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There are two separate issues here: 1) If the currency is actual gold, or backed by gold, then McDuck hoarding gold will severely restrict the monetary base, and in turn the money supply. This will indeed create a strong recessionary pressure in the economy. But note that this and the point you make in your edit cannot... | Scrooge McDuck is ruining Duckburg's and the world's economy. | 1 | 2014-05-15T21:50:38 | 82 | 24 | 1 |
Studies have shown that most people are not completely straight or not completely gay, I'd love to see those studies. Most of what I've seen suggest that women are fluid and men more fixed. Still, you can complain about labels - and I don't think you're entirely wrong - but you can't change 'em. People use them to sel... | Putting labels on sexuality is reductive and does more harm than good | 0 | 2017-04-06T06:17:12 | 42 | 3 | 33 |
If people are using the word "privilege" correctly, they're not saying that you can't understand people in other situations, they're pointing out that you're not trying to. For example, if you're talking about college being too expensive for poor children and you say "they really should just study hard in high school a... | privileged people's opinions should be respected, not shuned | 0 | 2014-04-03T21:04:02 | 65 | 5 | 16Δ |
Imagine you have a loaded die that lands on a 6 with a probability of 2/3. If one were to bet money for or against this die landing on a 6 in any one throw, a rational person would bet for. Can you say with certainty that this person will win? Opportunity is basically a probability distribution. If we know what opportu... | Anyone has opportunities to succeed, but some people have more opportunities than others. | 0 | 2015-02-08T04:55:35 | 80 | 7 | 8 |
Roleplaying is all about telling a story in a group. All the things you mentioned, like use of outside information to influence your IC actions. Stuff like the above- knowing weaknesses of monsters, attacking people because you've deduced based on DM facial expressions that they're the villains, carefully choosing yo... | Metagaming in roleplay games is good and shouldn't be seen as immoral. | 0 | 2017-03-24T03:04:42 | 193 | 1 | 198 |
This is a cute teal deer, but you are happily ignoring the fact that coming out is a pretty major risk for us. Your time would have been better spent considering the actual reasons we have for not disclosing instead of immediately jumping to "obviously it's so you can fuck people who wouldn't fuck you if they knew you ... | While a transgender person not disclosing their identity before sex should not be an illegal/prosecutable offense, it should be at least examined as a potentially questionable ethical decision. | 1 | 2016-09-22T00:08:27 | 129 | 2 | 1 |
I propose that learning language is at least as if not more important than learning critical thinking. Consider a person who goes through life completely uncritically. They may believe a lot of untrue things but basically they are still capable of holding a job, having a family, etc. A person who learns no language is ... | Critical thinking is the most important and/or useful thing anyone could learn. | 0 | 2016-04-30T20:26:32 | 43 | 3 | null |
It's more palatable, yes, but still a shame. Suffering is unfortunate, and the ideal to me is to have as little of it in our lives as we can manage. No matter who its happening to. | I believe that, in certain cases, capital punishment shouldn't have to be humane. | 1 | 2014-07-24T07:02:22 | 89 | 3 | 2 |
Okay, absurd view time. You aren't kidding here... We have managed to resolve the problems that prevent us from visiting other lifeforms. Hypothetical territory. Alright, I'm in. We head to planet Kworsk, ready to invade for their natural iron supplies, since we need a lot of it and it is a scarce resource in our hom... | in order to become an interstellar species, we need to settle all of our differences. ALL of them. | 1 | 2017-06-15T00:04:37 | 40 | 1 | 25 |
TL;DR This is only true in a nearly impossible scenario of an absent vote being the reason the electoral college chooses Trump. Here's why I disagree, in part, and agree, in part: Mathmatically, votes are divided as follows, since we are assuming this election is binary: a) Check box for Clinton = +1 Clinton and -1 Tr... | An absent vote may as well count as a vote for Trump | 1 | 2016-10-12T00:02:59 | 42 | 5 | 2 |
It's the same thing though; anything you restrict like that is going to fall prey to the forbidden fruit syndrome. | Authoritarian views and opinions should be actively suppressed | 1 | 2017-04-15T09:15:38 | 93 | 12 | 10 |
The description of an electron being in more than one place at once is genuinely a very useful way of explaining various phenomena. You can never observe the same electron in two places at once. In fact once you observe the electron it is impossible for it to be in any of the other places it could have been. This is ca... | Quantum Physics is bullshit. | 0 | 2014-09-19T18:53:17 | 28 | 1 | null |
Actually, studies show that intelligent people are more likely to be unhappy, and cope with things like depression or anxiety. I guess the old saying, "Ignorance is bliss" actually has some truth to it. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150413-the-downsides-of-being-clever | Intelligent people cannot be sad because if they're intelligent they'll figure out a way to cheer up. | 1 | 2015-07-26T22:15:15 | 48 | 29 | 57 |
Why is it that a server who brings me a hamburger, fries and a few soft drink refills on a tab of say, $12, get a tip for $2.40-3, but a server who brings me a filet mignon and a bottle of wine with a tab of $60 gets a tip of $12? Besides, perhaps, having to dress up nicer, the server themselves has exactly the same ... | CMV- Our tipping system is screwed up and should be changed to reflect the amount of time a server has our table, and not a percentage of the bill. | 1 | 2017-01-29T17:07:34 | 49 | 15 | 46 |
I’m a therapist. The things we work on in therapy are only a very small sliver of who we are. People have repetition compulsions, anger, emotional outbursts with unclear origin. Just because we don’t know where they come from-- doesn’t mean they don’t exist. When we sleep we lose consciousness. Does that make us any l... | I believe there is no aferlife. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-03T05:00:14 | 38 | 4 | 1 |
Two problems I can see. One is that people always think their dog is well trained. Many dog owners don't even realize how well trained a well trained dog actually is. A well trained dog should have perfect recall (come when called), and should obey any command (such as "leave it") no matter how tempting the situation i... | If you have a well-trained dog (defined in description), you should be able to bring it off-leash to a normally on-leash area. | 0 | 2017-06-15T21:55:10 | 24 | 6 | 9 |
A counterargument I can foresee is that to someone who is pro-gun, an attacker forfeits their right to life by being a criminal, and fetuses are innocent. However, this argument doesn't really fly. Firstly, there's no way of knowing why an intruder has entered your home - maybe they were forced to by someone else or co... | It is hypocritical to be both pro-gun and staunchly pro-life. | 0 | 2014-12-01T16:22:47 | 56 | 1 | null |
For a decentralised currency, the Bitcoin 'price' settled upon by centralised exchanges is a contradiction in terms. The decentralised pricing system to go along with bitcoin would be products and services sellers denominating them in bitcoins, and independent of its valuation from USD as on the few exchanges that exis... | Bitcoin (for better or worse) can never operate as a real currency, by its own very design. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-14T19:48:04 | 82 | 1 | 2 |
But who controls the robots? Only the people and corporations who can afford them are able to have them. Or if they are commonplace, they can own robots of higher quality and/or quantity. This cements any income inequality, because as fine as art is (I think teaching will also fall to robots because we already do not n... | Mass unemployment created by robots replacing humans in the not-to-distant future may be positive for the general public | 1 | 2017-04-11T16:28:33 | 75 | 9 | 2 |
You haven't really explained *why* it's intellectually lazy to not have an opinion. There are millions, billions of ideas and subjects and issues out in the world. Must we have an opinion on every one of them that we ever hear something about? Even if we take things that actually might impact us, must we have an opinio... | It's intellectually lazy to not have a stance on an issue | 0 | 2016-03-05T02:26:14 | 76 | 1 | 7 |
Yes, they would. I took a 40% pay cut for half the hours. | Medical School students and doctors are all just childishly whining! With the money they make, 80 hours of work is nothing! | 1 | 2017-03-28T01:05:47 | 128 | 2 | 6 |
First off it's a bit too late to withdraw now, the deadline to withdraw a name from the ballots was in late september according to court rulings (15 days after filing deadlines). As much as I would have preferred a Biden run HRC is who we have. As for Stein... No just no. She is one of the most anti science candidates ... | The democratic party should ask Hillary Clinton to step down for health reasons and choose a new candidate to run as the president on their ticket or everyone who voted for Bernie Sanders should vote for Jill Stein. | 1 | 2016-10-24T02:35:47 | 102 | 4 | 32 |
When a minimum wage is instituted... job markets for which a market wage currently lies below the instituted minimum find themselves moved artificially up the "Supply" curve and artificially down the "Demand" curve. Therefore, more individuals are willing to offer their labor ... to fewer employers. I'm not sure I foll... | Minimum Wage is a bad policy that hurts a vast majority in order to help a tiny minority. | 0 | 2017-02-28T00:28:30 | 41 | 1 | 23 |
Hello, I would like to respectfully disagree. I have grown up in the world of law (both of my parents are attorneys) and began working in it when I was 17, and let me tell you, a lot of the law is pretty cut and dry, obvious answer kinda stuff. And you know? The Supreme Court *does* pretty much vote unanimously most o... | If Supreme Court Justices actually did what they were supposed to do, virtually every decision would be a 9-0 vote. The fact that many votes - especially on "hot button" issues - are 5-4 votes indicates that the Justices are deciding politically, rather than simply interpreting the Constitution | 1 | 2014-04-03T08:18:10 | 353 | 43 | 6 |
The relationships make no sense. Why does Harry like Cho or Ginny? Let's force in a relationship. Yay. /u/Langlie had a really good write up on "why Ginny" like 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/1nxgh2/ginny_like_or_dislike/ccna87p In the comments of this bestof link, he explai... | Harry Potter is overrated | 0 | 2016-04-24T10:57:43 | 342 | 1 | 5 |
How can a mob suddenly take control of Congress when you vote for your representatives every 4 years? 2, 4, 6. Don't people complain about money in politics. Money that goes to ads, then to viewers political schema, then the voting booths? The immovability of the Constitution now prevents, to a certain degree, the par... | The U.S. Constitution isn't nearly as great a document as it's made out to be, especially in the modern day. Making it as hard as it is to amend is a spectacularly disastrous oversight by the Founding Fathers. | 1 | 2015-07-06T18:21:30 | 332 | 4 | 5 |
Up until about junior year of high school I really enjoyed reading like stay up all night to finish a book and even reading more than one book at a time I set out to read all of what I saw to be the clasics that I had access too. But junior year lit class just completely killed that passion for me | People who claim to have had literature/reading 'spoilt' for them at school are either being disingenuous or do not understand literature. | 0 | 2017-04-14T21:58:10 | 86 | 1 | 39 |
First let's establish that for some children, gender dysphoria is a serious medical disorder. You have young kids with so much anxiety about gender dysphoria that they can socially withdraw from other children and become depressed and suicidal. When I was about 6 or 7 and realized my wish to change my body could never ... | Children should not be able to access gender reassignment therapy | 1 | 2017-05-18T17:53:43 | 151 | 11 | 6 |
Did the audience know the child was autistic when they started heckling him? Probably not, right? He probably doesn't walk around with a huge neon sign on his head that says I'M AUTISTIC BITCHES. So we can probably dispense of your objection that his autism somehow contributed to him looking bad in front of the audienc... | The mother who had an autistic child disrupting a Broadway show is not a hero and is completely selfish. | 1 | 2015-09-27T18:08:35 | 547 | 5 | 14 |
Just because the bad feelings are fueled by anger at Monsanto doesn't mean it is conspiracy nonsense. Genetic modification is not bad in and of itself. It actually works to strengthen crops and make them better for us. But the effects of widespread uniform use of GMOs are ultimately unsafe. Monsanto's practices (and ge... | 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? | 1 | 2013-05-30T02:54:29 | 184 | 108 | 2 |
Listen to Modest Mouse, specifically We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. They were born out of that time and have all of those qualities. | Popular 90's grunge is inferior compared to all other commonly listened-to music genres. | 0 | 2015-01-24T08:27:31 | 35 | 1 | null |
I'm sorry to say but you basically got every concept you wrote about wrong. What GDP is, what deflation is, what the federal reserve does, etc. But I'll just focus broadly on two issues. First, the Federal Reserve is in charge of *monetary policy* which essentially comes down to setting the base interest rate of USD. T... | The Federal Reserve doesn't just print money, it steals value from everyone collectively. | 0 | 2015-04-29T21:54:22 | 83 | 32 | null |
This was disproven by SMBC's Hyper Fecund Mega Nerd theory. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3130 There really isn't a more serious way to answer your question. Sorry if it comes off as rude, but what you are describing is a just-so story, a type of ad-hoc fallacy. You aren't accounting for multitudinous other factors th... | Because how evolution works and due to less people dying than ever, humans will evolve into a Idiocracy. | 1 | 2016-12-11T23:23:35 | 29 | 5 | 5 |
Would like to know -- are you suggesting *legal* responsibility here? | I believe that parents are just as at fault for the actions of their children as the children are | 0 | 2016-08-03T19:10:10 | 40 | 1 | null |
Recently I saw a talk where an FU professor [Christoph Benzmüller](http://page.mi.fuberlin.de/cbenzmueller/), expert on *Computational Methaphysics*, analyzed different proofs on the existence of God. I know what you are thinking, if I saw this in almost any other place I would immediately discard it as bs. But the Fre... | It is illogical to believe any religion | 0 | 2017-01-10T01:46:03 | 86 | 3 | null |
talk more about sound quality, comfort and durability. Let's talk about ear damage instead. Shitty headphones don't produce all the frequencies of sound equally. Because of shitty material, and shitty design, some frequencies are much louder than others, and some frequencies are much quieter than others. What does thi... | expensive headphones are not worth the price in relation to cheap ones. | 1 | 2017-05-24T19:13:08 | 36 | 19 | 33 |
According to [this article](http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Roaches) there are many other methods available to you. If you can get your hands really good cockroach bait, then Method 2 would work wonders since it also affects the nest. Failing that, you may want to try a simple soap+water spray. It's way more effectiv... | The best way to dispose of a single cockroach is by trapping it under a disposable cup, sliding a piece of cardboard underneath, carrying it to the bathroom, and flushing the vile creature down the toilet. | 1 | 2015-09-11T19:05:34 | 101 | 13 | 130 |
Let's go 1 by 1: Nationalism puts people in groups with other people who they have little to nothing in common for entirely arbitrary reasons. Nationalism gives a broad spectrum of people a sense of community. It gives people with otherwise nothing in common a sense of bonding and a possible reason to help one another ... | Nationalism is destructive. | 0 | 2016-12-02T21:22:11 | 99 | 9 | null |
I do not believe; however, that humans are direct descendants of any species perhaps a [list of the progression](http://s106.photobucket.com/user/NekoD3m0n/media/evolution/fossil-hominid-skulls.jpg.html) of our ancestors in which you can see with your own eyes the process of our evolution will help. or the fact that hu... | I think it makes sense to believe in microevolution and not macroevolution. | 0 | 2014-12-04T02:31:22 | 69 | 1 | 2 |
OP, I think you may be mixing up morality and ethics. (Though I think you may still be correct.) Making a *moral* decision is to choose to do something because it's right. Making an *ethical* decision is choosing to do the right thing for whatever reason -- because it's the law, because it's the most economical, etc. I... | I believe that in modern Western culture, being religious makes you more moral. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-17T23:00:00 | 124 | 1 | 15Δ |
I don't know how it would really reduce confusion over what the practitioner can treat. Sure, you'd get chiropractors, dentists, podiatrists, etc. out of the mix, but it still wouldn't help you differentiate between a psychiatrist and a vascular surgeon. MD encompasses an enormous amount of vastly different specializat... | In a clinical setting only Medical Doctors should be called Doctor. | 0 | 2014-10-24T20:21:38 | 43 | 12 | 2 |
You just completely misrepresented ancap views. We believe in regulation of private property, without top down government. Drivers licenses are very practical. Regulation that is market driven is wanted and needed. Almost no one wants to live in a lawless wasteland. What we don't abide is a central authority with a m... | When people ascribe anarcho-capitalist views to all libertarians they are attempting to dismiss all libertarian ideas and beliefs as crazy | 1 | 2016-08-25T00:09:58 | 154 | 8 | 2 |
And if you think the price is too high for what it is worth, pirating is still a dick move that's denying revenue to someone who deserves it. We're disagreeing on what "deserves it" means; I would posit that a company that makes a *good* game deserves income, one that makes an irredeemably bad one deserves to have the ... | Saying the game isn't worth paying for isn't an excuse for pirating videogames | 1 | 2015-01-09T17:43:02 | 567 | 1 | 43 |
I think you need to elaborate on what you mean by illegal. The US government tried banning alcohol, and prohibition was by most metrics a disaster. Similarly, many consider the war on drugs a disaster. Everything you said is right - although smoking is a very minor negative to the environment, and smoke butts on the g... | I think all tobacco products should be illegal. | 0 | 2015-05-29T04:03:04 | 312 | 1 | 3Δ |
A lot of women out there think that all men are attracted to are the kinds of girls you see on magazines - all thin with long flowing hair and a dazzling confident smile. Obviously you know this isnt true, plenty of guys prefer to nerdy or shy girls, or the slightly awkward or quirky one, some guys even like slightly f... | TheRedPill is very accurate about women and the reality of attraction, and the AF/BB concept | 1 | 2017-04-27T19:01:48 | 65 | 4 | 3 |
They were inclined to ridicule her because she seemed to have a history of inventing being oppressed by others because of her skin color. Trying to appropriate a races history of abuse to justify what you identify with is wrong and turned a majority of people off. People saying they feel like they were born in the wron... | Wanting to change your sex because you feel you were born with the wrong gender is no different from pretending to be black because you feel you were born with the wrong color (cf. Rachel Dolezal) | 0 | 2015-10-04T03:32:17 | 818 | 0 | null |
Skyrim is an action game. Sure, it has a whole bunch of RPG mechanics in the background, but your ability to survive relies on reflex far more than in NV. New Vegas is a role playing game through and through - your attacks, replies, and other things rely entirely on your character's development. I'm going to exaggerate... | Fallout: New Vegas is better than TES: Skyrim | 0 | 2017-06-22T17:07:14 | 29 | 2 | 2 |
You say that animals belong in the wild, but in the wild most animals lead incredibly difficult lives. Most will die from disease, starvation or injury. Just because these harsh lifestyles are 'natural' doesn't mean they are inherently morally good. | Owning pets is morally wrong | 1 | 2017-02-25T03:41:05 | 38 | 26 | 2 |
Section 213 of the PATRIOT Act normalized “sneak-and-peek” warrants. These allow law enforcement to raid a suspect’s house without notifying the recipient of the seizure for months. These orders usually don't authorize the government to actually seize any property — but that won't stop them from poking around your comp... | The United States has never regressed on social issues at the Federal level and it isn't going to happen now either. | 1 | 2016-11-10T22:10:15 | 130 | 222 | 24 |
This is a good post and question OP. I think all undergrads have thought these things at least once; I know I did. Currently I'm finishing up a doctoral program (going into my 5th year), so I've had plenty of academic requirements to surmount. Looking back, I have a different perspective on some (not all) of the way a ... | Mandatory college gen eds and formal class prerequisites punish self-determined students (US) | 1 | 2016-09-13T12:37:26 | 129 | 12 | 1 |
The problem for this is if we take an atheist who died an old age why would HE survive all this time but I die from ebola? Saying "God works in mysterious ways" isn't an answer :p Ok but why is our value system on fairness and life correct? Death is a thing that exist. Time is only relative to us and our view of it is ... | If the Christian God does exist, he should not be worshiped. | 1 | 2015-04-20T01:21:05 | 430 | 2 | 3Δ |
The only reason *ever* to not vote is if you're certain that the outcome will be what you want without voting. People don't understand that not voting is not like taking away power from anyone. You're just handing it to everyone else. | I'm a conservative who finds Donald Trump extremely unlikable as a person, so I should just refrain from voting altogether. | 1 | 2016-09-30T21:49:48 | 53 | 1 | 3 |
I work with deep learning technology and though I'm not programming it myself only teaching it. I would say there is definitely progress being made towards a more "organic" method of learning and "intelligence" in AI at least in the small field I work in (Feature recognition for self driving vehicles). In the old syste... | Modern progress in AI is not progress toward humanlike intelligence | 0 | 2016-08-07T07:50:56 | 74 | 1 | 1 |
Ok this might vary a little because you are in the UK but the principles should transfer. Absolutely you should go vote even if you don't have a clue who's running. You should vote even if you hate everyone who is running. You should do this for one simple reason. The people who are paid attention to in a democracy ar... | I believe that if you aren't sure about who to vote for, it's better to not do it at all. CMV. | 1 | 2013-05-08T18:01:35 | 81 | 29 | 3 |
Professors at US Universities/Colleges have a long standing history of academic freedom.In addition to the more commonly discussed protections for the expression of opinions, the philosophy of academic freedom gives professors wide latitude in how they structure their own courses. The hierarchy in academic departments... | College professors should not be able to dictate rules of the classroom that go beyond normal procedure | 0 | 2016-04-13T20:24:06 | 73 | 1 | null |
In order to help you understand what it is like for a monosexual, let's take male versus female out of it for a moment, and just focus on beautiful person versus ugly person. Now you, being bisexual, would be sexually attracted to the beautiful person and not the ugly person. Right? Now, we'll open this back up to cons... | Monosexuality is a Lie | 0 | 2016-10-04T23:17:04 | 125 | 2 | null |
The problem is there are thousands of vaccines in the world, all with their own specific goal, their own specific ingredients and therefor their own specific interaction with the human body. Saying vaccinating is a bad idea because some may or may not cause negative side effects is akin to saying that eating is a bad i... | There is not enough evidence of the safety/efficacy of vaccines, especially in the face of controversy and conspiracy | 1 | 2015-08-09T03:21:58 | 26 | 2 | 1 |
I've always felt this is an underhanded way of shifting the onus of change onto the party least likely to follow through. Generally I see this happening in 2 cases: 1)The requests for info can be mixed in with sea lioning (the asking for explanations to prevent the conversation from continuing) 2)The conversation is am... | "Not my duty/responsibility to educate" is a cop-out tactic that is ultimately harmful to social justice pursuits. | 1 | 2017-05-09T23:47:25 | 81 | 18 | 69 |
I must be on different subreddits than you because I don't see it much, but so what, I can't just not like kids? I don't want to punt every baby I see off a bridge and I can understand how other people might want them but I just really don't like kids, specifically infants, there's just no appeal to me. All I see is a ... | The negative view of children that most male redditors have is unhealthy and we need to stop encouraging it. | 0 | 2014-12-20T09:00:48 | 55 | 1 | null |
What views are parents forcing on their kids that would cause them to be LGBT? What about kids who have very anti-LGBT parents that, at those early ages, insist that they are the opposite gender (many trans people recall knowing that they were trans - though not knowing that word or concept - at a very young age), or w... | LGBT children are the result of parents forcing their views onto their kids, which I see as child abuse. | 0 | 2017-02-25T21:22:22 | 67 | 17 | 1 |
no delta? 😟 even a small one? lol | Mumble rap sucks | 1 | 2017-03-01T03:34:14 | 103 | 3 | 3 |
As others have pointed out, the convention in the US is to pass left and stay right; If you're in the left lane and someone comes up behind you, the burden is on you to move over; it is actually [a crime in some states](http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html) both to pass on the left and to not yield the left lane to someo... | If I am going at or above the speed limit, and you are wanting to pass me, the burden is on you to move over to a different lane to pass me, not on myself. | 0 | 2014-08-18T18:57:02 | 72 | 3 | 50Δ |
Have you ever seen Karate Kid. The 'old' one. Mr Miyagi has Daniel perform a series of mind-numbing tasks. It seems like Daniel is being exploited. Daniel throws a temper tantrum. Miyagi throws some kicks and punches and Daniel blocks it all. That's the deal. Education is something that sneaks up on you and all of a... | Schools, to some extent, are absolutely useless. | 1 | 2017-04-20T17:50:02 | 73 | 12 | 17 |
So is your view changed in regards to the potential for your SO wanting a child? I guess it all comes down to whether you would want to be with someone who really wanted children or not, or if you would be willing to compromise on that point in order to be with her. | I see no reason to have children. Any parents in this sub? | 1 | 2014-08-19T02:25:26 | 40 | 1 | 6 |
The inconsistency is in where does the requirement for consent come from? And why is it required for sex acts but not for killing? Those aren't inconsistencies. Those are questions. And we can coherently hold beliefs even in the face of unanswered questions. What makes the tides go in and out? Why does it make tides go... | I believe there is no moral framework in which it is permissible to eat meat but not to have sex with animals. | 1 | 2015-05-19T17:08:06 | 81 | 2 | 1Δ |
**u/EyeOfSol This is a tangent, so I put it in its own comment to make it easier to talk about the separate ideas** Capitalism is not some great goal. It is not an ideal to chase like Communism is. That means that capitalism has CLEAR and obvious flaws. That is WHY there are regulations to follow, that is WHY there ar... | Corporations almost never act in the interest of the public and would pursue extremely unethical and illegal practices to increase profits if not prevented from doing so by government regulations. | 1 | 2016-12-07T01:53:34 | 265 | 5 | 8 |
I wasn't to go to school to be a vet but I feel like it will only make things worse by piling on student debts or not being able to find a job in my field (or both). How accurate is this assumption? Do some research. In my area you can take a lot of your required classes at a cheap community college, and then transfer ... | I would like to get a better paying job in a rewarding career field but I can't help but be dissuaded from going to college because all I read about it is people not being able to find a job in their career field and or having a massive amount of student loan debt. | 0 | 2015-02-23T20:12:48 | 50 | 1 | 15 |
In the book "Cyberville" (about the old BBS ECHO), Stacy Horn writes that she decided to allow her users to have obscene user names because if someone voluntarily wants to hang a sign around their neck saying "I am an idiot," then *it's a public service*! The same thing can be said of offensive vanity plates--fair warn... | Vanity license plates are not protected speech if they (potentially) promote misogyny | 1 | 2017-03-27T23:58:51 | 77 | 10 | 1 |
You are resting your case on shaky logic then. How is it that you know for certain this child would prefer to be dead instead of alive? If so, why not just give the child the opportunity to commit suicide when they can make the decision for themselves? | People with dominant genetic disorders shouldn't be allowed to reproduced, similary parents being both affected by recessive genetic disorders shouldn't ve allowed to reproduce. | 1 | 2016-08-21T19:17:01 | 27 | 4 | 1 |
By what criteria? Teleportation is just so versatile. Why would you choose any other power if you had your pick of the lot? You want to go on a mini vacation for an hour or so? Why not Mexico? Germany? Mars rover? Yeah, it's the best if your criteria is the speed at which you can go places. But in my opinion, teleporta... | teleportation is the best super power. There's no contest when choosing super powers. | 1 | 2014-07-05T05:30:26 | 128 | 12 | 14Δ |
Do you think poor people and ethnic minorities shouldn't vote? Because that is exactly the demographic that would be impacted by this test. By the way, this has been tried before. Tests were used in the south as a Jim Crow policy to deny blacks from voting. It is illegal for that reason. | Voting should require a lincese | 0 | 2015-03-22T23:42:30 | 63 | 9 | 6Δ |
It was given as a poignant and appropriate exercise by Agent K. Agent J learned a very, very important lesson for his line of work. Never underestimate anything because of its' size, as the "galaxy on Orion's belt" clearly illustrated. That was one of the main ironies and themes of the entire movie. The Bug's UFO is sm... | 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 | 2016-07-31T20:39:12 | 39 | 94 | 1 |
And that is it, you are awarding yourself all that you need by say "first impression is enough". yes, if it is enough then it is enough, thats a truism. No one actually believes that you should not judge others. That is just an easy way to condense the meaning of the phrase. Can you sharpen your terms a bit? | I believe society's development of the view "Don't Judge Others" is not practical and judging others is unavoidable in real life. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-18T17:54:39 | 40 | 1 | 2 |
But why do you have rights? Do you have a right to punch someone else in the face? No. Rights are about human flourishing. You can't be a fully happy person without life, liberty and a house. You CAN be without a gun. Guns are a problem, because armed societies are criminal societies. Gun ownership closely correlates t... | Gun rights are actually a liberal concept | 0 | 2015-04-20T02:25:02 | 62 | 1 | null |
That's understandable. I totally get how it's frustrating when we've worked hard at trying to show the variety in women and womanhood, and then seeing something that looks like it's just reinforcing the tired old stereotypical woman. But really, trans women are broadening the definition of what a woman is too. They're ... | As a feminist I'm really bothered how male-to-female trans-people portray what it means to be female | 1 | 2015-06-17T00:08:30 | 81 | 8 | 1 |
I could respond to every point, but here is my TL;DR: Hillary has well-thought out, nuanced opinions in all these areas, that you may or may not agree with (as is your right). Lots of people do actually agree with her, as evidenced by the [massive list of individual and organizational endorsements](https://en.wikipedia... | Hillary Clinton is not the lesser of two evils. | 0 | 2016-11-01T21:46:01 | 75 | 9 | null |
there are anti-immigrant sentiments. For good reason. This isn't something of intolerance, this is a response to millions of skill-less economic migrants who [riot in the streets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHzUnOya7Mw), [destroy property](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wErMaAJ3cc) and [molest](https://www.youtu... | The world has become more intolerant today | 0 | 2016-06-28T19:48:54 | 66 | 1 | 3 |
I can only give me experiences of a pet owner with two cats and two dogs. My cat was a stray that was released in a college populated town. While it's possible that it came to my house for two weeks for food, while having owners, it's extremely unlikely. Now 10+ years later, we live on a busy-ish main road in the subur... | I believe owning a dog as an indoor pet only is cruel. | 0 | 2016-02-01T08:31:56 | 39 | 1 | null |
Retreads are not old tire scraps. It is fresh rubber applied to an existing core tire. Basically until our tires are made of something other than rubber or we synthesize something that makes it retain its elasticity and stay together, tires are gonna lose rubber. | I think semi truck drivers should be penalized for leaving tire scraps on roads. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-02T04:02:15 | 40 | 6 | 1 |
Here's a good copypasta devised by my good friend /u/hivemind6 All you're doing is regurgitating the Reddit narrative talking points. You're misinformed and obsessed with bashing the US to the point that your view of the US is HILARIOUSLY unrealistically negative. You criticize the US and exaggerate negatives in the US... | I believe that The United States has no right to claim that it's the greatest country in the world. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-05T18:49:09 | 88 | 6 | 1 |
Do you ever worry that large inheritances, or capital gains on old fortunes, or family businesses that largely run themselves, might make rich people less encouraged to work? | UBI would not be successful in the United States because of various reasons. | 1 | 2017-01-16T17:56:13 | 150 | 57 | 14 |
Well drugs are illegal (most states), if i own my own business i have the right to make sure my employees are not engaged in illegal activities. It is a pattern, if they can do illegal activities during the night, they could shift that over to work. Silly but still a good reason. As a business owner, why cant i test? | There is no good reason to drug test any white collar worker | 0 | 2015-06-11T18:40:57 | 68 | 2 | 6Δ |
If you recognize the importance of sleep that leads to why it's not a waste of time. Say you have to make a presentation, by being well rested you're able to work at peak efficiency and make a quality presentation in a reasonable amount of time. When you are sleep deprived, the quality of your work suffers greatly and ... | I hate going to sleep and have to force myself to do it every day. Please CMV about sleep being a waste of time. | 1 | 2016-12-05T18:00:03 | 32 | 23 | 4 |
Yes, the film version is quite weak, largely due to the poor performance of Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in the two lead roles. Don't watch the film. If there's a stage version, go see that. I don't think it's possible to describe in text how effective the show actually is when done well. But think of this: imagine a... | Les Miserables is Boring and I Will Gain Nothing From Watching It | 0 | 2015-05-08T05:32:38 | 33 | 1 | null |
Many (obviously not all!) bosses and managers did not get to where they are through schmoozing and pandering, which only gets you so far. I think you are underestimating bosses' ability to judge employees. They know who will be most beneficial to promote in their company, as they know their company often better than an... | Concerning promotions, pandering to bosses is more effective than being a hard, efficient worker who cares about the job. | 1 | 2014-06-05T06:19:36 | 29 | 3 | null |
Given the vast amount of "categories" available for porn, I don't think there is any "general" standard for what is the most desirable or attractive. | Men generally do not find flat-chested women attractive bust-wise | 1 | 2016-10-28T21:03:16 | 41 | 3 | 5 |
I feel the same way. I chose to vote for Stein, not because I think she would make a good president (she has no chance to win anyways) but because many of the things she says align with what I believe in such as free college, renewable energy etc. So I used my vote to express my voice of support for those causes, rathe... | I have major problems with each of the main four presidential candidates and am considering abstaining from the presidential vote as to not vote against my conscious. | 0 | 2016-11-02T01:33:33 | 169 | 1 | null |
This view is based in my view that politics, however fucked up politicians and lobbyists often are, is one of the only ways to affect change in one's community I guess this depends on what your definition of politics is. As an example, not voting can be seen as an "apolitical" act, but in other ways it can be seen as... | Being apolitical is unethical. | 1 | 2016-04-22T15:39:12 | 38 | 14 | 2 |
The only reason you have property is because the government recognizes and protects your ownership. That recognition and protection has value. There is also the surrounding infrastructure that allows you to live a modern life that also has value. | I believe the US government has no right to charge me property tax. CMV | 1 | 2014-05-05T21:00:29 | 36 | 8 | 24Δ |
You can challenge popular opinion to learn things you might not know since it led you to your question. Debating for a long enough time can come to a conclusion if you're not too defensive. Since you can't know the truth all by yourself, debating can serve other purposes than just have a winner, it can let all particip... | The way Reddit functions insures that you cannot fight against the popular opinion. | 0 | 2015-05-17T17:31:00 | 204 | 1 | 1 |
Watches are definitely not an obsolete item. I too am a college student who tends to think that spending $100 on any item is a hard thing to do. However, I did invest in a watch for myself for the purpose of being useful when my phone or laptop can't be. I work at a dining hall at my University, and cell phones are fo... | Watches today serve no functional purpose other than fashion, and therefore are a waste of money | 0 | 2015-02-03T22:17:02 | 41 | 2 | null |
There are a lot of practical problems with this, because the federal government won't recognize civil unions that are recognized by states, but let's assume for the sake of argument that you're talking about a world where every level of government treats marriages and civil unions the same way, because that makes the p... | I believe gay marriage shouldn't be legalized but I have no problem with civil unions. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-12T17:24:43 | 53 | 1 | 14 |
A reduced human population exacerbates no problems and could alleviate some of the 'pressure' on existing problems. The pressure can be aleviated by increasing capacity. We're not really short of resources here on Earth for the current 9 billion. We're short on distribution. We could feed the world if people would all... | Humans should collectively work toward a significantly reduced population. | 0 | 2016-10-24T22:15:25 | 66 | 3 | 7 |
Are there actually any laws ensuring this? I don't know. However, if they had to pass it through Parliament that Scotland gets devolution...logic dictates that they ought to pass it through Parliament if Scotland gets independence. However, to be absolutely certain, you could shoot an email to your local MP or attend ... | The Scottish Independence Referendum should be voted on by the whole UK, not just Scottish residents. | 1 | 2014-08-03T00:16:27 | 90 | 2 | 1 |
By and large, the most "deeply" lyrical of his songs are from his last 2 albums - "Yeezus" and "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". He has some very clever wordplay, and addresses issues that no other celebrity rappers are addressing. Seriously, for a guy that's married to Kim Kardashian, it's pretty insane for him to... | Kanye West's lyrics are not as clever/deep as his fans make out (but I would love to be proven wrong) | 0 | 2015-02-26T19:30:39 | 339 | 13 | null |
Have you heard of the "Hamilton Electorates"? They chose not to vote for Clinton, like the people in their state told them to, and instead voted for Colin Powell. The punishment,? $1,000.00, that's it. - It makes this particular election year special, as electorates actually went against the voters - Clinton wasn't som... | People who use this year's US Presidential Election as an example for why the electoral college should be abolished don't make any sense. | 0 | 2017-04-24T01:01:27 | 83 | 1 | 6 |
[This video changed the way I see porn](https://youtu.be/gRJ_QfP2mhU) It's a fantastic clip and as a woman, the last part hit me pretty hard. I really hope it's the sort of thing you were looking for. EDIT: A lot of people are saying that this is biased and only one point of view, but the title of it even says that i... | I believe that the porn industry, as it exists, is a beneficial part of society and that the world is a better place for it. | 1 | 2015-10-21T16:25:16 | 183 | 47 | 2 |
Trump hasn't, to my knowledge, advocated anything against Hispanic Americans whatsoever. His words and policy proposals have been specifically about immigrants, especially illegal ones. | The potential election of Donald Trump may pose a significant threat to my well-being | 0 | 2016-07-20T05:27:35 | 79 | 1 | 80 |
I agree with the other guy: Free will is commonly defined as "ability to act according to your desires." An alternative way to say this is: Free will can be defined as having *control*. Do you have the control or power to act on your desires or wants. I fail to see how it's relevant whether or not your desires or want... | Free Will Does Not Exist | 0 | 2016-09-21T16:03:26 | 154 | 2 | 15 |
Haha, that was a fun read. To change your view, I would ask you this: how far would you go to be emperor? I mean being ruler of the world, is a much more difficult prospect than just saying that you'd still a technocracy. You'd have to find a way to implement such a government first. Which is pretty difficult, I mean t... | The world would be a better place if I were absolute emperor of mankind. | 1 | 2016-06-21T02:54:08 | 33 | 3 | 5 |
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