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please clarify: if people kept on the current course, without adjusting behavior, do you think global warming would be a problem? Second, I don't think you've read the studies, because even the most basic sources take into consideration changes in human behavior and how it would effect global climate change. For exampl... | The threat of global warming is exaggerated. | 0 | 2016-10-09T07:37:56 | 65 | 1 | 15 |
The world isn't close to being overpopulated, and in rich countries it would be better for everyone if you did have children. People add more to the economy than they take, and therefore it is good to have more people. Overpopulation has been a concern of people when there where half a billion people on earth. If you s... | I believe that it is selfish to have children when one considers what is in store for the world. CMV. | 0 | 2013-12-08T02:38:15 | 41 | 2 | 20 |
[This](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-dragon-mom.html?_r=0) New York Times article (Notes from a Dragon Mom) changed my view on this issue. The article is more philosophical than factual, but speaks about the experience of raising a child who was born with Tay-Sachs, a disease that will c... | I can't help but think that some children who are born with terminal birth defects would be better off euthanized, please CMV | 1 | 2013-11-13T19:28:22 | 191 | 4 | 1 |
I think there's a distinction that needs to be made here, and that's a distinction between a standard that actual historians hold themselves to when writing history and a misreading of that standard that outsiders use when arguing against social change. What I mean by this is that historians don't believe that "all mor... | I find it difficult not to apply modern morals to actions of the past | 1 | 2016-04-20T23:33:10 | 91 | 382 | 19 |
To be perfectly honest, even if the idea of the heat death of the universe is false or humanity finds a way around it, most people's lives "don't matter" in the sense that in a thousand or a million years, nothing will be appreciably different based on the choices/actions they take. I don't see this as a depressing th... | I feel like, with the eventual heat death of the universe, what we do doesn't really matter. | 1 | 2015-04-26T06:54:09 | 29 | 4 | 1Δ |
Social media shouldn't have to be looked upon as if it's a requirement of society. If you feel as if you considered that the drawback is the lack of anonymity, then I'd say you shouldn't have to sign up simply because you don't want to. However, I'd argue that it isn't the case that you don't have any reason, if you co... | I have no reason to sign up for most social media. | 0 | 2015-10-26T14:59:47 | 28 | 1 | null |
So I'll take a stab at this, and I'll go in a different direction than a lot of other people who have already made the points I woulda made (ie. ignoring racism that already exists, affirmative action, support for status quo etc). Let me explain, based on my own experience as a white dude (I'm assuming you're also whit... | "Colorblindness" is the best and only logical way to end racism in the United States | 1 | 2015-04-07T07:34:40 | 117 | 16 | 6Δ |
It's not that they are hoarders or that saved money is "leaked" out of the economy. The income of the very rich is often invested in financial instruments, which invest in financial instruments, which invest in financial instruments, etc. It can take a while before the dollars are available for investment. Someone with... | I don't think income equality is a problem. | 1 | 2014-05-20T00:09:11 | 54 | 1 | 1 |
I'd like to point out to all the people here claiming to have gotten an A in calculus despite being a humanities major: chances are that you didn't take the real calculus course. You probably took the elective course offered to students outside engineering, math, physics majors. A good way to determine whether or not t... | I think the academic elitist views of engineering and other STEM fields in undergrad are justified. Please CMV | 0 | 2013-07-21T06:53:34 | 161 | 2 | 2 |
Now, zombies don't know what they are doing - you can't really call them evil. They are pretty easy to avoid and to kill. This as an argument doesn't make sense since you didn't want to be a werewolf because you'd kill your loved ones. Werewolves are not aware of who they are either. And *you* know that zombies will ki... | If I had to choose between being turned into a zombie, a vampire or a werewolf, I'd go for zombie. | 0 | 2015-10-30T16:11:12 | 103 | 3 | null |
I used to feel the same way until I was gifted a pair of Bose in ear headphones. I was initially annoyed as I didn't like in ear headphones (they were less ubiquitous at the time), and I didn't see the point to worrying about expensive headphones. Then I listened to music with them. It sounded like a concert in my head... | expensive headphones are not worth the price in relation to cheap ones. | 1 | 2017-05-24T18:37:43 | 36 | 26 | 1 |
....a kind of behavior that has a deliberate objective: changing the way the other person sees you. Isn't it manipulative? How do you make friends? Don't you present yourself in some way to the person you're trying to become friends with? I think you're viewing *manipulative* solely in its most pejorative sense. It doe... | Seduction is morally wrong, as it is based in manipulating other people | 1 | 2015-10-24T05:42:34 | 38 | 7 | null |
I don't think that anyone really hates CGI in general, but its overuse. Yes, there are many sequences in modern blockbusters that need CGI, and look incredible because of them. But other sequences and affects, be they blood splatters in action movies, or monster make up and animetronics, don't need CGI to work well. Ma... | CGI in movies is not necessarily a bad thing, and the general dislike for it by many Redditors is silly. | 0 | 2015-01-19T01:09:30 | 37 | 2 | null |
I believe that all forms of Psychology that study the external effects of the internal operation of the mind are very literally only guesses based on precedent guessing, cannot be verified absolutely, and are most likely opinions formed of the observer's textbook prejudices. I don't know what kind of standard of eviden... | I do not believe that Psychology is a valid science. CMV | 0 | 2013-09-14T02:30:04 | 55 | 1 | 5 |
Is it moral to steal a loaf broad when you 2-year old child is dying from huger? Yes or no? | Morality is objective | 0 | 2015-05-15T00:24:46 | 99 | 1 | 49Δ |
The kid you've linked to in that news article is 17 right now. You're saying he should face decades of imprisonment for what he's done... now think about that, really. We throw around punishment very severely in our society, but really think about what you're saying. If you lock him up for 20 years, he'll get out when ... | When captured and convicted, SWAT "pranksters" should receive extremely harsh sentences | 0 | 2015-05-24T01:19:01 | 117 | 34 | 30Δ |
I think you might want to narrow down your claims. You jump from the inherent power difference between speaker and listener (which is a point which could make a good CMV) to CBT to depression. I will stick to the first point - the difference between speaker and listener. Communication is hard. The speaker has a though... | It is possible to not take offence. It is impossible to not offend. | 1 | 2017-04-20T19:44:21 | 31 | 3 | 29 |
You're being frivolous and nit-picky. People use the term because it conveys something specific. Frivolous and nit-picky are more general terms they don't convey the same information. Not only that, but they're more pejorative about the character of the speaker. You may have personal experience with "arguing semantics"... | Arguing that something is "just semantics" is a cop out. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-24T00:52:22 | 54 | 2 | 22Δ |
Biologically speaking, lighter colored skin, hair, and eyes make it harder to hide disease and other defects. Health has always been a good indicator that a woman will be fertile and bear healthy children. Lighter skin means more confidence in your health, making you more attractive. So that's true, but it's only one f... | The depressing okcupid/dating studies tells black women we should use skin bleaching creams to lighten our skin if we want to find a date. | 0 | 2016-02-25T12:46:52 | 168 | 7 | null |
A couple of points to argue. 1) Counting Calories- This is quite hard to do at first. Especially for people with little education, or time to keep track of food. Combined with the fact that food labels are constantly misleading on purpose its not easy for the average person to keep track of intake. 2) Many people who... | Normalizing being fat is a huge societal issue in the United States | 1 | 2016-08-31T22:26:00 | 149 | 4 | null |
Yeah. The concept of privilege is not crazy on the face of it. It's just a very charged concept that everything from broad political policy to an single individual's ego. If you strip away all the pomp and circumstance though, it's a pretty reasonable concept, and one that most people see in their daily life. | I don't think I'm privileged, but people keep telling me I am. | 1 | 2017-02-09T22:11:38 | 135 | 8 | 121 |
What about Google's new [Chromebit](http://gizmodo.com/googles-chromebit-turns-any-tv-into-a-chrome-pc-for-und-1694793903) which will turn any TV with an HDMI port into basically a chromebook for under $100? Also, as a father of a young toddler (17 months), small children can't really use computers well but they can ea... | Television are obsolete/very close to obsolete | 1 | 2015-04-03T07:54:54 | 46 | 2 | 50Δ |
I think its wrong to see libertarians or anarcho-capitalists as "uncaring", and certainly wrong to say they don't understand we need a society. Rather, libertarians have a fundamentally different idea about what the basis of society is. We believe that society works by the respect of the equal rights, respecting the se... | I believe that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists are very ignorant and generally do not care about people who are less fortunate than them. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-03T00:35:16 | 803 | 39 | null |
Some of the hate Comic Sans receives is irrational and overblown. But criticising is use during CERN announcement is not one of those cases. Presentation matters. If I was preparing for an important announcement, I would pick clothes that looked nice and professional, I would choose the right venue, and a would make su... | Comics Sans is just a font and the hate it receives is irrational and overblown. | 1 | 2016-08-05T22:26:52 | 75 | 53 | 1 |
These people have no right to take these kids away from the culture they were born into. Why not? Let's say two parent moved from Sudan to America, and took their 1 year old with them., The 1 year old is now "removed" from Sudanese culture. But hers parents clearly considered it a good trade off for receiving, educatio... | People who adopt kids from a difference race and country as them as doing something unethical | 0 | 2016-10-28T20:30:14 | 59 | 13 | 129 |
There are simple solutions to this problem. First of all, you could simply place the gun where it is not accessible to children. If you're children are young, then put it where they cannot reach it. A better option would be to do as my father did and make certain your children know what a gun is, how it works, and how ... | I think that for a parent, any reason for owning a handgun is outweighed by the inherent risks of having one in the home. CMV | 0 | 2013-08-07T22:26:59 | 97 | 1 | 3 |
The gregarious nature of the Arabic culture may seem like they are closed people who don't wish to integrate. Larger families and friends migrate together for support, so they'll usually find themselves among each other, speaking their own language and observing their own traditions which are mostly group dependant. Ho... | Muslim immigrants are destroying every society that takes them in large numbers | 0 | 2016-01-24T11:24:19 | 1,093 | 5 | 1 |
I mostly talk about it with my sister, she's actually a lot more into it than me, she has a favourite civ to play as, favourite maps, enemies etc. I've tried playing multiplayer with her (and my other sister), but I prefer single player games. I've played Civ games before, but Civ 5 was a pretty recent buy for me, actu... | Most women cannot "nerd out" | 1 | 2017-04-03T02:36:20 | 61 | 2 | 2 |
I feel like you're arguing against something that isn't really happening. Like you said yourself both in your original post and in the comments, there are *some* aspects of characters that can be changed, and depending on the character, it can be color, religion, gender, etc... I think we all agree that there are some ... | Changing genders/race of characters in movie reboots isn't a good thing | 1 | 2015-04-08T02:09:41 | 52 | 5 | 12Δ |
This is a problem of multiple terms having multiple valid definitions depending on context. term 1 - racial discrimination term 2 - racism term 3 - systemic racism def 1- the belief (and actions based on the belief) that individuals of one race are inherently inferior/superior to another or all other races. def 2- th... | Reverse racism is a real thing. | 0 | 2015-05-13T04:36:27 | 75 | 0 | null |
Well, I agree with you for the most part. The only caveat that I will mention is when it is a server that is in charge of the take-out orders (I suppose it's for "take away" in the UK, but they are compensated differently than in the US anyway...). If it is a server that has to take care of other tables while handling ... | I shouldn't feel guilty for not tipping/requesting tip to be removed for take-out meals, and it is unreasonable for restaurants to expect a tip for take-out meals | 1 | 2016-10-11T21:44:56 | 52 | 25 | 1 |
Let's address the evolutionary argument because it seems to rest on two faulty assumptions. First, that fitness can be measured along one axis. And second, that whatever bullies choose to bully people over is the correct axis. If bullying selects for overall fitness like you suggest, then why does it target the bookwor... | Bullying is a natural and beneficial human activity. | 1 | 2016-10-15T19:44:56 | 100 | 15 | 77 |
The issue of citing Wikipedia has never been about accuracy or trustworthiness, contrary to what your high school English teachers told you. They just use that as an excuse because it's easier to lean on that explanation than tell you what the *actual* reason is. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and you should never refer... | In certain circumstances, Wikipedia should be allowed as a source for papers. | 0 | 2015-12-16T00:55:50 | 51 | 5 | 12 |
Well life isn't about keeping a clear conscious, its about acting and sometimes that doesn't leave you the luxury of a "clear conscious". Look at it practically. these are two of the most unpopular candidates for president that have ever been. Both republicans and democrats are most likely going to go out of their way ... | I cannot cast a vote tomorrow and keep a clear conscience. | 1 | 2016-11-07T15:27:25 | 41 | 8 | 42 |
Much of what people think about Sanders is a smokescreen. His economic plans seem like they were thought of by a 3rd grader as they're just catchy slogans rather than realistic plans of action. Free college! Redestribute the wealth! Close all the tax loopholes! A tax supported, compulsory education system is the model ... | Bernie Sanders is the best candidate of the major parties. | 0 | 2016-05-09T02:39:31 | 59 | 1 | null |
Now that I look at it the last one is kind of special. Special in the sense that nothing special happened. On the surface it was rather a run of the mill election with an outcome that just a couple of years ago would have barely garnered a yawn. So it stand to reason someone just looking at the two candidates on the su... | Some submitters to /r/OutOfTheLoop are willfully ignorant | 1 | 2017-05-10T19:07:00 | 37 | 8 | 2 |
I agree that "Art" is often used as a pompous word to denigrates things you don't like. For video games reviewers, it seems to only need a walking simulator with some political messages or depressing imagery. To me, art is the physical manifestation of a human feeling. Which can be a lot of things, I think people call ... | There is no objective criterion or argument for what counts as art | 0 | 2017-03-21T13:11:36 | 84 | 1 | 1 |
Supply and demand. I guess IPAs are selling. It is what I drink. I prefer APAs (IBU 35-40), but will settle for an IPA. I don't think the choices are getting limited. I think it is getting more people away from Coors, Miller, and AB. It got me into brewing my own beer, and broadened my horizons. Where do you shop for... | I believe that the use of hops in beer is overrated and is leading to the general populace falsely equating craft beers as being hoppy. | 1 | 2014-05-17T03:26:27 | 79 | 11 | 5 |
Accounting for externalities would absolutely affect the price of labor. For example, if a government instituted subsidies for education, demand for education would increase. And if demand for education increases, the market value of teachers would probably increase, therefore teachers would be paid more. And since edu... | CMV the societal worth of human life is measured by earned income | 1 | 2013-12-27T06:34:29 | 92 | 1 | 2 |
I'm not worried about the biases or racism on the part of the admissions office. The problem is the lifetime of missed opportunities for growth and learning that minorities face. A blind admission doesn't retroactively erase the obstacles applicants faced throughout their lives leading up to the point where they applie... | People who advocate government interference in the market for affirmative action purposes are, by definition, racist themselves because their advocacy means they do not believe the minority race in question had the ability to accomplish the same results without help. | 1 | 2016-07-12T06:20:41 | 55 | 4 | 71 |
Interesting question - does impending death justify someone hastening the inevitable. First, if you think about it, we all are headed to an inevitable death, so wouldn't any currently healthy person fall within your class of "moral" suicides as well? Also, as to the inevitable death part, if you and I are in an elevato... | Physician Assisted Euthanasia is moral, especially for terminal patients. | 0 | 2017-04-26T03:51:12 | 151 | 0 | null |
(I love that you (accidentally?) wrote "Olly" as "Oily"; it shows that you're serious about verbally accepting his robot identity! ) Hehehe. That's what happens when you read the post without your glasses on your phone, then answer it on your laptop. :) But some people, including myself, feel that respect for the truth... | People should not be expected to use a trans person's preferred pronouns if they don't believe that transgender "is a real thing." | 1 | 2017-04-04T03:15:34 | 131 | 4 | 33 |
The problem with wikipedia isn't the reliability of it's information, it's the verifiability of it's information. When making citations, you need to be able to verify what you're citing. Wikipedia itself is not something you can verify. However, Wikipedia almost always links to *its* sources, and those are generally pe... | I believe Wikipedia is reliable enough to be used as a source in school assignments. | 1 | 2014-10-03T17:21:15 | 194 | 458 | 121Δ |
The assumption that someone who took longer to take the test is probably a less desirable candidate were that slowness known is not taking into account the fact that many disabilities that require extra time during a test tend to correlate with other mental tendencies which are more advantageous than the "normal" test ... | "Extra Time" on tests is a broken system which artificially hides weaker applicants on account of their conditions, while not getting at the core issue of ineffective testing. | 0 | 2016-01-19T13:05:51 | 249 | 3 | null |
If you run into the woods, you'd be running into a different horror movie, so now you have 2 killers chasing after you. | Cmv When in a slasher movie situation it is better to run into the spooky woods then stay in your dark house. | 0 | 2015-10-30T20:26:34 | 18 | 8 | 14 |
I think the kid made something that would look like a bomb in a movie, and set it off in class, intentionally, to get this kind of outcome. It looks like he just took apart an existing clock, put that into a metal case, wrapped some wires around it. I agree that it's not interesting as a feat of engineering, and that h... | Ahmed Mohamed does not deserve nearly the amount of attention and praise that he's gotten over the clock. | 1 | 2015-11-28T22:53:28 | 251 | 1 | 2 |
I am going to address both parts separately. 1) You have no way of knowing that the injustice someone is going to do to you will stop before murder. Lets say I am facing an offensive attacker that is on the street and I have reason to believe that they have a weapon or can easily kill me (I see something that resemble... | You have a duty to retreat before using lethal force. | 1 | 2017-05-05T00:13:42 | 106 | 13 | 13 |
I don't know if anyone else addressed it, but this is also highly culture dependent. For example, what a couple in Germany, England, and France assumes may all be different. America is a mish-mash of multiple cultures; so it's even harder to assume something. The more culturally homologous the area is, the greater und... | Exclusivity is implied when a sexual relationship begins. (Caveats) | 1 | 2016-11-16T23:48:41 | 128 | 5 | 2 |
Mh... Late to the party, but I always am. And I see how you've already changed your view, by comparing the idea of Shitty Fiction to whatevs. I'll build a parallel argument to the notion of quality fiction, because I believe that it's Academia who sets the standards of values to which any fiction work ends up being mea... | Reading fiction is a waste of time compared to reading nonfiction | 0 | 2015-12-03T11:07:33 | 64 | 1 | null |
The us propped up (both overtly and covertly) the shah, who had a western policy at the time that picture was taken. Unfortunately he was also a repressive dictator who modernized the country too fast and was conviniently open to US and british oil interests. Hence the popular support for the Islamic revolution. Then t... | The U.S is not responsible for the social backwardness in Iran. | 0 | 2017-06-14T02:37:54 | 78 | 1 | null |
I don't at all believe in creationism, but I'll give defending their view a shot. I think it comes down to being skeptical of extrapolation. You can easily observe evolution in action: the development of drug-resistant bacteria. That is not controversial. However it is a big leap from there to saying that life arose o... | Denying biological evolution is exactly as reasonable as claiming that the earth is flat. | 0 | 2017-03-23T03:30:06 | 95 | 10 | 3 |
So do you really think that all drugs should be legal? Yes, I really do. While yes, many drugs are incredibly dangerous, you have right to decide what you do with your own body. As long as you are not hurting anyone else, it is not for me to tell you what you can and can't do. It's your body; not mine. It's not my job ... | Marijuana is dangerous and should not be legalized. | 1 | 2017-04-26T22:38:41 | 54 | 11 | 89 |
Well, first off, there's the fact that most people aren't interested in romance with family members of the opposite sex, but I figure you're excluding that. So, here's what I've experienced as a 19-year-old male college student. A lot of the times, yes, women and men do interact in a romantic way, one trying to impress... | The highest form of relationship between men and women doomed to be romance | 1 | 2014-12-29T04:16:47 | 32 | 8 | 1 |
I don't check the news very often at this time. As a result, my only source of news about the upcoming presidential election is reddit. I'd suggest looking at ALSO getting your news from people you disagree with so you see where they are coming from. Reddit is an echo chamber that doesn't do well with differing opinion... | I want to vote for Bernie Sanders. | 0 | 2015-09-18T18:28:31 | 555 | 11 | null |
I'm going to take another angle and say that the idea that her personal decisions affect you when they are something like this is probably should be avoided. It is okay for you to have this opinion but enforcing it on your SO seems a bit controlling. However, I think that removing your organs after you die is a no bra... | My girlfriend is an organ donor. While admirable, I want her to opt-back out. | 1 | 2014-04-21T12:57:50 | 49 | 20 | 1 |
Someone already mentioned the fact that it takes up more land, but another aspect you are neglecting is pedestrians. A four way stop is much more open, and so pedestrians are more easily spotted. Pedestrians also stop people in the roundabout, which could have much larger effects on traffic than at a four way stop whic... | Traffic lights and four way stops are objectively inferior to roundabouts. | 1 | 2014-11-19T04:35:05 | 94 | 46 | 11 |
Women vs men and whites vs blacks (only two of the uncountable amount of dichotomies that exist) can't be solved by separating and pointing fingers at the other group, it can only be solved by uniting. This sounds great on the surface, but fails horribly in practice. Most racism and sexism happens subconsciously. A whi... | Racism, sexism and general discrimination will only begin to fade when we stop pointing fingers and accept that "Us" vs "Them" isn't real, there is only "Us" on this earth. | 0 | 2015-08-12T21:16:55 | 63 | 0 | 33 |
It will also reduce government expense by saving money on arresting, prosecuting, and jailing dealers. | Legalizing Marijuana Will Not Help the Economy | 1 | 2015-01-22T16:41:31 | 105 | 28 | 13 |
I can't find direct statistics, only correlations between crime and poverty and poverty and racial minorities(though I know that there are statistiscs, I just can't find them at the moment). But what else could cause it? | I believe racial profiling works. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-23T16:53:57 | 237 | 1 | 1 |
There are open access journals, but their impact factors are low. They aren't comparable to Science or Nature. I estimate that it will take a few years for journals with higher impact factors to emerge. Then, the journals that have higher impact factors (say 5, for example), would have to become selective for a couple ... | Taxpayer funded research should be freely available to any citizen upon first publication. | 1 | 2014-11-10T02:29:18 | 141 | 7 | 2 |
1. Fossil fuels are a finite resource. I know that with recent discoveries of oil that peak oil is not in our immediate future, but it one day will find us. If we put all our eggs in one basket by only developing conventional fossil-fuel based food production and distribution, we are at a much bigger risk than we would... | I believe organic food production is a dangerous fad that has the potential to cause billions to die of starvation. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-29T01:22:58 | 49 | 12 | 3 |
1) This is impossible to enforce. Packaging is advertising, so if your non-patent-protected product is placed in any major retailer, you're violating the law because your advertisement is being spread. Maybe a celebrity really likes your non-patent-protected product, and they say so on TV. Is that a violation? What if ... | Instead of patents, give inventors the exclusive right to advertise for 10 years. Patents prevent healthy completion, but this would give the edge to the innovators and, as a bonus, it would curtail advertising (which harmfully trains us to be unsatisfied until we have the advertised product). | 0 | 2015-09-29T03:50:20 | 47 | 1 | 1 |
I'm unaware of many people who rate movies based on specific criteria outside of movie critics themselves. And even then, most are willing to accept that a movie can be a gestalt, a sum greater than its parts. And even then, critics also accept the visual and spectacle of a movie as being part of whether it's good. You... | Studio Ghibli is overrated and their films more often than not require an adaptation in the western film adjusted viewer's watching habits in order to be perceived as enjoyable | 1 | 2015-07-28T20:56:17 | 35 | 8 | null |
You could maybe mitigate some of the environmental effects of your diet by growing a lot of your own vegetables. Even if you live in an apartment, you could usually get a pretty good [indoor vegetable garden](http://www.beginner-indoor-gardening.com/indoor-vegetable-garden.html) going if you know what you're doing. Thi... | Bodybuilding, or even being anything but slightly above sedentary in lifestyle is unethical | 0 | 2016-04-30T06:41:58 | 28 | 1 | 5 |
This view depends on the premise that a connection to one's genetic roots and the culture of one's biological parents' culture holds inherent value that is necessarily greater than the value of being brought up in a culture distant from one's genetic roots. However, value is subjective and there are clear examples of p... | People who adopt kids from a difference race and country as them as doing something unethical | 0 | 2016-10-28T20:50:38 | 59 | 12 | 2 |
Espresso is extracted under significantly higher pressure and because of this, it is able to emulsify fats and oils from the coffee, producing a 'crema' when done well. A moka pot does not produce a crema, at least not in nearly as significant quantity. A lot of moka pot users mistake foam for crema. Because the differ... | It is ok to call the coffee you make in a moka pot espresso without further qualification. | 0 | 2017-05-17T00:51:33 | 88 | 1 | null |
It is my opinion that men who have (or are) transitioning to women and who have had breast enhancements should be required to wear a bra in public. Who is enforcing this? Women aren't required to wear bras, why should anyone be? | Men who have or are transitioning to Women who have had breast enhancements should have to wear a bra in public | 0 | 2016-10-11T00:57:37 | 57 | 13 | 16 |
1) To quote "downvotes don't change views." A downvote brigade doesn't thoughtfully engage or attempt to change an underlying idea or prejudice, it just tries to yell really loud and drown out the speaker. That's unlikely to change anything for the better because the speaker will observe that they were brigaded and eit... | I think that banning downvote brigades from ShitRedditSays is actively harmful to this site. CMV | 0 | 2014-01-13T08:26:56 | 236 | 75 | 86Δ |
I have a compromise: 1. Engineer them to be unable to host plasmodia. 2. Engineer their bites to go unnoticed (no itch, no bump). I really don't mind if they take my blood if I don't know they're doing it. I don't dislike mosquitoes; I dislike mosquito *bites*. And malaria. Of course getting our engineered strains to o... | I believe there is nothing morally, ethically or environmentally wrong with the idea of eradicating mosquitoes from the face of the earth. | 1 | 2014-04-01T22:05:15 | 123 | 1 | 2 |
The reason the justice system elevates peace officers, and therefore the media imitates this notion, is because there would be an open season. Open season for cop killers. What incentive do criminals have for not murdering a police officer when they receive the same punishment when killing a regular person? We have to ... | I don't believe that "cop killers" are any worse than regular killers. CMV | 0 | 2013-03-31T06:17:17 | 143 | -1 | null |
The constitution isn't really a historical document in that you don't study it for its historical significance. Really there should be law classes in high school and that is where you should teach the constitution and common law for that matter. However if you want to teach history I do think the DOI is probably the do... | In American elementary schools, American history classes should focus more on the Constitution than on the Declaration of Independence. | 0 | 2014-07-28T23:24:38 | 54 | 1 | 17Δ |
I think some of the biggest threats to global stability comes from the political fringes. The only constant is change. Global stability is a myth grown out of a population that has gotten good at balancing acts. The supports necessary for real stability simply don't exist. To carry out a balancing act, you have to avoi... | Most democracies are far too tolerant of extremism, especially the likes of neo-fascism, neo-nazism, radical Islamism and violent intolerance. The world has been to soft on these ideologies and they need to be eliminated whenever they appear. | 1 | 2014-12-26T17:45:34 | 311 | 2 | 12 |
You argued that they should be replaced by stalls without a loss in efficiency. I am simply refuting your argument as stated. If you have changed your view, see the sidebar information about how to note a change in your view. | Separating restrooms by gender is unjustifiable | 1 | 2016-11-29T01:15:53 | 122 | 4 | 160 |
The alternative to the imposed austerity measures is the country defaulting on its debts and becoming a failed state, and the rest of the EU is taking on a large risk by continuing to loan to a country which over the last 5 years has done nothing but ignore the demands of their creditors and complain about sanctions. I... | The greeks are acting like entitled children. | 1 | 2015-07-15T19:32:37 | 46 | 32 | 1 |
Let's say a less-than-intelligent, low income, low social status woman becomes pregnant and doesn't notice until after the 8 week limit and is now forced to carry her unwanted child to term. How do you think that kid's life is going to turn out? I'm pro choice not only because I think it's a woman's natural right to ch... | (mostly) pro-life | 0 | 2016-04-14T02:40:15 | 91 | 3 | 1 |
I go to a technology academy, and we actually just had our yearly "tech convention" where we get our business partners to set up booths and show off their hardware to the students. A lot like I/ITSEC, if anyone has gone to that. Although, of course, on a much smaller scale. Our gaming foundations teacher got a hold of ... | VR is a fad that will suffer the same fate it did in the 90's | 0 | 2015-03-15T04:04:19 | 62 | 3 | 27Δ |
The reasons why a poll tax or poll test are really bad ideas have been debated on numerous CMVs so I'm going to skip that and address why increasing voter turnout would help the political discussion. Currently the *main* things that campaigns do is try to increase turnout for voters likely to vote for them and try to s... | Increasing voting turnout while ignoring voter comprehension is more detrimental to society then creating voting requirements. | 1 | 2014-05-18T00:39:40 | 79 | 15 | 22Δ |
I don't know, I feel like it's a bunch of people trying to make dystopian fantasies come to life, rather than the more likely outcome being Trump will probably end up impeached by his own undoing before America gets even close to that scenario. While the possibility of Trump being removed from office *if* he ever get's... | I believe the comparisons of Trump to fascism are exaggerated and have little to no basis in reality. | 1 | 2016-02-26T12:16:24 | 323 | 107 | 2 |
Terrible is subjective. No one can make you like a movie you didn't like. But the reason you dislike it is because you agree with one of its central points. They don't end up together. They can't end up together. She's so much more than human that of course it will never work. But could she have loved him? Can you love... | The movie 'Her' was terrible, because its central premise is impossible to take seriously. | 0 | 2015-06-19T16:27:45 | 40 | 4 | null |
check [this image](http://www.catherinenicole.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/dressed-up-cut-offs-and-white-shirt.jpeg). The color of the shirt in the photo is a lot bluer than the dress (#5779A1). However, we know that the shirt is white and that the blue color is due to lighting. It's easy to understand why people wou... | Change my view from seeing this dress as blue and black to seeing it as white and gold. | 1 | 2015-02-27T06:20:57 | 173 | 20 | 11 |
Just like everyone's saying, English already *has* gender-neutral pronouns. We have "one", "singular they" and "generic he" which are all generally well understood and fulfill their function (I tend to go for "singular they" as "generic he" seems a bit problematic, especially when talking about professionals - seems ex... | Common usage of "xe" or other gender neutral pronoun would improve/make English language easier. | 1 | 2015-05-22T11:36:19 | 67 | 23 | 1Δ |
I want to point out that you misread the conclusion of your OKCupid article. If you actually read it, it shows that while women rate 80% of the men as below average, they actually pursue dates with men of all levels of appearance. Meanwhile, men are more reserved in their attractiveness rating, but only actually pursue... | Most women, of all ages (not just the young) assign way too much value on physical appearance, which is why so many women "can't find a man" as they claim. | 1 | 2014-06-24T01:17:26 | 56 | 12 | 50Δ |
Impossible to know how well behaved the dogs are. Also, we'll behaved dogs are well behaved, until they aren't. Sometimes dogs will act against their normal nature. Plus people are allergic to dogs, they piss and shit everywhere, they bite people, dirty stuff, shed. There is way more reasons to not allow this than the... | Well-behaved dogs should be allowed most places that children are. | 0 | 2015-03-24T04:21:36 | 477 | 2 | null |
At its most benign, "Pride" is a reason to focus on the differences between people (think Gay Pride, here) I'm not sure what the problem is here. People should be free to be different and not be attacked for it. --- The core issue for things like Gay Pride is that it's a counter to the notion that gay people should be... | "Pride" (Gay Pride, National Pride, School Pride; take your pick) is detrimental to the betterment of society. | 0 | 2014-02-02T19:37:05 | 23 | 8 | 127Δ |
Like u/raanne said, common core is as much, or more about comparing students to the same set of standards than it is about forcing teachers to teach to a certain standard. But that's also the problem, expecting standardized results without standardizing the learning experience. Not that I think the learning experience ... | common core is a good thing. | 0 | 2015-11-03T18:01:11 | 59 | 3 | 49 |
native speakers of a language don't actually speak that particular language very well According to whom? Whose authority on language is greater than that of a native speaker? If two native speakers of the same language are talking with one another, what enables a third party to say "You're having a conversation incorre... | The highest level of language proficiency shouldn't be "native". | 1 | 2014-04-22T22:40:41 | 47 | 89 | 1 |
You aren't addressing the key point of my argument though: that poly marriage cannot be legally refuted if one applies the same logic of the gay marriage argument I think you don't fully understand the argument made in court. The argument in court was simply that there was no valid state interest to ratify heterosexual... | If you support gay marriage, you must also support polygamous/polyamorous marriages | 1 | 2015-01-31T20:19:33 | 131 | 19 | 3 |
I would like to address the wavedashing aspect of your post. L-canceling is a bit of a random thing, just a mechanical barrier to skill level which some people like and some people don't. I personally think it's a cool feature making the game harder and more rewarding, but I totally get someone not agreeing with me the... | Wavedashing and L-cancelling are not positive features in Super Smash Brothers Melee in their current state. | 0 | 2017-01-27T20:24:01 | 61 | 1 | 7 |
I know some of my points have been made already, but I think I have a few new things to add specifically to amateur football. First off, there is a definite issue with CTE in the proffessional and even college games, however I think there is some confusion over what causes this. There is a small link to concussions an... | We should stop supporting American football in light of recent medical findings. | 1 | 2015-09-05T16:51:39 | 116 | 2 | 2 |
It could. I could give an argument in support of gay marriage riddled with homophobic slurs and it could be logically sound but why would I say offensive things that I don't believe. You wouldn't normally see this but it is a possibility. A person could be using slurs directed at their own group to display the intoler... | Using Homophobic/Racist/Insulting Language Automatically Makes Other People's Arguments Invalid | 1 | 2016-02-16T03:10:21 | 61 | 9 | 3 |
Wouldn't send out a warning? What did Al Quaida do all those years with the video tapes? Were those not warnings? Edit: '96 was 20 years ago, not ancient history at all. Edit 2: I assume you know that story about the swimmer trying to joke around by screaming "SHARK! SHARK!". There was no shark and people were pissed ... | There's no point in taking bomb threats seriously | 0 | 2016-05-11T01:12:18 | 83 | 1 | null |
Your argument seems to be, at least in part: 1. Dress codes exist for both male and female students; 2. Females are held to a higher standard than their male counterparts; 3. This excessive policing contributes to misogyny and body-shaming for female students (and the sexualization of minors); 4. Students are harmed bo... | Strict public school dress codes do much more harm than good to both male and female students, as well as teachers. | 1 | 2017-06-08T10:08:14 | 88 | 18 | 1 |
Why do parents have to justify their decisions to you? If you don't want to have children, that's fine. But why should the rest of the planet subscribe to your view. | Volitionally choosing to have children is wrong. | 0 | 2017-05-22T08:46:18 | 161 | 11 | 24 |
you clearly can build a friendship without physical contact. But it is not the same as interacting with a real human. In what ways is it not the same? Can’t games be the same as phone calls to friends you already have? But you gain something. Yes, reading a science book looks the same as simply sitting on your chair ... | Video games and TV shows are a waste of time | 1 | 2017-03-28T20:02:30 | 73 | 2 | 42 |
The issue is a little more complicated than what your view outlines. Sure, there are hard right wing folks that might deny the existence of trans people simply because "god didn't do that" or some such oversimplification. But there are also classical liberal folks like me who *do* recognize trans people as legitimate.... | People who don't believe trans* people about their gender should just stay quiet about it. | 1 | 2017-05-11T19:54:21 | 91 | 14 | 26 |
Here is a list of emerging technologies. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies I think it's pretty clear that there is still much left to be accomplished. | I believe we have reached a sort of wall in technological advancements and that every technology that is possible has been achieved. CMV | 1 | 2013-10-23T01:56:44 | 49 | 18 | 14 |
A post I made earlier pretty much addresses this. https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/67diqb/cmv_in_the_coming_decades_we_need_to_answer_the/dgpuipy I am sure some women cheat on husbands who provide for them financially but in reality it is a rarity and so the basis of your assumptions are flawed. Echo cham... | TheRedPill is very accurate about women and the reality of attraction, and the AF/BB concept | 1 | 2017-04-27T13:01:34 | 65 | 11 | 3 |
You have to put youself into Hank's shoes: 1. Hank personally witnessed Bill's divorce destroy Bill and left him a broken shell of a man. The thing is that as pathetic as Bill was in the present, Bill wasn't always such a loser back then. Dale, from the show's flashbacks, was already portrayed as incompetent, unstable,... | Hank should have told Dale about his wife's affair with John Redcorn. | 1 | 2015-03-24T03:55:41 | 52 | 17 | 5Δ |
I think that through time, people have understood that incest is wrong not specifically under the terms of immorality [when considering that both parties are consensual adults] but under the consideration of maintaining a healthy gene pool. It would have been observed that inbreeding causes a collapse in the genetic he... | I don't think Incest is a big deal at all. CMV? | 0 | 2013-09-05T04:37:16 | 534 | 1 | null |
What policies besides the infrastructure bill were discussed in any specific terms? | The President needs to go back to what got him elected...populism. | 1 | 2017-03-26T18:28:07 | 55 | 2 | 51 |
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