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CMV: Changing an existing queer character’s (in children’s media) orientation or gender in an effort to make them look straight is homophobic and an example of networks attempting to groom and push a heterosexual agenda onto kids.
I will be using the anime Sailor Moon as an example here.
For those unaware non-weebs, ... | For clarification, did this occur in the 90's in the American release?
Also is your position that changing any existing character's sexual orientation and/or gender is a form of grooming and propaganda?
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> For clarification, did this occur in the 90's in the American release?
Yes.
> Also is your position that ... | Question:
Do or do you not believe that propaganda can make kids gay or straight or whatever?
Or is your stance that it can't but that the media execs believe it can and are trying to do it?
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> Or is your stance that it can't but that the media execs believe it can and are trying to do it
This one.
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So you... | wax2ig | CMV: Changing an existing queer character’s (in children’s media) orientation or gender in an effort to make them look straight is homophobic and an example of networks attempting to groom and push a heterosexual agenda onto kids. | I will be using the anime Sailor Moon as an example here.
For those unaware non-weebs, Sailor Moon is one of the most popular and genre-defining anime franchises of it’s time. It was part of what was known as the big “Millenial Boom of the 90’s” that helped popularize and mainstream anime into the West. Sailor Moon al... | tsundereshipper | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: NFTs vs Barony
People are really out here calling NFTs stupid, and then later buying a tree or square of land in Norway so they can become a “Prince” or “Duke”
It doesn’t make any sense to me, in the end all you’re doing is buying something due to sentimentality
What’s the difference between it all? Pokemon car... | I agree people spend silly amounts of a lot of thing.
But you aren't buying art, you're buying a certificate to say that its your art. But in no way stops other people from copying that art. And the machinery that maintains that certificate is by design a massive power drain that's bad for the plannet.
Also if you're... | Could I argue that those are all stupid wastes of money, NFTs included?
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I completely agree. Everything is a waste of money
The hate is more directed to those who refuse to believe there’s no difference between concert tickets, painting your house, art, NFTs, collectors cards, loot crates in games or even coins
... | ud9544 | CMV: NFTs vs Barony | People are really out here calling NFTs stupid, and then later buying a tree or square of land in Norway so they can become a “Prince” or “Duke”
It doesn’t make any sense to me, in the end all you’re doing is buying something due to sentimentality
What’s the difference between it all? Pokemon cards, game accounts or ... | ChubbyNinja456 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: It was right of me to stop reading the autobiographies by Knausgard because continuing them would have been unethical
I was recently in Waterstones (UK book shop see [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterstones) for more info) and got to talking to other book buyers and readers.
Whilst exchanging suggesti... | I'm not sure I understand what is unethical. I'm not familiar with the work but if it's autobiographical and true as he experienced it from his point of view that's not something that normally would require consent as he's writing about his perspective. As for waiting for the people involved to be dead that would be im... | After reading the wikipedia article about it, it seems like there were legal battles being fought to stop it from being published. And that said battle lead to corrections being made to stay true to reality. In that case, doesn't it seem like anything that would be unethical to read has already been removed?
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I re... | wcmbw6 | CMV: It was right of me to stop reading the autobiographies by Knausgard because continuing them would have been unethical | I was recently in Waterstones (UK book shop see [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterstones) for more info) and got to talking to other book buyers and readers.
Whilst exchanging suggestions for the next book(s) to read one of the customers said she likes books that are true to life.
So I suggested the *[My ... | BrexitBlaze | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: I'm Bernie or Bust because there are no major differences between Biden and Trump on climate change, healthcare and education
I'm Bernie or Bust, how does Biden have any major differences on healthcare, education, and climate change against Trump?
I just don't see how there any major changes between Trump and Bi... | Biden believes that climate change is man made and exists, and is a threat. Trump doesn’t.
So your premise is factually incorrect.
And you honestly believe that Biden would put someone like Kavanaugh or Thomas in the court? He wouldn’t. Biden is a lifelong liberal and he will appoint liberal judges, just as Obama d... | [deleted]
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no this post is a response to that
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How can you be Bernie or bust if there’s no Bernie? At this pint that just means you’re a trump supporter.
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I can just not vote
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That’s essentially a vote for Trump. | fx9tbt | CMV: I'm Bernie or Bust because there are no major differences between Biden and Trump on climate change, healthcare and education | I'm Bernie or Bust, how does Biden have any major differences on healthcare, education, and climate change against Trump?
I just don't see how there any major changes between Trump and Biden on these. Both trump and Biden are against Medicare For All and Universal healthcare and Biden has said he would veto Medicare F... | DaySephirothEarth | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: I'm Bernie or Bust because there are no major differences between Biden and Trump on climate change, healthcare and education
I'm Bernie or Bust, how does Biden have any major differences on healthcare, education, and climate change against Trump?
I just don't see how there any major changes between Trump and Bi... | Biden believes that climate change is man made and exists, and is a threat. Trump doesn’t.
So your premise is factually incorrect.
And you honestly believe that Biden would put someone like Kavanaugh or Thomas in the court? He wouldn’t. Biden is a lifelong liberal and he will appoint liberal judges, just as Obama d... | [deleted]
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no this post is a response to that
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How can you be Bernie or bust if there’s no Bernie? At this pint that just means you’re a trump supporter.
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I can just not vote
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And what do you think that is going to accomplish? | fx9tbt | CMV: I'm Bernie or Bust because there are no major differences between Biden and Trump on climate change, healthcare and education | I'm Bernie or Bust, how does Biden have any major differences on healthcare, education, and climate change against Trump?
I just don't see how there any major changes between Trump and Biden on these. Both trump and Biden are against Medicare For All and Universal healthcare and Biden has said he would veto Medicare F... | DaySephirothEarth | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV:People who correct small grammatical mistakes in informal settings (Social media) are small minded pedants.
It’s fairly annoying when you are talking to someone and either they or someone else chimes in “you’re”, “Their” or “alot isn’t a word”.
Like holy fuck who cares bud, are we talking about grammar right now?... | it is useful to correct mistakes, because making obvious mistakes will damage your credibility most of the time.
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If somone deduces credibility by grammar than they are again small minded.
I know LOTS of higher up in business with shit grammar and spelling.
I also know a couple writers who also aren’t great at g... | I don't know if your view is that correcting minor grammatical errors isn't useful, or that people who correct them are narrow-minded. If it's the latter:
Let's say you're in some profession where you think highly of your work, and you think others are doing their best as well, and you want to help them in their profe... | o0c0ct | CMV:People who correct small grammatical mistakes in informal settings (Social media) are small minded pedants. | It’s fairly annoying when you are talking to someone and either they or someone else chimes in “you’re”, “Their” or “alot isn’t a word”.
Like holy fuck who cares bud, are we talking about grammar right now? Is this school? Are we being graded?
No to all of that, people that do this come off to me like the over arrog... | Asyelum | 7 | 6 | [
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CMV: I feel like gay and queer pride has become too aggressive and forcing on people that do not agree with it.
Just for some context: I'm a Christian, and go to a VERY liberal school. I do not agree with homosexuality, hence my religion. This is not about that though. To sum up: I believe ALL human beings should be t... | [removed]
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It seems like everyone is overlooking the glaring irony of this entire post.
OP has had a few encounters with some aggressive LGBTQ members. And is incredibly off-put by the idea that someone else is enforcing their beliefs onto them.
Yet OP is a member of the Christian Church. An organization that h... | >because I don't support LGBTQ+
So you do admit you don't support them.
What exactly don't you support? Gay marriage?
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Excuse me, meant to say LGBTQ+ pride in particular. Support the PEOPLE, not the idea of pride. But thats just my religious views and not really part of this.
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Do you support gay marriage?
... | v6cbes | CMV: I feel like gay and queer pride has become too aggressive and forcing on people that do not agree with it. | Just for some context: I'm a Christian, and go to a VERY liberal school. I do not agree with homosexuality, hence my religion. This is not about that though. To sum up: I believe ALL human beings should be treated equally. I do not hate gay people, or anything of the sort. I am not a saint or better than anyone in any ... | stef_turk1211 | 4 | 4 | [
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CMV: Instrumental ability/technical sophistication is the least interesting metric on which to judge music
To begin with: yes, this was inspired by a recent CMV about music, and because it got me thinking about this in terms of music that's where I'd like to keep things. However, I recognize that this discussion could... | When people praise technical skill in music, it's generally understood that means in the context of everything else. If you can play something no one else can play, you can give listeners something they've never heard before. The more skilled you are, the shorter the rift between what you can imagine and what you can p... | Do you listen to and enjoy simplistic children’s music?
If not, is it because it’s not complicated enough — lyrically, musically, emotionally, instrumentation-wise — for you?
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No, I don't, and the reason is that, yes, lyrically and on an emotional level, they are for children. The instrumentation being simplistic... | blg1b1 | CMV: Instrumental ability/technical sophistication is the least interesting metric on which to judge music | To begin with: yes, this was inspired by a recent CMV about music, and because it got me thinking about this in terms of music that's where I'd like to keep things. However, I recognize that this discussion could easily be expanded to other art forms. I didn't want to make this about art *in general*, though, because t... | parmenides86 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: white people should be the leaders of America
So I think because of how media and politics portrays white people so plentiful we think of white people as this indestructible force that needs to be torn down. But I view white people as weak. I view them as fragile. If you think globally white people are in fact th... | [removed]
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>How about Native Americans? Or Australian Aboriginals? Aren't they "rarer"?
I mean I used an overarching term to describe people of a certain skin tone and regional space. But if I were to just break it down into countries instead of just white I'm sure there would be white groups that are extremely l... | Are you equating being a minority with being bad?
Why wouldn't we want to elect leaders based on personal merit rather than skin color?
> I think white people are an endangered species
No matter skin color, all human are the same species.
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I don't agree with OP, but I think saying " No matter skin color, all h... | idghzm | CMV: white people should be the leaders of America | So I think because of how media and politics portrays white people so plentiful we think of white people as this indestructible force that needs to be torn down. But I view white people as weak. I view them as fragile. If you think globally white people are in fact the "exotic looking ones". As a brown person myself it... | Iunderstandbuuut | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Selling health insurance across state lines would solve some problems with very little (if any) downside
Healthcare in the US is a hot-button topic, but I think most agree that it could be better in a variety of ways. Better care, lower cost, more people covered, etc. There are, of course, many ways to get there ... | If you do this all the insurance companies will just move to the state with the loosest regulations
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This makes no sense. They could do that right now. What they can't do is sell to every state.
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They can't sell to every state only because they have to meet the rules in every state. The way you let insurers ... | The way health insurance works is that they set up networks of doctors to provide and spread the burden out. Selling insurance across State lines is only beneficial if the insurance companies expand their networks or start new ones (which they can currently do in the system we have). They are not likely to do that caus... | 6by8rg | CMV: Selling health insurance across state lines would solve some problems with very little (if any) downside | Healthcare in the US is a hot-button topic, but I think most agree that it could be better in a variety of ways. Better care, lower cost, more people covered, etc. There are, of course, many ways to get there and some are inherently more controversial than others (there is lots of support for allowing kids to stay on t... | kylewest | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Selling health insurance across state lines would solve some problems with very little (if any) downside
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This makes no sense. They could do that right now. What they can't do is sell to every state.
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CMV: Laws should be strictly enforced
If there's a law on the books and someone is discovered to be breaking that law, it should be strictly enforced. That doesn't mean a police state where we have cameras everywhere to catch everyone, but it does mean that we shouldn't "de-prioritize" crimes or let people off with a ... | There are limits to resources and time in the criminal justice system. Every minute spent policing jaywalking is a minute not spent policing drug/human trafficking or violence. A "no tolerance" approach to law enforcement would mire officials in highly visible, but minor, offenses while greater offenses go unpunished.
... | [deleted]
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Police departments de-prioritize crimes, or selectively enforce them.
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*Any* attempt at enforcing a set of laws will involve making decisions about how much of your resources you want to put towards any particular type of crime; it's only possible to be a little less blatant about it. If crimes A, ... | mi1xrw | CMV: Laws should be strictly enforced | If there's a law on the books and someone is discovered to be breaking that law, it should be strictly enforced. That doesn't mean a police state where we have cameras everywhere to catch everyone, but it does mean that we shouldn't "de-prioritize" crimes or let people off with a warning.
If a crime is a burden on the... | everdev | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: True racial and gender equality is marked by nonchalance towards race and gender, rather than celebrating and obsessing over them.
The way I see it, a true meritocracy in which people are judged *purely* by the content of their character, not unlike what MLK envisioned, is the only way to ensure true racial and g... | There is still an amazing amount of inequality in this world when it comes to minorities. Not Celebrating achievements and history with cultures is not the answer to combat racism and prejudice.
If your answer to combatting inequality is to shrug your shoulders, and say "I don't know why you were passed up that for t... | If we all go "colorblind", bias in hiring will not suddenly disappear. Targeted violence won't disappear. The wage gaps won't disappear. This is a simplistic "solution" to rooted problems. To be colorblind about race, first all need to be treated the same, or else we'll be simply adding another layer of ignorance.
Be... | mhtqh8 | CMV: True racial and gender equality is marked by nonchalance towards race and gender, rather than celebrating and obsessing over them. | The way I see it, a true meritocracy in which people are judged *purely* by the content of their character, not unlike what MLK envisioned, is the only way to ensure true racial and gender equality. For example doing away with hiring quotas in the workplace and instead hiring based soley on their merit, as well as not ... | Chainsmoker88 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Girls should verbally tell a guy she is into him instead of trying to give hints or flirt to get him to figure it out.
We are not mind readers, and it's much harder to get the hints or notice the flirtation for what it is when it is happening to us vs watching it happen to someone else. Short of running and givin... | I consider the inability to pick up on non-explicit cues a pretty severe mark against someone when considering dating them.
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What is a cue though?
Constantly sitting next to someone. Standing super close to someone, showing excitement when they enter a room?
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It's a much bigger risk for boys than for girls which is the only reason I think girls should initiate it.
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Idk bro I’m pretty open about my thoughts and opinions just don’t be creepy and you aren’t creepy | fx8xf6 | CMV: Girls should verbally tell a guy she is into him instead of trying to give hints or flirt to get him to figure it out. | We are not mind readers, and it's much harder to get the hints or notice the flirtation for what it is when it is happening to us vs watching it happen to someone else. Short of running and giving us a hug naked we likely won't get the picture and still question things.
Speaking up and telling us to our face is the on... | BasicRedditor1997 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Languages with extremely small populations of native speakers should be allowed to die.
In 2017, I vacationed in Alaska and encountered native Alaskans who were students of the [Tlingit language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_language) for the first time. These were members of the Tlingit people, but the... | I would argue that they are already being allowed to die. Just gracefully. It doesn't stop overnight. As you said, fewer and fewer are speaking it as a first language. The teaching of it isn't forced, just offered.
It'll continue to fade from here until almost no one speaks it fluently. No different than any other la... | >In my view, such languages should be as thoroughly recorded and cataloged as possible (for future linguistic study), and then allowed to die.
Do you believe that teaching a language contributes to its potential future study?
>The programs such as those at the University of Alaska which teach these languages s... | 8y1cft | CMV: Languages with extremely small populations of native speakers should be allowed to die. | In 2017, I vacationed in Alaska and encountered native Alaskans who were students of the [Tlingit language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_language) for the first time. These were members of the Tlingit people, but they were not raised with Tlingit as their first language for a couple of reasons.
1. The vast m... | TheBeardedGM | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Curving down should not be allowed
This has happened in some classes that I have taken at a large public university, and I'm sure it happens at other schools as well. Basically, grades are adjusted downwards if the average is too high, the opposite of what usually happens when the average is too low.
The main r... | so you just want grade inflation?
if everyone scores above a 90% raw score then you think its fine that everyone gets an A? no one should get a B or a C?
attachment to raw scores is a very american thing but getting 90% correct on a test is meaningless. doing better than 90% of your peers is still meaningless but has... | The real question is did you actually deserve to pass if you're only passing before a curve down? You seem to take that as a given but I don't see why it is. If some of the questions were super easy, so easy that they don't really test your skill in the subject at hand, only those who got the other questions right dese... | bldgv7 | CMV: Curving down should not be allowed | This has happened in some classes that I have taken at a large public university, and I'm sure it happens at other schools as well. Basically, grades are adjusted downwards if the average is too high, the opposite of what usually happens when the average is too low.
The main reason I think this should not be allowed ... | ethanbwinters | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Racism isn’t that “bad.”
More specifically, I don’t think racism is any worse than any other sort of stereotyping. Granted, racism is a mean, dickish behavior, but how is it any worse than any other mean, dickish behavior? Or any other sort of “stereotyping” for that matter? And it’s not even blatantly forward an... | First, I'd like to suggest that we do take other forms of "meanness" and stereotyping seriously. If the social backlash against racist speech or behavior feels more "serious" to you, it is likely because it is more visible in the public sphere. Why is that? Because history of racism is the U.S. is long, violent, and ha... | People who hate people with green eyes don't murder people who have green eyes. Hating green eyes is also far less common.
Racists have a history of actively seeking to oppress and eliminate those whom they are racist against.
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CMV: r/politicalhumor is just an anti-right subreddit.
They fake or exaggerate a lot of information in the name of "humor". Like "Jesus is a socialist because only socialists can be generous", “All capitalists and conservatives are stupid”, and a lot of propaganda-like images. How is it funny?
They sometimes just po... | It's easier to make fun of the right when their entire ideology revolves around a magical man in the sky and picking arbitrary identities to hate.
In other words, it's easy to make fun of irrationality. And it is hilarious.
On the other hand right wing humor is just like "haha black people dumb" and "haha women wea... | Would you be interested in hearing me give a discussion of why any humor sight is going to skew more towards the left wing by its very nature regardless of if it intends to or not?
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Them temperamental differences do be but right makes funnier memes
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I'm not quite sure what you're saying, can you clarify?
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They sometimes just post some random left-wing crap without any sort of joke i... | PureInsanity8 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Black Lives Matter hurts their movement by focusing so heavily on other issues in their “What we believe” statements.
I want to start this by saying I certainly support the Black Lives Matter movement and I definitely agree that there is systemic racism in the US and that something has to change.
I have seen a h... | It seems like they're doing just fine in garnering support?
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/10/upshot/black-lives-matter-attitudes.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/10/upshot/black-lives-matter-attitudes.html)
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That’s kinda my point. If they focused their goals, it would be far more successful.
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But then many won’t join the movement. Now apparently everyone is on board. But each protester has their agenda. That’s the power of slogans. BLM is not really about “black lives”. It’s about everything they don’t... | hmb7le | CMV: Black Lives Matter hurts their movement by focusing so heavily on other issues in their “What we believe” statements. | I want to start this by saying I certainly support the Black Lives Matter movement and I definitely agree that there is systemic racism in the US and that something has to change.
I have seen a huge number of posts on my Facebook feed in which individuals say they cannot get on board with the BLM movement due to their... | nmiller1776 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: It's perfectly reasonable for pro-gun advocates to not come to the bargaining table because gun-control advocates offer nothing in compromise.
Anti-gun people constantly call for new laws and more onerous restrictions on firearms, firearm accessories, firearm ownership, firearm acquisition, firearm use, and how m... | You suggest that gun nerds constantly give up ground. Can you give examples of this?
From my perspective, as someone who would like to see much stronger gun control legislation, I see things like a universal background check or assault weapon ban as a compromise. I would like to go much further, but I understand that... | >But this isn't compromise. It's just a lesser action.
But in the context of one side wanting full action, and the other side wanting no action, lesser action is a compromise?
Punching you a little bit is a compromise between punching you hard in the face and not punching you at all.
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CMV: Privilege tends to be more about money than race
Socioeconomically money seems more important than race in giving people a tangible advantage. You can be white as paper but if you grow up poor you are at a comparative disadvantage to a black person who came from a wealthy family. I dont see how a well to do black... | Not necessarily. For example, there are wealthy black people who are still racially profiled, treated differently and discriminated against compared to white wealthy people.
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CMV: The Republican Party has nothing left to offer me as a libertarian
I'm a libertarian. Not the kind who's only political stance is constantly screaming about taxation being theft, but one who cares strongly about criminal justice reform, immigration reform, police oversight, ending the war, reducing the deficit, ... | I disagree with the last part of your CMV. The part about the democrats not being able to offer you anything either. The list of issues you care about, I believe the democrats are on the right side of those issues. True they are not their top priorities but the chances of real reform happening on issues like ending war... | You should make a distinction between the party and the candidates. Rand Paul was a libertarian and a candidate in the primaries.
I do agree however that most of the candidates do not abide by the libertarian principles but there are still quite a lot of good candidates with strong libertarian principles
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But i... | 98c8c7 | CMV: The Republican Party has nothing left to offer me as a libertarian | I'm a libertarian. Not the kind who's only political stance is constantly screaming about taxation being theft, but one who cares strongly about criminal justice reform, immigration reform, police oversight, ending the war, reducing the deficit, closing gitmo, human rights activism, governmental checks and balances, e... | froggison | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Expecting a tip is entitled, and you are not entitled to anyone's tip just for doing your job and being nice.
I've never really understood this. Do you tip a banker if he shows up to work and... Works? Do you tip grocery store cashier for being a cashier? We have never entertained the idea of tipping anyone for j... | Grocery store cashiers get full minimum wage or higher. Tipped workers get $2.25 with the assumption that the rest of their wages will come from tips. If you choose to not tip you are literally not paying the wages someone has earned in doing their job.
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Why is it my duty to pay you your wage? They should be maki... | At some point. if enough people agree that something is expected socially then it just is. Therefore it isn’t entitled.
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That's an interesting point. !delta, I agree with the fact that social norms play into it.
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Cmv: Sandy Hook was a conspiracy, but kids did died .
Preface, to begin I want to say that I do think Sandy Hook took place, and that people actually died, but I also feel it was a conspiracy.
Let's be real, it isn't beyond the government to kill people to push an agenda. In regards to Sandy Hook, the agenda is gun c... | I don't see how anyone could convince you if you believe that all videos and evidence of all your claims has been stripped from the internet. If it seems more likely that all evidence has been covered up than that events happened as reported, that's the definition of conspiracy theory thinking, all evidence only reinfo... | [removed]
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Cheers mate. It's a messy topic. You can't talk about any other side of Sandy Hook these days without being some conspiracist, which I'm not at all. The evidence surrounding this event (since taken down) was too hard to believe it wasn't a setup in some way or another
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It was way too strange to se... | 98cvfy | Cmv: Sandy Hook was a conspiracy, but kids did died . | Preface, to begin I want to say that I do think Sandy Hook took place, and that people actually died, but I also feel it was a conspiracy.
Let's be real, it isn't beyond the government to kill people to push an agenda. In regards to Sandy Hook, the agenda is gun control.
I do not support Alex Jones, or anything he ha... | ChewyMang | 5 | 4 | [
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CMV: Adding /s to a statement kills the joke. Always.
A sarcastic joke or remark should stand on its own merit and no additional indicator should be provided to emphasize or clarify that there is humour. In fact, the doubt that the statement creates, the "is this person serious?" plays a major part in creating a humor... |
>Poe's Law may be invoked in defense to the /s but again, a quality sarcastic statement will take Poe's Law into account and use it to its advantage!
Im not sure this is possible
That's the problem with an all text format.
You literally can't tell the difference between someone joking and someone being serious.
... | In face-to-face conversation there are multiple factors that mark sarcasm, body language, tone, pitch, pace.
Without these markers it would often be impossible to tell if you are joking or if you are completely serious.
On the Internet, these contextual clues are missing. All you see is a black text with no indicatio... | 6bvl59 | CMV: Adding /s to a statement kills the joke. Always. | A sarcastic joke or remark should stand on its own merit and no additional indicator should be provided to emphasize or clarify that there is humour. In fact, the doubt that the statement creates, the "is this person serious?" plays a major part in creating a humorous payout.
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CMV: In some cases, children SHOULD be separated from their parents.
The current issue surrounding children being separated from their parents at the border has caused an uproar from left-wing critics with the main message being "children should not be separated from their parents." I think this is nothing more than a... | You're attacking a straw man here. The children of illegal border crossers are not being separated from their parents because of suspected abuse. Yes, their parents are breaking the law, but that doesn't necessarily make them abusive and therefore doesn't merit taking their children away. Illegally crossing the bord... | No one, anywhere, at any time, in any context is arguing that children should never under any circumstances be separated from their parents. What people ***are*** saying is that children should not be separated from their parents without any due process or procedural safeguards being respected. Even in the situations y... | 8ss1zd | CMV: In some cases, children SHOULD be separated from their parents. | The current issue surrounding children being separated from their parents at the border has caused an uproar from left-wing critics with the main message being "children should not be separated from their parents." I think this is nothing more than a political talking point manufactured to gain political points/the mor... | jailthewhaletail | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: In some cases, children SHOULD be separated from their parents.
The current issue surrounding children being separated from their parents at the border has caused an uproar from left-wing critics with the main message being "children should not be separated from their parents." I think this is nothing more than a... | You're attacking a straw man here. The children of illegal border crossers are not being separated from their parents because of suspected abuse. Yes, their parents are breaking the law, but that doesn't necessarily make them abusive and therefore doesn't merit taking their children away. Illegally crossing the bord... | No one, anywhere, at any time, in any context is arguing that children should never under any circumstances be separated from their parents. What people ***are*** saying is that children should not be separated from their parents without any due process or procedural safeguards being respected. Even in the situations y... | 8ss1zd | CMV: In some cases, children SHOULD be separated from their parents. | The current issue surrounding children being separated from their parents at the border has caused an uproar from left-wing critics with the main message being "children should not be separated from their parents." I think this is nothing more than a political talking point manufactured to gain political points/the mor... | jailthewhaletail | 7 | 5 | [
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CMV: The federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour.
Context: The federal minimum wage hasn’t been changed since 2009 when $7.25 an hour was established. 12 years later and the minimum wage hasn’t changed.
Claim: “A wage hike would benefit millions of people and lift struggling workers out of poverty.”
... | As you noted, minimum wage strikes a balance between job quantity and job quality. So, why is your view $15? Why not $20? $50? $1000?
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Imo the minimum wage should be adjusted for inflation which should make the federal minimum wage $24. But that would be a big stretch for the current congress. $15 would be a good ... | This is why minimum wage isn't the solution: [https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/08/07/instead-of-15-or-7-25-there-should-be-no-federal-minimum-wage-at-all/?sh=7ba04cb92f4c](https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/08/07/instead-of-15-or-7-25-there-should-be-no-federal-minimum-wage-at-all/?sh=7ba04cb92f... | mhy494 | CMV: The federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour. | Context: The federal minimum wage hasn’t been changed since 2009 when $7.25 an hour was established. 12 years later and the minimum wage hasn’t changed.
Claim: “A wage hike would benefit millions of people and lift struggling workers out of poverty.”
- “The CBO report does have some silver linings: It estimates a... | Ragingangel13 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Sending your 12-year-old son to school in a dress is not child abuse.
I'm referring to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/casualChildAbuse/comments/8oe0lq/as_seen_on_quora/) I've seen on r/casualChildAbuse. To save you a click - It's just a screenshot of a Quora question "I sent my 12 year old son to school in ... | I'm not an official authority on the definition of "victim blaming", but I think I would it use differently than you.
Scenario: A woman is getting raped by a man. Someone says it's her fault, because she dressed seductively.
This is a problem, because first of all it's probably not true that people being dressed a ce... | if you send out your son in a dress to school, he is going to get bullied. a parent should know better than to put 'dismantling of gender stereotypes' over their own child's well being. and sure you can say that it's not the parent doing the bullying, it's the child, but if you told your kid to walk around a gang neigh... | 8xzf31 | CMV: Sending your 12-year-old son to school in a dress is not child abuse. | I'm referring to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/casualChildAbuse/comments/8oe0lq/as_seen_on_quora/) I've seen on r/casualChildAbuse. To save you a click - It's just a screenshot of a Quora question "I sent my 12 year old son to school in a dress to combat gender stereotypes, and now he doesn't want to go to schoo... | defactron | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Sending your 12-year-old son to school in a dress is not child abuse.
I'm referring to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/casualChildAbuse/comments/8oe0lq/as_seen_on_quora/) I've seen on r/casualChildAbuse. To save you a click - It's just a screenshot of a Quora question "I sent my 12 year old son to school in ... | if you send out your son in a dress to school, he is going to get bullied. a parent should know better than to put 'dismantling of gender stereotypes' over their own child's well being. and sure you can say that it's not the parent doing the bullying, it's the child, but if you told your kid to walk around a gang neigh... | This depends. Did the kid WANT to go to school like that initially?
If so, it's not really parental abuse. Sometime you have to let your kid try things out and learn to deal with consequences.
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If the kid wanted to wear the dress, then it's not abuse at all. Parents should support the ways in which kids want to ... | 8xzf31 | CMV: Sending your 12-year-old son to school in a dress is not child abuse. | I'm referring to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/casualChildAbuse/comments/8oe0lq/as_seen_on_quora/) I've seen on r/casualChildAbuse. To save you a click - It's just a screenshot of a Quora question "I sent my 12 year old son to school in a dress to combat gender stereotypes, and now he doesn't want to go to schoo... | defactron | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: In a professional environment, speaking a different language to different people is impolite.
So, I know this sounds pretty racist, and I admit I am trying to re-train my brain and unlearn racist ideologies, including this one.
My view mainly concerns working environments with multiple languages. I personally th... | So put yourself in their shoes. Imagine you're living in Mexico or China, you speak Spanish or mandarin, but you have a fellow native English speaking coworker. It's going to be much more comfortable and easier to code switch to your native language when speaking with fellow native English speakers.
Would you consi... | How is this impolite? They know that you don't need to hear that piece of information (otherwise they wouldn't be speaking a language you can't speak), and they can more easily and efficiently convey that information in their native language
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I guess in a team setting I see this as counterproductive and assuming o... | onmxvi | CMV: In a professional environment, speaking a different language to different people is impolite. | So, I know this sounds pretty racist, and I admit I am trying to re-train my brain and unlearn racist ideologies, including this one.
My view mainly concerns working environments with multiple languages. I personally think it's rude when in a mixed language setting, to speak one language to one coworker, and a differe... | Jeddie-the-witchy | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: There are no negative effects because of the overall decline of spirituality in the world
With the decline with religiosity usually comes with a decline in spirituality because the two are usually linked. I think that spirituality whether it is linked to religion or not is going away.
From what I can see, seems ... | People are certainly less religious in terms of it being organized but they aren’t any less spiritual. How many people do you know who believe the location of mercury in relation to Earth moving around the sun affects their lives? How many people wear certain crystals, check a daily horoscope, or care what your astrolo... | I will try to change your view slightly in two different ways. First, I would amend it to 'there need be no negative effects' (to the decline of religiosity or spirituality). Second: an overall decrease in religiosity doesn't necessarily imply a decrease in spirituality, it just untethers it from institutions / the mai... | o0hbvq | CMV: There are no negative effects because of the overall decline of spirituality in the world | With the decline with religiosity usually comes with a decline in spirituality because the two are usually linked. I think that spirituality whether it is linked to religion or not is going away.
From what I can see, seems like people going on with their lives, participating in hobbies and such without any thought for... | overhardeggs | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: US presidential candidates should take an exam covering US government and law, foreign policy, as well as undergo a comprehensive cognitive exam.
Edit: Ok, this has been fun and some great conversation, but I am beginning to feel like a one-man army trying to defend the gates of Sparta.
I have changed my mind f... | I understand where you're coming from and I somewhat agree, but how can we be sure that the test won't be rigged? Maybe, someone takes the exam, passes, but they announce he didn't because they don't want him running for president. Also, if the scores are published, then the voters may be swayed. People may even "accid... | It's not the job of the President to know everything. That's why they have advisors. That's why they have briefings. That's why they have cabinets.
In terms of mental faculty, I think there's potential for that to become quite discriminatory. Kanye West has bipolar disorder. Should people with bipolar disorder not be... | hm5di9 | CMV: US presidential candidates should take an exam covering US government and law, foreign policy, as well as undergo a comprehensive cognitive exam. | Edit: Ok, this has been fun and some great conversation, but I am beginning to feel like a one-man army trying to defend the gates of Sparta.
I have changed my mind for three reasons.
1) Test-taking ability is not necessarily an indication of one's ability to run the office of the president.
2) He who creates the... | strangeattractors | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: US presidential candidates should take an exam covering US government and law, foreign policy, as well as undergo a comprehensive cognitive exam.
Edit: Ok, this has been fun and some great conversation, but I am beginning to feel like a one-man army trying to defend the gates of Sparta.
I have changed my mind f... | Who administers this test? Who creates it? How would you prevent this from being manipulated?
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I’ve answered this four times I am too tired to do it again lol
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I've gone through your replies. I only see you repeat that the "test bank" would be publicly available. That does not answer the question. You have ye... | It's not the job of the President to know everything. That's why they have advisors. That's why they have briefings. That's why they have cabinets.
In terms of mental faculty, I think there's potential for that to become quite discriminatory. Kanye West has bipolar disorder. Should people with bipolar disorder not be... | hm5di9 | CMV: US presidential candidates should take an exam covering US government and law, foreign policy, as well as undergo a comprehensive cognitive exam. | Edit: Ok, this has been fun and some great conversation, but I am beginning to feel like a one-man army trying to defend the gates of Sparta.
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CMV: It should be illegal to publicly proselytize.
I am an atheist, and while the community as a whole generally hates religions, I don't mind them. I know they do provide some pros, mostly cons in my opinion, but as long as they don't bother me, there isn't an issue.
Now here's where the issue begins. If you believ... | >People coming along, especially in the south, and start asking if you want to talk about Jesus or how the Lord is this wonderful force.
Just say, "No thanks." and walk away. It isn't that hard.
The idea that the government should/could have the power to tell people they are not allowed to speak to others about caus... | >It's annoying, moronic, and plain ridiculous.
If I happen to feel exactly the way about your post that you feel about Jesus talk.......
Should we put you in jail for annoying me?
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It's the internet, if I don't want to deal with the online I block them.
Can't exactly block people in the real world in public, ... | mhyqou | CMV: It should be illegal to publicly proselytize. | I am an atheist, and while the community as a whole generally hates religions, I don't mind them. I know they do provide some pros, mostly cons in my opinion, but as long as they don't bother me, there isn't an issue.
Now here's where the issue begins. If you believe in something because that's how you were raised, t... | Purple_Catz | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Socialism is a preferable alternative to our current economic system in the US.
As stated in the title, I believe that socialism is a preferable alternative to our current economic system in the US. Specifically, I believe that Market Socialism, a form of socialism in which the means of production are socially co... | [removed]
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As far as I know, France has a mixed economy and is not fully socialist.
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Is there a country you do think is a good proxy for the policies you recommend? | > I believe that not only would the economy not be damaged by this policy but that it would benefit, and the data supports this. Coops have been shown multilaterally to be more resilient and less likely to fail than traditionally-operated businesses (1) and also shown to incentivize workers to be more effective (2), as... | fx1l9f | CMV: Socialism is a preferable alternative to our current economic system in the US. | As stated in the title, I believe that socialism is a preferable alternative to our current economic system in the US. Specifically, I believe that Market Socialism, a form of socialism in which the means of production are socially controlled in the framework of a market economy, would be a good alternative.
First, I ... | PygmySloth12 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Depression is in your control (In most cases)
Before getting into this, I think I have experienced what bipolar depression is, since it has to be 2 years or something like that to be considered the actual disorder, but I was suicidal and depressed for around a year, so I don't think I am talking from ignorance.
... | [removed]
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Do you have a point? Saying "This is ignorant" is far from helpful. I am simply stating my experiences and how I have experienced the power of will. I would like to hear other people's views on it. If you don't have one, not sure why you replied.
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You clearly dont understand or have any grasp on tr... | Depression is a manifestation of an underlying cause. If you tell a depressed person "Just Be Happy" it doesn't help solve that underlying problem. It could be a variety of things both mental and physical. Sometimes medication can blunt the manifestation and help a depressed person not feel so depressed. More than like... | fkt74u | CMV: Depression is in your control (In most cases) | Before getting into this, I think I have experienced what bipolar depression is, since it has to be 2 years or something like that to be considered the actual disorder, but I was suicidal and depressed for around a year, so I don't think I am talking from ignorance.
The reason I have this view is because I know the br... | Blue1th | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: both political parties in the US are equally crap
Pretty self-explanatory really. Not talking about the views they hold (which are basically nonexistent at this point, they just pretend to have them), I'm talking about the actual parties themselves. Republicans house conspiracy theorists and violent gun nuts, Dem... | It’s *really* lazy to look at any imperfection and then declare everyone in the wrong. Degrees and direction matter a lot.
Asymmetric polarization is a thing, and it’s [mostly a republican problem](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/yes-polarization-is-asymmetric-and-conservatives-are-worse/373044/)... | There is a republican appointed postmaster general who is actively dismantling the USPS while having blatant conflicts of interest with USPS competitors. Can you name one counterexample from the Democrat aisle? And no, I will not accept 'fringe beliefs' - Republicans are dismantling critical infrastructure, that alone ... | idbt1z | CMV: both political parties in the US are equally crap | Pretty self-explanatory really. Not talking about the views they hold (which are basically nonexistent at this point, they just pretend to have them), I'm talking about the actual parties themselves. Republicans house conspiracy theorists and violent gun nuts, Democrats house communists and other conspiracy theorists, ... | Tabletop_Sam | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor
Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could ... | [deleted]
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The meaning of the word “offensive” is being changed constantly. It’s often used to legitimize cancel culture. While I agree that there is no need for humor, that is meant to be extremely offensive, people don’t have to be that judgmental when it comes to ordinary humor.
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it seems like the convers... | >Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc.
I encounter and see plenty of jokes on those topics.
What happens nowadays however is that (for example) "feminism bad" no longer counts as a joke.
Jokes have to be funny to ... | mhxba6 | CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor | Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could get cancelled for anything, even if the joke wasn’t meant ... | CraniumCracker1 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor
Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could ... | >Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc.
I encounter and see plenty of jokes on those topics.
What happens nowadays however is that (for example) "feminism bad" no longer counts as a joke.
Jokes have to be funny to ... | Just last year, Jojo Rabbit, a comedy about a young child being best friends with *fucking Hitler*, won 14 awards, including an Oscar (with 4 more Oscar nominations).
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Yeah, that movie was great, but still received much criticism (especially on Rotten Tomatoes).
Btw, how do I give out delta?
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It has a 94% au... | mhxba6 | CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor | Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could get cancelled for anything, even if the joke wasn’t meant ... | CraniumCracker1 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor
Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could ... | Humor is often subtle. Text mediums are worse than audio or video at translating humor as the creator intended the audience to receive it. [Poe's law.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law)
Since text mediums make it difficult for other people to interpret your remarks as sarcastic/humorous/parotic/whatever, woul... | >Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc.
I encounter and see plenty of jokes on those topics.
What happens nowadays however is that (for example) "feminism bad" no longer counts as a joke.
Jokes have to be funny to ... | mhxba6 | CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor | Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could get cancelled for anything, even if the joke wasn’t meant ... | CraniumCracker1 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor
Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could ... | You're way too sensitive to apparently need to complain on the internet 🤷♂️ And its not killing humor. Some "jokes" just aren't funny. When someone tells a "joke" and the response is discontent then the joke just isn't funny. People aren't sensitive. Shitty humor is just not being entertained as widely.
Every joke ... | >Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc.
I encounter and see plenty of jokes on those topics.
What happens nowadays however is that (for example) "feminism bad" no longer counts as a joke.
Jokes have to be funny to ... | mhxba6 | CMV: People are way too sensitive and it’s killing humor | Not 10, but 5 years ago you could joke about each topic freely, without instantly getting cancelled. Nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to joke about popular political parties (especially among young people), feminism, global warming, etc. Nowadays, you could get cancelled for anything, even if the joke wasn’t meant ... | CraniumCracker1 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: The American Health Care System bears the burden of innovation that fuels health care systems around the world.
The competitive nature of the American HealthCare System and the capitalist economy has resulted in the US leading the world in pharmaceutical research and the development of medical practices/procedure... | Assuming that everything you said is true, which is a concession I'm not willing to make since you haven't provided many sources, the point falls flat without one key argument.
What makes you assume free market competition is the most efficient methodology in creating novel treatments? Correlation and Causation are tw... | Even supposing that this assertion were true, it's a weird argument to make. It's a pretty tough sell to say that Americans should die because they can't get access to healthcare but that's fine because the expense of American healthcare drives innovation for the rest of the world. So the American citizen is subsidizin... | fkqbnb | CMV: The American Health Care System bears the burden of innovation that fuels health care systems around the world. | The competitive nature of the American HealthCare System and the capitalist economy has resulted in the US leading the world in pharmaceutical research and the development of medical practices/procedures. One third of the world's pharmaceuticals are produced in the US and most of the world changing/saving drugs were cr... | TeamScarletTemTem | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: The American Health Care System bears the burden of innovation that fuels health care systems around the world.
The competitive nature of the American HealthCare System and the capitalist economy has resulted in the US leading the world in pharmaceutical research and the development of medical practices/procedure... | Assuming that everything you said is true, which is a concession I'm not willing to make since you haven't provided many sources, the point falls flat without one key argument.
What makes you assume free market competition is the most efficient methodology in creating novel treatments? Correlation and Causation are tw... | Even supposing that this assertion were true, it's a weird argument to make. It's a pretty tough sell to say that Americans should die because they can't get access to healthcare but that's fine because the expense of American healthcare drives innovation for the rest of the world. So the American citizen is subsidizin... | fkqbnb | CMV: The American Health Care System bears the burden of innovation that fuels health care systems around the world. | The competitive nature of the American HealthCare System and the capitalist economy has resulted in the US leading the world in pharmaceutical research and the development of medical practices/procedures. One third of the world's pharmaceuticals are produced in the US and most of the world changing/saving drugs were cr... | TeamScarletTemTem | 4 | 4 | [
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CMV: Pro-choice framed as self-defence is more coherent than a framing of bodily autonomy
**Foreword**
I'm staunchly pro-choice. I believe that arguments from bodily autonomy already outweigh pro-life arguments, however I believe that an argument from self-defence is stronger still. I'm not particularly interested i... | An argument in self defense is more aggressive than bodily autonomy but that's kind of the point.
The whole reason to go with autonomy is as you say, to approach pro-life advocates from their premises and show that they are still incorrect.
However, if you use self defense you are ignoring the pro-life premise that p... | A fetus doesn’t inhabit a woman’s body without her consent.
The only function ejaculate serves is conception, and in 99% of pregnancies, women allow men to ejaculate semen into their vaginas. Pregnancy, a 9 month ordeal, is 100% invited by the mother, and so self-defence is moot.
It would not be “self defence” to pu... | o0cpg7 | CMV: Pro-choice framed as self-defence is more coherent than a framing of bodily autonomy | **Foreword**
I'm staunchly pro-choice. I believe that arguments from bodily autonomy already outweigh pro-life arguments, however I believe that an argument from self-defence is stronger still. I'm not particularly interested in hearing from pro-life people on this one, I'm trying to strengthen my own beliefs here. ... | Poo-et | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Americans shouldn't assume that everyone or even most people on the Internet are Americans
Disclaimer: This also applies to anyone else assuming stuff like that, for example Westerners (like my countrymen sometimes probably) assuming everyone else on the Internet is also a Westerner, or people from an English-spe... | There are roughly 320 million Americans in the world.
Compare this to the total population of the UK (66 million), Canada (37 million-8million french speakers), Australia (25 million), New Zealand (5 million), Ireland (5million), and Jamaica (2 million), which combined is 132 million people. These countries represent... | If you're on an American site where the majority of users are American, people are going to assume you're American - and while you may have a point about ~50% of reddit users being American, I suspect that when you carve off people who only or primarily participate in non-English subreddits that number goes up. It goe... | fkoka9 | CMV: Americans shouldn't assume that everyone or even most people on the Internet are Americans | Disclaimer: This also applies to anyone else assuming stuff like that, for example Westerners (like my countrymen sometimes probably) assuming everyone else on the Internet is also a Westerner, or people from an English-speaking country assuming everyone else is from an English-speaking country. However, to be frank, I... | somom_dotcom | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: The USA should cut its defense budget, not increase it.
Ever since I've been paying federal taxes, it boggles my mind just how much the United States spends on defense. In 2015, [$596 billion dollars was spent on defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States), and the President want... | >>This figure represents ~40% of global defense spending. The United States spends more on their defense budget than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined.
We basically subsidise a good deal (not all) of those militaries. This isn't overt "Policing the world" either. We exc... |
you're looking at total dollars. believe it or not, if you look at military spending as a percentage of GDP (what % we allocate, rather than total dollars) the USA is ranked at #20.
Source, worldbank economic research:
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We're ranked a... | 6bxaf7 | CMV: The USA should cut its defense budget, not increase it. | Ever since I've been paying federal taxes, it boggles my mind just how much the United States spends on defense. In 2015, [$596 billion dollars was spent on defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States), and the President wants to increase that amount. Defense spending accounts for abou... | FreedomToasts | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Sanitation workers save more lives than doctors
Ok, big caveat right off the bat: I am aware a lot of sanitation advances were discovered/pioneered/promoted by Doctors.
However, clean water, proper sewage, garbage removal, pest control, janitors, etc. - They save many more lives by prevention than doctors and n... | To me this really seems like apples and oranges, because prevention of illness and intervention when people are sick or injured are such different actions. Also, it seems strange to make this about individual sanitation workers or doctors, when each represents a much larger social structure, public sanitation and the m... | Sanitation workers relies on doctors to save their lives
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and vice versa too
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There were doctors before there were sanitation workers. There were no sanitation workers in Pre Contact America nor in present day North Sentinel Island. But neither group of people have any commutable diseases (except for syphilis... | fkjywv | CMV: Sanitation workers save more lives than doctors | Ok, big caveat right off the bat: I am aware a lot of sanitation advances were discovered/pioneered/promoted by Doctors.
However, clean water, proper sewage, garbage removal, pest control, janitors, etc. - They save many more lives by prevention than doctors and nurse ever can by intervention.
A single loss of clea... | tjmaxal | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Fines should be proportional to a person's wealth
When someone gets, for example (but not exclusively) a parking fine, the amount they have to pay should change depending on how much money they earn. This is because the fine is not a payment for an item, it's supposed to be a punishment and a deterrent. If someon... | The problem is that it's still unfair, even with fines being a proportion of your income.
What does a 5% fine matter to someone who makes 1 mil a month? Cool, they pay 50k now. That looks like a big number, but they still have 950k to work with, which means they don't lose ANY quality of life and don't even have to th... | What do you do in the typical scenario of wealth not being in the form of a number in a bank account? I.e. billionaires whose money exists largely in stocks/shares.
Do you force them to sell? Put them automatically in debt to the government? Plenty of options to choose from but these ultimately have a shared problem: ... | o0acjx | CMV: Fines should be proportional to a person's wealth | When someone gets, for example (but not exclusively) a parking fine, the amount they have to pay should change depending on how much money they earn. This is because the fine is not a payment for an item, it's supposed to be a punishment and a deterrent. If someone with no income has to pay a £50 fine, versus someone w... | buttonbirds | 4 | 4 | [
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CMV: I'm aware that mental illnesses are a thing, but I don't think every person who claims to have one really has one
I've seen a lot of people complain about the smallest stuff and call it depression, just because they're a little bit sad. When I was a kid I was told depression was a BIG THING, being sad and being d... | [18.1% of Americans](https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/facts-statistics) over 18 suffer from depression or a general anxiety disorder.
The estimated [amount of children diagnosed with ADHD in the US](https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html) is about 9.4%
In 2020, [8.6% of Americans](https://www.census.gov/libr... | So first off objectively not everyone who thinks they have a disorder has it. Like I thinks that’s something factual that can’t be disputed.
That being said, you seem to view a lot of these things as if you either have clinical long standing depression that could result in suicide, or you just don’t have depression. T... | v5qbb5 | CMV: I'm aware that mental illnesses are a thing, but I don't think every person who claims to have one really has one | I've seen a lot of people complain about the smallest stuff and call it depression, just because they're a little bit sad. When I was a kid I was told depression was a BIG THING, being sad and being depressed is different, feeling anxious at a given moment is different than having anxiety as a mental illness.
A lot of... | IJustSomeGuyAround | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Universal Healthcare is a bad idea, and shouldn't really be a thing. Let alone a right.
Let's say that Universal Health care becomes a right today. What's going to happen next?
Let's look at the medical industry, And how it works. More specifically, Let's look at the pharmaceutical industry. The pharma companies... | Universal healthcare does not lead to generic brands disappearing. We still have them here in Australia, despite having our Medicare system since the mid 1980s. There is no scarcity of medication and we pay less for healthcare than in the US.
If having universal healthcare really did increase the prices, why do people... | If patents weren't a thing how many people would be willing to spend the huge amounts of cash needed to develop new medicines when they aren't even guaranteed to be able to sell the thing to help recoup their losses? Additionally patents may actually make out easier to develop new medicines (after the patent runs out) ... | bl7gub | CMV: Universal Healthcare is a bad idea, and shouldn't really be a thing. Let alone a right. | Let's say that Universal Health care becomes a right today. What's going to happen next?
Let's look at the medical industry, And how it works. More specifically, Let's look at the pharmaceutical industry. The pharma companies are mostly in charge of providing new medications. How do they do that? Through Research and ... | xxAnother_Bad_Namexx | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Under a totalitarian regime, most of us would not be resisters.
A lot of people want to believe that if they had 'been there', in Nazi Germany for example, that they would have resisted. They would have risked their lives to help ordinary people escape a murderous totalitarian government.
And some people did. O... | Time marches on and society's moral compass evolves.
That why if you tried to burn a "witch" today you would be met with extreme resistance.
That's why if a Doctor violates ethical code to "advance" medicine, they would be met with resistance.
That's why if a dictator gasses their population, it is met with resistan... | Philosophically, your identity is partly constituted by your values. There's a very significant sense in which a Nazi drone is not "me," because I value reason and the rights of other people at a fundamental level. If I were kidnapped and brainwashed into worshipping Hitler, that would be the end of "me," the person - ... | 16m0711 | CMV: Under a totalitarian regime, most of us would not be resisters. | A lot of people want to believe that if they had 'been there', in Nazi Germany for example, that they would have resisted. They would have risked their lives to help ordinary people escape a murderous totalitarian government.
And some people did. Oskar Schindler is an example of that. They made a movie about him beca... | LaserWerewolf | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Games shouldn't restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. The player should be able to save whenever they want and to make as many saves as they want.
I've noticed that many games these days seem to restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. These include the Far Cry games from 3 on up, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, an... | Do you make an exception for randomly generated and permadeath games, like traditional roguelikes and roguelites, where letting the player try again from a save spoils the random generation element?
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I honestly never really understood the appeal of *long* permadeath games - i.e., ones that you pour dozens of hours... | They do that to save us from ourselves. I have about 80 saves throughout fallout 4 and skyrim. I probably only need 3 each but now I have to go through the lot of them to find the current one I'm working on.
It's also to help limit the size of the folders. At some point folders will start to corrupt based on how much ... | 9865kz | CMV: Games shouldn't restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. The player should be able to save whenever they want and to make as many saves as they want. | I've noticed that many games these days seem to restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. These include the Far Cry games from 3 on up, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Subnautica among others. This is a dangerous trend because if a glitch in the game corrupts the player's save, or corrupts quest progression making quests/... | Cybyss | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Games shouldn't restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. The player should be able to save whenever they want and to make as many saves as they want.
I've noticed that many games these days seem to restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. These include the Far Cry games from 3 on up, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, an... | Many games are completely broken with save scumming. They want you to think about decisions and trust your gut.
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And many games are not. I don't know if you've ever played Serious Sam or Doom 2016, but giant hectic fights where you're trying to hold off against enormous hoards by yourself, and where you can be kil... | Do you make an exception for randomly generated and permadeath games, like traditional roguelikes and roguelites, where letting the player try again from a save spoils the random generation element?
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I honestly never really understood the appeal of *long* permadeath games - i.e., ones that you pour dozens of hours... | 9865kz | CMV: Games shouldn't restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. The player should be able to save whenever they want and to make as many saves as they want. | I've noticed that many games these days seem to restrict the player to only 1 or 2 saves. These include the Far Cry games from 3 on up, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Subnautica among others. This is a dangerous trend because if a glitch in the game corrupts the player's save, or corrupts quest progression making quests/... | Cybyss | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Pulp Fiction is not that good
Yes i said what i said, Pulp Fiction isn’t that good
Disclaimer: i didn’t watch it in one sitting (which what i probably should’ve done) i have really shitty attention span
First of all, the story is weird, it doesn’t have a main plot, it covers different character at different p... | What makes you think that being linear or straightforward is what makes a movie good? Or that story ""must have a purpose"" ?
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Maybe you don’t think alike. I want the character to have an objective, that’s what i like on a movie
Edit: more arguments
If im watching a movie im following their adventure it’s really... | Im just going to make a comment on your plot. They are all main characters. Their stories all intertwine. At the end of the movie. You shouldn't really form a judgment on movies until you've watched them three times.
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Okay? I didn't fight the point of it being a good movie after watching it three t... | idafca | CMV: Pulp Fiction is not that good | Yes i said what i said, Pulp Fiction isn’t that good
Disclaimer: i didn’t watch it in one sitting (which what i probably should’ve done) i have really shitty attention span
First of all, the story is weird, it doesn’t have a main plot, it covers different character at different point of the movie. I don’t even know... | fattah1614 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: There should be a reasonable statute of limitation on sex crime accusations
So I'm reading through[ this document](https://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2020/12.html) that came out today detailing why a Catholic priest was acquitted for a molestation conviction. Essentially it was pretty mu... | You've phrased the title so that the opposite of what you're saying is that there *shouldn't* be a reasonable statute of limitations on sex crime accusations, and thus have only invited unreasonable arguments.
But to your body: why 1 year specifically? The dynamics between abuse victims and abusers are not always such... | >On nothing but one guy's word. He shouldn't have even been bothered. As we have seen, people make up stuff like this and it's just too hard to prove that something happened 20 years ago.
So if you did have readily available proof, they still should not be charged? Perhaps video, a confession, multiple witnesses and m... | fwxlly | CMV: There should be a reasonable statute of limitation on sex crime accusations | So I'm reading through[ this document](https://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2020/12.html) that came out today detailing why a Catholic priest was acquitted for a molestation conviction. Essentially it was pretty much confirmed to be bullshit. Here's the thing though: it was sketchy from the begi... | [deleted] | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Globalisation is a good thing
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As such, it can lead to both positive and negative outcomes.
What would it take to change your view? Simply a list of negatives created by globalization? Or would you require something else?
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I think it would require someone showing me that the end of globalizat... | > While these actions may protect American interests in the short-term, the long-term benefits of globalization far outweigh these short-term pains.
Globalization is good globaly, but it is also equalizing. Before, America used to dominate the world solely, but now it is not so much the case, because of the rise of f... | 8xqpry | CMV: Globalisation is a good thing | I think globalization is a good thing. It improves trading, and increases the amount of wealth being created. It allows developing countries a leg-up when developed countries buy their cheaper labour. It allows developed countries cheaper labour. While this may result in some growing pains (labourers in developed count... | CanadianDani | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: CMV: If accusations are levied publicly, then it's only fair that a trial is held publicly as well
There's been a lot of back and forth discussion as to whether the Depp/Heard trial should have been public. The way I see it, when accusations are levied publicly instead of handled through the legal system as a cri... | All trials are public. But being live broadcast is something else.
Do you mean public? Or live broadcast?
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Live broadcast. Viewable by anyone anywhere who wishes to watch, if one party requests it.
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Why would this benefit the justice system itself? | All accusations are 'levied publicly'. Our legal system requires that all criminal cases be the matter of public record when we've gotten to the trial stage. This just means that every single case should be public.
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Although all accusations are levied publicly as you say, not all accusations have one party defame ... | v5nlmq | CMV: CMV: If accusations are levied publicly, then it's only fair that a trial is held publicly as well | There's been a lot of back and forth discussion as to whether the Depp/Heard trial should have been public. The way I see it, when accusations are levied publicly instead of handled through the legal system as a criminal matter, people assign guilt in the court of public well before due process occurs. The status quo i... | HazyMemory7 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: CMV: If accusations are levied publicly, then it's only fair that a trial is held publicly as well
There's been a lot of back and forth discussion as to whether the Depp/Heard trial should have been public. The way I see it, when accusations are levied publicly instead of handled through the legal system as a cri... | All trials are public. But being live broadcast is something else.
Do you mean public? Or live broadcast?
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Live broadcast. Viewable by anyone anywhere who wishes to watch, if one party requests it.
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You watch the Netflix series Trial by Media. One of the episodes that stands out to me was a case where a wo... | All accusations are 'levied publicly'. Our legal system requires that all criminal cases be the matter of public record when we've gotten to the trial stage. This just means that every single case should be public.
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CMV: CMV: If accusations are levied publicly, then it's only fair that a trial is held publicly as well
There's been a lot of back and forth discussion as to whether the Depp/Heard trial should have been public. The way I see it, when accusations are levied publicly instead of handled through the legal system as a cri... | All trials are public. But being live broadcast is something else.
Do you mean public? Or live broadcast?
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Live broadcast. Viewable by anyone anywhere who wishes to watch, if one party requests it.
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Why would this benefit the justice system itself?
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Why does it need to benefit the justice system? I'm ... | [removed]
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>imagine being a johnny simp and using this trial to take your incel anger out since you've never had a hot girl willingly talk to you
This you ma'am?
I can't speak for other p... | v5nlmq | CMV: CMV: If accusations are levied publicly, then it's only fair that a trial is held publicly as well | There's been a lot of back and forth discussion as to whether the Depp/Heard trial should have been public. The way I see it, when accusations are levied publicly instead of handled through the legal system as a criminal matter, people assign guilt in the court of public well before due process occurs. The status quo i... | HazyMemory7 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Abrahamic Religions are generally evil
Most of the time I can't stop myself from feeling/believing that, even though I strongly want to believe otherwise.
I strongly believe in mankind and I believe that people are generally good. I also believe that ideas by themselves can't be evil. It's what we do with them a... | > Yet again, why do those religions happen to be the ideology used the most in those cases?
This requires just two points:
1. Most (or at least close to half) of the world belongs to an Abrahamic religion.
2. People generally feel the need to justify how their actions match their religion, and people are *really go... | I'd like to point out that religious people donate much more to charities per household than secular folk.
You may disagree with the ideology, but the good these people do for society is measurable.
Without their religion, they would not be as charitable; therefore, their religion influences them in a very good way. ... | 6bo8e0 | CMV: Abrahamic Religions are generally evil | Most of the time I can't stop myself from feeling/believing that, even though I strongly want to believe otherwise.
I strongly believe in mankind and I believe that people are generally good. I also believe that ideas by themselves can't be evil. It's what we do with them and how we take them, is what makes them good ... | R_Nasr | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: This week's Idée Fixe "Trump shared classified information with Russian officials" has only rumor-level substance.
I'm not someone that reflexively defends everything D.T. does, or even much at all that D.T. does, but I'm amazed how far people have taken this ball and run with it, the level of certainty being esp... | The prestige of the Washington Post, the expertise and judgment of its writers and editors, and the hit they'd take from being drastically wrong don't mean anything to you?
It's never NOT going to come down to trust, so if you want us to remove that from the table, we can't. But why shouldn't we trust the Washington ... | > or some identified individual provably in on the conversations.
How about Donald Trump himself?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/864436162567471104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fdaily%2Fintelligencer%2F2017%2F05%2Ftrump-admits-he-shared-classified-facts-with-the-russians.html
https... | 6bxc1z | CMV: This week's Idée Fixe "Trump shared classified information with Russian officials" has only rumor-level substance. | I'm not someone that reflexively defends everything D.T. does, or even much at all that D.T. does, but I'm amazed how far people have taken this ball and run with it, the level of certainty being espoused.
As far as I'm aware, [this was the original story](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-r... | elsuperj | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: You should forgive everyone who hurts you
Forgive everyone.
Forgiving someone for hurting you doesn't mean you forget what they've done or how they hurt you. It doesn't mean allowing them back into your life. It also doesn't mean you're allowing them the opportunity to hurt you again. It doesn't even mean respe... | Why should you EVER forgive someone who doesn't ask for forgiveness and doesn't try to amend things?
Also, just because you don't forgive someone, doesn't mean that you constantly poison your mind with pure hatred. You can move on without forgiving
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then what does forgiveness mean?
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Let... | 16lvont | CMV: You should forgive everyone who hurts you | Forgive everyone.
Forgiving someone for hurting you doesn't mean you forget what they've done or how they hurt you. It doesn't mean allowing them back into your life. It also doesn't mean you're allowing them the opportunity to hurt you again. It doesn't even mean respecting them as a person.
You should forgive the... | woundedant | 4 | 4 | [
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CMV: The vast majority of Aphex Twin's music is not worth listening to
He is indeed a one-of-a-kind, innovative artist, whose contributions in music have been invaluable. But that's only because he takes a scattergun, quantitative approach to his art. He doesn't deliberate.
To give him credit, he does develop some t... | That's incredibly egotistical of you. Just because you don't find anything of value in those works doesn't mean that someone else won't. Usually artists create works for themselves and not specifically for you.
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If you're implying that Aphex Twin made those tracks for himself, then why would he share them with the... | If some people enjoy the tracks then they for them worth listening to. This is a subjective viewpoint.
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See my arguments above.
*Tl;dr*, what reason is there for me to believe artistic judgments are entirely subjective? | 8xshs5 | CMV: The vast majority of Aphex Twin's music is not worth listening to | He is indeed a one-of-a-kind, innovative artist, whose contributions in music have been invaluable. But that's only because he takes a scattergun, quantitative approach to his art. He doesn't deliberate.
To give him credit, he does develop some tracks really well, and they're quite obviously the ideas that stick with... | throwawayacc1177 | 3 | 2 | [
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CMV: Neopronouns should not be used
In case you may not be aware, neopronouns are the xe/xer, ze/hir, and other constructed pronouns that some people in the non-binary community would like to use to refer to themselves. I believe that these constructs are pointless at best, and I have not received a proper refutation ... | Why should we do it - Respect for the individual who uses them. If someone wants to be referred to a certain way, then refer to them that way. That's how one shows respect.
How is it possible - There is no need to "master" all of these words. There is also no need to "keep track of all of them" either. If someone you... | Most nonbinary people I've seen who wish to use neopronous like the ones you listed are also perfectly fine being referred to by they/them. You seem to be worried about average people being able to use pronouns. I'd suggest that average people are perfectly fine using they/them to refer to a nonbinary person, and that ... | v5mvll | CMV: Neopronouns should not be used | In case you may not be aware, neopronouns are the xe/xer, ze/hir, and other constructed pronouns that some people in the non-binary community would like to use to refer to themselves. I believe that these constructs are pointless at best, and I have not received a proper refutation yet, even though I have tried looking... | MoroseBurrito | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: UBI is a Vast Improvement Over the Extant Welfare State
It seems to me that an unconditional guaranteed income is vastly superior to the hodgepodge of welfare programs we have, and should replace them outright. As a concrete example, I would list the benefits I perceive from [UBI as proposed by](https://yang2020.... | Any amount of government spending in the form of UBI is more regressive than distributing that money in a targeted manner. Under a UBI, only 20% of the redistributed money goes to those in the lowest 20%, while under a targeted program, nearly 100% goes to the lowest 20%.^(\*) While there are the efficiency problems in... | >UBI doesn't treat people on welfare like idiots/children, and respects their autonomy. Thus it could be argued to be more humane than welfare.
This doesn't change the fact that there are a lot of poor people that are very bad with money. What do we do if they piss away their UBI and are left starving for the rest of ... | bl3o06 | CMV: UBI is a Vast Improvement Over the Extant Welfare State | It seems to me that an unconditional guaranteed income is vastly superior to the hodgepodge of welfare programs we have, and should replace them outright. As a concrete example, I would list the benefits I perceive from [UBI as proposed by](https://yang2020.com/what-is-ubi) [Andrew Yang](https://yang2020.com/policies/t... | DragonGod2718 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: From the perspective of an American, there's really not much reason to hate President Trump. 99% of the hate for him is completely unfounded and fueled my misinformation, extranational loyalties, and media lies
I have never seen a time in American history where it was more acceptable to absolutely hate the Presid... | For me, the actions I disagree with are the massive tax cuts for corporations and the rich, rolling back the environmental protections, putting the USA nationally into more debt, supporting white supremacy by not condemning the rising number of right wing terrorist attacks, the nepotism of giving his family members imp... | So your okay with unfair and morally questionable policies as long as they target non americans? Yikes...
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And he didn't read the Mueller report. Dude lives under a rock apparently | bl229m | CMV: From the perspective of an American, there's really not much reason to hate President Trump. 99% of the hate for him is completely unfounded and fueled my misinformation, extranational loyalties, and media lies | I have never seen a time in American history where it was more acceptable to absolutely hate the President. I was a liberal in the early 2000s and we hated Bush, but absolutely nothing to this extent. People weren't declining visits to the white house en masse, demanding that major websites ban communities that support... | Woebegone67 | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: It is the responsibility of Congress, not the President, to solve the child separation crisis.
Before I go into detail I would like to say that I believe when you ask the president to circumvent laws passed by congress that you disagree with you set a very dangerous precedent. What happens when the president deci... | > “Improper entry of alien provides for a fine, imprisonment, or both
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The changes of late that separated children from families was the result of a... | 8smcwr | CMV: It is the responsibility of Congress, not the President, to solve the child separation crisis. | Before I go into detail I would like to say that I believe when you ask the president to circumvent laws passed by congress that you disagree with you set a very dangerous precedent. What happens when the president decides to circumvent a law passed by congress that you do agree with? I do not believe the president get... | _burner_throwaway_ | 5 | 5 | [
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Before I go into detail I would like to say that I believe when you ask the president to circumvent laws passed by congress that you disagree with you set a very dangerous precedent. What happens when the president deci... | The Law which enables Trump to act in this manner - was passed in the 1970s. Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump are all playing by the same rules here.
If Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama can operate ICE without separating children from their parents - then so can Trump.
A... | Law enforcement - the execution portion - has _always_ had judgment calls to make about when it prosecutes. Every single prosecutorial team in all branches of laws makes _policy choices_ within the context of the laws it must enforce.
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CMV: People who complain about bad schools are mostly bad parents.
Schools with wealthier students will generally have better test scores and graduation rates compared to school with poorer kids.
However, if you took the wealthier kids and put them into poorer districts they would still probably come out just fine.... | You're looking at different sets of data and seem to be refusing to see a relationship.
In other words, people from poorer school districts come from poorer neighborhoods, so they're subjected to a whole range of factors which place them at a disadvantage. Parents more likely to be poor, on government assistance, inc... | I don't live in the USA, but I thought schools there were funded by those in the neighbourhood. If a neighbourhood is poor, then that school gets much less money.
Is this not correct?
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That is correct. Every schools also receive money from the state and federal government but the bulk of the budget comes from the... | 8xrxk8 | CMV: People who complain about bad schools are mostly bad parents. | Schools with wealthier students will generally have better test scores and graduation rates compared to school with poorer kids.
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CMV: People Online Should Never Be Trusted, Let Alone Called A Friend.
It's crazy how many people say "this is my best friend! No, I've never met them".
How can you be friends with someone that you've never even met before?
You've never *actually* seen their face before, if they're in a place of weakness they can ei... | Ok. Let's take a multiplayer video game as an example.
You first play in a random lobby. Use your mic and tell some jokes. Someone responses and you have good time. At this point you can at least say they are **friend**ly stranger.
But then you schedule to meet again tomorrow and they do come online. You play the gam... | Do you think people irl can't hide things? That's very naive.
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"Acktually it's spelt naïve." ☝️🤓
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Okay, but do you have anything to say to that? Or do you not care about the sub rules? | 16lql5c | CMV: People Online Should Never Be Trusted, Let Alone Called A Friend. | It's crazy how many people say "this is my best friend! No, I've never met them".
How can you be friends with someone that you've never even met before?
You've never *actually* seen their face before, if they're in a place of weakness they can either just not play that day or just end the call.
While you can "see th... | Hoxxitron | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: "Whataboutism" is absolutely a valid argument when it addresses the core issue discussed. Dismissing valid points as "Whataboutism" is just laziness.
I see this used in political discussions on various topics as a means to minimize counter-arguments as unimportant to the interest of the person making a claim.
E... | Because “whataboutism” is used to derail the conversation being had.
Your examples aren’t really whataboutism.
Whataboutism would be more like:
“Trump committed crimes while in office.”
“What about Hillary Clinton’s emails?!”
One has absolutely nothing to do with the other, and bringing up the latter serves no pur... | Oh, look, it's another post about whataboutism being valid that's not actually discussing whataboutism. Just the question "But what about X?" does not a whataboutism make.
Whataboutism is deflecting criticism directed at you away by pointing out a similar fault in the person making the criticism. None of your example... | ucgo5m | CMV: "Whataboutism" is absolutely a valid argument when it addresses the core issue discussed. Dismissing valid points as "Whataboutism" is just laziness. | I see this used in political discussions on various topics as a means to minimize counter-arguments as unimportant to the interest of the person making a claim.
Examples would include racism, sexism, LGBTQ topics, poverty, welfare, and a variety of other issues.
First I'll give a more specific example, then use log... | [deleted] | 9 | 9 | [
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CMV: no human is intrinsically evil
There are benevolent and malevolent behaviours, so obviously there are evil behaviours. My point is we call "evil" people who act with malevolence according to our perspective, but no one, not even the "worst" human we can think of, is intrinsically evil.
Evilness can always be red... | I think you’ve made the error in assuming there’s an objective good and evil to begin with. There’s nothing but our societal standards to dictate what is good behaviour and what is bad. Someone born with the intrinsic desire to kill would be seen as a monster now but in previous times might make a very effective hangma... | So basically you are arguing that babies are a blank slate and can be made/raised into good, evil, or something inbetween?
Why do you want this view changed?
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I don't know if babies are blank slates, and I'm prone to think that they are not, although I don't have the proof of that. However, I don't reckon the "bl... | onfjua | CMV: no human is intrinsically evil | There are benevolent and malevolent behaviours, so obviously there are evil behaviours. My point is we call "evil" people who act with malevolence according to our perspective, but no one, not even the "worst" human we can think of, is intrinsically evil.
Evilness can always be reduced to faulty perspective (I hurt yo... | eihpSsy | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: In most situations, there are practical reasons to hire an able bodied person over a person with disabilities. This is not ableism, if it is, then there's nothing wrong with ableism.
I hope I use the right terminology in this post. Using the correct terminology can be a minefield because there's never a consensus... | >In **most situations**, there are practical reasons to hire an able bodied person
You are argue "most" situations. Yet all examples are basically edge cases.
A. Very few buildings are grandfathered out of access laws. And fewer and fewer remain. Edge case.
B. You admit that scenarios where 100 hours weeks ar... | There is extensive law about the problem of a person's disability preventing them from being hired for a job they are otherwise-qualified for. I believe under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), your scenario 2 is fine, as the person may not be capable of performing essential job functions, even with reasonable ... | 6bw9dg | CMV: In most situations, there are practical reasons to hire an able bodied person over a person with disabilities. This is not ableism, if it is, then there's nothing wrong with ableism. | I hope I use the right terminology in this post. Using the correct terminology can be a minefield because there's never a consensus on these things and terms inevitably fall to the euphemism treadmill.
While I certainly believe persons with disabilities are not any less deserving of respect or dignity, I firmly believ... | no_sense_of_humour | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: We need a law enforcement agency to counter politicians' lies
I've been somewhat fascinated by how susceptible people are to politicians twisting the truth, blatantly lying to serve their retoric and maybe sometimes making honest mistakes, too. I'm not an American and the problem might be slightly less endemic wh... | You just handed control of speech and the press to a government agency. There is no way this doesn't get immediately abused by the party in power to silence the other side and to eliminate dissent voices.
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You don’t have any argument for why the truth police can be more trusted to enforce the truth than a politician can.
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My idea is that they can only mak... | uc9xd2 | CMV: We need a law enforcement agency to counter politicians' lies | I've been somewhat fascinated by how susceptible people are to politicians twisting the truth, blatantly lying to serve their retoric and maybe sometimes making honest mistakes, too. I'm not an American and the problem might be slightly less endemic where I'm from (The Netherlands) but in the western world as a whole, ... | Babi_PangPang | 5 | 5 | [
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I've been somewhat fascinated by how susceptible people are to politicians twisting the truth, blatantly lying to serve their retoric and maybe sometimes making honest mistakes, too. I'm not an American and the problem might be slightly less endemic wh... | This sounds very dystopian. You dismiss out-of-hand concerns about the objectivity of your truth police, but don’t provide a meaningful counter to these concerns.
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CMV: In criminal cases the state should have to pay for the defendants legal fees
People should be considered innocent until proven guilty, and an innocent person should not have to pay for anything. This would also promote equality, as anyone could get the same level of defence. I think its ridiculous that a rich per... | A theme that seems be coming up in some of the other comment threads is the idea of having all defence counsel be public employees, or having a state imposed limit on how much a private counsel can charge. While it may seem like a good idea if the objective is making sure everyone has the same quality of defence, from ... | So all defense attorneys become public defenders? Then no one becomes a defense attorney (or at least far fewer do) because there's no money to be made, unless you want the government shelling out way more money than it should.
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CMV: Old people should get their license revoked the minute they’re at fault in an accident.
I have wrestled with this since April and somewhat feel bad because it’s sort of a visceral reaction, mostly because I was hit and run by a 75 year old man. Never been in an accident before. He blew through a red light, ripped... | Why are you limiting this to seniors? Why not just anyone at fault for an accident?
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My thinking was/is that people younger generally still have to go to work, pick kids up from school, run to whatever extracurricular activities said kids may be in, etc. Correct me if I’m wrong because I truly don’t know, but isn’... | You had no obligation to chase this person at all. I don’t just mean it was unnecessary for the police. I mean it’s likely you live in a state where fault doesn’t matter at all. You weren’t permanently injured. You were scared. Insurers aren’t going to investigate claims like Magnum PI because people are scared with li... | wbd618 | CMV: Old people should get their license revoked the minute they’re at fault in an accident. | I have wrestled with this since April and somewhat feel bad because it’s sort of a visceral reaction, mostly because I was hit and run by a 75 year old man. Never been in an accident before. He blew through a red light, ripped my front end off, and kept driving. I had to pursue him until he finally turned into a parkin... | Commerce_Street | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Old people should get their license revoked the minute they’re at fault in an accident.
I have wrestled with this since April and somewhat feel bad because it’s sort of a visceral reaction, mostly because I was hit and run by a 75 year old man. Never been in an accident before. He blew through a red light, ripped... | The problem is not his age, it was his conduct. He *did* commit a hit and run accident. He should pay the consequences like anyone else for it.
A single accident for license revoking is a pretty steep penalty. Catastrophic to some given how dependent people are on vehicles.
I would argue a court, looking at full hi... | Why are you limiting this to seniors? Why not just anyone at fault for an accident?
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cmv: Communism is not even a good idea on paper.
I hear often from people that they don't support communism, but it was good thought yet will never work. In my opinion, it was never a good thought. The idea that the government would control all payments was already a terribly dangerous idea. Secondly, and most importa... | Communism on paper is not the "idea that the government would control all payments" nor is it the idea that "that people would be paid the same regardless of how hard or long you'd worked." Nor does it call for there to be any "higher-ups" (quite the opposite). Rather, Communism on paper calls for a classless, stateles... | > it is not moral that people would be payed the same regardless of how hard or long you'd worked
welcome to capitalism. I work much less and more relaxed than a factory worker. I get payed double or triple and only because minimum wage was introduces in our country.
Do you know how I did it. I am intelligent and ha... | hlis56 | cmv: Communism is not even a good idea on paper. | I hear often from people that they don't support communism, but it was good thought yet will never work. In my opinion, it was never a good thought. The idea that the government would control all payments was already a terribly dangerous idea. Secondly, and most importantly, it is not moral that people would be payed t... | ALSGM6 | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: All things being equal--If one could only be "Happy" or "Right" (but not both), choosing to be "happy" is the better option.
I've spent a good number of years studying philosophy, culture, public policy, and politics, all in some effort to advocate for some set of ideas--perhaps even as a tenured prof at a univer... | Aristotle thought living a happy life was inextricable from living a virtuous life. Both happiness and justice are dependent on the same mental faculty — the ability to differentiate what is good from what is bad.
Aristotle called this phroenesis, which is translated variously as practical wisdom, prudence and mindfu... | > Therefore, if one could only choose to be "happy" or "right" (but not both), it is generally better always to pick happiness.
Better for who? For the person who chooses to be happy, or for the people around them who know they're an ignorant asshat?
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First, for the person who chooses happiness. Second, for the ... | 8xs5ww | CMV: All things being equal--If one could only be "Happy" or "Right" (but not both), choosing to be "happy" is the better option. | I've spent a good number of years studying philosophy, culture, public policy, and politics, all in some effort to advocate for some set of ideas--perhaps even as a tenured prof at a university. I never felt as alive as I did fighting for a cause, being an activist. But while it's helped me find like-minded people to... | Citadel-Rick | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Technology will be the downfall for democratic societies
As I’m listening to Rey Kurzweil talking about “defeating age” through medical advances or listen to the potentials of AI, robotic automation by various technology/silicon valley enthusiasts a picture forms itself as follows:
A) rich people gain access to t... | Democracy and unregulated capitalism are not synonymous or intrinsically linked in any way. It is perfectly plausible to have a democracy in which "rich people" do not exist as such and do not have any special privileges
On top of that, two of your boogeymen--extreme life extension and strong AI--are only theoreticall... | It's not like the expansion of technology started a decade ago. The Industrial Revolution had everything you're complaining about (rich people living longer, rich people becoming richer via advanced technology that they could afford, rich people using that wealth to control governments) but also had flawed democratic s... | nzwg2d | CMV: Technology will be the downfall for democratic societies | As I’m listening to Rey Kurzweil talking about “defeating age” through medical advances or listen to the potentials of AI, robotic automation by various technology/silicon valley enthusiasts a picture forms itself as follows:
A) rich people gain access to the latest and greatest advances in technology first.
B) techno... | Compostableplastic | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Cannabis-related criminal records should not be pardoned when cannabis is legalized.
It is looking like recreational cannabis use is going to become legalized in Canada within the next few months. I am not familliar with the fine details and specifics of the current laws and future law changes, but I think it is ... | At one point it was considered lewd and indecent behavior for a black man to kiss a white women in public and was a punishable offence in many U.S. states. Is it fair for that black man to have something on his record even after we've wiped that law away?
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No, but I think there is a clear distinction here. A black... | Do you completely disregard morals when you interpret lawbreaking? You haven't really explained why it's so important to punish people for breaking laws even if they are unjust. There is a reason we have incorporated flexibility into our legal system. Judges have flexibility in sentencing. Prosecutors have flexibility ... | 8sl9zm | CMV: Cannabis-related criminal records should not be pardoned when cannabis is legalized. | It is looking like recreational cannabis use is going to become legalized in Canada within the next few months. I am not familliar with the fine details and specifics of the current laws and future law changes, but I think it is safe to say that there are *some things you could do legally when cannabis is legalized tha... | svenson_26 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: conservatives get way more "triggered" over their choice issues, like gun control and funding the military as much as humanly possible, than feminists do over any feminist issue
It may be useful to define exactly what I mean by "triggered". I think the best way to describe it would be having such a strong emotion... | I don’t think the examples you are using are what people usually associate with people being “triggered”. That’s just an example of someone exaggerating someone’s viewpoint.
The common concept of trigger warnings comes from college students and their reaction to what they feel were controversial opinions. In 2014, stu... | You’re missing the word “triggered”. It’s supposed to be an insult making fun of someone who has an over the top emotional response to something fairly mundane (e.g where trigger warnings come from).
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Couldn't that pretty accurately be used to describe people who think that suggesting slashing a budget equates to... | fk8wjl | CMV: conservatives get way more "triggered" over their choice issues, like gun control and funding the military as much as humanly possible, than feminists do over any feminist issue | It may be useful to define exactly what I mean by "triggered". I think the best way to describe it would be having such a strong emotional reaction to a differing viewpoint that you either act out with unnecessary hostility or make flawed arguments, but most importantly you shut down completely and close yourself off t... | malachai926 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: the "watch people die" sub is awful, and most of its members are the death- and murder-loving equivalents of paedophiles
The sub is quite literally full of people that enjoy watching the deaths and murders of innocent people, and moreover are glad they those people got killed. It's fair to say there are some memb... | > but one need only to look at the comments posted under the gifs/videos and see the number of upvotes they get to conclude that those people are in the huge minority.
Minority *of posters*, not minority of *viewers*.
Personally - My argument is that I've browsed this sub in the past, and I left it with a better sen... | I was subbed but stopped because I felt weird about it. It does show how other parts of the world can be so terrible (I live in the us) and that accidents can happen and be terrible and should be avoided. Basically that life is precious and those people didn’t wake up thinking I might die today when they did. A second ... | 8xqsa6 | CMV: the "watch people die" sub is awful, and most of its members are the death- and murder-loving equivalents of paedophiles | The sub is quite literally full of people that enjoy watching the deaths and murders of innocent people, and moreover are glad they those people got killed. It's fair to say there are some members that only watch out of morbid curiosity, or because they want to educate themselves about dangers, but one need only to loo... | [deleted] | 3 | 3 | [
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The sub is quite literally full of people that enjoy watching the deaths and murders of innocent people, and moreover are glad they those people got killed. It's fair to say there are some memb... | your view seems based on visceral disgust, and you seem to hold it very strongly. in what way are you looking to have your view potentially changed?
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LOL. Are you claiming that there are no despicable comments on videos posted there of people making jokes about innocent dead people?
Edit: and it'... | > but one need only to look at the comments posted under the gifs/videos and see the number of upvotes they get to conclude that those people are in the huge minority.
Minority *of posters*, not minority of *viewers*.
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CMV: People who claim *insert musician/band here* saved my life are almost always exaggerating and statements like this trivialize suicide.
As a big music listener, I constantly see references to certain songs "saving" people's lives. For example, comments on music videos on YouTube as well as Hopeless Records' series... | > portraying depression and other mental illnesses as "cool" is problematic and should be stopped.
They're not saying "depression and suicide are cool". They're saying it's cool how music can resonate with people, carry a message and encourage someone to keep going through seemingly hopeless times in their life.
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... | Sometimes that singer's voice is the only friend someone has... I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss many of those statements as insincere.
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I'm certainly not insisting all of them are insencere, especially when referring to songs with a message of hope et cetera. But these comments seem to be so common I'm certain t... | uc8i0l | CMV: People who claim *insert musician/band here* saved my life are almost always exaggerating and statements like this trivialize suicide. | As a big music listener, I constantly see references to certain songs "saving" people's lives. For example, comments on music videos on YouTube as well as Hopeless Records' series of compilations titled "Songs that Saved My Life". I can only imagine the majority of these claims aren't sincere / literal.
In my opinion... | LimpToothbrush | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People who claim *insert musician/band here* saved my life are almost always exaggerating and statements like this trivialize suicide.
As a big music listener, I constantly see references to certain songs "saving" people's lives. For example, comments on music videos on YouTube as well as Hopeless Records' series... | > portraying depression and other mental illnesses as "cool" is problematic and should be stopped.
They're not saying "depression and suicide are cool". They're saying it's cool how music can resonate with people, carry a message and encourage someone to keep going through seemingly hopeless times in their life.
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... | Having suffered with severe depression my first thought is that I can relate to the idea of music "saving" a life.
When you're in a state of severe depression then very little in the world brings you any kind of joy or even hope. While it may seem odd, music can have a very powerful effect on people and it was one of ... | uc8i0l | CMV: People who claim *insert musician/band here* saved my life are almost always exaggerating and statements like this trivialize suicide. | As a big music listener, I constantly see references to certain songs "saving" people's lives. For example, comments on music videos on YouTube as well as Hopeless Records' series of compilations titled "Songs that Saved My Life". I can only imagine the majority of these claims aren't sincere / literal.
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CMV: The newer kids shows are awful compared to the early 2000s kids shows
Honest to god I really hate the newer kids shows that have been made in recent years. For me the early 2000s was a prime time for kids cartoons with great shows such as blue's clues (the original not that damn reboot) and team umizoomi. The ne... | I used to think the shows you’ve mentioned there were shit in comparison to the stuff I watched in the 90s, and you’d probably think the same if they were the ones you grew up with, it’s all nostalgia
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Yeah I know it's mostly nostalgia but I like watching kids shows in my free time and I just want to be able to en... | Do you think that this view could be because you are no longer in the target audience? What held your interest twenty years ago, kids cartoons, may not do so now that you are an adult. It is not that one era is better or worse, just that you are viewing these projects with adult eyes, and are more critical of them then... | mhi4r9 | CMV: The newer kids shows are awful compared to the early 2000s kids shows | Honest to god I really hate the newer kids shows that have been made in recent years. For me the early 2000s was a prime time for kids cartoons with great shows such as blue's clues (the original not that damn reboot) and team umizoomi. The newer generation of kids shows has just been way to babyish and stupid, and th... | GalaxyOpal56 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People should only have access to bathrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex.
Recently, the Trump administration rescinded the guidance encouraging public schools to allow students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identity. I believe this was the right call, because bathroom... | First of all in none of those instance did trans inclusive policies give the people protections. Doing illegal or inappropriate things will still have consequences as shown by the fact that those individuals faced consequences.
Second, requiring use based on biological sex, which isn't as black and white as people wou... | > On one side, you have a portion of the population who is uncomfortable with sharing public bathrooms and locker rooms with people who identify as transgender. Some of these people may be religiously motivated or bigoted, while others are just uneasy about the idea in general.
You need to dig into this. WHY are they... | 5w5867 | CMV: People should only have access to bathrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex. | Recently, the Trump administration rescinded the guidance encouraging public schools to allow students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identity. I believe this was the right call, because bathrooms should be reserved for biological men and biological women. I will constrain my argument u... | mattman119 | 6 | 6 | [
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CMV: The mandatory seatbelt law is unjustified.
With “the mandatory seatbelt law” (MSL) I am referring to any law that requires an adult with full mental capacities to wear a seatbelt in an automobile. It’s quite a universal thing, so I don’t think there being differences between the legal systems of different countri... | From an ex-paramedics experience. People not wearing a seatbelt have a much higher chance of turning into a projectile that kills other person in the same car, or sometimes bystanders surprisingly far away.
It affects other people.
It is very much like "Ladungssicherung"
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How common is this? I ask this because I... | Is driving a car a right or a privilege?
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I didn’t see how this is relevant. Could you elaborate?
edit: don’t know why I am downvoted for a sincere question?
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You're the one who brought up people's rights being violated. How can you assert that not wearing a seatbelt falls within your rights and is thus inf... | onbc4o | CMV: The mandatory seatbelt law is unjustified. | With “the mandatory seatbelt law” (MSL) I am referring to any law that requires an adult with full mental capacities to wear a seatbelt in an automobile. It’s quite a universal thing, so I don’t think there being differences between the legal systems of different countries will have much impact on discussion.
Formally... | cuqedchild | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: rich people and organizations are responsible for the basic needs being met for poor people
DEFINITIONS
Basic needs: drinking water, adequate shelter, x3 meals daily, adequate clothing and shoes, quality options for education and work, access to like-minded people.
Rich people: starting in the upper middle econ... | Imagine that you are only person on a deserted island. Do you think that it's your responsibility to keep yourself alive? It must be because you are there alone.
Now that you are keeping yourself alive and sustaining yourself, you explore island little more. You find out that there is a hotel resort on the other side ... | Prove it with evidence.
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Prove what, my perspective?
What part do you need proof for
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All of it. You are talking about the real world right this isn't some thought experiment is it? The real world can be observed and measured objectively so where is your evidence for any of this? | v3s3tn | CMV: rich people and organizations are responsible for the basic needs being met for poor people | DEFINITIONS
Basic needs: drinking water, adequate shelter, x3 meals daily, adequate clothing and shoes, quality options for education and work, access to like-minded people.
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Poor people: starting below middle economic class and going further below.
... | FroggyLoggins | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Nuclear energy is the best form of energy extraction currantly and in the ner future
Fossil fuels must be fased out for preserving The environment even if they wernt running out and causing geopolitocal havoc among nations. Coal, Oil and gas produced massiv amounts of CO2 and their extraction is environmentaly ha... | going to get this out of the way right now. as of today, Nuclear is just as good as solar.
But the near future is where you are wrong
Couple things
1. Solar doesn't require much water at all, depending on type. but the more advanced panels only require water for cleaning. Nuclear on the other hand, uses as much wate... | [Here](https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf) is the EIA official report on energy costs for new power plant construction in 2018.
If you look at table 1a, you can see the Levelized Cost of Electricity for various types of electricity generation. The column "Total system LCOE" gives you the c... | 8xeonq | CMV: Nuclear energy is the best form of energy extraction currantly and in the ner future | Fossil fuels must be fased out for preserving The environment even if they wernt running out and causing geopolitocal havoc among nations. Coal, Oil and gas produced massiv amounts of CO2 and their extraction is environmentaly hazardous. Even The least effectected areas have massive problems post exploiton relating to ... | SomeCynicalNihilist | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Eating dogs is NOT more immoral than eating conventional meats.
***DISCLAIMER: Do not break the law. Don't be stupid.***
Background: I've lived my entire life as a vegetarian in India. I'm also not religious and I think life is meaningless. I overthink everything including morality.
First of all, let's acknowl... | I would agree that there is nothing more inherently immoral about it but its possible we couldve evolved to see them more this way because animals who are higher on the food chain and are predators tend to carry more diseases and prions that are transmissible to humans. Leading those humans who were less likely to eat ... | I grew up on a farm. Animals are either useful for work, or edible. We often handraised calves, turned them into pets. Pigs, chickens, birds, rabbits. And when they are the right age, you get them butchered & eat them. It's what they are for. In the US dogs are not for eating, i wouldn't eat one unless i was desperat... | fw1uxi | CMV: Eating dogs is NOT more immoral than eating conventional meats. | ***DISCLAIMER: Do not break the law. Don't be stupid.***
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First of all, let's acknowledge the apparent correlation between an organism's consciousness, and... | indium-man | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: There is no reason for the me, as a New Yorker, to place the well being of distant states like Utah, California, and Hawaii above the well being of my neighboring Canadian provinces (Ontario, Quebec)
I don't care whether we are in the same country or not. Geopolitically speaking, cross border diplomacy with Canad... | I don't really get what the premise is here. What relations are you even talking about? In terms of Utah or Wyoming being *important* to New York, it's because you know... the Senate and the electoral college? Two states have pretty direct legislative impact on each other in a way that New York and Ontario don't. Shari... | Places you share a tax pool with are a net drain on you if they're unsuccessful. And potentially a net benefit for you if they're successful.
You share a tax pool with Hawaii, California, Arizona. Whereas you share no direct economic pooling with Ontario or Quebec. Them being successful could benefit you with trade, ... | yzgwse | CMV: There is no reason for the me, as a New Yorker, to place the well being of distant states like Utah, California, and Hawaii above the well being of my neighboring Canadian provinces (Ontario, Quebec) | I don't care whether we are in the same country or not. Geopolitically speaking, cross border diplomacy with Canada seems like it should be a priority for Northern States in general. The New England states, for instance, have an annual conference with the premiers of East Canada, and I think that NY as a state would be... | Chorby-Short | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Comparing guns to vehicles does little to benefit either side of the argument, pro gun or pro gun control.
I constantly see people comparing guns to cars from both sides. Saying that, “cars cause tons of deaths every year too but we aren’t regulating cars.” And that “guns should be regulated the same way as vehic... | What's wrong with people using analogies?
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My cmv doesn’t say that it’s wrong to use analogies. It’s saying why I believe that particular analogy doesn’t benefit either “side” of the mainstream gun debate.
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I don't know. Most of the time I hear it trotted out, it is the 'gun control' side trying to make a poi... | People aren't driving into schools and supermarkets and churches and running over people, are they?
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How does that relate to this analogy ?
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If you're making an analogy based on the dangers between vehicle laws and firearm laws, then the analogy doesn't make sense. Make a genuine argument without dancing arou... | 11id0v4 | CMV: Comparing guns to vehicles does little to benefit either side of the argument, pro gun or pro gun control. | I constantly see people comparing guns to cars from both sides. Saying that, “cars cause tons of deaths every year too but we aren’t regulating cars.” And that “guns should be regulated the same way as vehicles.” Or that “cars are far more regulated than guns are”.
I feel like all of these arguments are futile. First... | OkSnow9309 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Math should be assessed like English, allowing creativity through open ended answer
I was invited to project watt, over there, I made significant edits to my original position, based on the comments I read up until that point. Check it out here: https://projectwatt.com/pagesv2/-LSi5BM0sSzcBlXwLIKC
**Why Assessme... | Math is objective, your other examples are not. If you are given a mathematical equation there is only one right answer. If you have to write an essay on something there is no one correct essay. 999^2 does only have one correct value. When a test gives you such an equation it's not testing for your ability to deduce a ... | This sounds like a great approach for gifted classes, but do you think people with IQ 95 can learn basic math this way?
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Why would people with IQ 95 learn math all? All they need is numeracy. I made a distinction between math and numeracy, and thus proposal is for math, not numeracy.
Our system is already pretty ... | a1pifu | CMV: Math should be assessed like English, allowing creativity through open ended answer | I was invited to project watt, over there, I made significant edits to my original position, based on the comments I read up until that point. Check it out here: https://projectwatt.com/pagesv2/-LSi5BM0sSzcBlXwLIKC
**Why Assessment?**
First of all, I think assessment is the most important part of education. Ideally, ... | BeatriceBernardo | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Philosphy without activism is cowardness
Philosophy without activism is cowardness. Philosophy should exist to improve the real world. Otherwise it is pointless and also the philosopher's existence is pointless.
I do sort of see publication of philosophy as activism. But even then it should be the philosopher's ... | Why does the philosopher, personally, have to be the one to do the activism?
What if the philosopher writes a book that then makes 100 people into activists? Would their time have been better spent in personally engaging in activism than in writing and thinking?
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I do see publicizing as activism (see my post). I... | >Philosophy without activism is cowardness. Philosophy should exist to improve the real world. Otherwise it is pointless and also the philosopher's existence is pointless.
That's imposing your philosphy on the philosphy of others philosphy. It is an invalid way of philosophizing about philosphy.
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Why would doi... | 11ia1lj | CMV: Philosphy without activism is cowardness | Philosophy without activism is cowardness. Philosophy should exist to improve the real world. Otherwise it is pointless and also the philosopher's existence is pointless.
I do sort of see publication of philosophy as activism. But even then it should be the philosopher's task to be like an activist to set an example f... | Lowizo2 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Sir John Franklin ill-fated expedition to the Arctic DID NOT succumb due to lead poisoning
Of course, we have no way of knowing for sure, so by the title I mean that lead poisoning is the *least credible theory*. These days it seems like the automatic response - sir John Franklin died from lead poisoning, scurvy ... | It is quite likely that lead poisoning played a part of the death even if it was not the main cause. While the sources of lead were almost certainly not enough to directly kill a man, it is far from unlikely for it to be able to weaken a mans immune system and a few other minor symptoms. Combine this with some minor ma... | The thread you linked to showed that lead poisoning was determined to be a contributing factor via autopsy.
> When scientific autopsies were conducted on the bodies on King William's Island, it was found that lead poisoning contributed to the deaths of those men. It's believed the solder on the tins of food was the s... | asyb5c | CMV: Sir John Franklin ill-fated expedition to the Arctic DID NOT succumb due to lead poisoning | Of course, we have no way of knowing for sure, so by the title I mean that lead poisoning is the *least credible theory*. These days it seems like the automatic response - sir John Franklin died from lead poisoning, scurvy and hypothermia. That seems to be the theory spoused on Dan Simmons novel and subsequent series [... | He_Attacks_Again_ | 5 | 2 | [
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CMV: Unions harbor laziness.
For a while I've been staunchly against unions. However, as I grow older, watch the richer get stupid rich, the middle class become smaller, and wages not increase, I'm beginning to think that unions are a necessary thing. However, I can't get over the fact that they make it far too diffic... | Is your view based only on that single episode and on that guy who agrees with you?
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No, there are other reasons. They generally raise the cost of products they produce (auto union comes to mind) and they don’t typically produce any higher quality of a good. My company vehicle is a 2018 Malibu with 4K miles on it ... | [deleted]
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Maximum productivity and no productivity are two very different things. Stopping such a high demand on productivity is one thing a union would be useful for. Paying someone to do literally nothing is bad business that even the union shouldn’t tolerate.
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>Paying someone to do literally nothing is b... | atbdb7 | CMV: Unions harbor laziness. | For a while I've been staunchly against unions. However, as I grow older, watch the richer get stupid rich, the middle class become smaller, and wages not increase, I'm beginning to think that unions are a necessary thing. However, I can't get over the fact that they make it far too difficult to fire someone who needs ... | TotallyFakeLawyer | 5 | 5 | [
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