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after reading through my post, are you compelled to believe that sqrt(2) is irrational? For example, many people (when discussing gay marriage in 2015) used terms like "faggot". What if I started the post with "you're a faggot" instead of "you're gay"? I'm stating that when the topic is related to the same subject as ... | Using Homophobic/Racist/Insulting Language Automatically Makes Other People's Arguments Invalid | 1 | 2016-02-16T03:03:07 | 61 | 5 | 3 |
The physicist Gerald Schroeder has an interpretation that might be of interest to you, which he lays out in his book [The Science of God.](https://smile.amazon.com/Science-God-Convergence-Scientific-Biblical/dp/1439129584?sa-no-redirect=1) Unfortunately it has some time since I read it and I don't think I can do his ar... | Genesis 1-4 (and likely more) is entirely allegorical and scientifically untrue. | 1 | 2017-03-09T03:18:21 | 85 | 1 | 1 |
Fries are a side-dish, nothing more - chips on their own are a classic, and come in so many forms: Poutine, curly chips, cheesy chips, chili chips... There's so much more versatility in chips: you can eat them cold, in sandwiches (the classic working-class lunch), you can have them with salt, vinegar, ketchup, mayo, c... | Thick-cut chips are the superior choice over french fries in every culinary situation. | 0 | 2016-06-20T15:44:27 | 92 | 8 | 1 |
As a general rule those are two different things, one is about a right to a person be allowed somewhere, and other is about denying a separate person his right. Let's go to a similar example from a while back: Black persons have been given the right to take the same buses as white persons, so their right to take the bu... | Protections enabling transgendered people to choose the bathroom of the gender they identify with removes that protection for other people. | 0 | 2017-02-23T18:25:38 | 401 | 2 | 1 |
Its not about being consistent with your psychology when someone feels like a woman/man trapped in the wrong gender's body. During fetal development the mother releases a whole bunch of hormones in different amounts at different times during development. If this mix is a little off people never differentiate from the ... | 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) | 1 | 2015-10-04T03:47:30 | 818 | 12 | 3 |
I have always firmly held the belief that marriage is something that celebrates heterosexual partnership What's the source of that belief? Also, they're not the ones getting married, you are. I would be extremely uncomfortable seeing men/women dancing/kissing people of the same sex at the wedding. That has nothing do ... | I am uncomfortable inviting the partners of gay/lesbian people to my wedding. | 0 | 2014-07-07T16:02:29 | 209 | 22 | 2 |
I also found it very compelling when I read it this morning. Was it able to change your view in any way? If so, do you mind awarding a delta? I'd appreciate it! Whenever a comment causes you (OP or not) to change your view in any way, please announce it by replying with a single delta and an explanation of how your vie... | I mistrust and don't believe in providing for the homeless. Please CMV | 1 | 2013-11-20T01:42:13 | 81 | 1 | 82Δ |
Why then is just "being employed" seen as a morally superior life position? Why is someone an "unemployed loser" but goes up a small rung if they get a fast food job? In our current system, where employment is exploited to pay for drone bombs, jail cells and big brother surveillance programs, it is more fundamentally ... | I don't think that being employed makes someone a better person than being unemployed. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-11T08:26:15 | 61 | 0 | 1 |
It's not just personal safety, though. It's also other people's liability. Say you don't wear your seatbelt. What if another car accidentally hits your car from behind. If wearing a seatbelt, you would have survived, but instead you hit the windshield and, with the harsh impact, die. Instead of a smaller insurance issu... | I don't believe wearing a seat-belt in a privately owned vehicle should be enforced by law, CMV | 1 | 2013-03-28T22:32:09 | 33 | 51 | 5 |
Net Neutrality is the idea that ISPs ought not discriminate against particular sources. Amazon-Prime - Netflix - Hulu are all attempting to provide content via the internet. Verizon - Comcast - RCN are all ISPs who connect you the user to those various content providers. Net Neutrality is the idea that Verizon doesn... | Net Neutrality is Bad | 0 | 2017-05-19T01:24:13 | 33 | 1 | 34 |
2/2 The variables to look at in evaluating the various possible programs is: 1. Flat implementation costs. That's teacher salaries and equipment costs and dividend room costs and so on allocated to the gifted programs, directly or through shared-use repartition. 2. First-order opportunity costs. During those two hours... | I think gifted kids should receive more attention than special needs children | 1 | 2015-06-22T20:11:59 | 94 | 1 | null |
The Empire is destroying their soldiers, technology, and data recklessly while lacking any real intelligence about the situation. That data center is the core backup and by killing it you are destroying a vast amount of important information about far more than just the Death Star. There were also several At-At Walkers... | [Star Wars Rogue One Spoilers] The Empire's Actions at the end of Rogue One make no strategic sense whatsoever | 0 | 2016-12-27T03:43:59 | 61 | 28 | 19 |
The problem with creating such a test is that there is no unbiased way to do it. Good luck ever getting people to agree on what's going to go on the test. The purpose of voting is that everyone gets a say, not just the "smart" people. Everyone must live equally by the consequences of those decisions, and therefore eve... | Before being able to vote, everyone should have to take a test to prove basic reasoning. | 0 | 2015-02-25T18:42:52 | 37 | 2 | 32Δ |
That's not quite the argument I'm making. And I think you've changed the argument somewhat, we have to keep the frames of reference the same, rather than bringing in different legal systems. I mean we can, but then that's a whole other argument, and you might as well say, well since Taiwan has different laws than the U... | Death penalty should be decided by those impacted by the crime | 1 | 2017-07-02T16:27:28 | 31 | 8 | 5 |
I kind'a agree on this. It's a very difficult question, though. The premise is that you should treat every patient in the same way, i.e. the only factor that should be considered in treating patients is the actual medical state of the patient, not it's morale, ethics or choices. This is a good thing in almost all situa... | If you don't opt-in for organ donating, organs shouldn't be given to you in a time of need | 0 | 2014-05-19T15:44:30 | 398 | 1 | null |
There is an other aspect to the yin and yang idea you may have missed out on; Happiness is just an experience which arises and then vanishes. If you decide that happiness is the thing you strive for you will find yourself often suffering because you want to achieve happiness but can't right now. Also if a situation whi... | The phrase no happiness with out sadness is bullshit. | 1 | 2016-08-07T00:06:48 | 25 | 2 | 1 |
So how are you suggesting to record a porn with child? You must molest a child to produce child pornography, therefore you're abusing a child. Making it legal won't solve the problem since in that way you're legalizing it, therefore there won't be any protection and someone can just take your kid and fuck her/him in fr... | I think viewing child pornography should be legal, because it results in fewer children being victims of sexual abuse. | 0 | 2015-06-01T20:54:38 | 85 | 1 | null |
It's very hard to justify saying that a few cells are worthy of such moral consideration that we want to legally prohibit the mother killing them without appealing to the concept of a soul. No secular reasoning for why killing is wrong would apply to those few cells without applying to any other cluster of human cells.... | An anti-abortion stance is not incompatible with either atheism or libertarianism. | 1 | 2014-07-02T12:17:33 | 62 | 2 | 28 |
In addition to what others have said, almost always your rights are much more restricted when using streams (or other digital downloads for that case - like games, ebooks, etc). Usually they are considered **rented** instead of **bought** so you may not do a lot of things which people expect to do with their property. ... | Physical media such as DVDs, blu-rays, and music CDs are pointless to purchase, because they will be obsolete within 10 years | 1 | 2015-01-01T17:09:08 | 19 | 5 | 2 |
You're talking about political opinions. Those are almost always established by whatever one's family believes, and they are often as strong as a person's convictions about religion or his diet. (Those really are the big 3 things -- religion, political affiliation, and diet -- things that people are very opinionated ab... | I don't believe the media shapes culture, i believe our culture shapes media. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-29T05:48:53 | 22 | 2 | null |
You work in the day. She works in the day. it isn't unreasonable for her to want to spend time with you when you are both not working. How many nights a week do you spend playing these games? | It's unfair of a partner to ask that I give up my hobbies | 0 | 2016-01-29T09:01:59 | 50 | 25 | 47 |
we should focus on things that improve the driving experience altogether, like higher fuel efficiency or cheap, affordable electric engines. We're doing all three at the same time, that's what's so good about it. There are enough economic incentives for all three that we don't need, nor would we really see any benefit ... | I think that the whole self-driving car technology is overhyped and that there are a number of much more important aspects of automobile innovation that we should be focusing on first. CMV | 1 | 2014-01-02T18:36:39 | 131 | 2 | 78 |
Doctors study medicine to better understand how the body functions and responds to different environmental conditions, which will necessarily advances the total understanding of the human body, Agree which will inevitably progress the species to live longer, healthier lives. Depends on how you define progression of s... | I think the study of business contributes little to nothing to the progression of society. | 0 | 2014-04-25T14:38:51 | 33 | 3 | 2 |
many laws regulate things that are simply far too complex to simplify to that level. It generally takes an undergraduate college level education at minimum to understand something like international financial markets and to then effectively regulate them. Laws have to be made with a working knowledge of the system and ... | Any given aspect of the legal system should be short and simple enough that an average high school graduate could fully memorize it | 1 | 2014-12-30T03:13:06 | 101 | 8 | 3 |
While there hasn't been a major attack in a long time, the threat is still real. I live in a small town of 20,000 people, we don't even have a movie theatre. I live in Canada, but having lived 11 years in the states I can say that it is virtually the same as the US. Just two days ago we made national headlines when the... | Terrorism in the United States is not nearly as big a problem as people think | 0 | 2016-08-13T14:04:12 | 154 | 3 | null |
No one thinks that the special olympics is the actual Olympics. It's a competition for people with disabilities who are very good given their circumstances. It wouldn't be fair to only let them compete against able bodied folk. They just want to have fun for the most part. That'd be like saying we should have no high s... | There should be no such thing as the Paralympics and the Special Olympics | 1 | 2017-06-08T19:17:46 | 44 | 1 | 2 |
First the purpose of terror attacks in America is not to "destroy our democracy/freedoms". That's the purpose of the American government. https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5qpioz/redditor_explains_why_radical_terrorists_have/dd1hfvr/ If this were to happen, Donald Trump would be "proven right" and it would give ... | All it would take to destroy our democracy at this point is a successful attack on the scale of 9-11. | 0 | 2017-02-14T16:12:28 | 262 | 0 | null |
I'm not sure this is actually true, or if it is it's widely enforced. Can I see a citation on the law here? This didn't seem to be an issue in California. I haven't actually had sex with a girl with a mental disability, but I've fooled around with one. I've met couples with Down's Syndrome and the police didn't arres... | Eugenics is alive and well in the United States and any other First World country where mentally handicapped individual cannot give consent to sex, and any sex with them is considered statutory rape. | 0 | 2016-08-12T20:25:13 | 51 | 2 | 2 |
In the military, does anyone ask you for your opinion? No. Why? Because it's a hierarchical organisation. Family is like that, too. Of course, family is far from being that strict nor does it need to be like that. The point is: There is a structure in place. In this case, the power structure fundamentally overwrites ev... | Kids should be able to talk back to authority during a dispute | 1 | 2017-03-02T20:34:01 | 55 | 1 | null |
I would argue that technically a "good" Christian could also end the war in Syria. While I see no way to do this, it would solve the refugee's problems. If your friends argue that they can end this war and should do it instead I think this would not necessarily contradict their belief. If you look at the story of the g... | Christians are obligated to take in Syrian refugees | 1 | 2017-01-30T02:43:00 | 112 | 6 | 1 |
My one female friend described GayDar as a lack of sensing a sexual threat. Although heterosexual males might find this somewhat offensive, she asserted that all heterosexual males (single, married,...etc.) give off some sense of a sexual threat, or maybe better described as a sexual interest. She based her GayDar off ... | The entire notion of "Gaydar" is offensive as it is based on prejudice and sterotypes | 1 | 2016-10-04T17:22:37 | 65 | 1 | 1 |
But how is reproduction related to how well you do in life? Or are you also saying that a child born in poverty can't climb up the social ladder or be healthy? And that children from working/healthy parents will automatically be working/healthy too? It just seems that you're looking for a way to punish poor people. Eug... | I am a strong believer in eugenics. | 0 | 2015-03-26T17:56:35 | 105 | 8 | null |
Please define actual feminist. James rolfe has clearly seen slandering as this is the 4th result you get if you google "james rolfe sexist". http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/ghostbusters-reboot-movie-critic-refuses-to-review/ Please explain how a website with 14.80 million visits total that blatantly accuses rolfe of vi... | The Idea that Anyone Criticizing the Ghostbusters remake will be branded a misogynist is a fabrication, motivated by people's desire to feel persecuted by feminists. | 0 | 2016-07-11T14:17:22 | 325 | 22 | null |
People do have a very incorrect impression of Columbus, and it is kind of obscene to celebrate him, particularly, product of his time or not. However, for the most part, what people are celebrating is the rediscovery of the continent by their ancestors, and the ultimate resulting founding of their countries (many South... | Columbus day is unjustified as a National Holiday and thus should be removed and replaced with Indigenous Day. | 1 | 2014-10-09T01:29:14 | 118 | 13 | 90Δ |
I don't think I have the time to go through the whole thing, but I will tackle this one point Feminists don't like the objectifation of women in media, but find objectifaction of men in the media to be acceptable. I don't think most feminists have a problem with objectification per say, their problem is more when obje... | For most people who label themselves as feminists, feminism is about achieving equal social status with men while avoiding the burdens associated with that gender | 1 | 2016-09-29T01:03:46 | 234 | 19 | 9 |
I know you've already awarded deltas, but I wanted to ask if you originally thought this applied to abusive, neglectful, or absent parents as well. Also, I don't have a link at the moment but I remember a study that showed wisdom and age aren't linked the way we think they are. Old people aren't wiser than young people... | Children should never call their parents by their first names. (Additionally, Mrs. And Mr. are should also always be used.) | 1 | 2014-10-05T18:42:59 | 61 | 3 | 6 |
People can learn more than one language, but if you already have a global lingua franca, what's the point? There's no need to learn a different language when you can already get anywhere by speaking one language. You can see this mentality in many Americans: "Why should I bother learning a second language when I'll be ... | Esperanto and Lojban are attempts of cultural genocide under the guise of providing easier communication. | 1 | 2017-03-02T22:17:34 | 42 | 1 | 1 |
Your opening statement regarding him being a punchline is an irrelevant statement. Every president is a punchline to the opposition. Reagan was pretty great and considered a complete joke. People derided Clinton and he did an admirable job. Wilson was mocked but was mostly right. Lincoln was vilified but righteous. Th... | Donald Trump would be a bad president | 0 | 2015-08-23T22:54:56 | 70 | 1 | 1 |
Can you find any source that puts the numbers higher than that? I an others have brought evidence that it is astronomically low. If you are going to attest differently, it has to be more than conjecture. Every shred of evidence I have ever seen says that fraud by impersonation is basically non existent and voter ID law... | Voter ID laws should exist | 1 | 2016-10-07T01:55:25 | 61 | 7 | 73 |
If this is the sort of precedent we're going to set - why wouldn't we just block juries from ever seeing the accused? It's not like neo-nazis are the only demographic in America that faces bigotry. | It was right for a judge to order a neo-nazi's face tattoos to be covered to prevent Jury bias. | 0 | 2016-07-28T15:29:18 | 49 | 3 | 88 |
The real problem is even worse for the democrats: there is nowhere else to go. You want the democrats to focus on economic issues, but what would that look like? This was the fundamental problem of occupy wallstreet: there is no solution. There are certainly proposals but once you start to dig into them you realize not... | American liberals/Democrats are making a long-term strategic mistake by focusing on social issues and Republicans' flaws rather than issues affecting many/most Americans | 1 | 2017-04-12T15:21:13 | 73 | 2 | 47 |
My brother plays Pokemon games along with his son. Like, separate saves, but both starting a game at roughly the same time. It's a game that you can't lose, and constantly get stronger by playing, but there's actually a lot of depth to the systems if you look into it. So they can both engage in ways that they enjoy, an... | Playing Nintendo Video Games is a waste of time. | 1 | 2017-05-19T18:06:30 | 77 | 11 | 50 |
In many cases, liberals are intolerant of intolerant expression. It's like not wanting the Westboro baptist people around: we should preserve free expression but hateful rhetoric really detracts from society. Similarly, Milo tends to belittle many groups like those on government assistance and immigrants. It is intoler... | Liberals, particularly younger ones, are at least as intolerant as their conservative counterparts. | 0 | 2017-07-03T22:17:29 | 538 | 148 | 2 |
In this case, I think more funding should go toward public transportation, so buses can reach these areas. When houses are miles apart and people need to go into town to shop maybe once a week, having a bus route run through these areas would be far more wasteful than the people owning cars. Also, rails could be raised... | Cars should be banned and replaced with public transportation and bicycles. | 0 | 2016-08-27T17:10:12 | 89 | 1 | 71 |
Problems with this form of morality is you have to take two premises as truth; for a god, or set of gods to exist, and that human morality is universally the same. Human morality is different from culture to culture and even slight differences in views on subjects differ to the point of being unrecognisable from the o... | The "Divine Command" Theory of Morality Is Correct. | 1 | 2016-09-05T15:54:56 | 35 | 3 | 20 |
the reason vegans avoid buying or eating animal products is because it's taking food from innocent and/or helpless animals. This seems like strange reasoning because it's not like it hurts a chicken to take its unfertilized eggs or a cow to take its milk to turn into butter or cheese. The chicken will continue to lay e... | Having a vegan diet seems pretty pointless. | 1 | 2017-01-19T18:18:53 | 385 | 15 | 1 |
Your post is a bit ranty so I'll take a step back and address some broader ideas. First, where have you traveled? Have you been out of your state? Have you been out of the country? If so to either, where? If not, why do you feel that you can make qualified statements about other places being more desirable to live in? ... | I genuinely hate America, CMV. (I'll try to keep this as non circle-jerky as possible) | 1 | 2014-01-29T19:47:50 | 41 | 9 | 16 |
Anecdotal evidence is not of zero value, for the reasons you said, but I think that most of the time when people dismiss it, it's because well-tested scientific evidence outweighs it. Statistical evidence collects many samples to form a trend. In order for there to be statistically significant results, the probability ... | No one should dismiss something simply because it's "Anecdotal" | 0 | 2014-04-03T20:13:20 | 47 | 16 | 1 |
Here you get into what is called " the gaps of god" argument. If you are putting god into the places that science can't understand you are just buying time. It's fair to assume that science cannot understand the BBT right now, but will be able to understand and explain this in the future. Seemingly you are using the ... | I believe some God or extra-dimensional entity caused the Big Bang and subsequently our existence. | 0 | 2015-06-25T02:16:59 | 44 | 1 | null |
Unfortunately unless the republicans vote in an equally polarized candidate Sanders is an extremely long shot in the general election. At any given election roughly 80-90% of the electorate votes strictly along party lines. For any given major party candidate there's about 40% of voters whose minds he/she will never be... | I don't see any possible danger in voting for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. | 0 | 2015-12-22T16:59:05 | 610 | 6 | null |
California has a price bubble due to housing issues, or lack of housing in coastal areas. In terms of min.wage increase, when they increased it to $10 an hour in San Jose there were no issues, and min.wage hasn't kept with inflation so I doubt a $15 an hour wage will have a negative effect, at least not out here where ... | A federal $15 an hour minimum wage is disproportionately damaging to small businesses; a Universal Basic Income is better as both a solution for society and platform for the Democratic Party | 1 | 2016-10-15T08:33:54 | 53 | 1 | 1 |
I don't know about the situation in Trinidad and Tobago, but I'm from Europe, where many countries offer free higher education, or highly subsidized higher education. (My own country falls in the second category, where students pay 2k a year themselves, and the government another 10k a year directly to the university f... | Free post-secondary education is bad for the economy. | 0 | 2017-04-17T20:47:24 | 69 | 4 | 1 |
Steam reviews aren't meant to measure suitability for competitive play. Steam reviews are meant to reflect people's experiences with a product. If people are dissatisfied with competitive play because of a developer misstep that's a valid reason to review something negatively, because people are having a negative expe... | 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. | 1 | 2017-07-05T00:06:12 | 138 | 4 | 45 |
It's an interesting point you raise, and has been on my mind for a long time. The thing is however, as others mention, that the value is (almost) solely determined by the market, but is in many ways not related (at least not 1-on-1) to its artistic value. A good example for this are works of art works that are not phys... | I don't see why the name of the artist should affect the value of a work of art, and I think the fact that it does invalidates fine art criticism to some extent. | 0 | 2014-08-11T16:43:16 | 16 | 1 | null |
As someone who flies quiet frequently, I used to agree with you, but now I know you are simply wrong. I used to sit there and laugh at all the people queuing up a half hour before the plane was scheduled to start boarding. I'd wait until I was the last possible person and then stroll onto the plane like I was smarter t... | Lining up to get on an airplane is pointless. | 1 | 2015-07-13T21:58:42 | 202 | 150 | 1 |
Take a look at some candidates that are not running as a Republican or a Democrat. A lot of people will tell you that it's a waste of a vote because those candidates don't stand a chance of being elected, but perhaps the reason for that is because nobody votes for them. Truth be told, it would be an absolute long shot ... | I cannot find any reason to vote for any particular US presidential candidate. | 0 | 2016-03-05T19:21:40 | 443 | 1 | null |
Shouldn't we instead be incentivizing jobs that need more skill and education. I think the best way to incentivize would be to remove or reduce the minimum wage. If someone knows that they can't live based on their pay from a fast-food joint then they'll have even more incentive to get an education and a better job. I ... | I think the minimum wage should be removed to create more incentive for people to get better jobs - CMV | 1 | 2014-03-02T01:22:23 | 48 | 23 | 3 |
we are putting 50% of the blame on women and 50% of the blame on men. Which is why the dress code should be enforced. To protect both genders. In theory, this would effect both genders equally, which is why many have supported such dress codes before. But [they impact girls way more than guys](http://www.thenation.com/... | High school dress code should remain as strict as it is. | 1 | 2014-10-08T00:41:28 | 107 | 8 | 27 |
That industry already exists. A Mexican will milk cows for $10 per hour. These machines can do it for a couple dollars more, but still less than an American farm boy wants to get paid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_milking So we end immigration, give dairy farmers a little more than they already get, and th... | Donald Trump's wall will lead to higher food prices and a more dangerous drug problem | 1 | 2017-02-16T21:15:10 | 249 | 31 | 1 |
The conflict arises from reading Matthew with the modern figure of speech "letter of the law" in mind. When we talk about someone following the letter of the law, we specifically contrast it with someone else following the spirit of it. But the context of the Sermon on the Mount is *all about* Jesus going through the ... | The Bible contradicts itself regarding whether Christians should follow Old Testament law. | 1 | 2017-04-23T21:54:54 | 41 | 46 | 30 |
Since you mentioned the DSM IV, it is worth pointing out that all of the disorders listed in the DSM IV have one central piece of criteria that is at the heart of the diagnostic process (which I believe you've missed), and that has to do with the degree to which the disorder is disruptive not only to the person who has... | Otherkin are delusional and should be treated as such | 1 | 2014-12-29T23:45:48 | 458 | 466 | 6 |
It isn't too discouraging once you get used to it. Don't forget that all the other guys, your competition, are playing by the same rules. You want what you say, do, suggest, make, etc to be of value to the company because that makes you more valuable. Unless your employer is a douche, that's what he cares about. If he'... | "At will employment" should be banned in Michigan. | 1 | 2015-05-08T19:16:05 | 35 | 7 | 10Δ |
The points about the overhead space is well made. But personally, when they start to board, I get up because I realize I'm about to be sitting for the next few hours. I have one last good stretch while I queue with everyone else. | Lining up to get on an airplane is pointless. | 1 | 2015-07-13T22:24:38 | 202 | 16 | 1 |
The right tool for the job, many jobs, many tools. I don't see any reason to establish some sort of cutlery hierarchy and why all utensils can't happily coexist in the toolkit of a single individual. | A spoon and a fork are more practical than using chopsticks | 0 | 2016-12-01T01:18:20 | 42 | 2 | null |
People don't only judge and respect on your career and wealth. Yeah as a man it can be a major factor in respect, but also things like intelligence, skills and even physical strength can be things to look up to for both men and women. Even how tall you are is a thing for many women. It sounds simplistic but a lot of re... | Financial and career success is all that matters in life. | 0 | 2016-04-11T22:18:07 | 47 | 1 | null |
But it would still be a bad thing to do. You will either exclude too few to make a difference, or you'll exclude enough people that they could rebel and cause serious chaos and damage. Restricting voting rights is either pointless or dangerous. There's very little middleground to be found. Enough people to make a diffe... | Voting should be a privilege not a right | 1 | 2016-03-07T12:54:19 | 119 | 1 | 7 |
It isn't the show, it's related to the source material itself. The first three books were crisply written, more restrained, and had less extraneous details and story telling. By book 4, Martin was beginning to fall prey to what happens in many Fantasy Epics, an inability to concisely draw it towards a climax and final... | Game of Thrones has finally been stretched too thin by the constraints of television and the storytelling is starting to suffer. [SPOILERS!] | 0 | 2016-05-04T18:48:43 | 72 | 35 | 1 |
I'm going to go with - some people just genuinely have no idea how the internet works. There was a poll a while ago - Source: https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet/ There are a substantial # of people that use Facebook, but honestly don't think they are using the inte... | Some submitters to /r/OutOfTheLoop are willfully ignorant | 1 | 2017-05-10T18:03:06 | 37 | 3 | 34 |
But the issue I have with Animal Rights is how it does not seem too kind towards the poor. And that's the view I'm trying to change. It may not be representative --perhaps many people from the Marshall Islands don't feature in the ads-- but it does benefit the poor. Animal rights activists have many motives and this is... | I believe animal rights is a bourgeoisie social issue and undermines the struggle of the poor. | 1 | 2016-04-11T23:48:42 | 34 | 5 | 244 |
The idea of most education, certainly through high school, and to some degree through college as well is to teach you *how* to think. My school didn't teach me how do to a web search because there wasn't a web back then. It didn't teach about digital rights management, or Ebola, cyber safety, or electronic bill pay- be... | Learning how to do your taxes, budgeting and finance, emergency medical training, and leadership skills should be required to be taught in high schools. | 1 | 2014-10-04T19:50:30 | 250 | 264 | 90Δ |
People who watch Fox News are actually [less informed than those who watch no news] (http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/01/30/does_watching_fox_news_make_you_less_informed.html). | Based on cable news ratings, I believe that informed people prefer Fox news, and uniformed people don't watch the news. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-08T03:39:22 | 43 | 2 | 3 |
Are the terms "straight" and "heterosexual" also unneccesary since they're the "default"? The way I see it "cisgender" is just the "straight" for gender identity. | I think that "cisgendered" and "cissexual" are unnecessary. | 1 | 2014-04-30T19:50:07 | 173 | 33 | 3 |
No, more information is not necessarily better: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/3109/1/dark%20side%20of%20information.pdf Did you read all 20,000 emails that were released? Do you know anyone who did? There are many people with strong opinions based on these emails who didn't even read the selected ones that were pulled o... | It is good that Russia hacked DNC communications because the people of the United States benefit from receiving more information. | 0 | 2016-12-12T22:44:09 | 42 | 3 | 40 |
I think many parents choose the suburbs over either urban or rural areas because the suburbs tend to have more well-funded, functioning school districts. | By raising a family in the suburbs, the parents are condemning the children to boredom, dependence, inactivity, and expense. | 0 | 2014-08-20T04:39:22 | 73 | 10 | null |
If I get drunk and blow off all my money, it's my problem. Depends on how. For instance, if you enter a contract while drunk to give all your money away, the contract might be invalid. If I get drunk and have sex, it's my problem. Yes. Which is why having sex with someone who's drunk isn't rape. It's rape when the pe... | If you CONCIOUSLY and CONSENTUALLY put something in your body that you KNOW makes you make bad decisions, it's not rape. | 0 | 2015-08-31T15:34:03 | 114 | 1 | null |
Most of this thread is completely breaking my heart. **First of all, whichever side of this you are on, please refer to this population as "people with disabilities" instead of "disabled people".** They are people first, and that is the center of my argument. First, for those of you who have never known, been re... | Parents should be allowed to have children with severe mental disability euthanized | 0 | 2015-07-22T10:41:04 | 457 | 8 | null |
Why do you assume these technocratic ideas aren't "authentic" and aren't "natural"? Look at evolution. It has been a millennia-long process of life outsmarting the planet. It is all about adapting new and better ways to survive. We are not immune to this. In fact, right now we are basically like little kids being told ... | Technocratic language has invaded our whole social world | 1 | 2016-09-18T04:28:35 | 83 | 2 | 3 |
If the door gets stuck, how would you get out? Just bang on it loudly until somebody comes in? Better hope there's not a fire ... | Bathroom stalls should go all the way down, and have no gaps in the doors. | 1 | 2017-04-10T23:41:40 | 60 | 12 | 10 |
There are a few problems with your position: 1. How do we _know_ anything outside of our direct experience? The approach to your analysis subjects essentially all information and knowledge to likely being false. While I'm in favor of skepticism, generally speaking, making your statement as strongly as you do ain't skep... | My voting for Hillary, Trump, or anyone else will make a 0.000000000000000000000% difference in the outcome of the national election. | 0 | 2016-11-08T01:03:37 | 48 | 1 | 39 |
Hey, don't get me wrong, I dont necessarily think what you're talking about is immoral or wrong or that it shouldn't be done. Just debating the term "civil disobedience" | Piracy is a form of civil disobedience against unjust copyright laws. | 1 | 2014-11-21T05:31:38 | 467 | 2 | 2 |
What if the woman has suggested anal sex? Does the man still need to experience it if the woman suggests it? If no, does the man need to experience it if he later wants anal sex? | Every man demanding anal sex from a woman should try it himself first | 0 | 2016-10-21T03:19:25 | 81 | 8 | 14 |
Okay, well I'll go ahead and define love as a strong positive emotional attachment. That way it makes sense to use love in the context of a romance and other areas ("I love chocolate cake," for example). It's important to remember that "love" is how humans subjectively describe nebulous human emotions. One person might... | You don't love your kid, until you start to form an actual relationship with him/her. | 1 | 2014-12-10T18:45:56 | 35 | 10 | 51 |
the government is obviously not concerned about my (or your) money if they are forcing purchases on us, so I have no concern for theirs. I just have to say this. THEIR MONEY IS OUR MONEY!!! Do you not understand this? The government gets it's money from the people. How to pay for it is essential to the concept, otherwi... | I believe if the state or federal government legally requires you to have something then they should provide it. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-23T15:17:20 | 328 | 9 | null |
I think the 15-20 year duration would be okay if the time frame was based on last official use, instead of first use. Even though I am not a huge fan of Disney, it would be really weird and confusing to see their characters or icons (such as the Disney castle) being used by non-Disney sources. I agree that the constant... | Copyright protection should last 15 to 20 years at most. | 0 | 2016-07-13T19:47:55 | 557 | 4 | null |
I know I'm late to the game, but I think it's super important to note that you're making a huge mistake in focusing on The Communist Manifesto as Marx's core text. If you look into Das Kapital and many of his private letters you see that Marx was far more concerned with offering critiques of the capitalist system (from... | Marx and Engels shouldn't be taken seriously. | 0 | 2016-04-28T07:04:09 | 36 | 2 | null |
Transgendered and Transexual people aren't usually even gay. Which is why they need their own letter, right? I'm *not* LGBT, but I see it as an umbrella term for basically anyone who isn't part of the straight-male/straight-female normative standard. Self-righteous assholes discriminate against gay people and trans peo... | Using the LGBTTQQPAAS2 acronym doesn't represent the gay community and so shouldn't be used. | 0 | 2016-06-17T16:28:05 | 751 | 70 | 8 |
Sorry I though incorrectly that a NP was autonomous. However with your view I think that you overestimate the average person's knowledge of medical careers. To the average person a NP or a PA are the same as a primary care physician.These positions can do the majority of the same work that a primary care physican can ... | In a clinical setting only Medical Doctors should be called Doctor. | 1 | 2014-10-24T22:09:42 | 43 | 2 | 8 |
I'm primarily a lurker and a fairly new one at that, however, in my time here I've seen the value of CMV fairly quickly. The idea of the sub is not to force people to conform, but rather to provide people with legitimate evidence and logical reasoning that they might not be privy to. Additionally, when group think is ... | r/changemyview is essentially "Teach me How to Groupthink". | 1 | 2015-08-25T09:09:33 | 82 | 7 | 1 |
How ignorant a voter is is completely irrelevant. The government takes their tax dollars? Then they deserve a voice. My flatmate is an absolutely brainless idiot. But he pays his fair share of the rent and so he deserves a vote in how we run the place. When he has a stupid idea we vote against him and his suggestions ... | Politically-uneducated votes should not count. | 1 | 2017-06-24T12:47:22 | 24 | 9 | null |
My objection to corporal punishment is twofold. For one, it has demonstrably negative long-term outcomes with little immediate gain. [This article](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2014/11/06-parenting-hitting-mobility-reeves) has links to most of the high-profile studies on this, but what it ... | I agree with smacking children as punishment | 0 | 2015-08-27T06:34:38 | 42 | 3 | 11 |
Just because America has a "keeping up with the Joneses" problem doesn't mean that having 80k of income is going to leave you with less freedom. Your friends actually don't care what kind of car you drive or if you have a McMansion. Very few middle class families need to maintain appearances just to keep their income. ... | having a lot of money hardly translates into increased freedom, and often translates into increased liability | 0 | 2015-02-10T07:19:42 | 27 | 1 | 3 |
**What makes Supes compelling:** I would argue that there are two things that make Superman the granddaddy and prime mover of all superhero myths. One is the character's inherent duality, and the other is how different writers have examined his relationship with humanity. **The dualities of potential and choice:** Ther... | I feel like Superman is the most Mary Sueish hero, and I do not understand his popularity. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-30T11:00:53 | 281 | 4 | 11 |
Yes, the coding part of software development requires focus. Sure. But good engineers care deeply about the product - they fight for things they care about, they tend to help define and drive features. Tell me then, how do you come to consensus & divide work with purely asymmetrical communication? How do you motiva... | In software development; and in other fields involving extended thought-work that depends on focus and concentration; there is no value in having coworkers to interact with face to face - and in fact, distractions created that way are counter-productive | 0 | 2015-08-04T08:27:33 | 33 | 1 | 17 |
"acceptance" isn't about making you be attracted to something you don't like. at least, I think it shouldn't be. I think what it should be about is this - why are you going around passing judgement on how attractive you find the women around you? when you see another human being pass you by on the street, you might for... | No is obligated to be attracted to anyone, and people should not be chastised for their preferences. | 0 | 2015-04-27T13:52:08 | 144 | 19 | null |
Emotions are effects of your values - don't kill them off!! That would be like chopping off your legs! Allowing emotions to be the cause of your actions is a problem - and congrats on solving that by using reason instead. But after a choice is made, or an action ends is success *or* failure - let yourself feel the rewa... | I'm living my life like a robot and think emotion is a flaw of humanity. | 0 | 2014-07-26T17:12:10 | 44 | 2 | 64Δ |
How are you going to register and insure your RV? (I don't know where in the US you are, but driving an unregistered vehicle will get you on law enforcement's radar pretty instantly in most places.) What will you do if a cop asks you for ID (happens to pretty much everyone every now and then), or you drive too far sout... | My best plan in life would be to illegally immigrate to the USA | 0 | 2016-08-18T05:29:33 | 169 | 9 | null |
As a fan of both and a former player of both, I hope you will take my view seriously. As far as an athlete is concerned soccer is much more about endurance, while football is more about strength and sprinting. Americans in general have more respect for big strong guys and the sprinters than the endurance guys. Just loo... | Football (or soccer if your American) is superior to American Football to watch and play CMV. | 0 | 2014-01-19T00:31:49 | 81 | 1 | 31Δ |
Other people don't care, since their feelings are important to them. | I don't care about your feelings. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-08T05:54:35 | 93 | 6 | null |
*As an American who has never smoked anything in his life, never done drugs (maybe a few contact highs), and doesn't drink that much, this is what worked for me. You know yourself, your situation and if these things might help.* To be honest. So long as you are a good/fun person to be around, you can make A LOT of fri... | Alcohol is bad, please don't let me grow up boring | 1 | 2013-08-23T23:44:14 | 45 | 2 | 3 |
well, you have to draw the line somewhere, it's not appeal to authority in the same sense or in anywhere near the same capacity that "appeal to authority" as a logical fallacy is meant to be understood "appeal to authority" is more along the lines of "bob is a mechanic and he says I need new blinker fluid" - wheras ind... | Inductive reasoning is the ultimate appeal to authority, and if one rejects any appeal to authority, one is rejecting inductive reasoning | 1 | 2014-07-03T10:02:46 | 56 | 3 | 4 |
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