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CMV: I believe between Trump and George W. Bush, Bush is far worse.
Excluding the Afghan war, since many view that invading Afghanistan was the right thing to do, Bush invaded Iraq in his 2nd term destroying the country and destabilizing the region. He also initiated the surveillance program that just keeps on growing... | Could your mind be changed by pointing out the good things that Bush 43 did? Because when comparing the two of them, it seems reasonable to balance their good and bad points. | >NK is isolationist over all,
Not really, they're isolationist by necessity of being a pariah and being weak, not by choice.
> it is the centre of the juche ideology
Don't mistake their propaganda for their actual geopolitical goals.
>They were only ever hostile to America to reciprocate.
No, they really tried to ... | 91jt81 | CMV: I believe between Trump and George W. Bush, Bush is far worse. | Excluding the Afghan war, since many view that invading Afghanistan was the right thing to do, Bush invaded Iraq in his 2nd term destroying the country and destabilizing the region. He also initiated the surveillance program that just keeps on growing. There are also strong arguments that ISIS would not have come to be... | 1,532,455,669 | MrChuckleWackle | e2ym5dd | e2ylu9w | 1 | 0 |
CMV: religions are not needed any more for humans
We have been fighting over religions since ages. It has only caused bloodshed and destruction. As a Hindu by birth I have been taught the importance of our religion and how it is the true 'universal' religion. I have also been taught about the basic norms of the Indian... | >rules should be born out of common sense
This is the main problem that I can see with your line of reasoning. There *is* no such thing as “common sense.”
At best there is a commonly held philosophical position, but that position’s “commonness” isn’t in itself a good thing. In fact, I think that you already see this... | >We have progressed far enough to think rationally and find answers through logic and science.
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If this were true religion would have already naturally went away and you wouldn't have to create a CMV arguing that we don't need it anymore. We have a long way to go in the general populace in the areas of critical think... | 7snbz0 | CMV: religions are not needed any more for humans | We have been fighting over religions since ages. It has only caused bloodshed and destruction. As a Hindu by birth I have been taught the importance of our religion and how it is the true 'universal' religion. I have also been taught about the basic norms of the Indian society, many of which I don't agree with. These r... | 1,516,803,235 | aurojyoti_das | dt61cso | dt60137 | 10 | 4 |
CMV: I don’t think a totalitarian regime can be enforced in the United States as it is in this point in time.
It’s a pretty common point of conversation in my social circle (we’re all liberals on the West Coast, but we have pretty diverse views in general). To preface, none of us are arguing that it absolutely cannot ... | Absolutely. We should curb every attempt, however small, quickly and effectively. My point is that I don’t believe Don getting elected in 2024 will be the end of democracy in the US. He may well try, if he wins, but he will almost certainly not succeed. | He almost had the entire government murdered. | 199zdti | CMV: I don’t think a totalitarian regime can be enforced in the United States as it is in this point in time. | It’s a pretty common point of conversation in my social circle (we’re all liberals on the West Coast, but we have pretty diverse views in general). To preface, none of us are arguing that it absolutely cannot happen, but I’m not convinced that it can be enforced. I think that, even if, say, Jan 6 went differently, the ... | 1,705,608,413 | HungHeadsEmptyHearts | kihh53h | kihfnrr | 2 | 1 |
CMV: LA county's decision to double down on outdoor mask mandates in lieu of hosting Super Bowl LVI is purely political theatre
Edit: "in lieu of" is improperly used in the headline. Should be replaced with "prior to"
Will start with a disclaimer to avoid confusion: I'm vaccinated, boosted, pro-vaccine, and was pro- ... | You are absolutely right that the rules and the enforcement of such are totally inconsistant and illogical. It is absolutely not right.
You haven't said if you have tickets. If you have bought tickets and are going to the super bowl, that's a lot of doe. Don't wreck your experience getting frustrated over this. And if... | I don't care what people think. Just like I don't care which side of the road people want to drive on
Wearing a mask isn't a burden.
If someone wants to spend the money on super bowl tickets and then not go because you need to wear a mask that's on you. That person is a victim of their own stupidity.
If you don'... | sn8qbq | CMV: LA county's decision to double down on outdoor mask mandates in lieu of hosting Super Bowl LVI is purely political theatre | Edit: "in lieu of" is improperly used in the headline. Should be replaced with "prior to"
Will start with a disclaimer to avoid confusion: I'm vaccinated, boosted, pro-vaccine, and was pro- indoor masks at all times throughout the pandemic, until about 6-months ago.
LA County's decision to double down on enforcing th... | 1,644,288,010 | loganalytics | hw17se3 | hw17fl2 | 3 | -5 |
CMV: The simulated universe theory is implausible
The idea that we are more likely to exist in a simulation is implausible because it has one major flaw: the whole thing relies on simulating every single atom, electron, and photon in a universe to even be possible in the first place. The scale is too huge unless there... | The issue isn’t one of assumed progress in computing power, it’s about relevant timescales - like the Boltzmann Brain hypothesis;
So Boltzmann proposed a very basic logical premise - that chaos or a state or unorder is more likely than a state of order. Using that logic you can determine both;
1) that the exist... | Why do you dismiss the culling effect as *just* solipsism? It’s still a valid answer to your stated major flaw.
As for the structure of such a machine, search Jupiter brain or Matrioshka brain. Here’s a video of you don’t watch to search: https://youtu.be/Rmb1tNEGwmo
As for purpose? We simulate things all the time. M... | 10se3l3 | CMV: The simulated universe theory is implausible | The idea that we are more likely to exist in a simulation is implausible because it has one major flaw: the whole thing relies on simulating every single atom, electron, and photon in a universe to even be possible in the first place. The scale is too huge unless there's some kind of universal culling effect where thin... | 1,675,408,459 | Mister_T0nic | j712v9x | j70yfw2 | 7 | 5 |
CMV: Keeping fish in glass tanks is selfish, and they really should be kept in ponds or natural environments
Context: I'm a big believe in rescuing animals if you can, but I am in no position to care for most animals right now; especially anyone who would need a constant amount of socialization. My local pet supply st... | Nature includes a baseline level of stress. Most animals die of either predation or starvation. Existence under those circumstances is inherently stressful.
Even if a tank involved greater stress than a pond (I wouldn't automatically conclude that this is the case, herons fish in my family's pond), that isn't an impo... | If the "rescuing" you are talking about is buying feeder fish from a pet store, you are contributing to the problem same as everyone else. If you're talking about taking someone's fish that they don't want anymore or something that's different, you're not contributing your money to the fish keeping industry or adding m... | 6q4lbh | CMV: Keeping fish in glass tanks is selfish, and they really should be kept in ponds or natural environments | Context: I'm a big believe in rescuing animals if you can, but I am in no position to care for most animals right now; especially anyone who would need a constant amount of socialization. My local pet supply store often has large tanks available on discount, and this has got me looking into fish rescuing, specifically ... | 1,501,256,343 | broccolicat | dkulzv1 | dkuldfv | 2 | 1 |
CMV: If a Creator God aims to liberate "lost" humans, that essentially means that he created humans and deliberately ensured their attraction and desire to material goods and worldly pleasure so he could proceed to supposedly "liberate" them.
I am currently in my process of becoming an atheist and this is one of the q... | Hell, I presume is painful. Therefore, not really respecting your beliefs if he's sending you to suffer with no specified time limit.
Could I receive some consistent evidence for the point you have just stated? A verse? I'd like to corroborate. | I don't think you quite grasped my explanation ; God's hypothetical motivation is to see something outside of God's own control independently arrive at divinity; in God's own conspicuous absence, God's own divinity would still be affirmed. | 793e9q | CMV: If a Creator God aims to liberate "lost" humans, that essentially means that he created humans and deliberately ensured their attraction and desire to material goods and worldly pleasure so he could proceed to supposedly "liberate" them. | I am currently in my process of becoming an atheist and this is one of the questions I have as I lessen my belief in Hinduism. Hinduism being a henotheistic religion has the concept of a supreme God. If this world was essentially created by the Supreme God, he would have to purposefully create it too possess material w... | 1,509,112,681 | memeyar | doyz02j | doyy94g | 8 | 1 |
CMV: If a "rising tide lifts all boats" there is no argument against wealth inequality.
I take this sentence to mean, "economic growth benefits everyone." The rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
It is an acceptable outcome if a 5% growth of the economy meant a 5% growth for everyone. Those making $10... | Wealth is power. In my opinion this is one of the simplest and strongest reasons that inequality itself is bad. With extreme wealth one can use the power that wealth affords to shape society to conform to their own desires. This will almost inevitably lead to a society which more strongly favors the rich, and it’s not ... | it's been a while since ive read it, and i wasnt turning up anything explicit by searching.
but think about it this way, a rising tide doesnt lift all boats. often, it doesnt even lift the boat of the guy who's rising most (just because you are rich, doesnt make you better off). but further, Polyani's main argument is... | 8o5ckf | CMV: If a "rising tide lifts all boats" there is no argument against wealth inequality. | I take this sentence to mean, "economic growth benefits everyone." The rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
It is an acceptable outcome if a 5% growth of the economy meant a 5% growth for everyone. Those making $10,000 a year now make $10,500. Those making $1,000,000 now make $1,050,000. Someone bei... | 1,527,990,603 | KingMelray | e013q8b | e00um4c | 10 | 7 |
CMV: The current political climate (US) is mostly a misunderstanding perpetuated by external forces.
There are obviously actual differences in what people believe to be the "right" policies. However, much of this is exaggerated and exacerbated by the creation of echo chambers, which in turn are wielded by media and ot... | I don't think they are external forces at all. It's literally the human brain.
Think of it this way: You upvote/thumbs-up/love a post/comment when two conditions are met:
1. You agree with it
2. It's novel (interesting)
ONLY these two conditions need to occur for a society in which we start to polarize. Let me expl... | It took reporters so damn long to get him to condemn them. And even then he said they "Should be condemned" not "I condemn them", which are two very different statements. Plenty of people don't do things they should all the time. He also said that after the "very fine people on both sides" statement. It's not part of t... | q5ift8 | CMV: The current political climate (US) is mostly a misunderstanding perpetuated by external forces. | There are obviously actual differences in what people believe to be the "right" policies. However, much of this is exaggerated and exacerbated by the creation of echo chambers, which in turn are wielded by media and others in power to increase their influence and income as applicable.
There are obviously certain faul... | 1,633,905,399 | [deleted] | hg6ffj7 | hg6euny | 24 | 1 |
CMV: Doxing is (almost) never ethical
I'm defining doxing generally as the release of private information over the internet with the intent to cause harm to that person.
This is different than when the person being doxed is wanted by governmental authorities, such as when 4chan found the location of that suspected ... | I personally think that it greatly depends on the type of information you release. I would agree that releasing things like home phone numbers, addresses, work locations, family members, etc. is incredibly difficult to justify regardless of the alleged crimes of the person, but doxing covers the release of _any_ priva... | White supremacists represent a legitimate threat, people deserve to be warned against them.
You have nazis out in the desert training for terrorist activity. People need to know when these guys are coming to their city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpt3ImXIImY
You also have these types, who will just quietly ref... | 7939tk | CMV: Doxing is (almost) never ethical | I'm defining doxing generally as the release of private information over the internet with the intent to cause harm to that person.
This is different than when the person being doxed is wanted by governmental authorities, such as when 4chan found the location of that suspected terrorist.
I'm talking about members... | 1,509,111,392 | senorpotatohead1 | doyrgef | doyrd63 | 27 | 5 |
CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act.
There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal... | I'm going to challenge a presupposition here.
There's no such thing as a categorically "victimless" crime. This is a bit esoteric, but every single action anyone takes *could* have an impact on another person that turns another person into a victim in some way - crimes simply tend to be things where people believe tha... | What about "possession of illegal items"?
For example, simply 'possessing' eight pounds of crystal meth, a sawed-off shotgun, a vial of anthrax, or a dirty bomb doesn't in and of itself "harm" another human, yet I would think law enforcement has a fairly common-sense purpose in keeping these items off the streets and ... | 10sd79e | CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act. | There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal drug use
Incest between consenting adults
Trespassing on undeveloped land
Prostitution between consenting ... | 1,675,405,337 | cantheevilman | j72zqub | j70upmd | 0 | -1 |
CMV: gender doesn’t need to exist
i don’t understand the point of separating sex and gender. being called the pronouns of your biological sex doesn’t keep you from expressing yourself however you want, and calling people pronouns that don’t line up with their sex just serves to complicate things
i’m not trying to be ... | You don't understand the need for gender because you do not understand the difference between gender non conforming and gender dysphoria. Gender non conforming is what you are describing with people being feminine or masculine or dressing how they want, etc. A man who likes to wear makeup or dresses would be gender non... | Sure it doesn't NEED to exist but it does and we have built all kinds of societal norms around it for thousands of years. Therefore which gender you subscribe to and how you present yourself will always matter.
Our racial terms don't always matchup either but societal norms, systems and history necessitates using the... | ga3145 | CMV: gender doesn’t need to exist | i don’t understand the point of separating sex and gender. being called the pronouns of your biological sex doesn’t keep you from expressing yourself however you want, and calling people pronouns that don’t line up with their sex just serves to complicate things
i’m not trying to be transphobic, i just genuinely do no... | 1,588,135,607 | generationfucked- | fox859g | fox7peu | 45 | 1 |
CMV: We don't have free will
Ok, I know the gut reaction is of course we do. However, I think a lot will make sense when I explain.
First, we must differentiate between options and will.
Yes, everyone has pathes to choose from every single time they make a decision.
However, options are not reflective of free wil... | determinism and free will arent mutually exclusive.
determinism is the observation and prediction of our physical reality based on those observations, with the underlying theory that if we are able to observe literally everything, we can also predict everything.
the other is a philosophical question whether humans ca... | I'm a determinist as well and understand that my consciousness is chemicals and electricity coalescing as a perceptual singularity meant to keep me alive long enough to reproduce and that any argument against that has to get past a lot of personal bias and the limitations of my senses.
That being said, Christopher Hit... | 199xu9i | CMV: We don't have free will | Ok, I know the gut reaction is of course we do. However, I think a lot will make sense when I explain.
First, we must differentiate between options and will.
Yes, everyone has pathes to choose from every single time they make a decision.
However, options are not reflective of free will.
This is because every sing... | 1,705,604,620 | Reasonable-Gain-9739 | kih8tou | kih6aax | 5 | 2 |
CMV: If a Creator God aims to liberate "lost" humans, that essentially means that he created humans and deliberately ensured their attraction and desire to material goods and worldly pleasure so he could proceed to supposedly "liberate" them.
I am currently in my process of becoming an atheist and this is one of the q... | Let's say you had a man or woman you fancied. You want them to love you, your charms, your humor, your intelligence. Your wisdom. All of the little things that make you, you. Now assume you had the power to make someone unconditionally love you. Would it be meaningful? Is that really love if there is no choice?
I'm n... | You are essentially asking how to make sense of a human-created system, the purpose of which is the control and subjugation of people. There is no coherence to such a system, such that your question can be answered or "refuted". For example, in an evangelical prosperity Christian system, "god" does not want you to... | 793e9q | CMV: If a Creator God aims to liberate "lost" humans, that essentially means that he created humans and deliberately ensured their attraction and desire to material goods and worldly pleasure so he could proceed to supposedly "liberate" them. | I am currently in my process of becoming an atheist and this is one of the questions I have as I lessen my belief in Hinduism. Hinduism being a henotheistic religion has the concept of a supreme God. If this world was essentially created by the Supreme God, he would have to purposefully create it too possess material w... | 1,509,112,681 | memeyar | doyyyub | doyxpqd | 32 | -4 |
CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act.
There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal... | Problem is that "indirect" part of your definition.
Example 1. Animal cruelty. Person beats their dog and dog becomes anti-social because of this. Then this dog attacks a some passerby. We could have prevented this if the beating wouldn't have happened.
Example 2. Trespassing on undeveloped land. Travelling on nature... | How about attempts?
If I shoot a gun at your general direction with 100% intent to kill, and I miss the target, should that not be a crime? The only reason you are alive is because of luck. Should laws really allow those who are morally culpable to escape the punishment simply because they are lucky?
Punishing attemp... | 10sd79e | CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act. | There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal drug use
Incest between consenting adults
Trespassing on undeveloped land
Prostitution between consenting ... | 1,675,405,337 | cantheevilman | j70umjd | j70sfym | 6 | 2 |
CMV: I became an Astros fan in 2015 because my name starts with 'H' and to rival my ex, who was a Rangers fan. This means I can't switch to supporting a different team now if I want to
First things first, I know sometimes it can get heated when talking about the Astros, so I'm requesting people please to be civil.
--... | Since selecting "your team" based on something as arbitrary as alignment to first initial is....well....arbitrary, you can change it for just as arbitrary a reason. You're creating arbitrary rules on top of your arbitrary selection but then failing to regard them as arbitrary.
It's sitting in the drivers seat that go... | > I can switch to supporting a different team now if I wanted to because I have no allegiance really and nobody irl to have a rivalry with.
Clarifying question: Are you hoping someone tries to say that you chose that team and now have to stick with it? Has someone told you that you had to stick with that team for so... | 199qmfl | CMV: I became an Astros fan in 2015 because my name starts with 'H' and to rival my ex, who was a Rangers fan. This means I can't switch to supporting a different team now if I want to | First things first, I know sometimes it can get heated when talking about the Astros, so I'm requesting people please to be civil.
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So let me begin by informing you that I started to get interested in baseball during the end of uni. Whilst researching teams my then ex suggested the Astros as they have the same l... | 1,705,585,962 | peacesalaamz | kiga6wj | kifpikc | 6 | 2 |
CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act.
There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal... | IANAL but my understanding is that trespassing is generally not illegal. this is why you see signs saying "no trespassing". If I tell you not to walk on my land and you do it anyway, then it is illegal. But by default you are allowed to walk on my land.
one example of something I think is victimless but still shoul... | What about "possession of illegal items"?
For example, simply 'possessing' eight pounds of crystal meth, a sawed-off shotgun, a vial of anthrax, or a dirty bomb doesn't in and of itself "harm" another human, yet I would think law enforcement has a fairly common-sense purpose in keeping these items off the streets and ... | 10sd79e | CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act. | There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal drug use
Incest between consenting adults
Trespassing on undeveloped land
Prostitution between consenting ... | 1,675,405,337 | cantheevilman | j7291ex | j70upmd | 0 | -1 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | from the basic biology, male is physically stronger, like to fix stuff, thats why we have male dominated field, and female is more about people, that's why we have female dominated field, etc.
anyway, the view that I want to change is about parenting, and few people already change my view, maybe you can add more? | >How is adding “some people are neither, some people feel different inside than what they seem like on the outside” bad parenting?
This implies that there is some correlation between an inside feeling and an outside appearance.
What is this connection? What is the difference between feeling like a boy and feeling lik... | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j71dwa0 | j70zk8s | 0 | -1 |
CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act.
There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal... | If a 30 year old grooms a 13 year old into sex, but the younger party insists it's consensual, would that be a crime? | Because humans are the more intelligent species. If an animals welfare means nothing to you as a human then you yourself should be euthanized. There's no place in society for humans with subhuman tendencies. | 10sd79e | CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act. | There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal drug use
Incest between consenting adults
Trespassing on undeveloped land
Prostitution between consenting ... | 1,675,405,337 | cantheevilman | j70ytox | j70w3ng | 35 | 1 |
CMV: Fortnite is blatant plagiarism.
I think Fortnite is plagiarism off of PUBG, and I totally side with them for their lawsuit against EPIC games.
1. “H1Z1” had BR before PUBG.
Yes, they did, but some of the same people who worked on H1Z1, then took their own ideas and made a separate game.
2. Battle Royale isn’... | \> The problem is, an FPS is a type, a category of a game.
How exactly do you differentiate between "a game" and "a category of a game"? The first FPS was a single game that someone created, and now the concept is ubiquitous enough to be an entire category. The first platformer was a single game that someone created, ... | There's a meme about how these games ripped off Minecraft Hunger Games, and it's not completely inaccurate. Inspired by the Hunger Games books/movies, the Minecraft Hunger Games was a battle royale style survival game, and had no involvement from the creator of PUBG.
The idea of a bunch of people fighting it out to t... | 8o6375 | CMV: Fortnite is blatant plagiarism. | I think Fortnite is plagiarism off of PUBG, and I totally side with them for their lawsuit against EPIC games.
1. “H1Z1” had BR before PUBG.
Yes, they did, but some of the same people who worked on H1Z1, then took their own ideas and made a separate game.
2. Battle Royale isn’t a type of game, it is a game.
I hea... | 1,527,998,499 | MiracuMAHt | e013py3 | e00zdpi | 10 | 3 |
CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act.
There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal... | > There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human.
> I would like to note that crimes which very indirectly harm another human being (stealing from wealthy persons, tax evasion which worsens the health of a country's population as ... | The next day when the caretaker worker discovers the vandalism it's considered a crime. If there's ctv around the cemetery and police investigate it's an active criminal investigation. Once the family is notified they're the hurt party.
It's a crime to the dog, an actual living being that's capable of being hurt. Anyo... | 10sd79e | CMV: An act should not be considered a crime unless a human other than the perpetrator is harmed in the act. | There are a lot of "victimless crimes" that are considered morally reprehensible but don't harm (indirectly or directly) another human. Here are some examples:
Animal Cruelty & Bestiality
The act of personal drug use
Incest between consenting adults
Trespassing on undeveloped land
Prostitution between consenting ... | 1,675,405,337 | cantheevilman | j70wm2s | j70uiss | 18 | 2 |
CMV: If a "rising tide lifts all boats" there is no argument against wealth inequality.
I take this sentence to mean, "economic growth benefits everyone." The rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
It is an acceptable outcome if a 5% growth of the economy meant a 5% growth for everyone. Those making $10... | I mean, just approaching the analogy from a philosophical aspect, a tide will affect boats in shallow water differently than those in deep water. The boats that are beached will be stuck long after the boats in deep water can sail off. But what about when the tide falls? We see again that the poor will get stranded whi... | No hard feelings. I appreciate it. | 8o5ckf | CMV: If a "rising tide lifts all boats" there is no argument against wealth inequality. | I take this sentence to mean, "economic growth benefits everyone." The rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
It is an acceptable outcome if a 5% growth of the economy meant a 5% growth for everyone. Those making $10,000 a year now make $10,500. Those making $1,000,000 now make $1,050,000. Someone bei... | 1,527,990,603 | KingMelray | e04poln | e00xw8h | 1 | 0 |
CMV: Neither socialism nor libertarianism would ultimately work for the same reason- people are too selfish.
Unlike my opinion on important topics like The Rock's movie output, this subject I know comparatively little about, and am looking forward to being enlightened.
Moderation in political beliefs seems to be dy... | I don't really disagree or know too much on socialism and it's but I can perhaps help shed some light on libertarianism.
The argument against pure libertarianism is hard to prove or disprove as it is largely theoretical and there is so little in the way of empirical evidence.
All but the most extreme libertarians ag... | A few points:
First, regarding the article you shared about the Finish Government ending basic income experiment, that's kind of only half true. From the beginning it was only ever intended to be a two year experiment. The idea was to do a limited run, gather some experimental data, and then decide how to approach e... | 947s8g | CMV: Neither socialism nor libertarianism would ultimately work for the same reason- people are too selfish. | Unlike my opinion on important topics like The Rock's movie output, this subject I know comparatively little about, and am looking forward to being enlightened.
Moderation in political beliefs seems to be dying. There's a huge number of growing socialists and communists on the left, and there seems to be a large nu... | 1,533,284,159 | CMV_Guy | e3kpdqi | e3jaf86 | 2 | 0 |
CMV: Ben Shapiro will become President of the US
He's a genius; his IQ is probably over 150; he graduated cum laude with his JD from Harvard at age 22--surpassing his peers by 5 years; he's never lost a debate; one or more people in Congress watch his fans' "thug life" videos; and he is very transparent with his facts... | He might get into congress but I think he has said too many inflammatory things. A quick google and you find dumb shit like
>If you pay tuition, you're sponsoring the militant homosexual agenda. If you pay taxes, you're sponsoring the militant homosexual agenda. If your child majors in English, you're sponsoring the ... | > I would suggest you look at the like-to-dislike ratio of the videos in which he debates people.
well, by that standard, i'm sure we could come up with a list of a few hundred youtubers who'll be president someday.
(also, if a video of him debating sam harris gets over 2k likes and only 235 dislikes, who will become... | 7sid0b | CMV: Ben Shapiro will become President of the US | He's a genius; his IQ is probably over 150; he graduated cum laude with his JD from Harvard at age 22--surpassing his peers by 5 years; he's never lost a debate; one or more people in Congress watch his fans' "thug life" videos; and he is very transparent with his facts and is always willing to engage in argument or an... | 1,516,746,692 | PLEASE_USE_LOGIC | dt54j9o | dt5297i | 18 | 6 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | I've seen some hot takes, but this is quite something.
So you're acknowledging here that some people don't fit into traditional gender stereotypes. But instead of thinking that maybe these stereotypes are inadequate, your solution is to bully children into fitting into the norms?
How about if we're talking about left... | I think the age to introduce people to the idea of trans is whenever. It's not complicated. 'They were born a guy but they are a girl now'. What happens when the kid has a trans relative, are the parents supposed to cut off all contact? What happens when someone's parents are trans, are they just not supposed to tell t... | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j70nosv | j70nl5q | 127 | 9 |
CMV: sorting by new is the most fun way to use Reddit
If you sort by hot posts all you see is the consensus and traditionally popular posts and can only passively consume content.
By sorting by new on your homepage you see bizarre unfiltered posts and can be an active part of the discussion.
Also when you have OP o... | Depends on the subreddit and what is your intention as a user.
For r/changemyview, for example, if you intend to see interesting arguments and discussion, sorting by new will be pretty dumb as posts might not even have responses, might have some but OP might have not even responded to them yet, discussions will be sho... | What if you are like many, like myself, who only see feeds of subs they subscribe to? There are only few subs I prefer to sort by new, CMV and a couple tech subs.
I have also sorted by new on other subs; our of curiosity and to see what they had to offer. What I found though was not fun but frustration. Often, ther... | sn1e4x | CMV: sorting by new is the most fun way to use Reddit | If you sort by hot posts all you see is the consensus and traditionally popular posts and can only passively consume content.
By sorting by new on your homepage you see bizarre unfiltered posts and can be an active part of the discussion.
Also when you have OP on a new small post they’re more likely to respond back ... | 1,644,269,057 | invamino | hvzx674 | hvzwlr0 | 3 | 2 |
CMV: I am against the death penalty.
As I see it, the death penalty is more about revenge than about justice, which can be quite harmful : "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". Justice isn't about feelings, it's about getting to the truth and doing something about it in a humane way.
Personally, I believe... | I think at some point, the death penalty is a practical necessity.
We have a few tiers of prisons. Low security for relatively safe and peaceful inmates and high security for more dangerous inmates.
Isn't it possible that the inmates in maximum security deserve to be isolated from even more dangerous people. one of... | >Personally, I believe that criminals who commit major offenses should spend their whole life in prison. That way they can actually think about what they did and actually suffer the consequences of their actions by being deprived of their freedom.
And then this:
>Justice isn't about feelings, it's about getting to t... | 942u7o | CMV: I am against the death penalty. | As I see it, the death penalty is more about revenge than about justice, which can be quite harmful : "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". Justice isn't about feelings, it's about getting to the truth and doing something about it in a humane way.
Personally, I believe that criminals who commit major offen... | 1,533,241,136 | slowdownyourneighbor | e3hvf3g | e3husd6 | 2 | 1 |
CMV: Tom Brady is the greatest American Sports Player of all time.
Tom Brady recently announced his retirement (again), and as a casual NFL fan I've seen a lot of people proclaiming him the GOAT of the NFL. There does not seem to be really any serious pushback on this as far as I can tell. So, I started trying to comp... | Simone Biles is, I believe, the most decorated gymnast in human history and considered by many to be the actual, factual GOAT of gymnastics. Rules committees had to restrict the moves she introduced because of how difficult and dangerous they were for other people to try.
There's also Michael Phelps. Which is to say t... | Do you take into account Olympic medals or world class trophies? And I mean competition against the rest of the globe, not winning a USA title and calling it world championship.
Brady has had a fantastic career, but did he accomplish world wide recognition?
Did he revolutionise the game?
Disclaimer: I'm not into Ameri... | 10smucy | CMV: Tom Brady is the greatest American Sports Player of all time. | Tom Brady recently announced his retirement (again), and as a casual NFL fan I've seen a lot of people proclaiming him the GOAT of the NFL. There does not seem to be really any serious pushback on this as far as I can tell. So, I started trying to compare him to other American sports legends to see how he stacked up. I... | 1,675,437,660 | DuhChappers | j72byye | j7290ih | 6 | 1 |
CMV: Polyamory relationships and marriage should be normalized
I understand why some areas can’t handle legalizing it, like areas where women are seen as less than / places where sex education is low, but this is not the case everywhere. I don’t know everything about every country, but why not Canada, South America, ... | Well there’s no “reason” for marriage anyway. People just want to. I’m still unable to see why some people can’t, other then divorce and benefits being complicated to fix.
Edit to add: It’s not like the current system of laws are perfect anyway, but my whole point with the marriage is being mistaken as an “all of not... | What legal issues do you foresee? | ga5dlq | CMV: Polyamory relationships and marriage should be normalized |
I understand why some areas can’t handle legalizing it, like areas where women are seen as less than / places where sex education is low, but this is not the case everywhere. I don’t know everything about every country, but why not Canada, South America, Australia, East Asia or Europe?
And while I’m not poly myself,... | 1,588,147,445 | heeess | foxretf | foxm33f | 1 | 0 |
CMV: I believe between Trump and George W. Bush, Bush is far worse.
Excluding the Afghan war, since many view that invading Afghanistan was the right thing to do, Bush invaded Iraq in his 2nd term destroying the country and destabilizing the region. He also initiated the surveillance program that just keeps on growing... | > Bush invaded Iraq in his 2nd term
The Iraq invasion happened in 2003, during Bush's first term.
We're barely two years into Trump's presidency - at this point in Bush's Presidency, he had already passed a major tax cut and defeated the Taliban. Bush's approval ratings at this point were in the 70s and remained ab... | >Trump is exaggerating his accomplishment there
He accomplished literally nothing,^1 so yes he is.
>But NK does not have the capability to hit the US
[Yes they do.](https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/north-korea-missile-launch/index.html)
> SK seem to be interested in normalizing their relations with NK over t... | 91jt81 | CMV: I believe between Trump and George W. Bush, Bush is far worse. | Excluding the Afghan war, since many view that invading Afghanistan was the right thing to do, Bush invaded Iraq in his 2nd term destroying the country and destabilizing the region. He also initiated the surveillance program that just keeps on growing. There are also strong arguments that ISIS would not have come to be... | 1,532,455,669 | MrChuckleWackle | e2ymcxh | e2yldlp | 14 | 4 |
CMV: I am against the death penalty.
As I see it, the death penalty is more about revenge than about justice, which can be quite harmful : "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". Justice isn't about feelings, it's about getting to the truth and doing something about it in a humane way.
Personally, I believe... | If Hitler had been captured alive, would you have opposed his execution? | So I am against the death penalty in developed, first-world nations, but would not oppose it certain other situations. Are there times and places where you would support the death penalty? | 942u7o | CMV: I am against the death penalty. | As I see it, the death penalty is more about revenge than about justice, which can be quite harmful : "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". Justice isn't about feelings, it's about getting to the truth and doing something about it in a humane way.
Personally, I believe that criminals who commit major offen... | 1,533,241,136 | slowdownyourneighbor | e3hxcxh | e3hubmy | 2 | 1 |
CMV: Feminism would be more widely adopted with men (and more successful) if it wasn't called "feminism"
Names matter...a lot.
Most men that are against feminism, by and large, don't hate women. They would want equality for men and women. If they have a daughter, wife, mother, sister etc, they want these women to be ... | > Most men that are against feminism, by and large, don't hate women. They would want equality for men and women. If they have a daughter, wife, mother, sister etc, they want these women to be treated well and have the same opportunities they have as men.
Ok, it's not that I disagree here, but I kinda feel like you're... | While I agree that names matter, and that the term “feminism” seems to imply an exclusion of men, I think that it’s pure speculation to say that men would be more on-board with the goals of feminism if it were rebranded under a different banner.
I think that the largest reason feminism
isn’t more widely embraced is du... | 7smupi | CMV: Feminism would be more widely adopted with men (and more successful) if it wasn't called "feminism" | Names matter...a lot.
Most men that are against feminism, by and large, don't hate women. They would want equality for men and women. If they have a daughter, wife, mother, sister etc, they want these women to be treated well and have the same opportunities they have as men.
But, the name "feminism", to many men, mak... | 1,516,798,209 | rmhildebrandt | dt60aei | dt5zcz4 | 14 | 2 |
CMV: The phrase "It takes one to know one" is not true.
The positive way of using it : You compliment someone and they say Thanks, it takes one to know one. I see this as a way of responding to a compliment when they are unable to receive a compliment without saying anything in return. Of course I can see qualities in... | When you make a critical accusation against someone, that normally carries two components: what they have done, and why you think they did it. Few actions are, of themselves, always wrong; and few actions could not ever be wrong, regardless of the motivation behind them.
So for instance, killing someone is one of the... | There is truth to the phrase in psychology, it's a coping mechanism called "projection" I believe | 8o1xos | CMV: The phrase "It takes one to know one" is not true. | The positive way of using it : You compliment someone and they say Thanks, it takes one to know one. I see this as a way of responding to a compliment when they are unable to receive a compliment without saying anything in return. Of course I can see qualities in you that I personally don't posses. To understand someth... | 1,527,958,919 | glow4 | e004t5g | e0029eb | 2 | 1 |
CMV: Kanye West is a good producer, an influential individual, and a mediocre rapper / lyricist, whose music is consistently entertaining, but rarely ever rises to a truly artistic level
I should preface this by saying that I’ve never been a huge fan of Kanye. I’ve heard all of his music and have enjoyed most of it wi... | That’s probably fair. Kanye often comes off as a classless buffoon in his public life. But even if I knew nothing of Kanye’s persona, it wouldn’t change the fact that I just don’t feel like he has anything to say. He likes to stir controversy (both publicly and in his lyrics), but it never serves a higher purpose. He j... | I wonder if you've thought about this, but is Kendrick Lamar's public persona one of the reasons you evaluate his lyricism so much more favorably? If Kanye weren't such a clown would that close the gap and, when taken together with his production, elevate him in your mind? | 8o3x55 | CMV: Kanye West is a good producer, an influential individual, and a mediocre rapper / lyricist, whose music is consistently entertaining, but rarely ever rises to a truly artistic level | I should preface this by saying that I’ve never been a huge fan of Kanye. I’ve heard all of his music and have enjoyed most of it without ever being truly impressed.
His production is always astounding, and the music itself is almost always delightful to hear, but his lyrics hardly ever have anything interesting to s... | 1,527,976,561 | jacksonrees | e00hloq | e00h6vt | 4 | 3 |
CMV: International diplomacy should have "back-channels" that the public doesn't know about.
While I believe that freedom of information to the public *should* extend very, very far... I also believe some things work better kept secret. In a perfect world we'd all just debate our problems and come to an agreement, and... | Can we at least know that the back-channels exist, even if we aren't privy to what's said in them?
In that way could I change your view to one of, international diplomacy should have "back-channels" that the public knows about, but doesn't know the content of? | Am I missing something? Don't we already have this? | hh5x0j | CMV: International diplomacy should have "back-channels" that the public doesn't know about. | While I believe that freedom of information to the public *should* extend very, very far... I also believe some things work better kept secret. In a perfect world we'd all just debate our problems and come to an agreement, and we should still work towards that, but for the time being it's necessary.
Two world leaders ... | 1,593,308,114 | Tobacconist | fw89uqi | fw8560z | 3 | 1 |
CMV: The attitude that non-violent sexual assault happens rarely to men is incorrect and only backed up statistically because men don’t report it
Non-violent sexual assault happens to men all the time and goes unreported so stats on the issue are incorrect.
I’m sick of reading that sexual assault happens to women onl... | I agree with you. I’ve been bartending for close to 15 years and I get sexually harassed by men and women constantly. Ass grabbing, crotch grabbing, unexpected hugs, unexpected kissing, all from both sexes. Happened almost every week when I worked in a very busy bar. My only argument, and it’s not really a counter to t... | >Sexual harassment would be a form of non violent sexual assault
Incorrect, sexual harassment is more verbal/visual, but can include some touching (like unwanted hugging, massages, etc.) Common definitions also exclude public sexual harassment and often only describe work and school situations where there is power ove... | smywmm | CMV: The attitude that non-violent sexual assault happens rarely to men is incorrect and only backed up statistically because men don’t report it | Non-violent sexual assault happens to men all the time and goes unreported so stats on the issue are incorrect.
I’m sick of reading that sexual assault happens to women only. Or that it’s “rare” for it to happen to men.
If a man is slapped on the arse people around laugh at it. Including usually the man’s friends.
I... | 1,644,263,018 | Oldmanfirebobby | hw0gba4 | hw01svu | 55 | 31 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | I've seen some hot takes, but this is quite something.
So you're acknowledging here that some people don't fit into traditional gender stereotypes. But instead of thinking that maybe these stereotypes are inadequate, your solution is to bully children into fitting into the norms?
How about if we're talking about left... | I think the age to introduce people to the idea of trans is whenever. It's not complicated. 'They were born a guy but they are a girl now'. What happens when the kid has a trans relative, are the parents supposed to cut off all contact? What happens when someone's parents are trans, are they just not supposed to tell t... | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j70nosv | j70nl5q | 127 | 9 |
CMV: Cuss words aren't as bad as everyone makes them out to be.
For a very long time now, the use of cuss words or "profanity" has been seen as vulgar and ill-mannered to alot of people. The reason for this is because profanity is a form of blaphsomy, and blaphsomy, in the christian bible, is considered a sin. Because... | Most swears aren't actually blasphemous, they are just crude. They overwhelming refer to bodily waste, sex, or sexual organs, or they compare people to animals. These aren't generally topics that our culture holds to be appropriate in formal or professional environments. That doesn't necessarily make them "bad"--most l... | You forgot the other reason why people don’t like them.
Excessive use of cuss words are regarded as ‘uneducated’ because it means that people don’t have a very large vocabulary and use cuss words instead of ‘proper’ words. In regards to the commonly used cuss words ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’, neither of them are blasphemous, t... | g9wqtg | CMV: Cuss words aren't as bad as everyone makes them out to be. | For a very long time now, the use of cuss words or "profanity" has been seen as vulgar and ill-mannered to alot of people. The reason for this is because profanity is a form of blaphsomy, and blaphsomy, in the christian bible, is considered a sin. Because of this, christians have been pushing for these words to essenti... | 1,588,111,531 | OpenSaysMe- | fow3tgf | fow2qhz | 21 | 9 |
CMV: Becoming a police officer should mimic the process of becoming a firefighter.
Firefighters tend to be pretty chill, and not just because people who want to be firefighters are chill people. It's the process that weeds out a lot of bad apples.
Let me explain.
In California, becoming a firefighter in a city is i... | But making it more competitive and increasing the pay could increase the applicant pool. Make being a police officer glamorous again, almost to the level of an FBI agent. | The cops ARE organized crime. They kidnap, collude, kill innocents, and harass/stalk people, and deal drugs. I'm not arguing this, the cops are a cartel. | 10s59es | CMV: Becoming a police officer should mimic the process of becoming a firefighter. | Firefighters tend to be pretty chill, and not just because people who want to be firefighters are chill people. It's the process that weeds out a lot of bad apples.
Let me explain.
In California, becoming a firefighter in a city is incredibly competitive. There's lots of applicants with Fire Science degrees, and man... | 1,675,382,517 | seaneihm | j708zeq | j6zq3qo | -1 | -10 |
Cmv: there are more societal pressures to not have kids than to have kids
Everywhere you look the media and corporate america is telling you to not have kids. Every tv show family is dysfunctional, every marriage is miserable, spouses are always unfaithful, kids always hate their parents. Broadly these statements are ... | If you have kids, are you not *more* susceptible to capitalism because you now have an entire other being with different needs than yourself that you’re funneling your money into? | Not true. Truth is familes and marriages generates money for the economy. Family or having kids will never go out of business | 199hu0c | Cmv: there are more societal pressures to not have kids than to have kids | Everywhere you look the media and corporate america is telling you to not have kids. Every tv show family is dysfunctional, every marriage is miserable, spouses are always unfaithful, kids always hate their parents. Broadly these statements are true for most tv/movie entertainment. The news constantly tells you how hor... | 1,705,553,143 | Wonderful-Sea3370 | kie8r58 | kie7gde | 167 | 8 |
CMV: Being a “weeaboo” is, by definition, cultural appropriation.
(Use anime and manga interchangeably for this post. They are different but my rules will usually apply to either.)
Before getting into why I believe this, I’d like to clarify what I define a weeaboo as. I’ll start at what a weeaboo is NOT. You are not ... | It's certainly the adoption or use of another culture. But there are a few things about these kinds of people that make me hesitant to say that it's a *problematic* use or adoption of another culture.
First, the consumption of things like anime and manga directly and materially rewards Japanese individuals. These are ... | I did read your post. What culture is being **appropriated?** You've only described people who *enjoy the media* and like to learn and experience Japan. Do you know what it means to *appropriate?* It means **to take**. What is being taken? | 796b40 | CMV: Being a “weeaboo” is, by definition, cultural appropriation. | (Use anime and manga interchangeably for this post. They are different but my rules will usually apply to either.)
Before getting into why I believe this, I’d like to clarify what I define a weeaboo as. I’ll start at what a weeaboo is NOT. You are not a weeaboo if you:
1. Enjoy anime a reasonably amount
2. Think sus... | 1,509,140,923 | FloppyDysk | dozim2c | dozie99 | 5 | 1 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | I talk to them, they mostly talk about their experience and feeling. They made their decision to fight most people's subjective reality, that's why I said they are a warrior, a brave one.
is it a hard decision? you know that trans stats is bad, then, should parents prioritize their kid's feeling? let them be the oppos... | Suicidal idealition is at 40% both before and after transition | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j70yllu | j70sx1q | -1 | -13 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | my view is focused on parenting. So, which one is worse parents who Accept kid feeling about their gender identity, knowing their kid will have a hard future, or parents who try their best to avoid it? | What if the kiids want to be a unicorn even though the parents do eveything they can to guide them toward being a human (woman or man). It seems like acting like a unicor seems to be engrained into their nature, what then? If parents do everything that is realistically possible, its still bad parenting? | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j70ss35 | j70nscb | 1 | 0 |
CMV: There is no practical use-case where Blockchain Technology is the best option
I am not a crytpo expert. I am a software developer with a degree in AI, however, so I am at least somewhat familiar with this field. I cannot think of a single (non-trivial) application where blockchain is better than using traditional... | Suppose we wanted to design an uncensoreable currency useful for Internet transactions. Meaning no one could arbitrarily stop a transaction from going through.
Use cases include Silk Road and Wikileaks donations.
How would you do it without a blockchain? | >I mean, a little more analysis of the data could pop this out.
Hence the second part where I mention that you can use different addresses for different purchases. That makes it very, very difficult to track.
>The idea that cryptocurrency is somehow immune to price fluctuations is wild.
Perhaps I didn't explain it w... | smwz6w | CMV: There is no practical use-case where Blockchain Technology is the best option | I am not a crytpo expert. I am a software developer with a degree in AI, however, so I am at least somewhat familiar with this field. I cannot think of a single (non-trivial) application where blockchain is better than using traditional systems. Data on the blockchain is permanent and public, which is not always desira... | 1,644,258,116 | thunderbirdsetup | hvzcij6 | hvzavik | 1 | 0 |
CMV: It isn't important that I turn off the lights when I go.
In the US, we have a habit of turning off the lights when you leave a room or a house. I've heard in Norway people find this behavior odd because electrical power is so cheap and it's almost entirely renewable.
Those two factors have changed recently.
I... | I agree with you that the amount of electricity used is very small, but we still don't have any idea what the tipping point will be with global warming. The oceans already seem to be dying. Probably the most important factor is just the mindset that electricity can be wasted if it's a small amount. It's sets a bad exam... | >Although the source of your power is nuclear, that doesn't mean it's entirely renewable. It's less, but it still has an impact.
The problem with nuclear energy is the fact, that although it doesn't produce big amounts of CO2, it leaves us with radioactive trash materials. And to this day, we don't really have a final... | 7seugm | CMV: It isn't important that I turn off the lights when I go. | In the US, we have a habit of turning off the lights when you leave a room or a house. I've heard in Norway people find this behavior odd because electrical power is so cheap and it's almost entirely renewable.
Those two factors have changed recently.
I live in a studio. I have about 8 bulbs to my name (all LED). A... | 1,516,718,784 | fox-mcleod | dt4e6w0 | dt4cdl0 | 10 | 1 |
CMV: It isn't important that I turn off the lights when I go.
In the US, we have a habit of turning off the lights when you leave a room or a house. I've heard in Norway people find this behavior odd because electrical power is so cheap and it's almost entirely renewable.
Those two factors have changed recently.
I... | Regardless of the cost/power usage, light in itself can be a pollutant. There's a world of difference between a city and a remote area at night. A city is never really dark. It's well established that artificial sources of impact both people (messed up sleep patterns) and nature. I used to live in a building that had a... | I think your rationale isn't important. I think it's just being lazy not turning off your lights. Why waste energy, even if it's not costing you much? Hang a flashlight by your door, or get a lamp. The fact that you spent this much time working out how much your costs go up, how much energy is being wasted, and then wr... | 7seugm | CMV: It isn't important that I turn off the lights when I go. | In the US, we have a habit of turning off the lights when you leave a room or a house. I've heard in Norway people find this behavior odd because electrical power is so cheap and it's almost entirely renewable.
Those two factors have changed recently.
I live in a studio. I have about 8 bulbs to my name (all LED). A... | 1,516,718,784 | fox-mcleod | dt4wtqn | dt4qaer | 1 | -1 |
CMV: Dark Souls Remastered is a senseless cash grab, waste of money and isn't that much better than the original
I feel that this was only made because Ringed City had less sales and Shadows Die Twice is far from launch.
From the trailer and news about changes, the only noticeable differences are: 1) Multiplayer is ... | I've been liking it, yeah it's basically a reskin of the original game but it feels polished and it's nice to have an active multi-player scene in the game.
You're getting it for the dark souls experience you know and love, if you're expecting anything but a reskin with active multi-player you're gonna be disappointed... | >
I feel that this was only made because Ringed City had less sales and Shadows Die Twice is far from launch.
no, this was made because there was demand. they simply made what the consumer wanted. providing what the consumer wants doesn't seem like a senseless cash grab to me. | 8o38h3 | CMV: Dark Souls Remastered is a senseless cash grab, waste of money and isn't that much better than the original | I feel that this was only made because Ringed City had less sales and Shadows Die Twice is far from launch.
From the trailer and news about changes, the only noticeable differences are: 1) Multiplayer is higher quality, 2) Models look cleaner, 3) You can change the menu size.
The lighting is awful, taking one of th... | 1,527,970,198 | ConnorOfAstora | e00hlwo | e00bd21 | 14 | 4 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | 1 the only activities that are truly male or female in nature are to do with reproduction.
Proper medical health studies require a minimum of ten years following and documenting the same people. The study on male vs female in respect to trans brains and almost all studies involving the long term affects of trans care h... | >The simplified answer to why trans people are trans is because their brain/emotions do not fit their physical selves.
What does it mean for someone's brain/emotions not to fit their physical selves?
The brain is one element of a physical self. In what way wouldn't it fit?
Emotions eminate from the body, in what way... | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j75axq9 | j70yzvt | 1 | 0 |
Cmv: there are more societal pressures to not have kids than to have kids
Everywhere you look the media and corporate america is telling you to not have kids. Every tv show family is dysfunctional, every marriage is miserable, spouses are always unfaithful, kids always hate their parents. Broadly these statements are ... | I see you have not met my Aunt Barbra. That bitch has herself some strong opinions. | Not true. Truth is familes and marriages generates money for the economy. Family or having kids will never go out of business | 199hu0c | Cmv: there are more societal pressures to not have kids than to have kids | Everywhere you look the media and corporate america is telling you to not have kids. Every tv show family is dysfunctional, every marriage is miserable, spouses are always unfaithful, kids always hate their parents. Broadly these statements are true for most tv/movie entertainment. The news constantly tells you how hor... | 1,705,553,143 | Wonderful-Sea3370 | kie7m8w | kie7gde | 205 | 8 |
CMV: Romantic comedies no longer have the ability to offer modern Hollywood and the movie industry a unique experience.
# Introduction
This was inspired by my SO's recent demand of the genre and her demand for me to view them with her. I'm **not** going to argue that the impact that Rom-Coms have had throughout the s... | There's a saying that there are only 36 stories (or some smallish number like that) and that everything else is just a combination of these stories.
I think it's hardly surprising that romance has been framed as it is. It's always the same stuff, because there's a limit to the series of events that can unfold. You hav... | I'm not sure why you are applying this specifically to rom-coms, pretty much all movies today follow basic, repeated tropes. Action, drama, superhero, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, pretty much every movie released has predictable story beats, recycled characters, and obvious conclusions.
I think my overall point is that ... | 942m33 | CMV: Romantic comedies no longer have the ability to offer modern Hollywood and the movie industry a unique experience. | # Introduction
This was inspired by my SO's recent demand of the genre and her demand for me to view them with her. I'm **not** going to argue that the impact that Rom-Coms have had throughout the span of the movie industry has been astronomic, not only for the development of (hybrid) genres but also the progression o... | 1,533,239,621 | Bradalam | e3huzaq | e3hstc4 | 5 | 2 |
CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious'
Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to conside... | I have to be one or the other? What if I don't care to consider this? | 100% you're an atheist. 1.) A theist is someone who believes in a god. 2.) An atheist is someone who does not have a belief in a god. 3.) You do not have a belief in a god therefore you are atheist. It is that simple.
Your error occurred when you said that an atheist BELIEVES there is no god. That is not the definiti... | q4yf1d | CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious' | Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to consider whether or not to accept it. It's a non-starter. It's no different to how I treat any... | 1,633,829,258 | [deleted] | hg2562m | hg1xded | 1 | 0 |
cmv: You can't be agnostic without being an atheist
I love to engage in discussions about religion, and the reason why people believe or don't believe something.
I often come across people who declare themselves 'an agnostic' as opposed to being religious or being an atheist. In this sense, agnostic is the reasonable... | What catches you, me, and everyone up on this topic is that we move between philosophical definitions and descriptions of psychological states of belief.
At least according to the [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/#ArguForGlobAthe):
**Atheism**: “Therefore,... | Atheist does not exist without theism, thus the prefix. The start point is always theism and everything excluded from the set of theism falls under atheism.
So then what is theism? It is a belief in a deity whatever that form takes.
>I would compare it to the theory that Wyoming does not exist. Theist: Wyoming exis... | q56p6c | cmv: You can't be agnostic without being an atheist | I love to engage in discussions about religion, and the reason why people believe or don't believe something.
I often come across people who declare themselves 'an agnostic' as opposed to being religious or being an atheist. In this sense, agnostic is the reasonable middle ground between two parties who are certain of... | 1,633,867,212 | Dutchwells | hg3htw5 | hg3gry8 | 1 | 0 |
CMV: Kanye West is a good producer, an influential individual, and a mediocre rapper / lyricist, whose music is consistently entertaining, but rarely ever rises to a truly artistic level
I should preface this by saying that I’ve never been a huge fan of Kanye. I’ve heard all of his music and have enjoyed most of it wi... | Kanye's lyrics are half\-assed, pretentious, and narcissistic \-\- but that's the entire point. To anchor the argument, I'm going to focus on the example of *Yeezus*, which is quite possibly the worst offender in terms of lyrical content.
Yeezus's lyrics start off as mostly egotistical rambling, unleashing a sort of ... | Lamar comes from a different school of rap. He's more ATCQ than Ice Cube, or more Talib than Eminem. I wouldn't call anyone the Greatest Artist of anything. These things are too difficult to judge. If you went by what they had to say even Led Zepplin would fall behind Springsteen in the rock category.
I think you see... | 8o3x55 | CMV: Kanye West is a good producer, an influential individual, and a mediocre rapper / lyricist, whose music is consistently entertaining, but rarely ever rises to a truly artistic level | I should preface this by saying that I’ve never been a huge fan of Kanye. I’ve heard all of his music and have enjoyed most of it without ever being truly impressed.
His production is always astounding, and the music itself is almost always delightful to hear, but his lyrics hardly ever have anything interesting to s... | 1,527,976,561 | jacksonrees | e00ictf | e00hyih | 6 | 1 |
CMV: In self defense, the defender should have significantly more leeway in using force even if it turns out to be excessive.
To be clear, I'm only talking about cases where the threat is still active. If someone's running away you obviously shouldn't be able to shoot them in the back. But if someone punches you and i... | >If someone's untrained even a single punch can leave them defenseless
And if someone gives me the side eye, their buddy could be hiding behind the corner with a baseball bat.
>The threat of severe retaliatory force would simply make people much less likely to consider starting violent altercations in most situations... | So, George Floyd should have used a gun on Derek, under your use of force argument? How would that have ended? And who would have been the 'good' guy?
And, similarly, should everyone and anyone afraid of being targeted by cops have the *leeway* to use a machine gun against them, as per your disproportionate response ... | q5e0jr | CMV: In self defense, the defender should have significantly more leeway in using force even if it turns out to be excessive. | To be clear, I'm only talking about cases where the threat is still active. If someone's running away you obviously shouldn't be able to shoot them in the back. But if someone punches you and is still an active threat to you, you should be able to stab/shoot them to neutralize them. A punch can easily escalate into a f... | 1,633,891,445 | corvusfamiliaris | hg4vbka | hg4uunu | 13 | 2 |
CMV: The phrase "It takes one to know one" is not true.
The positive way of using it : You compliment someone and they say Thanks, it takes one to know one. I see this as a way of responding to a compliment when they are unable to receive a compliment without saying anything in return. Of course I can see qualities in... | I think it’s an accusation of hypocrisy and means that only people with this thing in common recognize it in others. These proverbs aren’t facts but say something that’s true often enough they make sense.
Homophobic bullies are notoriously gay themselves: people confident in their heterosexuality don’t care to “accus... | When you make a critical accusation against someone, that normally carries two components: what they have done, and why you think they did it. Few actions are, of themselves, always wrong; and few actions could not ever be wrong, regardless of the motivation behind them.
So for instance, killing someone is one of the... | 8o1xos | CMV: The phrase "It takes one to know one" is not true. | The positive way of using it : You compliment someone and they say Thanks, it takes one to know one. I see this as a way of responding to a compliment when they are unable to receive a compliment without saying anything in return. Of course I can see qualities in you that I personally don't posses. To understand someth... | 1,527,958,919 | glow4 | e00swzg | e004t5g | 3 | 2 |
Cmv: there are more societal pressures to not have kids than to have kids
Everywhere you look the media and corporate america is telling you to not have kids. Every tv show family is dysfunctional, every marriage is miserable, spouses are always unfaithful, kids always hate their parents. Broadly these statements are ... | I'm from Asia where family and traditions are still super important. Your opinion *may* be valid for US (I have no clue what the mainstream media and culture is pushing to you), but over here, it's alot of cultural and family pressures.
When someone announces they have no kids, the entire family tree gets upset and t... | A lot of the societal pressures to have kids are more subtle, but way more universal. It's being asked "do you have kids?" every day once you pass the age of 25, it's people talking about their kids all the time, it's the expectation that eventually everyone will have kids that many adults go through life with, and the... | 199hu0c | Cmv: there are more societal pressures to not have kids than to have kids | Everywhere you look the media and corporate america is telling you to not have kids. Every tv show family is dysfunctional, every marriage is miserable, spouses are always unfaithful, kids always hate their parents. Broadly these statements are true for most tv/movie entertainment. The news constantly tells you how hor... | 1,705,553,143 | Wonderful-Sea3370 | kieaoqv | kie99wl | 356 | 9 |
CMV: Steve Ballmer was better than Satya Nadella
Considering the premise that Steve Ballmer was ousted in favor of Nadella, I would argue that was a gross mistake.
Whatever Nadella produced are not his ideas and products at all, they were all founded during Ballmer's period and taking off with solid ground.
- Bing... | Under Ballmer (2000 to 2014), Microsoft was a joke. Zune, Bing, Xbox, Surface, Windows Mobile, etc. were all dominated by Apple iPod, Google Search, Sony Playstation, Apple Macbook, and Apple iPhone/Android. These products were complete failures at worse or distant runner-ups at best. Microsoft Windows and Office were ... | Holy shit bro. Ballmer was horrible. Ballmer took Bill gates’s 20th century ideas and ran them out of gas while fucking off and fucking up anything and everything 21st century ish. Ballmer said the iPhone was stupid and he didn’t give a shit about mobile till it was too late. Ballmer is a joke. I wish nadella had saved... | ga16hm | CMV: Steve Ballmer was better than Satya Nadella | Considering the premise that Steve Ballmer was ousted in favor of Nadella, I would argue that was a gross mistake.
Whatever Nadella produced are not his ideas and products at all, they were all founded during Ballmer's period and taking off with solid ground.
- Bing, the search engine
- Azure, serious challenger to... | 1,588,127,630 | maa0342 | fox2vsg | fowvyal | 7 | 2 |
CMV: The ideal fertility rate is replacement level (2 children per woman)
**Note that it’s perfectly possible for some women to have lots of children and others to be childless, and yet the overall fertility rate averages out to 2 children per woman. It’s not necessary for everyone to have an exact, specific number of... | Except replacement isn’t 2 children per woman, unless we make the assumption that everyone birthed grows up to be an adult and ready to have kids, which is not the case. A few percent of people die as a child, so exactly 2 per woman would shrink the population, true replacement rate is slightly higher. The commonly cit... | Considering how bad climate change has gotten, couldn’t there be an argument that the current population is too high? If so, keeping it at this level will just keep damaging the planet. | 199havi | CMV: The ideal fertility rate is replacement level (2 children per woman) | **Note that it’s perfectly possible for some women to have lots of children and others to be childless, and yet the overall fertility rate averages out to 2 children per woman. It’s not necessary for everyone to have an exact, specific number of children.**
That disclaimer said, I believe that replacement level fertil... | 1,705,551,415 | Radical_Libertarian | kie4ar5 | kie3sga | 23 | 8 |
cmv: You can't be agnostic without being an atheist
I love to engage in discussions about religion, and the reason why people believe or don't believe something.
I often come across people who declare themselves 'an agnostic' as opposed to being religious or being an atheist. In this sense, agnostic is the reasonable... | There are two important factors at play here. One is the beliefs themselves and the other is the definition/usage of words.
The definition of/usage of words is pretty straightforward gnosticism pertains to knowledge and theism pertains to belief. I can claim to believe something but not claim to know it. This is beca... | What catches you, me, and everyone up on this topic is that we move between philosophical definitions and descriptions of psychological states of belief.
At least according to the [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/#ArguForGlobAthe):
**Atheism**: “Therefore,... | q56p6c | cmv: You can't be agnostic without being an atheist | I love to engage in discussions about religion, and the reason why people believe or don't believe something.
I often come across people who declare themselves 'an agnostic' as opposed to being religious or being an atheist. In this sense, agnostic is the reasonable middle ground between two parties who are certain of... | 1,633,867,212 | Dutchwells | hg3no57 | hg3htw5 | 4 | 1 |
CMV: Professional athletes should be paid far less than they are
As you probably know, professional athletes can be paid up to about $100 million in a year (Information taken from Forbes), and I believe that is is way too much. Yes, they do provide entertainment for millions of people, but you could live without it. I... | I agree that teachers should be paid more, but for that society needs to change. Economic theory dictates that wages should be equal to the marginal product of Labour, which is enormous in the world of pro sport. Some fair arguments to be made that they're actually underpaid.
The chances of a male NCAA player making ... | There are more teachers then pro athletes. | 6q2aml | CMV: Professional athletes should be paid far less than they are | As you probably know, professional athletes can be paid up to about $100 million in a year (Information taken from Forbes), and I believe that is is way too much. Yes, they do provide entertainment for millions of people, but you could live without it. In contrast, teachers, who are super necessary to society, can bare... | 1,501,227,090 | BrigandsRealm | dku05dv | dktzx2s | 3 | 1 |
CMV: Assuming all dogs (and pets) are safe to touch and more specifically teaching kids that all dogs are safe to touch is wrong and dangerous.
So this came up as part of an unpopular opinion post I had. Basically, someone said its a dog owners responsibility to keep kids away if theres a chance the dog might be unsaf... | I may be reading too much into your argument , it seems like saying someone should never touch a dog without permission and if the dog bites someone or cause someone harm that did not first obtain permission the dog / owner bear no responsibility.
In most cases, there is some responsibility shared between both part... | Okay but it's not just about safety of the kids, it's also about the safety of the animal. I got my dog from a shelter. She's skittish and terrified of most people. She's never bit anyone. She does bark sometimes but if you get to close she just runs away.
I've worked with her on becoming better and less scared of oth... | g9ryev | CMV: Assuming all dogs (and pets) are safe to touch and more specifically teaching kids that all dogs are safe to touch is wrong and dangerous. | So this came up as part of an unpopular opinion post I had. Basically, someone said its a dog owners responsibility to keep kids away if theres a chance the dog might be unsafe because many kids are taught that “pets are safe”. I agree the owner should try their best to keep kids away from the dog if their dog is nervo... | 1,588,096,334 | FuzzySandwich | fovdg02 | fova3zo | 8 | 3 |
CMV: Any video game where RNG can cause you to die even with perfect play is a bad game
The title alone probably isn't controversial but some people might get upset when I name drop Cuphead. I'm playing Cuphead right now and it's pretty fun, but sometimes the bosses will launch a series of moves and projectiles that a... | > Any video game where this is possible is a bad game,
Why does this make a game bad? I enjoyed cuphead, so did I enjoy a bad game? The lowest review I've seen it given is 8/10, so a lot of people enjoyed it. Can you elaborate what a "bad game" means to you?
This seems like an especially odd criteria, since many play... | All games are a balance between fairness and fun. A complex random system will allow a game avoid becoming repetitive, but a result of this will be occasional times when the RNG will screw the player over. Now, the programmers have a choice. They can either spend a large amount of time trying to figure out when these s... | hh4owc | CMV: Any video game where RNG can cause you to die even with perfect play is a bad game | The title alone probably isn't controversial but some people might get upset when I name drop Cuphead. I'm playing Cuphead right now and it's pretty fun, but sometimes the bosses will launch a series of moves and projectiles that are simply not avoidable. Even if you had an AI playing with perfect knowledge of everythi... | 1,593,303,019 | GelComb | fw81u2b | fw7y4xg | 2 | 1 |
CMV: I am against the death penalty.
As I see it, the death penalty is more about revenge than about justice, which can be quite harmful : "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". Justice isn't about feelings, it's about getting to the truth and doing something about it in a humane way.
Personally, I believe... | What about war criminals who commit genocide? I realize those aren’t common occurrences, but sometimes the world gives us someone like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, etc.
Their body counts make it clear they have zero remorse for their crimes and it is incredibly unlikely we’d be wrong about a conviction against someon... | >But at some point doesn't our obligation to keep people alive and quarantined from the rest of society end? What about someone who is in prison and keeps finding ways to kill other inmates?
But that isn't really who gets the death penalty. I've often wondered this myself, would the death penalty be more effective if... | 942u7o | CMV: I am against the death penalty. | As I see it, the death penalty is more about revenge than about justice, which can be quite harmful : "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". Justice isn't about feelings, it's about getting to the truth and doing something about it in a humane way.
Personally, I believe that criminals who commit major offen... | 1,533,241,136 | slowdownyourneighbor | e3i7rtz | e3hxcd1 | 2 | 1 |
CMV: How people act online is an accurate representation of their character irl and they should be judged accordingly
One thing I noticed is that people don't seem to connect the person they are online to the person they are in real life. I think this is not only because there's a sense of anonymity but also because t... | I'm reading the comments and think I see what you're saying and how you're separating someone's true self from there actions. As in, even if they don't take actions that align with their true self online that's what they feel deep inside.
If I'm online trolling people and being all kind of bigoted, meet the same peop... | While I think who you are online is a true part of who you are, judging people based on a heavily filtered single aspect of their being is judging falsely.
We all react to situations around us. We may let someone go ahead of us in line at the grocery store but not online because grocery stores have lines and the Inter... | 199dnxe | CMV: How people act online is an accurate representation of their character irl and they should be judged accordingly | One thing I noticed is that people don't seem to connect the person they are online to the person they are in real life. I think this is not only because there's a sense of anonymity but also because there's increasing ways to filter and photoshop yourself to look like what you think is more ideal.
Say a person sent... | 1,705,540,707 | FormerBabyPerson | kidw9q9 | kidq1n4 | 7 | 6 |
CMV: At 27, it is not worth the time, effort, or money for me to seek to get a drunk in public incident expunged from my record when I was 18.
edit: repost. My first title was a disgusting, confusing, word vomit.
Age: 18
Freshman year in college.
1. Got arrested for Drunk in Public and underage possession of alcoho... | >I have no intention of seeking public office, or working for a company that cares I have a minor criminal record from when I was 18.
I strongly recommend the $100. Firstly, it’s only $100 and while that’s pretty tight on a grad student’s budget, it can be done.
Meanwhile, you have two unknown risks:
1) What jobs w... | >No intention of...working for a company that cares I have a minor criminal record from when I was 18
How can you be so sure of this? What if your dream job is interviewing a competitive list of candidates and this is the deciding factor? I'm not saying this will happen, but if it were, you would never know why you we... | 942070 | CMV: At 27, it is not worth the time, effort, or money for me to seek to get a drunk in public incident expunged from my record when I was 18. | edit: repost. My first title was a disgusting, confusing, word vomit.
Age: 18
Freshman year in college.
1. Got arrested for Drunk in Public and underage possession of alcohol in Virginia (the underage possession was because there was alcohol in your system. Virginia counts your body as a container).
1. Lawyer got a... | 1,533,235,505 | NASM8bit | e3hoi4m | e3hnvh1 | 22 | 3 |
CMV: I don't see why (strictly legally speaking) United should have settled with Dr. Dao
From a PR perspective, sure I see why.
But I don't see how they did anything wrong from a legal perspective. They in fact barely did anything at all.
Person was on their plane > They asked person to leave their plane > Person re... | It wasn't as simple as "person was on their plane"; a plane ticket, legally, is a contract. United was trying to pay people off to allow for both parties to break that contract; He didn't want to break the contract, and United didn't want to play by those rules.
If you had a contract with someone that said "you can st... | 1) PR wise they were held accountable by the public because they should not have been removing the Dr. at all and they should not have called the police. They violated his rights as a paying customer and used the police as a weapon to harm him. The only way they could handle the situation is to settle.
2) Because the... | 7sg5nz | CMV: I don't see why (strictly legally speaking) United should have settled with Dr. Dao | From a PR perspective, sure I see why.
But I don't see how they did anything wrong from a legal perspective. They in fact barely did anything at all.
Person was on their plane > They asked person to leave their plane > Person refused to leave their plane > United calls the police
That's the end of United's actions t... | 1,516,729,532 | ZeusThunder369 | dt4q8o4 | dt4jgk7 | 6 | 1 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | There’s is science behind the transgender brain it’s really interesting actually. The basis is that everyone starts out as female. And as the body can change to be male the brain does the same thing l. In some cases the brain can become male while the body stays female and vise versa. Here’s a link explaining the trans... | >No trans person would claim to be the opposite sex.
India Willougby - Trans UK TV host and media personality:
"We absolutely biologically change sex."
https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1620727906623430656
Riley J Dennis - Trans YouTube personality with 100k+ subs:
"Trans women are biological women"
https:... | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j73ug9s | j71eq7t | 1 | -1 |
CMV: Counterstrike is boring to play and watch, way worse as a competitive game than some newer titles, has very choppy gameplay and artificially inflated and gambiling-Esq(I think that's how it's spelled) skin market
I do not understand how this game that been around for so long is still considered so good. It has/is... | > Choppy gameplay This is more of a pet peeve than anything else, but it just feels bad to play. A prime example of this is how you're suppose to swap weapons after firing a shot in order to reduce the re-chamber time.
Could you provide some more examples on this by what “choppy” means for you? If you’re talking about... | >Choppy gameplay This is more of a pet peeve than anything else, but it just feels bad to play. A prime example of this is how you're suppose to swap weapons after firing a shot in order to reduce the re-chamber time.
personal opinion
>Lazy balance There are 32 weapons including secondaries in counterstrike. As a spe... | 7903i4 | CMV: Counterstrike is boring to play and watch, way worse as a competitive game than some newer titles, has very choppy gameplay and artificially inflated and gambiling-Esq(I think that's how it's spelled) skin market | I do not understand how this game that been around for so long is still considered so good. It has/is
- **Choppy gameplay**
- **Outdated graphics**
- **Lazy balance**
- **A horrendous skin marketplace**
- **boring and repetitive gameplay **
**Choppy gameplay**
This is more of a pet peeve than anything else, but it jus... | 1,509,067,173 | oXeru | doy7620 | doy3miy | 4 | 1 |
CMV: If a Creator God aims to liberate "lost" humans, that essentially means that he created humans and deliberately ensured their attraction and desire to material goods and worldly pleasure so he could proceed to supposedly "liberate" them.
I am currently in my process of becoming an atheist and this is one of the q... | I'm a Christian so I can't really help much on Hinduism, but I feel like your question applies to both. One of the most helpful things I've found on this topic is that we are designed to desire a relationship with God, and all the wonderful things that relationship brings, but because there is evil and sin in this worl... | I'll give my answer from the Christian perspective since that is what I'm most familiar with.
If you're unfamiliar with the Christian creation story, basically God creates a perfectly good man and woman and put them in a garden that was essentially paradise. The only rule he gave them was to not eat the fruit of a cer... | 793e9q | CMV: If a Creator God aims to liberate "lost" humans, that essentially means that he created humans and deliberately ensured their attraction and desire to material goods and worldly pleasure so he could proceed to supposedly "liberate" them. | I am currently in my process of becoming an atheist and this is one of the questions I have as I lessen my belief in Hinduism. Hinduism being a henotheistic religion has the concept of a supreme God. If this world was essentially created by the Supreme God, he would have to purposefully create it too possess material w... | 1,509,112,681 | memeyar | dp02f7f | doz6ov6 | 2 | 1 |
CMV: Assuming all dogs (and pets) are safe to touch and more specifically teaching kids that all dogs are safe to touch is wrong and dangerous.
So this came up as part of an unpopular opinion post I had. Basically, someone said its a dog owners responsibility to keep kids away if theres a chance the dog might be unsaf... | the distinction is in that most dogs when properly approached are safe (or will warn of their danger), and thus parents are correct in allowing their children to play with them,
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its essentially the difference between telling your child don't approach the black man vs only approach the black men in these ci... | I think you might be taking their comment too strictly. Teaching your kids that pets are safe doesn't necessarily mean you can walk up and do anything you want to them. Part of "pets are safe" means that pets will *let you know* if they don't want you touching them. | g9ryev | CMV: Assuming all dogs (and pets) are safe to touch and more specifically teaching kids that all dogs are safe to touch is wrong and dangerous. | So this came up as part of an unpopular opinion post I had. Basically, someone said its a dog owners responsibility to keep kids away if theres a chance the dog might be unsafe because many kids are taught that “pets are safe”. I agree the owner should try their best to keep kids away from the dog if their dog is nervo... | 1,588,096,334 | FuzzySandwich | fovf3lg | fovewdu | 2 | 1 |
CMV: Video games that deal with sports don't make any sense to me and I see no purpose in it, other than playing them to have fun.
I'll use Madden 18 as an example for my arguments. I see no point in playing video games that deal with any kind of sport in a gaming tournament or simply to find out who's better because ... | A sports game is just another form of strategy game if you think about it. Look at Madden. Picking a proper offensive play based on the situation (position on the field, which down it is), the defense has to try and predict what the offense will do and try and counter it, the use of audibles to change plays and setups ... | If you are talking about a non-recreational reason for playing these games, the biggest one I can think of is balanced competition. People always have and always will love competition, and one thing that these types of games (sport games, battle royales, MOBAs, and even FPS) is an even playing field. Sure, some people ... | 78zqa2 | CMV: Video games that deal with sports don't make any sense to me and I see no purpose in it, other than playing them to have fun. | I'll use Madden 18 as an example for my arguments. I see no point in playing video games that deal with any kind of sport in a gaming tournament or simply to find out who's better because the playing field will never be equal. A video game can't adequately incorporate the skills of a real professional NFL player and th... | 1,509,063,150 | Sp4mDestroyer | doy085v | doxz8h1 | 3 | 1 |
CMV: Christopher Columbus was scum, his actions set about a chain of events that led to catastrophic results. His day should be remembered but not celebrated. Perhaps a period of mourning for the fallen would be more appropriate.
Every holiday has its own dark history. Columbus day should be remembered but not celebra... | I dont think the disease example is even close to compelling. It was the 1500s. How the fuck were they supposed to know how deadly their diseases were to natives? Vaccines were invented 300 years later, so Im not sure they even had a concept of the immune system.
They took the voyage not knowing who they would meet. ... | I mostly agree with the view that Columbus isn't the best person to celebrate, and it would be like celebrating Cortez or the captain of a ship set to colonize a new land.
However, this line got me:
>subjecting the Americas to a bloody and brutal process of **gentrification** and exploitation
I wouldn't call coloniz... | sl91ao | CMV: Christopher Columbus was scum, his actions set about a chain of events that led to catastrophic results. His day should be remembered but not celebrated. Perhaps a period of mourning for the fallen would be more appropriate. | Every holiday has its own dark history. Columbus day should be remembered but not celebrated. It was an important event in the European exploration of the American continent which eventually led to the founding of the 13 colonies that would eventually grow to become the United States of America, but it was a blemish in... | 1,644,073,618 | brawl113 | hvpihy6 | hvpfqn9 | 29 | 10 |
CMV: 2014 was a horrible, no-good year
I maintain that 2014 was an unusually bad year, and a huge number of amazingly terrible events are concentrated in that year.
**#CancelColbert**
"CancelColbert" became a trending hashtag, thanks to Twitter activist Suey Park. The hashtag claimed that Stephen Colbert was racist... | 1) Many of the events you listed are passing controversies which aren't very significant (in net global suffering) in and of themselves. They are supposedly significant because they started a "trend." But how do we define when the trend starts? Couldn't we pick several similarly plausible starting points for any given ... | A pro Russian separatist could argue it was a great year.
Islam radicals could argue it as a great year as well.
A republican could say that the year was great.
One could even argue that the Ebola outbreak saved lives because it caused the WHO and other organizations to be more prepared and ready for future outbreak... | 93u1cx | CMV: 2014 was a horrible, no-good year | I maintain that 2014 was an unusually bad year, and a huge number of amazingly terrible events are concentrated in that year.
**#CancelColbert**
"CancelColbert" became a trending hashtag, thanks to Twitter activist Suey Park. The hashtag claimed that Stephen Colbert was racist for using "ching chong chinaman" as a p... | 1,533,165,004 | beet_0 | e3gtapk | e3glavl | 3 | 0 |
CMV: Professional athletes should be paid far less than they are
As you probably know, professional athletes can be paid up to about $100 million in a year (Information taken from Forbes), and I believe that is is way too much. Yes, they do provide entertainment for millions of people, but you could live without it. I... | Millions of people consent to buying tickets to go to games and buy sports merchandise.
Sports teams consent to paying sports stars huge salaries, because if they didnt then they would go to someone else. They generate tremendous revenue and so they have that power.
This is completely 100% fair. Everything involved he... | I agree that teachers should be paid more, but for that society needs to change. Economic theory dictates that wages should be equal to the marginal product of Labour, which is enormous in the world of pro sport. Some fair arguments to be made that they're actually underpaid.
The chances of a male NCAA player making ... | 6q2aml | CMV: Professional athletes should be paid far less than they are | As you probably know, professional athletes can be paid up to about $100 million in a year (Information taken from Forbes), and I believe that is is way too much. Yes, they do provide entertainment for millions of people, but you could live without it. In contrast, teachers, who are super necessary to society, can bare... | 1,501,227,090 | BrigandsRealm | dku0awf | dku05dv | 25 | 3 |
CMV: Romantic comedies no longer have the ability to offer modern Hollywood and the movie industry a unique experience.
# Introduction
This was inspired by my SO's recent demand of the genre and her demand for me to view them with her. I'm **not** going to argue that the impact that Rom-Coms have had throughout the s... | Just a quick question, what do you think of "Silver Linings Playbook"? That was a relatively recent Romantic Comedy that seems to deliver on "taboo topics", visuals, and a unique soundtrack. Also, is just a great general movie. | I'm not sure why you are applying this specifically to rom-coms, pretty much all movies today follow basic, repeated tropes. Action, drama, superhero, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, pretty much every movie released has predictable story beats, recycled characters, and obvious conclusions.
I think my overall point is that ... | 942m33 | CMV: Romantic comedies no longer have the ability to offer modern Hollywood and the movie industry a unique experience. | # Introduction
This was inspired by my SO's recent demand of the genre and her demand for me to view them with her. I'm **not** going to argue that the impact that Rom-Coms have had throughout the span of the movie industry has been astronomic, not only for the development of (hybrid) genres but also the progression o... | 1,533,239,621 | Bradalam | e3humyt | e3hstc4 | 3 | 2 |
CMV: Being attached at the hip to technology is not a bad thing
I view my phone (especially) as an extension of myself, almost another organ of myself at this point.
It’s my second brain, the place where I store my thoughts, how I “touch” a lot of the world, “see and hear” what going on.
Many people say we need to... | yes. technology is useful and can be great and help us a lot
BUT - its more the apps you download.
Most apps are designed to be distraction machines not really designed for your benefit. (social media, news etc), and so really its not the technology of a phone its the application and allocation of your most vital res... | I agree that technology is a tool, but seeing it as an extension of the body is a bit of a logical jump to me. Yes it can hold information so you don’t have to remember it, but the same thing applies to anything you can write on. Would a notebook or a stone tablet also count as an extension of your body? I agree that t... | smsfox | CMV: Being attached at the hip to technology is not a bad thing | I view my phone (especially) as an extension of myself, almost another organ of myself at this point.
It’s my second brain, the place where I store my thoughts, how I “touch” a lot of the world, “see and hear” what going on.
Many people say we need to break away from technology and be more natural but I guess I don... | 1,644,246,588 | invamino | hvygnnj | hvydfms | 3 | 1 |
CMV: I don't see why (strictly legally speaking) United should have settled with Dr. Dao
From a PR perspective, sure I see why.
But I don't see how they did anything wrong from a legal perspective. They in fact barely did anything at all.
Person was on their plane > They asked person to leave their plane > Person re... | > Person was on their plane > They asked person to leave their plane > Person refused to leave their plane > United calls the police
It is important to realize both that this was a paying passenger with a valid ticket and it was airport security not the police.
IANAL, but a ticket represents a contract between the a... | 1) PR wise they were held accountable by the public because they should not have been removing the Dr. at all and they should not have called the police. They violated his rights as a paying customer and used the police as a weapon to harm him. The only way they could handle the situation is to settle.
2) Because the... | 7sg5nz | CMV: I don't see why (strictly legally speaking) United should have settled with Dr. Dao | From a PR perspective, sure I see why.
But I don't see how they did anything wrong from a legal perspective. They in fact barely did anything at all.
Person was on their plane > They asked person to leave their plane > Person refused to leave their plane > United calls the police
That's the end of United's actions t... | 1,516,729,532 | ZeusThunder369 | dt4z6zt | dt4jgk7 | 2 | 1 |
CMV: Police officers are not out to harm African Americans and the majority of police killings are justified
At face value, you'd think that they are, seeing their low percentage of the population (13%) compared to their being shot 23% of times.
However if we look at the FBI statistics, raw data, we see that blacks ... | [Here's the second report from the coroner](https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MNHENNE/2020/06/01/file_attachments/1464238/2020-3700%20Floyd,%20George%20Perry%20Update%206.1.2020.pdf)
It says Chauvin was the cause of death.
Have I changed your view? | When you write that African Americans “commit” a disproportionate amount of crimes, is what you really mean that they are arrested for more crimes? | hh3l6k | CMV: Police officers are not out to harm African Americans and the majority of police killings are justified | At face value, you'd think that they are, seeing their low percentage of the population (13%) compared to their being shot 23% of times.
However if we look at the FBI statistics, raw data, we see that blacks are arrested for 29% of crime, but are only shot 23% of the time.
It's even more damning if we factor in the... | 1,593,299,006 | Jezzaw21 | fw7p8v3 | fw7ox56 | 6 | 3 |
CMV: Police officers are not out to harm African Americans and the majority of police killings are justified
At face value, you'd think that they are, seeing their low percentage of the population (13%) compared to their being shot 23% of times.
However if we look at the FBI statistics, raw data, we see that blacks ... | If you watch bodycam footage, police have to make a split second decision which isn't always the best one. This isn't a warzone, it's where civilians live and they must act with everyone in mind. I'm not familiar with the military regulations, so I can't comment on them, however they are much more well equipped than po... | So I’m just going to jump in in this one part:
>commit 29% of crimes
How would we know that? All we could actually know is that blacks are arrested and convicted at that rate. That’s equally indicative of over policing of black communities as it is of some kind of rate of criminality.
I mean think about it. If we a... | hh3l6k | CMV: Police officers are not out to harm African Americans and the majority of police killings are justified | At face value, you'd think that they are, seeing their low percentage of the population (13%) compared to their being shot 23% of times.
However if we look at the FBI statistics, raw data, we see that blacks are arrested for 29% of crime, but are only shot 23% of the time.
It's even more damning if we factor in the... | 1,593,299,006 | Jezzaw21 | fw7pv2y | fw7pisr | 1 | 0 |
CMV: Being attached at the hip to technology is not a bad thing
I view my phone (especially) as an extension of myself, almost another organ of myself at this point.
It’s my second brain, the place where I store my thoughts, how I “touch” a lot of the world, “see and hear” what going on.
Many people say we need to... | >But what makes living a digital life less real? If someone were to force me to be Ted kascyinski and live in a cabin it would far more deleterious for my mental health than my phone is.
There is a nice middle ground between always being on your phone at the dinner table, and living like Teddy in the woods. | How many phone numbers can you remember? How's your sense of direction?
I know plenty of people who could not remember their mothers cell phone number off the top of their head and plenty of people that could not drive to the grocery store without Waze open. People are relying too heavily on their cell phones for ba... | smsfox | CMV: Being attached at the hip to technology is not a bad thing | I view my phone (especially) as an extension of myself, almost another organ of myself at this point.
It’s my second brain, the place where I store my thoughts, how I “touch” a lot of the world, “see and hear” what going on.
Many people say we need to break away from technology and be more natural but I guess I don... | 1,644,246,588 | invamino | hvyc5w8 | hvybcx4 | 3 | 0 |
CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious'
Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to conside... | Atheist doesn’t mean non-religious, but it’s widely used like that in English, and English not having an official dictionary perpetuates it. The word comes from French word atheist (not Greek) and the official meaning of it is “Personne qui nie l’existence de toute divinité.” which translates roughly to “someone who re... | If you wanna get done to definition level here, being an atheist by definition would mean you are also non-religious, since being non-religious just means you dont follow or perscribe to religion.
However, non-religious people arent always atheists. Many non-religious people I know still perscribe to certain ideas of ... | q4yf1d | CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious' | Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to consider whether or not to accept it. It's a non-starter. It's no different to how I treat any... | 1,633,829,258 | [deleted] | hg2zf8b | hg1w0xd | 4 | 1 |
CMV: Facebook feels like such an outdated and clumsy product.
I don't know if it's the layout or if it's the stupid requirements such as asking people to use their real names or the lack of anonymity or the difficulty in joining groups...overall, Facebook feels like such a clumsy product compared to Reddit. And it fee... | Which shows they are functioning as intended. They don’t want accounts like yours, you experienced significant pain in trying to use their services and have therefore been dissuaded from using their service. They filtered you out without having to outright ban you. | Facebook does a few things very well. Events, marketplace, messenger, and personalized ads come to mind. If you go in treating it like Reddit or another social media platform, you're not going to think it's very good because you're comparing the wrong things. | 10rrd9k | CMV: Facebook feels like such an outdated and clumsy product. | I don't know if it's the layout or if it's the stupid requirements such as asking people to use their real names or the lack of anonymity or the difficulty in joining groups...overall, Facebook feels like such a clumsy product compared to Reddit. And it feels like it's a normie cage.
I donno...I am pretty pissed. I wa... | 1,675,348,786 | Legitimate-Builder82 | j6yf3ck | j6xnqn1 | 12 | 2 |
CMV: Becoming a police officer should mimic the process of becoming a firefighter.
Firefighters tend to be pretty chill, and not just because people who want to be firefighters are chill people. It's the process that weeds out a lot of bad apples.
Let me explain.
In California, becoming a firefighter in a city is i... | I'm a veteran SoCal cop.
>There's lots of applicants with Fire Science degrees, and many have worked shit hours with shit pay as EMTs/paramedics. So you have people willing to sacrifice years of hard work to become a firefighter, because it both has a great pay and a lot of respect
I bet there are some FF/Paramedics ... | >Firefighters tend to be pretty chill
I was a volunteer in NY for 6 years, I worked with many people who were FDNY and NYPD. Firefighters are more chill because they don't put up with the same shit that cops do, you only deal with a little bit of it as a firefighter.
Same with working on an ambulance, you get a littl... | 10s59es | CMV: Becoming a police officer should mimic the process of becoming a firefighter. | Firefighters tend to be pretty chill, and not just because people who want to be firefighters are chill people. It's the process that weeds out a lot of bad apples.
Let me explain.
In California, becoming a firefighter in a city is incredibly competitive. There's lots of applicants with Fire Science degrees, and man... | 1,675,382,517 | seaneihm | j6zw3bz | j6zrjzq | 145 | 39 |
CMV: Police departments shouldn't be allowed to purchase liability insurance to cover inappropriate or illegal police behavior.
Right now, in most US states, police departments are covered by liability insurance that covers any settlement or lawsuit costs they incur.
Generally, insurance always results in some level ... | Lack of insurance causes a moral hazard as departments are excessively incentivized to avoid behavior that draws expensive lawsuits even when such behavior is appropriate.
If we want to shape police behavior we should use rules, not lawsuits. Lawsuits are just a way of compensating people who are harmed, not a way to... | This wouldn’t solve the issue though.
Instead of taxpayers spending a relatively small amount on liability insurance, they are now spending an outrageous amount on misconduct lawsuits. Without insurance, this would become a much larger burden on the taxpayer. | hh2693 | CMV: Police departments shouldn't be allowed to purchase liability insurance to cover inappropriate or illegal police behavior. | Right now, in most US states, police departments are covered by liability insurance that covers any settlement or lawsuit costs they incur.
Generally, insurance always results in some level of moral hazard, where the safety net of insurance results in more reckless behavior (for instance, one theory suggests that afte... | 1,593,294,213 | an27725 | fw7ghln | fw7g1by | 6 | 2 |
CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious'
Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to conside... | >Neither side of that argument can productively argue their stance. If you replace the argument of god for example, with anything faith based, I would treat it the same.
Well, no, that's not necessarily true. An agnostic (aka weak, aka lacktheist) athest can argue their stance very successfully, and ironically, they w... | This must be what I don't get. You are saying that I can define god as anything I want it to be? Then what is the purpose or the word God? If I can attach any meaning I want to it, why am I attaching it to G O D? What's my motivation to go through this process at all?
I have no use for the word God. But if someone wan... | q4yf1d | CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious' | Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to consider whether or not to accept it. It's a non-starter. It's no different to how I treat any... | 1,633,829,258 | [deleted] | hg4stkq | hg2geo4 | 2 | 1 |
CMV: Police departments shouldn't be allowed to purchase liability insurance to cover inappropriate or illegal police behavior.
Right now, in most US states, police departments are covered by liability insurance that covers any settlement or lawsuit costs they incur.
Generally, insurance always results in some level ... | You might have misunderstood my proposal. I think that the police officers should be personally liable for any legal fees and lawsuits they incur as a result of their personal negligence or misconduct.
That doesn't put any burden on taxpayers. However, it will likely act as a disincentive for police officers that ofte... | Liability insurance is needed. Any cop on the beat could have someone pull out in front of them in a vehicle. Or, like what happened to a friend of mine, a homeless man in a state of disillusion, jumped in front of his truck.
The problem stems from police union contracts. I myself am a union member, and pro union. Ho... | hh2693 | CMV: Police departments shouldn't be allowed to purchase liability insurance to cover inappropriate or illegal police behavior. | Right now, in most US states, police departments are covered by liability insurance that covers any settlement or lawsuit costs they incur.
Generally, insurance always results in some level of moral hazard, where the safety net of insurance results in more reckless behavior (for instance, one theory suggests that afte... | 1,593,294,213 | an27725 | fw7k3wr | fw7h7mc | 1 | 0 |
CMV: Most corporate jargon is harmless slang and we shouldn't get so worked up about it.
I work teaching critical thinking and deception awareness for businesses and schools.
One of the issues I come up against is the campaign against corporate jargon, idioms and words that only seem to exist in the business world.
... | I disagree. I feel like it's just an off-shoot of hucksterism, finessing people for a particular agenda. You want to sound more intelligent than you really are? Go out of your way to use alternate words. You want to manipulate someone? Use euphemisms. And teen slang isn't much better.
"Hook up" for having sex with som... | Usually this form of policing is done in passive aggressive fashion. Things like feigning they don’t understand someone or not engaging because of use of the “wrong” term for something. It can more overt in the form of derailing someone’s narrative by unnecessarily interjecting to “correct” semantics. Similar to the be... | q4xnkw | CMV: Most corporate jargon is harmless slang and we shouldn't get so worked up about it. | I work teaching critical thinking and deception awareness for businesses and schools.
One of the issues I come up against is the campaign against corporate jargon, idioms and words that only seem to exist in the business world.
"I don't have band-width for that""I'll parallel both options""What are the learnings from... | 1,633,826,186 | NJJbadscience | hg4hfix | hg2715t | 4 | 2 |
CMV:Pragmatically, I believe abortion should be legal, but not because I think it is morally right or the woman’s right to decide.
• With regards to whether it is killing a person: I think there are convincing arguments on both sides of this debate, but I don’t think we will ever be able to come up with definitive obj... | >because I don’t believe we will ever be able to agree whether abortion is killing a person, I again don’t think this should be used as criteria for making the decision.
I think you actually *have to* solve this issue first before moving to other reasons for abortion for two reasons:
1)Wouldn't reason dictate that we... | Clarifying question: Are you suggesting a system where only abortions that fit the criteria you give is legal, or where abortion is legal in general because it's worth it to protect those who fit the criteria? | 6pzxdq | CMV:Pragmatically, I believe abortion should be legal, but not because I think it is morally right or the woman’s right to decide. | • With regards to whether it is killing a person: I think there are convincing arguments on both sides of this debate, but I don’t think we will ever be able to come up with definitive objective criteria in characterizing when a fetus becomes a person, therefore I don’t think it should be used to make the decision as t... | 1,501,198,158 | thinkthink33 | dktl2sy | dktkb07 | 3 | 1 |
CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard.
technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher sui... | So first of all ever consider more discrimination and higher suicide rate is from harassment and bigotry and not themselves?
Second no parent is forcing kids to be trans as that seems to be the buzz going around. If a kid wants to dress one way or go by a different name which is literally all that transition would be... | >How is adding “some people are neither, some people feel different inside than what they seem like on the outside” bad parenting?
This implies that there is some correlation between an inside feeling and an outside appearance.
What is this connection? What is the difference between feeling like a boy and feeling lik... | 10sc4gf | CMV: trans's parent has bad parenting skills. But, they are too small in number which will not become the standard. | technically I have 2 views here, feel free to change either one:
1. The reason why transgender exists is mostly because of bad parenting / parenting skills.
The transgender statistic is bad: Higher suicide rate, more discrimination, etc. Every Transgender is basically a warrior, they are fighting (intentional or not)... | 1,675,401,827 | kagekyaa | j711tvu | j70zk8s | 3 | -1 |
CMV: the asterisk in trans* is pointless and distracting.
Right, so, I am ostensibly supportive of trans people. I'm onboard with genderfluidity as a general concept, I am not upset at any request to refer to someone by their preferred pronoun (well... maybe not "*xe*" for now, but that's another CMV), and I do recogn... | I'm interested in your point that it may be a placeholder between transgender and transsexual; to be completely honest, I've forgotten the difference!
I think that "transgender" is the word to basically describe someone born into the wrong body, and "transsexual" explicitly refers to someone who has undergone surgery.... | Yes, it is meant to be a wildcard that would stand in for whatever else one might want to put after the trans.
I agree with you that it is, on a practical level, indistinguishable from using "trans" without the asterisk. But I don't think it's realistic to think that anyone who's ready to harass trans people is going... | 93zng0 | CMV: the asterisk in trans* is pointless and distracting. | Right, so, I am ostensibly supportive of trans people. I'm onboard with genderfluidity as a general concept, I am not upset at any request to refer to someone by their preferred pronoun (well... maybe not "*xe*" for now, but that's another CMV), and I do recognise that I probably have some inherent transphobic beliefs.... | 1,533,219,469 | almostambidextrous | e3h9ksd | e3h5vga | 2 | 1 |
CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious'
Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to conside... | Atheist doesn’t mean non-religious, but it’s widely used like that in English, and English not having an official dictionary perpetuates it. The word comes from French word atheist (not Greek) and the official meaning of it is “Personne qui nie l’existence de toute divinité.” which translates roughly to “someone who re... | If you wanna get done to definition level here, being an atheist by definition would mean you are also non-religious, since being non-religious just means you dont follow or perscribe to religion.
However, non-religious people arent always atheists. Many non-religious people I know still perscribe to certain ideas of ... | q4yf1d | CMV: The term 'Atheist' is too vague and should not be conflated with 'non-religious' | Everything fundamental that I've ever accepted as truth (from the age of 5 when I stopped believing in Santa) has been rooted in demonstrable science.
Faith based religion cannot provide something that would make me start to consider whether or not to accept it. It's a non-starter. It's no different to how I treat any... | 1,633,829,258 | [deleted] | hg2zf8b | hg1w0xd | 4 | 1 |
CMV: It's hypocritical to be offended by such epithets as r*****, k***, n*****, and g**, but not b****, sl**, and w****.
First, I apologize for all of the asterisks. I was once banned for a week in another sub for not using them, so now I'm conforming to Reddit protocol. I imagine everyone knows the words to which I'm... | Hypocrisy is about talking a talk you don't walk. Not all inconsistency is hypocrisy, it's a specific kind.
For example, if I talk about climate change while employing business practices that contribute to it when I could afford to do otherwise, you could say I'm a hypocrite.
If someone has a prejudice against sexes ... | Bitch, slut, whore - those are words that imply you being a fuck because of things you do. They aren't seen as that of a problem cause no one is attacking whole group of people. If you call someone a whore, you aren't bringing down every woman - cause that epithet implies that this one differs.
Kike, spic, nigger - t... | q4tuhv | CMV: It's hypocritical to be offended by such epithets as r*****, k***, n*****, and g**, but not b****, sl**, and w****. | First, I apologize for all of the asterisks. I was once banned for a week in another sub for not using them, so now I'm conforming to Reddit protocol. I imagine everyone knows the words to which I'm alluding.
Personally, I think context matters in terms of whether I'm offended by what someone says. I don't have absolu... | 1,633,812,924 | agonisticpathos | hg0ygic | hg0y3s6 | 10 | 3 |
CMV: the U.S. is headed towards a civil war
I want to start off by saying I really don’t want there to be a civil war but I’m really worried about the possibility of it happening in the next year or two.
Wealth inequality is at an all time high and there’s a significant amount of people today who are extremely angry ... | The thing is, January 6 got as far as it did because the president in power at the time supported what was happening. The person in control of the military and defense was the one pushing for treason and a dictatorship.
The last time the US had a civil war, the leadup involved years and years of open, explicit violenc... | A democrat running against a republican must have a 7 point advantage overall on the generic ballot in order to win the presidency.
This is because low population density areas are structurally overrepresented in the electoral college (in the Senate by design and in the House as a consequence of many factors from the... | 199fevk | CMV: the U.S. is headed towards a civil war | I want to start off by saying I really don’t want there to be a civil war but I’m really worried about the possibility of it happening in the next year or two.
Wealth inequality is at an all time high and there’s a significant amount of people today who are extremely angry and hopeless and easily radicalized.
I think... | 1,705,545,722 | eriksen2398 | kidscjx | kidqwnd | 1 | -2 |
CMV: Tipping should not be expected
I believe tipping has become a social pressure and is expected in our culture or one risks appearing rude. TripAdvisor states, that “It is customary to tip approximately 15-20% on the total bill before tax, less for poor service, more for truly exceptional service. Many restaurants ... | > 1) yes, many employees are paid minimum wage (in Canada) but they accepted this job knowing the pay.
They also accepted the job with the understanding that they would earn tips on top of the hourly wage. If they'd known they wouldn't get tips, they may have taken a different job.
Moreover, I know you say you're i... | Shouldn't be expected by who? As long as the waiters get enough tips on average to earn a living wage, they will be fine. They want a tip from everyone, but understand some people will not tip. I agree with point one and two. As long as the business makes a profit and the staff doesn't protest, the mangers/owners don't... | 78t6f9 | CMV: Tipping should not be expected | I believe tipping has become a social pressure and is expected in our culture or one risks appearing rude. TripAdvisor states, that “It is customary to tip approximately 15-20% on the total bill before tax, less for poor service, more for truly exceptional service. Many restaurants may charge an automatic 15-18% gratui... | 1,508,990,778 | Lsheiahegaoaneywk | dowznd7 | dowpq6i | 8 | 2 |
CMV: I hate feminism.
I hate feminism.
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I hate feminism. I grew up with a leftist mother that always shunned me for just not wanting to agree with her views; she started to spew sexist things at me whenever I said any anti-feminist thing.
Nowadays, we finally have a Conservative candidate after a decade of prog... | >the average earnings of men and women based on the jobs the majority choose which has been debunked.
This may be true, but men are *more likely* to get *hired* in the male dominated fields that have higher pay.
So yes, part of it is women choose to go into lower paying jobs. Some of this is because of biological re... | How has the wage gap been debunked? From what I know a lot of it can be explained by individual preferences, but not all of it.
Why should feminists be against rape accusations? They should be against false rape accusations, but false rape accusations are not as widespread a problem as rape is, and very, very few accu... | 7shd8f | CMV: I hate feminism. | I hate feminism.
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I hate feminism. I grew up with a leftist mother that always shunned me for just not wanting to agree with her views; she started to spew sexist things at me whenever I said any anti-feminist thing.
Nowadays, we finally have a Conservative candidate after a decade of progressists that are corru... | 1,516,738,782 | KanoDoMario | dt4r67p | dt4r34s | 4 | 1 |
CMV: It is impossible to separate religion from politics
As long as we're talking about a religion which tells the worshiper what is right and what is wrong (e.g. Christianity), you can't separate religious beliefs from politics.
Religious people will vote for political legislation that they believe to be aligned wit... | I think separating religion from politics is not that people should not vote according to their beliefs, which in many cases come from religious teachings. Rather, the separation of church and state is that our elected officials, given that we are a diverse nation which is full of different ideologies and religions, sh... | You cannot separate politics from your values. Even cold economic issues have subjective values at their core. But you can separate politics from religion, especially Christianity which does not obligate its followers to create a theocratic government.
The pope never ruled nations.
So for example, Christians gener... | 942j1r | CMV: It is impossible to separate religion from politics | As long as we're talking about a religion which tells the worshiper what is right and what is wrong (e.g. Christianity), you can't separate religious beliefs from politics.
Religious people will vote for political legislation that they believe to be aligned with their religious values, which in turn meaning religion i... | 1,533,239,047 | seanwarmstrong1 | e3hty1x | e3ht0qd | 7 | 1 |
CMV: You should put your preferred pronouns in your email signature.
My previous boss had a traditionally female name and I applied to this position via email. During the hiring process I did not realize I was misgendering him until we met in person. This was a pretty awkward interview for both of us, and although I g... | There is the old phrase, is the juice worth the squeeze?
I send often hundreds of emails per week and i receive hundreds per day. Email signature use screen space so there is a cost to making them longer. Why would someone who I've worked with for a decade need to be reminded 10 times a day what my gender is?
beside... | If you used your boss’s first name when corresponding, could the awkwardness you mentioned have been avoided?
I.e. if you didn’t have to refer to them as Ms. Smith, does it solve the problem you mentioned? | g9tyg4 | CMV: You should put your preferred pronouns in your email signature. | My previous boss had a traditionally female name and I applied to this position via email. During the hiring process I did not realize I was misgendering him until we met in person. This was a pretty awkward interview for both of us, and although I got the job, I realize the whole situation could have been avoided had ... | 1,588,102,743 | DarkMatt-R | fovkwvs | fovkmdd | 15 | 1 |
CMV: Most corporate jargon is harmless slang and we shouldn't get so worked up about it.
I work teaching critical thinking and deception awareness for businesses and schools.
One of the issues I come up against is the campaign against corporate jargon, idioms and words that only seem to exist in the business world.
... | Generally I agree. Where it can be problematic is when the usage is informally mandated as a tool to control/coerce people by creating “in groups” that police other people’s communications under undermine the relevance of what others are trying to convey. However this isn’t that prevalent in corporate culture, more com... | I use bandwidth and I use it because people know *exactly* what I mean when I say that. If I said, "I don't have the time", that sounds disingenuous. If I said, "I don't have the energy", that sounds...odd. The word you're dancing around is "culture."
Language is cultural, so it would make sense that a culture would ... | q4xnkw | CMV: Most corporate jargon is harmless slang and we shouldn't get so worked up about it. | I work teaching critical thinking and deception awareness for businesses and schools.
One of the issues I come up against is the campaign against corporate jargon, idioms and words that only seem to exist in the business world.
"I don't have band-width for that""I'll parallel both options""What are the learnings from... | 1,633,826,186 | NJJbadscience | hg1vtdt | hg1q1b4 | 5 | 4 |
CMV: The plot of "Captain America: Civil War" makes no sense, and the movie sucks as a result.
The major conflict in this film is that Iron Man thinks that the Avengers should operate under the jurisdiction of the United Nations, per the Sakovia Accords. Captain America, on the other hand thinks that's a bad idea. Her... | > Iron Man's position...[has]...been attempted
The Sokovia accords are much broader than you're painting them to be, and as such, it's incredibly disingenuous to portray Avengers 1 as a full and total representation of their impact.
Among the Sokovia Accords' ordinances is a lot of stuff that is absolutely 100% irrel... | >My position isn't that SHIELD caused the collateral damage. My position is that the Avengers battle with a bad guy caused collateral damage, and that this is inevitable any time the Avengers are 'assembled'.
Let’s assume you are correct, and the Avengers cannot assemble without collateral damage. The point of the Sl... | 7sfk1f | CMV: The plot of "Captain America: Civil War" makes no sense, and the movie sucks as a result. | The major conflict in this film is that Iron Man thinks that the Avengers should operate under the jurisdiction of the United Nations, per the Sakovia Accords. Captain America, on the other hand thinks that's a bad idea. Here's the thing though: those two ideas aren't different in any meaningful way whatsoever. Let me ... | 1,516,724,778 | pujoljunkie | dt4lw0a | dt4cued | 113 | 88 |
CMV: Women should not serve in the front lines in the military
My instinct is strongly that women should be able to serve like men in combat, both as a matter of fairness to women (they should have the same opportunities as men) and to men (men shouldn't be the only ones dying for their country).
However, I recently ... | Point 1: women are already on the front lines. Every unit has the potential for being attacked in modern warfare.
Point 2: I think commanders should make the decision as to how best staff their units. Having blanket restrictions like this leads to the creation of shit like "Female Engagement Teams" instead of using a... | > We can't draw conclusions from a 4 page summary. Other sources which have seen the full study pointed out:
I think this is ironic, given that you are cherry picking one quote. Look at the rest of what is being said:
>But other pages from the report, seen by the Guardian, indicate that women were not expected to pos... | 7sk7i2 | CMV: Women should not serve in the front lines in the military | My instinct is strongly that women should be able to serve like men in combat, both as a matter of fairness to women (they should have the same opportunities as men) and to men (men shouldn't be the only ones dying for their country).
However, I recently saw an article that seems to show pretty conclusively that women... | 1,516,763,509 | ricksc-137 | dt65y0p | dt5nfnq | 5 | 1 |
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