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CMV: I think stacking rocks isn’t inherently bad for the environment.
I think it’s a gross exaggeration about the imaginary epidemic of stacking rocks. They say it takes homes away from bugs, disrupts water flow, and can crush small lizards and such when they fall. First of all. Go find me anything bigger than a bug t... | [https://www.sanparks.org/conservation/scientific-services/stories/the-problem-with-rock-stacking](https://www.sanparks.org/conservation/scientific-services/stories/the-problem-with-rock-stacking)
[https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/leaving-no-trace-rock-stacking](https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/leaving-no-trace-rock... | Imagine if giants 100x our size came in and stacked our roads and homes
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And began walking in our cities, crushing dozens of us with each step.
Maybe humans should stop go anywhere.
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sigh. Woe is us for not being able to stack stuff in areas we really should just let nature be. Such a culture shock coming fr... | 1dbkxx6 | CMV: I think stacking rocks isn’t inherently bad for the environment. | I think it’s a gross exaggeration about the imaginary epidemic of stacking rocks. They say it takes homes away from bugs, disrupts water flow, and can crush small lizards and such when they fall. First of all. Go find me anything bigger than a bug that has been crushed by one of these rocks. I’ll believe it when I see ... | Alwaysangryupvotes | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: It is not possible for a normal person to plan and intentionally preform an untraceable murder in mordern day america
Being very specific with terms here to avoid confusion:
normal person: any typical citizen. They can be rich if money helps, but a person who doesn't have some kind of mob connection or a hitman ... | I mean, has anyone been able to make an untraceable murder at any time? If not, then your view seems kind of redundant.
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i would say that there were totally untraceable murders in the past, yea. i mean if you stab someone you have no personal connection to in 1920 and no one sees you do it and you hide the body fo... | If you murder a stranger, simply for the purpose if murder, is possible. Murders unconnected to you are sufficient to solve in the first place
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i mean, that is what im debating, yes. I say its not possible, even a stranger.
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I said it is. The amount of planning and victim choice make it non feasible, but it i... | 16gkm1m | CMV: It is not possible for a normal person to plan and intentionally preform an untraceable murder in mordern day america | Being very specific with terms here to avoid confusion:
normal person: any typical citizen. They can be rich if money helps, but a person who doesn't have some kind of mob connection or a hitman on staff or contacts inside the CIA, etc. specialized knowledge (poisons etc) is allowed.
intentionally: someone might pref... | nvmthatwasboring | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: If I make more then 130k per year, it is not in my financial interests to vote democrat.
Most democrat plans will lower my household income if I make more then 130k per year. Case in point, if I am single and enter 130k into [https://ubicalculator.com/](https://ubicalculator.com/) (to calculate how much universal... | If all you care about are your financial interests, yes, it is almost always better to vote Republican since they will try to lower your taxes whereas Dems will try to raise them above some income threshold.
What about *all the other reasons* to vote for one party over another? Isn't it sort of... selfish to only vote... | So is this all based on the idea that UBI and/or Medicare for all is going to be a thing any time soon?
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No, this is based on the idea that UBI or something like it and Medicare for All and something like it, and free college tuition or something like it will be a thing in the future if democrats keep power.
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... | nws7om | CMV: If I make more then 130k per year, it is not in my financial interests to vote democrat. | Most democrat plans will lower my household income if I make more then 130k per year. Case in point, if I am single and enter 130k into [https://ubicalculator.com/](https://ubicalculator.com/) (to calculate how much universal basic income will increase/decrease my income), under most plans my income decreases. Also, me... | TheAnonymous123456 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Leaving transgender rights in the hands of the states makes little sense and opens the door to discrimination
Recently, Trump repealed protections for transgender students put in place by the Obama administration, leaving the matter in the hands of the states.
Leaving this issue in the hands of the states just ... | It actually makes perfect sense.
1) We are a federation of semi sovereign states. Every power not specifically granted the federal government belongs to the State and this type of regulation is in the grey zone of something not specifically granted the federal government but can be argued that other powers granted th... | While I support the idea of protecting transgender students, I thought the guidance was overstepping. It's obvious that "sex" meant biological sex at birth when the law was written. Construing it to apply to transgender people is a neat trick, but wasn't the intent of the law. There should be a law that explicitly prot... | 5vrkxq | CMV: Leaving transgender rights in the hands of the states makes little sense and opens the door to discrimination | Recently, Trump repealed protections for transgender students put in place by the Obama administration, leaving the matter in the hands of the states.
Leaving this issue in the hands of the states just doesn't make sense to me. I assert that the rights of trans students, the rights of any student, any person, don't c... | brianscalabrainey | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: About the Nazi in Seattle who got punched on video... I believe the puncher is legally in the wrong but morally in the right.
There is a video circulating on the web showing a Nazi get physically attacked in Seattle (here is [one of the links to a Seattle thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/70svm4... | So that guy had a decent chance of dying and assuming he survived will have permanent brain damage. Thus am I in the right to assume your position is it is morally ok to kill anyone who advocates publicly for an ethno-state (state for a single race/religion/etc), or only advocates for ethno-states where other attempts ... | I disagree that punching Nazis is morally right. I don't like fascists, but once you use violence you have abandoned the moral high ground. I don't want to live in a society where anti-racists fight racists, I want to live in a civilized society where people follow laws. That is the real struggle, and violence again... | 70vtsl | CMV: About the Nazi in Seattle who got punched on video... I believe the puncher is legally in the wrong but morally in the right. | There is a video circulating on the web showing a Nazi get physically attacked in Seattle (here is [one of the links to a Seattle thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/70svm4/man_with_swastika_arm_band_taking_a_forced_nap/) and [here is a link to a YouTube upload of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4... | ShiningConcepts | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: "End of the world" predictions are human hubris.
Every time there is a prediction of the exact date of the end of the world, I am punched with human hubris in the face. They feel they are sooooo special, huh? Special snowflakes... In an Earth that is billions of years old... somehow the end of the world is in th... | What do you mean end of the world? End of all human life? End of modern civilization? The literal complete destruction of Earth?
Nukes have only been around 70 years, I would say their existence has dramatically increased the chance of the end of the world since so many people have access to them.
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I mean the en... | >Every time there is a prediction of the exact date of the end of the world... somehow the end of the world is in the same lifespan as that human claiming it the end of the world...
Are you only held up on exact dates, or are you allowing for a generalized range (within their lifespan)?
I think in particular you're ... | 5vqic0 | CMV: "End of the world" predictions are human hubris. | Every time there is a prediction of the exact date of the end of the world, I am punched with human hubris in the face. They feel they are sooooo special, huh? Special snowflakes... In an Earth that is billions of years old... somehow the end of the world is in the same lifespan as that human claiming it the end of th... | Garlicplanet | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Everyone who in the US who is in possession of a Russian passport and refused to forfeit it should lose their Second Amendment rights.
While expelling Russians is impractical, it’s been shown that 70-80 percent of Russians support the genocidal war against Ukraine. Our foremost obligation is to protect Ukrainian ... | Because this worked out great for Japanese Americans in WWII, or American Muslims (or anyone who looked like Muslims...) after 9/11. This would just make Russians the new victims.
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It’s different though. IIRC less than 5 percent of global Muslims felt that 9/11 was a righteous act. On the other hand, 70-80 percent... | You can't decide who gets constitutional rights and who doesn't. That's a pretty important part of our country.
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In terms of constitutional law you are correct but certain rights have been curtailed in times of national crisis such as shutting down pro-secession newspapers in New York during the Civil War on the ... | 16gc9hj | CMV: Everyone who in the US who is in possession of a Russian passport and refused to forfeit it should lose their Second Amendment rights. | While expelling Russians is impractical, it’s been shown that 70-80 percent of Russians support the genocidal war against Ukraine. Our foremost obligation is to protect Ukrainian refugees in the US from Russians. We really can’t say that Ukrainians are free from the risk of being raped and murdered by Russians if we al... | ChristianMB1 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Employers shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate against people with criminal records if those records have nothing to do with the job
This often leads to people being unable to get jobs due to irrelevant records, and then turning back to crime is the only way for them to eat.
For example, why should a record for ... | >IMO, they should not be given any boosts but should be treated as fair candidates.
They are being treated as fair candidates. Assuming 2 people are equal in everyone, except one went to jail, I would go with the safe bet which is the one without the criminal record.
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They’re both safe bets, because what the pers... | All criminal records, in theory, are always relevant. 'This person broke the law once, maybe they'd break it again.' 'If someone is willing to steal software, maybe they're willing to steal coffee' or whatever.
I'm not fond of the discrimination against people with criminal records but this isn't a great argument agai... | 16gb08p | CMV: Employers shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate against people with criminal records if those records have nothing to do with the job | This often leads to people being unable to get jobs due to irrelevant records, and then turning back to crime is the only way for them to eat.
For example, why should a record for software piracy, even felony level, bar someone from working at a Starbucks? Or even as a nurse if it wasn’t healthcare software? IMO, they... | A_Mirabeau_702 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: There is little credibility in the opposition to transpeople using the bathrooms they self-identify with
I don't think there's any logical argument to the idea that transpeople should simply just use the bathroom they identify with, bar perhaps the idea that there shouldn't be gendered bathrooms at all.
Most of ... | One possible reason to support bathrooms being separated based on biological sex is the physical logistics associated with relieving oneself. Biological men can pee standing up. It makes sense to put urinals in men's bathrooms so men can pee without wasting a stall. If you have trans men with vaginas using the men's ro... | If this includes the gender-fluid category, the credibility of "choosing a washroom based on which gender I feel like that day" needs to be proven first.
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I'm speaking specifically regarding MTF trans and FTM trans. I don't know enough about gender-fluidity.
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Gotcha. I didn't see that parameter in the initial... | 5vp3fx | CMV: There is little credibility in the opposition to transpeople using the bathrooms they self-identify with | I don't think there's any logical argument to the idea that transpeople should simply just use the bathroom they identify with, bar perhaps the idea that there shouldn't be gendered bathrooms at all.
Most of it seems to be simply based in revulsion, or ignorance, as opposed to logic. The only one I can think of that c... | matt-the-great | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: food promoted and shown as US culture is disgusting
I have had this view for a long time. And it has only been reinforced throughout the years. But literally everything I have seen of the food culture of the US disgusts me.
Fatty, greasy, super heavy on carbs. Drool over the amount of cheese you can have on somet... | Those foods are portrayed because they are delicious, but the average person doesn’t eat that daily. There are huge varieties depending on your location in the US. I am on the east coast, in the summer, Crabs and Crab Cakes are huge deals. Filet Oscar style, shrimp, scallops, mussels etc. Seafood is healthy and delicio... | Where do you live?
Have you been to the US?
IF so, where in the US and how long?
Where are you being informed about this? What's your source?
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None of that matters as I'm not trying to change your mind, but you're about to change mine, as is the point of the topic.
Where I live doesn't matter. What will you d... | gyyl0s | CMV: food promoted and shown as US culture is disgusting | I have had this view for a long time. And it has only been reinforced throughout the years. But literally everything I have seen of the food culture of the US disgusts me.
Fatty, greasy, super heavy on carbs. Drool over the amount of cheese you can have on something. Add carbs on carbs for a delicious meal like bread, ... | Gorbashou | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The Senate Border Security bill did not fail because of Trump
[In this video (time stamped)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IJz3s6N_mA&t=85s) Presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris states her often said talking point that Former President Donald Trump killed the Border Bill (S.4361) by calling Sena... | >Why I think this shows it's not a Senate Republican failure is as the numbers stand now, Senate Democrats needed to persuade 17 Republican Senators to vote for the bill, and they did not do that, they persuaded only 1. And yes, I understand one might say this is how Trump killed the bill. However, Senate Democrats cou... | It literally had the votes to pass until Trump said to kill it my dude
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A bill doesn’t have the votes until the votes are cast. Bills fail all the time because a party thinks they have enough votes.
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At the moment that 51/49 for the bill goes to 49/51, all of the other votes change. If it's a risky propositio... | 1gcnwcw | CMV: The Senate Border Security bill did not fail because of Trump | [In this video (time stamped)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IJz3s6N_mA&t=85s) Presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris states her often said talking point that Former President Donald Trump killed the Border Bill (S.4361) by calling Senate Republicans and instructing them to end the bill in order to camp... | LawManActual | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Double blind drug trials are inherently immoral.
Clarification: I think placebo controlled drug trials are fundamentally immoral. I accept they may be necessary (sometimes, most of the time?), but wonder if they deserve the default acceptance they seem to have. I'm using "morality" instead of "ethical" because I ... | >It is possible, although much more costly, to gather statistically relevant results without using placebo control. It would take much larger sample sizes, and much more involved observation and data collection.
I'm a statistical expert but I'll just assume what you say is correct.
The issue you have seems to be th... | Human morality is a fluctuating curve. In other words, it's different for one depending on location, country, religion, and even family. What you may consider moral someone else may see as immoral.
But, as far as it being wrong or right, I'd say it's the best approach we have. There currently isn't an alternative tha... | f1waox | CMV: Double blind drug trials are inherently immoral. | Clarification: I think placebo controlled drug trials are fundamentally immoral. I accept they may be necessary (sometimes, most of the time?), but wonder if they deserve the default acceptance they seem to have. I'm using "morality" instead of "ethical" because I want to avoid the immediate dismissal of my position by... | Orwellian1 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: A white translator from Chinese to English would be passed over for a person of color at most literary translation and/ or international literature publishing companies because of their race, even if they had better writing samples
I'd love for this not to be true. I think some people, especially in the literary ... | I would have thought that it would be the other way around. I assumed English speakers would be more likely to choose white translators. What do you think could be the reason for this trend though?
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Yeah that's my first thought, not necessarily white but I would think you would want the destination language to be ... | Are the people being preferred … Chinese?
If there is a practice of discrimination against white people for US job the reason they don’t come out and say it is because people don’t generally come out and admit to illegal job discrimination.
If I were to read/buy translated Chinese literature, I would pick one done b... | 1dap76z | CMV: A white translator from Chinese to English would be passed over for a person of color at most literary translation and/ or international literature publishing companies because of their race, even if they had better writing samples | I'd love for this not to be true. I think some people, especially in the literary world, have an understanding that it is unethical for a white person to translate "non-white" literature. The field feels subtly hostile to white translators of languages that are used by mostly people who are not white. If that's true, f... | pottedbeansprout | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: Environmental Activists from the first world who never set a foot in the Amazon Rainforest like Greta Thunberg are a mockery of the martyrs that went to the region to understand it's conflicts and sociological conflicts to propose actual changes and they serve as lipservice with no solutions
There's this myopic v... | [deleted]
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It's not because the message getting across is perverted on it's core.
Everyone talks about protecting the forest, that's lip service, brownie points, where are the resources to equip the locals of the area ?
Why nobody addresses that the poverty in the area and the deforestation are directly linke... | "Unless you personally died in the gas chamber you are in no position to criticise the Holocaust"
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False Equivalency Fallacy.
These lipservice activists can go to UN assemblies, go to the best universities but they can't travel to Manaus, Rondônia or any of the poor states that encompass the Amazon ?
Gret... | zwu12j | CMV: Environmental Activists from the first world who never set a foot in the Amazon Rainforest like Greta Thunberg are a mockery of the martyrs that went to the region to understand it's conflicts and sociological conflicts to propose actual changes and they serve as lipservice with no solutions | There's this myopic view of throwing money at the problem until it goes away or just doing their little part by buying vegan or organic foods and that's somehow is going to save the Amazon Rainforest or make Global Warming stop.
No, simply no, as a Brazillian I feel obligated to honor the Martyrs that decided to act... | nico_brazillian_lad | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Environmental Activists from the first world who never set a foot in the Amazon Rainforest like Greta Thunberg are a mockery of the martyrs that went to the region to understand it's conflicts and sociological conflicts to propose actual changes and they serve as lipservice with no solutions
There's this myopic v... | [deleted]
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It's not because the message getting across is perverted on it's core.
Everyone talks about protecting the forest, that's lip service, brownie points, where are the resources to equip the locals of the area ?
Why nobody addresses that the poverty in the area and the deforestation are directly linke... | Do Greta Thunberg's achievements take away anything from other people's achievements in the field of climate activism?
If not, then any level of inspiration/help/focus Greta Thunberg (and any other climate activist) may bring to the problem is a net good for humanity and there is no issue with their activism.
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Wh... | zwu12j | CMV: Environmental Activists from the first world who never set a foot in the Amazon Rainforest like Greta Thunberg are a mockery of the martyrs that went to the region to understand it's conflicts and sociological conflicts to propose actual changes and they serve as lipservice with no solutions | There's this myopic view of throwing money at the problem until it goes away or just doing their little part by buying vegan or organic foods and that's somehow is going to save the Amazon Rainforest or make Global Warming stop.
No, simply no, as a Brazillian I feel obligated to honor the Martyrs that decided to act... | nico_brazillian_lad | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Logan Paul acquitted himself well against Floyd Mayweather.
I see lots of folks calling it hugging and the commentators talked all sorts of smack during the fight (although, to be honest, I thought they were all on blow so that could be why) but I feel like anybody who has experience boxing should be giving some... | If Paul And Floyd had a boxing match I didn't see it.
I saw a hug fest. I certainly didn't see a boxing match.
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When you're just some guy fighting one of the greatest fighters in history, you don't stand toe to toe with him and slug it. That's how you get knocked the fuck out. Logan was leaning all of his weight... | Look the Paul brothers are athletic guys with unlimited time and resources for training. They have turned themselves into decent amateur boxers. If your argument is that he didn't look like a bum off the street... then okay.
Anything above that I have to disagree.
Floyd has a boxing style that makes him unbeatable...... | nwacpi | CMV: Logan Paul acquitted himself well against Floyd Mayweather. | I see lots of folks calling it hugging and the commentators talked all sorts of smack during the fight (although, to be honest, I thought they were all on blow so that could be why) but I feel like anybody who has experience boxing should be giving some mad props to Logan Paul's fight. I wanted a Floyd KO just to shut... | baby_blue_unicorn | 7 | 4 | [
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CMV: Free speech cannot remain useful in practice
I am writing as a citizen of the United States and am writing from that context, but want to hear from other countries on this matter.
I think that free speech is one of those rights that, when you need it, you *really, really need it*. However, I think a government ... | You will never get arrested for anything you say, ever, that is free speech. (unless you directly put people at risk with your words, like yelling fire in a theater or calling for violent acts.)
If you get arrested at a protest, it is due to unlawful assembly, you do not have the right to stand where ever you want. Wh... | > ... You could read that as "boo hoo sob sob what we say don't matter" but that's not the spirit of my view. I think free speech is useful and what we say does matter, until a sufficiently corrupt government gets used to working around that. ...
That is a legitimate concern, but in practice, it's not the government b... | f1tx2r | CMV: Free speech cannot remain useful in practice | I am writing as a citizen of the United States and am writing from that context, but want to hear from other countries on this matter.
I think that free speech is one of those rights that, when you need it, you *really, really need it*. However, I think a government that knows it cannot interfere with a citizen's spe... | vzen | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV Very high rent prices are not immoral
I've just read this comment, and the ensuing thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/70mzv9/housing_mission_impossible_xpost_runitedkingdom/dn4lx1v
I've seen the sentiment quite a bit lately that "rich people" acting in their self-interests directly scre... | Since when does economic theory or cause and effect dictate the morality of a thing? You're confusing "is" and "ought".
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No, I don't think rent prices *should* be high; I think it would be great if everyone could afford housing anywhere they want. It would certainly make it easier on me.
This is not the case.
I... | Economic theory in no way dictates, and barely even addresses the morality of something. It is fully possible for something to be dictated as necessary or the most beneficial action in economic theory and it to still be a completely immoral action. Driving rent prices up to the point that you force poor people to move ... | 70vii5 | CMV Very high rent prices are not immoral | I've just read this comment, and the ensuing thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/70mzv9/housing_mission_impossible_xpost_runitedkingdom/dn4lx1v
I've seen the sentiment quite a bit lately that "rich people" acting in their self-interests directly screws over "poor people", and that this is wro... | Cooldude638 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Orks in the 40k Universe are not evil--at worst they are amoral/neutral, and are relatively morally good compared to the other factions
I think that it's easy to just come to the conclusion that Orks are the (well, one of several) bad guys of the 40k universe. They're violent, destructive, heretical, they're the ... | A faction being the (or one of the) antagonists of a story doesn't require that they be evil. Neither is it a requirement that the protagonist be good. Think about the Imperium: they're xenophobic religious zealots who genocide anyone and everyone who doesn't conform to their narrow set of ideals. Part of the point of ... | > Violence isn't an endgame for political hegemony, economic gain, racial hatred--it's more or less instinct, and Orks love it.
I will point out they do have revenge, and the series of steps that they go to go get there seems non-instinctual. I don’t know all of the details of the battles of Armageddon but it seems li... | 5vkin5 | CMV: Orks in the 40k Universe are not evil--at worst they are amoral/neutral, and are relatively morally good compared to the other factions | I think that it's easy to just come to the conclusion that Orks are the (well, one of several) bad guys of the 40k universe. They're violent, destructive, heretical, they're the other, and they seemingly hate humans. Since *we* are humans, it's natural to see the Orks as evil, since they plague us within the universe. ... | matt-the-great | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: There is absolutely no reason for fans of the Star Wars sequels to continue to enjoy and support them as they are invalidated beyond redemption.
Disliked films come out and are then forgotten, franchises rise and fall, cinematic universes start and sometimes die at film one. But the Star Wars sequel trilogy is ea... | What if you legitimately enjoy the films?
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Trust me, I did. Massively. But after almost ten years since the first one came out, the fandom still absolutely despises them. And I eventually realised that I can no longer take that. I cannot enjoy something knowing that it's not only hated, but has no future. It's not... | If you like it that's all that matters, why do you care what the rest of the fandom thinks? Just enjoy the things you enjoy.
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Because when your favourite trilogy is hated, trashed, mocked, treated as worthless, invalidated and subjected to so much scrutiny that no opinion on it can be given without it being challe... | 1gcldld | CMV: There is absolutely no reason for fans of the Star Wars sequels to continue to enjoy and support them as they are invalidated beyond redemption. | Disliked films come out and are then forgotten, franchises rise and fall, cinematic universes start and sometimes die at film one. But the Star Wars sequel trilogy is easily the most hated cinematic event in existence. There is simply no movie or movie series that has caused as much anger, division, conflict and derisi... | ChocolateHoneycomb | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Americans really can’t comprehend the concept of the title: WORLD CHAMPIONs
Ok, so for context, I’m into basketball and the NBA. NBA is the best league of all and there is no discussion about it. Most of the (relevant) basketball world is represented in the NBA. But they do not represent their country only their ... | >Why won’t Americans accept the fact that the worlds champions are what the rest of the world accept as champions?
Does anyone in the world think there is another club team that could beat the Nuggets in 7 that is not in the NBA?
They are the best team in the world, and they are champions. They are World Champions.
... | >The only reason the Olympics carry more weight than the FIBA World Cup is because the Olympic committee found a way to enable professional athletes to participate in 1992 in the Olympics, thus it became more elusive (and lucrative) to win the the Olympics rather than the World Cup.
I mean it really seems like you jus... | 16fw1e5 | CMV: Americans really can’t comprehend the concept of the title: WORLD CHAMPIONs | Ok, so for context, I’m into basketball and the NBA. NBA is the best league of all and there is no discussion about it. Most of the (relevant) basketball world is represented in the NBA. But they do not represent their country only their clubs.
It’s the Dallas mavericks, not Germany mavericks, or Spain bulls or latvi... | Bobba_fat | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Its stilly to say that "Being big and/or muscular doesn't help in a fight"
So I'm not saying that
1. muscles and size is all there is to fighting, or that
2. one with significantly more muscles and size can't lose to a person with less size and muscles
but that muscles and size (body mass and being tall) do hel... | I think you greatly underestimate how much skill and techniques can be an advantage.
If someone knows how to strike, doesn't matter how big and strong the opponent is if they don't know how to strike.
Look at Ronda rousey. She was dominant in women's MMA. Very accomplished grappler and judo medalist in the in th... | I would say a lot of it would depend on how you attained your size/musculature. If someone spends all their time just hitting the gym to just grow their muscles so they will look better but not necessarily training with the goal of getting stronger, then you can just end up with a guy who has the very big impressive lo... | 188bq0b | CMV: Its stilly to say that "Being big and/or muscular doesn't help in a fight" | So I'm not saying that
1. muscles and size is all there is to fighting, or that
2. one with significantly more muscles and size can't lose to a person with less size and muscles
but that muscles and size (body mass and being tall) do help and give one an advantage.
Also, I acknowledge that
* skill and technique is ... | T12J7M6 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The biggest reason why people find math so hard is because it is being taught wrong and we need to revise the way we teach it.
Of all the subjects in school, math is often considered the hardest and most hated one by students, and to be honest I can't blame them. It's not the most intuitive subject for everyone t... | As someone with an engineering degree and has taken quantum physics, differential equations, vector calc, etc…math is actually just hard. Even if you are good at math, I guarantee there is a point where you start to struggle to understand something. For me it was convolution and 5th dimensional polar shape analysis ( ... | Are you familiar with Common Core, which seems to encourage actually understanding the "how and why" and not just "memorize"?
*edit* also, look at [Tom Lehr's The New Math](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA) from ages ago. They were teaching understanding back then also.
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I'm not familiar with how comm... | zwltv6 | CMV: The biggest reason why people find math so hard is because it is being taught wrong and we need to revise the way we teach it. | Of all the subjects in school, math is often considered the hardest and most hated one by students, and to be honest I can't blame them. It's not the most intuitive subject for everyone to understand and people end up getting confused by it causing them a lot of stress. When that's the only experience you ever have wit... | Drillix08 | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: 1000 years from now, Elon Musk will be bigger than Jesus (no disrespect)
Imagine if 2000 years ago, someone said Jesus would be bigger than Moses, or the Pharaoh. It would have been hard to believe, but time is funny sometimes.
Ever since I heard about his companies tackling the big engineering problems back in... | It may not look it, but Christianity is still very much a religion ascendant (as in, there are a lot of converts and a high convert-apostate ratio). And people who sail beyond the horizon to discover new lands aren't actually remembered that much. Captain James Cook is remembered fondly here in Oz, but probably only be... | >Especially in the age of information where the main religion is the cult of scientific dogma and God is dead as Nietzsche said
[Today, the proportion of the population who identify as atheists and non-religious individuals is ***declining***](https://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/). Rea... | gyuyi1 | CMV: 1000 years from now, Elon Musk will be bigger than Jesus (no disrespect) | Imagine if 2000 years ago, someone said Jesus would be bigger than Moses, or the Pharaoh. It would have been hard to believe, but time is funny sometimes.
Ever since I heard about his companies tackling the big engineering problems back in 2006, I believed he was going to be one of the big ones.
Humanity was headed ... | Teknokratiksocialist | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Allowing people to contract sexual labor could eliminate some of the ambiguity that has led to the #MeToo movement while allowing women to benefit economically from the demand for sex with females
This is an attempt to regulate the informal exchange of sexual labor and economic goods that lies at the heart of th... | This will not work. Let's look at your own points. If we agree that
> Men currently hold a disproportionate share of global capital and power. There is a greater demand in the market for sex with females.
Then it follows that men like Harvey Weinstein *WILL* write that requirement into their contracts and women wil... | >The goal of the Me Too movement to totally separate sexual attraction from employment
That's a Straw Man.
> If men like Harvey Weinstein are able to write into the contract that they expect to have sex with the actresses they hire, then women are able to make an informed decision about whether or not they want to wo... | f1qe7x | CMV: Allowing people to contract sexual labor could eliminate some of the ambiguity that has led to the #MeToo movement while allowing women to benefit economically from the demand for sex with females | This is an attempt to regulate the informal exchange of sexual labor and economic goods that lies at the heart of the #MeToo movement. This idea does not concern rape, sexual assault, or any non-consensual form of violence. It will primarily deal with charges of sexual harassment perpetrated by men against women.
*... | Sassygumdrop | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: To prevent gerrymandering we should require congressional districts to be convex.
Here's the idea,
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Line segments that terminate at state boundaries or district boundaries yields a convex partition of the state that meets OP's relaxed definition. | 5vk3qh | CMV: To prevent gerrymandering we should require congressional districts to be convex. | Here's the idea,
**Background:** A shape is convex if a straight line connecting any two points that are inside the shape, lies entirely in the shape. For example circles and squares are convex. Stars are not convex, since a line between two neighboring arms of the star would lie, at least partially, outside of the st... | Metallic52 | 2 | 2 | [
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CMV: To prevent gerrymandering we should require congressional districts to be convex.
Here's the idea,
**Background:** A shape is convex if a straight line connecting any two points that are inside the shape, lies entirely in the shape. For example circles and squares are convex. Stars are not convex, since a line b... | Mathematical "solutions" to gerrymandering is not a new concept. The problem is that they are, quite without exception, AWFUL.
The reason is simple. The goal is not to create a system that is purely logical. Or looks pretty on a map. In fact there is NO objective goal for Gerrymandering. It is a balance of many consi... | [deleted]
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Line segments that terminate at state boundaries or district boundaries yields a convex partition of the state that meets OP's relaxed definition.
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Well first off I don't have a racoon but I would send it via internet if I did.
Secondly a grid of only convex or concave lines is impossible. A gri... | 5vk3qh | CMV: To prevent gerrymandering we should require congressional districts to be convex. | Here's the idea,
**Background:** A shape is convex if a straight line connecting any two points that are inside the shape, lies entirely in the shape. For example circles and squares are convex. Stars are not convex, since a line between two neighboring arms of the star would lie, at least partially, outside of the st... | Metallic52 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Arguing that self selected samples invalidate analysis is mathematical hand-waving to dismiss reality
At work, we have a forum that people who are quitting can use to post their thoughts as they walk out the door. That often includes explaining why they left and some other details of issues (usually commonly refe... | >To me, that means we have solid data about why people leave, but a handful of detractors are adamant that the data is "self selected" and therefore useless. They keep telling me that my 23% might contain all of the people who think our parking lot is too small and everyone else thinks it's fine, but I think that's so ... | Both you and your coworkers are being too strict in your thinking here. Self-selection doesn't invalidate analysis, but it does put a limit on how confident you can be with that analysis.
For the purposes of your situation here, it's probably not necessary to know exactly what percentage of people at your company lef... | 70utgq | CMV: Arguing that self selected samples invalidate analysis is mathematical hand-waving to dismiss reality | At work, we have a forum that people who are quitting can use to post their thoughts as they walk out the door. That often includes explaining why they left and some other details of issues (usually commonly referenced issues).
I've kept track of these post and how often issues are mentioned (particularly their primar... | suddenly_ponies | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: There is little sense in allowing the citizens of a country to own firearms for reasons other than hunting and recreation, and that should be tightly-controlled.
Canadian here - For those who don't know, in Canada we still have a lot of guns (about one for every household), but these are almost all hunting rifles... | A baseball bat isn't going to save my chickens from hawks or the rest of my livestock and produce from bears.
Edit: And other threats to our livelihood like foxes and coyotes and more.
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As pro gun as I am, I think this is a pretty poor argument for guns as a whole because it doesn't apply to the other 90% of the ... | In at least two of your points you assume no one would have an illegal firearm. That happens frequently in the US even with our relatively lax firearm laws. Those guns don't magically disappear when you pass a law.
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So if you can't stop there from being any illegal drugs, you shouldn't have drug laws?
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If i... | 5vjgl9 | CMV: There is little sense in allowing the citizens of a country to own firearms for reasons other than hunting and recreation, and that should be tightly-controlled. | Canadian here - For those who don't know, in Canada we still have a lot of guns (about one for every household), but these are almost all hunting rifles and handguns used for target practice.
Our laws are, IMO, strict-but-fair:
* To get a gun in the first place, the RCMP has to interview several people who can vouch ... | killedbyhetfield | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Having a "Space Force" seems like a genuinely good idea.
So I just watched Netflix's Space Force and while it's obviously a comedy/parody it did get me thinking about the subject. Since Trump proposed by the idea it's gotten a lot of ridicule, but I think most of that is really just based around the fact that it'... | The reason why this isn't a good idea as of yet is that no one has a large space presence. I think the idea of protecting our satellites is a good one, but we wouldn't need this yet. We'd need it in the future. Until other countries have more of a militaristic presence in space, it's not necessary.
That's why, in the ... | Space was part of the air force, nothings changed except more bureaucracy. Space force adds nothing new to the table and just transfers air force programs and personal to a new branch.
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I'm aware. I was trying to keep the post as brief as possible. The Air Force also didn't used to be its own independent branch -... | gys1ro | CMV: Having a "Space Force" seems like a genuinely good idea. | So I just watched Netflix's Space Force and while it's obviously a comedy/parody it did get me thinking about the subject. Since Trump proposed by the idea it's gotten a lot of ridicule, but I think most of that is really just based around the fact that it's Trump and large portions of the population are predisposed to... | [deleted] | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People are so necessarily insane, that not to be insane would itself constitute a previously unrecognized form of insanity.
I'm going to start by dividing insanity into two categories: insanities that assist us, in our daily tasks, and insanities that hinder us. Insanities that hinder us are much more rare and ... | To start, I think you are making a dangerous and fallacious parallel: That irrationality equals insanity. I think you are also pointing out the difference between how rationality would predict how we would feel with how our genes and our make up as a species makes us feel.
Secondly, re-reading your post I think it res... | 1. Your being way too broad. People are selective with their affections. This is not insanity
2. I dont view other people as that dangerous, especially not my wife. This is not insanity. In fact viewing everyone as severely dangerous sounds like paranoia, actual insanity
3. Wanting to live life while you got it is not ... | 188fu2l | CMV: People are so necessarily insane, that not to be insane would itself constitute a previously unrecognized form of insanity. | I'm going to start by dividing insanity into two categories: insanities that assist us, in our daily tasks, and insanities that hinder us. Insanities that hinder us are much more rare and unlikely. Psychosis, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, etc etc etc.
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CMV: COVID-19 escaped from Wuhan Institute for Virology
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but I'm looking at this realistically. I don't like this conclusion at all but from the evidence I've seen, a lab leak is the most likely cause of COVID-19.
The single most convincing piece of evidence is that this bat ... | Firstly, the idea that the Chinese government controlling messages that aren't favorable to the Chinese government being evidence of a conspiracy is to misunderstand everything about Chinese information control. It's not evidence in either direction - China will filter/censor/stop any message that is not favorable whe... | >Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like
You are a conspiracy theorist.
>The single most convincing piece of evidence is that this bat coronavirus emerged right next to the city that contains the world leading center for bat coronavirus research.
Why do you think the Lab is there?
The answer is that Virology labs... | zw5sch | CMV: COVID-19 escaped from Wuhan Institute for Virology | Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but I'm looking at this realistically. I don't like this conclusion at all but from the evidence I've seen, a lab leak is the most likely cause of COVID-19.
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CMV: Open borders, free trade and global citizenship should be a key goal of our current society
I see the benefit that the EU has brought to the countries that participate. I also see how beneficial it is for **me** to be able to move (semi) freely to America, China, Japan, Canada and other countries to establish pa... | I'll address the open borders portion of your post.
One of the advantages of nation states is that they permit people with shared values to live together. If a country has open borders, its norms and laws will be determined by the majority of people who live there.
Eugene Volokh, a law professor and Soviet immigrant ... | The issue with free trade is that it can hurt a countries economy by allowing corporations to move their industries to regions with cheaper and more exploitatable labor. This not only means lost jobs for people in one country it also means that corporations are constantly looking for who has the policies that best allo... | 5vicya | CMV: Open borders, free trade and global citizenship should be a key goal of our current society | I see the benefit that the EU has brought to the countries that participate. I also see how beneficial it is for **me** to be able to move (semi) freely to America, China, Japan, Canada and other countries to establish partnerships. In my world view it makes perfect sense that open borders, free trade and world citiz... | Yulfy | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: There is no living being whom it is wrong to feel love for
I wrote an earlier post about this with a somewhat confusing title. I believe that this is more clear.
To clarify further, this is not to say that anyone or anything is *owed* love. I do not believe that. I believe that love should always be freely g... | Mother finds out her son is a serial killer. He's already killed 5 people. Wants to call the cops. But doesn't. Because she loves him.
He goes on to kill 3 more people before the cops finally catch up to him and put him down.
Instead of being in prison he is now dead.
Her calling the cops would have saved 3 people.... | I mean it's tautological, right? Because nobody would define love as something that could be harmful. Even if you were to find some case in which a gesture meant in love was harmful to somebody, most people would reject that as loving because definitionally love is not supposed to harm. So then, if you take a strictly ... | 16f8c64 | CMV: There is no living being whom it is wrong to feel love for | I wrote an earlier post about this with a somewhat confusing title. I believe that this is more clear.
To clarify further, this is not to say that anyone or anything is *owed* love. I do not believe that. I believe that love should always be freely given. I am also not talking about romantic love.
My opinion is ... | LaserWerewolf | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Something being a 'social construct' doesn't detract from it's legitimacy.
A common way in which people are beginning to argue the trans debate is by using the 'social construct' argument, that being to state that because they believe that gender is a social construct it no longer has any legitimacy.
However, ev... | Reification is the act of constructing institutions, products, or relationships from ideology.
A social construct is the product of reified ideology; the ideology upon which something is constructed may be illegitimate, but not the construct itself, because:
1. it's tangible
2. it fulfills a desired role by its creat... | Gender is absolutely a social construct by the way, but as that's not the focus of this CMV I will be leaving that argument for now.
I think you're misinterpreting the point of pointing out that gender is a social construct, or if there are trans people claiming that gender doesn't matter because it's a social constru... | 5vf60q | CMV: Something being a 'social construct' doesn't detract from it's legitimacy. | A common way in which people are beginning to argue the trans debate is by using the 'social construct' argument, that being to state that because they believe that gender is a social construct it no longer has any legitimacy.
However, even though I'm not convinced that gender is a social construct at all, that doesn'... | arkonum | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Philadelphia is a failed form of NYC
Pardon for the repost, needed to correct title.
So, I've lived in Philadelphia for six months and it has been wildly disappointing.
As a single man there the degree of people I am looking to date takes a full three standard deviation drop. The BMI mean has increased by five... | you just listed some nyc things and are mad they are not in the city you just moved to...... wtf is this.......the new place i went to is not exactly like the place I left.... this place sucks.
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The Mutter Museum, The Barnes Collection, The Na... | Philly isn't supposed to be a smaller NYC. Your expectations were the failure, not the city itself
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And yet it does absolutely nothing new, different, and most certainly not better.
Also believes nouns are optional. Seriously, Jawn? C'mon. Did people just decide language didn't actually matter?
Your argument... | zvge57 | CMV: Philadelphia is a failed form of NYC | Pardon for the repost, needed to correct title.
So, I've lived in Philadelphia for six months and it has been wildly disappointing.
As a single man there the degree of people I am looking to date takes a full three standard deviation drop. The BMI mean has increased by five. No one seems to be even remotely interest... | Radicalzone99 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Women have vaginas and men have penises.
Okay, just to be clear, I am not trying to piss anyone off or start a fight. Please be civil.
I saw a post on here stating that "Lesbian doesn't imply genitals. Lesbian is a woman who likes other women. No one said anything about genitals." Huh? I definitely imagine two ... | > If someone says "I met this woman." I imagine a person with a vagina.
Do you really? Like, if someone asked you, I'm sure you would figure she had a vagina, but is that really what you imagine? I would have figured you would imagine someone like [this](http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/photo/33614020.cms), or [this... | Transwomen are women, transwomen can have male genitalia.
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See, this confuses me. I will of course not say anything directly to a trans person and will absolutely respect what ever pronouns they prefer, but in my head, it does not make sense to me.
If you dress like a female and look like a female, but you have ... | 5vfvim | CMV: Women have vaginas and men have penises. | Okay, just to be clear, I am not trying to piss anyone off or start a fight. Please be civil.
I saw a post on here stating that "Lesbian doesn't imply genitals. Lesbian is a woman who likes other women. No one said anything about genitals." Huh? I definitely imagine two women with vaginas when hearing about a lesbian... | martyr_gascoigne | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Saying 'Yeah' isn't disrespectful
When I was younger I was in a group and we were having a discussion with the leader, an older guy. He asked me something and I said “Yeah” but before I could complete what I was saying he interrupted and said “yes”. I didn’t really understand what he meant but later he asked some... | Disrespectful communication is an inherently subjective cultural construction.
In that category of things to know if they happened the opinions of multiple parties are necessary.
Fair judgements, safe workplaces, good sex that kind of thing.
If someone felt disrespected it was disrespectful. There isn't an objective... | That guy might've been a prick, but there are certainly times in which using casual language might be too familiar given the context. Like when conversing the president of the United States, for example. Or, your boss' boss' boss. Or a high-ranking officer when you're fresh out of boot camp. The situation matters. And... | 18805hr | CMV: Saying 'Yeah' isn't disrespectful | When I was younger I was in a group and we were having a discussion with the leader, an older guy. He asked me something and I said “Yeah” but before I could complete what I was saying he interrupted and said “yes”. I didn’t really understand what he meant but later he asked something again I said “yeah” and again he i... | FormerBabyPerson | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Russia is actually a pawn of the Eastern bloc as much as Ukraine is a pawn of the Western bloc, and regardless of the outcome of the conflict, China will come out as the #1 global superpower.
China (leader of Eastern bloc) is competiting against USA (leader of Western bloc) for the throne of number one global sup... | How is China benefiting or weakening the West with this war? It has strengthened NATO and made many countries more pro-US.
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The West is generally weakened in economy (increased gas oil prices especially during winter) and social stability (protests and complains from "anti war" people who say that "why doesn't go... | Many western countries have sent the older parts of their arsenals to Ukraine and are replacing it with superior versions. This seems to be doing the opposite of what you think is happening.
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Yes, the Western bloc made strategic moves by doing that, but in the long run, in combination with the negative effects fro... | 16exlgu | CMV: Russia is actually a pawn of the Eastern bloc as much as Ukraine is a pawn of the Western bloc, and regardless of the outcome of the conflict, China will come out as the #1 global superpower. | China (leader of Eastern bloc) is competiting against USA (leader of Western bloc) for the throne of number one global superpower, the leader of the world.
Russia knows it has no chance to be an economic superpower after the fall of the USSR, and having thousands of nukes or more practically make no difference when th... | reddit_API_is_shit | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Game balance should generally be based on balancing around intermediate to advanced-skilled players
TL:DR at the bottom, but you may want to scan through this chunk of text to make sure I haven’t already addressed it.
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Imagine you had a game with 20 classes, all of which on the surface are rougly equal. However, 2 classes have a synergy which when manipulated in a particular, ... | gymxpd | CMV: Game balance should generally be based on balancing around intermediate to advanced-skilled players | TL:DR at the bottom, but you may want to scan through this chunk of text to make sure I haven’t already addressed it.
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CMV: The biggest issue with the US political system is that it's a 2 party system.
Now I say this not because I don't think that the EC isn't an issue or that all of the additional funding that is thrown out by "donors" for political sway isn't something that is toxic to the system as a whole, because both of these th... | While I don't disagree with you per se, I would argue that the 2 party system in the US isn't actually the problem - it is _symptom_ of two larger issues with our democracy: first past the post voting and gerrymandering:
- First past the post voting is a system where whomever gets the most votes wins. In a multi par... | With our current first past the post voting system a 2 party system is basically inevitable. There are voting systems that don't include this inevitability. However, even in those systems it's hard to get from a 2 party system to a multi party system. But we might be able make some headway because people are already re... | 7bonyn | CMV: The biggest issue with the US political system is that it's a 2 party system. | Now I say this not because I don't think that the EC isn't an issue or that all of the additional funding that is thrown out by "donors" for political sway isn't something that is toxic to the system as a whole, because both of these things do cause problems and are harmful. But as someone who is from the outside (Cana... | Tino_ | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: AI taking peoples jobs is a good thing
Why should we keep jobs just to keep them, when we could be heading towards a post-work society? Why is losing your job inherently a problem?
If we had a universal basic income for people especially those who lost their jobs that would be great. And I'm sure if AI really is... | There will not be a UBI in America.
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You won't need it. If you had robots doing most of the type of work people do today. You could make the equivalent of $1000 an hour (purchase parity adjusted) just talking to old people for a living. Because when your GDP is through the roof cause you don't need to pay humans f... | You must not be in the US.
Here in the US our government is owned by the corporations who squeeze every last cent out of us while gaslighting is into thinking we should be grateful.
So no, there will be no UBI. We'll be called lazy and told to pull ourselves up by our non-existent bootstraps.
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If we had a universal basic income for people especially those who lost their jobs that would be great. And I'm sure if AI really is going to take a lot of our jobs there will b... | k0anna | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: we should have a flat tax rate
I'm not an economist or anything but from where I sit, a flat tax seems to be the most fair. I'm not some hyper capitalist horny for a completely unregulated market either. However, the progressive tax seems like it doesn't work because of all the tax code loopholes that allow the s... | > I just think paying 40+% of what you make is absurd
I make about $600,000 annually. My effective tax rate, *including* state tax, is less than 30%. You'd need to make an absolute mountain to have a 40% effective tax rate.
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How is that possible? The federal tax bracket alone would put you at 37%. Also, many pe... | except that would create a significant reduction in the tax budget, what you want is comprehensive corruption reforms, flat rate tax doesn't fix corruption it just changes the loopholes used
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Yes I firmly believe in repealing the citizen's united ruling. However, like I said the super rich people get away with p... | 16ejnhv | CMV: we should have a flat tax rate | I'm not an economist or anything but from where I sit, a flat tax seems to be the most fair. I'm not some hyper capitalist horny for a completely unregulated market either. However, the progressive tax seems like it doesn't work because of all the tax code loopholes that allow the super rich to get away with paying ver... | FreshPaycheck | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The term "person of color" encourages the thinking being white is special.
It is tolerant in U.S, and some other westen countries to describe someone who is not white as a person of color. By the usage of it and by today's standards, it has positive connotation. However, the term by definition signals that people... | All this bullshit about putting people into boxes is the issue.
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Putting ppl into boxes is indeed racist. Biologically, there are no races. This is a fact. Human traits (hair color, skin color, nose type, etc.) are clined (not clustered) and discordant (not concordant). We sort races by some traits (skin color) bu... | [deleted]
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u realize “black people” is a non racist way to refer to black people?? u also realize “people of color” doesn’t mean only black people???
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CMV: Identical twins are the grandchildren of the gestational couple
It's Friday and I thought that it would be nice to have some lighthearted conversation.
I think that identical twins are the most common expression of human asexual reproduction and in effect they are not the children of the gestational couple but ... | An ovum is *not* a complete human, though, and mitosis is not asexual reproduction.
Anything can be anything when you define your own logic so I’m not really sure what view there is to change here.
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What is an ovum lacking to be a complete human being? Only time and nutrition and shelter.
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a brain for exam... | >the other identical cell is... an offspring
Nah, natural clone.
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> Natural clones are offspring.
No they aren't. Offspring are offspring. Human create offspring via sexual reproduction. Cells splitting is not sexual ... | 1gbrag6 | CMV: Identical twins are the grandchildren of the gestational couple | It's Friday and I thought that it would be nice to have some lighthearted conversation.
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CMV: Thanks to the rise of people transitioning genders; we are going to see less and less tomboys and other gender defiant girls.
It honestly scares me how not only are many women deciding they are either non binary or trans because they aren't girly or particulary feminine; but how many parents are coming out saying... | >I honestly think we are going to see the end of gender defying girls and it really scares me. I loving hearing about women that reject the notion that women have to be ornamental and passive.
But tomboys don't want to be men, so why would they want to transition?
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being transgender is not disliking gender r... | dan91g | CMV: Thanks to the rise of people transitioning genders; we are going to see less and less tomboys and other gender defiant girls. | It honestly scares me how not only are many women deciding they are either non binary or trans because they aren't girly or particulary feminine; but how many parents are coming out saying their girl is really their boy because they like superheroes and Lego Bricks instead of princesses. Schools are actually teaching g... | [deleted] | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: "It's a Wonderful Life" has a sad ending
People say "It's a Wonderful Life" is a feel-good movie with a classic example of a happy ending, but if you consider what happens, it seems pretty sad.
First off, the bad guy just gets away with taking what would be well over $100,000 in today's money. He faces no ramifi... | I think the point of the ending is he has a new appreciation for what he has, and the impact he's made on others.
Through the whole movie he's been wanting to build cities and bridges and other great things, and he didn't build cities, but he built houses for people that need them, and he indirectly saved the lives o... | By the end, he realizes what truly matters and has a new appreciation for the life he has, hence the name of the film.
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Yeah, I get that, but like I said, he doesn't get what he wants. I mean, do you think he no longer wants to leave his town?
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Sometimes not getting what you want is a blessing | zvcaga | CMV: "It's a Wonderful Life" has a sad ending | People say "It's a Wonderful Life" is a feel-good movie with a classic example of a happy ending, but if you consider what happens, it seems pretty sad.
First off, the bad guy just gets away with taking what would be well over $100,000 in today's money. He faces no ramifications besides not being able to buy out Georg... | gothicgamelabs | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: in hetero relations it takes two to tango, therefore no one gate keeps whether relationship or sex happens
The saying that in a monogamous hetero relationship that women gate keep sex and men gate keep a relationship is silly.
Whether it happens or not requires both to agree on it
If me and my friends are hang... | >Whether it happens or not requires both to agree on it
That's where the gatekeepering comes into play. If one person holds all the power over what should be something that's a mutual thing, and something that should be done to show your partner you care.
>If me and my friends are hanging out and we are deciding what... | Well thats wrong. If one refuses constantly over and over and over constantly for no reason other than bs excuses then it IS gatekeeping. Stupid to keep this singled out to straight relations. It takes two always.
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I mean yes. But since I say men and women people might be like yeah but gay people are two men there... | 187moys | CMV: in hetero relations it takes two to tango, therefore no one gate keeps whether relationship or sex happens | The saying that in a monogamous hetero relationship that women gate keep sex and men gate keep a relationship is silly.
Whether it happens or not requires both to agree on it
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CMV: Confederate Monuments should NOT be torn down.
In recent years many it has become increasingly common for Southern towns to tear down their Civil War Monuments. I am not from the South and have never been, it seems to me that by tearing down these monuments they are doing something worse than correcting past wron... | The tearing down of monuments is just as historical as the erecting of monuments.
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That it may be, but is it as permanent?
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Which part is permanent? The part where they erect a totally replaceable statue, or the part where they take down the replaceable statue and sell it to some civil war nut?
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If the s... | [deleted]
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That's exactly why they need to stay up, with clarification. It shows that these people were honored. It asks the question of why they were honored as well as why we as a collective shouldn't follow in suite with what society thinks is right.
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Tell that to a German. You'll be laughed at at the very... | gyhono | CMV: Confederate Monuments should NOT be torn down. | In recent years many it has become increasingly common for Southern towns to tear down their Civil War Monuments. I am not from the South and have never been, it seems to me that by tearing down these monuments they are doing something worse than correcting past wrongs.
I plan on approaching this in three ways, the fi... | AdmirableSprinkles2 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: I should start drinking to improve myself socially
I have difficulty with social interaction coming from thinking extremely analytically about everything. I would like to be able to "turn my brain off" during casual interactions with people because I think that complex cognition suppresses social intuitions which... | First, there is nothing wrong with being smart. If you hang out with people who find intelligence to be a turn-off, then maybe you're hanging out with the wrong people. I mean that. I kind of felt like a fish out of water until I went to grad school. Upon my arrival I found myself surrounded with people who were simila... | Dude, just no. Your plan is to poison yourself until you are unable to think. Does that sound like a smart plan?
How about getting used to *doing* stuff? You live too much in your head. The obvious solution is finding a hobby that forces you out of your head. For example sports. You can't overthink lifting weights. Y... | 6ln8ck | CMV: I should start drinking to improve myself socially | I have difficulty with social interaction coming from thinking extremely analytically about everything. I would like to be able to "turn my brain off" during casual interactions with people because I think that complex cognition suppresses social intuitions which are necessary for social activities such as flirting, am... | ThetaVega | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Affirmative Action may have been designed to disadvantage Asians for being model minorities
This is of course is a conspiracy theory and I really really hope that I am wrong on this. I can really think of two reasons why Affirmative Actiom happens to be prevalent on education where Asians are dominant: 1) simply ... | While I think affirmative action is misguided and wrong, I don't think it has been specifically designed to disadvantage Asian Americans. Do you have any evidence that liberals specifically want to punich Asians? I have not seen this.
Instead I think Asian Americans are simply an inconvenient counter example to the cr... | The purpose of affirmative action was to remediate
differences in educational attainment creates by de jure and de factor discrimination. Is it seriously too much for you to read the Wikipedia article before spouting off ridiculous conspiracy theories?
Christ
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CMV: Central air conditioning is bad for individuals and humanity
Humans want to be comfortable and are constantly seeking ways to be so. However, once you start seeking comfort, you are automatically going to be uncomfortable -- you are endlessly seeking the dragon! We evolved to deal with hot environments by drinkin... | > this is the Natural and the Good.
appeal to nature is a logical fallacy. Lots of natural things are bad (wisdom teeth, cancer, tons of toxic biological compounds that kill) and lots of unnatural things are great (most of modern medicine, wearing glasses to correct for poor eyesight). Saying that something is natural... | > Hormetic stressors are mild stressors that are physiologically healthy and increase life expectancy.
“Hormesis” is just the concept that some things, like stressors, are beneficial or neutral in small amounts even when they’re harmful in larger amounts.
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CMV: Central air conditioning is bad for individuals and humanity
Humans want to be comfortable and are constantly seeking ways to be so. However, once you start seeking comfort, you are automatically going to be uncomfortable -- you are endlessly seeking the dragon! We evolved to deal with hot environments by drinkin... | > Hormetic stressors are mild stressors that are physiologically healthy and increase life expectancy.
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CMV: Greta Thunberg is a poor choice as the voice for climate change due to her age, rhetoric, and lack of academic and political experience.
To start off, she is no doubt inspiring and clearly doing good for the world. I wish her nothing but the best, and I would much rather have her than *no one* advocating for thes... | You already know her name and you know the cause for which she fights. That's already more than the faceless climate scientists have accomplished.
The fact that she is a child works for the cause in 2 ways:
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2) Anyone that attacks her is attacking a chil... | I have trouble understanding this view. She is not "the" voice for climate change, she is "a" voice for climate change. Political figures and scientists alike have been saying that it is an issue for 30 years so why would we not want an additional perspective voicing their thoughts?
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Despite that:
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CMV: Separatist movements are most often rooted in ethnonationalism. There is nothing inherently progressive about them.
I want to preface by saying I obviously don't blanketly oppose all historical or contemporary separatist movements. The majority of countries on earth gained their independence from another country ... | Within the left-wing movement, one of the key tenets is decolonisation, and that means to liberate oneself from the oppression of the coloniser. If you have identified who the coloniser is, be it Turkey, Spain, Britain, Canada etc, then you can use left-wing traditions to justify a whole host of policies that, on its s... | >The same goes for Quebec, where the supposedly left wing Parti Quebecois has become more and more explicitly ethnonationalist over the years.
Can you provide clear examples of this? Because their foremost concern is protecting the French language (not an ethnicity) and values rejected by a majority of English Canadia... | 1d92beo | CMV: Separatist movements are most often rooted in ethnonationalism. There is nothing inherently progressive about them. | I want to preface by saying I obviously don't blanketly oppose all historical or contemporary separatist movements. The majority of countries on earth gained their independence from another country at some point. Often they had good reason for doing so (i.e. colonial oppression, cultural marginalisation, economic inter... | JosephvonEichendorff | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: We shouldn't judge people from history by modern day values.
Today a statue of Edward Colston was torn down by protestors because of his involvement in the slave trade. See - [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52954305](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52954305)
The reason he had a statue is due to his philanthropy and... | The thing is that the way we teach our history has a direct connotation with how we see morality. By celebrating slave owners(by statues in public spaces, for example) we are affirming our support for them. When you say that Edward Coulson was a great guy(which is what you are inadvertently saying by putting a statue o... | We don’t have to celebrate flawed individuals once we realize they no longer represent the ideals that we want to hold up as admirable. Having a statue is essentially saying “this person represents the things we admire.” If we don’t agree anymore, then keeping it up would be counter to everything we hold dear. It’s oka... | gyipc2 | CMV: We shouldn't judge people from history by modern day values. | Today a statue of Edward Colston was torn down by protestors because of his involvement in the slave trade. See - [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52954305](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52954305)
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CMV: If your wife is walking around in a full burqa or niqab while you’re in shorts and a t-shirt then it’s not about Islam. It’s about controlling your women.
I’m not here to argue Islam is an “evil” religion, that it’s highly misogynistic, or incompatible with liberalism. I’m not saying you can’t be a feminist and w... | Unless the woman is choosing to dress that way.
Edit: so some of my neighbors are Muslim. Daughters dress in secular American fashion; shorts in warmer weather, no head covering, exposed shoulders at times. The mother still chooses to wear head covering about half the time and the rest of the time not. It's obviously ... | As long as she chooses to wear the Burkha then there’s no issue.
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Why is She automatically brainwashed? Maybe she made the decision to wear it on her own?
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Who said anything about automatic brainwashing. They merely presented a counter argument for which you didn't present a conv... | zulxgv | CMV: If your wife is walking around in a full burqa or niqab while you’re in shorts and a t-shirt then it’s not about Islam. It’s about controlling your women. | I’m not here to argue Islam is an “evil” religion, that it’s highly misogynistic, or incompatible with liberalism. I’m not saying you can’t be a feminist and wear a burqa, niqab, or hijab. This post is simply about a double standard I see often enough in life. That being, lots of men dressed in expensive, very western ... | nowlan101 | 5 | 5 | [
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I’m not here to argue Islam is an “evil” religion, that it’s highly misogynistic, or incompatible with liberalism. I’m not saying you can’t be a feminist and w... | Unless the woman is choosing to dress that way.
Edit: so some of my neighbors are Muslim. Daughters dress in secular American fashion; shorts in warmer weather, no head covering, exposed shoulders at times. The mother still chooses to wear head covering about half the time and the rest of the time not. It's obviously ... | Here's a list of Islamic clothing prescriptions for men.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/islamqa.info/amp/en/answers/36891
In particular men are not permitted to wear the same clothing as women, nor to wear garments that hang below their ankles.
So yeah, men wearing shorts while women are wearing a long dress is entire... | zulxgv | CMV: If your wife is walking around in a full burqa or niqab while you’re in shorts and a t-shirt then it’s not about Islam. It’s about controlling your women. | I’m not here to argue Islam is an “evil” religion, that it’s highly misogynistic, or incompatible with liberalism. I’m not saying you can’t be a feminist and wear a burqa, niqab, or hijab. This post is simply about a double standard I see often enough in life. That being, lots of men dressed in expensive, very western ... | nowlan101 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: The Problem of Evil, when taken to refer to moral evil, does not eliminate the possibility of God’s existence.
In order for me to explain my view I want to start with some definitions. Firstly, moral evil vs. natural evil. Natural evil is evil for which no non-divine agent can be held morally responsible for its ... | > The Free Will Defense argues that God realized that Free Will/Free Choice/Free Moral Choice was more valuable than intrinsic goodness in the world itself.
So I think before we even dive into this specific line, I will need you to explain to me why an omnipotent AND good God would create evil, when He could have ***n... | That explains why the Nazis weren't stopped by God, but how do you explain the Black Death? Whose free will is to blame for the extreme suffering and death of tens of millions of people by means of disease nobody knew how to stop?
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CMV: The patriots (of Metal Gear Solid 2) raise a valid argument/issue/problem....
The video game Metal Gear Solid 2 which came out back in 2001 contains some shockingly prescient writing when it comes to their villains (well one of their villains the plot of the games makes your average Chris Nolan movie look clear c... | The problem with the Patriots is that, essentially, they wanted to exercise some form of thought control through suppression of information they deem to be "incorrect". Thought control is something that is not only morally reprehensible, but is doomed to fail from the beginning. You may be able to control information, ... | For what it's worth, I didn't grow up with the web (I remember a rich kid in high school had access to usenet so I'd seen that, but not the web) and people seemed plenty divided then too. I remember hating Reagan, Clinton, and the 2nd George Bush (I don't remeber the 1st one at all for some reason), and as far as I cou... | nvlcqh | CMV: The patriots (of Metal Gear Solid 2) raise a valid argument/issue/problem.... | The video game Metal Gear Solid 2 which came out back in 2001 contains some shockingly prescient writing when it comes to their villains (well one of their villains the plot of the games makes your average Chris Nolan movie look clear cut and simple) have an evil scheme for being able to control what information people... | iwfan53 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Being white myself, I've never seen other races weaponize their tears. And I don't think I've seen men do it either. ("White Fragility")
I'm new to CMV, so I just want admins to know that this is meant with the intended purpose of this group. I want to know if and how I'm being unfair to white women when I make t... | > I realized that she does it far more frequently regarding race-based issues to illicit pity (and then tacit acceptance) for her objectively racist opinions.
> At that point, I started seeing this behavior in viral videos of other white women
Can we agree that the evidence in front of us, so far, does not justify a ... | I’m a white woman who cries at everything. Any strong emotion. I literally can’t help it but I’m always terrified people think I’m faking for attention or something.
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Without gett... | SpeeedyDelivery | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV; Reparations are a stupid idea and nothing more than a virtue signaling tool for Democrats.
For the purposes of this post, I’ll be talking about reparations in the form of giving financial compensation to every person in America who has been negatively affected by the legacy of slavery? On that topic, we’re brough... | > The best time to give reparations was when there were living former slaves. We’re one hundred years away from that time.
People are still making legal claims to hoarded nazi treasure that turns up, that was stolen from their grandparents 80 years ago.
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Are any of the Democrats actually suggesting this@
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For the purposes of this post, I’ll be talking about reparations in the form of giving financial compensation to every person in America who has been negatively affected by the legacy of slavery? On that topic, we’re brough... | > The best time to give reparations was when there were living former slaves. We’re one hundred years away from that time.
People are still making legal claims to hoarded nazi treasure that turns up, that was stolen from their grandparents 80 years ago.
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The first paragraphs argument boils down to, "its hard, so lets not do it!" That is an invalid argument because lots of things are hard yet are the correct thing to do. In fact, most of the correct choices in life are the hard comp... | c44hol | CMV; Reparations are a stupid idea and nothing more than a virtue signaling tool for Democrats. | For the purposes of this post, I’ll be talking about reparations in the form of giving financial compensation to every person in America who has been negatively affected by the legacy of slavery? On that topic, we’re brought to the first problem. Who gets reparations? The best time to give reparations was when there we... | JdLegend64 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: the global reaction to coronavirus is ridiculous
130k total confirmed cases
5k deaths
69k of confirmed cases recovered
Global population 7.5 billion.
Those most at risk are the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions. What am I missing?
Less then 0.0018% of the world is infected and yet the markets a... | Yes, it's just a bad flu, 10x worse in fact. And experts whose predictions have been eerily accurate say about half the world population will get sick this year. There is no way for all the hospitals to handle that many sick at one time. It's relatively small numbers of dead now, but that number is guaranteed to grow e... | It's very contagious, you can carry it without showing symptoms, it can kill people. Panicking won't help, but it absolutely needs to be addressed quickly. You seem to throw off the "most at risk are elderly and people with pre-existing conditions" like that doesn't matter. If you aren't personally at a very high risk ... | fhj901 | CMV: the global reaction to coronavirus is ridiculous | 130k total confirmed cases
5k deaths
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Those most at risk are the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions. What am I missing?
Less then 0.0018% of the world is infected and yet the markets are collapsing. I lay the majority of blame on our sensa... | CredibleCriminal | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: The obligation to "state your pronouns" creates an emphasis on gender in a world that would probably benefit from de-emphasizing it
I labored over the title and I apologize if it sounds too harsh. It's hard to put into a single sentence.
It is very common in the social and professional circles I find myself in t... | Would saying “any pronouns are fine with me” work for you?
For example, if you’re in the kitchen, is “they are in the kitchen”, “she is in the kitchen” and “he is in the kitchen” all equally acceptable to you?
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CMV: Gun rights advocates should have been outraged by the shooting of Philando Castile
So I know it's been a few years, but as a gun rights supporter I wish there had been a louder response from pro-gun people when Philando Castile was murdered by a cop for having a firearm in his vehicle.
After being pulled over C... | Here’s my opinion on the matter as a gun owner and someone who is in the firearm business.
A.) I didn’t see or hear the evidence that the jury did that found the officer not guilty.
B.) The NRA made a valid decision to not back Castile once it was learned he was an illegal gun owner and possessor. Doing otherwise wo... | The NRA is it’s own body and a small part of American gun owners. There’s about 5,000,000 NRA members and at least 50,000,000 US households that own guns, so it’s ridiculous to think the NRA speaks for everyone.
Some of the most prominent gun rights supporters (Colion Noir, [the NRA members themselves](https://www.was... | c485qq | CMV: Gun rights advocates should have been outraged by the shooting of Philando Castile | So I know it's been a few years, but as a gun rights supporter I wish there had been a louder response from pro-gun people when Philando Castile was murdered by a cop for having a firearm in his vehicle.
After being pulled over Castile informed the officer that he had a gun in the car, in order to avoid problems if h... | snarkyjoan | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: almost no one is confusing noncon erotica fiction with “consensual b.d.s.m.”.
In about any English-language review section, forum thread, or comment section of noncon erotica fiction, as in fiction that is based around the non-concensual aspect of the acts, there are people who are veery angry about that titles w... | >All that seems to exist are indeed some people that initially mistakenly
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>
>but I'm certainly not
seeing anyone confusing it.
I'm gonna need you to explain what you think the word "confuse" means to me.
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Obviously I mean after actually having consum... | Take a look at /r/gonewildaudio and then Literotica. There are a *lot* of stories marked [rape] on gonewildaudio that would never have a rape disclaimer on Literotica, stuff like "our usual consensual BDSM encounter but this time I've slipped you an aphrodisiac without your knowledge".
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That's interesting, do you... | w6uwgy | CMV: almost no one is confusing noncon erotica fiction with “consensual b.d.s.m.”. | In about any English-language review section, forum thread, or comment section of noncon erotica fiction, as in fiction that is based around the non-concensual aspect of the acts, there are people who are veery angry about that titles whose promotional material and synonopsis makes it clear that it would be about this ... | Quintston | 7 | 7 | [
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CMV: Calling COVID-19 "Chinese coronavirus" is unnecessary and fueling racism even if unintentional
First of all, as many people are probably aware, there have been a number of verbal and physical attacks on people of East Asian background all around the world stemming from fears about coronavirus, as well as their bu... | The virus came from china. P.C. culture is completely out of hand!
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As I mentioned to another poster, I believe I already address this. Additionally, u/waldrop02 points out that the WHO already stated that using geographic names is no longer considered appropriate practice. I mean, we used give people lobotomie... | Chinese isn't a race. It's a nationality, no country is fully humongous. My cousin lives in China right now and he's being mistreated just like all the people that are ethically Chinese. It's not racism, it's nationalism. People are using it for racism by beating anyone that looks vaguely Asian in the UK or USA. There ... | fhjrfc | CMV: Calling COVID-19 "Chinese coronavirus" is unnecessary and fueling racism even if unintentional | First of all, as many people are probably aware, there have been a number of verbal and physical attacks on people of East Asian background all around the world stemming from fears about coronavirus, as well as their businesses suffering from unorganized boycotts and mocking of the deaths of people in China and elsewhe... | FreebornManoftheYUSA | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The Democratic Party is doomed.
The elections this past Tuesday could hardly have gone better for Republicans. As of right now, it appears that Biden will win and the GOP will hold the Senate, so I will operate under those premises.
With record voter turnout, the Democrats were unable to win the Senate despite t... | > The elections this past Tuesday could hardly have gone better for Republicans. As of right now, it appears that Biden will win
One way it could have gone better for Republicans: Trump could win.
> Trump only barely lost in the midst of an economic crisis worse than the 2008 recession.
Biden has already received mo... | >The elections this past Tuesday could hardly have gone better for Republicans.
I mean they could have won the presidency.
>He definitely won't allow Biden to appoint any judges, or do anything to ameliorate the recession. The recession will turn into a depression.
Come on, man. The Republicans have repeated push a... | joktkg | CMV: The Democratic Party is doomed. | The elections this past Tuesday could hardly have gone better for Republicans. As of right now, it appears that Biden will win and the GOP will hold the Senate, so I will operate under those premises.
With record voter turnout, the Democrats were unable to win the Senate despite the map being in their favor. What's mo... | SnowLabrador | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The Democratic Party is doomed.
The elections this past Tuesday could hardly have gone better for Republicans. As of right now, it appears that Biden will win and the GOP will hold the Senate, so I will operate under those premises.
With record voter turnout, the Democrats were unable to win the Senate despite t... | Federal politics is going to suck for a while, I'm not going to deny that. But there is a sea change coming. Young people, Democrats and Republicans, are getting very sick of the constant gridlock and partisan bickering. They want the government to step in to mitigate climate change, protect civil rights, build infrast... | > The elections this past Tuesday could hardly have gone better for Republicans.
The election couldn't have gone better for Republicans but Biden is still going to win? How does that work? That's like saying the last World Series could hardly have gone better for the Rays, even though they lost.
> Trump only barely... | joktkg | CMV: The Democratic Party is doomed. | The elections this past Tuesday could hardly have gone better for Republicans. As of right now, it appears that Biden will win and the GOP will hold the Senate, so I will operate under those premises.
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CMV: “take it personal” is the historically correct form and “take it personally” a hypercorrect confusion
The way I see it, “I take it personal.” has “personal” serve as an object-complement, similar to “I consider it personal.” or “I consider it big.”. While “Taking it personally.” is certainly not grammatically fla... | Do you have historical examples of this usage predating "take it personally"?
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No, I actually searched and the phrasing of itself seems to be quite rare before the 1900s where both forms started to emerge, initially in rather even frequency, but around the 50s “take it personally” started to win out.
https://book... | You've offered no historical context for your claim, and [the word "personally" has been in use since the 15th century.](https://www.etymonline.com/word/personally)
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I never denied the word “personally” did not exist, I in fact pointed out that “I take it personally.” is a completely valid sentence, but simply mea... | kjptrw | CMV: “take it personal” is the historically correct form and “take it personally” a hypercorrect confusion | The way I see it, “I take it personal.” has “personal” serve as an object-complement, similar to “I consider it personal.” or “I consider it big.”. While “Taking it personally.” is certainly not grammatically flawed, it's semantics do not line up, and if it were an adverb rather than an object-complement then it would ... | behold_the_castrato | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: GenZ is going to have it worse than other generations in recent history
Obviously our lives are a lot better than people living 500,200, or 100 years ago, but when it comes to recent generations (baby boomers, Gen X, and Millennials) we will have an overwhelmingly lower quality of life and get screwed over in pre... | When Boomers grew up, they were usually living incredibly modest lifestyles. Their family had one car. There was no air conditioning in the house. They'd only run the furnace in the morning. Dinner might be a chicken thigh with a scoop of canned peas on the side. Their toys consisted of a hobby horse and a baseball mit... | >Republican politicians want to establish a theocratic fascist state since they are voting against legislation that guarantees basic rights like access to contraception and interracial marriage.
What legislation is being proposed against contraception and interracial marriage?
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The Democratic controlled house pas... | w6jnjb | CMV: GenZ is going to have it worse than other generations in recent history | Obviously our lives are a lot better than people living 500,200, or 100 years ago, but when it comes to recent generations (baby boomers, Gen X, and Millennials) we will have an overwhelmingly lower quality of life and get screwed over in pretty much every category. Income inequality is higher now in America than it wa... | CosmicSquid8 | 11 | 11 | [
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Obviously our lives are a lot better than people living 500,200, or 100 years ago, but when it comes to recent generations (baby boomers, Gen X, and Millennials) we will have an overwhelmingly lower quality of life and get screwed over in pre... | When Boomers grew up, they were usually living incredibly modest lifestyles. Their family had one car. There was no air conditioning in the house. They'd only run the furnace in the morning. Dinner might be a chicken thigh with a scoop of canned peas on the side. Their toys consisted of a hobby horse and a baseball mit... | >Republican politicians want to establish a theocratic fascist state since they are voting against legislation that guarantees basic rights like access to contraception and interracial marriage.
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The Democratic controlled house pas... | w6jnjb | CMV: GenZ is going to have it worse than other generations in recent history | Obviously our lives are a lot better than people living 500,200, or 100 years ago, but when it comes to recent generations (baby boomers, Gen X, and Millennials) we will have an overwhelmingly lower quality of life and get screwed over in pretty much every category. Income inequality is higher now in America than it wa... | CosmicSquid8 | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: A 3-hour wait to vote is not voter suppression.
Even if voter lines being long were some sort of suppression which it 100% isn’t. Anyone in line by closing time gets to vote regardless of how long the line is. That’s law.
If you are in a heavily populated area or a more trafficked voter spot I’d assume a 3 hour ... | It becomes voter suppression when it's intentionally implimented, espicially in poor areas.
For someone working an hourly wage, 3 hours can mean a day's worth of food. Most people working these kinds of jobs really cannot afford that kind of financial hit. Nevermind if you have kids that need watching or anything els... | > People will wait in lines for 8-13 hours for a new iPhone so 3 hour waits for something important should be NBD.
The point isn't what some people will do, it is what a certain amount of people won't do. A 3 hour wait means some percent of people will see the line and go home, or at some point while waiting in the l... | fh9yqg | CMV: A 3-hour wait to vote is not voter suppression. | Even if voter lines being long were some sort of suppression which it 100% isn’t. Anyone in line by closing time gets to vote regardless of how long the line is. That’s law.
If you are in a heavily populated area or a more trafficked voter spot I’d assume a 3 hour wait would be understandable. I waited 2 hours last el... | Detox24 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: A 3-hour wait to vote is not voter suppression.
Even if voter lines being long were some sort of suppression which it 100% isn’t. Anyone in line by closing time gets to vote regardless of how long the line is. That’s law.
If you are in a heavily populated area or a more trafficked voter spot I’d assume a 3 hour ... | It becomes voter suppression when it's intentionally implimented, espicially in poor areas.
For someone working an hourly wage, 3 hours can mean a day's worth of food. Most people working these kinds of jobs really cannot afford that kind of financial hit. Nevermind if you have kids that need watching or anything els... | > People will wait in lines for 8-13 hours for a new iPhone so 3 hour waits for something important should be NBD.
The point isn't what some people will do, it is what a certain amount of people won't do. A 3 hour wait means some percent of people will see the line and go home, or at some point while waiting in the l... | fh9yqg | CMV: A 3-hour wait to vote is not voter suppression. | Even if voter lines being long were some sort of suppression which it 100% isn’t. Anyone in line by closing time gets to vote regardless of how long the line is. That’s law.
If you are in a heavily populated area or a more trafficked voter spot I’d assume a 3 hour wait would be understandable. I waited 2 hours last el... | Detox24 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Centrism is common sense
Centrism seems like common sense to me. First of all let's clear up a misconception about Centrism first. Centrism is about a balance of general philosophies independant of a country. It's not about voting for the median of all the available opinions.
For example on an independant [po... | Left and right are about equality vs hierarchy, while up and down are about how those values should be implemented.
You are just asserting that the middleground on both axises would be optimal, despite the fact that there are plenty of arguments for why any of those 4 values should be given more priority than their co... | I think you're conflating 'common sense' with 'compromise.'
I'd define a centrist position roughly as you have described here; a political view that seeks to balance market forces with appropriate pro-social regulation and that seeks to optimise individual freedom through measured use of limitations on the expression... | johrhr | CMV: Centrism is common sense | Centrism seems like common sense to me. First of all let's clear up a misconception about Centrism first. Centrism is about a balance of general philosophies independant of a country. It's not about voting for the median of all the available opinions.
For example on an independant [political compass](https://upload... | zuluportero | 3 | 3 | [
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Centrism seems like common sense to me. First of all let's clear up a misconception about Centrism first. Centrism is about a balance of general philosophies independant of a country. It's not about voting for the median of all the available opinions.
For example on an independant [po... | > Centrism is about a balance of general philosophies independant of a country. It's not about voting for the median of all the available opinions.
I don’t quite understand what you mean by this. Can you define centrism itself? Is it an ideology? A philosophy? Or something else?
I don’t know what a “balance of genera... | Everyone agrees there there needs to be a balance between regulation and freedom, that's not what centrism is that is, as you say, just common sense and no one - from the far left to the far right, from anarchists to fascists - disputes it. Centrism is about the idea that that balance is to be found in the middle of th... | johrhr | CMV: Centrism is common sense | Centrism seems like common sense to me. First of all let's clear up a misconception about Centrism first. Centrism is about a balance of general philosophies independant of a country. It's not about voting for the median of all the available opinions.
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CMV: Theres nothing immoral in saying you will break up if a partner does something you dont like
If I don't like my partner playing loud music and tell them if they don't stop I'm breaking up with them. If yiu don't leave the house clean to my standards then I'm dumping you. Etc.
Of course you can argue that people... | All people have things that are genuinely dealbreakers. And that's fine. The problem is when you threaten things like breaking up on more benign annoyances, it becomes manipulative.
If occasionally listening to music a little loud is really that level of deal breaker for you, I hope you like bachelorhood.
---
Well... | There is a difference between setting boundaries and using ultimatums as emotional manipulation.
Telling your partner that you expect them to be faithful, or that they must ask before borrowing your car are boundaries.
Threatening to break up with them if you don't get your way in a disagreement is emotional manipu... | w6erem | CMV: Theres nothing immoral in saying you will break up if a partner does something you dont like | If I don't like my partner playing loud music and tell them if they don't stop I'm breaking up with them. If yiu don't leave the house clean to my standards then I'm dumping you. Etc.
Of course you can argue that people should be more tolerable, but if they choose not too, I don't see anything wrong with that either.... | WaterDemonPhoenix | 3 | 3 | [
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If I don't like my partner playing loud music and tell them if they don't stop I'm breaking up with them. If yiu don't leave the house clean to my standards then I'm dumping you. Etc.
Of course you can argue that people... | All people have things that are genuinely dealbreakers. And that's fine. The problem is when you threaten things like breaking up on more benign annoyances, it becomes manipulative.
If occasionally listening to music a little loud is really that level of deal breaker for you, I hope you like bachelorhood.
---
Well... | It's immoral because it's a total refusal to compromise. A relationship is where 2 people embark to make each other better people and you are totally refusing to partake in that.
There is definitely something very wrong in choosing not to be tolerant, no more or less than there is something wrong with playing loud mus... | w6erem | CMV: Theres nothing immoral in saying you will break up if a partner does something you dont like | If I don't like my partner playing loud music and tell them if they don't stop I'm breaking up with them. If yiu don't leave the house clean to my standards then I'm dumping you. Etc.
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CMV: Alcohol should not be normalised
I don’t understand why drinking is so normalised? From my understanding, alcohol can have a massively negative health impact as well as it impairing/altering your mind.
In my experience (in the UK) many people say they “need a drink after work” and while sometimes this is a joke ... | I'm a clinical Psychologist and I work with patients that suffer from addiction. I also had a girlfriend that was alcoholic. I don't entirely disagree. People that need large doses of alcohool to socialize work or relax, frequently, are not dealing with their life properly and have poor coping skills. But that is usual... | >I don’t understand why drinking is so normalised?
Probably because it's been a part of human civilization, before civilization was a even a thing...
Humans and alcohol are as linked together as humans and dogs are. You are absolutely right that there are negative consequences to alcohol, however getting rid of some... | 1lpykyh | CMV: Alcohol should not be normalised | I don’t understand why drinking is so normalised? From my understanding, alcohol can have a massively negative health impact as well as it impairing/altering your mind.
In my experience (in the UK) many people say they “need a drink after work” and while sometimes this is a joke or exaggeration I do think that for man... | ReadingwithMe | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV:Pre-nuptial agreements are MORE romantic, not less
Marriage can serve a few purposes: cultural, religious, political....but the most concrete is legal. When couples get married without a pre-nup they are taking the off the rack legal agreement that millions of other couples use (by default).
To be clear, I don’t... | How do you define "romantic"? I don't find any sentence containing "upon dissolution of our marriage" romantic...
Necessary, sure, and and not un-romantic, but not more romantic than not explicitly planning for it.
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Right, I’m making explicit what is often implicit, ie. The legal considerations mostly deal with t... | It is not at all romantic to have an escape clause in anticipation of the relationship failing beyond repair. Marriage is meant to be a lifetime relationship and giving up on it is not romantic, preparing before it even began for its failure is not romantic.
As for your 1 Corinthians quote, it also says that "love is... | 8rr881 | CMV:Pre-nuptial agreements are MORE romantic, not less | Marriage can serve a few purposes: cultural, religious, political....but the most concrete is legal. When couples get married without a pre-nup they are taking the off the rack legal agreement that millions of other couples use (by default).
To be clear, I don’t think there’s a “right” or “wrong” choice. I do find it... | chiaboy | 7 | 3 | [
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CMV: The people of United States are living in a bubble
As a person living in Europe I often think about how normal it is for us to travel the world and see cultures and societies from their perspective. Sadly I haven't have the opportunity to visit the US, but from the media and all sources of information I often get... | I think maybe you are living in a bubble as well. Let's address a one or two of your misconceptions. Take education. [Here is a list of the 10 most educated countries in the world](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/the-10-most-educated-countries-in-the-world.html). Notice that the US is #6 on the list, with 46% of the po... | > badly educated
[The US does better than almost any other nation on earth.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment)
\~45% of people hold college degrees.
> mostly living in poverty or in dept
[Not even close.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_ca... | jofhgm | CMV: The people of United States are living in a bubble | As a person living in Europe I often think about how normal it is for us to travel the world and see cultures and societies from their perspective. Sadly I haven't have the opportunity to visit the US, but from the media and all sources of information I often get the picture that US nationalism, or the idea that US is ... | marulisu | 5 | 5 | [
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cmv: belief in God isn't a choice, therefore Christianity that relies on choosing to believe in God is invalid. (read the first paragraph before skipping because it seems too long)
There are two parts and you can skip to the second one at the end and still get the gist. The first (long) part is "my personal story" tha... | I’m not sure how to word this, so I hope it makes sense.
**Not** believing in god is not a choice. Nonbelief is the default - no one is ever born with a belief in anything. Faith comes after people start feeding you bullshit.
I feel like **believing** in god *is* a choice, because you have to suspend all logic and ... | I am so sorry but I have read three times through and I don't think I understand the argument. Just to try to get the main points down, your view is that there is a logical incompatibility between the nature of Christianity (you don't have a choice) and the teachings of Christianity (you do have a choice). Did I get th... | w65psk | cmv: belief in God isn't a choice, therefore Christianity that relies on choosing to believe in God is invalid. (read the first paragraph before skipping because it seems too long) | There are two parts and you can skip to the second one at the end and still get the gist. The first (long) part is "my personal story" that explains where this view came from and why I believe it. The second (short) part is "my actual view", what won't change it, and how it can be changed. Tl;Dr at the end of that's st... | Sleepycoon | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Christianity and conservatism are incompatible
I know that different groups of people will have different interpretations of the Bible. However, what I don’t understand is how evangelists of many kinds, nearly all of whom are conservative, consider themselves to be good Christians while going against everything J... | Can you give some specific examples of where the incompatibilities lie? For example what conservative point of view contradicts what Christian point of view?
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* Conservatism proposes a hierarchy and to its fullest extreme, an absence of equality. Jesus taught that you should give all you can to the poor. Also, gre... | You will need to give an example.
Conservatism is about preserving society. It is about protecting those things in society that you value and resisting change unless said change has been proven to be beneficial and needed. Nothing in this stance by default contradicts Christianity.
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CMV: Silicon Valley is a bigoted culture
I lived in Silicon Valley in the summer of 2006 and moved there full time in June 2007 until leaving in June 2011. I lived in Sunnyvale and Los Altos and worked for a big tech company the entire time. I was excited to leave and have absolutely no desire to ever live there again... | >The definition of bigot is "a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions."
That's so broad a definition of the term as to be favorable to your view. Mirram-Webster's definition is more precise;
>>**a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; es... | it's also almost impossible to be a republican in California's urban centers. does that mean everyone voting Democrat there is a bigot against republicans?
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I lived in Silicon Valley in the summer of 2006 and moved there full time in June 2007 until leaving in June 2011. I lived in Sunnyvale and Los Altos and worked for a big tech company the entire time. I was excited to leave and have absolutely no desire to ever live there again... | One of the problem with your list is that it's too general, so it's hard to take position. For instance, "a traditional view on gender" doesn't really mean much. It certainly doesn't inform us on what the view is or, more importantly, how it's conveyed to others. Under that umbrella, there's everything from the pretty ... | What about this view is specific of Silicon Valley and not just your distaste of liberal culture in general?
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CMV: Parents shouldn't take away their child(ren)'s electronics at night to make sure they get better sleep-- it may be better for their health in the short term, but it completely fails to teach them self-control.
There was recently a post on r/memes and the image said "I collect all cell phones and iPads from the ki... | Can I ask, do you have kids? I ask because you apparently don't know that kids that young simply don't have a lot of self control, or often care about the consequences of their actions. They aren't gonna do what's best for themselves. They're gonna do what's fun. My roommate has two young boys, and the electronics thin... | Oh man, as a parent of a nine-year-old, I can tell you that he isn’t even close to being ready to make his own decisions as it relates to this, and here’s why: he doesn’t have trouble falling asleep if he has managed to smuggle a device into bed with him. But what he is doing, and what he doesn’t have any ability to un... | kic4rs | CMV: Parents shouldn't take away their child(ren)'s electronics at night to make sure they get better sleep-- it may be better for their health in the short term, but it completely fails to teach them self-control. | There was recently a post on r/memes and the image said "I collect all cell phones and iPads from the kids at night and keep them in my room. Last night, those little \*\*\*holes all set alarms to go off at various times throughout the night" (The meme has since been removed by the mods).
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There was recently a post on r/memes and the image said "I collect all cell phones and iPads from the ki... | Teaching kids self control doesn’t look like giving them access to everything with no over sight, as a parent you pick areas to let your kid exercise self control that you find age appropriate. You aren’t going to put your liquor at eye level for an eight year old and tell them “I don’t think you should drink this but ... | If these were high-school kids, I would agree with you -- I remember how hard it was for me to sleep, and that I knew I was going to stay up with or without the electronics so I might as well keep using them.
But a ten-year-old kid is probably too young to weigh their tiredness relative to how much sleep they got the... | kic4rs | CMV: Parents shouldn't take away their child(ren)'s electronics at night to make sure they get better sleep-- it may be better for their health in the short term, but it completely fails to teach them self-control. | There was recently a post on r/memes and the image said "I collect all cell phones and iPads from the kids at night and keep them in my room. Last night, those little \*\*\*holes all set alarms to go off at various times throughout the night" (The meme has since been removed by the mods).
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Cmv: Helicopters are the solution to america's transit problems.
I know what you're going to say 'but muh helicopters r impratical to use on a mass scale" hold on, let me present my case:
Many cities used to use helicopters for roof to roof transport in the 50s and 60s, but unfortunately due to the association of hel... | Helicopters are pretty loud. Imagine the sound of thousands of them flying around all the time.
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Have you been in a subway lol? My ears still ring from the screeching sound they make.
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Subways are loud. Helicopters are louder.
Do you hear the subway when it goes underneath your building? | are you sure helicopters are more fuel efficient than buses or even cars? that seems hard to believe
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Well the majority of the world's vehicle pollution comes from cars. So yes.
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Because there are way, way, way more cars than helicopters.
On a per-mile (or per-hour) basis, helicopters are significantly less... | w68p60 | Cmv: Helicopters are the solution to america's transit problems. | I know what you're going to say 'but muh helicopters r impratical to use on a mass scale" hold on, let me present my case:
Many cities used to use helicopters for roof to roof transport in the 50s and 60s, but unfortunately due to the association of helicopters in vietnam + plus cities being left wing, they stopped us... | National_Eye824 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: Religion is an opinion/hypothesis in a way that can be clear to religious people.
This was inspired by a post on this subreddit earlier and I had people disagree with me but not challenge it like it would have been as a post. Hence, a post.
My reasoning went as follows:
There are many major factions under the ... | Can you explain your view a little more clearly? I don't follow what you mean when you say "religion is an opinion/hypothesis" at all.
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That religion is a personal choice and can't be shown true.
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The church building can be proven to exist. The people who occupy the building can be proven to exist.
While th... | Dinosaur Train tells us that a hypothesis is an idea you can test.
Can you test a religion? Do religious adherents consider such a test valid?
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Hypothesis has always meant 'a proposed explanation for something' to me, so this is what I mean here. I just looked it up and Oxford Dictionaries seems to just expand o... | mf8pxq | CMV: Religion is an opinion/hypothesis in a way that can be clear to religious people. | This was inspired by a post on this subreddit earlier and I had people disagree with me but not challenge it like it would have been as a post. Hence, a post.
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There are many major factions under the name of religion, and many subfactions of those. The size and longevity of those faction... | PivotPsycho | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The United States should split up and have all the states and territories go their separate ways.
This federation is a complete failure, the one time we actually need the federal government they don't do shit, so why stay in a union? The only reason we became a nation was to protect from invasion back when there ... | You're basically expressing the mirror image of the "why don't you move to Europe/Canada if it's so much better" sentiment. You're basically saying that people who don't agree with you shouldn't be a part of "your" country.
The US being a single, large nation is a huge advantage militarily (which is why the entirety o... | India tried this. The result was a period of violence that cost something like 200,000 lives, maybe as many as 2 million.
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Are you implying that the USA doesn’t? | kjfh6g | CMV: The United States should split up and have all the states and territories go their separate ways. | This federation is a complete failure, the one time we actually need the federal government they don't do shit, so why stay in a union? The only reason we became a nation was to protect from invasion back when there was an actual threat of war.
The only thing that should stay is having an independent central bank that... | Andalib_Odulate | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The reason civil debate between the left and right has ceased is due to demonization of both sides by the other.
This is a view I have held for the majority of time I’ve followed politics. For context im a 19 yo college student and I consider myself very moderate as I have opinions from both sides that I agree wi... | My problem with your view is that it leaves another obvious question unanswered. You say civil debate has ceased because the two sides demonize each other. Well, sure. That much is obvious. But then the question is: *why* do the two sides demonize each other?
Because if you're claiming it's just because we got a crop ... | >BOTH SIDES WANT AMERICA TO BE BETTER AND PROSPEROUS.
Do they? You mentioned Roe v Wade, do you think anyone not wrapped up in religion actually thinks banning abortions for women is about making the US better and prosperous?
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CMV: It is more difficult to dress well as a man than it is as a woman.
To begin, I’ll start by saying that it’s definitely easier to just look acceptable and do the bare minimum as a guy. A nice button down and some chinos works for pretty much any occasion. But when I say it’s harder to “dress well”, I mean it’s har... | Really, how difficult is to wear a suit, dress shirt and shoes?
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It’s surprising difficult to find a quality, affordable suit and have it tailored correctly. Ill fitting suits look like shit, and I see so many guys wearing suits that just don’t fit right
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But once you owe one, that's all you need. OK. Maybe y... | I disagree takes me like 5-10 minutes to put my clothes on and look good. Women usually put on makeup even if not a full face of it they will put a little on or something. Plus many women feel the need to shave or wax depending on what skin will be showing which is also a lot of work.
The most the average man does gr... | 1lpzzpv | CMV: It is more difficult to dress well as a man than it is as a woman. | To begin, I’ll start by saying that it’s definitely easier to just look acceptable and do the bare minimum as a guy. A nice button down and some chinos works for pretty much any occasion. But when I say it’s harder to “dress well”, I mean it’s harder to be truly stylish and express yourself through your clothes. There ... | New_General3939 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: It is more difficult to dress well as a man than it is as a woman.
To begin, I’ll start by saying that it’s definitely easier to just look acceptable and do the bare minimum as a guy. A nice button down and some chinos works for pretty much any occasion. But when I say it’s harder to “dress well”, I mean it’s har... | Your post makes it sound like its easier to dress well as a man, since it requires less risk taking, less overwhelming amount of choices, and simple / straightforward advice and inspiration.
I would argue that comparing well dressed outfits at red carpet events show a much higher degree of complexity with dresses than... | I mean if you are saying you have limited options and all you have to do is wear those options is that not easier?
Also most cleaners have reasonably priced tailors
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It’s easier to dress acceptably as a man, it’s harder to dress exceptionally.
And the tailoring at your neighborhood laundromat can do simple thin... | 1lpzzpv | CMV: It is more difficult to dress well as a man than it is as a woman. | To begin, I’ll start by saying that it’s definitely easier to just look acceptable and do the bare minimum as a guy. A nice button down and some chinos works for pretty much any occasion. But when I say it’s harder to “dress well”, I mean it’s harder to be truly stylish and express yourself through your clothes. There ... | New_General3939 | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The Pledge of Allegiance Is Stupid.
Personally, I really hate the Pledge of Allegiance because of how it is pretty much some tool that the government uses to brainwash children into thinking America is some place a thousand times better than any other countries. It is in some ways, but the way The Pledge of Alleg... | [removed]
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I also agree with that, I really wanted to write more but the post was getting to long, and you know more about the amendments than me I think and you´ve brought up some valid claims that I definitely would not have been able to come up with so thanks. (I know that wasn´t the intended point of your post... | Nowhere in the Pledge of Allegiance does it state or imply that the US is better than other countries.
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Well I´m simply pointing out that Americans tend to think of themselves as better than everyone else and I really feel the Pledge of Allegiance is implying that, I´m aware this is a controversial topic but all I... | mf2va7 | CMV: The Pledge of Allegiance Is Stupid. | Personally, I really hate the Pledge of Allegiance because of how it is pretty much some tool that the government uses to brainwash children into thinking America is some place a thousand times better than any other countries. It is in some ways, but the way The Pledge of Allegiance makes it sound like everywhere else ... | MrVoideh | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: If a couple is infertile on just one side, then it’s a better idea to adopt rather than get a donor
Explaining the title a little bit, I mean that if in a cohabitating couple situation where you’re actively wanting kids but one person is infertile while the other is fertile, it is typically a better idea to adopt... | A sperm/egg donor can be ethically obtained pretty quickly/easily, and is likely to be healthy.
Adoption for healthy infants takes many years of heartbreaking waiting on a list, and many agencies are pretty unethical. Like at the heart of it, you so often have a woman who can't afford to take care of her child but wo... | A few points.
1. If the biological component is irrelevant, it still makes sense if the woman is fertile, as there is a connection formed before and at birth. Prenatal conditions can be controlled better (alcohol, smoking, stress)
2. If the biological component is relevant it is still better to have at least one biolo... | kjefpw | CMV: If a couple is infertile on just one side, then it’s a better idea to adopt rather than get a donor | Explaining the title a little bit, I mean that if in a cohabitating couple situation where you’re actively wanting kids but one person is infertile while the other is fertile, it is typically a better idea to adopt your child rather than get a sperm or egg donor. My reasoning is as follows:
If, as a couple, you agree... | Harurajat | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: People Shouldn't Try To Convince Others To Join Their Religion.
Let me start of by saying, that I am a Hindu. I love my religion/culture. And I find it weird that in some religions, people try to get other people to join their religion.
That’s another reason why Hindus or other Indian religions don’t evangelise... | Your religion doesn't require you to convince others, so you follow your religion. There is nothing at stake, nothing at risk by your not preaching your religion.
Christianity believes otherwise. The bible states that the blood of an unbeliever will be will be on their head if they fail to speak to someone who could h... | Objectively speaking, religion is no different than other academics, and the point of it being to find truth. That being said tho, I don't think your comparison quite works. It is possible to join another religion without changing your culture that much. they don't go together that often and there are plenty of example... | w646i5 | CMV: People Shouldn't Try To Convince Others To Join Their Religion. | Let me start of by saying, that I am a Hindu. I love my religion/culture. And I find it weird that in some religions, people try to get other people to join their religion.
That’s another reason why Hindus or other Indian religions don’t evangelise/proselytize.
Imagine if you went to a different country/region and a... | AbiLovesTheology | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: If you are a Republican, you do not care about voting rights
This post is mostly inspired by the ridiculous and blatantly politically biased voting laws that have passed through the Georgia state congress recently, but it isn't just about those.
For my entire life, it's been true that the Republican party benefi... | I’m a Republican because I like low taxes and am generally against increased government spending. This *used to be* one of the primary reasons for voting Republican.
As a Republican voter, I don’t care about suppressing votes, keeping politicians in office, etc. That is bullshit politics that the people in power worr... | If you identify as a Democrat, you are on the side of voter fraud, full stop.
See, neither work.
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I see someone didn't read the section at the end.
Regardless, there's virtually no actual voter fraud in the United States, whereas there's rampant voter suppression here. So, no, your point does not work as well a... | mf2h5q | CMV: If you are a Republican, you do not care about voting rights | This post is mostly inspired by the ridiculous and blatantly politically biased voting laws that have passed through the Georgia state congress recently, but it isn't just about those.
For my entire life, it's been true that the Republican party benefits highly from low voter turnout. Their modus operandi since the la... | Banana_Chugg | 3 | 3 | [
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CMV: The LGBTQ+ movement you commonly see on social media (or to be more specific, anything associated with the pride flag) is nothing but virtue signalling, and doesn't actually do anything to combat homophobia.
Commonly, most of the places where the activism exists is in developed western countries like Canada, the ... | If the LGBT movement has done nothing since the dawn of social media why were a majority of Americans opposed to LGBT rights in the 90s (early social media) and the vast majority now in favor of them?
IMO it's one of the most successful social media campaigns in existence.
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>If the LGBT movement has done nothing
... | I think you are underestimating the level of homophobia and queer phobia that still exist in the western world. There are still violent attacks on people for being queer in the western world. Hate crimes in US against queer people are increasing. Some sexualities doesn't have legal protection and isn't considered a pro... | w60i2f | CMV: The LGBTQ+ movement you commonly see on social media (or to be more specific, anything associated with the pride flag) is nothing but virtue signalling, and doesn't actually do anything to combat homophobia. | Commonly, most of the places where the activism exists is in developed western countries like Canada, the US of A and most of western Europe. And it great that attention is being brought to issues like homophobia. However, i'd argue that everyone who lives in a developed nation like the ones listed above already knows ... | Hyenaswithbigdicks | 5 | 5 | [
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CMV: Complaints about "Forced Diversity" are often based on Forced Sameness.
"Forced Diversity" has become a constant topic in media-dedicated spaces on this website and others. Few weeks go by without someone on /r/unpopularopinion, or this sub talking about it, and every time they do I get the same questions and obj... | This is a really great discussion so far, thank you for posting this CMV.
>**Q2) Can all identities be forced?** How often are white, straight, or male characters described as being "forced" to be that way?
I think the best examples of "forced" white, male (probably cis) characters I can think of are in movies like *... | If there's evidence that the producers believe that the representation inherently improves the product's quality, then that's forced.
Believing this will likely harm your product's quality, in the same way a traditional style racist would not be likely to be good at writing non-white characters.
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How do you go ab... | fh6a0t | CMV: Complaints about "Forced Diversity" are often based on Forced Sameness. | "Forced Diversity" has become a constant topic in media-dedicated spaces on this website and others. Few weeks go by without someone on /r/unpopularopinion, or this sub talking about it, and every time they do I get the same questions and objections.
I'm gay and representation in media means a lot to me, because of t... | Scribbles_ | 3 | 3 | [
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