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I disagree with your 3rd point almost completely. Most of the oil in the US comes from the Western hemisphere (almost 40% from the US itself), and less than 15% comes from Persian gulf countries. See http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/where-does-america-get-oil-you-may-be-surprised and you can search for more. The... | I believe there is a very real and ongoing class war. CMV. | 1 | 2013-06-18T18:20:14 | 167 | 3 | 1 |
*"scientific prediction around global warming is so politically charged it is not reliable and should not be trusted."* This sentence is incoherent. Try re-wording it: "Scientific prediction around ballistic trajectories are so politically charged Newtonian physics should not be trusted." You are confusing politics wit... | Global warming predictions are epistemologically flawed, and should not be the basis for public policy. | 0 | 2015-06-03T23:16:50 | 534 | 1 | null |
I'd argue that you're partially right and partially wrong; there's no single cause to all of these issues. A combination of factors have led to the issues plaguing the black community. If you want, I can provide evidence that institutional racism is one of those factors, both in the past and in the present day. But I'l... | Black people need to begin accepting their own responsibility for their problems; it is black criminality/culture that is causing the black community's problems, NOT white racism. [Serious] | 0 | 2016-04-27T05:52:48 | 802 | 30 | 31 |
Alright, let's start linking actual examples of harassment and chronic toxicity that FPH has done. Thread 1: [An open letter to all the fat fats who may be lurking here...](https://archive.is/xcswk) Thread 2: [Drama in /r/progresspics when OP's pictures get crossposted to /r/fatpeoplehate. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/... | Reddit was wrong to ban /r/fatpeoplehate but not /r/shitredditsays. | 1 | 2015-06-11T03:14:05 | 1,319 | 81 | 13Δ |
The problem with any sort of qualifying test is "who writes the test"? A liberal might have conditions such as: * Believes in evolution and global warming as a basic reasoning test * Opposes corporal punishment of all sorts as a parenting skills test * Has steady income through disability or other government subsidies ... | I think that people should go through a screening process if they want to have children. | 1 | 2015-09-05T23:02:19 | 24 | 25 | 133 |
You can do college stuff without halting your work life. For instance, I work two jobs and attend three classes, but check this out to get you started: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-sociology-utpermianbasinx-soci101x You owe it to yourself to understand these things better. | There is no reason from my perspective for the poor to have any welfare, guaranteed minimum wage, or rights in general. | 1 | 2016-03-10T06:31:32 | 100 | 3 | 4 |
The single largest reason they are part of it is so that the nuclear missiles are there to act as a deterrent to Russian aggression. That is why we are allies, and the other things don't matter to those in power. During the Cold War they became part of NATO for this purpose. It's the same reason why we are allies with ... | Turkey should be removed as a NATO Member State | 0 | 2017-04-29T21:02:59 | 83 | 0 | null |
I think that it's absurd to have a company tell you that only certain pieces of clothing are acceptable to wear to type on a keyboard or operate a phone. An employer doesn't only have to monitor calls, tickets or code, but also behaviour, and clothing affects behaviour. Sometimes clothing diversity can encourage confl... | Nobody who works in a cubicle or other job where you rarely interact with anyone other than your co-workers should have any dress code beyond "cover your naughty bits" and "don't wear offensive stuff" | 1 | 2015-01-03T04:52:07 | 81 | 1 | 25 |
Some people may have similar attitudes about Muslims now, and some similar language as people did about Jews then, but that's not saying much without putting it in context. Much of antisemitism was more about suspicions of Jews as a race more rather than as a religious or cultural group as Muslims are. Arabs aren't the... | Islamophobia today is not too different from antisemitism in the 1930s | 0 | 2017-03-06T23:00:31 | 83 | 30 | 69 |
He could unilaterally repeal every one of Obama's executive orders, namely the ones granting legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children (the Dreamers). That one act would banish millions of people to the shadows and deny them the legal right to work, pay taxes, etc. There's al... | Fears over the possibilities of a Trump presidency are overblown. He can't act unilaterally on any of his positions, and his greatest actual danger to progressives would be to win and then quietly get in line with the GOP's advisers. | 1 | 2016-09-06T23:54:18 | 259 | 39 | 2 |
Don't know a lot about politics and I believe you when you say that you don't think all women are incompetent, but don't chalk the young rookie MP being appointed to affirmative action. Maybe she demonstrated a hard work ethic or show a strong drive or intelligence, something in the background that you can't assess. If... | Contemporary feminism is shooting itself in the foot by jeering at men's rights activists | 1 | 2016-11-15T07:36:53 | 356 | 27 | 1 |
First of all, I'm from the US, and now live in a country wtih contract employment. In my experience working in both places, there is little practical difference between at-will employment and contract employment for white collar work, especially if you work at fostering a healthy work culture. While there are no legal... | "At-will employment", is a good thing. | 1 | 2016-07-13T18:43:46 | 71 | 13 | 67 |
It is cruel to subject a person to a society which detests their existence. We should not lie about the state of the world. Look, I'm transgender. I consider HRT to have been 100% worth it for me, even if people like me are the butt of everyone's jokes. we need to treat them as mental patients, put them in institutio... | Treating Gender Dysphoria by Gender Reassignment is cruel and counterproductive. | 0 | 2015-09-27T04:47:38 | 552 | 3 | null |
I agree with the things you listed. I think history will be far, far kinder to Hillary Clinton than her contemporary world was. She brought healthcare to the floor when it was unpopular to do so, and it very likely cost her for the rest of her career, because she became the Republican enemy number one. She was instrume... | Hillary Clinton isn't that bad | 0 | 2017-07-01T15:56:38 | 214 | 11 | 26 |
I'm going to disagree with your assertion that gods are just a product of our fear of death (although certain ones are, and I believe that the Christian god falls under that net). Humans naturally seek to explain the world around us. There's a reason that creation myths exist in every culture to explain the origins of ... | I believe God is a completely illogical concept with no basis in reality and was created solely to help us cope with our mortality. | 0 | 2014-05-14T08:46:29 | 119 | 1 | 10Δ |
God gave people free will. He then gave us doctrine to live by through his son Jesus Christ. If we follow Jesus' message, we can create "heaven" here and Earth. If God's will be done, and everyone will be happy. If we ignore Jesus' message, and therefore God's will, then the world will fall into a state of chaos, where... | I think any religion which preaches "heaven vs hell" while claiming their god to be just and good is logically inconsistent. | 0 | 2014-05-14T13:35:07 | 164 | 2 | 3 |
Here's another argument. Monocultures are a bad thing. When the environment changes, they tend to die out quickly. Factory farms intrinsically migrate towards a monoculture approach, because it's the only one that is efficient at that scale. Having just one way of farming out there makes the system *fragile*. Widespr... | I believe organic food production is a dangerous fad that has the potential to cause billions to die of starvation. CMV | 1 | 2013-06-29T02:28:33 | 49 | 13 | 96Δ |
You could have said the same thing about cyanobacteria in the palaeoproterozoic era, if you were around back then. The oxygen created by the first photosynthesis caused an extinction event far larger than the one we're causing today, oxygen is highly corrosive and killed just about everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/... | Humans should go extinct | 1 | 2015-12-31T06:56:32 | 57 | 3 | 2 |
So then technically, you're not a single issue voter because you do to some degree consider the candidate's other viewpoints - right? | I'm a single issue voter and I think that's OK. | 1 | 2015-03-22T02:50:36 | 58 | 4 | 19Δ |
The problem here is that this is being blown way out of proportion. Is it sexual assault? Well that depends on if anyone got upset over it. Sexual intercourse is rape if one party doesn't want that contact, but if neither care it's just sex. All you need to do is look at an old rich mans yacht to see that Trump's comme... | Mr. Trump's comments in the video released last week disqualify him on the basis of character to hold the office of the President of the United States | 1 | 2016-10-11T20:19:38 | 110 | 12 | 2 |
This is based on a gross, gross misunderstanding of what "cyber bullying" actually is. Sometimes it's sending mean messages to the target. But much more often, and more seriously, it's sending nasty things *about* the target to other people. You can't block that. | There is no such thing as cyber bullying because you can just turn off your device or block the sender. | 1 | 2016-02-11T20:56:02 | 79 | 193 | 3 |
Ok, here's my shot! Firstly, I agree with your environmental arguments, but let's leave them aside for now. Secondly, animal welfare is important and we don't do enough on it. Personally, I think every slaughterhouse and farm should be mandated to upload a video of their conditions to the internet every year. That way ... | I believe there are no valid arguments for eating meat, other than "I like the taste" - CMV | 0 | 2013-02-25T08:14:53 | 383 | 2 | null |
Muhammed presumably intended his religion to continue past his death, despite novel situations arising. Suppose his followers encountered greek fire, invented by the byzantines 40 years after his death. He likely never visualized whether that would be an exception but would want his people to interpret the religion to ... | There is always a correct "ballpark" interpretation of religious doctrine. | 1 | 2015-11-21T17:47:08 | 133 | 2 | 87 |
There are massive problems with all the logistics of the story, that make the whole thing pretty much impossible. Watch this video to see all the problems with the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I225Vcs3X0g | I think Noah's ark is a true story. | 1 | 2017-05-24T16:18:08 | 36 | 1 | 3 |
Sure, I have no problem with eating an animal that had to die for a morally acceptable reason. It is not the eating that I am opposed to; it is the killing without any better reason than that you'd love to taste its meat. At this point you're no longer opposed to consuming meat as a direct result of the death of an ani... | I have recently come to the conclusion that killing animals for meat is immoral. Please change my view. | 1 | 2014-10-23T01:19:23 | 177 | 3 | 4 |
The weight of the added metal blades would most likely make the hula hoop an unusable weapon. Not to mention that the velocity necessary for even an extremely sharp metal to cut through (rotting) flesh and bone would probably not be sustainable. Then there's the fact that you'd probably have to use a metal like adamant... | the best weapon to have during a zombie apocalypse is a hula-hoop with blades on the end | 1 | 2016-04-30T19:43:25 | 16 | 9 | 2 |
I know it looks promising, OP, but there are a few reasons why this hasn't happened yet. Robotic arms/things take support. It takes people to write the programs, and just think of all the things they'd have to do: Put burgers on the grill, flip them, put them on buns, add condiments/lettuce/whatever, package them, and ... | Fast food joints should be completely automated | 0 | 2015-03-28T02:42:31 | 122 | 2 | null |
I personally think men who agree with feminism's ideals but feel alienated by the word feminism need to just get over it. Women live in a world where male terms are used for us all the time ("mankind," the universal "he," "that's one small step for man, one giant step for mankind," "we hold these truths to be self evid... | The word "feminism" does not accurately represent the feminist movement | 0 | 2015-02-11T17:58:26 | 148 | 38 | 3 |
It's more complicated than you're making it. Larger blocks would require more powerful servers for running a full node, but the strength of bitcoin comes from decentralization. Raising the system / network requirements to run a full node decreases who can afford to do it, and in doing so increases centralization, weake... | a Bitcoin based world economy would be far better than the current fiat based one. | 1 | 2016-12-19T15:55:53 | 79 | 11 | 6 |
You'd be surprised. I wrote a short play that's (so far) gotten put on twice, once at my university and once by a local theater. The play's almost a one-man show because the main character has a ton of time on stage where it's just him. Both times, the directors were great. They both really understood the characters an... | a "good actor" has more to do with writing, directing and overall production than with a particular actor's skills. | 0 | 2014-11-08T20:21:47 | 133 | 1 | 3 |
ethnic minorities cannot discriminate because of their skin color and/or nationality. Not quite. I think you may have misunderstood one or more of the arguments that have lead some to suggest that minorities can't be racist or practice racism. *Anyone* can discriminate or act bigoted or discriminatory. But from a socio... | Reverse racism is a real thing. | 1 | 2015-05-13T05:22:39 | 75 | 0 | 15Δ |
I'm taking the opportunity to ask the community what they think about this kind of post. OP says "CMV either way" and that they are "a blank slate that is yours to etch." Will the most popular opinions always rise to the top and therefore make the post as if it was an unpopular opinion to start with? I'm sorry if this ... | I am not sure if global warming is a real issue. CMV either way. | 0 | 2013-04-23T18:23:52 | 76 | 53 | 2 |
The danger I see is that the existing people in power gets the ability to create the test content. This is a big problem because most of economics is taught with a political bias. What's the correct answer to this? - True or false - Taxes help the economy. Any time there is an opportunity for abuse, a politician will f... | I believe that some degree of educational attainment should be a prerequisite of voting in nations with compulsory, free education. | 0 | 2016-07-01T18:41:52 | 332 | 3 | 1 |
1) The United States engages in digital/computer espionage - and even before the proliferation of e-mail and the internet, and has tried to influence in elections in other countries numerous times. To then be outraged when another country does it to us is EXTREMELY hypocritical. This holds absolutely no water. First of... | The DNC, not Russia, is to blame for e-mail hacking and it's impact on the 2016 Elections. | 0 | 2016-12-19T03:46:43 | 500 | 2 | 1 |
I think violence is always wrong but since I'm a human and make mistakes I use violone from time to time knowing it is wrong. It's the same with parents. Most of them know it's bad to shake the baby/beat their children but sometimes your brain just stops working and you still do it. In a perfect world it might work out... | I have no respect for pacifists, and can't take them seriously. | 0 | 2014-07-11T13:07:25 | 100 | 1 | null |
I'm skeptical of the premise that all great empires rise and fall in the same way, and that the life cycle of great empires can be neatly divided into stages. History is immensely complex and can't be reduced to such a simple model. John Bagot Glubb's stages of history are so vague that any empire's story can be made t... | Most of the West is living in the Age of Decadence | 1 | 2016-07-31T16:48:37 | 43 | 30 | 1 |
In terms of crime, black americans commit 32.9% of crime in the united states, despite only compromising 16.3% of the U.S. population See, to me that just makes me think of racism. 50 years ago, you didn't like black people so you just drove around their neighborhood looking for any reason to arrest them, or no reason ... | I believe that black Americans, and no one else, are responsible for their impoverished status in America and stereotypes against them are completely justified. CMV | 1 | 2013-11-15T19:30:54 | 163 | 12 | 8 |
I'm a conspiracy theory fan, and a hardcore believer that Oswald wasn't a lone killer of JFK. Two glaring problems with Sandy Hook that I can't get over. 1) A Manchurian situation, maybe. A guy programmed to be a killer. Those death had to be real. It makes not sense to "stage" the whole thing. What an unnecessary wast... | I truly believe the Sandy Hook shooting was staged. | 1 | 2017-02-05T08:28:33 | 40 | 6 | 33 |
The end of the world, or even the end of life is super unlikely, however, human civilization, even humanity itself, is pretty fragile. A disease with the right characteristics could wipe out all large cities. Climate change could lead to monoculture and extreme vulnerability to blight. Nukes exist, and some stupid inci... | "End of the world" predictions are human hubris. | 0 | 2017-02-23T18:25:57 | 74 | 1 | null |
The United States military spending is so large that it offers us advantages in other area, politics, world currency, travel rights for our citizens. If the US spent less money on the military a natural reaction would be either China, Russia or Saudi Arabia would surpass us. While not directly linked, the world currenc... | The United States Government spends too much on the defense budget. | 0 | 2017-05-18T11:10:24 | 84 | 2 | null |
Global Warming - This is clearly a problem, denying it is stupid. This is one of the main reasons I was hesitant to back any republican for years. This is the reason you shouldn't vote for Trump. If you understand the severity of global warming and the immediacy with which we need to act (and based on your statement, I... | I'm probably going to vote for Donald Trump | 1 | 2016-06-19T02:23:46 | 136 | 2 | 1 |
Take the high paying job, donate money to environmental charity, work to find ways that helping the environment can be good for the bottom line. In this way, you help the environment more and make more money. | As an environmental engineer, I give up! PLEASE CMV! | 0 | 2015-04-24T07:43:07 | 366 | 2 | 4 |
Your question is a bit too open ended, it lacks environment and situation. If there was a sudden zombie outbreak, and all of Ohio was zombies would small axes be the ideal weapon? No, phoning the army and having them bombed would be better. If 1/4 of the world randomly turned into zombies would axes be the ideal weapo... | In a zombie (or similar, e.g., "Clickers" from Last of Us) apocalypse, a tomahawk or small ax would be the ideal melee weapon. | 0 | 2016-01-28T21:59:56 | 98 | 3 | null |
I'm gonna give some of these a shot too, so some of it is redundant. 1) On the Force grab on the lightsaber, I would posit that is more the Force choosing the proper owner of the saber rather than Rey being more powerful/skilled than Kylo Ren. Regarding the mind trick, I have issues with this as well, but it's entirely... | The Force Awakens is the worst Star Wars film ever made | 0 | 2017-05-03T21:18:45 | 99 | 1 | null |
I remember something of the nature from a US history course but if I recall correctly tensions between the Soviet Union and United States started building up before the inevitable end of the war since Japan was already weakening. Japan would have almost inevitably surrendered because when Russia attacked Japan, finally... | The US was right to drop the two atomic bombs on Japan in WWII | 0 | 2016-12-20T05:00:54 | 76 | 1 | null |
**This is how someone who doesn't have ADHD typically responds to everyday Adderall usage over a few years** The more you take adderall the more you become accustomed to it. You start needing more and more, at the same time your brain starts to become dependent on it. You brain stops making as many neurotransmitters s... | I think that students/workers who want to use adderall/vyvanse as an enhancer but don't have add/ADHD should be allowed to do so. | 0 | 2015-05-18T08:06:22 | 19 | 7 | null |
Firstly how can a UBI possibly be financed? It will probably be partly due to savings in some social security services that will be replaced by it. Yep and various forms of taxation. The money isn't really the problem. Since money are always the lynch-pin of any new idea proposed. Nevermind it will save a shit ton in ... | A Universal Basic Income Will Not Work. | 0 | 2016-05-10T20:26:19 | 50 | 0 | 3 |
It is my belief that people who are never insecure are either not very smart or are by some anomalous luck not at all familiar with the concept that shit happens. I want to change the part of your view which is reluctant to admit to being insecure, but I want to follow it up by reaffirming the fact that it's totally ok... | Being occasionally jealous or uncomfortable with scenarios involving your SO isn't unhealthy, nor does it deem you "irrational" nor "insecure" | 1 | 2017-06-20T09:01:49 | 127 | 65 | 1 |
So it's not that liberals are intolerant, then -- its that you can perceive liberals to be intolerant, provided as you ascribe to all members of the movement the actions of only the most vehement, extreme members of the movement. That's a pretty weak argument. It's a particularly weak argument because as you yourself h... | Liberals, particularly younger ones, are at least as intolerant as their conservative counterparts. | 1 | 2017-07-04T02:39:40 | 538 | 3 | 4 |
The Donald is a Donald Trump fan club and party. /r/politics is supposed to be the political sub. You have it wrong. | Political subreddits are becoming echo chambers, and there should be a way for liberal posts to have a change on r/T_D, and conservative posts on r/politics | 0 | 2017-05-16T13:12:35 | 74 | 2 | null |
The "strategy" in football is basically just a really complicated version of rock-paper-scissors. Taking a primitive strategic idea ("guess what the other guy is going to do") and making it complicated by offering 20 degrees of freedom doesn't make a game more strategic. You could play a complex game of rock-paper-scis... | Based on objective measures of skill, athleticism and strategy, American football is the greatest sport ever created. | 0 | 2014-09-25T21:09:32 | 54 | 2 | 5 |
Imagine two planets in space "nothing" is between them Does that mean they are sticking to each other? If not then what's between them? | "Nothing" is NOT REAL! | 0 | 2017-03-13T17:45:53 | 32 | 1 | null |
But by the same argument, a fertilized egg is inherently worth less than a child. Fetuses often fail to make it to term even under natural conditions. The only thing that separates a fetus from a discarded egg is the introduction of sperm and a few days of gestation. If it's okay to waste an egg and millions of sperm i... | Abortion is morally wrong due to the potential for life | 1 | 2016-08-07T08:04:01 | 79 | 26 | 109 |
You say you believe some people can be transgender, which means you believe in the concept of ''gender identity'' ... and if genders have their counterpart in the physical sexes (male and female) then some people have a physical sex which is neither male nor female, but neuter, because their reproductive organs did not... | There are only two genders. | 1 | 2016-01-21T02:44:33 | 788 | 5 | 39 |
I'm an average-looking guy. If I want to make friends or date, I have to put legwork into meeting new people. Have you ever been around an attractive woman? Their experience of things is vastly different. Guys want to be with them, do them favors, etc.; they tend to have an easier time integrating into social circles. ... | being beautiful is lonelier than being average. | 0 | 2016-01-29T02:05:42 | 23 | 1 | null |
**Any** supporters? That's an extreme standard. If even one person (as you stated in your gun shot example) pulls their support the view is invalidated. You're basically saying every single Trump supporter is predictably the same. No group as large as Trump supporters is that homogenous. You don't have to look any furt... | Donald Trump could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any supporters | 1 | 2017-02-08T22:48:20 | 306 | 512 | 23 |
The second amendment of the US constitution guarantees arms ownership as a means to protect the people against tyranny. ... It is unlikely that the American body politic will ever universally agree on what is "tyranny". Thus, individual groups may determine for themselves when the American government becomes tyrannical... | The Dallas Shooters were applying their second amendment rights | 1 | 2016-07-08T16:57:14 | 163 | 1 | 5 |
Just look back at the Dark Ages. The typical lifespan was 40 and culture was basically static for nearly a thousand years. What you're arguing is that in general people cannot change. This is not true. While it is true that people change very slowly and can be resistant to it, it does not mean that they are unable to. ... | Indefinite lifespan will lead to cultural stagnation. | 1 | 2016-09-18T20:24:37 | 23 | 1 | 3 |
In any case, what I am looking for are examples that prove that a dog may have had the same ancestor as a bird (or something along those lines). [They have the same arm bones, for instance.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Homology_vertebrates.svg/2000px-Homology_vertebrates.svg.png) (I think t... | I think it makes sense to believe in microevolution and not macroevolution. | 1 | 2014-12-03T22:14:58 | 69 | 53 | 4 |
I don't think this post is being responded to properly... Isn't it "Change My View"? Not "Agree With My View"? I'll take a swing at trying. The hamburger analogy used by another commenter made sense to me. Only because it dabbles in the matter of time frames. You have only taken into account, through your time alive, w... | even though I'm a straight white male, I'm not oppressing anyone by being professionally successful and I don't owe less "privileged" ethnicities/genders/sexual orientations anything because of the way I was born | 0 | 2015-07-06T00:49:35 | 77 | 5 | null |
There are good reasons not to start talking about how good someone looks if you aren't their friend. Even broadly telling someone they look good contains the implicit messages that 1) your value is in your looks/ I judge you by your looks, 2) the way you look makes me (or I expect it will make other people) desire you.... | Complimenting women are not sexual harassment | 0 | 2015-03-10T02:54:39 | 54 | 1 | 4Δ |
One of the most important things, when it comes to educating a child, is consistency. A child that hears a dozen messages taught a dozen different ways by well meaning educators is going to get confused, and will not learn well at all. A child's parents, as the adults that are accompanying said child most often, are th... | Educating a child is the duty of the whole community, not just the parent | 0 | 2016-06-18T20:09:11 | 129 | 3 | null |
this is something that could be worked out through voting on the policy of the system itself...As it stands, the public has no direct input into monetary policy at all is it perhaps true that maybe some things *shouldn't* be changeable? the years between voting, for example? because you yourself said the years between ... | A direct online democracy where people vote on issues instead of candidates would be better than always having to vote for the less bad of 2 candidates. | 1 | 2014-12-12T03:40:34 | 165 | 1 | 2 |
When I refer to this, I define disease as a condition that causes an inability or difficulty to do something a person without the condition would be able to do without problems; or a condition that causes some sort of discomfort or pain. Homosexuality doesn't do any of that, though. The problems that are caused by bein... | I don't want to upset anybody, but I think homosexuality can be classified as a psychiatric disease | 0 | 2017-05-20T18:15:41 | 73 | 1 | 3 |
I can't get behind it because nothing is permanent and thank god for that. would you want anything to be permanent? what if you were permanently sad? impermanence is a good thing. however, if everyone who you helped is one day going to be long gone, and every inkling of evidence that you or anyone you ever came into co... | Nothing matters, and nothing is important | 0 | 2014-11-03T23:51:00 | 68 | 1 | 1 |
The problem with putting MLK on the twenty dollar bill is that he already gets a disproportionate amount of the recognition and honor in the historical memory. I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve all the statues and holidays - he probably does - what I'm saying is that so many other people deserve a comparative amou... | If anyone should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, it should be MLK Jr, not Harriet Tubman | 1 | 2015-05-13T11:48:34 | 61 | 88 | 3Δ |
Haha, wow I love this subreddit! Ok, well my first question is, have you ever been to a country where pissing in public is the norm? It is not the greatest part of the trip, let's just say that! When I was pregnant with my twins, trust me, I felt your pain. I had to piss ever 15-20 minutes for months, but I doubt you'd... | I believe there is nothing wrong with urinating in public. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-09T16:05:17 | 65 | 6 | 1 |
There are some massive reasons why you need to care: proliferation of arcane criminal laws and prosecutorial discretion. In combination with extensive surveillance of everyone, these form an unholy trinity that allows those in power to squash anyone they want to. How does it work? Let me start at the beginning. What is... | Only criminals should be worried about government snooping | 0 | 2014-07-12T22:25:45 | 77 | 16 | 15 |
great ideas and in an ideal world would create an utopia It's not supposed to be utopian. It's just "we have a series of things in our economic system that are really fucked up in many ways, if we did this and that, we end up with a less fucked up system". In this case I would propose countries like Russia (Where I am ... | Socialism/ Communism will not work in today’s society because people are selfish. | 1 | 2015-07-09T16:54:29 | 55 | 7 | 17 |
This is the reason that there is jury selection. The prosecution, defense, and judge are all able to question a potential juror for any overt flaws in their judgement. They don't just call in 12 people at random. They call in a few dozen, or a few hundred and take those they find to be the best examples of the average ... | Juries and judges are inherently flawed and must one day be replaced by technology if justice is to flourish | 0 | 2016-10-13T02:24:55 | 62 | 1 | 14 |
I am not entirely sure what you mean with "white nationalists". Are these nationalists who happen to be white? And I have never heard of a "white country". The way you describe them they sound more like white supremacists. In any case, your political and philosophical ideologies have little relation to what you like o... | White nationalists' obsession for asian women is wrong | 0 | 2016-12-04T08:40:07 | 50 | 1 | null |
That we all act out of our own interests is true by definition. Every decision you make of your own free will is, to however small a degree, a self-motivated act. The real question is whether this is meaningful. Can we ever act entirely selflessly, literally without any kind of self-interest? No, I think you're right i... | I believe that there is no such thing as a truly selfless act. CMV | 1 | 2013-05-10T05:41:42 | 89 | 3 | 1 |
It just seemed to me that Trump was in the middle of a Tweet. I assumed something interrupted him, and maybe he sent by accident while putting his phone in his pocket. As to his 2nd Tweet, he likes to make jokes. I bet he's laughing at how the media is spending all day on it. I mean, spending all day on a typo? I think... | CovfefeGate is just a ploy to desensitize the public to Trump's idiocy | 0 | 2017-06-01T01:24:14 | 72 | 7 | null |
Hey everyone. I'm here today with the view that life is pointless. I would love to be convinced otherwise, but right now I'm not, and here's why. Seems like it but the most honest answer would be, we don't know the meaning of life, if it has a meaning. | Life, in general, has no point | 0 | 2017-02-06T11:32:46 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
Less than ideal is broken and cannot be implemented. What gives society the right to take the right to reproduce permanently away from people who are in potentially temporary economic strife? To me, a minimum criteria for this method to be undertaken is that the procedure be non-invasive, completely reversible, and bot... | If you can't even take care of yourself, you shouldn't be allowed to have children. In short, "Let government take care of you by welfare for giving up fertility." | 1 | 2016-12-26T23:59:49 | 124 | 7 | 79 |
However, I still have one issue. How do we have a concept of fault if nobody is actually in control of their actions. Can society exist without being able to assign fault to, say, criminals? Well, you might look at "fault" in a different light for sure. But cause and effect is still there. We put out fires even though ... | If people accepted the fact that they have no free will, society would collapse. | 1 | 2015-09-09T17:29:37 | 85 | 3 | 55 |
Sometimes I post an identical comment on two threads about the same topic in different subreddits. Similar to how people X-post links between multiple subreddits that would all be interested in the link, sometimes the same comment (especially top-level ones) is useful in multiple different threads. I would suggest that... | The ROBOT9000 should be enabled on reddit. | 0 | 2015-11-04T19:34:44 | 295 | 9 | 4 |
That would probably be easier if the majority didn't have a fit whenever the government suggests raising taxes. I'm not saying that you do this (I have no idea what your opinion on taxes is) but there's an annoying trend of people complaining about having to pay taxes but then also complaining when the government says ... | I believe if the state or federal government legally requires you to have something then they should provide it. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-23T19:36:01 | 328 | 3 | null |
Do you deserve a response to your question? | I believe that the word "deserve" represents an awful concept and should never be used. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-04T04:43:57 | 69 | 1 | null |
The main issue I have with college athletics is that the athletes are pimped out by the schools and the NCAA for hundreds of millions of dollars, yet the athletes themselves can't go out and do this on their own. [For example, Nike pays the University of Alabama $3.75 million a year to make apparel for its athletics,](... | I do not believe college athletes should be compensated for participating in athletics, particularly with the rising cost of college | 1 | 2015-10-20T19:31:40 | 89 | 7 | 46 |
i dont think either systems are very good. the correct horse method leaves you vulnerable to dictionary attacks. i like to instead incorporate a master phrase or set of characters in all my passwords and adjust the start and end of the password depending on the site. for example let's say my master phrase is L3et so fo... | Websites should relax their password policies. (X-post GUE) | 0 | 2015-01-25T22:00:16 | 247 | 1 | 4 |
If restaurants really cared about fast service, they would hire more staff. You are missing an important part of the equation; restaurants care about fast service *in relation to affordability and profit.* They could definitely hire enough waiters and chefs so that every table had a waiter and cook dedicated to just th... | If restaurants really cared about fast service, they would hire more staff. | 0 | 2015-03-10T20:55:49 | 43 | 3 | 2Δ |
You don't need predictions to be perfect for them to be useful. The history of science often involved very imprecise but still useful approaches that lead to the accuracy of prediction it has in many areas today. Expecting universal consistency would've prevented it from ever getting this far, and today it would just ... | Sociology is not a real science and has no real applications | 0 | 2017-03-20T04:36:45 | 39 | 1 | 69 |
However, I think today, especially with people who are good at drawing boundaries and working independently, it's a positive for salaried workers in typical office environments. You say "especially", but would you agree that it's *terrible* for people that simply *can't* do that? I literally can't sleep when there's a... | For salaried employees, it's a good thing to be able to take your work home with you (e.g., receive work e-mails on your phone, have the work laptop at home, etc.) | 0 | 2015-10-20T20:25:36 | 71 | 3 | 135 |
I'm not dismissing the existence of white privilege, I just feel that it's a silly academic neologism for a reality almost no one disputes when you get down to it: That white people have it better off in everyday social interactions. All I'm saying is, maybe academics need a better approach. If you agree with the conce... | "White Privilege" and other social justice concepts aren't going to convince people who aren't already on board with the left. At worst, it will polarize the issue and inspire resentment. | 0 | 2015-04-28T17:50:48 | 608 | 1 | 18Δ |
I don't know you well enough to really know if you would or wouldn't be better of without a smartphone. I general I would say there is a healthy balance to be found and what that is varies. I will provide som counterarguments that I think is worth you consideration when deciding if you are past your balance point. I c... | I think I would be better off without a smartphone. | 0 | 2016-03-23T20:00:48 | 134 | 1 | null |
There are far far far more successful and efficient ways to push for gun control. I want to echo the other answers here in that *if* Sandy Hook was indeed a hoax, it would require an inordinate amount of secrecy involved. Not only do you severely increase the chance of a leak the more individuals you involve, but you a... | I truly believe the Sandy Hook shooting was staged. | 0 | 2017-02-05T10:17:23 | 40 | 1 | null |
One reason to be cautious (for women, at least) is that oxytocin, the hormone that helps women bond to babies, is also released during sex. Here is what happens with women. After making love a woman might mistake the oxytocin release for feelings that tell her, “This is your perfect partner.” As Breuning notes, “Despit... | Waiting to have sex with a partner is worse than sleeping with them ASAP. (NSFW) | 1 | 2017-04-11T05:45:48 | 41 | 2 | 3 |
I must have heard soooo many stories from people who catch flak because they don't "look disabled" just because they can walk the short distance from the handicapped spot to the store. Maybe they're just having a good day and probably half of them are going to make use of those scooter carts when they get into the stor... | Cruel as it may seem, I do not see the point of handicapped parking spots. Based on what I have seen in my surroundings. I am actually willing to have my mind changed about this but hear me out first. | 0 | 2015-06-09T22:25:48 | 76 | 4 | null |
Based on perusing your various replies on this thread, it seems to me that your CMV boils down to two things: #1. Total Debt Should be Limited by Salary You want all debt over someone's capacity to pay (i.e. salary) to be forgiven. Your contention is that removing the stress of having to pay off loans would free up th... | Governments should enact a true Jubilee for much of their internal debt, forgiving or vastly reducing it to better people's lives and banning harsh collection tactics. | 0 | 2015-03-11T18:35:41 | 126 | 2 | 3 |
But the game is over 13 and a half years old! So the only way to... "fairly"/"legally" buy it is to buy a likely-overpriced used copy (or sealed resold copy). lets be clear about what's actually being argued here. while this gets into a "am i justified in stealing a digital copy of the game" more fundimentally this arg... | When it comes to old games with no remakes or digital release, there is nothing wrong at all about piracy. | 1 | 2016-06-16T16:54:43 | 113 | 1 | 4 |
New Hampshire is often considered the most libertarian state, they have no seat-belt/helmet laws, no sales tax, they have the state motto "live free or die", and the Free State Project ultimately chose it as the best state to try to move a large number of libertarians to in an effort to create a libertarian state. Verm... | The success of a person in a libertarian society would be determinated by birth rather than drive or talent. | 0 | 2017-03-24T23:25:40 | 193 | 0 | 1 |
Philosophy is generally not very useful in real life. Philosophy is the basis for all of our laws as we observe them. Philosophy helps us arrive at the logical conclusions that are appropriate for policy making. For example, if I steal $100 from you, today right now that is a choice I made. If something is a choice, th... | Philosophy as made by philosophers is unreliable for living life and for public policy, except as an artistic diversion. | 0 | 2017-05-13T23:15:04 | 137 | 3 | 37 |
One side effect that this system would have is that it leads to increased pedestrian and cart traffic in parking lots. Some percentage of people will have a cart corral that's closer to the door than their car, but not all parking lots are laid out in a nice big rectangle in front of the store. Some parking lots are re... | I believe we should start taking our shopping carts from the parking lot/cart corral, rather than from in the store. | 0 | 2017-03-10T21:45:34 | 32 | 6 | 1 |
Literally every word you know is from hearing it for the first time. You only know what crazy means because someone wrote it down or said it to you, and then you figured out from either context or research what it means. In other words, EVERY word was once a "big word" to all of us. For example, you know what preposter... | Most "big words" have no place outside of formal writing or speeches. | 1 | 2015-07-27T17:11:23 | 40 | 34 | 44 |
In my opinion just throwing out random a random arbitrary number that just feels good, for the number of years that a copyright should last is not going to work. If we want to stick true to the Constitution and To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors th... | Copyright protection should last 15 to 20 years at most. | 1 | 2016-07-15T02:51:25 | 557 | 3 | 1 |
Some points to consider: 1) What about all the straight women who are born who will never be able to have a meaningful sexual relationship? Imagine all the mental health issues that would go along with having never been in a close, intimate relationship for the entire of your life. By eliminating men from society you'v... | Human men are about to become surplus as father and eventually as a biological concept | 0 | 2017-07-01T16:51:55 | 68 | 13 | null |
Those are only some of the criteria upon which people can judge. Here are some others: Cost: generally, everyone with a kitchen has a frying pan. You don't have to spend extra money for a one use only device. Ease of making for a group of people: unless you have multiple waffle irons, you can make pancakes for six muc... | Waffles are completely superior to pancakes | 1 | 2014-06-06T21:04:16 | 41 | 8 | 34Δ |
Disclaimer: I did not attend public schools either, so treat my input however you see fit. Anyway I personally think, she is not the best person for the job. Getting someone with a better education-relevant vocabulary makes a lot of sense to me. But my main gripe is that I (my family, really) am afraid that she will c... | Betsy DeVos is not qualified to serve as the US Education Secretary | 0 | 2017-02-08T20:45:01 | 492 | 1 | null |
If you have kids you should want to be with them 24/7, if not, why bother? Wouldn't it be the introverts who would rather stay home with their kids as opposed to extroverts who get pleasure from going out? because introverts are not able to deal with kids as good as extroverts do... I'm not really following your argum... | Introverts shouldn't have children. | 0 | 2017-05-16T17:04:14 | 123 | 9 | 4 |
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