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The marketplace of ideas is far from perfect. Sure true ideas have an advantage, but that doesn't mean they always win. But that's no reason not to do it. We don't have any better option. We can either let people argue things, and give an advantage to good ideas, or just force whatever's already popular, and essentiall... | Authoritarian views and opinions should be actively suppressed | 0 | 2017-04-15T22:34:39 | 93 | 1 | 4 |
Bad call on my end then. But I'm glad you at least get where I'm coming from. It's just hard for us to really see or imagine how we are emotionally invested in sports, when we haven't really seen it first hand. It's almost impossible for me to explain how little we don't worry about soccer, just as I'm sure the majorit... | I think the reasons why most Americans dislike soccer are bullshit | 1 | 2013-06-11T02:05:59 | 61 | 1 | 12 |
So if you ever take an art history class (quite a fun elective even if you're not an arts student. I'm in a Science field and having a blast!) You will know that good or bad is irrelevant. For 600 years after greek sculptures they were objectively worse in other parts of the world. But they still are important to that... | Modern Art is not "Real Art" and using the argument that it's subjective is a poor argument. | 0 | 2016-12-04T20:34:05 | 710 | 3 | 9 |
Graduation is a pretty cheap concept already. Nothing worth protecting. | Graduation for infant and primary schools are ridiculous, and cheapen the meaning of a graduation. | 0 | 2015-05-13T20:46:16 | 32 | 2 | null |
Analog watches don't always require batteries. Mechanical watches are immune to electromagnetic impulses. People with poor eyesight can quickly get the idea of the time from an analog watch where they may not be able to pick out numbers. | Analog clocks are pointless. | 0 | 2014-04-25T23:20:54 | 126 | 2 | 4Δ |
I think that the vast majority of people are much less straight than 99% hetero and are more like 75% hetero... If that was the case, I'd expect much more than 10% of the population (the highest figure I've heard) of people to be bi/homosexual, just due to random variations pushing them far enough to the other end. ..... | I believe that everyone is bisexual. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-17T09:15:11 | 138 | 6 | 21Δ |
Huge amounts of guns wouldn't make annexing and stabilizing US significantly harder providing that the invaders are not afraid of getting their hands dirty and using unethical counter-insurgency tactics such as death camps, concentration camps, executions, torture etc. This is a pretty heavy provision; plenty of conque... | If a country managed to conquer the USA insurgents wouldn't be a huge problem. | 0 | 2015-10-30T01:03:25 | 78 | 8 | null |
I think a better way to say it is that spending money on frivolous things is immoral. To me, the purpose of life is to align interests. I know that's a cerebral way of putting it, but it works for me. The self interest is sometimes at odds with the interests of the community, which may be at odds with the interests o... | Anyone who has the means to help the poor but does not do so is immoral. | 1 | 2016-06-22T21:26:41 | 66 | 5 | 2 |
The reason its bad is that it becomes an expectation. If I am at home, or watching my kid's play, or on vacation, I should be able to set down my phone, not check my email, and not care. I'm not being paid extra to do it. Someone wiht my job 10 years ago wouldn't be expected to do it. And its usually not urgent. So it ... | 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 | 2015-10-20T19:00:38 | 71 | 8 | 10 |
The true issue is that the problem reddit servers are having is not solved by money. Getting more servers would just make the errors more likely. The issue is an infrastructure one. Reddit needs to clean up their code, change their systems, and work on creating a more stable server environment. The issue you are getti... | Reddit should not have donated 10% of its revenue to charity organizations while its servers consistently fail to support peak use conditions. | 1 | 2015-03-10T16:51:41 | 32 | 3 | 1Δ |
I think some of what you said was correct but some of it is DEFINITELY NOT. I'll have to break this down point by point. I've never heard a male friend (I'm also male) ever complain about or deride a woman for being promiscuous. In terms of dress Maybe you haven't seen this but its RAMPANT. The general social ideology ... | I believe that heterosexual women have far more sexual and gender role freedom than heterosexual men. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-27T19:04:08 | 609 | 384 | 3 |
Unless you are going to die soon anyway and are simply choosing to die in a more dignified and comfortable way, suicide is not a healthy option. Suicidal thoughts are a sign of mental illness, which can be stopped in ways other than death. If you had a disease with many potential cures, but wanted assisted suicide inst... | Doctors and parents should help you commit suicide if you are sure you want to end your life. | 0 | 2017-05-29T09:09:44 | 134 | 1 | null |
According to adoptamericanetwork.org, 130,000 children in the USA are waiting to be adopted by foster parents. But how old are they and do they have development, physical or mental health issues? Many do. The number of perfectly healthy infants waiting for adoption is much smaller. The couples you refer to want health... | Artificial conception for infertile or homosexual couples is a thoughtless waste of money that should be used to help raise adopted children | 0 | 2015-04-13T19:38:33 | 64 | 24 | 18Δ |
While I must preface this by saying that I fully support gay marriage, there can be logical arguments that don't take religious morality into account. Marriage is, at its heart, a form of contract law. Significant benefits dealing with joint ownership, tax law, custody law, and proxy decision making are given by this c... | I don't believe that there are any LOGICAL reasons why gay marriage shouldn't be allowed. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-08T01:16:03 | 67 | 3 | 50Δ |
I feel like other posters aren't engaging OP on his/her own terms. Simply questioning the validity of OP's faith doesn't make for a good discussion. Before I say anything, you asked for sources, and I'd like to point out that there is one, *really*, **really** good source you could read. The rulebooks for the game. Peo... | Dungeons and Dragons is evil | 1 | 2016-09-17T04:09:59 | 22 | 35 | 2 |
I'm a young, college educated, conservative in a democrat heavy state. The flaw in your position that I see is [issue salience](http://sppc2014.indiana.edu/Papers/Bromley-Trujillo%20et%20al.pdf). People care about certain issues more than others and give greater weight to those when comparing candidates. If social issu... | Unless the Republicans change their stance on social issues, the United States will never have another Republican President | 1 | 2015-08-30T00:44:26 | 60 | 2 | 1 |
I really don't think it's possible to "change your view" on this, because "creeping" is such an ambiguous word. There is definitely a colloquial use of "creeping" that doesn't imply anything negative. Also, it's frequently thrown around in a sarcastic manner, or simply as a joke. This really has to be broken down into... | It's not "creeping", "snooping", or "being a creeper" to browse social media content that presumably was put there for exactly that purpose. | 1 | 2015-05-22T20:03:45 | 199 | 6 | 3 |
In what canon? There are so many different Mario story variations that it's hard to say. Overall I also prefer Luigi, but there are some stories where Mario is clearly superior. 1. NES games except Mario 2: I think that they are essentially equal. Your argument that player 2 gets to see what player 1 did first only hol... | Luigi is the superior Mario Brother. | 1 | 2016-07-29T21:56:33 | 198 | 35 | null |
What sub I just got ban from r/laststagecapitalism for fact checking one of their bull shot post that sub should not be allowed on the front page at all but subs that ban you for a ligament should be allowed. | A sub that you are banned from should not appear on your /r/all | 0 | 2017-04-15T14:45:20 | 211 | 1 | null |
If you were to change the calendar, why not simply number the days from 1 to 365? Do away with months altogether. For instance today, the third of May would just be the 123rd of 2015. This would be a lot simpler. However, I believe we should keep it the same, because: The week is one of the cornerstones of several majo... | A Calendar of 13 months of 28 days each would be vastly superior to the Gregorian calendar. | 0 | 2015-05-03T01:11:27 | 127 | 1 | null |
By not existing in practice I did not mean it doesn't happen, I just meant that you'll get downvoted to the abyss and never be a top comment. Go to any /r/poltiics thread and sort by controversial. It will be both a lot more dramatic, and a lot more politically diverse, than sorting by top/best | 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 | 1 | 2017-05-16T10:33:36 | 74 | 6 | 11 |
If being gay truly isn't genetic, and it's actually a choice What if it is neither? Bisexuals have a choice. Since there seems to be spectrum from heterosexuality to homosexuality, maybe some other people have a choice but never experienced it, but for most heterosexuals or homosexuals, it appears that it isn't. The pe... | The "born this way" argument is not the strongest argument, but the one with the least bad repercussions | 1 | 2017-05-08T01:20:45 | 60 | 1 | 3 |
If you are in the US and do not have a job, it hurts you because you are literally competing against workers in these countries for jobs. So you don't have a job because 8 yrs olds in sweat shops are making products that could be made in the US. If you do have a job, it hurts you because you are paying taxes that suppo... | There is no reason for me to oppose sweatshop labor in third world countries | 0 | 2014-06-20T04:57:33 | 58 | 1 | null |
When a singer/songwriter performs one of their own songs in front of an audience, are they still an artist, or is that merely a performance of a piece of art created earlier? Some jazz musicians create new variations of their own songs as a rule, not the exception. How would you classify their performance? | I believe musicians and actors are not really artists. CMV. | 1 | 2013-08-27T05:55:05 | 37 | 5 | 2 |
If we add bacon to any food, the result is food. This food, by your definition, can be improved by adding bacon. This implies that pure bacon is the ideal food - for if any other combination purported to be better, adding bacon could not then make it bacon. Yet now we have a contradiction, because we are able to name s... | Food is that which is improved by bacon | 1 | 2015-11-20T21:18:43 | 49 | 5 | null |
What gives someone else the right to your property? Your body, even upon death, is still your property just like your physical possessions. You wouldnt want the state to make a law requiring all of your things to go to the state for the greater good, would you? Mandatory organ donation is sure to be challenged, and def... | I believe that organ donation should be mandatory. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-02T18:47:55 | 203 | 5 | null |
The AR15 actually does not overpenetrate as you would expect. It tends to tumble after a few walls of overpenetration. While you should always be aware what direction you are shooting, the tumbling of a round will cause it to lose power quicker than a 12 gauge slug or 00 Buck. http://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/2013/11/... | The AR15 style rifle has little purpose for the average American, other than for fun. | 1 | 2014-11-28T11:11:35 | 169 | 6 | 1 |
There's always the possibility of false confessions. As long as that might be the case, a defense attorney should defend the client to the best of their ability. | I believe criminal defense attorneys should end their attorney-client relationship if their client has outright admitted to wrongdoing | 1 | 2015-09-23T08:10:13 | 42 | 4 | 27 |
the same kind of thinking could be used for slavery or any other kind of discrimination. *I think that society should encourage treating black people in a way that is most cost-effective for the end purpose of their usage. I consider the main purpose of society and it's institutes to be advancement of the white race an... | Animals shouldn't have any rights. | 0 | 2016-10-03T21:44:28 | 101 | 4 | 1 |
I would say these kinds of problems are pretty universal. I would guess (just based on personal experience and research on poverty I've read) that these problems correlate more strongly with poverty than they do with personal appearance. In other words, the more money is a problem for you, the more likely you are to ha... | being beautiful is lonelier than being average. | 1 | 2016-01-28T23:17:42 | 23 | 2 | 13 |
It's the best I could think of, I wish there were a better way to do it. How about an *actually* voluntary program where you, as a private entity, set up a foundation that provides genetic screening, IVF, recordkeeping, and even sterilization services for those who want it and are known or revealed to have a negative t... | Eugenics, Implemented Properly, Is Not Only Beneficial; It's Responsible | 1 | 2017-07-06T21:53:38 | 84 | 8 | 29 |
The best analogy I’ve heard is as follows That was the worst analogy possible. Following exactly that logic, we should allow women to have abortions but also arrest them for manslaughter immediately afterwards. Your analogy dictates that a person cannot be compelled to take an action. It doesn't mean that the person is... | Whether abortion may or may not be morally wrong, it should still be legal. | 0 | 2015-06-18T21:11:44 | 298 | 103 | null |
The U.S. generally respects civil disobedience (to a point). If you break a law in the name of a protest and are joined but a large number of people also protesting, and the message of your protest is loud and clear *and* supported by much of the public, your law breaking may be overlooked. But if you as an individua... | The recent cheating scandal involving teachers Atlanta is not the fault the convicted teachers but instead of high standards placed by standardized testing and thus the teachers should not be convicted | 0 | 2015-04-15T03:43:38 | 37 | 0 | 18Δ |
you are inconsistently and ambiguously defining your concerns, and false attributing consequences to technology without offering any data to support your claims. Reason 1: Laziness why is jotting a note down on paper less lazy than adding it to a cloud-based shopping list through a voice interface? have you actually us... | Amazon Echo is an incredibly harmful piece of technology. | 1 | 2015-07-29T18:19:35 | 216 | 27 | 1 |
Each and every day there are people who starve to death. Their stomachs are bloated from not having eaten anything in days or weeks. and int he past, when there was less capitalism, [more people starved](http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/images/2013/05/blogs/graphic-detail/20130518_gdc846.png) Each an... | True socialism in equality of all persons on a global scale is morally better than global capitalism and/or free trade. | 0 | 2016-04-23T04:08:32 | 73 | 5 | 6 |
If one believes that a specific course of action is dangerous, then you could make an analogy that that action is "poison". If you can believe that position, then you can see where some people would have a hard time arguing the amount of "poison" that is ok. How much arsenic would you be ok with in your next meal? Now,... | Polarization and Extremitization of Opinion/Attitudes in America Eats Away at our Integrity as a Country. | 0 | 2016-01-26T23:17:04 | 21 | 1 | 4 |
Does this include Scientology? How about Heaven's Gate? Flying Spaghetti Monster? Do you literally mean "as many as possible", or are there caveats to that? | If humanity colonizes other planets, it should bring as many world religions with it as possible. | 1 | 2017-02-18T08:18:44 | 334 | 1 | 2 |
passing laws on which bathrooms they should use. This is often from social conservatives who want to *restrict* where trans folks can go to the washroom. Trans people either want there to not be laws at all on that or have laws that protect them when using whatever washroom. Trans people want to be left alone when usin... | That being transgendered isn't just some new trend or cry for attention | 0 | 2017-04-03T03:12:00 | 64 | 18 | 2 |
Your describing a phenomenon already known and that's reciprocal altruism. Basically it's 'I scratch your back so you'll scratch mine' sorta thing I don't think this makes us assholes though. Sure, I'm willing to accept that the good things I do, while to help others is also because helping others makes me feel good ... | People have no morals, but instead are directed by greed | 0 | 2017-07-03T15:29:02 | 88 | 1 | null |
These oppressive countries - North Korea, Syria, etc. - are doing really awful things to their people. The US does terrible things to it's people. We're really talking about scale. They're banning free press In America, all you get is corporate press, which has but a single agenda, profit, it's not much better. they t... | I believe that invading oppressive countries to turn them into democracies is a good thing. CMV | 0 | 2013-11-02T22:17:51 | 172 | 3 | 1 |
[Public Lending Right](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right) Don't know where you are, but here in Canada, when someone checks a book out of the library, the author gets paid. | I believe anyone who supports libraries has no grounds to oppose filesharing. CMV | 1 | 2013-08-18T07:26:25 | 468 | 311 | 1 |
The problem has nothing to do with biology. (Well, it does, but not in this specific argument.) While I personally have no moral qualms with abortion, I'd like to address the premise of this logic as opposed to the argument. I believe that being pro-life is a morally valid position to have, IF and only if the argument ... | I believe that abortion is only morally permissible if the mother's life is in immediate danger. I believe that it should be criminal in any other circumstance. CMV | 1 | 2013-12-08T08:20:58 | 404 | 1 | 1 |
Last time I had to buy a new phone was because I put my phone on the bathroom counter, and then the cat ran into the bathroom in a frezy, jumping up on the counter and running right back out of the room, chaos, and in the process he knocked my cell phone into the toilet. Even if it wasn't a cell phone, lots of people ... | The lid of the toilet serves no purpose. | 0 | 2015-05-18T19:25:23 | 51 | 2 | 19Δ |
Hi, this is my first answer to a CMV post so I hope I can be of some use. There are actually a great many things I would like to point out, so I'm sorry for the incoming wall of text. 1) You claim that private schools are bad because they disproportionately aid the rich. However, I think you would agree that they do no... | I think private schools should be abolished. CMV. | 1 | 2013-04-09T02:31:24 | 80 | 3 | 1 |
Marriage is optional and it may not be for everyone. Im married, it works for me and in the event it doesnt theres a out via divorce. No one forced me to get married. I got married because i love the woman who is my wife, we plan to work together as a team and by getting married receive some benefits to help us do that... | The Institution of Marriage needs an Overhaul | 1 | 2016-01-03T02:35:12 | 50 | 8 | 2 |
Plant failure in new generations China is building (eg LFTR) doesn't do anything since they have passive safety features and no pressure. You can bury the whole thing underground and forget about it for a few years. There has only been one plant failure in the history of nuclear power that has killed any civilians and ... | "Nuclear power is bad", CMV | 1 | 2014-03-18T01:01:41 | 44 | 6 | 1 |
I feel that a lot of different areas of society have devolved into echo chambers. I think people are tending to talk more with people who they agree with rather than those they disagree with. This hurts our ability to have meaningful discussions about different topics. In some places - and in some ways - this is quite ... | The world is becoming more politically polarized. | 0 | 2016-08-22T20:35:52 | 23 | 1 | 4 |
Is it certain that government regulation is what's holding new businesses back? I would think that even with regulations removed, a good start capital is still the biggest obstacle. Unless we remove that obstacle, I don't believe the change would be as drastic as you describe. Obviously, starting capital is always goin... | The Libertarian view is contradictory | 1 | 2014-11-24T13:30:21 | 262 | 5 | 1 |
Look at it this way... this seems to be more prevalent now. Do you think there is some great increase in people being emotionally damaged now for some reason? Or is it likely that the mandatory association of sex with emotions is a largely cultural thing? There do appear to be cultures in the world where sex and emotio... | People who have sex with multiple partners (I'm talking many, many one-nighters here), are often deeply insecure or in some way damaged. | 1 | 2015-08-24T20:11:30 | 60 | 7 | 119 |
In my opinion this could set a dangerous precedent. Hypothetical: Presidential candidate says they will make campaign promise to repeal a law their party disagrees with. 1. How long would the wait be before the penalty is applied? Would it be for their term? 2. Moving past time frame, what would the punishment be? A fi... | Politicians should be legally required to keep campaign promises | 1 | 2017-04-08T22:18:40 | 32 | 6 | 1 |
I think you have a very strong point and I almost completely agree with it. The only place I have a quibble -- and it really is just a small detail compared to your much broader point -- is where you attempt to be balanced, deploying the "both sides" fallacy. For example: Rush Limbaugh and his ilk call everyone they do... | The use of hyperbole in politics ultimately undermines your own side and radicalizes groups you oppose | 0 | 2015-04-09T21:54:15 | 57 | 5 | null |
Sure, granted. But think of it this way - look up the stats on annual driving fatalities, injuries, etc. It's staggering and depressing, and yet no one is talking about the implementation of massive automated public transit to circumvent the dangers of putting evolved monkeys in control of massive hunks of speeding met... | Alcohol is a drain on society | 0 | 2016-06-15T19:11:56 | 76 | 1 | null |
It's hilarious that you linked to Gizmodo as "evidence". That would be like if I was trying convince you that homosexuality was wrong and linked to an article written by the Westboro Baptist Church. Absurdly biased articles aside, you can't pretend like this is a problem limited to the_donald. Shitredditsays has engage... | Reddit Needs To Take More Action Against Trolls, Hate Speech, And Other Despicable Actions That Ruin The Reddit Experience For Others | 0 | 2016-11-30T01:44:10 | 308 | 10 | 2 |
It seems you have an almost cartoonish view of feminism. For instance, you'd have to look pretty hard to find a feminist who thought that false rape reports are a "non-issue" or that rape allegations should NEVER EVER be subject to due process of law. It also reflects a one-sided view of the issues. You've got all thes... | Anti-feminism is not pro-misogyny | 1 | 2015-05-03T01:49:08 | 227 | 12 | 7Δ |
If the goverment showed up and taxed Atul for backtax for performing 10 years of bartering, which he did not even know was taxable, it would be theft. I can come up with even more clear examples. Say Nazis germany occupies Poland and taxes all polish jews of ALL their property aside from personal possesions. That woul... | Taxation cannot be theft, because no one can rightly claim 100% responsibility for their pre-tax income. | 1 | 2016-02-21T21:19:17 | 299 | 3 | 101 |
What would keep the skin of the disk bunched onto the middle of the disk? A conveyor belt is usually uniform, and if not, the bunched up parts would stay bunched up, not expand and as they get closer to the center and contract as they get closer to the edge. Also, how would a conveyor belt even work on something like a... | The Earth is not a sphere, but a circle | 0 | 2015-10-21T08:19:07 | 53 | 2 | 2 |
Not always. I think you're putting too much stock in those blogs. TiTP does point out many instances of legitimate thin privilege, but yes, I have seen misinformation come out of that blog too. Still, being fat is not something to shame people for. I don't think there's any reason to believe that a significant portion ... | I don't think "fat shaming" is a bad thing. | 1 | 2014-11-18T07:52:28 | 93 | 13 | 119 |
I don’t doubt that everyone on this thread is honestly willing to change their minds, and I apologise if some of my comments seem a little overly-assertive. What it does seem like to me is that many people seem unwilling to approach these paintings on their own terms; instead applying what they like about art (usually ... | I think most "Modern Art" is pretentious, takes nearly no skill, and is sub-par compared to art before that period. CMV. | 0 | 2013-05-13T14:54:39 | 337 | 2 | 4 |
Okay I get what you're saying. Part of your view is that juries are bad because they are too small of sample. People are biased and so getting a larger sample helps get closer to the truth. Juries however are not randomized studies. Given that juries are biased there are good reasons to suspect that increasing the jur... | Juries and judges are inherently flawed and must one day be replaced by technology if justice is to flourish | 1 | 2016-10-13T07:21:24 | 62 | 2 | 14 |
"but I am instead talking about the belief that an any circumstance, killing is wrong". Then that's a completely different point than your CMV. Plenty of people oppose abortion but support the death penalty; we obviously don't think that killing is wrong under any circumstance, just some of them. We don't kill people a... | It is inconsistent to support the death penalty and appose abortion | 1 | 2014-06-27T04:38:31 | 24 | 3 | null |
Counterargument 1: Let's assume this is occurring in a western democracy. The government maintains a monopoly on all wilderness and requires that the population participates in the taxable economy and be subject to the laws of the nation. A child born there is forced to be a citizen of the nation at birth and is not al... | I believe that birth control should be mandatory until you can prove that you can support a child, CMV | 1 | 2013-07-04T19:51:16 | 116 | 3 | 1 |
I've noticed that most people are saying that the Confederate flag is whites oppressing blacks, which it certainly is in at least some cases. However, you're also saying that Muslim women wear hijabs, so it shouldn't be offensive. Let me ask this: If Radical Islam should be considered separate from moderate Islam, then... | If you see the hijab as a symbol of oppression, you should also be against the Confederate flag. Likewise, if you think the Confederate flag is a symbol of oppression, you should be against hijabs. | 0 | 2016-11-15T01:19:47 | 51 | 2 | null |
I said in the very first post to this thread, I'm fine with asking for it on confidential medical forms, but you seem to be generalizing it to all ID. This is a problem because ID is rarely used for medical purposes and commonly used for other stuff where being outed as trans is a real problem. | While gender can be decided upon by the person, sex cannot due to genetics and sex, not gender, should be used for medical and other information on forms (as well as gender if necessary) | 1 | 2014-08-26T18:49:31 | 759 | 13 | 66Δ |
One big problem with this is how you translate the petitioned issues to actual legislation. First, a lot of things will be proposed that are unconstitutional or create massive problems for existing law. E.g. a law banning children of illegal immigrants from obtaining citizenship would be possibly quite popular - but is... | The US legislative system should not consist of elected officials based on platforms and ideologies, but we should use 21st Century tech to crowdsource government. | 0 | 2014-09-06T05:42:06 | 31 | 2 | 63Δ |
Well first off, your 10 to 1 estimate for dating sites pretty far off. [Okcupid](http://www.okstereotype.me/stats/) looks about 6 to 4 with the gap growing to 2 to 1 as the age increases. However, [Eharmony ](http://help-singles.eharmony.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1386/~/what-is-the-ratio-of-male-users-to-female-users... | I believe a lot of people will never find "love", CMV | 0 | 2013-09-29T20:52:07 | 33 | 1 | null |
It's their body after all, isn't it? Your morals are defined by yourself, you wouldn't want to be discriminated because you reddit. Some may say that things you like are nonsense, but to you it's important. (FYI: I am pro organ donating, but against forcing people.) | I don't think people should have the right to refuse donating their organs once they die. CMV | 0 | 2014-03-04T12:20:44 | 195 | 1 | null |
The Democrats are about to CRUSH the Republicans in the presidential election, and depending on how the next two weeks goes, they could also be ushering in changes in one or both houses. What POSSIBLE reason could convince the Democrats to turn on HRC now? everyone should vote for Jill Stein based on her policies, kn... | The democratic party should ask Hillary Clinton to step down for health reasons and choose a new candidate to run as the president on their ticket or everyone who voted for Bernie Sanders should vote for Jill Stein. | 0 | 2016-10-24T02:56:17 | 102 | 6 | 8 |
* Dude owns you in game * Dude goes "hahahah I fucked you in the ASS! Brb fucking ur mom" * Begin branching logic It's much more like: * Be a girl in a game * Use microphone * Receive death/rape threats * Be harassed non-stop for nudes and cyber sex * Be cyber stalked and possibly hacked So because females either cann... | Women insisting gaming be made into a safe space for them is like a man insisting a Yoga class alter the poses because he feels immasculated sticking his ass in the air. | 0 | 2015-10-29T17:14:17 | 210 | 19 | 15 |
If I set up a microphone to record a falling tree, there may be no humans around to hear it falling, but we can later recover the microphone and have tangible proof that a sound was, indeed, made. A recording is only a recording, and it's the speaker of the playback device that is producing the sound sensation in the h... | If a tree falls in a forest with no one around to hear it, it DOES make a sound. | 0 | 2016-05-11T20:40:47 | 51 | 1 | 25 |
It is really difficult to say with any accuracy because the factors here are not limited to having laws for gun ownership or not. * In the USA you have a GIANT border to the south as well as the coastlines associated, this makes it very difficult to stop smuggling (though in defense of our border guards they do a dece... | I don't believe having stricter gun control policies will reduce the amount of violent crimes with firearms. CMV. | 0 | 2013-06-24T01:58:26 | 94 | 2 | null |
It also serves a useful purpose of bringing young people together. It's the group that's the most politically apathetic, which leads to politicians ignoring them. This is about **your** decision to sit or stand. If you can resist the "propaganda" then standing won't make you more gullible, and just saves you from makin... | Students in the US should not stand for the pledge | 1 | 2015-09-26T21:52:15 | 195 | 11 | 132 |
While some stereotypes become stereotypes because certain members of a certain race may "live up to them" but many stereotypes stem from racist ideology. Most of the stereotypes you listed in your OP are relatively harmless stereotypes. But what about the more negative ones? Now to nitpick: I say "hey, do you drive ... | All races live up to their stereotypes (that is why they are stereotypes). | 0 | 2016-02-19T21:05:39 | 58 | 2 | null |
Clinical major depression is thought to be largely influenced by neurochemical imbalance. Those who suffer from it can find simply getting out of bed as a monumental task. Do you think their condition would improve if the doctor chides them for not doing things they already know they should be doing, but find themselve... | I think people must be able to perform a basic fitness and diet evaluation before they are prescribed medicine. | 0 | 2017-03-05T03:22:48 | 33 | 5 | 4 |
Change of view? | I don't see the joy in raising a mental handicapped child CMV | 1 | 2014-03-13T22:32:59 | 330 | 0 | 1 |
If you twist it the right way, maybe. What 'sufficient evidence' creates the belief that you love your family? Most likely, a bunch of internal mental states, as the world is full of people who take external actions that suggest love without feeling much actual fondness towards various members of their family. Such as ... | It is morally indefensible to hold a belief without sufficient evidence. | 0 | 2017-06-27T02:50:35 | 62 | 1 | 7 |
Obviously poverty is a big issue and no one is saying it isn't by saying racism is also a problem. The two are not mutually exclusive. There can be class issues as well as race issues. Below are just a few studies that show how blacks are discriminated against in our country. It is abundantly clear blacks in the US get... | I don't think that national institutional racism exists. | 1 | 2015-12-20T23:02:50 | 293 | 238 | 5 |
You can be a progressive patriot if the things you are celebrating about your country are it's progressive values and victories. Yeah we have some bad shit in our past, so does literally every country on the planet. If you look back far enough, no country or group has clean hands. Dwelling on the past like that just pr... | Advocating progressive politics and being patriotic, in the case of the United States, are two ideas that are diametrically opposed to each other. | 0 | 2017-07-05T09:39:25 | 24 | 1 | 9 |
I don't think your definition of overrated is correct. Let me give you an example of a case where it's easy to determine whether something is underrated or overrated. At the beginning of each sporting event season, various publications rank each team from first to last based on how well they think they'll do. At the en... | I really dislike the criticism "overrated." I think it's lazy and discouraging. | 1 | 2014-07-14T20:34:22 | 52 | 1 | 1 |
I think you're right in your clarified point: it's true that a business does not owe "anything to the country it operates in if that service can be provided elsewhere at a lower cost" I want to draw your attention to a new word: offshore. You're talking about outsourcing - but outsourcing simply means from outside of t... | I don't think it's wrong for companies to outsource tech jobs to India or other similar countries. | 0 | 2014-11-16T08:49:40 | 131 | 2 | 3 |
There's a lot to unwrap here. so lets say your mother died of cancer, and i say something like "I'm so glad your mom died of cancer, she was a terrible human being." would you find that statement offensive? what if i just allude to the fact that your mom died of cancer in off-the-cuff remarks? "hey, cancer," do you thi... | CMV words shouldn't offend people if they live in a democracy. | 1 | 2016-12-29T06:41:50 | 32 | 23 | 84 |
I think it is an inherently unwinnable fight to argue that I am biologically female based on nothing more than the (potential and unproven) configuration of my brain hardware. Gendered-biology is simply only part of what makes a person an individual. First, gender roles are a social construction. So, therefore, what is... | As a trans person I believe that current trans activism has completely lost the plot. They will lose much of the public debate they choose to engage in due to their overly radical agenda. | 0 | 2017-02-20T01:50:25 | 568 | 2 | null |
**EDIT:** This is a lengthy, but thorough response. I've tried to be as clear as possible, and walk through the logic step-by-step, but if the length is simply too much, I've included a summary at the bottom, and a TL;DR summary of the summary below that. ------------------------------------------------------------ Ri... | I believe that animals deserve the same rights as human where possible and that it is moral to non-violently liberate them from places of abuse, eg factory farms, slaughterhouses and animal experiment labs. | 1 | 2014-08-28T03:35:21 | 185 | 2 | 1 |
If you make the car look too similar to a cop car your son risks daily harassment by the actual police. Even if the car is perfectly legal that isn't going to stop some random officers from pulling your son over and checking if it is or is not legal. There are plenty of prosecutors in this country willing to prosecute ... | I think my son's first car should look as much like a police car as possible, within the legal limitations. | 1 | 2014-04-27T23:31:08 | 23 | 15 | 19 |
I do want to stay by saying that in essence, I think I agree with you. What you're arguing, by the way, is against a philosophical concept called [*consequentialism*]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism), which says that the consequences of our actions determine if they're good or bad/evil. Now, one expansi... | murder and attempted murder should be the same crime and charged the same. | 1 | 2015-12-01T23:30:22 | 95 | 21 | 2 |
Any short-sleeved shirts of the same make, &c as a long-sleeved shirt don't seem like they would be inherently more comfortable or better suited for the heat that an equivalent long-sleeved shirt. Rolling up the sleeves achieves a similar effect to short sleeves. I like rolling up my sleeves as much as the next per... | Long-sleeved men's shirts are generally superior to short-sleeved men's shirts | 1 | 2015-04-13T00:29:53 | 29 | 15 | 3Δ |
Making sure that a science fiction movie from the 80s is accessible to future generation is one of the most useless causes I can imagine. Back to the Future was just a movie that most kids today won't ever watch, and there is nothing wrong with that. They will have their own nostalgic movies when they are your age. Do... | Devices incapable of hovering should not be permitted to call themselves hoverboards. | 0 | 2015-12-11T07:01:50 | 228 | 1 | null |
I think there's a very good reason (besides PR, which is a perfectly valid reason for a store). They'd much rather not have shooting matches in their stores. For example, let's say it's a grocery store, and someone pulls a gun on the cashier and demands their money. Every retailer has a policy of give them the money a... | There is no good reason for a store to ban the concealed carry of firearms unless they have their own armed security (USA) | 1 | 2015-02-23T02:58:40 | 54 | 4 | 51 |
I agree with you that they should certainly warn of upcoming speed cameras, and that the fines for speeding shouldn't be for the purpose of raising money for the state. But I'm not so sure I like this system because A) I'm not so sure it would actually be safer to make speeding drivers deal with math obstacles while dr... | Average speed measurments should be widely used to catch speeders | 0 | 2016-01-26T06:41:16 | 73 | 1 | 4 |
Regarding the punishments: I have a friend who lives in SA. The gov't does not actually use these extreme punishments on the population. However, the laws are there to appease the extremist factions. The gov't in control right now is actually pretty moderate, but they can't let the extremists know that, so the moderat... | Saudi Arabia should be removed from the United Nations and stripped of all advantages that come with being part of the UN, due to their sexist governmental policies, harsh laws, and blatant human rights abuses | 1 | 2015-04-22T19:35:34 | 189 | 3 | 1Δ |
Without introducing a punishment, you won't change behavior. The way I would approach it would be for police to pick them up and take them to shelters where meals are available This is no deterrent, and would seriously annoy the police who would have to: drive a smelly person, not attend to other crimes, see how useles... | I believe panhandling should be illegal, though not criminally punishable. | 0 | 2017-04-07T18:12:17 | 115 | 1 | 5 |
I'm a little late to the party, but want to present the issue a little differently, so here goes: As the issue involves two competing rights, the legal system in deciding this issue needs to apply an Oliver Wendell Holmes-style balancing test. The two competing rights are: 1. The right of the child to receive financial... | If Women have the right to be Pro-Choice then Men deserve the right to decline fatherhood. | 1 | 2015-05-28T06:01:01 | 1,980 | 580 | 4Δ |
I'd say it's a happy ending simply by ending before any implication that any of that happens. This argument may sound cheap but all fiction works the same way. Continue any love story long enough and it ends with one of them on their death bed. Slasher movies only end on a positive note because you don't yet see the he... | the ending of Wall-e was tragic [spoilers] | 0 | 2015-04-29T15:21:33 | 25 | 1 | 11Δ |
A new single, gender-neutral pronoun could be introduced without falling into all of those traps that you describe. After all, "they" already basically fills this role, but some argue this is incorrect, and even if correct it is potentially confusing because that word can also be used as a plural pronoun. Simply replac... | He, she, they. That's all the pronouns you are getting. | 1 | 2015-09-01T01:33:00 | 285 | 327 | 7 |
I don't know Elitism to have the same connotation you're using it with. At least, I haven't seen people use class as any material method of exclusion so much as race as a class, but perhaps that's my experience in America versus wherever you are. I wouldn't describe racial class exclusion as elitism. I think of elitism... | Elitism should not be tolerated in any kind of way | 0 | 2015-11-20T21:22:41 | 96 | 1 | null |
One additional facet that no one else has mentioned that I see: this creates a perverse incentive to frame yourself for a crime you didn't commit... and have evidence in reserve that can prove yourself innocent. Don't think people wouldn't do it. People will do just about *anything* if they can convince themselves tha... | People who are arrested but ultimately found not guilty should be compensated. | 0 | 2017-02-22T07:16:08 | 264 | 2 | 223 |
The point is, why should players get praised at all for being studs, if we're basing praiseworthyness on difficulty? DiCaprio(and other guys like him) are the ones who get called studs, but need to put the *least* effort in to it. And a woman who puts in similar effort will get no praise at all. | The Slut/Stud Inequality Is Generally Justified | 1 | 2015-07-14T01:48:51 | 58 | 7 | 7 |
As a male feminist concerned with the rights of both genders, I must admit that the name "feminism" is really unfortunate. There's your problem right there. Why is "feminism" unfortunate? Do you know who coined the term "feminism"? It was a *man* by the name of [Charles Fourier](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fou... | "Egalitarianism" is an euphemism for anti-feminism and sexism, the same way "race realism" is an euphemism for white supremacism. CMV. | 0 | 2014-02-11T03:09:58 | 193 | 2 | 7 |
There are two different topics here, so I'm going to try to address them separately. Firstly, the idea of the manufacturer setting the price. This would be a departure from the entire rest of the retail world, where prices are set by individual stores. This gives the stores more control over their own inventory. After... | a new automobile's sticker price in a car lot should be its final "out the door" price (minus taxes), and this price should be set by the manufacturer. | 1 | 2016-03-09T15:47:35 | 124 | 4 | 64 |
the mother's life is in danger then by all means get an abortion. What about cases where the mother is suicidal with fear and stress? | I believe convenience abortion is morally wrong | 0 | 2014-04-01T05:30:44 | 45 | 4 | null |
Oh, I see. Yeah, that's a tough situation. How about going to bed with her and then getting up once she's asleep and gaming for a few hours? Saying it's "unfair" is of course always subject to individual biases. I would say that each of you should be able to get your needs met... however, that might be impossible if ... | It's unfair of a partner to ask that I give up my hobbies | 1 | 2016-01-29T09:13:08 | 50 | 5 | 157 |
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