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CMV: Beauty standards only affect women and not men.
Western beauty standards are only targeted to affect women not men. The idea of looking similar to an Instagram model or something of the sort is specifically crafted for women. The beauty industry (women-targeted) knows this so they capitalize off of our insecuriti... | Oh right because men never get indirectly told through media that women only date someone 6 foot or taller with washboard abs
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Not the person to whom you were responding, but my sons are 6'2" and 6'4" and if it comes up in conversation more often than not someone will comment that they must have gi... | You make two claims: one in your title to the effect that beauty standards are simply inapplicable to men, and the other in which you say that women are held to a higher standard. I’d probably agree with the latter and think that is not all that controversial a claim.
As to the former, it does not take much curiosi... | urtjum | CMV: Beauty standards only affect women and not men. | Western beauty standards are only targeted to affect women not men. The idea of looking similar to an Instagram model or something of the sort is specifically crafted for women. The beauty industry (women-targeted) knows this so they capitalize off of our insecurities. I’m 21F and am tall, slim, clear skin, healthy hai... | Throwitawayaccount- | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The Bible Society UK Claims The Bible Will Change My Life. I Completely Disagree.
The Bible Society UK claims The Bible has changed millions of lives, and it can change my life too.
Now, I absolutely love The Bible. I study theology and philosophy of religion. I have been engaging with The Bible for about two y... | The change they are referring to is that you may become a follower of Jesus Christ, and then adopt a whole host of behaviors that you did not previously display. Going to church, praying, stopping sinning, whatever you like. Following the teachings of Christianity, when one has not previously followed them, is a massiv... | The Bible alone will not change your life.
Doing what the Bible says will change your life. Listening and believing in God’s promises will change your life.
“As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;” (Romans 3:10)
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” (Romans 3:23)
“For the wa... | wuyzz5 | CMV: The Bible Society UK Claims The Bible Will Change My Life. I Completely Disagree. | The Bible Society UK claims The Bible has changed millions of lives, and it can change my life too.
Now, I absolutely love The Bible. I study theology and philosophy of religion. I have been engaging with The Bible for about two years with a PhD teacher of philosophy. The society claims that when people engage with t... | AbiLovesTheology | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The Bible Society UK Claims The Bible Will Change My Life. I Completely Disagree.
The Bible Society UK claims The Bible has changed millions of lives, and it can change my life too.
Now, I absolutely love The Bible. I study theology and philosophy of religion. I have been engaging with The Bible for about two y... | The Bible alone will not change your life.
Doing what the Bible says will change your life. Listening and believing in God’s promises will change your life.
“As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;” (Romans 3:10)
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” (Romans 3:23)
“For the wa... | The change they are referring to is that you may become a follower of Jesus Christ, and then adopt a whole host of behaviors that you did not previously display. Going to church, praying, stopping sinning, whatever you like. Following the teachings of Christianity, when one has not previously followed them, is a massiv... | wuyzz5 | CMV: The Bible Society UK Claims The Bible Will Change My Life. I Completely Disagree. | The Bible Society UK claims The Bible has changed millions of lives, and it can change my life too.
Now, I absolutely love The Bible. I study theology and philosophy of religion. I have been engaging with The Bible for about two years with a PhD teacher of philosophy. The society claims that when people engage with t... | AbiLovesTheology | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The Bible Society UK Claims The Bible Will Change My Life. I Completely Disagree.
The Bible Society UK claims The Bible has changed millions of lives, and it can change my life too.
Now, I absolutely love The Bible. I study theology and philosophy of religion. I have been engaging with The Bible for about two y... | If you have been studying the Bible, but don't believe its contents to be true, then believing it could certainly change your life.
I mean, I've seen Star Wars more times than I can count, but if next time I saw it, I came out believing the events therein to have *actually* transpired, my life would flip *upside down.... | What kind of change are you thinking of? You certainly wouldn't have made this post if not for the bible, surely that's a change even if microscopic? What sort of change are you looking for?
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A big change. Something MASSIVE.
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Do you think your life is going well? Anything you'd actually want to change? | wuyzz5 | CMV: The Bible Society UK Claims The Bible Will Change My Life. I Completely Disagree. | The Bible Society UK claims The Bible has changed millions of lives, and it can change my life too.
Now, I absolutely love The Bible. I study theology and philosophy of religion. I have been engaging with The Bible for about two years with a PhD teacher of philosophy. The society claims that when people engage with t... | AbiLovesTheology | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Reddit’s sex positivity campaign has doubled back on itself and became anti-abstinence, and thus anti-consent
So this is an observation that I've made about the platform after posting a number of personal posts regarding my own situation. I have noticed that, although Reddit seems to present itself as extremely s... | You can be anti-abstinence and still pro-consent
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I don't understand how though? You are actively encouraging and villainizing the act of NOT having sex, thus telling people to have sex even if they do not want to
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They're telling you to choose to have sex, not raping you.
I'm sorry, but this comparison is... | Weird, from my perspective things are almost anti-sex. I suppose it just depends on what subs you end up on.
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Right? Just last week I had a bunch of people telling me how depraved and immoral I am for having casual sex from time to time.
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Right, Reddit skews pretty young and in my experience it seems like a l... | 1omktvl | CMV: Reddit’s sex positivity campaign has doubled back on itself and became anti-abstinence, and thus anti-consent | So this is an observation that I've made about the platform after posting a number of personal posts regarding my own situation. I have noticed that, although Reddit seems to present itself as extremely sex-positive, it has evolved to the point where being anti-sex to any degree, even if only confined to oneself, well ... | ArtistTechnical2152 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: saying biological sex is binary is anti-science and harmful to intersex and trans people
It is bimodal. Sure it is strongly bimodal but it is still not binary.
There's a statistical distribution between the two peaks and ignoring that isn't science. "They're rare" is not an argument against this, unless you cons... | [deleted]
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That viewing sex as strictly binary causes intersex people to occasionally feel a need to confirm to societal views of sex through procedures that are permanent and biologically harmful.
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I think you're just wrong about the causality. Right now the people you are referring to might say something li... | I'd say anti-science is a bit too, how should I say it, blunt. It's not scientifically accurate, I can agree with that. But it's not like someone who's saying that is trying to abolish science or something. So I'd say "saying that biological sex is binary is scientifically inaccurate"
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Which would mean holding ... | azl4cr | CMV: saying biological sex is binary is anti-science and harmful to intersex and trans people | It is bimodal. Sure it is strongly bimodal but it is still not binary.
There's a statistical distribution between the two peaks and ignoring that isn't science. "They're rare" is not an argument against this, unless you consider reality less important than the accuracy of the model, and that seems far more anti-scienc... | LifeIsDefoPain | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Tattoos are unnecessary
It is my belief that tattoos are an unnecessary procedure and in the long run are a net loss in a persons life.
I have two suppositions to support this.
1. If you believe in a God. Not a specific god but a God that you believe has created you in a intentional image that you as a human ca... | Ok, so the first point is irrelevant if the person didn't believe in any God.
The second point, yes, maybe tattoos aren't necessary for life, but neither are piercing, painting your nails, change g your colour hair, having earrings, makeup, basically almost any aesthetic change you can think of (cutting your hair depe... | I'm not sure how to address all these ideas, but I do want to address the first big point.
By the way you are talking, I believe you're Christian I'm guessing so correct me if I'm wrong. That "made in God's image" ideology is something I've heard in Christian churches quite a bit. This is relevant because we also beli... | g6hiov | CMV: Tattoos are unnecessary | It is my belief that tattoos are an unnecessary procedure and in the long run are a net loss in a persons life.
I have two suppositions to support this.
1. If you believe in a God. Not a specific god but a God that you believe has created you in a intentional image that you as a human cannot rightfully astray from. I... | 2percentorless | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Slippery slope arguments are actually valid
For most of my life I was predisposed to the idea that the slippery slope fallacy was in fact, a fallacy. The argument that just because an action can lead to some more extreme outcome doesn't mean that we have to go that far and end up in the extreme situation. To an e... | The slippery slope argument is a fallacy if you focus entirely on the slope and not on what the force is upon that slope. The argument becomes concerning if an entity has shown to want more, but the argument is invalid if you ignore the context and assume more.
Let's take your two example. First, there is the argument... | If you believe the slippery slope is valid you hinder any possible change.
Making any small change will automatically lead to the most extreme changes.
If we allow euthanasia suddenly doctors are going to be snuffing out little Tommy when he breaks his leg.
Do you think that's a valid argument?
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I mean th... | 1d0y64z | CMV: Slippery slope arguments are actually valid | For most of my life I was predisposed to the idea that the slippery slope fallacy was in fact, a fallacy. The argument that just because an action can lead to some more extreme outcome doesn't mean that we have to go that far and end up in the extreme situation. To an extent, I still believe that. But, that being said,... | annms88 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state
Not only would we have to assume their debts, but puerto rico has an extremely democratic population, it would affect the electoral college too much by giving democrats another safe state.
Even though I don't mind chaging the flag design (the ... | So statehood should be doled out based on how right/left you are?
I'm not sure that Britain would have benefitted much by allowing us representation, but that has no bearing on whether or not it would have been the morally right.
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Would statehood even be morally correct? As far as it stands, puertoricans prefer c... | By your electoral college reasoning, no new states should be added.
My counter, is more states more united, more better. Double down on the good things about the US
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Yes, however puerto rico specifically is incredibly democratic which would upset the balance of the college significantly more than most other poten... | 67ngo3 | CMV: The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state | Not only would we have to assume their debts, but puerto rico has an extremely democratic population, it would affect the electoral college too much by giving democrats another safe state.
Even though I don't mind chaging the flag design (the usa has gone through many flag changes before) the general public is not ver... | regi_zteel | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state
Not only would we have to assume their debts, but puerto rico has an extremely democratic population, it would affect the electoral college too much by giving democrats another safe state.
Even though I don't mind chaging the flag design (the ... | Not having Puerto Rico as a state is completely undemocratic. Puerto Ricans are required to pay most US federal taxes, but have no influence over senate, congress or president.
You mention that having Puerto Rico as a state would affect the electoral collage. That's kind of the point with a democracy; the opinion of ... | By your electoral college reasoning, no new states should be added.
My counter, is more states more united, more better. Double down on the good things about the US
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Yes, however puerto rico specifically is incredibly democratic which would upset the balance of the college significantly more than most other poten... | 67ngo3 | CMV: The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state | Not only would we have to assume their debts, but puerto rico has an extremely democratic population, it would affect the electoral college too much by giving democrats another safe state.
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CMV: The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state
Not only would we have to assume their debts, but puerto rico has an extremely democratic population, it would affect the electoral college too much by giving democrats another safe state.
Even though I don't mind chaging the flag design (the ... | By your electoral college reasoning, no new states should be added.
My counter, is more states more united, more better. Double down on the good things about the US
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Yes, however puerto rico specifically is incredibly democratic which would upset the balance of the college significantly more than most other poten... | Not having Puerto Rico as a state is completely undemocratic. Puerto Ricans are required to pay most US federal taxes, but have no influence over senate, congress or president.
You mention that having Puerto Rico as a state would affect the electoral collage. That's kind of the point with a democracy; the opinion of ... | 67ngo3 | CMV: The united states gains no benefit from having puerto rico as a state | Not only would we have to assume their debts, but puerto rico has an extremely democratic population, it would affect the electoral college too much by giving democrats another safe state.
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CMV: Focusing only in policing speach is unproductive in ending stigma
Note: I am not american, I know reddit is full from USA persons but this is my euro african perspetive, I am not talking about your american polítics but you can indeed use them to coment what I am talking about, just dont expect me to know about e... | Everyone accepts a degree of social control over language. There are always expectations of what you are and aren't supposed to say. If you say the wrong thing, you are generally socially chastised. I feel like you are focusing on specific words rather than the general sentiment of condemning and ostracizing people who... | I'll disagree, but probably not in the way you think.
Firstly, I agree that it doesn't directly actually help. What it does do is indirectly help. And here's why.
White people, and possibly other ethnicities (however I know a lot of fellow wiggs), love conflict. Yes, whites invented most comforts in the modern world.... | wuowjw | CMV: Focusing only in policing speach is unproductive in ending stigma | Note: I am not american, I know reddit is full from USA persons but this is my euro african perspetive, I am not talking about your american polítics but you can indeed use them to coment what I am talking about, just dont expect me to know about every single issue you mention
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CMV: Only Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang offers real change within the Democratic platform
So while watching the news this morning I listen to Julian Castro talk and I realized that what he was saying was exactly what every other Democrat, other than Bernie and Yang (and maybe Warren too), have been saying since 2008. ... | > Obama didn't accomplish much other than gay rights and a kind of botched launch of the Affordable Care Act
On top of the ACA, Obama steered the country towards recovery after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
He reformed and revived the failing US auto industry. He led major changes to the bank... | Elizabeth Warren wants to break up the tech giants, tax people based on their wealth rather than income, give reparations to descendants of slaves and Native Americans, and get the US government into the pharma-manufacturing business. These are not mainstream Dem positions.
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She doesn’t offer real change because ... | azisaz | CMV: Only Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang offers real change within the Democratic platform | So while watching the news this morning I listen to Julian Castro talk and I realized that what he was saying was exactly what every other Democrat, other than Bernie and Yang (and maybe Warren too), have been saying since 2008. It's pretty much all the same as what Obama had promised before he was elected. Obama was a... | ComradePruski | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Democrats have a severe messaging problem, and they need to fix it before 2028.
I was on r/conservative the other day (dont come at me, I just lurk to see what people are saying) and saw a post regarding Vance at the TPUSA rally. While most of the comments were purely bashing Democrats saying they can't answer qu... | What would change your mind? You already mentioned two exceptions but those didn't change your opinion.
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Seeing more high-profile Democrats actually answering questions. I know we're a long way away from 2028, but we need more Democrats getting out there, counteracting the misinformation being spread, and answerin... | I don't think we should base our views on Democratic messaging by reading what's said in r/conservative.
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Wouldn’t the election results suggest they have a messaging problem?
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I wouldn't point to that either, they didn't lose by much.
Unless you're trying to say something like, "whenever a party loses it has... | 1omg6g6 | CMV: Democrats have a severe messaging problem, and they need to fix it before 2028. | I was on r/conservative the other day (dont come at me, I just lurk to see what people are saying) and saw a post regarding Vance at the TPUSA rally. While most of the comments were purely bashing Democrats saying they can't answer questions, one caught my attention.
Without copying and pasting it, they mentioned tha... | RTYoung1301 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Democrats have a severe messaging problem, and they need to fix it before 2028.
I was on r/conservative the other day (dont come at me, I just lurk to see what people are saying) and saw a post regarding Vance at the TPUSA rally. While most of the comments were purely bashing Democrats saying they can't answer qu... | Ever heard of a town hall? My democratic representatives and senators have them all the time. They are exactly what you describe.
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I have, and my rep has done a few this year, but most of them are with vetted attendees or over the phone, so only a few people can go on at a time.
!delta
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You owe a delta | I don't think we should base our views on Democratic messaging by reading what's said in r/conservative.
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You should absolutely be using opposition research to understand what’s being said and YES the Democrats have a huge messaging problem. The way middle America has completely wrote off the Democratic Party as j... | 1omg6g6 | CMV: Democrats have a severe messaging problem, and they need to fix it before 2028. | I was on r/conservative the other day (dont come at me, I just lurk to see what people are saying) and saw a post regarding Vance at the TPUSA rally. While most of the comments were purely bashing Democrats saying they can't answer questions, one caught my attention.
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CMV: No matter how taboo your bad thoughts are, you’re not a bad person, only acting on it can dictate that.
Example: if someone has the desire to rape someone they aren’t a bad person unless they act on it.
This statement definetly sounds more directed towards people with an illness wether psychotic, narcissistic, p... | The only thing which might change your view is when a person doesn't act.
For example, if you and a friend are sitting in a room quietly thinking about rape (which certainly isn't good), and then your friend proceeds to bring home a person to rape. If you don't participate, but allow it to happen even if you think to ... | You're bringing up one of the oldest philosophical debates in Western culture, a discussion of whether people are their actions or their intents.
Let's take the counterexample:
Is a person who always tries his best to do the best thing he can, but is consistently met with bad luck such that his actual impact is alway... | azj9qd | CMV: No matter how taboo your bad thoughts are, you’re not a bad person, only acting on it can dictate that. | Example: if someone has the desire to rape someone they aren’t a bad person unless they act on it.
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CMV: Burwell v Hobby Lobby
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Hobby Lobby just doesn't have to help pay for them.
The employee is more than welcome to go to CVS or Walgreen's or whatever and pay the $50 or so to get Plan B over the counter.
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But the employee does pay into the insu... | 67pdcj | CMV: Burwell v Hobby Lobby | Wikipedia:
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CMV: Golf is not a sport.
A sport is defined as an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
I agree that golf requires a high level of skill to play and master but it doesn’t require much physical exertion. I think it is compa... | Your definition does not specify how much physical exertion, only that the sport requires some physical exertion. Even if we discount the walking between holes, swing a golf club with the necessary amount of force requires some physical exertion. By your own definition, golf is technically a sport.
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The definition... | Make a list of olympic sports, and among them you'll see curling, archery, bobsleigh/luge/skeleton, equestrian, shooting. These are all sports.
Sport is not defined by *how much* physical exertion there is in the skills being displayed.
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A sport is defined as an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
I agree that golf requires a high level of skill to play and master but it doesn’t require much physical exertion. I think it is compa... | Make a list of olympic sports, and among them you'll see curling, archery, bobsleigh/luge/skeleton, equestrian, shooting. These are all sports.
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CMV: The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 in the U.S.
In my opinion the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 in the United States. I am aware of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 passed by Reagan and the supposed reasoning behind it. However, my opinion stands, that if a person is considere... | Drinking during adolescence [damages the brain](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122765890). Our brains continue to grow until we are 25. Adolescents who drink have been shown to have far more damage done to the white mater of their brains than adults who drink at the same rate.
Also, teenagers are ... | Counterpoint: There should be no drinking age at all, criminalizing teenagers and putting them in the system does not protect them.
A buying age if anything (where the store is punished, not the teenager)
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That is definitely an interesting point. I don't think there should be no drinking age at all. I think that ... | 73vxoy | CMV: The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 in the U.S. | In my opinion the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 in the United States. I am aware of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 passed by Reagan and the supposed reasoning behind it. However, my opinion stands, that if a person is considered mature enough to vote or serve in the military they should be a... | VelocityofThought | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: The abortion debate has no resolution since each side is equally valid
Pro-Lifer's generally believe that abortion is evil and that only an evil person would do it.
Pro-Choicer's generally that pro-lifers are all mysogynist who want to control women.
I think these are both false and the narrative pushed by both... | ​
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The point where misogyny comes into question, is when it becomes clear that otherwise we have already pretty clearly established, that b... | The whole abortion debate boils down to where you draw the line. A newborn is clearly a human being, an egg and sperm clearly aren't. At some point that thing is able to feel pain, is able to think to a degree, and so becomes a human life. They aren't necessarily equally valid; societies have to look at the continuum o... | p4gxiv | CMV: The abortion debate has no resolution since each side is equally valid | Pro-Lifer's generally believe that abortion is evil and that only an evil person would do it.
Pro-Choicer's generally that pro-lifers are all mysogynist who want to control women.
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Pro-Lifer's generally believe that abortion is evil and that only an evil person would do it.
Pro-Choicer's generally that pro-lifers are all mysogynist who want to control women.
I think these are both false and the narrative pushed by both... | The main pro choice argument isn't that one, it's bodly autonomy. If a fully grown adult was living of my body I should be able to take them off even if that means they die, the same is true for a fetus regardless of where life begins
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CMV: Recycling Paper / Cardboard / Plastic is bad for the environment
For a disclaimer I have not totally thought this through, but merely pondered about it when getting the recycling out for collection this morning.
First some context:
I believe that there are only two truly terrifying environmental problems ... | It's not an unreasonable theory. The thing to consider though is that the carbon inherent to the paper is only part of its carbon cost. Energy was used to harvest, manufacture and transport that paper. And in this day and age most of that energy came from burning fossil fuels. IF paper recycling is much more energy e... | [deleted]
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There is an assumption that sourcing of the wood still has to be sustainable. IE, go chop down trees in a place where we aren't harvesting all of the biomass growth currently.
There are plenty of places like this. Forests are growing all over Europe and North America IIRC.
Trying to invent carbon ext... | bjhje1 | CMV: Recycling Paper / Cardboard / Plastic is bad for the environment | For a disclaimer I have not totally thought this through, but merely pondered about it when getting the recycling out for collection this morning.
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CMV: Climate change and the extinction of species is not as bad as people make it to be. Genetical engineering will make up for it.
I have heard many people freaking out about the environment, saying that the future generations will hate us, but how are you so certain? The future generations will have a technology we ... | Doesn't it make more sense to try and preserve things for our descendants, rather than rely on them inventing a currently fantastic technology? It’s an ounce of prevention vs. a pound of cure issue.
Here’s an easy one. If our generation had a nuclear war leading to the downfall of modern civilization (but people sur... | The problems of climate change are far more wide-reaching than an increase or decrease in global temperature - the degree to which the temperature is changing can be debated (inaccurate sensors being a prime suspect), but the thing is, **that's far from the only bad consequence going on now**. Ocean acidification from ... | 5ppnew | CMV: Climate change and the extinction of species is not as bad as people make it to be. Genetical engineering will make up for it. | I have heard many people freaking out about the environment, saying that the future generations will hate us, but how are you so certain? The future generations will have a technology we cannot even dream of, they will be able to genetic engineer new species and new things at an unprecedented rate. We are the ones who ... | Garlicplanet | 5 | 4 | [
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CMV: Owning a car or home is not worth the trouble, it's easier to rent/lease.
I grew up in a very old house and my parents have always driven very old cars. My parents both have 2 cars each so that when one breaks down, they have another car to drive while it gets repaired. My dad does most car and home repairs himse... | Unless you want to live an extremely bohemian life never living in one place for more than a year and then immediately moving a thousand miles then it probably makes financial sense to at least own a car or a house a some point if your credit and budget allow.
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Therefore after twenty years you’d be able to own a house if you weren’t spending it on rent. Say you start doing this at age 20. You’ll only be 40 and not own a house. Still have what? Atleast another 20-40 years to piss away your money till you die.
That’s just simple head math that anyone ... | kxjss5 | CMV: Owning a car or home is not worth the trouble, it's easier to rent/lease. | I grew up in a very old house and my parents have always driven very old cars. My parents both have 2 cars each so that when one breaks down, they have another car to drive while it gets repaired. My dad does most car and home repairs himself which saves a ton of money, but since everything is so old there is constantl... | grandepinkdrinknoice | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: plastic straw bans and plastic bag bans does more damage in regards to environmentalist movement than it benefits the movement
So in certain locations in the US there's been recent laws passed to ban plastic consumer products that used to be free, straws and shipping bags. The straws I am mostly against because i... | The problem with those plastics is that they are so light they don't stay where you put them. They get into all sorts of places in the environment that you would not expect, and get eaten by animals (often choking them).
They are also not required. You can make do with reusable bags for shopping, and either metal stra... | Imposing a monatary penalty on non recyclable waste only puts a price for not recycling. People would not feel guilty for poluting as along as they can pay this price. Indeed it may even evolve into a status symbol to be able to afford to waste. Only a complete ban can ensure that non recyclable straws and plastic bags... | cuoh9o | CMV: plastic straw bans and plastic bag bans does more damage in regards to environmentalist movement than it benefits the movement | So in certain locations in the US there's been recent laws passed to ban plastic consumer products that used to be free, straws and shipping bags. The straws I am mostly against because it is so small ball that imposing it evokes that the effort is meaningless, while plastic shopping bags tend leaves the plastic packag... | SeanFromQueens | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Enforcing a deadline to the second, no matter what the cost for those penalised, is pointless and irrational.
I am currently in my first year of university, although I wont disclose what course or university I am at to protect the identity of everyone involved in this. Last semester we had a project for one of ou... | Your viewpoint is the viewpoint of someone who has only ever been on the receiving end of deadlines. Which is fair enough: if you're an individual student, it may be hard to see why strictly adhering to deadline rules is important.
To understand the other side of this, you're going to have to consider it from the pers... | > The whole point of a deadline for an educational assignment is to ensure that all students' work is available when the marking process begins.
If you don't have strict deadlines, this collapses. Students will start to abuse the system to get additional time. Students who have sob stories or good standing with the pr... | aze7u9 | CMV: Enforcing a deadline to the second, no matter what the cost for those penalised, is pointless and irrational. | I am currently in my first year of university, although I wont disclose what course or university I am at to protect the identity of everyone involved in this. Last semester we had a project for one of our modules that was to be submitted online no later than 5pm on a specific day. On the submission page we were warned... | theinspector5 | 9 | 9 | [
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CMV: Enforcing a deadline to the second, no matter what the cost for those penalised, is pointless and irrational.
I am currently in my first year of university, although I wont disclose what course or university I am at to protect the identity of everyone involved in this. Last semester we had a project for one of ou... | I'm aure Nathan learned a lesson that day life isnt fair and mercy is a gift not a right. Sure the professor could have taken the project and shown mercy but thats his choice. Also one other point ig Nathan hadnt waited til the last second he would not have this problem at all. All in all im sure next time Nathan will ... | > The whole point of a deadline for an educational assignment is to ensure that all students' work is available when the marking process begins.
If you don't have strict deadlines, this collapses. Students will start to abuse the system to get additional time. Students who have sob stories or good standing with the pr... | aze7u9 | CMV: Enforcing a deadline to the second, no matter what the cost for those penalised, is pointless and irrational. | I am currently in my first year of university, although I wont disclose what course or university I am at to protect the identity of everyone involved in this. Last semester we had a project for one of our modules that was to be submitted online no later than 5pm on a specific day. On the submission page we were warned... | theinspector5 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: If you support the takedown of parler by Google, Apple and Amazon, then you are against free speech.
A few clarifying things to start. I'm not saying that it's illegal for these companies to do this. I'm not educated on these types of laws and I believe some argument about monopolies could be made, but that's not... | But didn’t Parler also violate the terms set out by those platforms re: content moderation?
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Would you mind giving a source on what exactly it is that they violated?
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They were asked to write and institute a content moderation policy and didn’t.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/apple-threatens-b... | Fake f*****g news. Free speech comes with a clause. When you start making threats or possibly interfering with someone else’s freedoms then yours is revoked.
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The whole platform was not that. You could argue all social media could be taken down if you believe that someone's post on it could make the whole platform... | kxi061 | CMV: If you support the takedown of parler by Google, Apple and Amazon, then you are against free speech. | A few clarifying things to start. I'm not saying that it's illegal for these companies to do this. I'm not educated on these types of laws and I believe some argument about monopolies could be made, but that's not what im referring to in this post. I'm simply stating that if you agree with that move from these companie... | politicalthrowaway28 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Metalcore is still Metal
When I say Metalcore I'm referring to the modern idea of the genre, I'm aware Metalcore started out as Hardcore.
Whenever someone claims Metalcore isn't Metal, the general reasons I get are "Because it doesn't have Metal riffs" or "Because it doesn't sound like Metal", these are complete... | What are some of the big metalcore bands or songs I could listen to? I've heard a few, but never got into it. It'd be nice to have an accurate representation of what you're talking about not being familiar with the specific subgenre.
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Killswitch Engaged: https://you... | If you’re of the opinion that there “can not be a consistent definition for Metal” then how can anyone possibly make a meaningful argument either way?
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Because there are vague rules to it, the point I was trying to make is Metalcore still sounds like metal due the use of distorted guitar, harsh vocals ect, so when... | azd4y6 | CMV: Metalcore is still Metal | When I say Metalcore I'm referring to the modern idea of the genre, I'm aware Metalcore started out as Hardcore.
Whenever someone claims Metalcore isn't Metal, the general reasons I get are "Because it doesn't have Metal riffs" or "Because it doesn't sound like Metal", these are completely meaningless..
So what is the... | Dead_Benjamin | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Eating meat is ethical
Here is my stance: The exploitative nature of animal agriculture industry is unethical, but eating meat itself is not. I believe that if the meat is obtained through a process with minimum suffering, it is ethical to eat them. If humans are omnivore, I don't see any moral obligation to ... | Christ the Other White Meat! Eat more prophet ohhh profit....sorry! If it is about Sentinent beings then why not start on the top or the bottom of the food chain depending on how you look at it...humans are sentinent beings as are fish... as are most living species...so let's start with canabalism! No difference...the... | I'm being a pedantic here I know, but what you are describing is only ethically neutral. If something isn't unethical, it doesn't always mean it's ethical, sometimes it's just neutral.
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Sorry, I wasn't referring ethics as a sliding scale, but rather in a binary system. If it's unethical then it's wrong and people ... | g5843o | CMV: Eating meat is ethical | Here is my stance: The exploitative nature of animal agriculture industry is unethical, but eating meat itself is not. I believe that if the meat is obtained through a process with minimum suffering, it is ethical to eat them. If humans are omnivore, I don't see any moral obligation to eat only plants. The stronges... | mmxxi | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The term "Nazi" has become meaningless because it's overused. This makes it harder to fight actual Nazis and Nazi apologists.
# Background
I use the term Nazi very sparingly, and only to refer to people who literally support Hitler and his beliefs. I do so because it seems that the term "Nazi" has become meaning... | I would agree that we should take the idea of what Nazism is seriously, and not use the term carelessly. But the term is far from meaningless, and I think your example guy there proves it.
The guy you picked claiming the term "Nazi" is meaningless is a Nazi. This isn't a guy genuinely finding the term overused, but so... | I don't think the word is meaningless. "Nazi" seems to pretty much always used to refer to people in one of the following groups:
1. The original Nazis, members of the Nazi movement in the 20th Century (e.g. Hitler).
2. People post-WW2 who defend or apologize for those original Nazis (e.g. holocaust deniers like the ... | azc6rn | CMV: The term "Nazi" has become meaningless because it's overused. This makes it harder to fight actual Nazis and Nazi apologists. | # Background
I use the term Nazi very sparingly, and only to refer to people who literally support Hitler and his beliefs. I do so because it seems that the term "Nazi" has become meaningless nowadays because it's overused.
After encountering an Odinist white power poster on the street, I decided to Google "*Why is O... | Af203 | 4 | 4 | [
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cmv: Minnesota's plan to take race into consideration during teacher layoffs is sound policy
The rationale (with which I agree) is that having role models in the classroom to show that education is "meant for people like me" is a sound educational objective.
30% of students identify as people of color, yet only 5% of ... | Representation may be important. But is it really more important than skill or experience? Are you going to lay off a teacher with graduate degrees and 20 years experience over someone else just because they're white?
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In the absence of any data that indicates that the tenure and degrees have created significant, ... | Would you rather keep a teacher from a certain demographic, who may not be a very good teacher. Over a teacher with a proven track record of success?
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I think you are creating a false dichotomy there.
A longer tenured teacher may not have a strong history of good performance.
Additionally they are laying off th... | wth7si | cmv: Minnesota's plan to take race into consideration during teacher layoffs is sound policy | The rationale (with which I agree) is that having role models in the classroom to show that education is "meant for people like me" is a sound educational objective.
30% of students identify as people of color, yet only 5% of teachers do.
In fact, I would take this a step further, slightly over 50% of elementary stude... | lumberjack_jeff | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Using the social media accounts to judge potential hires is extremely reaching and usually adds very little of use.
In short: When I was in school, I remember being told all the time that potential employers will be checking our social media accounts and will take it into consideration when determining whether to... | Everything an employer has at their disposal is of very limited use. Resumes will always paint the best picture. School transcripts really depend on the school and are largely ignored. There is almost nothing an employer has access to (other than the interview) that gives any insight into a candidate’s personality w... | [deleted]
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Can you explain how an employee having a drunk holiday photo on his or her personal social media page would impact the reputation of a company? Or how a 'sketchy social media feed' can reliably determine that someone will be less likely to be preform in the workplace? I'm not convinced that these two id... | g68p5d | CMV: Using the social media accounts to judge potential hires is extremely reaching and usually adds very little of use. | In short: When I was in school, I remember being told all the time that potential employers will be checking our social media accounts and will take it into consideration when determining whether to hire us. I think this is undeniable.
However, I am not convinced that this is a very useful practice. To me, the idea th... | Neltadouble | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: There is nothing oppressive about hijab laws in Islamic countries
The most common reason I see that hijab laws in these countries are oppressive is that it stops women from wearing whatever they want, in reality there is no country in the world that allows Women, or men for that matter, to wear whatever they wan... | There are two issues with your reasoning. The first is how sexist it is. Men get to wear a very wide range of outfits, women get hijabs.
The second is the reason for public nudity isn't culture, its sex. Sexual organs are not accepted in public spaces, because we decided public spaces are sexual. This is a balance be... | Do you really think that women would voluntarily prefer hijabs if their culture let them wear whatever they wanted?
Do you really think that requiring people to cover their face and requiring people to cover their penis are functionally equivalent?
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I don’t think that there is any culture where people can wear w... | vkaptv | CMV: There is nothing oppressive about hijab laws in Islamic countries | The most common reason I see that hijab laws in these countries are oppressive is that it stops women from wearing whatever they want, in reality there is no country in the world that allows Women, or men for that matter, to wear whatever they want as most countries for example insist on making sure that genitals are ... | fantasy53 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Not everyone is meant to be a parent and people should not criticize them
I’ve been hearing this phrase since I was very young: “ You’ll see when you’ll have children.” But how are some people so sure that just because they chose to be parents, everyone else around them will do the same?
Some people have other pr... | “ You’ll see when you’ll have children,” is just a way of trying to be polite when you want to tell someone to bigger off because they don’t understand because they don’t have kids.
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I just think that the statement "you will understand when X, Y or Z" is not one that should be acceptable. Most of the time it has a demeaning undertone.
Sure, perceptions can change when "X" is attained, but that's not the only way to have your perceptions changed, but that statement almost says that... | ilm43f | CMV: Not everyone is meant to be a parent and people should not criticize them | I’ve been hearing this phrase since I was very young: “ You’ll see when you’ll have children.” But how are some people so sure that just because they chose to be parents, everyone else around them will do the same?
Some people have other priorities, don’t want to sacrifice so much or they’re not patient enough. There ... | whhosays | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The opinions people hold are indicative of their intelligence.
Up until a while ago I thought that this was a common sentiment, but have experienced disagreement in my personal life.
The foundation of this view is this:
There are certain irrefutable facts about the world. Any opinion which denies these belies ... | what is an example of an irrefutable fact? outside of basic mathematics, as calculation errors or differences in orders of operations aren't really opinions.
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More than 95% of scientists agree that humans are contributing to climate change.
Obviously this is not deductively true, but the standard for absolute t... | >all I hear when someone challenged on the issue says "it's just my opinion" is "I'm a biased idiot why cant read".
An opinion *is* your bias. Because you disagree with it doesnt make them an idiot
EDIT: I dont totally disagree with your view, I think it has more to do with how they go about presenting the opinion th... | dw8tzb | CMV: The opinions people hold are indicative of their intelligence. | Up until a while ago I thought that this was a common sentiment, but have experienced disagreement in my personal life.
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CMV: Gender Equality as a Goal is a Privilege for Beneficiaries of Others' Sacrifice to Provide (A) Abundant Food, Shelter, other Needs; (B) Safety & Security; and (C) Lifestyle Opportunities that Negate Biological Difference Between the Sexes (e.g. post-industrial "information-based" economies)
I'm not against gender... | >But prior to 1940, there were scarcely any times or places when/where there wasn't an objective need for men and women to fill specialized roles in a family, community, and society in order for them to individually and collectively survive, procreate, and thrive.
Like what objective need?
Why couldn't men have stay... | So to summarize your view you believe that the only time people want gender equality is when they’ve already reaped the benefits of gender inequality?
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I didn't and wouldn't say it that way; but that is actually a very intriguing way to put it.
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Could you rephrase it to for what your view is | y9bilh | CMV: Gender Equality as a Goal is a Privilege for Beneficiaries of Others' Sacrifice to Provide (A) Abundant Food, Shelter, other Needs; (B) Safety & Security; and (C) Lifestyle Opportunities that Negate Biological Difference Between the Sexes (e.g. post-industrial "information-based" economies) | I'm not against gender equality or gender equity.
I do think it is worth acknowledging that these goals and means are only possible in a particular environment. Even if a person from today had traveled back in time 50, 500, or 5000 years ago to enlighten the people of that time to the egalitarian merits of gender equa... | Mr-Homemaker | 3 | 3 | [
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I'm not against gender... | >Even if a person from today had traveled back in time 50, 500, or 5000 years ago to enlighten the people of that time to the egalitarian merits of gender equality - it simply would not have been feasible to implement it. **Because life at that time required gender specialization.**
I would challenge the bolded senten... | What's the actual view that needs to be changed? Gender roles and stereotypes have always been fluid and change with the times. People aren't happy with how slowly they've changed recently, and will always advocate for better treatment and equity but that doesn't mean that wouldn't have been true in the past as well?
... | y9bilh | CMV: Gender Equality as a Goal is a Privilege for Beneficiaries of Others' Sacrifice to Provide (A) Abundant Food, Shelter, other Needs; (B) Safety & Security; and (C) Lifestyle Opportunities that Negate Biological Difference Between the Sexes (e.g. post-industrial "information-based" economies) | I'm not against gender equality or gender equity.
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CMV: Elizabeth Warren's plans to require businesses to have 40% of their board elected by employees is an awesome idea
I heard this plan from Warren at the debate last night, and I absolutely loved every bit of it. Warren's not my first choice, but that plan was genius. Major corporations continue to make decisions at... | There are several people at play here:
* Existing employees: I and the other existing employees now control 40% of the board. So we vote to raise our salaries, make it harder to fire us, reduce our hours, and make it harder to replace us. This maximizes job security, money, and quality of life for us.
* New employees... | Ever heard of unions?
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A union will have MUCH MORE power than a board member, especially an elected one. | dj04uy | CMV: Elizabeth Warren's plans to require businesses to have 40% of their board elected by employees is an awesome idea | I heard this plan from Warren at the debate last night, and I absolutely loved every bit of it. Warren's not my first choice, but that plan was genius. Major corporations continue to make decisions at employee's detriment, and they are unable to do anything about it. Layoffs, pay cuts, policy changes at employee's expe... | rick-swordfire | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: the highest paid employee at a company (C-suite executives) should not make 350x what their lowest paid employees do.
The wage gap has grown so unreasonably high that it is completely disconnected from the actual economy and tosses proper valuation for work out the window.
Please, someone explain to me how one p... | Imagine one person whose sole responsibility in the firm is to empty one single trashcan every day. Now there is a second person whose responsibility is to coordinate 350 such people (for example every day tell them where the trashcans are).
If the first person fails in their job 1 trashcan is not emptied. If the seco... | If we had UBI, evil corporations could pay whatever they wanted because everyone would already make a living wage. You can't simultaneously insist evil corporations be in charge of everything then get upset when everything is all evil and corporationey
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Please, someone explain to me how one person’s work is worth Three. Hundred and Fifty times more than someone else’s. Working the same hours.
I want to believe th... | Seaguard5 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: We should not have to alter history when a transgender person comes out.
I support a transgender person’s right to transition and live as the other gender and be called by their preferred pronouns and all of that. The problem is in the idea that the person’s whole past life and works must now be amended and ever... | [deleted]
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Thanks. My problem is not with the name change, it’s what I perceive to be an insistence that past events did not happen the way everyone witnessed them.
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You mean how America became a wealthy nation by means of unpaid human slave labor rather than because of manifest destiny and simple superiorit... | Well you didn't see a woman in those films. He might not have realized it and he may have even believed he was a woman at the time but he was never a woman.
Just like a gay person before they come out or realize it themselves isn't straight, they're just unknowingly gay.
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You did see a woman in those movies that'... | k5cf40 | CMV: We should not have to alter history when a transgender person comes out. | I support a transgender person’s right to transition and live as the other gender and be called by their preferred pronouns and all of that. The problem is in the idea that the person’s whole past life and works must now be amended and everyone can no longer reference their previous name or gender when referencing pas... | SSDD1 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Piracy is not stealing, is not morally wrong, and is good for society and culture.
To clarify, I am referring to piracy like illegally downloading stuff, not like walk the plank ahoy matey piracy.
Each of these points are separate, but each one down builds off of the ones above it. Like, I think it would be diff... | Piracy is not stealing, but it is actively taking the choice away from any creator about how to distribute their creations. You're right, piracy is no different from the creator having their content available for free...but most creators don't want all their content available for free, and you're actively taking that c... | > Wikipedia is free, and the debate over whether there is a moral obligation is the same as the reasoning for why the moral obligation is there for piracy, despite piracy not being involved in the Wikipedia debate at all.
Wikipedia is not at all comparable to stuff people would pirate. Wikipedia is purposefully writte... | tgl4xv | CMV: Piracy is not stealing, is not morally wrong, and is good for society and culture. | To clarify, I am referring to piracy like illegally downloading stuff, not like walk the plank ahoy matey piracy.
Each of these points are separate, but each one down builds off of the ones above it. Like, I think it would be difficult to prove that piracy is morally wrong, but a positive force for society.
Although ... | Lowerprint | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: African Americans commit violent crimes three times as much as Hispanics (even though they both live under the same socio-economic conditions), due to cultural reasons.
Hopefully this goes over well.
I've heard arguments claiming that Blacks lack a cultural identity to relate to compared to Mexicans, at least in... | [deleted]
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But you're just shifting the question though...
What makes poor whites more likely to commit crimes even though they both grew under the same socio-economic conditions? What makes poor Hispanics less likely to commit crimes as well? I literally can't find any indicator other than a cultural one, your p... | Crime rates, highschool graduation rates, etc. are a complete class issue.
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So you're saying culture has nothing to do with it? Why?
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Because why would it? Its completely unfounded. Study after study finds that all the factors that go into these rates have everything to do with the wealth of the community and... | ilt6hf | CMV: African Americans commit violent crimes three times as much as Hispanics (even though they both live under the same socio-economic conditions), due to cultural reasons. | Hopefully this goes over well.
I've heard arguments claiming that Blacks lack a cultural identity to relate to compared to Mexicans, at least in the US, and that it's a major factor in the criminal disparity between both races, now I'm not entirely convinced by this argument for the following reasons;
1- While slaver... | MagnummShlong | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Blocking/banning/ghosting as it currently exists on social media, shouldn't exist.
Esssntially, you shouldnt be able to have a public profile or page or community and then hide it from a blacklist or people.
Terminology. These words dont mean the same thing for every platform, so for consistency this is what I'm... | So you can't ban people? What are you going to do with the 1,000,000 spammers that will come here to Change my View and attempt to sell viagra and penis enlargement pills to everyone incessantly. Or how about an army of trolls who have no interest in changing their minds on anything. Hell they might not even believe wh... | The core principle of freedom of association allows people to choose to associate, or _not_ associate, with whomever they want. You seem to be proposing to restrict that right, and it's not clear why you think that's justifiable here because you don't give any reason why it's unethical.
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Banning people (without an... | 1633vs4 | CMV: Blocking/banning/ghosting as it currently exists on social media, shouldn't exist. | Esssntially, you shouldnt be able to have a public profile or page or community and then hide it from a blacklist or people.
Terminology. These words dont mean the same thing for every platform, so for consistency this is what I'm using: Banning prevents someone from interacting with a public page, but they can still ... | Dedli | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: It is actually 100% certain, that there is alien life
There is no direct proof for alien life, mean life on another planet/moon/asteroid or other body in the universe (yet).
And it seems like to me that most scientists claim that we can't know if the universe is filled with life or if we are the only ones out th... | The possibility or even probability that something exists doesn’t add up to 100% certainty. Until you actually measure or observe alien life you cannot be 100%.
Your level of certainty is too high given the facts.
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By this logic I could never be 100% certain of anything. What is enough argument to assume someth... | "There is no direct proof for alien life"
Therefore based on the scientific method, it is not 100% certain that there is alien life.
It may be 90% certain, or even 99% certain, but it is not 100% certain.
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I would respin this phrasing and say: "scientifically we expect there to be life. And see.. here we are." A... | 1inx4id | CMV: It is actually 100% certain, that there is alien life | There is no direct proof for alien life, mean life on another planet/moon/asteroid or other body in the universe (yet).
And it seems like to me that most scientists claim that we can't know if the universe is filled with life or if we are the only ones out there until we have that data.
Now, my argument is that we d... | Rechthaber | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: We should all stop using gendered Pronouns (he/she, etc) and replace with neutral pronouns
Pretty basic stuff. In this era where people often get confused about how to use pronouns and others get offended when they're misgendered, I think the best solution is to simply stop using gendered Pronouns.
We could use ... | >What might change my view? Explaining why gendered pronouns are so doggone important that we should keep them even though they don't seem to serve any function anymore.
You want to remove all gendered pronouns to stop misgendering people, yet at the same time you want to purposefully misgender a vast amount of people... | What is a harder sell, practically speaking:
Slightly modify our existing use of pronouns by convincing people to accept occasional non-standard pronouns when presented with them **OR** totally reconfigure the existing way that we use pronouns for everyone?
It is hard to figure out how widely adopted non-standard pro... | tghasb | CMV: We should all stop using gendered Pronouns (he/she, etc) and replace with neutral pronouns | Pretty basic stuff. In this era where people often get confused about how to use pronouns and others get offended when they're misgendered, I think the best solution is to simply stop using gendered Pronouns.
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CMV: The portal paradox appears to pose a dilemma only because it is poorly defined. Ambiguous behaviour of portals means that either outcome is justifiable.
[The portal paradox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B19nlhbA7-E&ab_channel=minutephysics) is a puzzle based on the video game Portal, in which there are "portal... | Actually, it has been tested in the Portal game engine. The game bugs out when the moving portal touches the cube. The cube doesn't enter the portal at all.
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It sounds like it's treated as a paradox because in the internal logic of the game world, it is. | That's interesting, it's also the result of the experiment that was performed within the game engine. However, I feel like you are just using your own definition for the portals, which isn't necessarily right or wrong.
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CMV: Dinosaur culture is completely made up and what movies portray as dinosaurs never existed
I acknowledge that archeologists and paleontologists have dug up the bones of long-extinct species.
However, there is no evidence whatsoever that we have the ability to extrapolate beyond the species we have on earth today ... | > However, there is no evidence whatsoever that we have the ability to extrapolate beyond the species we have on earth today to imagine what animals were like millions of years ago.
What do you mean by this? It sounds rather broad and all the potential meanings that come to mind are obviously false enough that I have ... | We have literal bone, skin, and feathers from preserved dinosaur remains. We know what type of food the dinosaur ate because of its teeth. We know their general mass because of their bome structure -- this can be pretty far off at times. We have preserved skin and feathers from dinosaurs. What else do we need?
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Th... | diw8xo | CMV: Dinosaur culture is completely made up and what movies portray as dinosaurs never existed | I acknowledge that archeologists and paleontologists have dug up the bones of long-extinct species.
However, there is no evidence whatsoever that we have the ability to extrapolate beyond the species we have on earth today to imagine what animals were like millions of years ago.
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I acknowledge that archeologists and paleontologists have dug up the bones of long-extinct species.
However, there is no evidence whatsoever that we have the ability to extrapolate beyond the species we have on earth today ... | Let's put aside the fact that movies are often full of inaccuracies. Of course that is true. We do however have a decent amount of information about dinosaurs and it is due to good old fashioned scientific deduction. We aren't talking about wishful thinking here. We are talking about using what we know about bones, the... | We have literal bone, skin, and feathers from preserved dinosaur remains. We know what type of food the dinosaur ate because of its teeth. We know their general mass because of their bome structure -- this can be pretty far off at times. We have preserved skin and feathers from dinosaurs. What else do we need?
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Th... | diw8xo | CMV: Dinosaur culture is completely made up and what movies portray as dinosaurs never existed | I acknowledge that archeologists and paleontologists have dug up the bones of long-extinct species.
However, there is no evidence whatsoever that we have the ability to extrapolate beyond the species we have on earth today to imagine what animals were like millions of years ago.
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CMV: World Leaders and Billionaires secretly want World War III to occur
With the escalation of the war between Ukraine and Russia into a full invasion; and China gearing up for a totally peaceful conquest of Taiwan (which has always been a part of mainland China and no one would think otherwise, right?) I feel more t... | Putin maybe
But there is no win in a Nuclear war. Why should anyone who is rich want to life in a world he could starve.
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Because then there would be no more poor people to deal with?
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The premise that rich people want a mass wipe out of poor and middle class people doesn't make sense even if you ignore the... | The wealthiest have the most to lose from WWIII.
Also, I don't think you understand what the results of WWIII are going to be. Even if you win, you lose.
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With the escalation of the war between Ukraine and Russia into a full invasion; and China gearing up for a totally peaceful conquest of Taiwan (which has always been a part of mainland China and no one would think otherwise, right?) I feel more t... | The wealthiest have the most to lose from WWIII.
Also, I don't think you understand what the results of WWIII are going to be. Even if you win, you lose.
It's like blowing up your neighbor's house and attacking him with chemical weapons so that you can take over his property. Congratulations! You now control a tox... | > The Military Industrial Complex is one of the biggest lobbying groups anywhere but especially the US with upwards of 25% of the national budget (some $750 Billion) going to them.
Where are you getting *upwards of 25%* from?
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CMV: Authenticity is amoral.
Every once in a while I think about the relationship between the authenticity of a person and the moral value of their actions. There are many famous examples of individuals, both good and evil, who seem to be considered authentic, regardless of the moral value of their actions and there a... | Ah, I see what you mean. But you discussed the value of virtues with the analogy of the knife. But do you know which part of the knife authenticity would reside in? Would it be the sharpness, the length the material, the handle, or is it the entire knife? Or is it something else entirely? Where is authenticity located ... | What do you even mean by authentic? It seems pretty nebulous. Do you just mean, like, originality and honesty? That can obviously apply to so many people that it just becomes meaningless
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CMV: American Libertarians Never Fought for Minority Rights
As far as I can tell, there's never been a self-identified Libertarian who fought for women's suffrage, minority suffrage, or the emancipation of the slaves/working class.
I want to check my biases at the door and realize that I've had a very left-leaning ed... | The party was officially formed in 1971. Hard to do something "under the banner" of something that doesn't exist yet.
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Gay marriage was not legal in 1971 last time I checked… That’s clearly an issue of equal liberties, isn’t it?
How exactly did the issues I alluded to not exist yet?
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The libertarian party at... | So you're going to have to elaborate on what you mean by libertarian, because there are functionally three types - complete anarchists that want the abolition of the state, "minarchists" that only want what a minimal state to do things like enforce the non-aggression principle, and classical liberals who believe that t... | 12ba0ta | CMV: American Libertarians Never Fought for Minority Rights | As far as I can tell, there's never been a self-identified Libertarian who fought for women's suffrage, minority suffrage, or the emancipation of the slaves/working class.
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CMV: American Libertarians Never Fought for Minority Rights
As far as I can tell, there's never been a self-identified Libertarian who fought for women's suffrage, minority suffrage, or the emancipation of the slaves/working class.
I want to check my biases at the door and realize that I've had a very left-leaning ed... | First, i would point out that libertarians are descended from classical liberals so should get at least some credit for the many liberal reformers who fought slavery, racial inequality, and even the disenfranchisement of women at times in the 19th century.
Second, I would point out there were very few people calling ... | libertarians don't like identity politics. we prefer to advance liberty in general rather than play team/class/racial politics. there are a few bad libertarians when it comes to gender but no worse than there are in any other group of people.
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How do you advance liberty in general when you don't acknowledge the gr... | 12ba0ta | CMV: American Libertarians Never Fought for Minority Rights | As far as I can tell, there's never been a self-identified Libertarian who fought for women's suffrage, minority suffrage, or the emancipation of the slaves/working class.
I want to check my biases at the door and realize that I've had a very left-leaning education when it comes to the peoples' history of the United S... | Still_Championship_6 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: ***HOT TAKE*** Trans rights activism indirectly and unintentionally whitewashes the very real struggles that biological women go through every day in their lives.
First and foremost, I am personally a "live and let live" person; and it's not even because of political reasons. I believe I am just generally an easy... | You have just defined womenhood as pain and struggle. You have defined a woman as someone who suffers. What makes you a woman is having gone through a bunch of biological processes that suck...
Except, whoops, not every cis woman has gone through menstruation. Not every cis woman has gone through pregnancy. Not every... | I welcome all trans women to broaden what it means to be a woman and the experiences we all have. No one has the same life or pain as another and everyone’s struggles are real too them in their life. You don’t need to have a period or cramps to be a woman, and I have found their stories to be endearing and meaningful. ... | 12b7qa3 | CMV: ***HOT TAKE*** Trans rights activism indirectly and unintentionally whitewashes the very real struggles that biological women go through every day in their lives. | First and foremost, I am personally a "live and let live" person; and it's not even because of political reasons. I believe I am just generally an easy going person as many of my friends and family have told me and noticed about me throughout the years. That's just who I am. Frankly, I do not give a damn whether someon... | godlike_hikikomori | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: section 230 should be repealed.
Shielding internet companies from liability for user generated content is on the whole bad for the world. It has resulted in the destruction of objective truth. Platforms should be treated as publishers. Not everyone should get to have their lies read by millions of people. They... | What are you even talking about? 230 has nothing to do with misinformation. Lying on social media has nothing to do with the platform having 230 protection.
230 just says that platforms can not be sued for **illegal content** their users post. There is nothing illegal in lying.
>Not everyone should get to have their ... | >a well informed republic with real objective truth
Do TV and newspapers have objective truth?
I'd argue there's a lot of nonsense and falsehood on television or in the news, so the repeal of section 230 will not change that.
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Why do you say that? TV and newspapers can be sued for libel and slander. Keeps them in... | k55xme | CMV: section 230 should be repealed. | Shielding internet companies from liability for user generated content is on the whole bad for the world. It has resulted in the destruction of objective truth. Platforms should be treated as publishers. Not everyone should get to have their lies read by millions of people. They say Facebook should not decide what i... | MagneTag | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: section 230 should be repealed.
Shielding internet companies from liability for user generated content is on the whole bad for the world. It has resulted in the destruction of objective truth. Platforms should be treated as publishers. Not everyone should get to have their lies read by millions of people. They... | What are you even talking about? 230 has nothing to do with misinformation. Lying on social media has nothing to do with the platform having 230 protection.
230 just says that platforms can not be sued for **illegal content** their users post. There is nothing illegal in lying.
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B.) You have no right to objective truth, and outside of the internet, there's literally no punishment for lying, outside of a few very specific contexts like lying under o... | k55xme | CMV: section 230 should be repealed. | Shielding internet companies from liability for user generated content is on the whole bad for the world. It has resulted in the destruction of objective truth. Platforms should be treated as publishers. Not everyone should get to have their lies read by millions of people. They say Facebook should not decide what i... | MagneTag | 13 | 12 | [
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CMV: The reserve list in Magic: the Gathering needs to be abolished.
I was watching Rudy talk about the [reserve list prices tanking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarn4vWHNgo) on his Youtube channel, Alpha Investments. This got me thinking once more about the [reserve list](https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Reserved_List) ... | How would this not spark *massive* protests by upending multiple formats?
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How would it upend formats? As I see it, it would cause a surge of growth in those formats, especially Vintage/Legacy. The entry price points would be low enough that more people can get in. More people means more diversity. This means that... | >Wizards? No, they make no money on the secondary market
They absolutely do. The demand for specific cards drives the sale of products. You cite Rudy and have probably seen the literal storehouses of sealed boxes of older sets he's purchased that he is trying to flip for a profit down the line.
Its also very observa... | dvzhyr | CMV: The reserve list in Magic: the Gathering needs to be abolished. | I was watching Rudy talk about the [reserve list prices tanking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarn4vWHNgo) on his Youtube channel, Alpha Investments. This got me thinking once more about the [reserve list](https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Reserved_List) and the inherent flaws it provides to the overall health of some forma... | Nailyou866 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: supporting Ukraine on the battlefield is the best way to reach compromise with Putin
Everyone wants to see the killing end in Ukraine. Millions are displaced, thousands maimed. We need peace. But at what cost?
Some people argue that "Putin should get whatever he wants because, if he doesn't, he might start a nuc... | We tried appeasement with Nazi Germany and look how that went. Dealing with a rogue state is not unlike dealing with a schoolyard bully — unfortunately overwhelming force is the strategy most likely to succeed.
---
You're the first person here to mention appeasement. The post is about the complete expulsion of Russi... | What's the point of a compromise Russia won't keep?
We already had a compromise, the Budapest memorandum. Russia promised not to attack ukraine, in exchange for ukraine giving up its nukes. Ukraine did, Russia attacked anyway. Compromise is a waste of time, peace can only come from victory on the battlefield. The onl... | y8szvg | CMV: supporting Ukraine on the battlefield is the best way to reach compromise with Putin | Everyone wants to see the killing end in Ukraine. Millions are displaced, thousands maimed. We need peace. But at what cost?
Some people argue that "Putin should get whatever he wants because, if he doesn't, he might start a nuclear war" and therefore Ukraine should hand over Donbas, Crimea, and other Russian-occupied... | Hall_Pitiful | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: We're the bad guys
By we I mean the US government in regards to the political actions around the world. This assassination of the top general of Iran made me start thinking about how the media keeps framing things.
"Well he wasn't a good guy." "The world is a better place without him" "He killed American troops... | “One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.”
You should look into Hegemonic Stability Theory, that claims that when a single nation state is far more powerful than other nation states that the international system at large is expected to remain more stable.
The United States is the current world hegemon (a n... | The PMU militias suleimani supported in Iraq [have](https://www.vox.com/2016/2/5/10918780/shia-militias-diyala-cleansing) conducted [ethnic cleansing](https://www.aljazeera.com/video/news/2017/03/iraq-shia-militia-accused-ethnic-cleansing-sunni-areas-170303122513846.html) against Sunni civilians. He also supported a g... | el5dmc | CMV: We're the bad guys | By we I mean the US government in regards to the political actions around the world. This assassination of the top general of Iran made me start thinking about how the media keeps framing things.
"Well he wasn't a good guy." "The world is a better place without him" "He killed American troops"
If he's a bad guy bec... | noparkinghere | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Spelling and grammar errors are unprofessional.
I’ve frequently seen people online with the viewpoint that spelling and grammar errors should just be ignored. They say things like “some people are dyslexic or learning English, so spelling and grammar don’t really matter”. I disagree. If they make it known that th... | Why is being unprofessional bad?
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I mean… I guess if you don’t want to be professional that’s fine. You just can’t complain if you can’t find a good job, don’t get a promotion, etc.
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This avoids the question. You do this a lot in the thread.
My problem is issues like spelling and grammar are entirely arbitra... | The main point here is simply, "why does it matter?". Perfect or near-perfect spelling and grammar are just a formality. Can you still understand what the person is saying? Yes? Then it makes no direct difference outside of your choice to judge them.
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Why would anyone want to hire someone who won’t even put the ef... | tfwroa | CMV: Spelling and grammar errors are unprofessional. | I’ve frequently seen people online with the viewpoint that spelling and grammar errors should just be ignored. They say things like “some people are dyslexic or learning English, so spelling and grammar don’t really matter”. I disagree. If they make it known that they have a disability then accommodations can be made, ... | Routine_Log8315 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Libertarianism is fundamentally flawed
It is my understanding that libertarianism views the right to property as so fundamental that no "greater good" is enough to justify any infringement on it.
Libertarianism still allows that property to be taken, but only to protect you from criminals or foreign invaders, an... | I am going to give you an economics based argument on why a companies would not grow so big.
You have a poor understanding of how firms grow. As a firm gets bigger it first experiences economies of scale and then dis-economies of scale. In other words the cost of making 1 more unit of a product goes down and then up.... | Most Libertarian ideology [does not accept](https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/1li108/whats_the_libertarian_stance_on_corporate/) the personhood of corporations; only people. The Company you describe does not have the same rights to property that you and I do. Unless you are suggesting that one individual ... | 5zefky | CMV: Libertarianism is fundamentally flawed | It is my understanding that libertarianism views the right to property as so fundamental that no "greater good" is enough to justify any infringement on it.
Libertarianism still allows that property to be taken, but only to protect you from criminals or foreign invaders, and to establish a just court system.
Let's im... | FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT | 9 | 9 | [
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CMV: women shouldn’t be able to get maternity leave if new to a company and hiding a pregnancy when hired
I think this is relatively self explanatory: I think it is quite damaging to a company to have hired a woman who was hiding a pregnancy and then have her immediately go on paid maternity leave for longer than she ... | So pregnant women should just hope what ever money they have is enough to last and pay for birth and raising the kid for a few months?
​
If you want to torture pregnant women there are far easier and quicker ways. Unless your goal is psychological damage. In which case spot on.
---
I think pregnant women sho... | So a pregnant woman gets laid off from her job what's her choice to feed herself and her future newborn? What effective difference is there between getting the job, taking leave, then working 5 years vs. taking the job, working 5 years, then taking maternity leave? I mean, if there was some epidemic of women hiding p... | 162qbmd | CMV: women shouldn’t be able to get maternity leave if new to a company and hiding a pregnancy when hired | I think this is relatively self explanatory: I think it is quite damaging to a company to have hired a woman who was hiding a pregnancy and then have her immediately go on paid maternity leave for longer than she was working with the company. This is to say worked for the company for a month or two and then got 4 month... | their-holiness | 4 | 4 | [
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CMV: Sex change surgery or hormone treatment should be avalible only at the same age as the age of consent.
In my opinion, it is completely and utterly unacceptable to have any sort of sexual relation to a minor. It has been determined by law that a minor is not able to give consent so therefore any sexual acts perpet... | Idk where people get the idea that literal children are having sex change surgeries. They aren’t. Children transitioning is mostly social, and when they hit their teens, MAYBE, they get puberty blockers, which don’t do anything except delay puberty. There are no side effects. If they go off the blockers, puberty resume... | Let’s talk generally. I had a vericone vein on my balls when I was 13. Nothing deadly, only mildy uncomfortable and had a teeny tiny chance of making me infertale. It was surgically removed. Should I have walked around with it till I’m 18 just because it would be considered rape to you?
This is only a small example f... | mrfza0 | CMV: Sex change surgery or hormone treatment should be avalible only at the same age as the age of consent. | In my opinion, it is completely and utterly unacceptable to have any sort of sexual relation to a minor. It has been determined by law that a minor is not able to give consent so therefore any sexual acts perpetrated on said minor could qualify at rape. Under this same logic a child is unable to give consent for any me... | mojo42998 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Males are genetically predisposed to gambling
Gambling or betting on things seems to be an extremely male-dominated behaviour, especially here in Australia (and we [spend the most on gambling per capita worldwide](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150610005010/en/GBGC-Country-Gambles)).
On a subjective l... | Your view is that “males are genetically predisposed to gambling” but the content of your post says nothing about genes or genetic research. Why do you believe that this is a genetic trait?
---
The fact that from my observation it's mostly only males that gamble. Bookies focus their energy on marketing towards males ... | Women have only started earning disposable income recently. Are you sure that’s why the trends are unequal?
Anyways, men mainly doing something doesn’t make it genetic. You have to prove that it’s actually a genetic thing.
---
No I don't. It's my opinion, not fact. Hence 'change my view'.
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Your opinion needs t... | hslol5 | CMV: Males are genetically predisposed to gambling | Gambling or betting on things seems to be an extremely male-dominated behaviour, especially here in Australia (and we [spend the most on gambling per capita worldwide](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150610005010/en/GBGC-Country-Gambles)).
On a subjective level, almost every one of my male friends and collea... | travelator | 3 | 3 | [
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cmv: Euthanizing a pet is a purely selfish decision
It doesn't matter how much pain or suffering an animal is enduring: unless you have a really smart parrot who speaks a human language, it cannot consent to having its life ended prematurely.
There are some that would argue that euthanasia even in humans is unethical... | The animal is suffering and in pain. I have the ability to get that animal, who will never recover, out of their pain.
My actions are to remove that animal from an unrecoverable state of pain.
There is zero selfish in my action. My interests are only with the best interests of that animal. The only option for that ... | My dog was screaming out of pain when I euthanized him, there was no way of saving him, only more pain. So what? Was it better to let him scream and suffer until his body gave out? THAT would have been cruel.
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Let's suppose your dog would have lived another day or so if you hadn't euthanized him. By euthanizing hi... | k52ppv | cmv: Euthanizing a pet is a purely selfish decision | It doesn't matter how much pain or suffering an animal is enduring: unless you have a really smart parrot who speaks a human language, it cannot consent to having its life ended prematurely.
There are some that would argue that euthanasia even in humans is unethical. I'm not taking this position. I would simply point ... | wale-lol | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Individuals Who Contribute More Money to the Government Should Have More of a Say in How it is Run
I say contribution instead of tax payment, because I think people should also be able to optionally donate money on top of whatever they pay in taxes. It is a bit like a corporations work, as the more shares you hav... | So you think rich greedy people. Should get more of a say in laws that screw over the lives of the rest of the majority and could even kill them. Correct?
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Define “greedy”. One of the intentions is to balance the interests of the rich, middle class, and poor as a collective. People have biases based on wealth, so ... | This, this is just an oligarchy
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The rich as a collective would still have less power as they are a minority.
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They make **more money** and pay more in taxes.
That means they still have more power. Why on earth would you think they have less power? | el356e | CMV: Individuals Who Contribute More Money to the Government Should Have More of a Say in How it is Run | I say contribution instead of tax payment, because I think people should also be able to optionally donate money on top of whatever they pay in taxes. It is a bit like a corporations work, as the more shares you have the more votes you get, except it’s not linear but more of a flattering curve. Something like 1 extra v... | mr-logician | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The effort spent protesting against all of the major individual issues would be better spent searching for and campaigning for better elected officials who will correct the issues, instead of expecting the sitting representatives to do the right thing.
So america has a large host of problems which people seem to ... | On the planet, Vulcan, where logic reigns supreme, you would have a legit point. But you are on Earth where emotions rule over logic a majority of the time. Not to mention, regardless of the political party you support, they still don't seem to do much of anything substantial to benefit society. Case in point, the n... | The entire idea of “proper representation” is impossible in the US currently. The senate is set up in the most federalist way possible, the only way to get proper representation is to change the senate so it actually represents people and not states
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Then they should direct efforts to electing politicians that fav... | vkmzud | CMV: The effort spent protesting against all of the major individual issues would be better spent searching for and campaigning for better elected officials who will correct the issues, instead of expecting the sitting representatives to do the right thing. | So america has a large host of problems which people seem to be united in, but the parties and representatives are divided on. Rather than campaigning for the representatives to make the right choice when they have already shown they believe differently, that same effort would be better put into new individuals running... | Gutzy34 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: North American English has no good word to address a woman without using her name
Dude. Man. Bud. Buddy.
These are all fine ways to address a man without using his name. "How's it going, dude?" "Hey, man." "Good job, bud."
But I can't find a single good word to address a woman this way. All these words sound we... | Goodburger has proven, incontrovertibly, that I'm a dude, he's a dude, *she's* a dude. Were ALL dudes.
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I want this to be true. Unfortunately, many women react negatively to being called dude.
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Haha— Come to the west cost, dude.
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For real I was just thinking that I call literally everyone dude and have n... | > Ma'am and miss are too formal
Too formal for which situation?
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For the vast majority of situations. I wouldn't unironically call a woman ma'am unless we're negotiating a contract or or she just got into a car crash and I'm calling her an ambulance.
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It's not an age or status thing for you? I'm probably goi... | 12aoqbt | CMV: North American English has no good word to address a woman without using her name | Dude. Man. Bud. Buddy.
These are all fine ways to address a man without using his name. "How's it going, dude?" "Hey, man." "Good job, bud."
But I can't find a single good word to address a woman this way. All these words sound weird when used on a woman.
Sure, you could just say her name. But sometimes you need to ... | Flumberbug | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: We have been swindled into thinking that bedframes are a "must have."
What is the point of them? Most people I talk to about this issue have no reasonable need for a frame. Usually it's "it keeps the dirt and bugs off" or "idk, it's just icky to not have one." In my mind, these reasons hold no solid evidence to b... | [deleted]
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The bedframe holds the Headboard and without the Headboard you miss out on lots of sexual positions that are great fun. Also it's easy to swing your legs out and down to floor, similar to sitting on a chair V floor | 1) It helps avoid clutter. Under the bed is a great storage area.
2) It helps you actually *get* out of bed. This is the whole reason they were invented. It's so you don't have do go from laying to standing from so close to the ground. You get a "leg up" so to speak
3) It honestly just looks better. I didn't have one... | el3zgv | CMV: We have been swindled into thinking that bedframes are a "must have." | What is the point of them? Most people I talk to about this issue have no reasonable need for a frame. Usually it's "it keeps the dirt and bugs off" or "idk, it's just icky to not have one." In my mind, these reasons hold no solid evidence to back them up. Bugs can crawl and fly anywhere they please and dirt doesn't ju... | _fakey_ | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: ‘Gaslighting’ has been rendered meaningless due to widespread overuse
I get what it means. I’ve seen the movie. I think it’s an apt way of describing a specific and deliberate, controlling form of abuse designed to make the victim question and lose touch with their own reality.
But in the last few years i feel ... | >‘Gaslighting’ has been rendered meaningless due to widespread overuse
I beg to differ because there is a definition for gaslighting, meaning it literally has a meaning. Many people use many psychological terms far out of context because they do not understand the first thing about psychology. "Narcissist," "psychopat... | So,your evidence that gaslighting has lost its meaning is....some random blogger and...*-checks notes-*...some random idiot redditors on AITA....
Seriously, are you kidding?
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These are just recent examples that came to mind (among many others) of how I see it used in online discourse in recent years. I haven’t do... | mr8i9e | CMV: ‘Gaslighting’ has been rendered meaningless due to widespread overuse | I get what it means. I’ve seen the movie. I think it’s an apt way of describing a specific and deliberate, controlling form of abuse designed to make the victim question and lose touch with their own reality.
But in the last few years i feel that it’s being thrown out online wherever there’s a disagreement and people... | chezdor | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: ‘Gaslighting’ has been rendered meaningless due to widespread overuse
I get what it means. I’ve seen the movie. I think it’s an apt way of describing a specific and deliberate, controlling form of abuse designed to make the victim question and lose touch with their own reality.
But in the last few years i feel ... | This is what happens to literally every hot word that enters the cultural zeitgeist. It doesn’t mean the word has lost all meaning it just means that there are a lot of people who like to either abuse terms or throw them around when they’re not totally sure what they mean.
To give you an example: a lot of people have ... | >has been rendered meaningless
>I get what it means.
Why do you need our help to argue against you. You do it yourself so well.
What is your thesis and what evidence do you have that supports it?
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My thesis is that the original meaning (a specific type of abuse, per the film) has been watered down to just mean ... | mr8i9e | CMV: ‘Gaslighting’ has been rendered meaningless due to widespread overuse | I get what it means. I’ve seen the movie. I think it’s an apt way of describing a specific and deliberate, controlling form of abuse designed to make the victim question and lose touch with their own reality.
But in the last few years i feel that it’s being thrown out online wherever there’s a disagreement and people... | chezdor | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Facebook/Google and "Russian hackers" are not at fault for Trump winning the 2016 presidential election.
**Headline:** People and the media constantly blame Russian hackers and companies such as Facebook/Google for influencing the 2016 presidential election. I believe that they are simply afraid to blame the peop... | "Blame" is ambiguous. Do you mean that it had no causal influence? Or that they hear no moral responsibility?
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The latter -- Obviously, there was a causal influence but I'm saying there was no moral/legal/contractual wrongdoing of either hackers or social media companies. They operated within legal infrastructures... | Are you implying that hacking someone, which is _literally against the law_, does not constitute legal wrongdoing? And that hackers can't be blamed for the consequences of their illegal actions?
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**Headline:** People and the media constantly blame Russian hackers and companies such as Facebook/Google for influencing the 2016 presidential election. I believe that they are simply afraid to blame the peop... | "Blame" is ambiguous. Do you mean that it had no causal influence? Or that they hear no moral responsibility?
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The latter -- Obviously, there was a causal influence but I'm saying there was no moral/legal/contractual wrongdoing of either hackers or social media companies. They operated within legal infrastructures... | Are you implying that hacking someone, which is _literally against the law_, does not constitute legal wrongdoing? And that hackers can't be blamed for the consequences of their illegal actions?
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Did they actually "hack into" private computers? Did they steal passwords and/or report fake news from real news outlet... | 7f21pi | CMV: Facebook/Google and "Russian hackers" are not at fault for Trump winning the 2016 presidential election. | **Headline:** People and the media constantly blame Russian hackers and companies such as Facebook/Google for influencing the 2016 presidential election. I believe that they are simply afraid to blame the people who were influenced by their fake news and are using companies and external entities as scapegoats.
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CMV: Transgender athletes should be allowed to participate in the sports gender category of their choosing
Being transgender is a big part of someone’s identity, and other people have no right to violate it. By forcing a trans athlete to participate in the gender category that they were born with, you are dismissing w... | There is no reason why transathletes should feel unaccepted when sports is segregated by sex since sex and gender are different things.
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A trans woman will feel unaccepted if they want to participate in female sports but are forced to participate in male sports.
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They have no reason to tho. Sports aren't segr... | We could just make it VERY EASY and have male sports and female sports. Given that male/female is binary and immutable and gender is fluid and changeable, it makes more sense to just divide by sex. Then there the issue of transgender people participating or not in a certain category goes entirely away.
Also, not al... | mqroud | CMV: Transgender athletes should be allowed to participate in the sports gender category of their choosing | Being transgender is a big part of someone’s identity, and other people have no right to violate it. By forcing a trans athlete to participate in the gender category that they were born with, you are dismissing who they are as a person. People should never have to feel that other people don’t respect them for who they ... | rwang7839 | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: The Stock Market is a glorified gambling house and any real benefits it provides could be done better elsewhere
Full Disclosure: I'm a 40 yo college educated software programmer; I have zero financial education outside of life experience with banks, mortgages, and stocks (including being part of a start up compan... | I wonder, what are some alternative investment vehicles that would be better? I'm someone who entered the job market at the height of the last recession when I started my retirement portfolio, which is pretty much all index funds. It's performed pretty darn well between then and now, and I wonder what alternatives you ... | Gambling is bad insofar as it's a zero sum/negative sum game. If growth realistically is occurring and there's some chance involved it's not gambling. Farming isn't "gambling with seeds", farmers like investors accept some risk but try to mitigate it.
The stock market makes it possible for people who aren't rich to ... | hsgjop | CMV: The Stock Market is a glorified gambling house and any real benefits it provides could be done better elsewhere | Full Disclosure: I'm a 40 yo college educated software programmer; I have zero financial education outside of life experience with banks, mortgages, and stocks (including being part of a start up company that was bought out and having had stock options, and generally receiving stock options as payment). I directly bene... | phipletreonix | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The outrage about Twitter charging for verification is silly.
The reasons people usually give me for their outrage are typically one of the following:
- It’s a shameless cash grab by Elon Musk. *(Yes, that’s obvious. It still not dystopian.)*
- Musk is a cynical tycoon who became a Republican and started spreadi... | [removed]
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Maybe I’m going off anecdotal evidence (always risky) but the NYT and Lebron James recently said they’d be refusing the check mark.
I read the NYT. If I’m scrolling and see a NYT tweet I’d like to know if it’s legit without having to do a deep dive.
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NYT choosing to not pay for verification is no... | What’s wrong about getting upset with those reasons if you care about twitter?
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Does it affect you in any substantive way?
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I’m not outraged, so how is that really relevant? | 12a5gdw | CMV: The outrage about Twitter charging for verification is silly. | The reasons people usually give me for their outrage are typically one of the following:
- It’s a shameless cash grab by Elon Musk. *(Yes, that’s obvious. It still not dystopian.)*
- Musk is a cynical tycoon who became a Republican and started spreading self-serving conspiracy theories when his workers unionized and i... | FriedrichHydrargyrum | 3 | 3 | [
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The reasons people usually give me for their outrage are typically one of the following:
- It’s a shameless cash grab by Elon Musk. *(Yes, that’s obvious. It still not dystopian.)*
- Musk is a cynical tycoon who became a Republican and started spreadi... | What’s wrong about getting upset with those reasons if you care about twitter?
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Does it affect you in any substantive way?
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Yeah, some people use Twitter for news and such. A lot of organizations use Twitter for official communication. If "x County public schools" Twitter account says schools are closed kids ... | Twitter is going to be showing almost exclusively Twitter Blue subscribers on the For You page.
Most of the large accounts and viral accounts that pay for verification are right wing personalities.
I don't want to be recommended that kind of content. It's impossible to go far on Twitter without seeing content related... | 12a5gdw | CMV: The outrage about Twitter charging for verification is silly. | The reasons people usually give me for their outrage are typically one of the following:
- It’s a shameless cash grab by Elon Musk. *(Yes, that’s obvious. It still not dystopian.)*
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CMV: To prevent future power outages: fine utilities when there are outages.
So I'm in Texas and millions didn't (don't) have power during a really bad storm. This is clearly bad. I think the best way to prevent this in the future is to charge utility companies (or energy producers, I don't really know anything about ... | Isn't that like fining a Bread Shop for running out of bread?
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If bread shops had a local monopoly on all the food that people buy, yes.
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Except in this scenario, you have a dozen breadshops in town, BUT you are only allowed to buy bread from the one closest to you (the utility).
The breadshop doesn't make ... | You can regulate a utility to hell, and there will still be outages from some issue or another. Even something as small as a squirrel chewing on a line can blow out the system.
Not to mention outages directly related to safety issues or related to upgrading service.
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I'm not saying this will cure power outages, j... | ln380o | CMV: To prevent future power outages: fine utilities when there are outages. | So I'm in Texas and millions didn't (don't) have power during a really bad storm. This is clearly bad. I think the best way to prevent this in the future is to charge utility companies (or energy producers, I don't really know anything about the grid) for each home hour of power outages. For producers it's more complic... | I-live-in-Austin | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: It is a lot harder being a guy than it is being a woman
Let me first start off by saying that I love woman and I do not hate women at all. My dad died when I was young and I was raised by my mother and my sister growing up. I will never completely understand what it is like being a woman and of course I am willin... | First of all... the plural form is "women," with an "e." The word "woman" is singular. One woman. Two women. Many women. Women in the workplace.
> However, I am 5'5". So dating is very very difficult for me. I have had about 3 girlfriends in my life and I considered myself very lucky to be in those relationships. When... | So, by your logic, dating + some court issues are far worse than every other issue women face combined?
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Well he did say he was trying to not be political. Maybe we could focus on interpersonal relations?
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exactly. I am not focusing on political. I do agree that woman have it very hard when it comes to polit... | 5zafwd | CMV: It is a lot harder being a guy than it is being a woman | Let me first start off by saying that I love woman and I do not hate women at all. My dad died when I was young and I was raised by my mother and my sister growing up. I will never completely understand what it is like being a woman and of course I am willing to change my view. I am in no way a "men's rights activist" ... | websitesrus | 11 | 11 | [
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CMV: It is a lot harder being a guy than it is being a woman
Let me first start off by saying that I love woman and I do not hate women at all. My dad died when I was young and I was raised by my mother and my sister growing up. I will never completely understand what it is like being a woman and of course I am willin... | First of all... the plural form is "women," with an "e." The word "woman" is singular. One woman. Two women. Many women. Women in the workplace.
> However, I am 5'5". So dating is very very difficult for me. I have had about 3 girlfriends in my life and I considered myself very lucky to be in those relationships. When... | How central is your own dating experience to your view? I want to just make sure that isn't REALLY what's central here, and the general statements about women and men in non-dating contexts is just as important.
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I will try to not be biased on this although I am a little biased here. My own experience is not cent... | 5zafwd | CMV: It is a lot harder being a guy than it is being a woman | Let me first start off by saying that I love woman and I do not hate women at all. My dad died when I was young and I was raised by my mother and my sister growing up. I will never completely understand what it is like being a woman and of course I am willing to change my view. I am in no way a "men's rights activist" ... | websitesrus | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: Spending $2 trillion a year on healthcare is an irresponsible allocation of that money.
Elizabeth Warren's medicare for all plan wants to double US federal tax collections in order to spend $20 trillion over the next decade to give everyone in the US "free" healthcare.
This is a misallocaion of resources. $20 tr... | [U.S. health care spending grew 3.9 percent in 2017, reaching $3.5 trillion or $10,739 per person.](https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/NationalHealthAccountsHistorical.html)
Seems like $2 trillion is less.
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Maybe, but the point to consid... | Not if the pay scale is changed, and Doctors in the US start getting paid what their actually worth. American doctors are way over paid. The entire American health care system needs to be revamped.
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What they are actually worth? They have 8 year doctorate degrees and save people's lives.
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EMTs save people’s... | dvvab1 | CMV: Spending $2 trillion a year on healthcare is an irresponsible allocation of that money. | Elizabeth Warren's medicare for all plan wants to double US federal tax collections in order to spend $20 trillion over the next decade to give everyone in the US "free" healthcare.
This is a misallocaion of resources. $20 trillion could do insane amounts of good in the world of medical and renewable energy research a... | Highlyemployable | 3 | 3 | [
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"text": "[U.S. health care spending grew 3.9 percent in 2017, reaching $3.5 trillion or $10,739 per person.](https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/NationalHealthA... | [
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CMV: if "the pen is mightier than the sword", emotional abuse should be a punishable offense
Similar to the statements "The pen is mightier than the sword" or "The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes the bones.", why aren't we consistent in enforcing that? We're repeating ad nauseum that emo... | The quote refers to the press being a more effective tool than violence in the context of politics. It is not about interpersonal abuse.
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I really want u/jesusesblood to answer this.
You've correctly pointed out the meaning of the actual saying making his gotcha moment fall supremely flat.
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There's no gotcha... | From reading your post I think you understand that proving emotional abuse would be a really difficult thing to prove, because it can not be standardized. It would also be a relatively easy thing to fake and there would be all sorts of lawsuits and false charges.
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Ok, so the only other logically consistent option ... | vkiohr | CMV: if "the pen is mightier than the sword", emotional abuse should be a punishable offense | Similar to the statements "The pen is mightier than the sword" or "The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes the bones.", why aren't we consistent in enforcing that? We're repeating ad nauseum that emotional abuse is in a sense worse than physical abuse, but only the latter is sanctioned.
Yes... | jesusesblood | 6 | 6 | [
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CMV: The premise of Australia's immigration policy is about right, including refusing entry to illegal arrivals
It's a complex policy but the basics are as I understand them (which may not be correct)
*Immigration is largely (but not solely) on the basis of skills and suitability for the country. We have a "points sy... | I appreciate the more balanced perspective on what I would call an immigration restrictionist position.
My recommendation, as a lawyer, is to speak to someone about the actual bureaucracy of Australia's migration system. Our firm handles a lot of migration clients - I don't personally, but I pick things up. My exper... | Most thinking people would find that policy reasonable and sound. It also is in line with almost every other country on the planet.
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The Leftist Open Borders mob may have something to say about it
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Show me. | 1inbzei | CMV: The premise of Australia's immigration policy is about right, including refusing entry to illegal arrivals | It's a complex policy but the basics are as I understand them (which may not be correct)
*Immigration is largely (but not solely) on the basis of skills and suitability for the country. We have a "points system" that preferences university educated people under 45 who speak fluent English.
*We also have a large humani... | NoMoreFund | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: I can’t wrap my head around gender identity and I don’t feel like you can change genders
To preface this I would really like for my opinion to be changed but this is one thing I’ve never been actually able to understand. I am a 22 years old, currently a junior in college, and I generally would identify myself as... | This didn't really come up again in your post but in your title you say "and I don’t feel like you can change genders". Transgender people do not change their gender. Their gender is different from what society assumed their gender was based on their primary and secondary sex characteristics. And what changes is the wr... | What, specifically, have you done so far to educate yourself on this topic? What books have you read on the subject, for example?
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I’m a full time student and I work so I don’t really have much free time to allot to reading entire books on the subject but I try and talk to people I know in the LGBT community and r... | k4v95l | CMV: I can’t wrap my head around gender identity and I don’t feel like you can change genders |
To preface this I would really like for my opinion to be changed but this is one thing I’ve never been actually able to understand. I am a 22 years old, currently a junior in college, and I generally would identify myself as a pretty strong liberal. I am extremely supportive of LGB people and all of the other sexualit... | brundlehails | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Incels have a point
**What is my view?**
What is referred to as the "Blackpill" in the incel community, while not wholly true, has strong scientific merit to much of its points. The ideas have matured to the point where many have now dubbed it the "Scientific Blackpill". For reference, I will be using [this wiki... | I really hate that OKCupid study people keep trying to cite about women rating men as below average. There are many many flaws with it but allow me to start with the most basic one.
It's a study based on OKCupid user profiles. Men in long term relationships don't generally have OKCupid profiles. So that entire categor... | If Danny DeVito can find a wife and have kids, so can anyone else.
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He has money? | dvpk2d | CMV: Incels have a point | **What is my view?**
What is referred to as the "Blackpill" in the incel community, while not wholly true, has strong scientific merit to much of its points. The ideas have matured to the point where many have now dubbed it the "Scientific Blackpill". For reference, I will be using [this wikipage](https://incels.wiki/... | mycontroversialaccnt | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Genders don't matter and we shouldn't be arguing about it
I'd like to add a caveat here that for people that are fighting to be recognized and accepted in a society that traditionally has had 2 genders, incorrectly and purposefully mis-gendering someone is hurtful and harmful.
Having said that, there is no real... | >Medically it does not matter if you are a man or a woman, what matters is what your chromosome makeup is, what your family health history is and what your sexual organs are to name a few. Male and female are just words to loosely describe people with either penises or vaginas because they clearly require different for... | I agree with what you are saying, although I think the reality is that people have prejudice and bias. Having genders allows people to group together to demand equal and fair treatment, to be protected and not harmed. Without the classification, each instance of discrimination would be an individual occurrence and some... | y87djr | CMV: Genders don't matter and we shouldn't be arguing about it | I'd like to add a caveat here that for people that are fighting to be recognized and accepted in a society that traditionally has had 2 genders, incorrectly and purposefully mis-gendering someone is hurtful and harmful.
Having said that, there is no real reason to gender people other than the fact humans like to cate... | Due_Education4092 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Women should be genetically modified to have equal physical strength to men
I believe this would:
\- Lower rape rates
\- Lower the constant fear women have to live with
\- Lower the burden on men to protect women
\- End the need for segregated sports, thus not only eliminating the fact women's sports performa... | Making women stronger would be a biological uphill struggle, which would result in fewer successful births. From a biological persective, it would be easier to make men smaller and weaker.
But either way, you would be manipulating with a carefully balanced relationship.
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In this context, I mean we should genetically modify XX people to have equal strength to XY people. I am well aware that XX people can be men and XY people can be women, but I just used the terms "men" and "women" for mass appeal.
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So you are aware that males can be women. And females can be men.
... | 12abo8t | CMV: Women should be genetically modified to have equal physical strength to men | I believe this would:
\- Lower rape rates
\- Lower the constant fear women have to live with
\- Lower the burden on men to protect women
\- End the need for segregated sports, thus not only eliminating the fact women's sports performances are underappreciated, but also saving resources
\- Increase the pool of comb... | Conkers-Good-Furday | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Women should be genetically modified to have equal physical strength to men
I believe this would:
\- Lower rape rates
\- Lower the constant fear women have to live with
\- Lower the burden on men to protect women
\- End the need for segregated sports, thus not only eliminating the fact women's sports performa... | > Generate fantastic entertainment of macho men crying on social media
Terrible motivation.
> the genetic modifying could probably be largely funded with the saved resources from lower rape rates, fewer back injuries, etc.
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In this context, I mean we should genetically modify XX people to have equal strength to XY people. I am well aware that XX people can be men and XY people can be women, but I just used the terms "men" and "women" for mass appeal.
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So you are aware that males can be women. And females can be men.
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\- Lower rape rates
\- Lower the constant fear women have to live with
\- Lower the burden on men to protect women
\- End the need for segregated sports, thus not only eliminating the fact women's sports performances are underappreciated, but also saving resources
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CMV: The rampant philosophy of "you made your bed, now lie in it" (or similar) in the US is toxic and potentially holding back progress.
It seems like the prevailing feeling at the moment is one of not really caring for your fellow humans. If you made bad choices, you have to live with it. I understand that, but I fee... | If it is to an individual's advantage to act irresponsibly, they will. People do what gets results.
So if the cost of acting irresponsibly is less than the benefit, you end up with a moral hazard.
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I'm certainly not advocating for making mistakes to be advantageous other than as a learning experience, that's not... | You say people don't want you to grow from a learning experience but I think it's the opposite. People worry if they are always there to bail you out you'll *never* learn from your experience. When bad things happened to me my father loved to say things like, "suck it up, it builds character" not because he didn't lo... | mrdy5p | CMV: The rampant philosophy of "you made your bed, now lie in it" (or similar) in the US is toxic and potentially holding back progress. | It seems like the prevailing feeling at the moment is one of not really caring for your fellow humans. If you made bad choices, you have to live with it. I understand that, but I feel that shows a lack of empathy and is holding back progress. Consequences of actions are incredibly important, but as a learning experienc... | ReneeHiii | 4 | 4 | [
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CMV: No religion of the world has met its burden of proof to be considered valid
Just a quick definition of terms before any conversation starts, to eliminate confusion.
I am an agnostic atheist. What that means is I don't accept the God claim. However, I am not asserting that a God doesn't exist, as that also requir... | What evidence would, say, the Satanic Temple need to provide to be considered valid? The reasoning you give in your post seems to work fine for theistic religions, but it is not clear how it would apply to non-theistic ones.
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Could you please explain the belief of the Satanic Temple? From my understanding, the wor... | They can’t meet that burden because religion is based upon the idea of faith, the belief without evidence. Should they ever meet that burden, their belief would no longer be based upon faith and would effectively no longer be religious.
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If you ABSOLUTELY KNEW that your god existed, you wouldn't worship him anymor... | 12a4eco | CMV: No religion of the world has met its burden of proof to be considered valid | Just a quick definition of terms before any conversation starts, to eliminate confusion.
I am an agnostic atheist. What that means is I don't accept the God claim. However, I am not asserting that a God doesn't exist, as that also requires a burden of proof that can't be met.
For the burden of proof, the threshold I... | disappointed_shrew_ | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Ending net neutrality could help brick-and-mortar businesses and save jobs and communities.
I think I understand the risks to online businesses, online culture, and online communications that ending net neutrality represents. I've campaigned to "#savetheinternet", and I've made a living from working online.
Many... | The internet also created a lot of jobs, why is it better to have brick-and-mortar jobs compared to jobs with an online focus?
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I believe the internet wrecks more jobs than it creates, and the blue collar jobs it creates are often low-pay, high-surveillance, piecework subcontracting gigs which roll back decades of... | How does allowing an ISP to throttle content from competitors help small businesses?
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If the internet user experience becomes shittier -- which is something net neutrality advocates argue -- then that could make offline alternatives more attractive.
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but if those offline alternatives are cost prohibitive, wh... | 7f0pf8 | CMV: Ending net neutrality could help brick-and-mortar businesses and save jobs and communities. | I think I understand the risks to online businesses, online culture, and online communications that ending net neutrality represents. I've campaigned to "#savetheinternet", and I've made a living from working online.
Many other people though have lost their jobs because of online companies (think your local bookshop o... | slackr | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The seven dwarves are not supposed to be people with dwarfism. It’s idiotic that Disney will not feature dwarves in their remake of Snow White.
In case you aren't aware, Disney is remaking Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. But, there are no longer going to be any dwarves. Instead, there are going to be seven magi... | Dwarves aren't the same as people with dwarfism but that doesn't mean they can't play them.
I find it weird to exclude someone from a role in order to not offend them.
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> Dwarves aren't the same as people with dwarfism but that doesn't mean they can't play them.
I tend to disagree. I think its belittling toward... | I'm fairly convinced at this point that Disney's marketing research has found out that their films gross more money when they do something like this to stir up controversy. It gets the movie in the news way more than it would otherwise.
So if it does make more money and the point of making the film is to make money, ... | 161yf92 | CMV: The seven dwarves are not supposed to be people with dwarfism. It’s idiotic that Disney will not feature dwarves in their remake of Snow White. | In case you aren't aware, Disney is remaking Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. But, there are no longer going to be any dwarves. Instead, there are going to be seven magical forest creatures. From what I can tell, Disney is doing this because they think it’s not politically correct to make a movie featuring dwarves. Th... | damndirtyape | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Instead of solely teaching students, information, we should be teaching them how to form search queries
I’m not advocating for abolishing standard course construction. There is obviously a great value to one on one learning and a classroom environment.
However, with todays technology, all the information you nee... | Teacher here. We do teach search queries! And Boolean search terms, and evaluating online sources, and constructing academic research questions.
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Can confirm as a former student of Texas public schools. This was something covered a lot when discussing researching project—using proper search terms and evaluating so... | How long do you think it will teach people 'search query formation'? It's really not that complicated.
Also, teaching them the information also frequently teaches them how to obtain that information to begin with. I can remember several assignments throughout my school years that involved me having to look up informat... | y7onq8 | CMV: Instead of solely teaching students, information, we should be teaching them how to form search queries | I’m not advocating for abolishing standard course construction. There is obviously a great value to one on one learning and a classroom environment.
However, with todays technology, all the information you need is at your fingertips if you just know how to ask for it.
There have been so many times when I have been wi... | somethingimadeup | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Mandatory volunteering should not be required for high school graduation
In my country, high school graduation requires students to volunteer their time to non-profit organizations in order to graduate, in addition to course requirements.
I don't believe that this should be the case.
This is because there is NO... | >This is because there is NO benefit that mandatory volunteering provides for a student that optional volunteering wouldn't.
But if it's optional, a lot of students wouldn't do it and would not gain nor give the benefits of volunteering.
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>But if it's optional, a lot of students wouldn't do it and would not gain ... | You got 4 years to do a miniscule amount of volunteering. I'm sure if you're literally working nonstop for 4 years to support yourself, which is probably illegal for a minor in most first world countries, they will write you off. But 99.9% of students should be able to manage this. This could be accomplished with like ... | vjz0j0 | CMV: Mandatory volunteering should not be required for high school graduation | In my country, high school graduation requires students to volunteer their time to non-profit organizations in order to graduate, in addition to course requirements.
I don't believe that this should be the case.
This is because there is NO benefit that mandatory volunteering provides for a student that optional volun... | AndlenaRaines | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: it's not racist at all for someone to find one particular race more sexually attractive than other races
Seriously it's not racist at all for someone to say well I find asian women more sexually attractive than all the other races and it's not racist for someone to only date white women. Because at the end of the... | Racial preferences usually stem from racial stereotypes. For example, whenever I hear somebody having an Asian preference, it's usually a weeb with an Asian fetish or an incel doing some orientalist rant about the decline of western culture. Racial preferences are a sign that you should evaluate internal biases.
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... | Does anyone actually say this is racist?
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Plenty of people say this is racist
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Yeah if you say “I don’t date black people” objectively that’s pretty racist
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It's not objectively racist at all.
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Because you are reducing someone down to their race for the purpose of rejecting them based solely on that... | 1in6lur | CMV: it's not racist at all for someone to find one particular race more sexually attractive than other races | Seriously it's not racist at all for someone to say well I find asian women more sexually attractive than all the other races and it's not racist for someone to only date white women. Because at the end of the day everyone has their own sexual preferences and it's not okay to judge someone simply because they find asia... | Broad-Bass-3899 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: The Sex Offender's registry should either be ended or reworked
I have a lot of views regarding prison reform, prison sentencing, and rehabilitation that I think are a bit at odds with most people. You see most of the country believes in prison reform, but when they find out what exactly that entails they tend to... | I commend you for taking on such a big issue and documenting your criticisms so thoroughly, but I feel a heavy sense of throwing the baby out with the bathwater when I read your conclusions. Perhaps some reworking is needed to differentiate types of crimes (and therefore types of potential threats to the public) and a... | >What kind of weight should be added to sex crimes?
Not sure what jurisdiction you're in, but in mine, we already have different categories for sex crimes. True that they all go on the same registry, but they are separately identified in different color bubbles on the map depending on the category their crime falls i... | dikiy4 | CMV: The Sex Offender's registry should either be ended or reworked | I have a lot of views regarding prison reform, prison sentencing, and rehabilitation that I think are a bit at odds with most people. You see most of the country believes in prison reform, but when they find out what exactly that entails they tend to argue against it. People can see the problems with prison, but prop... | RobotJonny12 | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV:It is sexist to call female DJs DJanes
Every time I see a female DJ call herself a DJane I cringe so hard. Wouldn't this be like calling a female doctor a doctress or a female airplane pilot a pilotress? I know that there is a move to stop referring to female actors as actresses, and yet there are a number of pr... | Can you clarify what is sexist about having a gendered name for a profession? It doesn't sound discriminatory or prejudicial.
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It's mostly there in my post, it seems sexist to add feminizing suffixes to other respected professions like Doctress or Pilotress. Those terms make me cringe and I hope I don't need to ... | Your post shows the exact problem with modern day wokeness and how political correctness has gone way too far.
You can't rap your mind around how people who you expect to have been offended by something *aren't* offended by it.
>Please don't just wildly accuse me of sexism- I work on my feminism, and this post is par... | 129txkc | CMV:It is sexist to call female DJs DJanes | Every time I see a female DJ call herself a DJane I cringe so hard. Wouldn't this be like calling a female doctor a doctress or a female airplane pilot a pilotress? I know that there is a move to stop referring to female actors as actresses, and yet there are a number of proud DJanes going around promoting themselves... | djsunkid | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Copyright on fictional characters and settings should not exist
We have copyright on entire works, such as a novel or movie. And we have plagiarism laws that protect against a large part of your work copied with minor changes.
On top of that we have intellectual property on fictional characters and settings. In ... | > Essentially I am saying that it should be fully legal to publish fan fiction, free or commercially. Anyone should be allowed to release fiction starring Batman, Godzilla, Luke Skywalker and any other fictional character.
I don't mind non-commercial creation of fan fiction, but why should we let copycats compete *co... | This lowers the leverage of authors.
If an authors books is successful, Disney could tell them to either sell them the movie rights for cheap, or they just make an unlicensed sequel using their characters and setting, without paying them a cent. For every book that makes it, a thousand fail. Once an author does strik... | lnbw59 | CMV: Copyright on fictional characters and settings should not exist | We have copyright on entire works, such as a novel or movie. And we have plagiarism laws that protect against a large part of your work copied with minor changes.
On top of that we have intellectual property on fictional characters and settings. In my opinion we shouldn't. IP on characters does more harm than good. It... | SpectrumDT | 3 | 3 | [
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