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This is the letter that changed my view on the subject. It is from Ernst Stuhlinger, Associate Director for Science at the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama to a nun who worked with starving children in Kabwe, Zambia and who questioned the value of space travel. It was written in 1970, but is still r... | Space travel/exploration/research is a waste of money which should be spent on solving problems here on Earth. | 1 | 2016-03-15T16:24:41 | 103 | 3 | 2 |
I am what one would consider a "white" American citizen. Well, either you are or you aren't. You might pass for White, in which case, you'd be treated as White, but this is a pretty obvious thing. You said you have a Hispanic-sounding last name, so who knows. It's an issue of how you're treated. If a White person has a... | I don't think I'm privileged, but people keep telling me I am. | 0 | 2017-02-10T08:54:42 | 135 | 1 | 2 |
Giving everyone a say does a good job of stopping revolts. I'm not gonna argue whether or not everyone deserves the right to vote, but we shouldn't take away people's right to vote. That would start revolts. Think of it like this: Your right to vote has been taken away because the government thinks you're stupid. Are y... | Voting should be a privilege not a right | 0 | 2016-03-09T03:41:27 | 119 | 1 | 1 |
There's a lot of assumptions you're making here, so I'll try to go in order. First you define a soldier as a member of a national military medical that leaves hundreds of brutal militias and paramilitary groups unopposed in what would undoubtedly be a wholesale slaughter of millions of people. Then you claim that peopl... | If you become a soldier willingly, you are perpetuating war. | 0 | 2016-12-21T07:07:53 | 410 | 1 | null |
In your opening post, you start off with a Strawman. No rational person can be ashamed of having a high number of sex partners. then follow up with having shared deep emotional moments with too many people.) These are two very different things. One can easily argue that a person with less sex partners experiences much ... | No rational person can be ashamed of having a high number of sex partners. | 1 | 2014-11-18T03:59:16 | 104 | 0 | 1 |
Just one point of note in the initial post. The country with opt out is Austria not Australia. For anyone interested in what happens in Australia check out the following web site http://www.donatelife.gov.au or check out @DonateLifeToday on Twitter For any country to move from an opt in to an opt out system this should... | Organ donation should be "opt out", not "opt in", in the U.S | 0 | 2017-04-30T12:20:08 | 365 | 2 | null |
I argued that if there were aliens flying around in outer space, even if they're not entering Earth, we would have heard about them from scientists. Why would you assume that? Also the planets don't have any evidence of life except for Mars having signs of water. I admitted I don't know enough about other galaxies to... | I don't believe in aliens. | 0 | 2014-10-12T03:48:13 | 78 | 2 | 1 |
I'm not going to challenge all the points you've made, because I think it was largely a rather fair argument to make. However, on the topic of rape, it is really hard to pin down the frequency of that crime based on whether or not people have a more flippant attitude to sex. Society used to not tolerate (at least in an... | Our Culture's post-Judeo-Christian sexual ethic is inconsistent at best and harmful at worst. | 1 | 2015-06-03T18:25:16 | 63 | 5 | 1 |
I dont think you have a good argument here simply because you have no statistics to back up your statement that people who are liberals tend to be more education. Sure there are more liberals IN education, but that doesnt mean more liberals go through education. Also since there are very rich conservatives if we are n... | The fact that people with higher levels of education tend to be more liberal is an indicator that conservative voters' (who tend to be less educated) views lack validity and may be based off of ill-conceived preconceptions of the way the world works. | 0 | 2017-03-31T22:13:53 | 458 | 1 | null |
I'm a liberal and I'm not anti-war or a social justice warrior. I am enough proof on my own to disprove your title view, since you claimed *everyone* who is liberal or on the left which includes me. I'm not sure what more you'd want, but feel free to ask questions if you want to verify my liberalness. | Everyone who is either liberal or on the left wing side of politics is either a anti war hippy that spits on the the face of veterans and abuses them or a condescending annoying insufferable 'SJW'. | 1 | 2017-02-21T03:28:59 | 46 | 1 | 47 |
many others advance "one funeral at a time" as people with prejudices die off and aren't replaced (most scientific and technology concerns, as well as immigration, LGBT issues, religiosity, and racism). Well if you look at a lot of the science and technology that most certainly isn't true. Many of the most productive c... | There should be steps taken to reduce the power of older people in elections. The imbalance between progress and experience caused by aging populations is distorting politics. | 1 | 2017-03-07T17:40:26 | 62 | 8 | 72 |
Does this mean working class people with rare diseases should be neglected? No. Ideally a universal healthcare system should adequately cover every ailment, but in reality, funding is prioritised for more common diseases. If you are extremely wealthy, should it be criminal for you to get treatment privately for an illn... | I believe universal public healthcare (no private health sector) is the only morally justifiable system. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-06T22:55:52 | 632 | 11 | 1 |
if they don't like it they should work somewhere else or go back to school. Do you think that it's reasonable, for a person that is already clearly struggling to support him/herself, to go back to school, and institution that costs tens of thousands of dollars? It's not the corporation's job to ensure their employees a... | I believe that workers in minimum-wage jobs have no right to complain about below-subsistence level wages and if they don't like it they should work somewhere else or go back to school. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-29T21:10:12 | 31 | 46 | 13 |
Yes... but genetically weak members being killed off by predators is still a valid point. | It is messed up that we live in a world where some sentient beings have to kill other healthy sentient beings to survive | 1 | 2017-05-24T20:33:25 | 125 | 1 | 9 |
The thing that is sucking up tax dollars and taking twenty years is the process of proving, for sure, that the person being executed is not innocent. If you have a way to do for sure -- for 100% sure, given what we now know about the number of executed people exonerated after the fact by DNA evidence over the past twe... | If you kill someone you should receive the death penalty. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-01T10:32:11 | 53 | 2 | 1 |
"I actually have incredibly low standards, and my friends and family are often concerned at the quality of women I pursue (Are you sure? Are you drunk?)." I suggest you begin by focusing on this instead of a PUA approach. The problem might really be who you are pursuing, not how you are pursuing. Ask your friends and f... | After following all dating advice, I'm starting to think PUA is the only way for me to be successful in dating. Please CMV | 0 | 2013-11-18T21:46:21 | 121 | 2 | 5 |
Your assumption assumes we will still have different races. Eventually won't we all be slightly different variants of the same ethnicity? Right now people are still very segregated. Africans are mostly black, asians are mostly either asian(Indian) or asian(Chinese, Japanese Korean) that's not necessarily always going t... | Racism will never be eradicated in part because there is no way to truly tell if it's ended. | 1 | 2017-05-31T22:23:23 | 39 | 1 | 1 |
Now I'm wondering if that was a high-brow chuckle, or a near-homynym low brow one.... There is nothing wrong with it, they'd just never be able to be good at plumbing (or at both). Specialization allows for much deeper expertise than .... not specializing. The philosopher plumber is really just a shitty plumber. He mig... | Education should create intellectuals not employees | 1 | 2017-02-16T01:02:44 | 51 | 2 | 66 |
[Trump's Supreme Court pick founded and led club called 'Fascism Forever' at his elite all-boys Washington prep school](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4182852/Trump-s-SCOTUS-pick-founded-club-called-Fascism-Forever.html) | Democrats should confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. | 1 | 2017-02-02T13:56:22 | 125 | 2 | 28 |
Well, there are quite a few points you brought up there. First of all you are right, that the church as organisation made a lot of mistakes, including the inquisition and crusades. There is no doubt, that the church gave power hungry and crazy people exactly what they wanted, so it got abused a lot. A lot of it stems ... | I do not only think that church as a organisation is bad, I think that any religion is fundamentally wrong. | 1 | 2015-12-25T18:35:05 | 134 | 1 | 2 |
Why is anger at Monsanto's business practices illegitimate? Why can't we get upset about Monsanto using GMOs for their shitty business practices? If a software company invented necessary software that would force everyone who used it to use some other piece of software they made, that would get them such a huge anti-tr... | I think GMO's are not only safe, but that the controversy surrounding them is largely conspiracy nonsense fueled by anger at Monsanto's business practices. CMV? | 0 | 2013-05-30T03:34:13 | 184 | 0 | 28 |
I personally agree that if sexuality was 100% a choice, we should still grant equal rights, exactly like religion. However, most other civil rights battles have been won for inherent traits. Our society has moved to a point where, generally speaking, the way you were born is not an acceptable reason for discrimination.... | I believe emphasizing that "being gay is born rather than a choice" is irrelevent and gay rights should be the same no matter if homosexuality is born with, nurtured or chosen. | 0 | 2014-09-10T07:46:02 | 433 | 1 | 3 |
Your opening assertion is patently false. Josephus and Tacitus both reference the death of Jesus and neither man's writing is included in the Bible, of course. Your second assertion does not square even remotely with current scholarship on the gospels. It's only mythicists who think we can trace all the gospels back to... | The Jesus Myth Hypothesis is Plausible | 1 | 2015-05-28T01:09:25 | 171 | 29 | 1Δ |
i want to address this point * There can be exceptions where a person legally signs to be the 2nd parent of the child, and then the mother has to give birth. For example, father wants to have child, and he has his girlfriend/boyfriend/relative, etc. sign as parent, mother has to give birth to child. does this point n... | Abortion should be an option able to be chosen by the father. | 0 | 2015-12-02T00:49:16 | 87 | 2 | null |
It's still not *technically* possible to determine the source of your mother's infection. Statistically, unvaccinated children pose a negative externality to society in general. In most cases, it's impossible to identify where the harm actually occurs. For example, at any given time, there might be 3-4 unvaccinated chi... | If you don't vaccinate your kids and harm comes of it, you should be punished. | 1 | 2017-04-12T02:27:44 | 93 | 6 | 18 |
This seems to be a case of not seeing the forest through the trees. Just because an argument *can* be boiled down to semantics does not mean that a semantic approach is addressing the spirit of the issue. Take your example: "If I'm arguing that an inheritance tax is unfair as it constitutes double taxation, I'm arguing... | Every argument, without exception, is an argument of semantics. | 0 | 2016-04-20T03:13:40 | 106 | 3 | 9 |
There are a couple of different perspectives from which it can be selfish to have kids. On one hand, you're inflicting your kids on the world, contributing to overpopulation and resource consumption. On the other hand, you're inflicting the world on kids who didn't ask to be born. I'll try to address both of these view... | I believe that it is selfish to have children when one considers what is in store for the world. CMV. | 1 | 2013-12-08T01:19:43 | 41 | 25 | 4 |
Well, you are right in that Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism. However, I would argue that it is now a separate distinct religion due to the size of it. A Pew Research Center Study from 2010 reported that there are approximate 2.2 billion (32% of the world's population) Christians In the world as opposed to 14 mil... | Christianity differs no more from Judaism than Sunni Islam from Shia Islam, and thus is no more than a denomination of Judaism | 0 | 2016-10-18T21:05:57 | 42 | 2 | null |
Can I ask. You don't think that all religions condone that kind of hatred, right? | I believe religion is a major reason why transphobia and homophobia still exist | 0 | 2015-12-10T03:11:48 | 156 | 1 | null |
How do those two points contradict? I'm assuming you think we would have to stop creating children because the world would get overpopulated. However, if you think the rich and powerful would be the only people able to become immortal, I really don't see overpopulation as a problem. I really don't think the world is... | We should not try to become biologically immortal | 1 | 2016-08-19T05:57:31 | 32 | 2 | 3 |
Honestly, I find the name of feminism to entirely consistent with the actions of its members. Both historically and today, feminists predominantly focus their efforts on problems faced by women. Now, I don't doubt that feminists desire gender equality. The desire for an equal world is clearly the driving force behind f... | The word "feminism" does not accurately represent the feminist movement | 0 | 2015-02-11T18:27:33 | 148 | 2 | null |
I do not, however, see how this rebuts my idea. Regardless of the "source" or cause of a fetish or sexuality, it exists and has an impact on one's life A traffic accident which castrates me has a profound impact on my life. But that doesn't make it a sexual orientation or a gender identity. As was pointed out by one of... | Asexuality doesn't have a rightful place in the LGBTQ movement any more than a fetish like BDSM. | 1 | 2015-10-26T16:25:08 | 631 | 10 | 14 |
This is going to be harsh, but I'm not going to sugarcoat this. You're going to have rules set by your immediate supervisor (akin to the professor) and your organization (akin to the university) for the rest of your life. Get used to it. If you are expecting a call or text you really, truly can't miss, if it's informat... | College professors should not be able to dictate rules of the classroom that go beyond normal procedure | 1 | 2016-04-13T17:45:44 | 73 | 4 | 4 |
A common example is to consider the kind of society one would want to live in if one could have born into any other person's circumstances. I assume you are referencing Rawls' "veil of ignorance" here, and the problem with that is it assumes a particularly risk averse kind of rationality is truly rational - rather than... | Conservatism Is More Emotional Reaction, Liberalism Rational Analysis | 1 | 2016-01-04T05:32:30 | 142 | -1 | 11 |
Usually when people say natural, they have some agenda of condemning the unnatural and/or exalting the natural. That's when it's meaningless. It's not meaningless when you realize that what's consistent among the majority of its different definitions is that it means "devoid of interference" from some implied party, mo... | Natural is a meaningless word | 1 | 2015-07-16T18:36:40 | 58 | 13 | null |
Your argument seems to boil down to "liberal" ideology becoming less popular because people who identify that way challenge the prevailing social norms, including what culture does or doesn't mean and what it should or shouldn't mean. That's just change occurring naturally: Existing power structures understandably don'... | The liberal ideology won't be widely accepted in the near future. | 1 | 2017-02-12T23:39:38 | 41 | 5 | 1 |
Sometimes you should follow your heart, sometimes you shouldn't. Both listening to your emotions and ignoring your emotions can cause you to make a bad decision. Maybe you'll be more successful if you ignore your feelings, but then you'll have to define what being successful actually means to you. To me, maybe success ... | I'm living my life like a robot and think emotion is a flaw of humanity. | 0 | 2014-07-26T18:54:26 | 44 | 2 | null |
War. War never changes. The 6000+ year history of human civilization is full of periods of technological advancement followed by recession. Each zenith of a civilization in which the citizens believed they had broken the cycle was followed by a nadir where people marveled at the wonders of a lost world. Whether it be s... | In approximately 2 centuries there will be absolutely no jobs left that robots can't do | 1 | 2016-09-13T17:11:17 | 102 | 2 | 1 |
If you already know it's wrong, I'm confused on what else you would like anyone to say. If you want to empathize with these people, try to understand that, for many of them, lack of empathy is their problem. They lack the capacity to understand that their actions cause pain on others that is the same as the pain they f... | I do not feel sorry for them when a vicious murderer, rapist or child abuser is raped in jail. | 0 | 2014-04-24T22:32:19 | 94 | 5 | null |
Good pizza has a few notable characteristics: 1. A perfect crust. It should have just the right amount of chew, and just the right amount of char. This is quite difficult to achieve, and most pizza restaurants fail at it. To do it properly requires an extremely hot oven; it is almost impossible if burdened by excessive... | I think Benn Wyatt is right that calzones are superior to Pizza in almost every way. | 1 | 2014-09-11T00:50:32 | 57 | 2 | null |
These sorts of arguments are fairly easy to cast in a different light. All you need to do is transpose a few words. "I understand that Jew shaming is disgusting and essentially just bullying, but with Jewish (even Orthodox Jewish) people openly embracing their religion and talking about how they don't plan on changing ... | I believe that uproar against fat shaming encourages an unhealthy lifestyle. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-24T22:29:39 | 52 | 1 | 2 |
You don't believe that death by natural causes (if not by accident etc) is inevitable? Is that because you believe that technology will eventually solve aging? Not including those of us here today, so far, nobody in history has survived aging. | Suicide by Aging is a thing. | 0 | 2016-08-27T01:33:50 | 61 | 1 | 4 |
I always thought of the term "herbal tea" to refer to teas not made out of leaves of the tea plant (*Camellia sinensis*), so it seems that what you are arguing is that coffee (I assume you mean drip coffee) is similar to herbal teas? Wouldn't many forms of hot chocolate be, also? Do you think trying to make the term te... | Coffee is just tea | 0 | 2017-01-27T21:03:53 | 65 | 1 | 6 |
I'm not tall but I want the extra legroom too. I'm willing to spend an extra $50 on it. Who do you think the airline will pick? Why should they lose money just because you want to be more comfortable? You would buy the regular seats anyway so they have no incentive to lose money for your comfort. | In many airliner configurations, a portion of extra legroom seats should be reserved for tall people at no extra cost. | 0 | 2014-10-22T05:38:23 | 57 | 1 | null |
I'm actually going to partially agree with you, but I'm also going to try to CYV For context: I just graduated with an undergraduate degree in History, one of the most "Non-STEM" fields there are. I fully agree that if two dudes of equal intelligence and work-ethic went to the same university, and one took History and ... | I believe completing a degree in a STEM major requires more work than completing a degree in a non-STEM major. CMV. | 1 | 2013-05-27T02:10:20 | 65 | 26 | 4 |
I have a question for you. What about other enhancements? Why stop at PEDs? Why not allow for artificial limbs that outperform natural ones? What about computer-aided calculations from a chip in your brain? These things don't exist....yet. There's already an issue for certain Olympics where runners with artificial limb... | Steroids and Other Performance Enhancers Should be Legal for Athletes | 1 | 2014-08-08T18:42:24 | 207 | 27 | 1 |
When I was studying some practical ethics for my degree (philosophy) there was a lot of talk about capital punishment. I remember it came up that a lot of people who worked in prisons and specifically around people on death row were against capital punishment. The reasons they gave for working there were thus: they di... | I believe people who choose to become police officers have at least some small desire to commit violence. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-02T18:39:42 | 48 | 25 | null |
So, based on your edit, your view is: "depression is too hard to diagnose and should be reserved for instances where the person is catatonic / has made an attempt to commit suicide" This seems to be rooted in the fact that the diagnostic criteria for depression are somewhat subjective (i.e. where is the line between "b... | I don't believe in being depressed | 0 | 2017-04-10T18:15:12 | 31 | 3 | 18 |
That doesn't make sense. Someone could not even know or notice whether their sexual partner is transgender. | Being attracted to transgender woman as a male makes you homosexual. (and vice-versa) | 0 | 2016-09-17T16:19:58 | 49 | 2 | 20 |
No one argues against a doctor making more than a fast food worker. In fact, doctors aren't the 1%. What people are against is someone having so much wealth that what they have is essentially removed from the system. Money that just sits there helps no one. Money that is moving creates jobs and helps people take care o... | The "wealth gap" is always going to be inherently too big or too small for most people. | 0 | 2017-01-17T00:20:48 | 226 | 3 | null |
I call people who do this, Speed Enforcers. I'm not a speeder, but it really pisses me off when i see people purposely drive side by side while taking up both lanes. Most of the time it leads to a lot of tense and aggressive driving for everyone else behind them. I've also seen accidents take place that i don't think w... | Changing lanes in a school zone to block a speeder is morally acceptable and possibly responsible | 0 | 2016-12-24T03:30:21 | 96 | 3 | null |
If your ride public transportation or sit in any public area, during the summer especially, your bare ass is only separated from the seat by a thin piece of cloth. How could anyone with a shred of common sense find this okay? Most saggy pants people have shorts underneath their pants. Even if you don't, so what? Women ... | The reason people are against sagging pants to the point of erecting laws against it has absolutely nothing to do with race. | 0 | 2015-08-11T20:55:30 | 89 | 24 | 33 |
I don't think you can really argue against the point that littering is an inconsiderate thing to do, so I think what you really have to ask is "Does routinely doing one inconsiderate thing make someone an asshole?" You're failing to factor in every other aspect of someone's life. If someone is otherwise an incredibly g... | 100% of people who litter frequently are assholes. | 0 | 2015-11-08T14:22:37 | 119 | 6 | 52 |
For reference, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a Mormon), and will respond to you primarily from that perspective. I'm on an iPod touch, so I can't properly source my statements, but a bit of googling should confirm them. Your main specific point is that your religion harmed you academ... | Religious views are detrimental to society (CMV) | 1 | 2013-08-12T08:17:12 | 291 | 7 | 14 |
No, it isn't giving explicit permission to look through everyone's photo; by the very definition of the word, explicit permission would mean that, when someone sends you a Friend Request, they add "By accepting this Request, you are invited to look through every photo in every one of my albums"; the word you're looking... | 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. | 1 | 2013-09-26T06:39:09 | 65 | 1 | 4 |
Crime. You are correct in that it's harder for men to sleep with a bunch of women than a woman to sleep with a bunch of men. The problem is you are attempting to shuffle off the "Morality" of women being promiscuous to another discussion, but at the same time you are saying that it's justified to call a woman a slut fo... | The Slut/Stud Inequality Is Generally Justified | 0 | 2015-07-14T02:30:56 | 58 | 1 | null |
Wealth gap in a truly democratic society does not wouldn't to be an issue if the rich class did not get to be the ruling class as well. That's when the policy priorities start to skew to the side of getting those wealthy people even wealthier and that is usually the turning point when civil unrest grows and can get to ... | The "wealth gap" is always going to be inherently too big or too small for most people. | 0 | 2017-01-16T20:27:22 | 226 | 1 | null |
Hiya! Catholic here. I see that you already have a lot of responses, but not very many of them are from Christians so I thought I might as well offer my take. I can mostly only speak to the Catholic/Episcopalian experience, but we definitely do not hate Atheists. I've never once heard a priest even bring up Atheism in ... | Religious people hate Atheists | 1 | 2017-06-10T05:16:00 | 72 | 5 | 1 |
This is what does it for me: 'Cause if you'll treat me right I'll be the perfect wife Your premise, as I understand it, is that while she is singing about traditional gender roles, this is not necessarily sexist so long as she's just talking about what she wants as an individual. This line seems to me to contradict tha... | Meghan Trainor's song, Dear Future Husband, is feminist and is not sexist. | 1 | 2015-04-27T22:28:35 | 78 | 4 | 1Δ |
You propose that hunting and eating meat will be one of the most important skills in the post-apocalyptic world. I strongly disagree. For the first several months/years, depending on what percentage of humanity is wiped out, scavenging in supermarkets, pantries, etc. will be by far more important than hunting. And, bec... | If a total catastrophic breakdown of society were to happen, liberals would be primarily useless. | 1 | 2014-10-24T07:32:28 | 85 | 1 | 1 |
To do this would violate important protections for the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Those protections being rigorous is far more important to me than whatever small social benefit might come from not using these examples. Essentially, the government right now has zero say in what content can be put in te... | It should be illegal or more costly for Textbooks to utilize Cigarettes as a focal point for questions. | 1 | 2016-02-13T22:54:49 | 58 | 2 | 210 |
I assume you believe movies are art? Well, porn videos have scripts as well, they are porn actors and so on. | Pornography should not be seen as art | 0 | 2015-09-08T22:05:55 | 42 | 1 | 1 |
Because I believe that deep down they will always hope for you to convert and probably thinking you will see the light someday. I'm not sure why you or so many other people have this misunderstanding about religious people, but it's been my experience that lots of religious people simply don't care and are more than h... | I don't think an atheist and a religious person could realistically have a good marriage, CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-17T19:25:55 | 270 | 3 | null |
Hospice Nurse here: Hospice and Palli-Med vary state-to-state. They push you into hospice. Yes. Often when the treatment plan options are exhausted the Pt is referred into the Hospice plan of care. This has several reasons. Where the Pt benefits is that hospitals and other LTAC are not educated about end-of-life care. ... | I believe murder-by-hospice is widespread in the US. We kill off many our sick and elderly, and nobody cares. CMV. | 1 | 2014-03-01T17:08:22 | 156 | 5 | 1 |
First off, human sexuality is a vastly understudied science. There's a lot we still don't know and are still learning about. There's three main sub-fields to human sexuality: biological/anatomical, psychological/behavioral, and socio/anthropological. Each are immensely understudied, and it's reflected in the culture as... | I have no problem with homosexuality or bisexuality, but I think anything beyond that is just a desperate cry for attention. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-11T08:47:33 | 77 | 2 | null |
In 2008 Obama ran on a platform of change. In 2012 he ran on a platform of consolidation and incremental gains. What changed? Bernie claims to be a socialist. The first rule of socialism (or any communist thought really) is that society generate the preconditions for politics. The "ground" has to be ready before a revo... | I am a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter and moderate liberal democrat. | 0 | 2016-02-28T20:55:39 | 74 | 11 | 1 |
I do agree that democracy suffers a fatal flaw, in which people uneducated on voters' issues vote in numbers anyway leading to poorly-considered decisions. However, in the first place, I think you should not tax people without reciprocally giving them some authority over how their tax money is spent. No taxation withou... | I believe that some degree of educational attainment should be a prerequisite of voting in nations with compulsory, free education. | 1 | 2016-07-01T22:41:28 | 332 | 3 | 5 |
Where has Sargon said he is left wing? Sargon has claimed to be a Liberal, Liberalism isn't left or right. While one could be a left wing Liberal or a right wing Liberal it doesn't make Liberalism right or left. mutual antipathy towards so-called 'SJWS'. *Social Justice Warriors* are **far** from anything that coul... | Sargon of Akkad is a closet conservative, not a liberal | 1 | 2017-06-25T17:41:04 | 267 | 41 | 13 |
The "peaceful transition of power" is a buzzword that gets thrown about in all US elections to compare the American Republic with other systems. For example, Obama stepped down voluntarily, this is in contrast with The Gambia where their president who was defeated in an election is refusing to give up power ( http://w... | 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. | 0 | 2017-01-22T04:44:27 | 54 | 5 | null |
Logically, yes. Naturally grown food, cosmetics etc - There's no real reason why we should prefer them over non-organic substitutes. It's all chemistry. But I want to address your second point - On appearance. Firstly, we prefer people who look 'naturally' good over 'fake' good because there's a difference. Entertain m... | Whether or not something is "natural" should be irrelevant to its desirability. | 0 | 2017-06-25T14:57:46 | 118 | 7 | null |
You appeal to the notion of *moral standing* without clearly defining it. It seems like to you moral standing is a discrete property. One has or doesnt have moral standing. However, it seems to me like a pro-life argument could be based on a continuum of 'moral standing'. In such an argument, one could state that in n... | Regardless of whether abortion is wrong, rape and incest do not affect the moral permissibility of abortion. | 1 | 2016-01-12T01:03:06 | 471 | 7 | 2 |
There is a giant caveat to this, namely that I have no idea if it is true. But given that it will be a long time before the full details come out, here is the best defense that I have heard - that is at least consistent with (if not slightly supported by) public reports on the matter. Comey was between a rock and a har... | Jim Comey should be fired for his recent conduct. | 1 | 2016-11-07T03:54:13 | 99 | 29 | 19 |
It's a rate of change question. Climate change is alarming because of how fast it is going to happen. Take hurricane Matthew. How many of those storms are there going to be between now and 2050? Is your logic that we are going to either abandon Florida or spend hundreds of billions fortifying its infrastructure? Either... | The threat of global warming is exaggerated. | 1 | 2016-10-09T04:10:35 | 65 | 1 | 3 |
I will start by saying I am a Christian. I don't subscribe to any denomination but I have found some answers to your questions in the Bible-as a whole. Some christians may not agree with me but here goes. In the Bible there are three main "pivots" that God makes when it comes to His relationship with us. The first is i... | Believing in the Christian god doesn't make sense | 0 | 2017-01-06T01:47:13 | 103 | 3 | null |
First, lets take a quick definition of dignity off of google: *the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.* Respect is defined as a deep admiration for someone. With that in mind, lets create a situation: Little Timmy has had a heart defect his entire life, and has been on a waiting list for a heart almos... | There's no such thing as death with dignity | 0 | 2014-07-17T07:12:59 | 115 | 1 | null |
That is one of the benefits I wanted to list, but didn't. Yes, knowing how to socialize with people is a huge benefit, but it doesn't help you otherwise, I'd say. ??? What does this mean? "It's a huge benefit but it doesn't help you otherwise." ??? Economics...I'm not even being taught that. That's not the point. You ... | Schools, to some extent, are absolutely useless. | 1 | 2017-04-20T16:41:01 | 73 | 5 | 2 |
but the would-be victim and rest of us can take comfort that you wouldn't have the brass to say it without mask. Isnt that how the internet already is? 99.9% if the insults and hateful shit said on the web will never be said in person. So as a default, when recieving a hateful message, one should already be content wit... | I believe the Internet should not be anonymous. I think our basic info should be made available when we comment. Or sites should offer an Anon Section, like a virtual smoking section. | 0 | 2015-08-09T05:38:29 | 35 | 3 | null |
Seriously you have to consider/realize that technology advances... How do you think the horse carriage industry/hobbyists felt when cars came along? Overall self-driving cars will have a huge positive impact on society for both public health and environmental reasons. You also fail to realize how much more efficient an... | I'm scared of self-driving cars. | 0 | 2016-06-29T22:08:45 | 40 | 4 | null |
Although it might be a legal act, there was clearly zero social implication, clearly. The motive of that case might have gotten lost in the series of wars to come. I'm sorry, but this is flatly wrong. The implications of *Barnette* were massive and long-lasting. I'll quote Justice Jackson as I don't think I can say it ... | Colin Kaepernick has changed the course of America forever. | 1 | 2016-10-05T18:39:06 | 29 | 5 | 15 |
As someone who has lived in Saudi Arabia, I can tell you that you're being very hyperbolic about the situation for women in Saudi Arabia, and in some cases just plain wrong. Women can (and do) both work and receive an education in Saudi Arabia. The largest university for women in the world, Princess Nora University is ... | Saudi Arabia should be removed from the United Nations and stripped of all advantages that come with being part of the UN, due to their sexist governmental policies, harsh laws, and blatant human rights abuses | 0 | 2015-04-22T13:55:34 | 189 | 73 | null |
Out of curiosity, have you read the arrest report for the incident? Because it's more than just hitting someone in the heat of the moment. [Here's](http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/03/05/brown.warrant.pdf) a link but just in case, I'll highlight the details that make him, in my mind, unforgiveable. "A verbal ar... | Chris Brown did not commit an "unforgivable" act | 1 | 2015-02-25T21:33:08 | 32 | 11 | 1 |
Most simply, pineapple is 87% water Mozarella cheese is 60% water. SIXTY PERCENT. [source] (http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/02/the-pizza-lab-the-best-low-moisture-mozzarella-for-pizzas.html) | Pineapples do not belong on pizza. | 1 | 2017-04-03T02:43:29 | 24 | 8 | 2 |
Lets say they were a state shortly before you were born. What exactly would differentiate Puerto Rico from other Democratic poor states? Expanding on that what benefit do lots of poor republican states that get more from the feds then they pay into the system give to the United States? For the most part they haven't b... | The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state | 0 | 2017-04-26T21:43:09 | 153 | 2 | null |
But I do believe that support networks should be established for former prisoners -- even to a degree for people who might be getting shunned or exiled. But if you have actively shunned for over a year it's very very hard to let go of that. The emotions are still going to be there. The point of my reply was that the s... | If we are opposed to the prison industrial-complex... then perhaps shaming, shunning, and exile should be considered as alternatives. | 1 | 2015-07-26T13:32:37 | 38 | 1 | 2 |
Well, the colonization of Canada and Australia didn't go so well for the local populations, which either disappeared or are now living in some sort of weird limbo. The populations of these countries came, for the most part, from Europe. The transition was peaceful and successful, as well as not immediately necessary, i... | Colonization isn't that bad. | 0 | 2017-03-13T20:52:32 | 78 | 7 | 42 |
Science doesn't "disprove" religion. That's like saying math disproves music. They're two completely different fields and should be treated independently. Certainly some religious texts get scientific and historical facts wrong, and that's also going outside their domain. Religion didn't invent fear of death. It's not ... | Religion created a fear of death, and it's time to get rid of both. | 0 | 2015-03-19T01:08:03 | 103 | 2 | 4 |
How is substituting one [fiat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money) [currency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency) for another beneficial when the promissory strength in the current system is already established? | The United States needs to move away from the U.S. dollar and create regional currencies | 0 | 2017-05-23T19:34:12 | 42 | 1 | null |
Assuming by the leg piece you mean the drumstick, the thigh is better. Similar skin-to-meat ratio, just as juicy, but it's actually a substantial portion unlike the leg, which you really only get one or two good bites out of. It's also *much* more versatile for cooking, since you can get or prepare a boneless version, ... | The best piece of fried chicken is the leg. | 1 | 2016-10-02T22:28:18 | 65 | 233 | 42 |
While this is certainly an opinion one can hold, it's nonetheless true that discussions of and definitions of art have historically been tied up with discussions of beauty for more time than they haven't been, from Classical sculpture manuals None of those discussions of "art" that I've seen have been applied to "beaut... | There is no objective criterion or argument for what counts as art | 1 | 2017-03-21T22:32:18 | 84 | 1 | 231 |
I think peaceful protest is patriotic. If someone is waving a Mexican flag in a protest, that certainly is patriotic. In fact, that is a quintessential American freedom, to be able to protest. But, I think your question goes a lot deeper than just someone waving a flag. For example, I don't condone violence. | Flying the Confederate flag on American soil is just as unpatriotic as flying the Mexican flag. | 1 | 2017-03-03T07:12:21 | 120 | 1 | 197 |
Probably has to do with him being a veteran. That shit is a can of worms. How we let our mentally ill down and our veterans down...that's not a popular conversation. | The fact that relatively few people are talking about the mass shooting that happened today, is proof that media has an anti-Muslim agenda | 0 | 2017-01-08T00:28:03 | 51 | 1 | 9 |
I believe it is logical to infer that such a being's views would be perfect and never in need of change. Perfect means never in need of change, not unable to change. As a person grew closer to perfection, he would become more *open to change* and yet find himself having to *actually change* less and less frequently. | A Person with Unchangeable Views Is, in a Way, Godlike | 0 | 2014-04-08T16:20:34 | 31 | 1 | null |
"But in First Contact we learn that the Borg do not just kidnap and plug in, and that's the end. They kidnap, and forcefully expose lifeforms to the benefits of the Collective, and await free choice to join or not." Picard was the only one offered this choice. If every one was offered the choice you'd have at least som... | I find assimilation into the Borg more enticing than membership in the Federation. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-20T04:27:19 | 39 | 2 | 8 |
I honestly do not understand questions like this. Americans do whatever the hell they want. They wanted someone, anyone, different and they got someone different. Do they want a dictator? Fuck no. There is no Trumpist party. There are no Trumpist militias. There are no Trumpist army generals. The power of the judiciary... | All it would take to destroy our democracy at this point is a successful attack on the scale of 9-11. | 1 | 2017-02-14T05:25:56 | 262 | 93 | 75 |
It's weird that you equate "good for a society" with economic growth. Is there more to a healthy society? Like, love for your neighbor and protecting the weak? If you insist on an economic argument, then there can be no growth without diversity. Entrepreneurs need new ideas to generate wealth and new ideas come from a ... | There is nothing inherently good about "diversity" or “multiculturalism.” In fact “diversity” is almost purely detrimental to societies. | 0 | 2016-12-27T02:11:15 | 175 | 65 | 1 |
I believe that college athletes should not be paid—college athletes are amateurs, not professionals. This is a meaningless statement. The only difference between "amateur" and "professional" is that a professional **gets paid**. First, many receive full-rides and do not have to pay tuition—an increasing burden on a nu... | I do not believe college athletes should be compensated for participating in athletics, particularly with the rising cost of college | 1 | 2015-10-20T19:16:57 | 89 | 23 | 40 |
before starting don't cite humans as counter arguments.. off xourse humans are better off.. you're saying that all other mammas are also, and that's what I'm debating. I repeat I ACKNOWLEDGE that it is better to be a human, you don't have to convince me of that To make things clear, I am not taking predator and prey re... | Being a cetacean (sea mammal such as whales, dolphin, etc) is the worst kind of animal you can be | 0 | 2016-06-18T04:09:51 | 37 | 1 | 4 |
A firm handshake can indicate confidence. There's no equivalent "firm fistbump." | Fistbumps are superior to handshakes and deserve to take over the role of handshakes when meeting friends or strangers | 0 | 2014-09-07T13:24:25 | 31 | 1 | 1 |
Here's the thing: the cities aren't your problem. By far the biggest user of water isn't your home. [83% of all water used in California]( http://www.publiclandsranching.org/htmlres/wr_guzzling_water.htm) isn't used by the settlement so much as by the money making enterprise of agriculture. Individuaks living in Los ... | Southern California should not exist as a major settlement | 0 | 2015-03-18T15:58:19 | 78 | 5 | 15Δ |
Pragmatically, restricting the right to vote is nearly impossible to enforce fairly. The people in power have a vested interest in keeping their power and, if the government can restrict the right to vote, then they can selectively enforce those laws in order to change election outcomes. Because of this possibility, th... | I don't think everybody deserves the right to vote. | 1 | 2016-02-24T15:58:12 | 108 | 88 | 2 |
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