3 |
Some types of words always turn into slurs no matter how many times you change them to be politically correct, you can't blame someone for losing track which word is considered least offensive. idiot,moron,imbecile,retarded have all been clinical terms but are now insults | Using Homophobic/Racist/Insulting Language Automatically Makes Other People's Arguments Invalid | 0 | 2016-02-16T03:01:42 | 61 | 2 | 5 |
It is messed up that we live in a world where some sentient beings have to kill other healthy sentient beings to survive Well, if you feel like this, and with your views about all this, its your subjective view of the world. And further I think there is no good reason to only empathize with humans over other sentient ... | It is messed up that we live in a world where some sentient beings have to kill other healthy sentient beings to survive | 0 | 2017-05-26T21:20:27 | 125 | 1 | null |
And yet this thread is going to require semantics to argue against. So here we go. Of course there's always going to be one or two opinions out there that are ethically correct and thus there is no moral argument against them. I doubt there is a proof of nonexistence of an ethically correct opinion. So the result is t... | Some opinions are ethically right and can only be argued against using semantics. | 1 | 2015-05-14T17:32:01 | 90 | 7 | null |
Passengers with babies do not inflict 3-5x the cost to the airline. Why should the airline care about your preferences? | On airplanes, tickets going to passengers with babies should cost 3-5x more than regular tickets, or they should be banned altogether. | 0 | 2017-04-23T04:07:59 | 91 | 11 | 1 |
I think you'll find that people tend to vote *against* candidates that they dislike, not for candidates that they agree with. And this is actually the entire purpose of Democracy. The most efficient government would be a competent benevolent dictatorship. The problem with that system is that it is fragile to getting a... | Anyone who supports Bernie Sanders but who will vote for Trump if Hillary wins the Democratic nomination is completely uninformed on candidate policy (or doesn't care about it) and simply wants to watch the world burn. | 1 | 2016-03-29T04:30:04 | 469 | 422 | 173 |
It gets circular after a while though, eventually you just have to accept some assumptions. I enjoy pleasure because it feels good. Why is goodness something to enjoy? It's easier if you just accept pleasure is desirable. | I think that bringing up rights when discussing policy is unproductive. | 1 | 2014-08-18T22:41:20 | 31 | 3 | 4 |
Nowhere here have you talked about the reason behind this movement, and I think you need to understand it. The economy is changing significantly, at a level not seen since the start of the industrial revolution. That was the period that prompted Marx and Engels to write their famous manifesto, parts of which I think ar... | Universal Basic Income is a bad idea because relying on the government to survive is degeneracy. | 0 | 2017-02-19T11:35:24 | 74 | 2 | 13 |
There's a special provision of the Constitution they violate - the poll tax amendment. The 24th amendment says: The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress,... | If voter ID laws are unconstitutional, so are other things requiring a photo ID. | 1 | 2014-10-10T19:40:31 | 155 | 1 | null |
You can always use spotify or similar services which are ad-supported so the artists still get money from it even though you don't pay for it. | I don't think downloading songs for free which I wouldn't have bought otherwise hurts artists financially. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-26T22:07:43 | 151 | 3 | 19 |
Yes, climate change is scary. Let's talk about some much larger, ultimately scarier issues than climate change that you haven't heard about as much because they haven't been as politicized though. How about the global depletion of our water resources (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/16/new-nasa-... | Climate change should be the dominant international issue for politicians and activists today. | 0 | 2015-07-19T19:09:21 | 209 | 1 | null |
Normally I would agree with you, until I actually think about it. Once you introduce ice cream cake into the equation, cake wins easily. Perhaps the best example would be a Ben and Jerry's ice cream cake, lest you point out some nasty fake ice cream cake available in your local supermarket freezer case. Pie may indeed ... | Pie is clearly superior to cake. | 1 | 2014-05-24T10:16:17 | 427 | 1 | 2 |
I would argue that the entirety of your educational history all the way from Nursery (or Kindergarten or your regional variation thereof) is to one extent or another a process of reasoning you out of positions you didn't reason yourself into and is successful to a great extent. Kids put 2 and 2 together come up with th... | You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into | 0 | 2015-11-04T20:51:37 | 29 | 1 | 1 |
Not sure I understand your argument. You shower in the morning so that you are least sweatiest during the day and sweatier at night when most people are relaxing at home, not in front of people. I for one like feeling clean and fresh right before work. As a guy with longerish hair, it also makes hair styling a lot easi... | Evening showers are better than morning showers | 0 | 2014-09-10T20:19:21 | 68 | 3 | 18Δ |
There might've been need for alarm - but I doubt it. The school wasn't evacuated, which it should've been if anyone had believed there was a real threat. But if that had been the case, once it was determined not to be a bomb, there was no need to cuff and take the kid into custody. Why traumatise a child needlessly? | Ahmed Mohamed's (Texas student arrested for bringing a homemade suitcase clock to school) arrest was 100% justified. Moreover, Mohamed maliciously baited authorities and anyone who believes he honestly thought it looked like a clock is a fool, including the president. | 1 | 2015-09-17T16:30:09 | 148 | 6 | 1 |
All of the arguments here are against selective service in general, which I don't think really addresses the issue here. There are several real reasons that women specifically should not have to register for the draft. The first is a pretty animalistic one that isn't as relevant these days, but when you get down to it,... | I think that women in the US should have to register for selective service the same way men do. | 0 | 2016-05-30T20:04:04 | 340 | 15 | null |
I wouldn't make such a broad statement about school choice. A student voucher system can either decrease or increase the opportunities available to students, depending on how it is designed. It depends on a few things: the overall amount of money placed in the system (public and private), the amount of the vouchers, an... | School choice will eventually limit student choices. | 0 | 2017-06-30T03:28:11 | 82 | 1 | 1 |
Did you not see the last part of my post with multiple links showing that, as a group, Republicans are more charitable than Democrats? The followers of neither major political party in the US are giving away *all* of their money (which is likely what Christ would do), but the Republicans are closer to that than the Dem... | I genuinely fail to understand how someone can claim to embrace both the Christian faith and the values of the Republican party of the USA. Being a Christian and a Republican is hypocrisy, and I am shocked by how rarely people seem to point out this hypocrisy. | 1 | 2014-06-03T23:15:22 | 183 | 4 | 8 |
For some people digesting meat is problematic. | I think choosing to be vegetarian or vegan solely for health reasons is not very rational. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-26T21:50:30 | 67 | 29 | 1 |
Fellow Canadian here, I too would generally agree with you that most people should have access at least basic health care without having to worry about stressing finances. Knowing that if I ever, god forbid, get cancer at some time in my life, I will be able to get care regardless of my financial situation, I am total... | I believe universal public healthcare (no private health sector) is the only morally justifiable system. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-07T09:56:47 | 632 | 1 | null |
Gerrymandering is out of control, sure, but there are situations when it is important to consider how geography intersects with politics and to factor that into how a district's boundaries are determined. I always use this example as a case of when gerrymandering is necessary. Consider the [Hopi](https://en.wikipedia.o... | Gerrymandering should be illegal. | 1 | 2016-02-03T02:30:31 | 187 | 487 | 12 |
As someone who felt and experienced very similar thoughts and feelings, let me just say: I understand. I know what you're feeling. I related to everything you've said in this thread. But I "got over it" (not really, but enough to scrape by) I did so with this line of thinking: "life is meaningless. The universe will en... | Life is not worth living | 1 | 2014-09-04T22:03:32 | 208 | 18 | 1 |
While I do think that the prequels are mediocre movies in general, there are a few redeeming qualities here and there. As a huge SW fan I can't say I totally hate them, but I see the potential they could have had if the dialogue and some plot points weren't shit. That being said, I can't retroactively change the movies... | The Star Wars prequels are objectively bad and there is nothing redeeming about them. | 0 | 2017-03-26T21:50:57 | 37 | 2 | 1 |
The practice of tipping lets people like me who have more disposable income purchase a better quality of service than the grad students and undergrads that tend to frequent the same places I do. This allows bars and restaurants to effectively act as a two establishments simultaneously. I have done the same at a Barber... | Tipping should be done away with | 1 | 2017-01-02T23:07:46 | 443 | 2 | 5 |
1. You think football players are fat. By and large, they aren't, they're just insanely muscular. [See that guy on the left. He's one of the fatties](http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1519495/O1EXZ4Q.jpg). Geno Atkins is [300 pounds of pure muscle](http://media.scout.com/media/image/78/787046.jpg). 2. The commer... | Football (or soccer if your American) is superior to American Football to watch and play CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-18T23:58:24 | 81 | 12 | 5 |
On the contrary, I think that many in the "hard sciences" could use a bit of humility when it comes to attitudes about other academic disciplines. Disciplines like literary criticism or cultural studies are generating new knowledge, just like science is. And they are doing so by a very similar rubric--not so much by d... | Everyone outside of the hard sciences needs a massive slice of humble pie | 1 | 2017-06-26T23:28:43 | 123 | 9 | 11 |
I wouldn't use adBlocker on a site like YouTube, however, I do use it for sits that I don't know the ad content for. Why? I have my computer in a common room of my house, and there's often a young child runnig around. I don't want them exposed to ads that are, say, sexually provocative. | I believe advertising online is a necessary evil, and using an adblocker is unjustified. | 0 | 2016-09-15T02:59:51 | 47 | 1 | 2 |
Let's do the "plot holes": Nothing is explained. There are innumerable plot holes, and the film explains none of them. How did Han find Rey and Finn? Han says he was tracking the Falcon. The beacon is likely only detectable while the ship is actually online, leading to the timing of jis arrival. How is Rey so powerfu... | The Force Awakens is the worst Star Wars film ever made | 1 | 2017-05-03T16:44:55 | 99 | 19 | 13 |
The potential to become a living thing does not make it a living thing. There is no evidence that earth can successfully reproduce so we can't know for sure that it is living. | the Earth is alive | 0 | 2015-05-20T21:05:49 | 80 | 3 | 5Δ |
My mistake about where you're from. You bring up Trump, this post is tagged as 'election' and most Redditors are American. But I believe my point still stands. Migration, legal or illegal are very complex issues, in the EU, in the US and in Singapore. The people opposing it have reasonable and logical reasons for doin... | The world has become more intolerant today | 1 | 2016-06-28T15:56:53 | 66 | 0 | 2 |
I think it also important to consider that supporting a sports team makes sense because without your support, there would be no team. And I don't mean that in an emotional sense. Your support in attending matches, buying merchandise, watching it on TV, all generates revenue for the club. This revenue can then be spent... | Rooting for a professional sports teams doesn't make any sense. | 0 | 2017-05-24T18:59:53 | 23 | 1 | null |
unlike cars, it is easy for cyclists to yield the right-of-way without coming to a complete stop How is that not possible for cars? Have you ever heard of a "rolling stop"? have no blind spots ...excuse me? You're telling me that a bicyclist, who has no mirrors, can see everywhere around them, but a car with a legall... | All states should adopt laws similar to the "Idaho Stop Law" with regards to people riding bikes | 1 | 2015-06-17T23:36:53 | 235 | 7 | 7Δ |
I have read a bit about what the redpill says about ''women'' and I think those who buy into redpill ideology are entering a feedback loop of Confirmation Bias - because there certainly are *some* women who fit their description - maybe even about half of women, certainly plenty enough to provide these men with their i... | TheRedPill is very accurate about women and the reality of attraction, and the AF/BB concept | 1 | 2017-04-27T12:38:55 | 65 | 46 | 51 |
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