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1. Then why did you bring it up a sa counterpoint to me saying that league supports more players? 2. using the lolesports power rankings as evidence, plenty of people care about teams outside of the top 20 listed. They really do matter - UoL, CLG, Gambit | League of Legends has the most boring and the least competitive circuit from all major eSport titles | 1 | 2015-07-17T19:00:20 | 97 | 3 | 2 |
People nowadays seem to be too sensitive. Both sides are sensitive, to different things. The liberal side would ban the songs about homophobia. The conservative side instead would instead have a big problem with overt atheism and ridiculing religion for instance. And they're very, very sensitive to anything that smells... | The liberal ideology won't be widely accepted in the near future. | 1 | 2017-02-13T01:20:56 | 41 | 3 | 14 |
They wait longer. As I pointed out, this is cultural. There will always be medical tourism, but this isn’t a reason America can never have affordable healthcare, it might just take 30 years for expectations to adjust. They don't receive unnecessary care. That’s really easy to fix with single payer. They wait for Amer... | The biggest challenge to affordable healthcare is that our knowledge and technology has exceeded our finances. | 1 | 2017-05-31T20:26:44 | 336 | 2 | 72 |
Veganism and animal welfare aren't the same thing. The only vegan I knew for any substantial length of time was mostly doing it to improve his discipline and meal planning skills - which worked, as far as I could tell, the lunches he brought to work were always substantially cheaper and healthier than mine. As long as ... | Having a vegan diet seems pretty pointless. | 0 | 2017-01-19T18:00:27 | 385 | 2 | null |
This may not change your view but a while back I made a [CMV post calling the April Fools Day joke by the /r/movies moderators atrocious](http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/3156ek/cmv_the_april_fools_day_joke_the_moderators_of/) (I deleted my posts because I was sick of getting circlejerk replies). The body ... | /r/changemyview is the only safe place on reddit to express any viewpoint and play devil's advocate | 0 | 2015-06-21T00:32:38 | 64 | 10 | 2 |
They do what anyone can do. Every person on this earth that can speak is capable of rapping. Ok OP, can you speak? If so why don't you record a rap and post it here to back up your assertion that anyone on Earth who can speak can rap. | Rappers don't have any real talent. | 0 | 2015-08-18T17:31:23 | 69 | 9 | 43 |
OK so is it fair to say that loading up "self-reliant" or "self-sufficient" with all the meanings you elucidated is semantically troublesome? Not really. But it IS fair to say that is doesn't matter. You could replace the term "self reliant" with "coconut cream pie", and that still wouldn't make the people in question ... | People who espouse ideals of self-reliance should kick their children out at adulthood, else they reveal themselves as hypocrites | 1 | 2016-12-23T12:31:46 | 55 | 2 | null |
What about the two thirds of young Muslims in France who don't find terrorism acceptable? I am 99% sure that "one third of Muslims r chill with ISIS" stat is garbage. No way they could survey any significant sample size of young Muslims who would all voluntarily confess to sympathizing with ISIS. Yes, Islam is a relig... | Anti-Muslim generalisations are invalid | 1 | 2017-03-27T02:31:37 | 91 | 2 | 7 |
I'm from the South, and I grew up learning that the Civil War was fought over the states' right to condone/abolish slavery. I also learned that it was a very complex issue, and that the motivations of individuals are different than the motivations of their government. But in the big picture, slavery was at the heart of... | Secessionists and southerners are frustrated because they feel that the most important lesson of the Civil War is ignored by the American left and mainstream American culture | 1 | 2016-02-23T06:44:55 | 104 | 6 | 9 |
Hi! Not being a native english speaker, I hope my post is readable. Syrian refugees are not our problem, and even if 99% of them are great people, there is still the chance of bringing in terrorists, which is unacceptable. All incoming people should be subject to the legal process of immigration. No exceptions. First o... | Hillary Clinton avoids criminal prosecution because of a corrupt FBI, and her presidency would be the epitome of a United States that is owned by corporations and foreign donors, and much of what she proposes is against our Constitution or a threat to national security. | 1 | 2016-08-10T12:50:53 | 407 | 94 | 1 |
"Machiavellian" is used in this context when a person wants to dress up amorality and manipulation as some sort of accomplishment, so let's dispel that real quick. What you're doing isn't impressive, you're just violating the rules of a game most other people play in good faith. You're not smarter, you're just willing ... | I believe my high Machiavellianism and egotism makes me the greatest person in the world and it's not a bad thing either. | 1 | 2016-01-07T13:48:21 | 57 | 51 | 98 |
So it follows that if the bully picked you then you are a weak guy. It means that you're inferior to other guys around you. Or there's something really wrong with you. You are worthy of being made fun of and wherever you go people will keep doing this to you. Because that's what your worth is. Not always. I was bullied... | If I get bullied then it means that I'm a weak guy, inferior to other guys around me | 0 | 2017-05-25T19:11:07 | 70 | 0 | 4 |
You haven't demonstrated the title as necessarily true. Even if you assume that someone without a military background will be less able to weild the military, there isn't a good reason to expect the country to be ill-served by a lack of ability to use it. Unless you're expecting to use it for defense against invasion. ... | The country is ill-served by any president that has never served in the military. | 0 | 2016-04-29T21:28:08 | 63 | 1 | 1 |
The problem I see with moral relativity is that if nothing is absolute, we cannot condemn great acts of evil like Chairman Mao committed in China. There is an absolute common or shared morality. This is how we make laws. We can't all agree but somehow we get to a common practice. Capitol punishment, abortion, and slav... | I think there is no rational moral justification for animal rights as a moral issue | 1 | 2014-06-10T07:45:55 | 85 | 3 | 3 |
Imagine applying the same logic to casino gambling, or alcohol. There are plenty of people who compulsively do things that are bad for them, like alcoholics or problem gamblers. They may have important wisdom to share about whether or not these are good ways to spend your time. Also keep in mind that many people play ... | If a game on Steam receives a negative review from someone who has played that game for more than 200 hours, you should ignore that review. | 0 | 2017-07-04T22:53:38 | 138 | 2 | 9 |
You can use the face of an analog clock (with the sun) to tell direction - to do this with a digital watch, you have convert the time to analog. I've done this a few times where I knew roughly where I was in a city, but was in an unfamiliar part of it (before GPS) fwiw even with the better cell phone compasses and A-G... | Analog clocks are pointless. | 1 | 2014-04-26T05:11:55 | 126 | 1 | 1 |
John Kasich and a Marco Rubio ticket would be a near 100% victory both are popular in their home states John Kasich has a 64% approval rate in Ohio and Rubio Has a 56% approval ratting in Flordia. Remember the last old white guy to won the Presendency was Carter in 76, Bill Clinton won the Youth and middle vote due to... | Unless the Republicans change their stance on social issues, the United States will never have another Republican President | 0 | 2015-08-29T14:20:53 | 60 | 2 | null |
Sorry, you're right! I just read a bunch of journal articles, and it seems that while galactose *does* make it into the fetal circulation, there is no evidence that a low-galactose diet in pregnant women is beneficial to a galactosemic fetus. I think my point still stands though, that having a near-death experience imm... | Being the carrier of a genetic defect, i don't think i should have a second children. | 1 | 2014-08-02T21:32:28 | 91 | 2 | 3 |
One of the main arguments against gay marriage is that it is "unnatural". One could also argue that incest and pedophilia are unnatural, but even more broadly, any sexual relationship outside of marriage between a man and woman can be argued effectively as unnatural. Marriage is unnatural, humans present both monogamou... | The result of the Supreme Court case on gay marriage is the next step in the "sexual revolution" and might have certain negative implication on society. | 0 | 2015-07-06T01:45:09 | 22 | 5 | 1 |
Read his genocide indictments. Yes, that's plural. http://www.icty.org/case/mladic/4#ind | Rupert Murdoch is the most evil man in the world | 1 | 2016-08-17T21:29:22 | 101 | 2 | 17 |
I think it is lazy You obviously haven't done a crowdfunding campaign. It's not that the grilled chickens come flying into your mouth. For example if I wanted to open a coffee shop in town, I'd fund the business idea and fruition with my personal bank account Holy shit man, not everyone has the means to pay up front f... | I believe crowdfunding is stupid. It is lazy and a waste of time and money. | 0 | 2015-02-19T17:44:52 | 31 | 1 | null |
People have emotions and thoughts, and they do actions. Political views can be based on emotions and hard-thought principles, among other things. If you have come to reason that a certain position is unethical, it does not negate your reasoning when you have a base, emotional reaction that is in conflict with your eth... | Outrages such as the one currently involving the Pharmaceutical CEO sheds light on the massive hypocrisy of Americans in regards to political stance. | 1 | 2015-09-28T07:13:50 | 38 | 2 | 1 |
I am going to disagree with you on this point. He should not have been reprimanded by his boss. The reason is that the MIB are expected to perform well under surprising situations such as the one where a weapon ends up being more powerful then expected. Likely the act of giving J a gun without explaining its properties... | The "noisy cricket" from Men in Black is a terrible weapon, and Agent K was wrong and irresponsible to give it to Agent J. | 1 | 2016-07-31T20:12:04 | 39 | 12 | 1 |
Let me start with a quote from Sebastian Faulk's *Birdsong*: "The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart." And now to my view... I imagine if anyone else replies to this they might address the artistic qualities of music, but I'm not going to. Mainly be... | I don't like music and I think I can't benefit from listening to it | 0 | 2014-09-15T16:38:44 | 131 | 4 | null |
Your post doesn't deal with how we actually get verified signatures: notarization. Documents which are really important will almost always be signed in the presence of a notary public, who will require photo ID or other verification of identity, and keep a log of the signature in a record book, which can be accessed la... | Digital signatures are superior to physical ones and should be the primary source of proof of identity on legal documents. | 1 | 2015-09-18T01:49:47 | 70 | 89 | 147 |
According to Google, the average steer weight is 550 kilos (1200 lbs) and the average yield is 220 kilos (490 lbs). Furthermore, calves are slaughtered for veal at 18-20 weeks of age, when their weight is about 200 to 230 kilos (450 to 500 lbs). If we take the ratio of body weight to yield weight to be the same, that's... | Killing baby cows for food is no more immoral than killing adult cows for food. | 1 | 2015-06-14T10:43:44 | 65 | 6 | null |
I'd say that there's a notable exception to this principle, and that's when a person had to overcome a major social barrier to become the first whatever of their category. For example, Jackie Robinson and his whole team took a major risk to be the first baseball team with a black player. When we celebrate these people,... | Labeling people as the "First African-American" or "First Woman" to do something does more to separate us than bring us together | 1 | 2015-06-01T20:28:12 | 50 | 101 | 12Δ |
Maybe you aren't at shops/restaurants/etc at the same time that a majority of handicapped people are. My friend (who uses a wheelchair) intentionally goes shopping during less busy hours of the day because it's easier for her to move through the aisles if there are fewer people around. Just because you don't see handic... | Cruel as it may seem, I do not see the point of handicapped parking spots. Based on what I have seen in my surroundings. I am actually willing to have my mind changed about this but hear me out first. | 1 | 2015-06-09T23:22:48 | 76 | 17 | 7 |
I can't recall the last meal I ate with plastic cutlery. Where do you use it? For me, carrying around a non-disposable set of cutlery would just serve no purpose | I think we should make a return to carrying cutlery on our person | 0 | 2014-07-12T12:17:34 | 76 | 1 | 2 |
Like was already said, your argument is weird because math beyond its rudiment *isn't* a compulsory part of education anywhere I know. I'd also add that for this debate it's helpful not to think of math as one big monolithic field - because it isn't. being able to succesfully manipulate axioms in weird scenarios appea... | Maths, beyond its rudiments, should not be a component of compulsary education | 0 | 2015-12-26T07:53:16 | 33 | 1 | null |
First off, America has more domestic flights than any other country except perhaps China. This is the reason we have more than one major airline. Very few other nations do. Most airlines would not even try to compete except for major routes (new york to LA for example). These companies would easily dominate the market... | The US should let Foreign Airlines fly Domestic Routes | 1 | 2017-04-23T12:59:17 | 67 | 1 | 1 |
If a child has cancer, I completely agree with doing everything you can to save them, because there is at least a CHANCE of recovery. But these children have no chance. Well, at best - no current chance based on current scientific knowledge. What if the attitude of 'just kill them' also feeds the attitude of 'Why try t... | Children born completely disabled should be euthanized. | 1 | 2017-03-25T20:58:10 | 277 | 540 | 4 |
Saying 'humanity has a problem' is pandering to the idea that there is an objective goal set that humans need to achieve. You'll find that you won't be able to get many people to agree on this, and among those that do, what those goals are exactly. Continuing this line of thought, the problem with codifying eugenics is... | Humanity's biggest problem is unintelligent people, and eugenics may be the answer. | 1 | 2017-05-07T08:35:28 | 33 | 9 | 22 |
It's very likely that extraterrestrial life exists, possibly even within our own solar system. You're right about Mars being the only other *planet* with a chance of supporting life, but there are several moons in our solar system that scientists have speculated could support single-cell or even complex life forms (see... | I don't believe in aliens. | 1 | 2014-10-12T03:49:24 | 78 | 3 | 9Δ |
If you made this a class shouldnt there be grades? But how do you grade the way someone thinks? We could of course test the children's ability to memorize things like when something was published or when some random guy was born but many other classes do this already. If you want someone to think critically you have to... | Critical Thinking / Philosophy should be a core discipline in modern school systems | 0 | 2014-07-31T06:06:27 | 177 | 1 | null |
Here's an experiment you could try with your friends and family members: gather a group of 4 or 5 together and give them your natal chart results. Don't tell them it's yours. After they have all read it, tell them it is the chart of one or more people at the table and have them guess whose it could be. Conduct this tes... | I believe in astrology. | 0 | 2014-03-31T18:44:13 | 96 | 6 | 1 |
First, "African American" is just inaccurate. As someone who's lived and worked in Kenya and has many African friends, none of the black-skinned people I've met in America have anything at all to do with Africa, and resemble other Americans (in all but skin color) far more than they do any Africans. They are Americans ... | Calling black Americans "African Americans" deepens racial divisions. | 0 | 2015-10-01T21:53:06 | 69 | 1 | 4 |
In places of strategic national security importance, USAID works side-by-side with our counterparts in the U.S. Military and the Department of State’s diplomatic corps to confront emerging threats and other global security challenges. Our efforts to achieve development progress in countries facing conflict and crisis h... | The U.S. spends too much on foreign assistance; this may feel compassionate but could be better spent domestically or on defense | 0 | 2017-01-25T18:03:30 | 81 | 32 | 94 |
I think you overestimate the difficulty of wavedashing and L-canceling. To be frank they are some of the easiest techs. Wavedashing is 3 inputs and L-canceling is just one, and neither are very frame-tight. I'm going to focus on the merits of wavedashing more than L-canceling. In smash bros games without wavedashing a... | Wavedashing and L-cancelling are not positive features in Super Smash Brothers Melee in their current state. | 1 | 2017-01-27T19:52:15 | 61 | 32 | 1 |
Interesting take. But the US benefited greatly from being the one of the few powers of the world who didn't have to rebuild their country after WW2. This placed us in a great advantage in the years after the war. Not to mention that WW2 helped get us out of the Great Depression. And it also helped to cement our allia... | The United States lost World War II | 1 | 2015-06-13T08:38:38 | 49 | 1 | 1Δ |
i don't has anything to hide Hmm, let's take a look at your report. It says here you post on a site called "reddit" that regularly espouses anti-American views. Since this is now a crime, looks like you're going to jail. You don't have anything to hide *now*. But what if they decided that the things you do should have ... | Why should i care if i get tapped by a company such as NSA if i dont have anything to hide? | 1 | 2013-12-20T22:22:19 | 98 | 2 | 55Δ |
The first would be to decrease the amount of employees. http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/157-07.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00723.x/abstract https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/288841/The_National_Minimum_Wage_LPC_Report_2014.pdf There ... | An increase in the minimum wage would hurt only the lower and middle classes | 1 | 2015-07-07T15:14:17 | 65 | 2 | null |
1 Economically, the child is going to be a negative influence. It will require extra care, with little to no possibility of repaying that. *All* kids are economic liabilities without any practical possibility of repayment. Unless you are arguing against children in general this isn't persuasive. 2 Socially, the child ... | I think it's cruel and selfish to bring children into the world that you know will be severely disabled. (Mentally and/or) physically. | 1 | 2017-05-25T17:14:09 | 56 | 19 | 3 |
There is a south park where super-nanny comes to tame Eric Cartman. He does something bad and she sits him down on a stool and says he can't get down for five minutes. He asks what keeps him on the stool and she says "you just can't". At which point he jumps down and goes "Ta-Da!" I can claim anything. I can claim wate... | It is impossible to claim that capitalism is a fair system that rewards hard work. | 1 | 2017-01-05T23:03:32 | 143 | 126 | 39 |
Your school operates on a budget and in response to the perceived desires of students. They buy those processed meats and frozen vegetables because they are significantly cheaper than organic chicken breast and daily deliveries of fresh vegetables. The fresh fruit they have is not indicative of what they *could* be spe... | College cafeterias do not offer good enough healthy options for students | 1 | 2014-10-03T19:57:07 | 74 | 1 | 81Δ |
Alaska has much more rugged wildness than any state in the lower 48. There's nowhere else in the world like Alaska. Incredible scenery and wildlife unlike anything you can see anywhere else. Orcas and bears are a common sight, and glaciers calving into the ocean is awe-inspiring. Aurora is visible pretty often, and bio... | It's a terrible idea to live in Alaska | 0 | 2017-03-24T20:10:09 | 86 | 2 | null |
Black is a problematic word, but I don't necessarily think there's a better one. It suggests a kind of binary opposition -- black and white being literal opposites chromatically speaking -- but comes pre-associated with ideas of other binary oppositions, namely good and evil. Caucasian people **aren't** white. African... | "Black" is a perfectly fine way to define someone's race. | 1 | 2017-03-28T21:36:30 | 596 | 627 | 5 |
I do greatly prefer flatter interfaces, mostly since they are typically part of changes that make the UI of the entire system look consistent. However, anyway, it is always important to explore change. Companies know this, and they wouldn't continue to make flat interfaces if customers didn't like it. Look at how every... | The "flat" aesthetic is a sham no one actually likes | 0 | 2015-09-14T06:33:52 | 35 | 3 | null |
A good amount of people think that adding another word is just simply unnecessary for people who aren't transgender. Since 99.7% of people don't identify as transgender, I think "normal" would actually apply here, but "non-trans" would get the same point across. Since such a small percentage of people identify as trans... | I don't get what is wrong with the term "cisgender" | 0 | 2016-03-22T21:38:34 | 302 | 5 | 1 |
Youre presuming that among the ten poor people there exists 6 who dont think they'll be the rich man someday. If the social ideal is, as Mitt Romney said, "we exist as a society of haves and soon to haves" the poor will vote to protect the sanctity of the rich. | Universal suffrage necessarily entails socialism. | 1 | 2015-04-23T13:59:00 | 90 | 12 | 1Δ |
I think you have an excellent point, but I think you're taking it a little too far. The way I see it, English classes, ideally, serve the following educational function: 1. *How to Derive Meaning From a Text*: being able to read a difficult or indirectly written text and being able to analyze the language to figure out... | I think that rhetoric should take literature's place as a key subject in school. | 0 | 2014-04-24T22:51:23 | 43 | 10 | 12 |
1. Quite obviously taxes disincentives with economic activity and so increasing corporate tax rates - when you already have one of the highest tax rates and a problem with jobs being off-shored, is not a great way to increase overall tax revenue. 2. People are paid in accordance with their worth. Your system basically... | The US should increase the top marginal corporate tax rates and offer tax incentives for companies that keep the minimum wage of their employees over a certain amount | 0 | 2016-06-28T15:41:10 | 136 | 1 | null |
to say he's an unredeemable villain, is to remain willfully ignorant of certain nuances of his character, to intentionally dissociate oneself from relating to the horrors of some of his decisions. His decisions were definitely tough in the beginning with Krazy-8 but after the poisoning of Brock and the nursing home bl... | Walter White is not THAT bad | 0 | 2016-03-04T20:38:03 | 48 | 1 | null |
I find it hard to understand what is meant by "selling" a patent or a copyright. That the original patent holder authored the idea is a fact, which cannot be changed. What does it mean for them to sell their rights to the idea away? If a third party allegedly buys these rights, why should society feel compelled to cred... | The terms "property", "ownership" and "stealing", when used to describe information , are meaningless | 0 | 2014-10-15T09:04:25 | 38 | 2 | 27Δ |
Your comments in that thread aren't being downvoted because you're playing devil's advocate. They're being downvoted because you write a bit awkwardly, you used non-standard formatting that does nothing to help explain your position, and your position itself is rather simplistic. There are other comments in that thread... | /r/changemyview is the only safe place on reddit to express any viewpoint and play devil's advocate | 0 | 2015-06-21T01:14:33 | 64 | 2 | 8 |
As someone with a major depressive disorder that runs in the family, I think a lot about this. Interestingly, I've seen it go unsuggested in these comments that the parents, knowing they have a decent risk of passing on a terrible disease, could simply adopt? Obviously this doesn't work if they don't know, but then the... | Passing on genetic diseases is highly unethical | 1 | 2017-03-04T14:13:52 | 286 | 1 | 1 |
What makes joke offensive isn't what the topic is, but who/what the *target* of the joke is. Rape jokes *can* be done well, as long as the butt of the joke is the rapist, and not the victim. [This joke by Bo Burnham](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxc20saM8DA&t=1m15s) comes to mind as an example of this. This is i... | Holocaust jokes, rightly or wrongly, are considered taboo and/or offensive. Gula, Kulak, and Soviet purge/mass killing jokes should be treated with the same idea of offence and taboo. | 0 | 2017-02-17T23:21:38 | 213 | 4 | null |
The first problem I can see here is a logistical one. I can't think of way that could possibly implement, manage, and enforce such a system as this. Plus, it could lead to an almost oligarchical system where a few people who control a lot of votes wield the most power. Plus, it would seem to unfairly punish the poore... | Because much evidence suggests that voter turnout has been steadily decreasing over the last 40 years (in many democracies), the democratic systems surely need re-thinking. | 0 | 2016-10-13T18:05:01 | 59 | 5 | null |
Highly. I see no evidence insinuating any of that. Quite the contrary. First of all the 1% is a lot of people that are not related to each other. I can't imagine Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Buffet, etc. jointly amassing drones. They'd also have to have full control over the US military forces. Second, these people made t... | Progress in automation will eventually lead to a full fledge genocide on the majority of the population. | 1 | 2014-12-27T01:09:08 | 74 | 1 | 25 |
Niceness by itself isn't enough to be attractive. Most of the women I know are attracted to men who are funny, charismatic, and intelligent. The initial attraction comes from those aspects of their personality. None of that means that those men are unkind, but they aren't defined by their niceness. A lot of men who I ... | Women, generally, are not attracted to genuinely nice guys. | 0 | 2016-08-26T09:14:42 | 97 | 8 | null |
I would simply seek to change your view that the president is a populist. If anything he is a "right-wing populist", meaning that he ran on ideas that were popular specifically with right wing voters. You can't be a populist and not be in favor of climate change policies, as approximately two thirds of Americans want t... | The President needs to go back to what got him elected...populism. | 1 | 2017-03-26T19:34:23 | 55 | 3 | 1 |
Weird example, but so be it. Scenario: When entering a car, someone activates the child lock in the back seat. Upon arriving at their destination, they get out of the other side of the car, activating the child lock on that door before closing it. The person at the other door is now locked in and cannot get out. The p... | People who agree with the quote "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." are zealots and probably oppressive themselves. | 0 | 2017-03-03T07:12:27 | 103 | 3 | null |
The reason we don't cap cars at certain speeds is twofold. Firstly, you'd be slowing down every single motorist in the country, and secondly you wouldn't be guaranteeing anyone's safety - many accidents happen at relatively low speeds when one car turns into another's path. The same logic can't be applied to cars becau... | Arguments in favor of increased gun control coming from the direction of "saving lives" are flawed | 1 | 2016-08-09T05:47:55 | 177 | 6 | 3 |
So the big thing we're missing now that allowed the American Civil War to happen is the threat to the entire economic system. The states which formed the Confederacy didn't secede because of cultural or political differences, although those did exist. They seceded because they believed the Republican Party, and, by ext... | Conditions are right for another American Civil War. | 1 | 2017-06-30T18:02:25 | 68 | 41 | 7 |
I have two points on this. 1. You said yourself that voting "As it stands now, feels like a monkey dance". So you should agree that the current system is a joke, but how do you change it if you don't participate at all? If you knew the only thing standing between you and proportional representation and runoff elections... | There is nothing wrong with not voting | 0 | 2015-09-11T00:31:06 | 139 | 1 | 1Δ |
Ok my examples were crap. I'll use one the Supreme Court brought up during oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby case. The government passes a law in the name of preventing animal cruelty, which says anytime you slaughter an animal, it must be stunned or sedated first. This violates kosher and halal. If everyone gets an ex... | If religious people can opt out of a law due to their views, anyone should be allowed to opt out for any reason. | 1 | 2014-07-10T00:52:09 | 676 | 7 | 5 |
To your point about morale: the Empire controls the flow of information between planets. No one needs to know what happened on Scarif. | [Star Wars Rogue One Spoilers] The Empire's Actions at the end of Rogue One make no strategic sense whatsoever | 1 | 2016-12-27T03:41:39 | 61 | 2 | 1 |
There's no reason to remove them from schedule 1 schedule 1 just needs to allow for research so things that actually have a use can be bumped over schedules. This applies to, well, anything. | MDMA (ecstasy), LSD, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca/DMT should not be schedule I drugs, they should be re-scheduled and further researched | 0 | 2016-12-02T07:19:48 | 139 | 1 | null |
Isn't that simply what an excuse is? A reason provided to explain why a particular action was taken? | There is no such thing as Excuses, only Reasons. | 0 | 2017-06-16T07:14:00 | 31 | 3 | 2 |
We certainly could , we would just have to cut funding elsewhere. Such as making cuts to the defense budget. But that isn't likely to happen with how much influence our military gives us around the globe. Also if our population was healthier and not having a majority that is overweight and approaching obese, healthcar... | America can't afford universal healthcare or free college education. | 0 | 2015-06-30T21:49:11 | 181 | 1 | null |
It sounds to me like you've never fired a gun in your life. It's not nearly as easy as you seem to think it is. Several other people have already mentioned the physical skills required (isometric muscle control, breathing, balance, etc.). Most people will not be able to just pick up a gun and hit a target, *especially*... | Shooting based sports should not be part of the Olympics | 0 | 2016-08-18T04:18:52 | 40 | 0 | 1 |
I like Sander's message, but I think he has managed to bring Clinton to the left on a lot more issues which is enough to satisfy my personal appetite for more leftist thinking. What happens when Sanders isn't there anymore? Do you think she will stay on to the left? What makes you think she will? I refuse to vote for C... | I will be voting for Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania Primary | 0 | 2016-04-24T20:37:52 | 132 | 12 | null |
You should read Ta Nehisi-Coates [examination of discriminatory housing policy](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/), it might help you get a sense of how racist policies can have generational impacts that last for decades. It's worth reading over and above any comments ... | Generationally impoverished people in the United States have a cultural and attitude problem that prevents financial improvement, and is not a product of America's race culture, economic system, or shortcomings of governance. | 1 | 2015-12-05T21:04:51 | 34 | 51 | 9 |
I'd say failing to discover fraud and failing to discover sexual slavery are on two different levels, and only one of them is an acceptable sacrifice to permit business. Also, are you sure that the cost of keeping prostitutes in jail is not more than these costs are? No, I don't have the numbers. Generally, prisons ar... | [NSFW] Prostitution should be legal | 1 | 2017-05-23T05:01:07 | 90 | 1 | 4 |
The first is that it won't give me anything I desire. I am perfectly fine living on almost nothing. I did a calculation of my future costs and found that they are well within the range of what I will be getting for welfare so I see no reason to try and get a job to pay bills. Living on welfare is tough. It means spendi... | There is no reason to pursue a career | 1 | 2017-02-17T08:54:27 | 158 | 2 | 23 |
Per [this](http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/switzerland) source, Switzerland's gun homicides per 100,000 in 2014 was 0.09, while they have 45.7 firearms per 100 people. Meanwhile, Brazil has [~20](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate) gun homicides per 100,000 also as of... | The 2nd Amendment Should be Abolished. | 1 | 2016-12-15T08:15:07 | 187 | 15 | 2 |
I think what people are really complaining about is *bad* CGI, because you don't hear many complaints about what a great movie Guardians of the Galaxy would have been without the CGI. | CGI in movies is not necessarily a bad thing, and the general dislike for it by many Redditors is silly. | 0 | 2015-01-19T19:16:31 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
Let me put it this way - how can we change your view? What would we need to convince you of? | Instead of the Selective Service, 18-year-olds should be required to enlist in the Army Reserves | 1 | 2014-05-18T19:34:39 | 75 | 2 | 108Δ |
Fliptops are easier to break than screwtops. | Fliptop toothpaste caps are universally better than screwtop caps | 0 | 2017-03-19T16:03:14 | 128 | 94 | null |
Most vegetarians think that eating meat is immoral when you have other options. The only reason we eat meat is because we like it, not because we couldn't be perfectly healthy without it. That's why most vegetarians don't have a problem with Type I diabetics using insulin, because that person would die without taking a... | When one accepts that eating meat is immoral, one would also have to accept that wild animals that naturally eat meat either need to be "rehabilitated", or put down. | 1 | 2014-10-23T00:58:50 | 75 | 18 | 15 |
It's difficult to find a double-blind study of this type. The best I could do was [this](https://www.powerstream.ca/ContentMgr/images/Managing-Electricity-Costs-business-guide.pdf) document that showed (on page 8) that a grocery store saved about 5% of its costs just by switching off its lights regularly on weekdays. I... | We live in a society designed for "Morning People", but this system should be abolished and replaced with one that favors "Night People". | 1 | 2015-07-30T04:45:09 | 64 | 9 | 78 |
See my edit: I spend most of my day doing mental labor; my brain is constantly trying to fix problems. At the end of my day, I want to do something lighter. If I was doing physical labor, would I be considered physically lazy if I wanted to sit down and do a sudoku instead of heavy lifting afterwards? | It's intellectually lazy to not have a stance on an issue | 1 | 2016-03-05T02:46:08 | 76 | 2 | 78 |
I don't hate nickleback, as I think it's sort of silly to hate something that you can pretty easily ignore if you choose to. I *hate* genocide, gang violence, school shootings, and neo-nazis. I *don't care for* Nickleback. That said, I think Nickelback represents a change in the music industry, and while they were neit... | I believe that the band Nickelback gets far too much unwarranted hate. CMV. | 1 | 2013-07-06T20:50:56 | 47 | 3 | 1 |
It's all about perspective. Let's assume that God decided when He made the world that terminal diseases (save for disease as a result of old age) and wars and natural disasters and murders and accidents and things that kill more than a handful of people every year were bad and shouldn't be here. We would have no clue ... | I don't see how God could let so much horrible stuff happen, and the free will argument doesn't make sense to me. CMV | 1 | 2013-04-16T04:53:20 | 55 | 2 | 1 |
in which men who want children have to pay the women who bear the children for their financial loss and pain and suffering. This kind of questions are really sprouting nowadays here on CMV. Why is it? I do however observing a better arguments on the problematic, I applaud you. However. Men who want to be parents shoul... | If Paternal Surrender becomes a thing, it should be in conjunction with Paternal Consent, in which men who want children have to pay the women who bear the children for their financial loss and pain and suffering. | 0 | 2017-02-21T23:58:40 | 52 | 2 | 24 |
How exactly is Wall St. crippling America? The success of main street is tied to the success of wall street and vice versa. university without crippling debt Hillary seems to be better on affordable college, whereas Bernie Sanders wants tuition free college, which I see as hugely problematic. healthcare is a joke Oba... | I am a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter and moderate liberal democrat. | 0 | 2016-02-29T22:42:16 | 74 | 1 | null |
The claim of consensus is not meant to serve as proof that climate change exists, but it is meant as a refutation of the **skeptic** claim that "Most scientists don't believe in climate change", or something similar. One of the primary tactics of the denier side (let's stop calling them skeptics; it's giving them far t... | Consensus based arguments against climate skeptics that state "97% of climate scientists agree on human-driven climate change" are stupid | 1 | 2015-11-05T18:24:41 | 81 | 46 | 52 |
Here's what I don't get about your view. Even if we assume the song is not sexist, in what way is it feminist? To me, feminism seems to imply some positive step towards advancing equality or the interests of women (depending on how one defines feminism). This song does neither. It is one woman singing about what she wa... | Meghan Trainor's song, Dear Future Husband, is feminist and is not sexist. | 0 | 2015-04-28T00:54:30 | 78 | 1 | 3 |
that he wrongly believed that he did and that this matters because it means that we can't just dismiss Trump as an outlier instead of recognizing that we need to do a better job of teaching men about consent and making sure that there is consent. Do you know what [Jill Harth](http://www.vox.com/2016/10/8/13110734/donal... | Donald Trump did not brag about getting away with sexual assault in the Access Hollywood tapes. | 1 | 2016-10-13T05:08:23 | 87 | 15 | 257 |
But the existence of a selection criteria for choosing IDs doesn't mean there needs to be a divine operator. For example if you toss a bunch of pebbles into a lake, one of them will sink to the bottom the fastest, we don't need a divine scuba diver to pick the fastest sinker and put it on the bottom; the probability of... | Atheism is irrational if there is a self | 1 | 2017-06-24T23:34:55 | 192 | 1 | 1 |
It's not better if you want to use your mouse from the other side of the room. | A Wired Mouse is better than a Wireless mouse. | 1 | 2014-08-22T14:59:22 | 87 | 32 | 2 |
I agree that many owners assign feelings to their dogs just like many kids assign feelings to their dolls so I also agree that many times when owners claim the dog is XYZ they are simply projecting what they want the dog to feel. That being said haven't you seen the "[Dog sees owner for first time in X amount of time.... | Dogs are not your friends. | 1 | 2015-06-28T07:31:00 | 36 | 8 | null |
I'm reminded of something I read from *Orthodoxy* by G. K. Chesterton: Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up peo... | An eternal afterlife in Biblical Heaven would be an intolerable hellscape, and Christian doctrine's promise of one is a disincentive to believe in Christianity. | 1 | 2014-10-23T21:30:31 | 429 | 2 | 2 |
I am also a vegetarian, based on the fact that I can't find a good reason I should kill animals just for my pleasure, but I do know a number of low income families who raise chickens and hunt small game to supplement their diet. For these families, eating meat isn't a fun thing to do, it's the difference between their ... | There is no strong, socially responsible argument for not reducing/eliminating animal products in one's diet | 0 | 2017-07-05T19:32:51 | 52 | 2 | 4 |
It's not really pandering. I wouldn't call it that. Pandering, to me, implies there's no risk and the person can just say whatever they want and get away with it, and the base eats it up. There is still a measure of risk in the debates. Even when both candidates claim victory, polling numbers don't totally lie. Clinto... | In presidential debates, candidates should be held responsible for objectively untrue statements in some capacity | 1 | 2016-09-30T03:36:56 | 157 | 9 | 17 |
Sorry if my reply seemed a bit patronizing. You really should have said that you're a scientist right in the post description. I would explain it properly rather than go with the annoyed snide remark. Apologies. Let me trot out my other specialization then, which is economics. Why would you need to get rid of the old s... | Switching to the metric system in America would be cost-prohibitive and not worth the effort. | 1 | 2016-05-08T21:51:37 | 91 | 1 | 1 |
That is an aproximation of it, I suspect as well there are more violent people on the left (largely due to younger people tending to be both more likely to engage in violence/riots, and be on the left), but the more effective/deadly violence comes from the right. That and the (most common) form of violence between the ... | The political right is more violent than the left. | 1 | 2017-02-28T22:56:46 | 77 | 3 | 9 |
4, about 7 inches at 1/4 cup. I still think that serving is off given the recipe book says 1/2 (and 385 calories.) | I should eat Lunchables every day | 1 | 2015-05-15T17:34:55 | 61 | 1 | 66Δ |
I read it that way because it's the logical conclusion of your post. You believe that Sanders is the better candidate yet he can't even beat Clinton. Polls are going to be worse for the more known candidate. If Sanders was the presumptive nominee the attack adds would start and his numbers would go into the tank. The c... | Clinton should suspend her campaign | 1 | 2016-05-06T01:28:17 | 76 | 19 | 1 |
The victim is biased. Hurting people is bad, but it may be worth it to prevent them from hurting more people. Punishing crime is a balancing act between the welfare of the criminal and the welfare of others who could be hurt by crime. The victim has no incentive to worry about the criminal and has every reason to go al... | Death penalty should be decided by those impacted by the crime | 0 | 2017-07-02T22:52:25 | 31 | 1 | 8 |
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