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I saved this comment from an earlier conversation, because I found it very illuminating. I hope you find it useful as well. There are a few factors. Mainly, we're trying to make it so that men and women *are* given the same opportunity to play chess (or insert other heavily gender-restricted activity here). They obvio... | I see no reason why men's and women's chess are separate events. | 1 | 2014-06-22T19:22:33 | 658 | 8 | 13Δ |
I drink a bit, several times most weekends. Not every day, but often a couple beers on a week night. I don't get excessively drunk. Honestly alcohol has been absolutely fantastic for my life and my happiness. I met my wife while drunk, we have our best conversations after a couple beers. We get a bit silly and just hav... | Alcohol is a drain on society | 1 | 2016-06-15T07:25:34 | 76 | 63 | 6 |
This comes down to something called *risk attitude* - we all have different types of risks that we are or are not willing to accept. Some people would much rather die in a motorcycle crash than wind up a paraplegic or a vegetable. Motorcycle helmets have no impact on the safety of the people around the rider. Seatbelt... | Motorcyclists Should Be Required to Wear a Helmet. | 1 | 2015-09-17T05:58:53 | 197 | 2 | 1 |
Is it really shocking that a much poorer country like Spain charges less than the US? You'll find British Rail costs much more comparable. As for the speeds, Madrid to Valencia is mostly rural, with only a couple of stops in small cities. It's relatively easy and cheap to build a rail line straight enough to attain hig... | US public transport is either overpriced, too slow, or both; when compared to Europe | 0 | 2016-08-25T17:53:15 | 58 | 6 | 175 |
What I *do* think is reasonable is expecting people who know nothing about a topic to respond "I don't know", rather than spout off random nonsense. People that know nothing about a topic pretending to know something about it is a problem in and of itself. But really, the point of these interviews is to be entertainin... | Expecting an average citizen to be knowledgeable about ANY ONE topic is unreasonable. | 0 | 2015-04-08T20:34:58 | 52 | 2 | 96Δ |
Hypocritical: behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case. I can be against animal cruelty and still eat factory meat, especially since you pointed out that it makes up 99% of the supply. I can also be against global warming and still use fossil fuels to run my car an... | It's hypocritical to say you're against animal abuse but still eat factory-farmed meat. | 0 | 2015-10-25T07:45:55 | 280 | 6 | 1 |
I as a consumer should be able to choose what ticket I buy. I am willing to purchase a ticket that has a small (~1%) chance that I won't be able to use the ticket and might be placed on a later flight and given some compensation for my inconvenience. As long as this disclaimer is made clear to me at the point of sale a... | Overbooking should be illegal. | 0 | 2017-04-10T20:42:44 | 803 | 0 | null |
I think it's fine if you don't vote, and I agree with all of the arguments you make. However, I still think it's a good idea to vote. If the fact that you don't vote ever comes up in a conversation, people want you to explain why you don't vote. In addition, many people are likely to either get angry at you or think le... | It's fine if I never vote in US elections because one individual vote has virtually no chance of ever changing anything, even in swing states or for most down ballot races | 1 | 2016-11-16T21:42:54 | 72 | 1 | 1 |
Well, [gender dysphoria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria) is classified as a medical problem in the DSM, not a mental illness, and the [APA](http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx) explicitly states that having a gender different than what would assume from looking at a person's birth genitals *... | Transgenderism is a mental illness, and the only reason were treating it as a social issue is because we have the means to cater to them. | 0 | 2015-08-20T06:41:04 | 54 | 6 | 3 |
It also depends what level of academia you're engaged with - I'm in graduate school at fairly prestigious institution for biology research, and the resources available to me are vastly greater than the resources available to someone at a small no name low tier school. The sort of professors recruited by schools is also... | There is too much stress placed on going to the perfect college. Your success depends on your actions, not your diploma. | 1 | 2015-10-20T16:29:18 | 62 | 1 | 4 |
CMV is definitely not a place for me to tell others what I believe. It is a place to request civil discourse on topics that I feel I've come down on a significantly different side of. Slavery should be allowed in a free market. (And I want you all to tell me why you think that isn't the case.) PHM: Slavery should be a... | Most posts to CMV are a bid to be heard, not a request to "change my view" | 0 | 2014-12-17T02:08:35 | 174 | 3 | null |
I hate that his supporters are willing to look past multiple sexual assault claims. I had been assaulted by a 50 year old man I trusted when I was 15. And the fact that supporters don't care makes me feel like I don't matter. The fact that they're unverified claims means they can be easily dismissed. Of course these ar... | I cannot tolerate trump supporters | 0 | 2017-05-31T08:01:09 | 234 | 10 | null |
Hm. Well let me assure you, there have been numerous great colored people out there, and numerous horrible and stupid whites. The same is true reversed. A person should never be defined by what country they came from or what color skin they have due to the diversity that comes with each but rather should be judged bas... | Nothing worthwhile has ever come from sub-Saharan Africa. No scientific breakthrough, medical innovation or brilliant philosophy was ever created by the the people from that part of the world. | 1 | 2015-08-27T23:30:29 | 91 | 8 | 11 |
Living in Alaska is hard. If I were living there, I'd move someplace else right away. But some people actually like that; they like the difficulty, the isolation, the bitter cold. I'm not one of those people, and apparently you aren't either, but some people are! I agree with you that it's a terrible idea to live there... | It's a terrible idea to live in Alaska | 0 | 2017-03-25T03:01:13 | 86 | 1 | 11 |
Here you go: The reason immigrants aren't taking the low skill jobs away from Americans is because the mere presence of the immigrants creates demand for (slightly) higher skilled workers, and the Americans are taking *those* jobs. Example: The low skilled American would have had to take the dishwasher job, but since ... | Immigrants take jobs which would otherwise go to low-skilled Americans | 0 | 2017-01-20T15:59:41 | 30 | 1 | 5 |
Genetic variation is important, it is the fuel for evolution that makes species robust. Human species is still lacking variation thanks to population bottlenecks and almost going extinct. The patient you are about to kill may hold mutation that would allow our species to survive in the future. Thanks to sex and geneti... | I don't think its a good idea to treat illnesses that are genetic because we are increasing their rate in the human population CMV | 0 | 2013-04-02T07:16:12 | 45 | 1 | null |
I think there are actually two different questions when talking about the results of this election, but your post seems to be conflating the two. One is "Why did the Democrats lose?" and the other is "Why did Donald Trump win?" Your title references the second question, but all of your reasons only answer the first que... | The "left" is also culpable for Trump getting elected. | 1 | 2017-02-12T10:45:18 | 135 | 3 | 2 |
You make a lot of good, rational, logical reasons for propane grilling, and I will not try to refute them. My argument is that grilling is not a rational, logical action. Following our logic of ease and environmental impact, you might as well cook on an electric Foreman grill, but you'd never want to do that. You want... | Propane is better than Charcoal for grilling. | 1 | 2014-05-14T00:37:27 | 73 | 35 | 4 |
in my experience, so many people on both sides dismiss the male voice because they won't be carrying the child. Hmmm, perhaps it's best to think of it in a different way. Say you have a recently passed piece of legislation, that is now a law. A lawsuit is filed and brought to court, as the men filing it claim the law t... | Men Should Have Some Say in Abortion | 1 | 2017-02-20T22:23:13 | 184 | 3 | 18 |
-The minimum wage these days exists so that teenagers or college students who want to have some spending money don't get abused for wanting to make some money on the side. The problem is that [that isn't what it was originally intended](https://connoruky.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/minimumwagefdr.png) for, and those ar... | The call to raise the minimum wage comes from a sense of over entitlement. | 1 | 2015-12-29T18:50:41 | 161 | 1 | 68 |
Consequentialists of most stripes would totally agree with your view. Here are two alternatives as to why even ideal meat eating might be wrong. First, you have to be clear on the consquences and scale that you are talking about. Providing the land, food, and water for animals is intensive - the calorie ratio of plants... | Modern arguments for veganism/vegetarianism are based more on the modern techniques of farming rather than an inherent "badness" of eating meat. | 1 | 2016-11-08T20:15:12 | 24 | 9 | 19 |
It sounds like you'd want the younger generation to be able to make policies for the older, but not vice versa. That's fairly arbitrary. | I don't think people should be allowed to make policies that apply to generations after their own. | 0 | 2014-08-12T20:35:49 | 151 | 3 | null |
I'm really excited to be typing this reply, because I'm fairly sure I have an answer to your question! What you saw that night most likely wasn't aliens, but instead a phenomena that's pretty damn rare for people to experience in a normal context: [the autokinetic effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autokinetic_effec... | Aliens have been here and I have seen them. | 1 | 2017-05-08T20:51:40 | 50 | 23 | 21 |
They will then pay the price for such discrimination in the form of lower sales and greater customer dissatisfaction, which will lead them to perform worse than a business that does not discriminate. The trouble is, history proves you wrong here. It's more than possible to segregate a portion of the population without ... | I do not believe there is any problem with the discrimination laws passed in AZ. CMV | 0 | 2014-02-24T21:07:14 | 91 | 13 | 3 |
So you say living off the grid is socially irresponsible, but the first premise you raise is an excellent argument FOR living off the grid. While your environmental impact might be higher in the immediate area surrounding you, cutting down trees for materials, harvesting wildlife for food, etc, your overall impact will... | Living "off the grid" is arguably worse (for society) than living responsibly "on the grid" | 0 | 2017-04-19T18:40:19 | 31 | 1 | 8 |
Thank you for the interesting OP. I am a practicing Internal Medicine physician that specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. Regular physical activity has health benefits that go beyond simple weight control. It improves cardiopulmonary reserve so that when you become ill or experience trauma you are more lik... | As long as I am not overweight, I shouldn't have to eat healthy or workout. | 1 | 2017-03-05T07:10:45 | 28 | 24 | 7 |
From a more practical standpoint, [here](http://www.iec.ch/worldplugs/why_so_many.htm) is an entity that knows what it's talking about a lot more than I do. Why are there so many plugs and sockets? in each country manufacturers developed their own plugs and sockets. At that time only a small percentage of people were ... | The British 3-pin plug and socket is the superior design for domestic mains electricity use, and should become the international standard if one were required. | 1 | 2014-09-01T03:22:12 | 63 | 2 | 5 |
it is a tremendous waste of time for every knowledgable person that posts answers in here I would strongly disagree that it's ever a waste of time to have a discussion and share knowledge. Regardless of whether or not the OP is even involved, everyone who clicks on the thread has the opportunity to learn. That's actua... | Irony aside, most people that post in CMV are uneducated, and changing their view on one point won't solve this overall problem | 0 | 2015-01-07T18:39:30 | 69 | 1 | 3 |
How can I reconcile the fact that people will judge me, consciously or not, with my contentment with not knowing or caring what those judgments are? Are you saying that you have all of your social needs met? You are in a happy long term relationship (or don't desire one). You have exactly the number and types of friend... | Finding enjoyment in more "primal" outlets (working out, self-grooming, gossip, etc.) is a waste of time in today's world. | 1 | 2016-02-24T19:02:54 | 35 | 1 | 7 |
Rationality is limited by actuality. Sometimes people disagree not because of lack of knowledge or irrationality, but because of conflict of interests. Rationality can at most cause us to think "if I was the other guy, I would hold the same opinion", but in reality we have different people arguing for what is best for ... | if we disagree on a particular subject then either there's lack of supportive facts, or one of us is thinking irrationally. | 1 | 2016-09-26T16:05:00 | 41 | 9 | 5 |
So, by that logic, is letting your child ride a bike without a helmet abuse? How about letting your child climb a tree? How about having a knife anywhere in your house? All of those are indisputably detrimental to the child's safety and increase the risk of serious injury. But no one in their right mind would call leav... | Parents who opt out of vaccinating their children are guilty of child abuse | 1 | 2017-06-25T09:52:44 | 62 | 1 | 2 |
Pride movements are not about being proud of "sticking your dick" in someone, but are an act of reclamation for people. Most people who were openly LGBT in childhood would have been bullied and ostracized badly, and historically, LGBT people have basically always had to hide their identity. Pride movements are a way fo... | Being LGBT is nothing to be proud of | 0 | 2016-09-03T20:49:26 | 112 | 25 | null |
I agree with your actual claim, but your reasoning here is poor. You haven't really provided any reason for why you hold this belief other than "That's the way it is." For example: The primary difference between an amateur and professional is that professionals have the right to unionize and be compensated. All you'r... | I do not believe college athletes should be compensated for participating in athletics, particularly with the rising cost of college | 0 | 2015-10-20T19:14:51 | 89 | 5 | 51 |
The pledge of allegiance is a pledge to the ideals of the country, not the government. That's why it's a pledge to the flag (a symbol) not to the entity itself or the president or the congress or any aspect of the government. Obviously, not every American has complete liberty and justice, but as a country we strive for... | I believe it is wrong to teach the Pledge of Allegiance in schools (not for religious reasons). CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-11T00:34:44 | 96 | 4 | null |
While I commend you for wanting to improve the quality of teachers, a competitive system is not the best way to go about it. Speaking from experience (currently a 2nd year math teacher), my biggest concern is that teachers would benefit from the failure of other teachers. As a teacher, I want to work WITH my coworkers ... | Teachers in America should have incentive-based salaries | 1 | 2016-09-11T22:34:49 | 101 | 18 | 1 |
The government of South Korea represents the people of South Korea, not the entire Korean peninsula. War and re-unification would be terrible for South Koreans, even if it would probably help North Koreans in the long run. South Korea is already an economic powerhouse, they don't need the north for that. Taking on the ... | I feel as if North and South Korea should resume the war for the sake of reunification and prosperity in the big picture. | 0 | 2015-08-24T21:05:00 | 101 | 1 | 7 |
So is not allowing anyone to buy anti tank weaponry, or forcing people to pay taxes, or even prohibiting murder. | CMV The far right/Tea Party/social conservatives do not like or want "freedom" despite claiming otherwise. | 1 | 2015-10-12T22:29:16 | 38 | 9 | 5 |
Monsters Inc's finale was a trippy dimension hopping affair. Mulan's battle with the avalanche was pretty epic. Stampede from the Lion King. This is probably my top pick, as it had an amazing opening, intense music, incredibly tense, and a devastating climax. The chase with the fairies and Maleficent bending reality ar... | The best action/fight scenes in *any* Disney movie are found in "Tarzan" from 1999. | 1 | 2015-06-30T05:20:51 | 29 | 1 | 2 |
Yeah, being a vegan does not constitute being a special snowflake. Also if what I described in my first description doesn't fit the bill for special snowflake then what does in your opinion? Person X gets a job at a restaurant but refuses to stack the dishwasher, because they are "above menial work". | Special snowflakes/ special snowflake culture isn't as bad as people make it out to be. In fact, it is a sign of a tolerant and wealthy society. | 1 | 2017-01-15T14:54:12 | 83 | 12 | 1 |
TLDR: People are complicated, Idiots have friends and family You have addressed that you believe that any choice that is hurtful to your health that you didn't have to make disqualifies you for health care, and saying so far as saying that if a doctor advises against an action and you continue the action that should di... | Morally speaking, I'd be perfectly fine with obese by choice people not being allowed to access any kind of tax payer funded healthcare | 0 | 2017-03-03T00:32:51 | 118 | 1 | null |
I will tackle the IUD part. The reason they don't want to cover the IUD is because in the event that you do get pregnant on the IUD, it could potentially cause a spontaneous miscarriage, due to a piece of metal/plastic being in the uterus where the baby is growing. This, according to Hobby Lobby, is an abortion, thoug... | Hobby Lobby shouldn't have to pay for Emergency Contraceptives. | 0 | 2014-07-14T22:34:54 | 163 | 3 | 6 |
"Should" is a strong indicator here. They **should** not be used to support a family, but it is good to have jobs out there to supplement income. I agree whole heartedly with this statement, mind you. Minimum wage jobs SHOULD NOT be used to support a family, and the jobs would best be left to people seeking additional... | I don't believe fast foods or Wal-Mart type jobs should pay more than minimum wage. | 0 | 2014-04-07T20:02:45 | 90 | 1 | 1 |
Yeah call them bigots, but calling them a bigoted troll is nonsensical. If they are just an ass call them an ass. A troll already is a thing, the real question is about finding out who's a troll and who isn't when portraying their beliefs online. | Reddit Needs To Take More Action Against Trolls, Hate Speech, And Other Despicable Actions That Ruin The Reddit Experience For Others | 1 | 2016-11-30T08:10:18 | 308 | 1 | 46 |
I was attempting to demonstrate that violence is a way of asserting power or control, and in the case of men committing violence against women, that power dynamic is shifted heavily in their favor. The overall point about men equating violence against women with violence against men stands -- it is not a valid comparis... | Men's rights advocacy on reddit has lost sight of reality. CMV. | 0 | 2013-08-17T09:19:31 | 299 | 3 | null |
As someone who's been playing the Pokemon games for close to 20 years (played every single gen up til now) and also plays the competitive meta-game I feel like I can address all of your points: **1. The games became way too easy.** Keep in mind that Pokemon (the main storyline) was designed for kids and as you grow old... | Pokemon games have gotten progressively worse recently, and nobody should buy Sun/Moon | 1 | 2016-09-20T05:31:09 | 92 | 3 | 1 |
I can understand why someone would want to just exclude anyone with what you're calling "socially conservative" views. While one might envision a drunken hillbilly ranting about niggers and queers and jews and stuff, I can't imagine it's any more comfortable to listen to some gentle, grandfatherly soul speak with schol... | Social Conservatives shouldn't have a place in the intellectual discourse on college campuses. | 0 | 2017-02-24T21:35:53 | 247 | 3 | 1 |
I know the Hippocratic Oath isn't what it used to be, but doctors actually swear not to kill people. The original oath contains this: Nor shall any man's entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; The modern one contains this: Above all, I must not play at God. | I do not believe there is any difference between passive euthanasia and active euthanasia/assisted suicide. | 0 | 2015-11-16T19:16:22 | 65 | 2 | 140 |
My penis does not like this law for he, in fact, is a dick. My friend Richard doesn't like this law for he, in name, is a Dick. There is a reason that laws are long and complex: because people exploit loopholes all the time. You can say "People who exploit loopholes are dicks!" but then are people who show the security... | All laws could be replaced by one "You are not allowed to be a dick!" | 0 | 2015-02-19T16:43:55 | 40 | 2 | 43 |
Money has [marginal utility.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility) If I have $1 to my name, getting another $1 has a serious impact on my quality of life. If I have $100 Billion, getting another $1—or even another $100 Billion—isn't going to affect my quality of life in any measurable way. There's nothing I ... | The tax on rich people is way too high and is therefore unfair. | 1 | 2015-07-08T00:38:31 | 66 | 7 | 26 |
I'm going to take a slightly different tack in approaching this, because I agree with you that many of these issues being brought up are one hundred percent worth talking about and that oftentimes we're talking about them the wrong way. I'm not going to argue that the "PC police" is inherently good and that the way we'... | We've gone way overboard lately with PC-ness and the Social Justice movement. | 1 | 2015-07-11T18:30:23 | 138 | 37 | 8 |
I think of myself as a feminist and a proud one at that, I support most of the fights they're fighting. Recently, I have been acting like a jerk and probably a creep to several women (not to defend myself, but without even thinking about it... I've learned my lesson). I think it's only fair that I not only stand for wh... | Men would be better off avoiding feminism | 0 | 2017-03-31T01:32:41 | 394 | 1 | null |
Look at [The World Economic Forum reports on the Global Gender Gap](http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2016/) - men are doing fine in places like Sweden, and women are doing well too - one reason is the social scripts are not as powerful and that people can choose how to organize their lives. 1950s sty... | It's okay to be a woman against women's rights | 1 | 2017-03-24T03:23:30 | 324 | 3 | 51 |
I don't believe that more educated people should get more of an opinion-- I think that the electoral college should serve as a "filter" for bad decisions made when a politician is manipulative and also very radical. Trump is quite the radical and manipulative politician, why didn't it work against him? Has the electora... | 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. | 1 | 2017-04-23T05:03:26 | 83 | 11 | 5 |
Context is key, some people will be treated as if they're idiots or spoken down to for whatever reason, in that case citing an accomplishment, graduating from x with y, is more of a "They don't know anything about me" kind of statement. There's a difference between saying "stop treating me like an idiot" and "hey i gra... | There is nothing wrong with being outwardly proud of your own intelligence. | 0 | 2017-06-12T14:50:55 | 153 | 3 | 14 |
Whatever it is though, we'll have figured it out. It seems like you are assigning some kind of magical quality to the rate at which technology advances. That it can always keep up with any natural or man-made disaster that comes along. Eventually there will be a disaster on earth our technology will have no way of prev... | by the time climate change becomes an imminent threat technology will have advanced enough to eliminate the threat | 1 | 2017-05-17T02:24:10 | 76 | 1 | 12 |
I agree with your principle, actually. However, your example is a bit off the mark because it refers to a hardship that is actually still in living memory. The last major Native American massacre was in [1911](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre#1830.E2.80.931911). That's a little over a hundred years ago. Th... | I think it is ridiculous for one ethnic group to be indebted to another based on the actions of people who've been dead for hundreds of years. | 1 | 2013-12-06T00:18:56 | 127 | 14 | 6 |
By posting on OOTL, aren't they by definition not ***wilfully*** ignorant? They are actively and wilfully seeking information so that they will not be in an ignorant state. That seems to go directly counter to the idea that they are being wilfully ignorant. | Some submitters to /r/OutOfTheLoop are willfully ignorant | 0 | 2017-05-11T04:17:18 | 37 | 1 | 6 |
What examples do you have of this merciless killing of rats, mice and spiders? My wife and I are both vegan, and I know quite a few others. We routinely catch spiders and let them outside, or flies. I have used mouse traps that don't hurt them and let them go outside. Do you actually know any vegans? Because for vegans... | I believe that animal testing should be without any restriction for any animal that is considered a plague and killed routinely, such as rats, flies, birds, cochroaches and such. | 1 | 2016-08-07T19:49:08 | 58 | 2 | 1 |
I am a hydrologist studying watershed response to climate change. The models try to be conservative. For example, one member of my group is involved in the North American Regional Climate change Assessment Program [(NARCCAP)](http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/about/index.html) uses an ensemble of different models based on th... | Global warming predictions are epistemologically flawed, and should not be the basis for public policy. | 1 | 2015-06-03T23:16:11 | 534 | 7 | null |
First of all, I understand where your concerns are coming from. A lot of these health risks are being heavily advertised in the media, and this is what people are lead to believe, myself included. However, I have recently learned that, in fact, what we think is directly related or associated to heart attacks, strokes, ... | Fat Acceptance/ Body Positivity although it sounds great in theory is in fact a negative movement in the long run. | 0 | 2017-07-04T18:35:25 | 247 | 1 | null |
Age of consent for sex, I think has little relationship to this. Age of consent for medical treatment, however, I feel should come into play. This varies by state, however. For example, Alabama: Any minor who is 14 years of age or older, or has graduated from high school, or is married, or having been married is divo... | Supporting children who believe they are trans*, via hormone therapy or other biological alterations, fundamentally invalidates age-of-consent laws. | 1 | 2016-10-22T10:08:46 | 225 | 165 | 1 |
The problem isn't that the media wants "views". What else would media ever want? The only reason to broadcast *anything* is if you want a lot of people to see it. The problem, if it exists, would seem to be that the media wants to get *paid* for views. But that's been the model of media pretty much for as long as it ha... | I believe that modern, mass media is biased, corrupt, and is only concerned with getting views. CMV | 1 | 2013-09-01T22:15:35 | 39 | 46 | 95Δ |
I used to think so too. But now that Trump has started heading right -- his tax plan is actually *worse* than Ted Cruz's, believe it or not -- it's not so clear. My perspective on this is that if Trump is elected, he won't actually do any of the horrible things he says he'll do; he's just saying them for votes and does... | Ted Cruz would be worse for the US than Trump | 0 | 2016-04-17T00:30:09 | 144 | -1 | 8 |
I work in ESL and i'm currently doing a master's in applied linguistics. There are many theories and models that explain language acquisition, and the plan you've outlined doesn't really match current/modern theories or evidence. It's too heady to go into much detail here. Suffice it to say you're idea is more behavio... | Spanish should be taught as the primary second language in US schools starting in early elementary school. | 1 | 2015-11-29T15:25:26 | 52 | 12 | 49 |
Real world application of the core subjects requires more than just the acquisition of knowledge, it requires the use of critical thinking, common sense and imagination, all traits of individuals. Study in the arts nurtures individualism i.e. self-expression and imagination, which are critical to developing new ideas f... | I think the studying the arts in high school does not help prepare students for the "real world" CMV | 0 | 2013-04-23T08:17:28 | 41 | 1 | null |
I truly do recommend reading Haidt's *The Righteous Mind*. As for the question about those great scientist's contributions, I don't know. I think that it's reasonable to say that even in their spare time they could have become informed citizens had they wanted to, and I know that a few of those guys had strong opinions... | I live in Canada, and study physics. I do not vote as I do not fundamentally understand how i'm supposed to choose who should run the country since I have 0 clue how to run one properly myself. | 1 | 2016-01-06T12:15:46 | 36 | 2 | 1 |
So to clarify, you believe it is desirable to have a government that does not reflect the views and beliefs of those that it governs and disenfranchises the majority of its citizens? You really haven't addressed the fact that this is just inevitable when building a worldwide government. | While not possible yet, I think a World-Government ala "United States of Earth" is not only something really good but also inevitable. | 1 | 2016-07-13T06:44:27 | 54 | 2 | 2 |
EU countries, such as Germany or Austria, for example, have a problem: They have a comprehensive and general pension and health care system but they run of out of people who pay into that system (young people who work) and gain more and more people who take out of the system (old and retired people) due to the low birt... | Supporting the immigration of Muslim refugees into a predominately Christian/Agnostic country is detrimental to the host country. | 1 | 2015-09-06T19:07:20 | 123 | 8 | 2 |
A lot of other commenters have noted some non-biblical sources and that it seems more logical that a religious movement was started around a real historical figure. However, you can also look at the four biblical narratives themselves and come to the same conclusion. Doing so won't ignore the bias in the writing, it si... | Biblical scholars should not smugly dismiss the Christ Myth Theory because the evidence for a historical Christ is very weak | 0 | 2015-12-18T17:56:08 | 550 | 4 | null |
respect in what way? It's not a "wow" dessert since cookies are pretty simple and easy to make, but they are plenty popular. But if someone asks what your favorite dessert is and you answer "chocolate chip cookies" instead of "flourless bittersweet chocolate torte with raspberry puree and a dollop of creme anglaise" y... | Cookies and bars don't get enough respect. | 0 | 2017-01-12T20:43:28 | 79 | 1 | null |
I feel like an asshole saying this, but they are as boring as they are bland-like mayonnaise sandwich bland. If everybody is boring and bland, maybe you're the problem? Like how can the communities and culture out here be compared to ones like those cultivaed in West Hollywood, Bed-Stuy,the Mission, or Treme in terms... | The American heartland is devoid of cultural and meaning. | 0 | 2016-10-25T19:14:10 | 107 | 4 | 19 |
there are perfectly good alternatives to eating meat Only with supplements. Humans are omnivorous by design, which means meat IS a part of our diet. It would also be good for the environment This is the most bullshit part of your argument. Have you ever seen what agriculture does to the environment? [Take a look](http... | That NOT being a vegetarian (as a wealthy human being) is morally indefensible. (NB: I myself am a meat-eater) | 0 | 2014-07-22T15:33:59 | 66 | 2 | 3 |
I think you've setup a bit of a straw man here. Most laws that attempt to ban "conversion therapy" actually aren't blanket bans. They usually only focus on 1) it can't be done to minors, and 2) it can't be offered by a licensed mental health professional as an actual medical treatment. | Because I don't care what consenting adults do, I don't believe conversion therapy should be banned. | 1 | 2016-12-07T06:04:19 | 17 | 43 | 163 |
Others have addressed the fact that Bruce Wayne does in fact devote billions of dollars to philanthropic efforts, so I will leave that aside. A lot of people are talking about the good Batman does on an individual level, and that is also very important. But I reject the premise that he could have done more good with c... | Batman isn't a hero. | 0 | 2016-12-09T23:56:44 | 173 | 1 | 3 |
ER wait times is a bit of a silly metric for how successful socialized medicine is. You weren't permanently physically harmed by waiting for your arm to be fixed, I'm sure if you went into the ER with a stroke you'd not want the doctor to make you wait for some kid to get his arm set. | I think socialized medicine doesn't work. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-03T19:27:28 | 26 | 10 | 15 |
When all the facts are said and done, weight gain will come about from a surplus of caloric intake without the appropriate expenditure of said calories. I dunno. I eat like crap and I sit on my arse all day, and I've been about the same weight (slightly overweight, not obese), plus or minus 10 pounds, for going on two... | All obese individuals are lazy | 0 | 2016-07-25T20:05:59 | 181 | 2 | null |
Well, this *is* a progressive tax. Those with a lot of disposable income will pay the $10 without a second thought, and it will primarily raise revenue from the rich, who are more likely to drive. Those with less income will choose to avoid the congestion times and will be more likely to arrange for carpooling, busing,... | The new Washington State I-405 Toll Lanes are terrible and unfair. | 0 | 2015-10-06T15:48:11 | 43 | 2 | 5 |
It's interesting how, despite you clearly standing against Reagan, that you fail to mention his moral divisiveness that facilitated a resurgence of the modern right-wing conservatives, blatant brinksmanship with the Soviet Union in his first term (which included threatening the use of nuclear weapons more than once, fl... | Ronald Reagan is responsible for the worst domestic/foreign policy failures in modern US history. | 1 | 2016-03-28T16:04:53 | 108 | 1 | 2 |
Let's say you're at a party with, say, a dozen people, and you're trying to decide what food to order. Some people want sushi, some people want chinese, some people want mexican, some people want spanish, some people want pizza, some people want burgers, some people want hot dogs, some people want steaks. Then you get ... | I agree with Kevin Spacey that we as Americans "get [the president] we deserve", especially if our next president is Donald Trump | 1 | 2016-03-18T21:40:41 | 27 | 1 | 5 |
I think your definition of 'socialism' is a bit hard to do much with. It seems like you're defining socialism as a mixed-economy with high levels of taxation and redistribution. I think that's a likely but not very radical prognosis. I think you're real point is about whether or not most people will be able to make a l... | Civilization will culminate in either socialism or feudalism | 0 | 2017-03-01T17:32:27 | 130 | 6 | 1 |
Well the easiest way to change your view (a very unhealthy view btw) is to just show you how wrong your premises are. 1. Your view of how people get to heroin is very wrong. Heroin is not cheap. As one of the top drugs it's one of the most expensive. It's more expensive than cocaine which at times is more expensive per... | It would be better if everyone who took heroin died | 0 | 2017-03-20T03:02:51 | 89 | 2 | null |
First of all, let's assume that we actually do have proof beyond reasonable doubt that someone totally murdered another guy, and it wasn't an accident or self-defense or anything. Let's even assume that you do this by immediately putting a bullet through the dude's skull immediately after the guilty verdict is handed d... | If you kill someone you should receive the death penalty. CMV | 0 | 2013-12-01T16:39:45 | 53 | 1 | null |
I don't believe that strict gun control laws would prevent organized religious extremists from obtaining weapons. Organised attacks by religious extremists are very rare. Of the 355 mass shootings, none have matched that description. The San Bernardino shooting has not yet been confirmed as having been perpetrated by o... | Stricter gun laws would not have prevented the San Bernardino shooting, as California already has the strictest gun laws in the country. | 1 | 2015-12-03T21:18:29 | 1,043 | 37 | 1 |
By not giving Dicaprio what the public believes he deserves the Academy are not representing the opinion of the people who watch the eligible movies or the awards themselves the Academy Awards are not supposed to be the popular opinion of the people. If they were then they would not be considered prestigious as any per... | The Oscars have lost a lot of credibility by not giving Leonardo Dicaprio an award. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-03T22:31:42 | 20 | 27 | 2 |
Society is made up completely of social constructs. If you want to be a member of society, you should try to meet norms and expectations that don't actively hurt you or others. Are you hurt for getting comfortable clothes that looks half-decent? No. Is your company hurt if you don't? Yes, because they look less profess... | I view fashion as an arbitrary social construct and as such reject it. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-06T04:02:24 | 43 | 8 | 7 |
Did you watch Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead? They get waaay more powerful and frightening. They get Nazi magic and shit. And I think they start adding to their ranks. So you have a magic, undead, and smart armed force with tanks going around. Thats awful. I wouldnt discredit those ones. Also something Id like to point out ... | I think, in zombie taxonomy, Walking Dead zombies would not be that hard to deal with once the post-apocalyptic dust settles. | 0 | 2015-10-30T19:05:29 | 237 | 3 | null |
I agree that you don't have to date anyone you don't want to. The problem is, you don't usually criticize people for not adhering to your preferences. "I am not attracted to tall girls" is fine, "ew, girls should never be tall!" Is not. "Slut" is a word with that kind of judgment/criticism built in, and when people are... | I think having a preference against promiscuous people is as valid as having a height or weight preference nor does it constitute "slut-shaming". | 0 | 2015-07-05T20:26:45 | 270 | 13 | 54 |
If God can do anything, then he can also free himself from the bounds of human "logic." Thus it is not a contradiction to make a boulder he can't lift and lift it anyway. | God cannot be omnipotent. | 0 | 2017-05-25T00:22:06 | 106 | 2 | 1 |
In order to be happy you *do* need to disregard others for the most part but you *can't* just do whatever. Always trying to second guess or look after the state of mind of others is a sure fire way to be miserable. The moral life is only worth living if you know what the moral life is. The feeling of what is right and ... | Immoral people seem to be happier than moral people. | 1 | 2016-08-12T07:40:07 | 37 | 1 | 34 |
I don't think we can get away from the whole "art is subjective" thing here, so I don't see ever being able to categorically determine that random paint splotches aren't art, in absolute terms. That being the case, you could still probably come the the conclusion that these types of creations are subjectively NOT art... | If all a modern art piece does is make you question whether it's art, it's terrible. | 0 | 2014-11-26T23:18:24 | 111 | 3 | null |
The outrage isn't that it's an essential service, the outrage is that they're providing services which the government *does* pay for if provided by any other health provider. Planned Parenthood's *only* federal funding comes from federal matching funds for Medicaid patients; essentially that when a woman on medicaid go... | I'm just not getting the controversy around the possibility of defunding Planned Parenthood | 0 | 2017-01-22T21:54:17 | 361 | 2 | null |
So your understanding of what it means to be trans is incomplete. A lot of (not all) trans people are not just identifying with a different gender than they were assigned at birth, but they are also experiencing something called dysphoria about experiences tied to their gender. For many (again, not all) trans people th... | Transgender people are perpetuating gender norms. | 0 | 2017-06-07T05:11:01 | 301 | 1 | 1 |
It sorta grinds my gears when people lump Iraq and Afghanistan together. The invasion of Afghanistan was a legitimate reaction against a country harboring and supporting the organization that carried out the 2001 attacks. AQ was part of a network that intertwined with the Taliban, and the Taliban flat out gave them ord... | America's response after 9/11, e.g. the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, did massively more damage than the 9/11 attacks themselves did. (Which is to say, the worst thing about the 9/11 attacks was that they led to the 9/11 response.) | 1 | 2016-05-28T21:55:36 | 56 | 24 | 105 |
So, I'm blatantly stealing a bunch of this from [this article](http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/) so if you want to see it written much better than I can, read that. But here is the thing: It isn't limited to women, and it's much more broad than you think. Humans are all creat... | women only want sex from folks that will provide for them in the long run | 1 | 2015-05-18T17:31:25 | 43 | 1 | 50Δ |
That said, I think people forget that even extremely simple technology does fail from time to time. If anything were to go wrong in a self-driving car, how would someone be able to intervene? If we never work to develop self driving cars, we will never find out how to create fail-safe mechanisms. The sooner we develop ... | 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 | 0 | 2014-01-02T22:11:07 | 131 | 1 | null |
As per your first point, a college student might not have the funds or space for an air popper. For example, I was living in the dorms I had a required meal plan that I could use to buy junk foods, but I couldn't use it to buy an air popper (or unpopped popcorn, besides those little microwave bags. As for your second p... | Stove-popped popcorn is the perfect at-home junk food. | 1 | 2015-03-14T01:03:19 | 33 | 2 | 1Δ |
I think it's ironic that you mentioned the work from home or education adds that were popular when you (and I) were growing up. It's ironic because a lot of those adds turned out to be scams that were taking advantage of people. Many of those private for profit schools exist (or existed before they were shut down) to m... | Personal responsibility is on the decline in America. | 0 | 2017-01-03T23:13:27 | 60 | 3 | 39 |
I'll give you my opinion even though it's probably not very enlightened on this topic. If God exists then that means an afterlife is possible which means it could be infinitely long. If you take this into account then this Earthly life is just a speck on the timeline of your spiritual existence. So although what may s... | If God exists he does not care about humans in any way they could understand or benefit from. | 1 | 2016-03-19T12:50:47 | 169 | 3 | 2 |
One obvious objection is that historically, I don't see any evidence that this sort of lifestyle leads to anything resembling happiness. What's the point from which you are getting the idea that a human life of power is one that is desirable to have? Some of the greatest warlords in history lead terrible lives while in... | Power is good. Greed is good. | 1 | 2013-08-18T06:25:41 | 61 | 1 | 3 |
Some people are satisfied because of the journey; not necessarily the results. On another note, my husband is currently on medical leave because of surgery. For the past 2 weeks, he has been sitting/laying down at home playing video games, watching TV, watching movies, reading books, etc. He is already talking about ho... | a lazy, simple lifestyle is inherently more satisfying than a driven, ambitious lifestyle. | 1 | 2017-03-30T22:40:18 | 45 | 28 | 2 |
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