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CMV: Summer assignments for school are an insult to the very idea of summer vacation
Basically, the title is my entire idea. When students are about to get out of school for the summer (at least in middle/high school for the US) and are prepared to relax, they instead get hit with multiple assignments to be completed ... | >And finally, if you were at your job and took a vacation, you would laugh in the face of any person trying to give you something to work on over it. A vacation is a break from work, not more time to do it.
Sure but the average American gets 2 weeks vacation. For the rest of the summer, don't you think you should be... | Do you believe the same thing about homework assignments over a weekend? Why would you not want to optimize your ability to learn and compete in an academic setting in every way possible? A school's primary motive is to set the participants up for success.
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I mean, homework is pretty much just as bad, as if the s... | cfqadt | CMV: Summer assignments for school are an insult to the very idea of summer vacation | Basically, the title is my entire idea. When students are about to get out of school for the summer (at least in middle/high school for the US) and are prepared to relax, they instead get hit with multiple assignments to be completed over the summer. How this idea managed to get started I have no idea, and any reasonin... | blueninja416 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: There are more natural whole numbers than even numbers
So I've come across this concept that the set of natural whole numbers (including even numbers and odd numbers) has the same cardinality as the set of even numbers.
I just can't wrap my brain around this. I *feel* like it's wrong, but better mathematicians t... | Short answer: no.
As to why your example doesn't work for the whole numbers. If you bound a set you are not talking about the same set. Specifically you have taken an infinite set and bounded it to be finite.
Does that make sense?
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`f(n)=2n)`
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Let's interpret what this means. It means that for every even number, there exist a unique natural number, and we can exhaust all natural numbers in this way. If on on... | 177n1k1 | CMV: There are more natural whole numbers than even numbers | So I've come across this concept that the set of natural whole numbers (including even numbers and odd numbers) has the same cardinality as the set of even numbers.
I just can't wrap my brain around this. I *feel* like it's wrong, but better mathematicians than me claim it's right, so I'd like the flaws in my logic to... | ImpossibleSquish | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Football is one of the gayest sports out there.
First, I will like to point out that I am a gay man. Just gonna clear that out so no one gets offended. Anyone here's my arguments:
\- Football is basically "a bunch of sweaty guys tackling each other, fighting over a ball".
\- Too much human contact between a ma... | Any sport or physical activity can't have a sexual preference. Attributing something as individually personal as one's sexual identity to any physical activity doesn't really make sense. I would say that even includes sex. Two men or women having sex isn't necessarily gay, it is the attraction and desire to be with ... | What about wrestling, I would say that is gayer
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I have mentioned it as one, yes. Sadly, the topic is about football only.
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State champ wrestler here. It’s only gay if you make eye contact.
| a7il3u | CMV: Football is one of the gayest sports out there. | First, I will like to point out that I am a gay man. Just gonna clear that out so no one gets offended. Anyone here's my arguments:
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\- Too much human contact between a man and another man.
\- The game is intense and "in the... | MysteriousDreamz | 3 | 3 | [
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cmv: It's in our best interest to kill predators
Before anything let me clarify, in this argument, **when I say 'predator' I mean the following: land predators excluding insects, but counting predatory mammals and reptiles** (I'll explain why at the end). Predators like tigers or lions etc. that are classified as enda... | I don't think it is at all self-evident that humans could succeed at controlling the population of prey animals, which are often noted for their ability to breed rapidly. Take deer and wild boar, which are managed through relatively popular hunting programs and are still routinely overpopulated in much of the United St... | You claim that the eradication of predators would open up jobs for people in developing countries because the people would then need to take the place of those predators.
This would be a step backwards because the labor required to maintain the ecosystem and prevent it from collapsing would pull money, time, and manpo... | kakz3v | cmv: It's in our best interest to kill predators | Before anything let me clarify, in this argument, **when I say 'predator' I mean the following: land predators excluding insects, but counting predatory mammals and reptiles** (I'll explain why at the end). Predators like tigers or lions etc. that are classified as endangered, populations have crashed and are going ext... | NANIDESSUGA | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: I liked the twist in Season 8 of Game of Thrones (Spoilers)
So, go away if you have not seen the latest season. Just go.
So, in my view the big twist of Danny going "evil" was well done and amazing. I also believe this is what will happen in the books (probably better written and the details changed, but end re... | The real problem everyone talking about was that how it was so rushed rather than how she went evil. It would've been better if they dedicated an entire season on her descent to madness.
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The thing is we have had her decent since the begining. I think it's best to have it hidden from view, something you look back ... | There are already a few good responses so I’ll focus on just one aspect: the rationalisation of burning of King’s Landing as “making an example so no one will cross her”.
You seem to be defending it as Machiavellian Realpolitik...Many people have heard the quote:
“Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to... | btsdbj | CMV: I liked the twist in Season 8 of Game of Thrones (Spoilers) | So, go away if you have not seen the latest season. Just go.
So, in my view the big twist of Danny going "evil" was well done and amazing. I also believe this is what will happen in the books (probably better written and the details changed, but end result the same). I'm going to preface this by disclaiming that, whi... | valmeister | 3 | 2 | [
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CMV: The left-wing in developing countries is kinda useless.
- Neoliberalism is the most appropriate economic system for developing countries. This kind of countries usually doesn't have the budget to sustain too many state companies, so at least some of these services should be done by private companies. Privatizatio... | Say what you will about the rest of the situation there, but my understanding is that Cuba managed to get a pretty good health care system in place.
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Even if the physicians are poorly paid? Also, the minimal wage there is awfully low for a country with a high HDI.
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Not to defend Cuba here (I quite frankly don... | * I am not sure why you believe country can have the wealth to sustain private industry but not have the wealth to sustain government services/state companies. Additionally, "no private companies" is a different thing than "left-wing."
* Saying "we live in a society where we are expected to make money, we can't afford ... | 9qdicu | CMV: The left-wing in developing countries is kinda useless. | - Neoliberalism is the most appropriate economic system for developing countries. This kind of countries usually doesn't have the budget to sustain too many state companies, so at least some of these services should be done by private companies. Privatizations done well are good, don't deposit too much faith on left-wi... | garaile64 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Rojava is an example of the best political and economic system in the world today.
(pls research Rojava aka Democratic Federation of Northern Syria before responding)
By "best" I mean "least coercive", where "coercion" is understood to mean using violence to counteract the will of the individual; this can be act... | [deleted]
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That it has millions of people and has lasted this long under active military threat.
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You might want to present an argument for why it would be successful without military threats. Plenty of systems can survive a military threat, but that is no guarantee for sustainable peace. | I’m disappointed, I was really hoping this would be something different that was possibly a good idea. . I looked up both the country and the system it falls under. After 20ish minutes of reading I’m not a fan.
this is just another form of socialism. Libertarian socialism still has many of the same issues. And yes I a... | 9evger | CMV: Rojava is an example of the best political and economic system in the world today. | (pls research Rojava aka Democratic Federation of Northern Syria before responding)
By "best" I mean "least coercive", where "coercion" is understood to mean using violence to counteract the will of the individual; this can be active (like holding a gun to someone's head) or passive (like not feeding someone). Now obv... | comradelenin456 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The movie 300 is fascist art, and we (and I particularly) should make a concerted effort to persuade others to leave it behind
This is a two-part CMV. The first part asks for input on my view that 300 is effectively fascist art. I'm not the only one to see it this way (you can find others arguing the same thing i... | I think you're not crediting the movie with an appropriate level of self-awareness. 300 is framed from beginning to end as a story told by the last remaining Spartan specifically to serve as an in-world work of war propaganda. It accounts for the total cartoonishness of the movie in terms of explaining all the monsters... | I'm just going to nip this whole line of thought in the bud. Should Mein Kampf be a banned book?
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This doesn't do much for me. I think if people started posting memes out of Mein Kampf routinely in widely-used forums people would have some serious debates about how to respond!
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No, just no. You can't ban art.... | hdyea8 | CMV: The movie 300 is fascist art, and we (and I particularly) should make a concerted effort to persuade others to leave it behind | This is a two-part CMV. The first part asks for input on my view that 300 is effectively fascist art. I'm not the only one to see it this way (you can find others arguing the same thing if you google it), and this is a view I've held since walking out of the theater where it was showing back in 2006. On this part of it... | puckthecat | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The scientific method, not emotion, is what should constitute an opinion, unless it's just a preference
Like everyone else here, I want to learn the truth. Sometimes corruption gets in the way of the truth and that can lead to the interference of the natural process of the scientific method. Corruption is not com... | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opinion
You’re either just mistaken when it comes to what an opinion is or you’re just trying to change the words meaning in a way that has no real reasoning behind it and is just bad.
An opinion is by definition a personal judgment.
This is ironically an example of what yo... | Science can only tell us what is, not what ought to be. We can ignore it in certain cases, because of various subjective preferences. We're effectively saying "Yes, this may be true, but it doesn't matter".
So to pick some random contrived example: Pripiyat (the city near the Chernobyl powerplant) is abandoned and gra... | od5hks | CMV: The scientific method, not emotion, is what should constitute an opinion, unless it's just a preference | Like everyone else here, I want to learn the truth. Sometimes corruption gets in the way of the truth and that can lead to the interference of the natural process of the scientific method. Corruption is not compatible with the scientific method, and thus shouldn't be a scapegoat to reject the *scientific method.*
For ... | Reklaw0 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: There Has Never Been A Political Party As Divided As The Republicans In A Democracy
There is probably a historical precedent but i can't think of any so i will award an easy delta to anyone who can contrast my view on these 3 points:
There has never been a political party as divided as Republicans currently are ... | What about Civil Rights Era Dems?
In 68 you have Democrat George Wallace running as a third option in the Presidential election and winning 5 states and 13.5% of the vote.
Can you imagine someone like a Romney running in 2024 and peeling off 5 states and 13.5%? No way.
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I'm open to giving you a delta but is it a... | Most salient counterpoint is the Republicans in the late 60s/early 70s when they pursed the Southern Strategy.
It was not long after when Republicans overwhelming voted for the Civil Rights Act when they were trying to flip southern Democrat voters by appealing to white supremacy during the Goldwater campaign.
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There has never been a political party as divided as Republicans currently are that can so passionately hate each other but still unite under one flag.
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CMV: There is no reason for there to be an L in LGBTQ+
I’m starting to believe it’s really just me that thinks this and I’d really like to understand why.
The L in LGBT stands for lesbian, which is literally just a term for a gay (or homosexual) female....so by definition the G in LGBT that stands for gay includes le... | I think your bumping up against denotation vs connotation. The denotation is the actual definition, while the connotation is the perceived or felt definition. Gay actually means Homosexual, however if you were to ask most people to imagine a gay person, most would think of a man. It's more that the assumed definition ... | There's also no reason for Bi or Trans. We can just lump the whole group in as "Queer" and call it a day. Heck, that's the preferred catch-all term.
But we don't because the initialism of LGBTQIA+ (oh yea, it's longer than you thought, isn't it?) was never about just creating an efficient catch-all handle for the br... | fa4evs | CMV: There is no reason for there to be an L in LGBTQ+ | I’m starting to believe it’s really just me that thinks this and I’d really like to understand why.
The L in LGBT stands for lesbian, which is literally just a term for a gay (or homosexual) female....so by definition the G in LGBT that stands for gay includes lesbians right?
Doesn’t that make the L redundant? Doesn’... | JackinWonderland | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: At the very least, Trump knew what Epstein did
Donald Trump, a man known for walking into teen pageant changing rooms and bragging about it, said the following about sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein:
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy... He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes bea... | Can you outline specifically, in your view, what Trump know that Epstein did and at what point in time he knew it? As written your view spans decades and lacks any specificity of what you're claiming Trump "knew."
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There's also several women that said Trump rape them. Course you're probably a trumper. So you're okay with young girls getting raped. Because women have no rights in your view. ... | 18xsxxn | CMV: At the very least, Trump knew what Epstein did | Donald Trump, a man known for walking into teen pageant changing rooms and bragging about it, said the following about sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein:
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CMV: Parents who have been convicted of child abuse should be forcibly sterilised.
Firstly, my information is only based on UK statistics, so for now I would say this is only true for the UK, however I'm fairly sure that at least some parts of my argument can be extended to other countries as well.
Currently there ar... | Who would determine if the child is being abused? Could a neighbor arbitrarily report you for abuse? What if the abuser hides it really well? If you beat someone with something soft and heavy like a sock of oranges, there wouldn't be as severe bruising. Could the government say that because someone is poor, they're abu... | Medical ethics comes into play here.
Doctors will only perform an operation with informed consent of the patient. If the patient doesn’t want the operation, doctors cannot ethically perform such an operation.
So, it’s going to be very difficult to find a medical professional willing to perform a forced sterilizati... | r3hkh9 | CMV: Parents who have been convicted of child abuse should be forcibly sterilised. | Firstly, my information is only based on UK statistics, so for now I would say this is only true for the UK, however I'm fairly sure that at least some parts of my argument can be extended to other countries as well.
Currently there are on average 80,000 children in the foster care system each year in the UK with the ... | KaleidoscopeInside | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Parents who have been convicted of child abuse should be forcibly sterilised.
Firstly, my information is only based on UK statistics, so for now I would say this is only true for the UK, however I'm fairly sure that at least some parts of my argument can be extended to other countries as well.
Currently there ar... | Medical ethics comes into play here.
Doctors will only perform an operation with informed consent of the patient. If the patient doesn’t want the operation, doctors cannot ethically perform such an operation.
So, it’s going to be very difficult to find a medical professional willing to perform a forced sterilizati... | Who would determine if the child is being abused? Could a neighbor arbitrarily report you for abuse? What if the abuser hides it really well? If you beat someone with something soft and heavy like a sock of oranges, there wouldn't be as severe bruising. Could the government say that because someone is poor, they're abu... | r3hkh9 | CMV: Parents who have been convicted of child abuse should be forcibly sterilised. | Firstly, my information is only based on UK statistics, so for now I would say this is only true for the UK, however I'm fairly sure that at least some parts of my argument can be extended to other countries as well.
Currently there are on average 80,000 children in the foster care system each year in the UK with the ... | KaleidoscopeInside | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: Even as a hyperbole, it's nonsense to say you are 'forced' to watch 'liberal' stuff
The western media has waaay too many superhero shit, yet I don't feel 'forced'. I click the off button, and voila! No more super hero shit.
So when I hear people say that the media is left wing shit and they are forced to watch ... | I think I'm pretty liberal, but I can see where the conservatives are coming from when they feel "forced" to watch 'liberal stuff'.
I think the first problem we have is a category problem. What counts as "left-wing" and "right-wing"? Is it left-wing that people of color are getting more representation on media? Is it ... | I could see this depending on where you work. I am aware of several offices where they have cable news running all day on a TV, I've worked in those offices for a few weeks, it was extremely distracting.
And the employees don't really have a say in it, its the bosses who set it up and keep it going.
So, yeah, peopl... | seedh3 | CMV: Even as a hyperbole, it's nonsense to say you are 'forced' to watch 'liberal' stuff | The western media has waaay too many superhero shit, yet I don't feel 'forced'. I click the off button, and voila! No more super hero shit.
So when I hear people say that the media is left wing shit and they are forced to watch it, I roll my eyes and find it very silly. Do I admit there is a left wing bias? Most like... | donotholdyourbreath | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Abortion should be available and Pro-Choice has good intentions but most arguments are wildly inconsistent or just denial .
I believe if it’s available people should decide what’s best for themself and their child within their own reasoning. I also believe in sex education.
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Whether or not you agree with them, the view here isn’t necessarily inconsistent. Some people view the life differently depending on which stag... | fa3svk | CMV: Abortion should be available and Pro-Choice has good intentions but most arguments are wildly inconsistent or just denial . | I believe if it’s available people should decide what’s best for themself and their child within their own reasoning. I also believe in sex education.
I have a really hard time listening to people argue pro-choice simply because it just seems very inconsistent and a lot of word play,convenience, and denial .
I wish... | skepticting | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Exchanging sex or other non essentials in a relationship for favours isn't manipulative at all
Certainly, you can say that it's not a really desireable relationship, however, I don't understand the notion where people feel like they are being manipulated if their partner says 'do this or I won't have sex with you... | What is something you consider manipulative?
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Frankly, the only thing I consider manipulative and bad, (I guess I should have said what I meant by manipulation, that is bad, something that should not exist) is using food, shelter, medical care as reward/punishment for someone. Otherwise, I see the exchange of desi... | I'd be fine with this if it were entirely equal, but it's almost always one party withholding sex in exchange for favors.
So if it's entirely one sided, then no, it's very manipulative.
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Why though? If I say I will have sex with you for favours, so what? Yes, this is unpopular, I have no problem viewing relations... | sedi3c | CMV: Exchanging sex or other non essentials in a relationship for favours isn't manipulative at all | Certainly, you can say that it's not a really desireable relationship, however, I don't understand the notion where people feel like they are being manipulated if their partner says 'do this or I won't have sex with you'. It's a very cold relationship, sure, but I fail to see how it's manipulative. If someone says they... | WaterDemonPhoenix | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: forcing people to identify by their race rather than their ethnicity in popular discourse increases collectivism based on race and INCREASES racism far more than it raises awareness of privilege.
Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superi... | I think one problem with this is that a lot of people, at least in the US, are not super familiar with their family's ethnic history. This is especially true for black Americans, as many of their ancestors were enslaved and had their culture and history literally beaten out of them. Like my friend has no idea what pa... | Who is forcing this?
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Activists on the Left. They think doing this raises awareness of racial privilege but to me it is having negative intended consequences of racial collectivist ideology which leads to “us versus them” mentalities.
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To his point of, "is this really even a thing," do you live in the US?
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CMV: forcing people to identify by their race rather than their ethnicity in popular discourse increases collectivism based on race and INCREASES racism far more than it raises awareness of privilege.
Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superi... | I think one problem with this is that a lot of people, at least in the US, are not super familiar with their family's ethnic history. This is especially true for black Americans, as many of their ancestors were enslaved and had their culture and history literally beaten out of them. Like my friend has no idea what pa... | Who is forcing this?
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Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superi... | I think one problem with this is that a lot of people, at least in the US, are not super familiar with their family's ethnic history. This is especially true for black Americans, as many of their ancestors were enslaved and had their culture and history literally beaten out of them. Like my friend has no idea what pa... | >It is currently progressive/Leftist tendency to say that we must think of ourselves not as Irish, Polish, Greek, Nigerian, Jamaican, Dominican Americans but as “white” and “Black” first
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CMV: forcing people to identify by their race rather than their ethnicity in popular discourse increases collectivism based on race and INCREASES racism far more than it raises awareness of privilege.
Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superi... | >THIS IS VERY TOXIC especially for white people because the second that collectivism around whiteness becomes commonplace, it is a breeding ground for white supremacy.
By the same logic identifying by ethnicity is a breeding ground for ethnic supremacy.
Race and ethnicity are *not* fundamentally different concepts.
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Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superi... | Can I have an example of someone espousing this view? Like a well known news site or something?
I'm sort of reluctant to say too much because this really isn't a view in familiar with. It sort of sounds like a crude grasping at intersectionality.
I think you can make a good argument that tha colour of your skin is go... | >It is currently progressive/Leftist tendency to say that we must think of ourselves not as Irish, Polish, Greek, Nigerian, Jamaican, Dominican Americans but as “white” and “Black” first
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Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superi... | Can I have an example of someone espousing this view? Like a well known news site or something?
I'm sort of reluctant to say too much because this really isn't a view in familiar with. It sort of sounds like a crude grasping at intersectionality.
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Is it?
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Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superi... | Can I have an example of someone espousing this view? Like a well known news site or something?
I'm sort of reluctant to say too much because this really isn't a view in familiar with. It sort of sounds like a crude grasping at intersectionality.
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CMV: If we are going to take down statues based on the worst thing everyone has done, we should take down a lot more.
Title Edit: Statues should be taken down based on what they did as a whole and not just the one or two bad actions they did.
So first off I just want to say besides a few of the confederate statues I ... | There's two issues here. First, you're argument is kind framed around it being very bad to remove all statues, which sounds like begging the question to me (but others can correct me if I'm wrong). What's supposed to be wrong about removing all statues? I'm fine with that, if the argument holds.
Second, a statue of Wa... | > So first off I just want to say besides a few of the confederate statues I don’t think any statue should be taken down.
This directly contradicts with the view expressed in your title, which confuses me. Should we not take any statues down, or should we take a lot more statues down?
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> Now I would lik... | hdwdnx | CMV: If we are going to take down statues based on the worst thing everyone has done, we should take down a lot more. | Title Edit: Statues should be taken down based on what they did as a whole and not just the one or two bad actions they did.
So first off I just want to say besides a few of the confederate statues I don’t think any statue should be taken down.
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CMV: Governments should encourage and incentivise plant based diets
Currently meat farming is incentivised by numerous subsidies available despite it's destructive properties:
"*According to recent studies, the U.S. government spends up to $38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, with less th... | > I also suggest that governments and corporations pay 50% each towards $100 for an employee of the paying corporation that maintains a vegan diet for 6 months.
$100...is not worth it. It’s not enough incentive.
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What will the animals eat!?!?! | nkqd08 | CMV: Governments should encourage and incentivise plant based diets | Currently meat farming is incentivised by numerous subsidies available despite it's destructive properties:
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CMV: Most people don’t know how to criticize in a constructive, fair and non-exaggerated way.
Like the title says, I don’t think too many people who are putting their opinions out there on films, video games, music, etc., know how to criticize constructively, be fair in their critique, and most annoyingly, not exagger... | While it is fair to say there are a significant minority of people who have a poor ability to express their views, that doesn’t directly mean “most” people are that way.
It’s quite normal for those with well constructed views and opinions to remain silent for risk of having their views twisted and distorted by the pe... | You don't think this is an impossibly subjective standard?
A middle schooler's opinion is gonna be a hot take for an elementary school student, and is going to be hot garbage for an adult. Does that make the opinion any less valid or less purposeful? Are you sure you're the target demographic?
You bring up concerning... | 9eujas | CMV: Most people don’t know how to criticize in a constructive, fair and non-exaggerated way. | Like the title says, I don’t think too many people who are putting their opinions out there on films, video games, music, etc., know how to criticize constructively, be fair in their critique, and most annoyingly, not exaggerate the issues a certain thing has.
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CMV: Dating is, when simplified, supply and demand, this is why I think ALL single men sympathizers are wrong because men aren't entitled to women's companionship
So there's this post on I saw that had a number of upvotes that I have never seen before. Holy damn. That truly shocked me, but it related to a recent post ... | Any first year economics class will tell you that supply and demand is a drastic oversimplification of a complex topic. It is like how in physics you start by assuming a perfectly spherical frictionless cow, then you start to add in all the hundreds of thousands of confounding factors.
As a general rule, simplifying a... | Men do not deserve the cake but they do deserve the right to whine and speak up, as do women.
For me that is the issue. Media and social media encourages men to speak up about these things and then when they do they are bashed or laughed at.
Then next post is the same woman that bashed the dude complaining about ho... | r3edeo | CMV: Dating is, when simplified, supply and demand, this is why I think ALL single men sympathizers are wrong because men aren't entitled to women's companionship | So there's this post on I saw that had a number of upvotes that I have never seen before. Holy damn. That truly shocked me, but it related to a recent post I have made. I don't' think I can post it though, without maybe breaking some brigading rule. But anyways...
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CMV: Mario is a fungi-based undead zombie who metabolizes bitcoin
I know, this is quite a controversial opinion to hold. Let me spell out my case.
* Mario does not need to breathe. He is able to swim underwater indefinitely.
* Mario can run at high speeds, performing feats of great athleticism, without growing overl... | Bit coin didn’t exist when Mario was created, so it’s basically impossible for the creators to have this intention.
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* Mario does not need to breathe. He is able to swim underwater indefinitely.
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CMV: Mario is a fungi-based undead zombie who metabolizes bitcoin
I know, this is quite a controversial opinion to hold. Let me spell out my case.
* Mario does not need to breathe. He is able to swim underwater indefinitely.
* Mario can run at high speeds, performing feats of great athleticism, without growing overl... | 1. Mario cannot breathe indefinitely underwater in certain games, notably many of the 3D iterations such as SM64. If he dies in SM64 underwater due to this limitation, he will perform a drowning animation.
2. It is a misnomer to say that air doesn't exist in the Mario universe because of objects not being affected by ... | Bit coin didn’t exist when Mario was created, so it’s basically impossible for the creators to have this intention.
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* Mario does not need to breathe. He is able to swim underwater indefinitely.
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CMV: Most European countries went way too far in guaranteeing job and income security and now many services are borderline useless
I spent the last decade living in five different Western European countries. While the quality of life is pretty awesome wherever I went, I couldn't ignore the ever declining quality of cu... | I can promise you that in the capitalist utopia of the USA where basically everyone can be fired at any point for (almost) any reason or no reason at all, there are still messed up orders and lost packages and unknowledgeable attendants.
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Do employers not have mechanisms to get rid o... | "To change my view, I would like to see negative consequences that would outweigh the increased quality of services for majority of population."
If we enslaved 49% of the population, we could provide almost one servant per person and dramatically increase all of our lives right?
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Somehow i feel like 49% of the po... | 1oyr5fe | CMV: Most European countries went way too far in guaranteeing job and income security and now many services are borderline useless | I spent the last decade living in five different Western European countries. While the quality of life is pretty awesome wherever I went, I couldn't ignore the ever declining quality of customer service.
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CMV: The blind hug trend (and others) aren’t wholesome and is not about mental health
Imagine you’re walking down the street and see someone with a sign that says “If you’re having a bad day, you can hug me”. You hug the person, maybe talk to them about your troubles and go on about your day.
Except then they stop yo... | Seeing acts of kindness makes (at least some, probably many) people decide to pay it forward and do an act of kindness after seeing it.
There was an absolutely amazing liberty mutual commercial that highlighted this.
https://youtu.be/wMwoexR1evo
There is also a YouTube video called Ripple, in which a man who in hi... | This is an ancient debate about whether a good thing is still a good thing if you record yourself doing it. OP, for clarity, would you also consider these other things bad (or "not wholesome")?
* Filming yourself giving a homeless guy $1000
* A corporation advertising the fact they donated $10,000,000 to charity... | r2tdvu | CMV: The blind hug trend (and others) aren’t wholesome and is not about mental health | Imagine you’re walking down the street and see someone with a sign that says “If you’re having a bad day, you can hug me”. You hug the person, maybe talk to them about your troubles and go on about your day.
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CMV: LGBT persons taking sports issue to the supreme court would destroy both women's and LGBT persons legal protections.
Make no mistake the ruling by the SCOTUS made clear that LGBT discrimination is sex discrimination, if you bring the sports issue to the supreme court you will get a ruling so dangerious to specifi... | Probably a rule B violation but I'll bite anyway.
Most of the things you listed have *nothing* to do with discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. So the recent ruling doesn't have anything at all to do with them.
The ruling was based on a law that was passed in the 60s. If the supreme court had... | The ruling was passed regarding Title VII of the Civil Rights act, which is concerned with discrimination in employment practices.
Of all the things you listed, only item #5 could be affected by Title VII. Item #4 is *already* generally illegal, and the rest don't have anything to do with employment. Further, item #5 ... | hdtgds | CMV: LGBT persons taking sports issue to the supreme court would destroy both women's and LGBT persons legal protections. | Make no mistake the ruling by the SCOTUS made clear that LGBT discrimination is sex discrimination, if you bring the sports issue to the supreme court you will get a ruling so dangerious to specifically women and trans-women that you would fight for a constitutional amendment to overturn it ASAP.
What is the ruling? I... | [deleted] | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Instagram has lost its edge and will die out eventually
Instagram is on the decline, and will continue to do so for the next few years until they finally die out. Here are my reasons for believing that.
One - Instagram is losing its niche
Instagram had a successful niche as a photo-sharing platform, and that is... | I’m only one data point but I completely disagree with both of your arguments. As far as the first one goes I appreciate everything Instagram has added in the past couple of years. Why? Because I hate having 70+ apps on my phone. I use to have Snapchat but then Instagram got stories and Snapchat became irrelevant. I wa... | You're arguing that it's trying to catch up with other things, but that's different from failing at what it was started as.
It started as a photo sharing platform, and as a very casual user of it, that's still all I see it as.
What app is surpassing it in the photo sharing market? What photo sharing app do you s... | ocvz3l | CMV: Instagram has lost its edge and will die out eventually | Instagram is on the decline, and will continue to do so for the next few years until they finally die out. Here are my reasons for believing that.
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Instagram is on the decline, and will continue to do so for the next few years until they finally die out. Here are my reasons for believing that.
One - Instagram is losing its niche
Instagram had a successful niche as a photo-sharing platform, and that is... | I’m only one data point but I completely disagree with both of your arguments. As far as the first one goes I appreciate everything Instagram has added in the past couple of years. Why? Because I hate having 70+ apps on my phone. I use to have Snapchat but then Instagram got stories and Snapchat became irrelevant. I wa... | You lost at 1 because of the logical inconsistencies. You argue it’s losing its niche, its niche is photo-sharing and it is now moving to compete with YT and TikTok, which leans into what they have been doing with Reels.
But at no point in there have you argued why it has lost its niche. Point to any photo sharing pla... | ocvz3l | CMV: Instagram has lost its edge and will die out eventually | Instagram is on the decline, and will continue to do so for the next few years until they finally die out. Here are my reasons for believing that.
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CMV: Demonization of Nazi Germany by the US is self-aggrandization and a play for legitimacy
Americans spend an extraordinary amount of time casting the Nazi regime as the darkest force in modern history, and a good part of this fixation has less to do with sober historical judgment and more to do with polishing their... | Counterpoint: Nazi Germany was actually and objectively a generationally evil empire.
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Are you saying the demonization is deserved, but that the US has ulterior motives in doing so? Are you saying that the US demoni... | I heard a great theory a while back that World War 2 is almost like the creation myth of the western world with Hitler serving as an almost satanic figure. The left's goal is to not become nationalist and the right's to not become socialist.
Turns out it came from a neo-nazi which kind of put a dampener on the whole ... | 1oypri0 | CMV: Demonization of Nazi Germany by the US is self-aggrandization and a play for legitimacy | Americans spend an extraordinary amount of time casting the Nazi regime as the darkest force in modern history, and a good part of this fixation has less to do with sober historical judgment and more to do with polishing their own image. Turning World War II into a grand morality tale gives the United States a heroic o... | NeiborsKid | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Undercover Police and "Infiltrators and Entrapment" sound very Unconstitutional because they amount to a search without Warrant or probable cause.
If police set out a truck of shoes with the intent of it being stolen, logically that means they were giving things away to the public because it was purchased with ta... | If a cop sold you drugs and then busted you for possession, this would be entrapment…if you are doing something wrong and just happen to not notice that an unmarked car was a police officer and you get busted, this is not entrapment, it’s you breaking the law and getting caught, this argument is terrible. Are you sugge... | > If police set out a truck of shoes with the intent of it being stolen, logically that means they were giving things away to the public because it was purchased with taxpayer dollars.
That’s not at all how things work. Just because it was purchased with tax dollars doesn’t mean it’s free for the taking. If someone ha... | ocsila | CMV: Undercover Police and "Infiltrators and Entrapment" sound very Unconstitutional because they amount to a search without Warrant or probable cause. | If police set out a truck of shoes with the intent of it being stolen, logically that means they were giving things away to the public because it was purchased with taxpayer dollars.
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CMV: We don't want a political leader to have a oversized ego
Here are the signs of a huge ego (link below)
[https://gosmallbiz.com/7-signs-ego-problem/](https://gosmallbiz.com/7-signs-ego-problem/)
[https://www.lifeadvancer.com/big-ego/](https://www.lifeadvancer.com/big-ego/)
I mean the problem is that nobody who ... | size of an ego is a strategy, it works well for north Korea where if he had a small ego the military would have already committed a coup, making it about a singular person gives a measure of protection to that person.
basically its like an umbrella, its not always useful, but it has its uses
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But what about in ... | It depends on how you're going to categorize the greater good. A leader with an ego, under the right conditions, can convey strength, confidence, hope, unity, certainty, and other positive things that people want to feel and be comforted by, even when those things aren't necessarily warranted. And if we assume that the... | nk8gbx | CMV: We don't want a political leader to have a oversized ego | Here are the signs of a huge ego (link below)
[https://gosmallbiz.com/7-signs-ego-problem/](https://gosmallbiz.com/7-signs-ego-problem/)
[https://www.lifeadvancer.com/big-ego/](https://www.lifeadvancer.com/big-ego/)
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CMV: All soldiers that participate in torture and war crimes, even if under orders of their superiors, should be charged and even given worse punishments than what they currently would receive
The police and military attract a certain kind of people, that i think is common knowledge. The ones that do it for the unpuni... | Why not this, you commit a war crime and you are put to death?
It is kind of like a oath breaker facing death has nothing to lose, therefore they become 10X more dangerous as discussed in the first chapters of Game of Thrones.
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I don't know about the police, but the military attracts dumb teenagers with a semi-false promise of college money, world travel, and marketable skills post enlistment. There are 1.4 million people in the US military. You thin... | 18xm8no | CMV: All soldiers that participate in torture and war crimes, even if under orders of their superiors, should be charged and even given worse punishments than what they currently would receive | The police and military attract a certain kind of people, that i think is common knowledge. The ones that do it for the unpunished violence. I feel like, if we punished every soldier that hides behind "Was just following orders" more severly, we would start to finally see a change in the military. Until then, more of t... | FlareTheSlayer | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The world would be better off if every single person on this planet had access to the best possible education.
Edit: To clarify, by "the world" I mean our planet and every living being on it (obviously including humans)
This is something that has been on my mind a lot over the last couple of years. I want to sta... | The Germans of 1938 probably had the very best education on the planet at the time. And were highly altruistic and idealistic. Individualism, Ego and the profit motive were seen as great evils, and state indoctrination demanded service to the "greater good".
So there is that.
The road paved with good intentions quic... | This is correct, however it wouldn't be better off for everyone. This would be worse of for current "elites" who currently have an unreasonable proportion of wealth and power. Better education on a large scale would make it more difficult for those super powerful to maintain their positions and stay so far ahead in fin... | hdptar | CMV: The world would be better off if every single person on this planet had access to the best possible education. | Edit: To clarify, by "the world" I mean our planet and every living being on it (obviously including humans)
This is something that has been on my mind a lot over the last couple of years. I want to start off by making an assumptions:
It is possible for every person on this planet to gain this proposed access to educ... | Encrux615 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Democratic Candidates need to Start Dropping Out (already)
Last night there were seven Democratic candidates on the debate stage. Next week is Super Tuesday where a third of the total delegates in the whole primary are up for grabs. [According to FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-u... | >Arguably Pete Buttigieg should drop out as well, though he at least has maybe won a caucus, so I’m willing to give him a stay of execution.
I would strongly disagree there. Pete has come in a _strong_ second in two states and a respectable 3rd in another. There is a strong argument to be made that, as things stand... | >Bernie gets a plurality, but doesn’t get the nomination: thousands of furious students from Madison (and people from elsewhere) descend on the convention and Milwaukee. It would be a shirtshow.
Highly unlikely to be an issue long term. Bernie's most devoted base are all young, relatively well off people living in dee... | f9xj3e | CMV: Democratic Candidates need to Start Dropping Out (already) | Last night there were seven Democratic candidates on the debate stage. Next week is Super Tuesday where a third of the total delegates in the whole primary are up for grabs. [According to FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-what-our-forecast-says-about-every-super-tuesday-state/), B... | Halfdanr_Mildi | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: trans women should not be allowed to compete in women's sports, they should rather have a new category.
To start off, since this can't go without saying: I have no problem with the concept of dysphoria, or trans people. And in my post, "male" and "female" mean phenotypically XY and XX, and have nothing to do with... | >As has happened in the past, MtF people will not find it very hard to dominate the charts, giving cis women a severe disadvantage.
The Olympics have allowed trans women (after hormone therapy) since 2004. No single transwomen has ever won a medal.
Now, there are a few transwomen who have actually won medals on other... | Cheating a bit and copying another comment from the literal hundreds of threads on this topic. But it's been done to death and rehashing it over again isn't worth it
This is usually being discussed in the context of whether having trans women compete with cis women is fair and safe. While there are some issues involvi... | hdnoii | CMV: trans women should not be allowed to compete in women's sports, they should rather have a new category. | To start off, since this can't go without saying: I have no problem with the concept of dysphoria, or trans people. And in my post, "male" and "female" mean phenotypically XY and XX, and have nothing to do with gender.
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CMV: Opinion-based journalism needs to die
The function of an ethically responsible press media organization is to deliver unbiased information to a democratic population. Opinion-based journalism implicitly rejects this philosophy and instead promotes a system in which rational agents sacrifice their own agency in fa... | There are 3 things I want you to consider here:
First of all is language. As a linguist I must tell you that what you want is, linguistically speaking, impossible. Adjectives are all biased and subjective, even color (have you ever heard two people arguing weather Aquamarine is green or blue?), so you would have to r... | Define ***hard facts***
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They all do? Gunman: gender neutral term for a person with a gun. Specify female gunman for PRECISE reporting of facts, but this is already ok on it's own. Language is ... | v0yf4e | CMV: Opinion-based journalism needs to die | The function of an ethically responsible press media organization is to deliver unbiased information to a democratic population. Opinion-based journalism implicitly rejects this philosophy and instead promotes a system in which rational agents sacrifice their own agency in favor of a more rhetorically persuasive voice ... | Representative_Way46 | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: There is nothing wrong with sponsored segments in YouTube videos
I will start by saying I understand and agree with the arguments against third-party ads before, during and after videos (I use Opera, which blocks those ads by default). I'll explain my view by listing two of those arguments, why I agree with them,... | >with examples of sponsorships being used maliciously.
I suppose you're not familiar with the numerous online gambling scams, and the current wave of pump and dump crypto and nft scams that are both all over social media at every level, and aimed at children? Not to mention the bogus products people shill constantly
... | Apart from scams and malicious intent by the YouTuber themselves, the issue with those sponsored ads is that the content creators, especially if it’s a smaller channel, just do not have the means to verify/ensure the integrity of the products promoted. They grab an opportunity to make a quick buck easily. I personally ... | r2w18a | CMV: There is nothing wrong with sponsored segments in YouTube videos | I will start by saying I understand and agree with the arguments against third-party ads before, during and after videos (I use Opera, which blocks those ads by default). I'll explain my view by listing two of those arguments, why I agree with them, and why I believe they don't apply to a sponsored segment within a vid... | The_AceOfHearts | 3 | 2 | [
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CMV: Patricia Bidol "Prejudice plus power" definition of racism isn´t usefull, it´s even counter productive for the generell discussion
The definition was merely formed for the whole of american society, therefore making it quickly fall apart. By this definition racism is only possible if it´s heading downwards a soci... | I see as more of a system answer as opposed to a descriptor- that definition tries to isolate the systemic racism from the general hate of the lower ‘class’ against the upper ‘class’. It’s a more of measure of utility I guess you could say? The powerless less can’t (or very minimally could) have an appreciable effect i... | Your view as stated comes across as obsessed with the declaration of some act to be Racism as if that declaration itself has magical properties. When in reality it matters jack shit. If we twist some definition around to paradoxically conclude that the Nazis in 1930 weren't racists - so? Would that conclusion somehow a... | hdpbwe | CMV: Patricia Bidol "Prejudice plus power" definition of racism isn´t usefull, it´s even counter productive for the generell discussion | The definition was merely formed for the whole of american society, therefore making it quickly fall apart. By this definition racism is only possible if it´s heading downwards a social power hierarchy. Therefore can only be true if the everytime the explicit model of a society is stated with it together.
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CMV: Being Trans is a false choice, and gender reassignment surgery is unethical
The title is inflammatory, but honestly these views are at odds with several of my friends and I dare not voice them for obvious reasons.
[Gender is a social construct according to the WHO](http://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/underst... | Transgenderism is not a problem of sex and gender misalignment. It's a problem of the sex of the brain and the sex of the body not lining up. By far the most common cause of gender dysphoria is hormonal problems in the womb leading to hormonal rejection, hormonal misalignment, and formation of the brain more consistent... | Other people are going to give you great analytical analysis and empirical evidence that should definitely help you change your view. I'm going to do something different. I'm going to tell you about myself.
My name is Ashley. I'm a human being with thoughts, hopes, dreams, friends and family hopefully just like you. I... | 8686eh | CMV: Being Trans is a false choice, and gender reassignment surgery is unethical | The title is inflammatory, but honestly these views are at odds with several of my friends and I dare not voice them for obvious reasons.
[Gender is a social construct according to the WHO](http://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/understanding/gender-definition/en/). What continues is based on this. If there is suffic... | throw995away | 7 | 3 | [
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CMV: It is within the best interest of me and my future wife to wait until marriage to have sex
This is something I've been putting much thought into, and I'd like to gather other opinions on it. Basically as a rundown of my situation, I have had one sexual partner before, however, I believe that it is within my best ... | “It is the only act that can create new human life”
Buddy, science disagrees with you because IVF exists.
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For any specific individual case (you and your partner) the die is already cast and whether you have sex or not pre-mar... | 1oyb3n8 | CMV: It is within the best interest of me and my future wife to wait until marriage to have sex | This is something I've been putting much thought into, and I'd like to gather other opinions on it. Basically as a rundown of my situation, I have had one sexual partner before, however, I believe that it is within my best interest to abstain from sex until marriage as I go into future relationships.
I base this off ... | ArtistTechnical2152 | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: The minimum wage should be directly attached to housing costs with low consideration of other factors.
Minimum wage is intended to be the lowest wage one can exist on without going into debt trying to buy groceries and toilet paper at the same time. The United States is way too big and way too varied in economic ... | While this sort of minimum wage increase has negative consequences for employment numbers and commodity pricing which can have knockon effects to housing, that isn't REALLY what you argument is about, so I am not going to address it further.
If everything your argument was premised upon worked, the real issue would be... | Suppose I run a business. I hire people to perform certain functions for me. I might need a person to stock shelves, or to clean the equipment, or to answer the phones.
I hire them because each of them perform a function that will increase my profits above what it costs to employ them. If I pay them $18,000 a year, an... | 9q3yfp | CMV: The minimum wage should be directly attached to housing costs with low consideration of other factors. | Minimum wage is intended to be the lowest wage one can exist on without going into debt trying to buy groceries and toilet paper at the same time. The United States is way too big and way too varied in economic structure for a flat national minimum to make sense, so $15 nationally will not work. However, we can't trust... | sikkerhet | 5 | 5 | [
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Minimum wage is intended to be the lowest wage one can exist on without going into debt trying to buy groceries and toilet paper at the same time. The United States is way too big and way too varied in economic ... | While this sort of minimum wage increase has negative consequences for employment numbers and commodity pricing which can have knockon effects to housing, that isn't REALLY what you argument is about, so I am not going to address it further.
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I hire them because each of them perform a function that will increase my profits above what it costs to employ them. If I pay them $18,000 a year, an... | 9q3yfp | CMV: The minimum wage should be directly attached to housing costs with low consideration of other factors. | Minimum wage is intended to be the lowest wage one can exist on without going into debt trying to buy groceries and toilet paper at the same time. The United States is way too big and way too varied in economic structure for a flat national minimum to make sense, so $15 nationally will not work. However, we can't trust... | sikkerhet | 11 | 11 | [
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CMV: Kosovo is an independent country.
Kosovo has been an independent country for 13 years now and has been recognized by more than 100 UN counties.
Kosovo separated from Serbia because the Albanian majority living there were getting treated like shit.
Kosovo left Serbia and Serbia got angry and started a war, committ... | How do you define independent country? The conventional definition is Member of the UN, which Kosovo is not.
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How am I Ad Hominem?
They're the one who brought up this stupid "Poopooland" in comparison to Kosovo, a country that has went through genocide, ethnic cleansing, many religious transitions, discrimination and no representation and way more for all I know.
It's just very immature if them and all I'm doin... | oc8y4h | CMV: Kosovo is an independent country. | Kosovo has been an independent country for 13 years now and has been recognized by more than 100 UN counties.
Kosovo separated from Serbia because the Albanian majority living there were getting treated like shit.
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CMV: Tipping culture is bad, and workers should just be paid a living wage
As an Australian travelling the US/Canada, I find the fact that workers rely on the customer to earn their living to be a really negative thing. It seems to me to be an excuse for companies to be able to get away with underpaying their staff, a... | [removed]
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Why not just consider the tip a cost of the food? | If a tipped employee does not make enough in tips to put them over the regular minimum wage, their employer is required by law to make up the difference.
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CMV: Israelis have the right to self-determination in Israel, but not Jews
The point is quite simple, really. Anyone born in or born to a parent who was born in modern-day Israel should have the right to self-determination (RTSD) in Israel. This is very similar to how citizenship and RTSD work in most countries. But w... |
So if Israelis use their right of self-determination to give all Jews the right of self-determination in Israel, what right do you have to dispute that?
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The whole point of Israel and modern Judaism is we don't have to ask permission anymore and we don't have to ask permission from people like you.
We don't care about changing your opinion.
Israel is a nation with 500 ... | 18xif0o | CMV: Israelis have the right to self-determination in Israel, but not Jews | The point is quite simple, really. Anyone born in or born to a parent who was born in modern-day Israel should have the right to self-determination (RTSD) in Israel. This is very similar to how citizenship and RTSD work in most countries. But what's problematic is the assertion that anyone of Jewish descent can also cl... | GoSouthCourt | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV:Guys should not date women 8-10 years older than them
My son is dating a woman almost NINE years older than him and it is driving me insane! I don't feel this is right. He is 25 years old. She is nearly nine years older than him. They are 8 years and six months apart in age. I think this is far too old. I am disg... | They’ve been together 3 years. Clearly they must have something in common. And 34 isn’t exactly Cougartime. She’s still fairly young too. Since they do have 3 years together, can you provide any details about what you’ve seen n their relationship (controlling behavior for example ) that is negative other then the ag... | So 45 and 54 is wrong?
As you go up in age, the importance of being close in age decreases.
25 and 34 is a 36% difference in experience levels, but 45 is only 20%. By the time you are banging it out in an old folks home, 77 and 86 it’s only a 11% difference. And you probably don’t remember that 11% very well anyway. ... | 9q2wiv | CMV:Guys should not date women 8-10 years older than them |
My son is dating a woman almost NINE years older than him and it is driving me insane! I don't feel this is right. He is 25 years old. She is nearly nine years older than him. They are 8 years and six months apart in age. I think this is far too old. I am disgusted by it. She looks his age or younger and is beautiful... | aquamarinemom | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV:Guys should not date women 8-10 years older than them
My son is dating a woman almost NINE years older than him and it is driving me insane! I don't feel this is right. He is 25 years old. She is nearly nine years older than him. They are 8 years and six months apart in age. I think this is far too old. I am disg... | Eh, I'm a guy on the alternate spectrum of that (34 dating a girl who is 24), I think you have unfounded worries. If they've been together for three years and are engaged I'm fairly certain it isn't a 'boy-toy' situation. I certainly don't think of my partner that way, she's just the person I care about. To be honest, ... | Um, weird that he still lives at home. I've dated a woman, and fathered our 4 year old daughter with said woman, 14 years my senior. (30 and 45). It's weird sometimes and difficult, but no big deal. I would say that the only weird thing is really him living with you. Why does he still? If they are engaged especially? S... | 9q2wiv | CMV:Guys should not date women 8-10 years older than them |
My son is dating a woman almost NINE years older than him and it is driving me insane! I don't feel this is right. He is 25 years old. She is nearly nine years older than him. They are 8 years and six months apart in age. I think this is far too old. I am disgusted by it. She looks his age or younger and is beautiful... | aquamarinemom | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV:Guys should not date women 8-10 years older than them
My son is dating a woman almost NINE years older than him and it is driving me insane! I don't feel this is right. He is 25 years old. She is nearly nine years older than him. They are 8 years and six months apart in age. I think this is far too old. I am disg... | Your son is over the age of 18. He is fully grown as well. It is extremely inappropriate for you to be attempting to dictate who he should be seeing.
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No one is trying to dictate who he should be seeing but we are his parents and he needed to be guided. My hubby tells me to shut up about the age difference but I ... | Um, weird that he still lives at home. I've dated a woman, and fathered our 4 year old daughter with said woman, 14 years my senior. (30 and 45). It's weird sometimes and difficult, but no big deal. I would say that the only weird thing is really him living with you. Why does he still? If they are engaged especially? S... | 9q2wiv | CMV:Guys should not date women 8-10 years older than them |
My son is dating a woman almost NINE years older than him and it is driving me insane! I don't feel this is right. He is 25 years old. She is nearly nine years older than him. They are 8 years and six months apart in age. I think this is far too old. I am disgusted by it. She looks his age or younger and is beautiful... | aquamarinemom | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Tiktok has become the most toxic and openly racist app ever
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe7JgjY7/
I’m scrolling through tiktok and it’s become such a unbearably racist app and it seems like everyone is just okay with it. This video is a prime example it’s just a women saying that she wants to where a shirt saying she... | saying youre proud to be white is completely ignoring why people say theyre proud to be black aka going against the systematic racism telling them they shouldnt be & is just an ignorant way of ignoring the fact that white people dont face racism
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A certain group of people can’t do something or experience something... | Wouldn't Twitter be a more toxic app?
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My money is on 4chan, but they tend to be racists in polar opposite ways.
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In terms of racism there's plenty of options out there for sure. Twitter is just famously toxic, not so much racist... Although, of course, racist people are everywhere.
You know, they got phones... | nk1yr9 | CMV: Tiktok has become the most toxic and openly racist app ever | https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe7JgjY7/
I’m scrolling through tiktok and it’s become such a unbearably racist app and it seems like everyone is just okay with it. This video is a prime example it’s just a women saying that she wants to where a shirt saying she’s proud of being white, which I find odd because I think it would... | Dolfamingosenpai | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: A top businessman (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Bezos, etc) would make a good president (GWB and Trump are exceptions rather than the norm)
Now yes both W Bush and Trump are businessman and in the eye's of some they're successful businessman (but are thought of many as being the worst presidents), however lets... | What makes those people good business people and innovators in many fields is exactly why they would be terrible US Presidents.
They would make EXCELLENT Kings, where their word rules and they can overrule anybody whenever they want. It would be very similar to their current roles. They do not need approval from any... | The goal of a business is to generate profit for shareholders.
The goal of governance is to ensure prosperity and security for the people.
Educating people, providing healthcare, supporting infrastructure - these things are decidedly unprofitable and attempting to make a profit while doing these things is exactly t... | pyaim8 | CMV: A top businessman (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Bezos, etc) would make a good president (GWB and Trump are exceptions rather than the norm) | Now yes both W Bush and Trump are businessman and in the eye's of some they're successful businessman (but are thought of many as being the worst presidents), however lets leave them out of this conversation and let me explain. Neither W Bush or Trump is ever known to be truly successful in building a business from the... | malarkeyasian | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The fact that the coronavirus fatalityrate is ~10 times the fatalityrate of the seasonal flue is mostly underreported and people are dismissing the danger of an epidemic because of that.
The only mitigating factor I can think of is that the contamination rate of the coronavirus is slightly lower, but it's by no m... | The fatality rate likely isn't correct.
The symptoms aren't super unique to the virus so most people who have it or had it probably thought they had something else.
However the autopsy is much less likely to be wrong so the people who die are being reported at a much higher rate than the people who have it.
TL:DR c... | My man, the virus is given the same attention as fckin ebola or some shit. Media is putting everyone into a panic to gain attention and money. The current facts we have are simple: We are familiar with the virus family in some way, we currently have no active clinical defense against this so the best we can do it keep ... | f9sayl | CMV: The fact that the coronavirus fatalityrate is ~10 times the fatalityrate of the seasonal flue is mostly underreported and people are dismissing the danger of an epidemic because of that. | The only mitigating factor I can think of is that the contamination rate of the coronavirus is slightly lower, but it's by no means 10 times lower.
The real risk of course is everyone infected (or thinking to be infected) going to the hospital and completely crashing the system, imagine every person with the seasonal f... | MrLeville | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: There are only 2 (biological) genders and the proper identification that stem from the genders are separate.
To give you an example. A woman and a man cant give birth to a cisgender baby. It is decidedly so that its either M or F at the time of gender identification. THIS does not mean that the baby CANT identify... | What about the whole range of intersex people?
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Jesus I barely thought about that. I always assumed (and was told) that surgeries were done to make the baby born "as such", more adherent to a male or female. My bad.∆
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So there's a big problem there. We can sort of surgically make a vulva. We can't make a peni... | >Something universal across most, if not all living things
This is obviously not your main point, but it's one that is interesting to address. While many organisms are, indeed, born M or F:
* in many species, this isn't determined by genetics, but by environmental factors. For example, the sex of a baby crocodilian d... | r2haf7 | CMV: There are only 2 (biological) genders and the proper identification that stem from the genders are separate. | To give you an example. A woman and a man cant give birth to a cisgender baby. It is decidedly so that its either M or F at the time of gender identification. THIS does not mean that the baby CANT identify as a cisgender person down the line. It just means that at the biolgogical point. They are M or F. This does not m... | WowDavid100 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV:If corporations are people, they should be able to register for a political party and be given one vote in the state their headquarters is in.
I have this opinion because: If they want to be apolitical as a corporation/person-ok. If they donate a bunch of money to some candidate or party, consumers should be able ... | "Corporations are people" means "Corporations are really just People, or made up of People...like you and me"!
Corporations don't exist in and of themselves, they are in reality a bunch of people working together.
So when you go around saying "Corporations are evil" as if the corporation is a "thing" that acts, or ... | Citizens United didn't declare corporations people, it said that the First and Fourteenth amendments also apply to associations of people. Corporations are simply associations of people. Should people's right to free speech be taken away simply by them attempting to use that speech as part of an association?
How woul... | 9q1hi9 | CMV:If corporations are people, they should be able to register for a political party and be given one vote in the state their headquarters is in. | I have this opinion because: If they want to be apolitical as a corporation/person-ok. If they donate a bunch of money to some candidate or party, consumers should be able to know about it. Consumers should be able to question them about their vote.
You can change my mind if you can convince me that it’s somehow bett... | stormbornfire | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: It seems like women are more predominantly cheating on their SO’s than men.
Let me start off by saying on thing.
I don’t have any sources or anything because this is more of a personal view.
When i was ten my mother (who i haven’t talked to in eight years) cheated on my father. My father was devastated, heartb... | As an old mentor of mine used to say, "The plural of anecdote is not data." I don't doubt your personal experience at all, but that does't make it common.
Based on the General Social Survey - one of the most comprehensive data sets we have for people - [men cheat more than women do](https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-che... | I think the others touched on the fact that anecdotal evidence isn't data, so I won't go into that much more.
>I feel as if my fellow sex has let me down, and i feel ashamed.
Why? You are an individual with your own agency and own merit. How other females live their lives says nothing about you.
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I don’t have any sources or anything because this is more of a personal view.
When i was ten my mother (who i haven’t talked to in eight years) cheated on my father. My father was devastated, heartbroken. He ended up winning custody of us. It’s been eight years now and he is prou... | hxleyjxnes | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: "Real communism has never been tried" is a factually incorrect and incredibly disingenuous argument
1. Real communism may have not ever been achieved, but it has certainly been *attempted*, and to ignore that ignores the real and tangible contributions of real people to the theory and practice of socialism. Mao, ... | [deleted]
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Marxism-Leninism posits the need for a dictatorship of the proletariat to arise out of the vanguard party, crush remaining bourgeois and reactionary elements, and guide the people towards the communist ideal. Lenin wrote extensively about this, and if you would want to organize such a large mass of peop... | Your post title and your first point seem to contradict each other. It seems that you're fighting against an argument that communism has never been tried, not that it has never been attempted. Do you think it's possible that people could argue that an attempt is not the same as a full-fledged engagement of communist id... | r2bcqc | CMV: "Real communism has never been tried" is a factually incorrect and incredibly disingenuous argument | 1. Real communism may have not ever been achieved, but it has certainly been *attempted*, and to ignore that ignores the real and tangible contributions of real people to the theory and practice of socialism. Mao, Lenin, Castro and Stalin all read and wrote extensively about Marxist theory and made many justifications ... | BingBlessAmerica | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Disney having a monopoly on a bunch of IP's isn't as bad as people make it out to be.
My view is basically that I don't really see a downside to Disney owning too much stuff in terms of art. I don't think their exclusive rights to media in terms of their streaming service necessarily gates anyone that really want... | [deleted]
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I get it mostly whenever Disney buys something up like fox or marvel. Issues like taking in more profits from movie theaters is shitty but in terms of their own content if people want better stuff what actually is to stop other companies for making stuff that Disney doesn't? Isn't the trend of unchallen... | >Is the issue that you couldn't make another superhero with marvel roster powers? Can there only be one cartoon mouse? What am I missing from this conversation?
The issue is more that Disney basically owns huge chunks of the cultural landscape, and for a long time.
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How does this negatively impact us?
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CMV: Whatever Israel is doing in Gaza does not grant them long-term security.
I don't know what Israel's endgame is in Gaza because whatever they are doing now is not going to grant them long term security. Most of Gazans are children and they will only grow to hate Israel even more, they will be even more radicalised... | According to Netanyahu, Israel has three goals in the current war:
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2. Demilitarize Gaza
3. Deradicalize Palestinian society
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/benjamin-netanyahu-our-three-prerequisites-for-peace-gaza-israel-bff895bd
These goals, if accomplished, improve Israel's chances of long ... | It will not be any more emboldened than it was. Hamas has always had majority support in Gaza and the West Bank and in Gaza especially indoctrination starts very young. Israel needs to take decisive action because it is not just Palestine but many Muslim nations around them that have called for the extermination of th... | 18wnsyg | CMV: Whatever Israel is doing in Gaza does not grant them long-term security. | I don't know what Israel's endgame is in Gaza because whatever they are doing now is not going to grant them long term security. Most of Gazans are children and they will only grow to hate Israel even more, they will be even more radicalised and when they become leaders, we will only see Hamas 2.0. Palestinians in the ... | GoSouthCourt | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Black Lives Matter is based mostly, if not entirely, on anecdotal evidence.
When I hear people defend BLM as well Colin Kaepernick and the football players who kneel, they always seem to say that the police are shooting black people constantly and getting away with it. Yet I've never seen these people provide act... | [This article](https://www.vox.com/cards/police-brutality-shootings-us/us-police-racism) by Vox shows give several studies on policing biases towards minorities. African-Americans are disproportionally affected in the follow studies following:
* Higher percentage of policing killings of attacking and non-attacking cit... | >Raw statistics regarding police being more likely to shoot black people than white people are irrelevant
How can you say this while also saying:
>black people are more likely to commit crimes than white people
You won't accept raw statistics out of context, but then immediately use a raw statistic out of context.
... | 9ek35n | CMV: Black Lives Matter is based mostly, if not entirely, on anecdotal evidence. | When I hear people defend BLM as well Colin Kaepernick and the football players who kneel, they always seem to say that the police are shooting black people constantly and getting away with it. Yet I've never seen these people provide actual evidence that the police are more likely to shoot black in similar situations.... | mddrill | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV:Even though America's political makeup is 50/50, Republicans have a large majority in state positions and in congress - and its not just because of gerrymandering.
Yes, gerrymandering is a large facet as to why Republicans continued to stay in power, but why did they take such a large majority in the first place?
... | The reason US elected government tends to be conservative is because rural areas tend to be conservative, and the rural areas - by design of the founders - have disproportionate political force to counterweight the cities.
This was in fact the original design of the country, which is now known as “the population looph... | The US's political makeup is not 50/50. For example if you look at party affiliation, it's around 30/40/30 http://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx ).
This idea that the country can be nicely divided into liberals and conservatives is not really accurate. Even in these times of polarization, it's mos... | 8625i6 | CMV:Even though America's political makeup is 50/50, Republicans have a large majority in state positions and in congress - and its not just because of gerrymandering. | Yes, gerrymandering is a large facet as to why Republicans continued to stay in power, but why did they take such a large majority in the first place?
A simple reason: On average, liberals tend only to vote when a candidate energizes them, while conservatives will on average just vote for the party nominee whenever el... | the_saad_salman | 11 | 6 | [
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CMV: The only reason K9 officers (dogs) should exist are for search and rescue, bomb threats, crime scene investigation.
A dog can not give statements or testimonies in the court of law. Therefor they should not warrant an automatic "search and or seizer" violating your 4th amendment, just because it sits down, or giv... | Suspect apprehension? Often times it’s safer to have a dog take down a suspect rather than officers walking blindly into an unknown situation.
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> Suspect apprehension? Often times it’s safer to have a dog take down a suspect rather than officers walking blindly into an unknown situation.
I wouldnt say K9 officers... | [deleted]
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OP trusts the dog just fine, they don't trust the motivations and incentives of the handler. There is no incentive for a handler to false flag a bomb, there are plenty of incentives to false flag for a warrantless search.
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[deleted] | sdfce0 | CMV: The only reason K9 officers (dogs) should exist are for search and rescue, bomb threats, crime scene investigation. | A dog can not give statements or testimonies in the court of law. Therefor they should not warrant an automatic "search and or seizer" violating your 4th amendment, just because it sits down, or gives a "tell" that there "may" be drugs in your car.
These dogs can be given silent commands such as hand gestures from ... | TheCornCribStrangler | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Shelby v. Holder is a bigger example of judicial activism in the last 30 years than anything that conservatives can point to the liberal justices doing.
Taking the definition of Judaical activism as:
Court rulings made based on political or personal views of the judges presiding over the case.
The reading I hav... | Janus v AFSCME is a bigger example. Lets throw out 40 years of precedent for the sole reason being we don't like it, bringing complete chaos to thousands of existing contracts in the process. We'll call union dues "compelled speach" making it a first amendment violation, depriving the legislature of any remedy short of... | I think that there are many cases where the Supreme Court is asked to make a decision where they must chose between two conflicting constitutional rights. It could be that 50 years ago the circumstances would lead them to make a decision that "Right A" outweighs "Right B". But as time goes by and circumstances change,... | 9pyolh | CMV: Shelby v. Holder is a bigger example of judicial activism in the last 30 years than anything that conservatives can point to the liberal justices doing. | Taking the definition of Judaical activism as:
Court rulings made based on political or personal views of the judges presiding over the case.
The reading I have of Shelby v. Holder is basically that the majority justices decided that the voting rights act in the year 2013 unconstitutionally violated the principle of ... | i_want_batteries | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Piracy can not be morally justified in most cases.
I hear some people justifying piracy and although I myself am guilty of doing piracy, I don’t think that it’s morally justified.
Here are a few reasons:-
1. It devalues labour work that went into it.
2. I don’t see how pirating a movie(or game etc) is any less... | Can I ask you what's wrong with stealing food?
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But why does your being entitled to basic living necessities exceed the... | Have movie makers seen a decrease in their value from piracy? No. So we have specific, recordable evidence that there has been no devaluing of the labour force.
Does the loss of the ketchup bottle lead to less pay for an employee? Yes. Therefore it's not comparable to copying something (remember, this form of piracy i... | f9pkb7 | CMV: Piracy can not be morally justified in most cases. | I hear some people justifying piracy and although I myself am guilty of doing piracy, I don’t think that it’s morally justified.
Here are a few reasons:-
1. It devalues labour work that went into it.
2. I don’t see how pirating a movie(or game etc) is any less worse than stealing a ketchup bottle.
3. If you pirate,... | Calm-Mango | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: British mythology is shit
The stories we tell both inform and reflect the values of the society remembering them. When I look at British myths and legends, it's all birthright and destiny; King Arthur, Beowulf, Boudica, the mythologised versions of our monarchs, they were just born into their roles. Even the myth... | JRR Tolkein wrote *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings* in order to create a uniquely British mythology, since he perceived existing mythologies as imports. Hobbits were stand-ins for idealized British country gentlemen: humble and comfort-seeking, but possessed of a strong inner character and resolve unmatched in a... | I thought Welsh and Irish mythologies were pretty cool, there were heroes and giants and gods to rival the Greek myths.
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The stories we tell both inform and reflect the values of the society remembering them. When I look at British myths and legends, it's all birthright and destiny; King Arthur, Beowulf, Boudica, the mythologised versions of our monarchs, they were just born into their roles. Even the myth... | Arthur and the round table? Medieval chivalry and wisdom and uniting the peoples.
What about modern mythological hero's (007)?
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Arthur and the round table is a birthright. He got his authority because he alone was able to take the sword from the stone. He didn't train or work to get there, it was innate.
007 is ... | You really think more modern day brits have more of a basic understanding of the stories of Beowulf and Boudicca than Robin Hood?
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I think the values and narratives of the former are more embedded into the cultural psyche than Robin Hood. Even if you are right, if you ask Brits what the moral of Robin Hood is, the... | njwsu8 | CMV: British mythology is shit | The stories we tell both inform and reflect the values of the society remembering them. When I look at British myths and legends, it's all birthright and destiny; King Arthur, Beowulf, Boudica, the mythologised versions of our monarchs, they were just born into their roles. Even the myth of St. George lacks any real ch... | EdominoH | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: certain hairstyles do not belong to certain cultures
I've seen POC getting upset on youtube/tiktok for a white person wearing a hairstyle that they believe should only be worn by their culture and I dont really understand it.
I was watching a YouTube video of a European women showing how to do a Nordic/Viking st... | [deleted]
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Ok, but why is it wrong for someone else to wear that style?
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The problem is multifaceted. For examples certain braided hairstyle were used as a form of resistance and to escape from captors. Another problem is black people have been demonized for wearing scarfs, braids, and other hairstyles. When ... | [removed]
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Yeah I mean I have even seen people on social media get upset for a white person wearing a kimono though.
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CMV: certain hairstyles do not belong to certain cultures
I've seen POC getting upset on youtube/tiktok for a white person wearing a hairstyle that they believe should only be worn by their culture and I dont really understand it.
I was watching a YouTube video of a European women showing how to do a Nordic/Viking st... | [deleted]
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Ok, but why is it wrong for someone else to wear that style?
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It's not necessarily wrong, but remember that lots of people with African kinky/tightly curled hair are told their natural hair and traditional hairstyles are unprofessional and unacceptable in Western society. The braids and locs many B... | [removed]
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Yeah I mean I have even seen people on social media get upset for a white person wearing a kimono though.
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People are going to get upset about a lot of dumb shit on social media. You just got to either tune it out or intentionally wind them up to take the piss.
But what you can’t do is stop them. | obywd5 | CMV: certain hairstyles do not belong to certain cultures | I've seen POC getting upset on youtube/tiktok for a white person wearing a hairstyle that they believe should only be worn by their culture and I dont really understand it.
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CMV: certain hairstyles do not belong to certain cultures
I've seen POC getting upset on youtube/tiktok for a white person wearing a hairstyle that they believe should only be worn by their culture and I dont really understand it.
I was watching a YouTube video of a European women showing how to do a Nordic/Viking st... | [removed]
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Yeah I mean I have even seen people on social media get upset for a white person wearing a kimono though.
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John Oliver did a really informative piece over this exact topic.
It was very enlightening, even for other black people.
[ Definitely worth a watch.](https://youtu.be/Uf1c0tEGfrU) | [deleted]
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Ok, but why is it wrong for someone else to wear that style?
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This is ultimately a relative idea; Maybe this is devil's advocate, but I found this. The following link may help with finding the solution to the question you are asking. Basically, some hairstyles hold cultural and social significance,... | obywd5 | CMV: certain hairstyles do not belong to certain cultures | I've seen POC getting upset on youtube/tiktok for a white person wearing a hairstyle that they believe should only be worn by their culture and I dont really understand it.
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CMV: I hated my academic life.
I don't hate studying. It's just that I shouldn't have taken it seriously in retrospect. Now that I'm out of school, I wonder if it's okay/ responsible to tell students to just perform well enough to pass- that they shouldn't make the extra effort if it causes them unnecessary stress and... | What view are you trying to change exactly? Is it that you weren't as unhappy as you say you were? Is it that Academia isn't as bad as you think? Is it that school is not actually worse than work?
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I was wondering if there was more merit in aiming far and above a passing grade than I give it credit for- that mayb... | You will spend the rest of your life saying “I wish I could learn X but I don’t have enough time, money for classes, etc...” Academic life is luxurious, your basic needs are met even though you’re not being productive (which won’t happen again) and there is a team of people dedicated to enhancing your knowledge and cri... | 9pu3nh | CMV: I hated my academic life. | I don't hate studying. It's just that I shouldn't have taken it seriously in retrospect. Now that I'm out of school, I wonder if it's okay/ responsible to tell students to just perform well enough to pass- that they shouldn't make the extra effort if it causes them unnecessary stress and time that could be spent to enj... | elucila7 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: actively seeking out a “sugar daddy” so one doesn’t have to work should be frowned upon.
Whether a woman or a gay man doing this my opinion is the same.
Do I acknowledge that it is a mutual agreement between two people and consensual? Yes, I do. I am not saying such arrangements should be illegal.
I am saying... | Wait, can you clarify.
You frown upon it, so you want other people to do the same?
Why, to legitimize your opinion?
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Because I think people should aspire to more than that.
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Why?
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Why should one person have it easy?
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This gives a lot of insight into why you are making this opinion.
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If someon... | [removed]
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These sugar babies probably have an agreement with their daddies. Both parties can end at any time, it's just a life choice. Why should we frown upon something that isn't illegal?
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Do I acknowledge that it is a mutual agreement between two people and consensual? Yes, I do. I am not saying such arrangements should be illegal.
I am saying that people who do this as an attempt not to work should aspire to more.
If your personal be... | OddGuidance907 | 11 | 11 | [
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CMV: actively seeking out a “sugar daddy” so one doesn’t have to work should be frowned upon.
Whether a woman or a gay man doing this my opinion is the same.
Do I acknowledge that it is a mutual agreement between two people and consensual? Yes, I do. I am not saying such arrangements should be illegal.
I am saying... | Wait, can you clarify.
You frown upon it, so you want other people to do the same?
Why, to legitimize your opinion?
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Because I think people should aspire to more than that.
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More than what? Not needing to find a job for a living?
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Correct
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How is this not a job? You get paid for labor you provide.... | Counterpoint:
Where do you see anyone praising _"sugar seekers"_ ?
Also there actually are rich men that really just want a woman to talk to; nothing physical. I know the media has us believing that's impossible but it does happen.
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I mean r/femaledatingstrategy
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That sub should not be taken literally.
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Do I acknowledge that it is a mutual agreement between two people and consensual? Yes, I do. I am not saying such arrangements should be illegal.
I am saying that people who do this as an attempt not to work should aspire to more.
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CMV: Trump is most likely going to win re-election in November
The writing really seems like it's on the wall for a 2016 repeat. We had multiple amazing candidates, but, in the end, it's most likely going to be the worst candidate picked in the DNC, Joe Biden, whom is barely more likable than Hillary Clinton. Buttegei... | Hillary Clinton has been the subject of right-wing mudslinging for decades, which has been extremely successful at poisoning her public image. Joe Biden is a likeable dude with the capacity for displaying genuine emotion. Could you please explain how he is "barely more likable" than Hillary Clinton?
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His policies ... | > he's a wartime president at that
This is probably obvious to you, but since I’m not American I don’t know what you’re talking about. What war is the US involved in at the moment?
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The war against coronavirus.
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Thats not exactly a war, war is too strong a word to use here to describe covid. | hdgo72 | CMV: Trump is most likely going to win re-election in November | The writing really seems like it's on the wall for a 2016 repeat. We had multiple amazing candidates, but, in the end, it's most likely going to be the worst candidate picked in the DNC, Joe Biden, whom is barely more likable than Hillary Clinton. Buttegeig and Yang dropped out, and Sanders doesn't look like he'll get ... | tylerderped | 3 | 3 | [
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cmv: Abortion is a murder of potential person. And if it is immoral to murder a person, it is immoral to murder potential person.
Sorry, English is not my first language. After watching philosophy tube pro-choise video, I become very much inconvinced. I was very pro-choise before, but did not think about it too much. ... | A potential person is not a person yet, per definition. How could you kill a person that isn’t a person yet?
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It is not, but the argument that you are not killing a person, you kill a future one. And it should be immoral like killing a person.
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>And it should be immoral like killing a person.
But killing a p... | If we're looking at abortion as murder, then should we see miscarriages as manslaughter?
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Close but different topic.
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No it's the same topic. If you consider one you have to consider the other or ignore that "killing of a potential human" argument altogether. | njs1s1 | cmv: Abortion is a murder of potential person. And if it is immoral to murder a person, it is immoral to murder potential person. | Sorry, English is not my first language. After watching philosophy tube pro-choise video, I become very much inconvinced. I was very pro-choise before, but did not think about it too much. But after hearing both sides I really can't see valid counter-argument to below pro-life statements:
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CMV: Phone carrier “deals” are an abuse of that word
I’m really hoping to understand from someone for whom it works out financially: why do you opt for phone carrier deals? I feel like they only work for a small handful of people/families yet it seems like everyone is looped into a major carrier and gets a new phone s... | A lot of people cannot afford to simply buy things outright. Phones are like a simple example of this but think larger scale. Why should somebody buy a car if they can’t buy it outright? They are having to pay interest monthly for years now and this is bad. It’s just not simple for anyone to buy things at one time.
A... | I already have the phone plan that meets my needs, which allows me to finance the phones and upgrade for nearly free. Why would I *not* do this?
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If possible can you provide a rough cost breakdown? | 1ougno6 | CMV: Phone carrier “deals” are an abuse of that word | I’m really hoping to understand from someone for whom it works out financially: why do you opt for phone carrier deals? I feel like they only work for a small handful of people/families yet it seems like everyone is looped into a major carrier and gets a new phone semi-regularly through them.
I do not think it’s a goo... | anthro89109 | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Boycotting someone when it is revealed they have done something bad is wrong
# Overview
At the current time, it is very popular to start holding people accountable for the stuff they did in the past that is deemed either criminal or immoral by the public. I have no problem with this concept itself, but I do have... | >That may not even be necessary because people can change.
What's going to motivate his change, if not a boycott that hits the bottom line?
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Do these people not have morals or emotions that help them recognize they are harming others and motivate a change?
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> Do these people not have morals or emotions that ... | [deleted]
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I do not judge viability based on the past. I judge it based on an analysis of the method and how it would work given the current situation. It is possible that I missed something that proves the method unviable and can be learned through history, but I will change my view in response to those arguments... | pxvvlx | CMV: Boycotting someone when it is revealed they have done something bad is wrong | # Overview
At the current time, it is very popular to start holding people accountable for the stuff they did in the past that is deemed either criminal or immoral by the public. I have no problem with this concept itself, but I do have a problem with how it is often carried out. This post will not discuss all the iss... | 00PT | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Boycotting someone when it is revealed they have done something bad is wrong
# Overview
At the current time, it is very popular to start holding people accountable for the stuff they did in the past that is deemed either criminal or immoral by the public. I have no problem with this concept itself, but I do have... | >That may not even be necessary because people can change.
What's going to motivate his change, if not a boycott that hits the bottom line?
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Manifestly they do not, since they are continuing t... | > I don't think that it is justifiable to harm someone because "they deserve it." Two wrongs don't make a right, they make a greater wrong.
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So you don't believe in the Criminal Justice system at all. Tell me, how do you think murderers and rapists and child molesters should be dealt with, then?
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The... | pxvvlx | CMV: Boycotting someone when it is revealed they have done something bad is wrong | # Overview
At the current time, it is very popular to start holding people accountable for the stuff they did in the past that is deemed either criminal or immoral by the public. I have no problem with this concept itself, but I do have a problem with how it is often carried out. This post will not discuss all the iss... | 00PT | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Boycotting someone when it is revealed they have done something bad is wrong
# Overview
At the current time, it is very popular to start holding people accountable for the stuff they did in the past that is deemed either criminal or immoral by the public. I have no problem with this concept itself, but I do have... | >That may not even be necessary because people can change.
What's going to motivate his change, if not a boycott that hits the bottom line?
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Manifestly they do not, since they are continuing t... | > choosing to do one thing when you know of another option that would have overall more positive effects is immoral
I don't know. I can think of a lot of things that would have tremendous positive effects on the world that would be absolutely horrifically immoral if put into practice.
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Do you have examples? The d... | pxvvlx | CMV: Boycotting someone when it is revealed they have done something bad is wrong | # Overview
At the current time, it is very popular to start holding people accountable for the stuff they did in the past that is deemed either criminal or immoral by the public. I have no problem with this concept itself, but I do have a problem with how it is often carried out. This post will not discuss all the iss... | 00PT | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: At-will employment needs to be modified
For those who don't know, at-will employment is the concept that employers and/or employees can terminate employment for any reason or even no reason at all.
However, that needs to be modified.
Employees should still have that freedom, but employers should not.
For th... | I generally agree with your stance, but there is a flaw in your argument:
>The employer is not ruined because an employee quits.
That depends entirely on the employer, the circumstance and, most importantly, the *amount* of employees quitting. Imagine running a restaurant and your chefs quit without any prior notice ... | Do you think employers should be able to fire people for (depending on your political leanings) participating in the events of Jan 6 or being an active BLM protestor (etc)? If you were the employer, would you want to have <whichever, if either, you disagree with> working for you? Or, going beyond that, if they openly... | njxo1c | CMV: At-will employment needs to be modified | For those who don't know, at-will employment is the concept that employers and/or employees can terminate employment for any reason or even no reason at all.
However, that needs to be modified.
Employees should still have that freedom, but employers should not.
For those who are thinking "but that's not fair." It... | BonerFourEver | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Landlords are more a danger to society than Stock-Based Billionaires
I am not saying that billionaires are not a danger to society, I just think that landlords are more so. Billionaires are beholden to a board of directors, the directors to an investment firm, and the investment firm to another company's CFO to r... | Here is what I am seeing. It really sounds like you have a pretty blunt, almost cold view toward landlords. I can understand parts of that. There are bad landlords and the overbuilding of so called luxury apartments gets annoying. But I am not seeing the actual alternative in what you wrote.
What replaces landlords in... | "We can fight billionaires with inflation, there is no equivalent for housing."
We could just *build more homes*, right? Increase supply?
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Especially with housing, it can be very hard to build your way out of a scalping problem. Pokemon cards are trivially easy to print relative to a house, but printing a zillion... | 1ow4bus | CMV: Landlords are more a danger to society than Stock-Based Billionaires | I am not saying that billionaires are not a danger to society, I just think that landlords are more so. Billionaires are beholden to a board of directors, the directors to an investment firm, and the investment firm to another company's CFO to return a profit for their workers. The wealth in the system is ultimately re... | zayelion | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People who condemn other people for supporting a certain party or having a certain opinion on a topic have inherently misunderstood the concept of democracy.
Edit: I am from Germany. This generally means that most parties do not disregard any human rights and you are not going to change my mind by telling me how ... | Okay. Let's say you vote for the super racist party, because your opinion is that everyone of a certain race is just inferior. That's a stupid opinion, but it's an opinion.
Should you be free from criticism? No, because your opinion is both wrong and repulsive. That doesn't mean the people who criticise you are agains... | So the problem with this is that there is an inherent fuzzyness to it.
Like, there are literal nazis who believe that they should be allowed to genocide people to create an ethnostate. There aren't, you know, a lot of them but they're out there.
I do not think you can be a moral person while believing that you shou... | pxwvvx | CMV: People who condemn other people for supporting a certain party or having a certain opinion on a topic have inherently misunderstood the concept of democracy. | Edit: I am from Germany. This generally means that most parties do not disregard any human rights and you are not going to change my mind by telling me how horrible a certain American party is.
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Edit: I am from Germany. This generally means that most parties do not disregard any human rights and you are not going to change my mind by telling me how ... | Democracy is fundamentally about the governed people having agency over who governs them. It's vital that each person has a voice, not that each opinion is equally heard and valued. Arguably, democracy works *because* better ideas win out over weaker ones. There doesn't need to be a candidate heard running on the premi... | So the problem with this is that there is an inherent fuzzyness to it.
Like, there are literal nazis who believe that they should be allowed to genocide people to create an ethnostate. There aren't, you know, a lot of them but they're out there.
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Edit: I am from Germany. This generally means that most parties do not disregard any human rights and you are not going to change my mind by telling me how ... | Okay. Let's say you vote for the super racist party, because your opinion is that everyone of a certain race is just inferior. That's a stupid opinion, but it's an opinion.
Should you be free from criticism? No, because your opinion is both wrong and repulsive. That doesn't mean the people who criticise you are agains... | So the problem with this is that there is an inherent fuzzyness to it.
Like, there are literal nazis who believe that they should be allowed to genocide people to create an ethnostate. There aren't, you know, a lot of them but they're out there.
I do not think you can be a moral person while believing that you shou... | pxwvvx | CMV: People who condemn other people for supporting a certain party or having a certain opinion on a topic have inherently misunderstood the concept of democracy. | Edit: I am from Germany. This generally means that most parties do not disregard any human rights and you are not going to change my mind by telling me how horrible a certain American party is.
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CMV: We are all prisoners of fate. Free will cannot exist as everything is deterministic.
Suppose you had the God-like ability to track & measure every initial data point from the Genesis (beginning of time); you would be able to predict anything with absolute certainty. Events are predicated on the prior effect, ther... | There's a few different issues with this line of thought.
Deterministic systems have come under increasing scrutiny with the advances in complexity theory. The basic problem is that as soon as a system becomes chaotic or complex, outcomes become very sensitive to changes in initial conditions. That means even a small... | In quantum physics there exists events that occur due to seemingly pure randomness. While this fact still doesn't prove free will, it does disprove that the universe is purely deterministic on a quantum scale.
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CMV: Punishment for its own sake is not acceptable
I think that prisons' goals are, or at least should be, to dissuade people from committing crimes, to isolate dangerous individuals from society, and to rehabilitate criminals.
I don't think that punishing bad people, as a way of "restoring justice" and "giving them w... | Suppose you kill someone maliciously after being put into an extreme set of circumstances that are very unlikely to ever repeat.
You get taken in by police and they scan your brain with the technology of the future and say, "You're actually extremely unlikely to ever do anything like this again. You're actually less ... | >I think that, if there was a way to take criminals and istantly rehabilitate them, without limiting their freedom and without harming them in any way, it would be the ideal thing to do.
But how do you do this? We have a constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment. But what is your plan to rehabilitate p... | obtlwx | CMV: Punishment for its own sake is not acceptable | I think that prisons' goals are, or at least should be, to dissuade people from committing crimes, to isolate dangerous individuals from society, and to rehabilitate criminals.
I don't think that punishing bad people, as a way of "restoring justice" and "giving them what they deserve", is/should be one of prisons' goal... | LomLotus | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Punishment for its own sake is not acceptable
I think that prisons' goals are, or at least should be, to dissuade people from committing crimes, to isolate dangerous individuals from society, and to rehabilitate criminals.
I don't think that punishing bad people, as a way of "restoring justice" and "giving them w... | When I was kid, a 12 yo boy named Raymond Fife went missing on his way to a Boy Scout meeting. This is following is from the case file:
At approximately 9:30 p.m., Mr. Fife found his son in the wooded field behind the Valu-King. Raymond was naked and appeared to have been severely beaten and burnt in the face. One of... | People are very self interested. Whether we like it or not many would take the chance to do harmful things to others if they knew they could get away with it. The thing that stops many people from committing crimes is the knowledge that prison/punishment is not in their self interest and generally not a fun place to be... | obtlwx | CMV: Punishment for its own sake is not acceptable | I think that prisons' goals are, or at least should be, to dissuade people from committing crimes, to isolate dangerous individuals from society, and to rehabilitate criminals.
I don't think that punishing bad people, as a way of "restoring justice" and "giving them what they deserve", is/should be one of prisons' goal... | LomLotus | 4 | 4 | [
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CMV: As Proposed, M4A Would Be a Massive Windfall for Employers
Fact 1: Currently, employers pay the vast majority of healthcare costs in the United States
[Employers on average pay 82% for single people and 71% for families.](https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/what-percent-of-health-insurance-is-paid-by-employers)
[Wh... | It would be a massive shift from employers to government, which is going to turn around and tax everybody. Bernie seems to think we can get companies to pay corporate income tax, but I doubt it. Their accountants are smart and unburdened by conscience.
That said it also frees up companies to pay more to offset those... | I support Medicare For All partially because of this, because something employers will *lose* is some of their power over their employees.
No longer will a good healthcare plan outweigh the need for good working conditions or pay, no longer will a good healthcare plan give a job strong bargaining power against unions... | f9iw7w | CMV: As Proposed, M4A Would Be a Massive Windfall for Employers | Fact 1: Currently, employers pay the vast majority of healthcare costs in the United States
[Employers on average pay 82% for single people and 71% for families.](https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/what-percent-of-health-insurance-is-paid-by-employers)
[Which means annual costs for employees is "18% ($1,129) for single ... | NewHempshire | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Legislatures should always respect the will of the people in regards to ballot measures.
So as an example, I live in Utah and two of our ballot measures this year include creating an independent redistricting commission, and legalizing medical marijuana. Both of these are polling above 50% although, should they p... | What if a ballot measure wins a result that is clearly unconstitutional and/or antithetical to American values? Say a ballot measure banning Muslim prayer?
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Would such a ballot measure even have a chance of making it to the ballot? If I understand correctly, they don't let just anything be on the ballot in the fir... | Ballot measures are not even a standard part of a representative government. That is instead how a direct democracy would operate. Since we are a Republic and thus a representative government in structure that means the authority for those decisions ultimately resides with the elected officials, not the public voting o... | 9ppm9u | CMV: Legislatures should always respect the will of the people in regards to ballot measures. | So as an example, I live in Utah and two of our ballot measures this year include creating an independent redistricting commission, and legalizing medical marijuana. Both of these are polling above 50% although, should they pass, the heavily Republican legislature is threatening to modify or overturn these rulings comp... | rick-swordfire | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: America has an obesity problem because healthy food is way too expensive
In my opinion, the only reason America has an obesity problem (more significant then most other developed countries) is because of healthy food being WAY too expensive. Sugary, fatty food is so much cheaper then healthier meals.
Think abou... | My opinion, from living in poverty, is that it has more to do with shelf-life of the food than the price. I can get free food at food banks, but it will probably be boxed and canned foods, which are high in sodium and other things that contribute to obesity. If I spend my food budget on healthier foods, they may go bad... | Most vegetables cost less than a dollar a pound, the problem is you have to prepare and cook it.
In college I was super poor but didn't have to eat ramen every day like I was told I would have to. I would buy a bunch of frozen chicken, rice and zucchini and make a couple meals for the week every week. Would cost about... | 9eggfx | CMV: America has an obesity problem because healthy food is way too expensive | In my opinion, the only reason America has an obesity problem (more significant then most other developed countries) is because of healthy food being WAY too expensive. Sugary, fatty food is so much cheaper then healthier meals.
Think about it, look at any grocery store. Fresh, lean meats and fresh vegetables (especi... | hammerfan12 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Germany is no more responsible for the start of World War One then Russia, Austria, or Serbia is.
To me it seems like Germany is unfairly blamed for the start of World War One and many people hold the belief that they were the sole reason or the main reason responsible for the start for the war, and this was only... | I don't think any serious historians really blame Germany exclusively or almost exclusively for WWI, however there is some truth to this, in a sense. [Over half of the forces of the Central Powers were German](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Powers#Member_states), and Germany was also the financially strongest of... | Germany planned unsaid
Invasion of France for Decades, while waiting for an excuses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan
Can you say the same for Serbia or Russia?
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A military having invasion plans is hardly unique Germany’s plans were just very specific and widely known it is safe to assume that both... | 85xai8 | CMV: Germany is no more responsible for the start of World War One then Russia, Austria, or Serbia is. | To me it seems like Germany is unfairly blamed for the start of World War One and many people hold the belief that they were the sole reason or the main reason responsible for the start for the war, and this was only reenforced because of the guilt clause in the Treaty of Versailles. I feel as though Germany is as resp... | dtrain1138 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: "White fragility" is a bullying rhetorical tactic
My SO were having a discussion about "white privilege", and although I agree it's a thing, I admittedly become irked when hear things statements like "you cannot be racist against white people". Having said that, I am open-minded and I'm interested to learn why I ... | > It seems to me that when one person calls someone else "fragile" solely on the basis of his or her skin color and group identity, that in itself is racism.
That sounds very close to the kind of logic according to which any observation of a racial disparity, is racist.
For example, you said that you understand tha... | >It seems to me that when one person calls someone else "fragile" solely on the basis of his or her skin color and group identity
That's not what white fragility means. This is the same thing as believing someone who talks about "toxic masculinity" must believe that all men are toxic by virtue of being male. "Black ex... | f8fzfw | CMV: "White fragility" is a bullying rhetorical tactic | My SO were having a discussion about "white privilege", and although I agree it's a thing, I admittedly become irked when hear things statements like "you cannot be racist against white people". Having said that, I am open-minded and I'm interested to learn why I had this reaction.
I was told to look up the concept of... | funkster | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: zip-up onesies should have the zipper rest at the foot.
Of course many onesies cut costs with snaps, but the nicer ones are zip-up which saves valuable time fumbling under the night light at 3AM. But a zipper can have the fully zipped zipper rest at the leg or the neck. Most seem to choose the neck, with two pr... | do you meant he zipper should rest and the foot when zipped? That is crazy talk.
When the zipper rest and the neck while zipped, that means it rests and the foot when unzipped. that's important because the zipper never disengages. Its always connected. When it unzips to the neck, it disengages, and to rezip you nee... | Onsies are snug--they have to be for safety. If just one leg were unzipped there would not be enough loose fabric to easily slide the other leg out for the change. That would mean a full unzip to the neck.
Now, rather than just a pull where you can put your finger under the zipper to keep it from catching baby's ski... | 9pisur | CMV: zip-up onesies should have the zipper rest at the foot. | Of course many onesies cut costs with snaps, but the nicer ones are zip-up which saves valuable time fumbling under the night light at 3AM. But a zipper can have the fully zipped zipper rest at the leg or the neck. Most seem to choose the neck, with two problems. First, it must be covered by a flap/snap at the neck ... | GnosticGnome | 8 | 7 | [
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CMV: Hate Speech is Free Speech
Speech is one of the rights given to us through the Constitution and protected by the government, and it cannot be taken away. But, there are sub-classes of speech that are not considered to be speech, and thus, are restricted or banned.
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**Obscenity**: The current precedent o... | Not directly aimed at your CMV, but most laws are very subjective. That is why every country has judges who are supposed to use their own "judgement" to decide if a law has been broken or not. While some laws are more or less open to interpretation all of them require sound judges to decide what their limits are. Hate ... | Hate speech is meant to threaten a minority. Similar to how you cannot legally threaten someone with violence. "I want to exterminate your race" is a threat even if they can't follow up on it. Hate speech is used to intimidate and produce fear in a minority which is a form of harassment.
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I disagree. But before I... | 9eeqvm | CMV: Hate Speech is Free Speech | Speech is one of the rights given to us through the Constitution and protected by the government, and it cannot be taken away. But, there are sub-classes of speech that are not considered to be speech, and thus, are restricted or banned.
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**Obscenity**: The current precedent of obscenity is set by the Supreme... | N8_Blueberry | 6 | 6 | [
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