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"content": "CMV: I think space travel is something we should be investing in more.\nI think that it's great that NASA is asking for $17.5 billion to continue the space program and the manned mission to Mars.\n\nBut do you think there other things we should be spending that money on that mi... | [
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"content": "Mars has no water, breathable air or food.\n\nEarth has all these things.\n\nInvesting in the sustainability of Earth, where we can live > investing in a place where we would need to bring *everything* from Earth.\n"
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"content": "CMV: Employers should not be in the business of providing insurance (health / dental / vision / etc).\nI believe that all types of insurance should be extracted from the \"benefits\" of employment altogether. Instead, the benefits of employment should only be cash income (to th... | [
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"content": "Here's an analogy using labour unions. Think of the following two types of employees:\n\n1. Unionized employees: Generally get higher pay, better benefits, and are collectively able to force changes in a company. They can strike if things get really bad. Since this can be ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: I don't think quitting addictions is as hard as people say.\nI don't believe there's anything other than a question of pure willpower when it comes to kicking addictions like meth, cocaine, food, opium, krocodil, alcohol, etc. I believe if you cannot quit these things cold... | [
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"content": "This isn't even a question of opinion, you're simply wrong about it.\n\nFirstly, the addiction itself is a physical force for most substances [where you suffer severe negative consequences for quitting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_dependence) and for everything e... | true |
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"content": "CMV: The Orion program is a waste of money.\nI suppose that I am a very egalitarian person politically, but it seems to me that space exploration is among the most extreme examples of wealthy people ignoring the challenges that face the poor. This sentiment is famously articula... | [
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"content": "> In the case of the annual budget allocation of the US (assuming space is not privatized), giving more funding to NASA means giving less funding to public schools and other social benefits.\n\nYou can't necessarily fix problems with more money. We are a nation of many ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: I believe civilians should be allowed to resist arrest\nI've thought this for a long time, and the recent surge in media awareness has brought this idea to the forefront of my mind. \"Resisting arrest\" is currently a felony offense in multiple states (USA..) but anecdotal... | [
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"content": "So what is the alternative? If an officer approaches a man and decides to arrest him how is it decided if it's an unlawful arrest or not? In that moment. You may actually be innocent (that happens) but the evidence against you makes it a legal arrest. What happens then?\n\... | true |
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"content": "CMV: The United States has a weird legal system that does not contribute to and actively works against determining the guilt or innocence of a person.\nImagine you go to see the doctor and once at his office he conducts tests and stuff to see what kind of disease you have. Foll... | [
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"content": "Juries decide facts. Judges decide law. OP, do you think you are capable of determining if a fact is true or not? Awesome, you're qualified to be a juror. People think that juries are shown all the evidence and hear these slick speeches by sharp dressed lawyers and then ar... | true |
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"content": "CMV: I see religious or \"divine\" experience as one of the brain's most potent weapons, and that people don't know how to take advantage of it without sacrificing some sense of scientific literacy or trust.\nMy view is a little weird but I would love to see it challenged since... | [
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"content": "Just one clarifying question: Is it safe to assume that you would agree that this, like most other \"potent weapons\", in the hands of the ignorant is more likely to result in shooting their own foot off than in any kind of positive outcome?"
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"content": "CMV: there is nothing wrong with desensitizing violence, so long as you know that it it fundamentally wrong\nI love violent videogames. I truly love violent movies. I am also literally the least violent person you will ever meet. There's nothing you could do or say that would g... | [
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"content": "Being desensitized to violence isn't about being desensitized to the blood and guts and screams/pleas of the victims, it's about being desensitized to the impulses that lead people to commit these acts. \n\nI'm willing to bet that few to no sane people out there say violen... | true |
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"content": "CMV: AnCap-style free market security and legal systems would produce worse outcomes.\nAnarcho-capitalists believe we should abolish the government and let the free market provide all goods and services. Included are police forces and courts. Anarcho-capitalists and some libe... | [
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"content": ">People prefer a court biased towards them over a fair court\n\n>Again, individuals and institutions would rather hire a security force which will always defend them rather than a fair security force.\n\nI'm just going to follow this thread to lurk/learn, but I did f... | false |
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"content": "CMV: We have no control over our choices or the direction of our lives.\n(Im reposting this without the part calling you an asshole for judging people because 85% of people were ignoring the point and trying to convince me that its good to shame bad people)\n\n\nThis is best ex... | [
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"content": "Well, even if it is true that our choices are determined by genetics, environmental influences, and other factors we did not ourselves choose, there is still the *experience* of having free choice, which most people are familiar with. That is to say, while it may be true ... | false |
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"content": "CMV:You shouldn't tell someone they are beautiful when they clearly are not.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/825334990873936/?type=1\n\nInspired from the link above. If you can't see it, it's a picture of a woman taken in ... | [
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"content": "Your use of \"beauty\" and \"objective\" in the same sentence is the major flaw in your argument. Concepts of beauty are not objective nor are they constant. Different people find different things beautiful, and although a particular culture may have a \"mainstream\" conce... | false |
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"content": "CMV: I think I believe in a gender binary.\nHi!\n\nIt wasnt that long ago when I shown the subreddit /r/tumblrinaction, by a friend of mine. If you haven't been there, its full of pictures of what people have put up on their tumblr pages, making fun of their thoughts about femi... | [
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"content": "> I only believe in male and female. Not intersex nor anything inbetween\n\nAt the point where you're challenging \"intersex\", you're simply wrong. \n\nIt's not a very large population percentagewise, but there *are* people who are born either (a) with partial genital... | false |
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"content": "CMV: People under 16 shouldn't be charged as adults after committing a crime\nIn a lot of ways I think that you should only be able to be charged as an adult if you are over 18 (aka legally an adult), but I decided 16 is a better number, because it is a reasonably developed age... | [
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"content": "If you're blackout stumbling drunk and someone who knows you're drunk convinces you to sign a contract, that contract will likely be invalidated. If you're blackout stumbling drunk and you get in your car and t-bone a minivan and kill four people, you're going to be charge... | true |
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"content": "CMV: It is in the best interest of internet feminists to make fake accounts to threaten people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian\nI think it is clear that the online threats directed at feminist public figures benefit their causes. These threats have enabled mainstream media ... | [
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"content": "The feminist cause isn't to manufacture rape culture or \"prove\" that some women are harassed/some men harass women. Therefor posing as a man to harass a woman doesn't help the feminist cause for equality. It would create a media stir, but since the goal of feminism isn't... | true |
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"content": "CMV: The Police system is corrupt.\nHello, reddit. I currently hold a view that many others might hold or be against. I think that parts of the Police system are corrupt. You see, constantly in the news, stories about Police brutality and police are stopping civilians from reco... | [
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"content": "You are latching onto isolated, high-profile incidents and using them to try to make claims about an entire system. This is analogous to saying \"You see every month about a plane crashing somewhere. Therefore, airplanes are horribly unsafe.\" \n\nFor every police encou... | false |
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"content": "CMV: I want to move very far away for college while my parents want me to stay local/in-state.\nThere are a few things I need to touch on; first and probably most important, I come from a family of means so while tuition is a factor it isn't going to be the sole purpose of the ... | [
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"content": "Your post would probably be better if you said why you want to be so far away. \n\nYou're in the northeast, that's probably the area most concentrated with good schools so there's no academic reason to go so far. \n\nI went to college 2.5 hours drive away from home and it ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: The European Union (and perhaps also the UN)'s current stance on gender issues unfairly neglects men and favours women\nThis is based on what I've experienced in my university summer (southern hemisphere) course, which is a euro-centric human rights course, which,\n\n>w... | [
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"content": "Well for starters you have to be aware that in many regions of the world women in particular are treated unfairly, and an organization the size of UN or EU cannot ignore this, so it's reasonable to expect research and literature on this topic. \n\nBut you also have to adm... | false |
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"content": "CMV: There is no way to justify eating meat, dairy, or eggs.\nWe are in an environmental crisis, and we as individuals and as a society have an urgent responsibility to live as sustainably as possible. As explained in [this article](http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-carbon-fo... | [
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"content": "> the further reductions when continuing to vegetarian and vegan diets are by no means insignificant.\n\nI agree, however, it's small enough that I would wager you could make a bigger difference by simply being smarter about where you source your food. I have no math t... | true |
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"content": "CMV: If we have the power to do so, we should uplift all animals to evolve and become as intelligent as we are because it would be the right thing to do.\nI just found out on Reddit that we have managed to significantly improve the intelligence level of mice by [injecting human... | [
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"content": "Why is being smart better? A dog who's well cared for is probably happier than I am. When they get a treat they're overjoyed and excited. I got to have some cake at work today, and it was a bit awkward and I worried about being the first person to eat their piece. I felt a... | false |
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"content": "CMV: America should get rid of the Grand Jury system\nThis was inspired by the events in Ferguson, but it goes beyond that. If a government agent is put before a grand jury for a crime, the prosecutor and the accused are both playing for the same team. The system is not adver... | [
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"content": "You have two points here to be addressed separately.\n\n1) They are a rubber-stamp court.\n\nI disagree that the high rate of indictments means that they're just a rubber stamp. Prosecutors know what the burden of evidence is that's required to get an indictment, so that'... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Laws Prohibiting Employment Of Individuals Under 15/16 Are Outdated, and Based on Old Problems\nBack in the late 19th century, and early 20th century, the treatment of employees, workplace conditions, and overall safety was at its absolute worst. People would suffer severe... | [
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"content": "For your points regarding safety, I agree. There are plenty of jobs that a teenager can easily do without any risk to their safety.\n\nI don't know how prevalent of a concern it is, but one thing you didn't mention is the existence of shitty parents who would basically pi... | false |
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"content": "CMV: If there is no God then life is meaningless. And if life is meaningless then it would be perfectly logical to commit suicide if life isn't what one wishes for it to be.\nAfter being in my Existentialism class all semester it is clear to me that without a God life is comple... | [
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"content": "Perhaps, but even *with* God, life is equally meaningless. Meaning is only injected into things by conscious rational beings. God doesn't get a special pass to create meaning.\n\nEven if a god did have such a special pleading applicable to it, I'm assuming since you're tal... | true |
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"content": "CMV:I think that it doesn't matter whether you graduate top of your class, or bottom, so long as you graduate.\nTo quote my high school philosophy teacher, \"What do they call a doctor who graduates bottom of his class? They still call him doctor.\" I'm lazy, I procrastinate, a... | [
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"content": "> I'll be happy to work as hard as I can \n\nThey all say that. I'll try hard in high school, I'll try hard at the university, I'll try hard at my job, I'll try hard at my next job. These are just another way of saying \"I'll try harder tomorrow\". They won't try harder... | false |
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"content": "CMV: Police should always shoot second\nA “shoot second” policy would allow police to return fire only after the perpetrator had taken the first shot. If there was an enforceable policy that police always shoot second tragedies like the [12 year-old](http://www.cnn.com/2014/1... | [
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"content": "Let's break this down.\n\n> Most perpetrators are not trained to use firearms and are a lot less likely to hit their target. \n\n\"A lot less likely\" is misleading, for one. For another, keep this in mind: That bullet doesn't just vanish the moment it fails to hit its ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: I believe I've read all the good books already, every single new stuff I read is mostly crap.\nHello guys,\n\nAvid reader here. I was inspired to post this by a post in /r/books where the OP re-reads some of the books he has read in the past instead of the new ones. That m... | [
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"content": "There are literally MILLIONS of new books published each year.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year\n\nIt is VANISHINGLY unlikely that you have already read all the good ones."
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"content": "CMV: It is hypocritical to be both pro-gun and staunchly pro-life.\nEdit: \"Pro-gun\", as I'm using it, is a stance supporting personal gun ownership on the basis of the 2nd Amendment and personal protection. This topic isn't about moderates who only support gun use for hobbies... | [
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"content": ">Unique to arguing that people should carry guns as opposed to pepper spray or other self-defense tools is that guns are used to kill, not incapacitate.\n\nThat's simply not true. It's about the ability to stop the threat, not to kill. I'm not aware of any self-defense ... | true |
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"content": "CMV: When referring to video games, numbers for health/damage should always be smaller and bigger doesn't make me feel any stronger.\nI understand that my title may be a tad confusing so I will attempt to explain.\n \nWhen playing a game, I believe that characters should have 1... | [
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"content": "It allows for more precise scaling and balancing of damage. A lot of games are very finely balanced, and not having large numbers causes the numbers to round and cut off, creating an arbitrary restriction in game design.\n\nIf you had 100 health, and a specific attack is ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: The \"anti-vaxxer\" circlejerk is one of the most obnoxious and overblown on Reddit.\nOn every fucking thread, there's always someone who's bitching about Jenny McCarthy or the anti-vaccination movement in general, and those posts, whether they are even relevant to the top... | [
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"content": "Maybe you just don't know any anti vaxxers? My aunt is one, and not only is it annoying but she is actively endangering her children, so yeah I'm going to be pretty pissed about it"
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"content": "CMV: Foreign intervention (military or sanctions) backfires so often that it is useless.\nWe are currently seeing a major Western intervention in Iraq and Syria, and I believe that it is doomed to fail. Per the carrot and stick paradigm, \"stick\" interventions (airstrikes, reg... | [
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"content": "I think drawing conclusions about the rest of time based on 2-3 conflicts the US has partially fought over a little more then a decade is premature and unfounded. \n\nI think there would be more response from our \"carrot\" and \"stick\" policies if they were more balanced... | true |
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"content": "CMV: When trying to understand behavior, it's always preferable to look for an explanation other than 'laziness'\nI don't think that there's such a thing as laziness, on its own -- I think the word can be used to describe behaviors, but those behaviors always have more complex ... | [
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"content": "Wife asks me to pass the TV remote control that is just 4 feet away from her. I tell her to get it herself. She says \"I'm too lazy to get up ... pleeezee\"\n\nWhat is that besides laziness? And how can you judge her actions as not being lazy when she explicitly says sh... | true |
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"content": "CMV: I think that morals and ethics (or simply put: ideas of right and wrong held by individuals or groups of individuals) are defined by culture and are not strictly objective.\nSo, this is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. For the first part of my life I was t... | [
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"content": "What does \"strictly objective\" mean?\n\nIs math \"strictly objective\"? \n\n\n--------\n\nI would argue that subjective and arbitrary roots of logic *do not* exclude objective facts about it, for example \"that color is red\" is considered factual enough that 1st graders... | false |
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"content": "CMV: College history courses have no place as a required course in most major curriculum.\nEDIT: Thank you to those of you who put thought into your responses and pushed me to consider another outlook. However, It would seem that a couple of the rest of you have chosen to pers... | [
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"content": "The goal of a college curriculum is to make you educated *in general*, and being able to analyze history is a significant part of that. If you really just wanted career training, you would have gone to a vocational school."
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"content": "CMV: Financed ownership and tenancy are virtually the same.\n(US) If you buy a house or other real estate property through a loan from a bank, you're still just a tenant. You don't own it. You're not the owner unless you build it or buy it free and clear. Banks try to brainwash... | [
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"content": "I have a mortgage, but I own my home. When I replaced windows I didn't have to ask the bank. They ccan't replace my windows. If I want to rent it I can. The bank can't rent it. If I want to tear down the garage, that's my call, not the bank's. I owe them money, sure,... | true |
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"content": "CMV: I have no responsibility to \"do anything\" or \"say anything\" in response to the Ferguson controversy.\nI'm sure many of you are aware of the controversies around the Ferguson shooting, protests, and riots. I am. However, I am an upper-middle-class white person, and whil... | [
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"content": "When something will affect you negatively, it won't affect others personally. They won't have a reason to care about what's happening to you, your family, or your demographic. You are claiming to only support or oppose issues that involve your race and economic status. Now... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Bitcoin isn't for the layman\nBitcoin now seems like it's for people who research to understand how it works. It's currently not as widely accepted like FIAT cash and don't think it will be anytime soon if at all. FIAT cash can easily be put in a bank or held physically ... | [
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"content": "You posed two different opinions which should be separate CMVs - \"Bitcoin isn't for the layman\" and \"Why should we try to push BTC mainstream?\".\n\nI agree with the first one, at the moment. However Bitcoin related services are constantly getting easier to use.\n\nHowe... | false |
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"content": "CMV: There is nothing wrong with a non-obese guy dating an obese woman, and people who think otherwise are bigots\nI'm using a throwaway because this concerns me personally and some of my friends know my regular account name. I hope that's okay with the mods. I'm a young guy (a... | [
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"content": "Holding men and women to different standards (expecting women to be beautiful by society's standard of beauty, expecting women to be nice, expecting men to be wealthy, expecting men to work hard, etc etc) is certainly a societal problem. But it isn't bigotry. They don't ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: I believe that referring, in a single work, to centuries as both the \"1800s\" and the \"19th Century\" is confusing and should be discouraged.\nBefore pointing out the reasons for their existence, I do understand that the deficit is because of the century 0-100 AD, which ... | [
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"content": "This isn't a problem with years, but with counting anything. In your 30th year means you are 29 years old (plus change). If you are halfway done writing your 10th page of notes, you have written 9.5 pages so far.\n\nLinguistically this is the difference between [cardinal a... | false |
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"content": "CMV: Knowledge is impossible\nKnowledge requires the truth of a statement to be guaranteed. This means that it has to be utterly impossible for the statement to be not true.\n\nIt is not possible to guarantee the truth of any statement. Even for statements that one cannot conce... | [
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"content": "Knowledge does not require guaranteed truth. [Knowledge](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knowledge) has a number of nuanced definitions, but the most common is an acquaintance with facts, techniques, or concepts. \n\nStart with acquaintance with concepts. That th... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Collegiate players should not play on Thanksgiving\nI think that it is unjust. These players do not get paid like NFL players yet are obligated to play on Thanksgiving. \n\nWorking on a holiday such as Thanksgiving is extremely frowned upon and is considered unjust, yet am... | [
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"content": "Ex college athlete here. \n\nI always did, and absolutely would love to play on Thanksgiving. Why would you take that away form the athletes?\n\nIt's a much bigger audience. It's a great time because school requirements are relaxed around the long weekend. Because the ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: Declawing a house cat is not inhumane.\nA house cat (note that I'm differentiating between house and outdoor) is perfectly fine to declaw to prevent destruction of furniture. The cat gets a life of luxury, we get good furniture. Fair trade for me. Also note, I would let... | [
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"content": "If it didn't involve removing a whole portion of their toes, sure. But it does. [It causes them to walk on the wrong part of their foot and often leads to arthritis as t hey get older.](http://www.littlebigcat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Clawed-vs-Declawed-Toes-791x1024... | false |
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"content": "CMV: Think that the Ferguson jury made the right call based on the evidence provided.\nOkay, so I know that racial profiling by police and fascism is still a big problem in America, I know that. But if I was on that jury and the victim was white, I of course would have voted no... | [
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"content": "First, need to clarify a few facts.\n\nThe Ferguson jury didn't find Wilson not guilty. There would have needed to be criminal charges for them to find him not guilty. They decided that there wasn't probable cause that a crime had been committed, so no criminal charges w... | true |
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"content": "CMV: The AR15 style rifle has little purpose for the average American, other than for fun.\nI'm quite pro gun and argue about guns regularly on reddit. I advocate conceal carrying and think the law abiding citizen should own whatever they want. However, when it comes to debate,... | [
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"content": "> If China was able to invade (lol... let’s pretend, ok?) , they’d have to put up with the locals as they drove down our streets, which would involve vehicle blockades and home made bombs, in addition to guns.\n\nWeapons don't make one a soldier, training does. A group ... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Using italics in an internet discussion forum signals condescension, and is a really rude way to reply to someone\nI like to be brief, but it does specify 500 characters. Basically, to give an example:\n\n*Maybe* you're talking about the *preferred gender pronouns* because... | [
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"content": "I just checked my post history, and the last time I used italics was to stress a point, and I think it works quite well for this purpose. It was in /r/askphilosophy and some kid wanted help with a paper. He said that he would cite anyone who helped him in his paper.\n\nI h... | true |
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"content": "CMV: The United States picked a better day for Thanksgiving than Canada did.\nI'm Canadian, but I've always liked the idea of a late November Thanksgiving. In theory, it establishes an agreeable boundary for when the massive marketing build up to Christmas changes from too ear... | [
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"content": "The growing season is shorter in Canada. Thanksgiving is about feasting, so it's best to do it when the food is most plentiful."
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"content": "CMV: (2014 - 1865 =) 149 years of 'not slavery' does not erase (1865 - 1620 =) 245 years of slavery.\nThe internet is buzzing with the events taking place in Ferguson, and a lot of 'conservatives' (or whatever) keep rehashing the same type of arguments regarding the american dr... | [
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"content": "The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between. Black Americans were first brought to this country as slaves, and they lived as slaves for hundreds of years. After emancipation, they were treated for at least another hundred years as second-class citizens. And the idea that,... | false |
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"content": "CMV: The \"Harry Potter\" books make absolutely no sense if we are supposed to believe that the magic world where they are set exists within our own, real world.\n\"Harry Potter\" is supposed to take place in a magical world that exists within our own world, unbeknownst to us n... | [
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"content": "Wizards have all kinds of protective spells and enchantments. They can teleport instantly, they can make it so their positions can't be seen by muggles, or plotted on maps. How could they be bombed?\n\nI mean this is literally a world where, \"a wizard did it\" is a regul... | false |
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"content": "CMV:Reddit has been primarily racist in regards to what is happening in Ferguson (repost as I broke rule E, hope this is okay!)\nAfter being on reddit the past couple of days (following Ferguson) it appears as if a lot of the posts that are being upvoted are just thinly-veiled ... | [
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"content": "Reddit is a large community. Given the racially-charged nature of recent events, it's not at all surprising that you can readily find examples of overt racism, some of which are undoubtedly trolls and others of which are undoubtedly genuine.\n\nBut some of the examples yo... | false |
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"content": "CMV: If all a modern art piece does is make you question whether it's art, it's terrible.\nI've gotten into a number of discussions about the validity of certain types of modern art, those being ones such as a blank canvas, or random splats with no thought behind it. \nPeople ... | [
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"content": "CMV: The current guidelines for naming asteroids are crude and woefully inadequate.\nFor those who are not aware, asteroids receive their common (as opposed to systematic) names incredibly loosely; nearly anything is permitted so long as it is less than 16 characters long. The ... | [
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"content": "CMV: people like al sharpton, Facebook SJWs and the media love to rally around cases where they know they are wrong- because their goal is not justice, it's attention for themselves.\nI know there is a problem with how the cops treat black people. But why are the cases that are... | [
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"content": "CMV:Rating systems need to give more weight to helpful or most-agreed-with reviews\nRatings of pretty much anything (whether its movies or only retail products) can often be misleading when the overall \"rating\" is completely different from the ratings of the most legitimate r... | [
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"content": "CMV: Triangles are superior to squares\nI am completely convinced that a triangle is a superior shape to a square. Some of my reasons for it:\n\n**Triangles are strong.** The triangle is an important part of bridge building, no square is going to do that.\n\n**Triangles are v... | [
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"content": "CMV: Belief in an idea should solely depend on your ability to debate it. Failure to debate an idea should result in you automatically accepting the counter argument.\nIt's very common for people to hold views that they cannot defend in debate. It is my view that the only rati... | [
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"content": "CMV: I think The Red Pill is basically a Religon\nSo I've only recently heard about The Red Pill(TRP). From what I've seen, followers of TPR base their **lives** around men's rights and the idea that the way men are brought up in society makes the submissive, and needs to be ch... | [
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"content": "CMV: Police should be required to use dash cameras and wear body cameras at all times.\nThis would serve the dual purpose of holding cops accountable in the event of fuckery, and vindicating any use of force if justified. I can see zero reason why this would be a bad idea. It... | [
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"content": "It eliminates police discretion. \n\nThere are absolutely policemen who violate our rights and abuse the system. But that's part of what happens in a system; some people abuse it. \n\nNo one is going to talk to the police if they have a camera. No one is going to tell a po... | false |
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"content": "CMV: I believe it is a cop out to pull the race card on something as complex and unknown as the Ferguson incident.\nHear me out before commenting, please. Over the past 24 hours I have seen so many bullshit posts on facebook about this. Being from the south, all of my old fri... | [
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"content": "All of the discussion around the Michael Brown shooting and the Ferguson outrage has been confusing because it's bounced between facts of the case and the systemic injustice of the non-indictment ruling. I think discussion around the case could be more straight-forward if ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: Multiculturalism is impossible due to flaws in human nature.\nHumans have existed for tens of thousands of years before forming the first semblances of civilization. For the majority of that time, people, when confronted with people who are different, have this thought ch... | [
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"content": "It wasn't too long ago that people of Irish, Italian, and other non-Anglo European ethnicities were treated as second-class citizens in the US. Fast-forward to today--now the \"tribe\" has been extended to include them as White. \n\nAnother example is that of indigenous ... | true |
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"content": "CMV: The media should only be allowed to report proven facts in the middle of a trial or investigation dealing with murder or other serious crimes\nGiven that the mainstream media in the US is now entertainment news instead of actual news, I think that when they stop reporting ... | [
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"content": "CMV:/r/redditarmie should be banned for the continuous raiding and vote-manipulation of YouTube comments.\n*\"Those who spend their time pretending to be obnoxious idiots aren't really pretending.\"*\n\nIn case anyone's unfamiliar with the subreddit and its users, they're the g... | [
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"content": "CMV: In countries run by democracy people can never blame the government for any action or lack of action that eventually leads to undesired outcomes.\nMy point is that since people elect their representatives which (by definition) represent them in parliament, anything that go... | [
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"content": "I'll make this as short as possible\n\nI live in the UK\n\nI did NOT vote for the conservatives and yet they are the ones in power, doing things I disagree with\n\nMany people voted for the Lib Dems in the last election, because they were looking like a promising third par... | false |
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"content": "CMV: The Disney short film Feast disgusts me\nI'm referring to this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_%282014_film%29\n\nWhat would happen if you tried that in real life: the dog would get a bunch of severe health problems, become obese, and soon die. Basically a situatio... | [
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"content": "CMV: If you regularly spend money on cigarettes, alcohol, or other types of drugs while you are financially struggling, you are an irresponsible person.\nNormally my politics are extremely left leaning, and I always give struggling people the benefit of the doubt. \n\nHowever, ... | [
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"content": "CMV: Canada should not increase the corporate tax rate, but should instead increase sales taxes and individual income taxes for wealthy individuals\nMore and more people in Canada seem to be thinking that an increase in taxes might become a more attractive idea in the short ter... | [
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"content": "CMV: C is the worst letter in English.\nIn a language nefarious for redundancy (which is not *always* bad I concede), the letter C stands out as being particularly useless. Both of its primary uses create sounds that are already represented by other letters - soft C is S and ha... | [
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"content": "CMV: Praying away illness in lieu of modern medicine is child abuse, and should be a crime.\nAdults should be able to make their own decisions on health and the use of medicine. However, children are at the mercy of their guardians for medical care. I am not judging the merits ... | [
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"content": "CMV: There is nothing wrong with telling kids that Santa exists.\nAn increasingly popular idea, especially on Reddit it seems, is to not tell children Santa exists. There seems to be two main reasons behind this:\n\n1.) We shouldn't teach kids to behave well in order to get thi... | [
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"content": "Your point that this has been going on for generations isn't an actual argument. It's similar to those who say that harsh physical punishments for children have been going on for generations and their parents/grandparents have been \"fine\". The argument doesn't actually a... | false |
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"content": "CMV: The Wolfgang Puck Pressure Oven is similar to an unpressurized roaster oven.\nMy wife has seen compelling commercials for the Wolfgang Puck Pressure Oven - see a review [here](http://www.cnet.com/products/wolfgang-puck-pressure-oven/).\n\nThe premise and idea make no sense... | [
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"content": "CMV: The Libertarian view is contradictory\n**edit**: as many pointed out, when I refer to \"libertarians\" in my arguments, I actually mean \"anarcho-capitalists\". Ie libertarians who support laissez-fair capitalism and private property.\n\nTo my understanding, Libertarians a... | [
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"content": "CMV: I think 'open' relationships are for commitment phobes waiting for something better to come along that don't want to be alone in the interim.\nI'd like to think I am a pretty logical and progressive person. However. This open relationship thing has started to come up more ... | [
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"content": "How many partners have you had who were perfectly synchronized to your emotional, spiritual, romantic, and sexual needs/desires? Who wanted to cuddle whenever you did, who wanted the same things in life, who wanted sex when you did, whose schedule never clashed?\n\nMy coun... | false |
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"content": "CMV:Hunting is only ethical if done out of necessity\nHunting mammals is only ethical when the person doing it needs to do it to survive or not suffer (e.g. experiencing severe although not life threatening hunger). If there are any other options than to kill, those should be p... | [
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"content": "Hunting is also done on many areas as a form of population control. In most areas, animals like deer still exist in high populations, but predators, like bears and wolves, have been driven out by humans.\n\nIn these areas where prey exist unfettered, populations explode. D... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Reposts of popular topics (even if they are karmawhoring) are a good thing for reddit\nI see a lot of people complaining when a topic gets brought up several times in a relatively short space of time or if someone does a repost of something popular.\n\nI think this is actu... | [
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"content": "CMV: The downvote button is pointless, and should be removed from Reddit.\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1c6881/mod_post_so_the_experiment_of_no_downvotes_is/ is a good example of how removing the downvote button has improved the quality of a subreddit, but let ... | [
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"content": "CMV: Even though same sex couples can marry, I don't want to get married ever\nSo I am a 24 year old gay guy and I have been criticized by some gay guys for having no real interest in same sex marriage and admitting that its something that isn't going to affect my life in the s... | [
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"content": "CMV: Human civilization reached a high point during the Enlightenment, and has been on the decline ever since.\nThe Enlightenment Period brought the most fundamental changes to the way people thought sinc. Whenever I think about the state of civilization today versus back then,... | [
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"content": "CMV: There is absolutely nothing insulting about being interested in someone only for sex\nThere is nothing wrong or insulting with wanting to have sex with someone and only being interested in a human being for sex. There is nothing to feel bad about if someone feels this way... | [
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"content": "> Why can most men accept the idea of being objectified and not have it be important, perhaps just a nice compliment. And when it happens to women it becomes a huge issue, it becomes about someone taking away from your very humanity, reducing you to an object etc.\n\nBe... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Subjects such as gender studies and pedagogics are stalling in terms of new discoveries because of dismissing empirical evidence.\nI am under the impression that subjects like gender studies and pedagogics are dismissing the amount of empirical evidence which exist in the ... | [
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"content": "CMV: If a person is triggered by something, they have a moral obligation to themselves to make a devoted effort to overcome it/desensitize themselves.\nI say this as someone who has spent much of her adult life doing this for myself. Sometimes it has been easy (dissociating a s... | [
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"content": "CMV:Anything sold in a jar should be sold in a wide-mouth mason jar\nToday I made some spaghetti and the sauce came in a [regular glass jar](https://www.photospin.com/content/photos/full/185_2835931.jpg) like this.[**Edit: Sometimes it even comes in [a more extreme jar, like th... | [
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"content": "CMV: That size doesn't matter. That a guy with a small penis will never be as good in bed than a guy with an average sized or hung penis and that the stigma of a small penis makes it even worse.\nSmall as in below 5\". Average being 5.5\"-6\" and hung to 7\"+.\n\nThe reason I b... | [
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"content": "What do you want to get out of this CMV?\n\nDo you want counterarguments? There exist happily married fathers with small penises, so obviously something is working for them, given that you have to have sex (usually more than once) to father a child. And there exist many sa... | false |
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"content": "CMV: Financial privacy is a basic human right\nFinancial privacy is fundamentally no different than data privacy. \n\nThe political left harshly criticizes governments who systematically spy on email communications of their citizens but at the same time they are enthusiastic su... | [
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"content": "CMV: Tropical governments have disproportionately higher amounts of corruption than non-tropical governments.\nFirst, I'll state that I have mostly anecdotes to support my view but it is one I completely believe in. Additionally, I have no idea if it's a popular opinion or not.... | [
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"content": "This is pretty silly. But it's not caused by the climate. It's caused by the legacy of colonialism. There's a reason the big exceptions are settler states (Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius) or states where Colonialism touched lightly (Botswana). It's also telling that som... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Anyone who lives on a native reservation should not get welfare from the American government.\nNative American reservations are not considered American land, I am not even entirely sure people born on reservations are citizens, but that is besides the point. \n\nIf you cho... | [
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"content": "Native American reservations are considered American land, and the people living on them pay federal taxes. I don't know who told you otherwise, but they were wrong.\n\nNow, they're not considered part of the *state* they're located in, and they don't pay state taxes. Whic... | true |
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"content": "CMV: I generally support Obama's executive action on Immigration.\nSo I am fairly supportive of the program that Obama proposed in his speech tonight. Specifically, I see three big reasons its good:\n\n* It concretely helps a lot of people, by giving them the ability to lawful... | [
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"content": "CMV: I Believe It's Better To Tell 75 People That They're Losing Their Jobs Now, Before The Holidays.\nI'm selling a business, and the buyers have made it clear that they're only interested in the land that the business is on and that they will be tearing the place down.\n\nMy ... | [
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"content": "CMV: Legislators should have to vote in secrecy.\nThe idea behind it being, to take the politics out of legislating.\n\n\nCongressmen and Senators often times are forced into voting a specific way, because otherwise they risk disenfranchising their party, as such they're liable... | [
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"content": "CMV: Harshly criticizing your competitor by name would make for quality advertising.\nCommercials are generally sanguine or annoying. How many times can we hear \"I was born free!\" Chevy commercials? Just once I'd like to see Chevy say \"The F150 is a poor choice and here are ... | [
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"content": "Negative advertising is pretty common, but it is mostly relegated to markets where there are only two options (like political campaigns). Coke and Pepsi have gotten into negative advertising over the years as well (aka the Pepsi Challenge)\n\nIf Chevy makes a commercial a... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Piracy is a form of civil disobedience against unjust copyright laws.\nI side with the pirate party on the view that the ability to share information is more important than the ability to sell information. I see restrictions on the ability to freely modify and remix conten... | [
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"content": "Isn't it awfully convenient how it also means that you don't have to pay people for their work? When the actions (piracy) and the incentives (not paying money) line up so well, there's no reason to think that there's such a complex motivation behind it.\n\n\"Piracy is peo... | false |
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"content": "CMV: The new \"normal\" Barbie makes me respect adult women less.\nFor those out of the loop: http://time.com/3593968/the-new-normal-barbie-comes-with-an-average-womans-proportions-and-cellulite-sticker-extension-packs/\n\nI look at things like this and their male counterparts... | [
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"content": "Well, feminists generally don't approve of GI-Joe or He-Man-like figures either, so I am not sure what the issue is. They are in favor of realistic figurines and against unrealistic ones. Why is that a problem?"
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"content": "CMV: when someone sues the government, the case should not go to a public/government court because that's a conflict of interest\nP1. A third party who works for the same organization as the defendant should not be considered unbiased (if you sue Coca Cola, you wouldn't want so... | [
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"content": "CMV: Calling an Iranian \"Arab\" should be categorized as hate crime\nI've never been to a Western country. But on the internet, I've witnessed Westerners calling us Iranians \"Arab\" or \"Arabic\" and I've been called Arab a few times myself.\n\nI would not care if anyone call... | [
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"content": "Mistakes are not hate crimes. In fact, it's barely even name calling. The term Arab isn't disrespectful, or hateful - it's just a description of a group you happen not to belong to. \n\nIn fact, the post you provided is full of intolerance and bigotry against Arabs, bu... | true |
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"content": "CMV: There is no such thing as \"Ethical Consumerism\"\nWith black friday coming up, I thought this would be a fun topic to discuss.\n\nEthical consumerism is a type of consumer activism that is based on the concept of dollar voting. It is practiced through 'positive buying' in... | [
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"content": "CMV: 'Democracy' is an facade.\nEDIT: and of course, on my longest and most thought-out post, I fuck up the title.\n\nAs an American, I've been thinking about the democratic system, and it is a massive facade, an impossibility and a paradox. There are a few points I would like ... | [
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"content": "To paraphrase Winston Churchill's sentiment on the topic, **Democracy is the worst form of government...except for everything else.**\n\nThe power of democracy is not how well it works.\n\nIt's true power is about forcing a change in leadership, and forcing that change to ... | false |
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"content": "CMV: There will be war.\nHello. I actually don't know how to write this, since I am really scared.\n\nI am 23 years old, studying IT in Germany. I've never looked much TV, sometimes Sci-Fi, sometimes documentations and so on, but I didn't watch news regularly when I was like 10... | [
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"content": "CMV: I believe the future of global society is dark and sinister\nI just feel like the future looks very sinister for the global society. Governments are spying on us more than ever, they have the ability to manipulate and oppress us on a scale never seen before.\nEurope's econ... | [
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"content": ">Europe's economy is slowly crumbling and with it many its advancements to society.\n\nEconomies rise and fall, I wouldn't say this is a big deal (For the future, obviously for the present it would be a big deal) unless it lasts for many many decades.\n\nThe thing is, t... | true |
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"content": "CMV: Jon Haidt's theory about how disgust/authority/loyalty intuitions determine political views is flawed in its methodology\nBasically Jon Haidt tested Care/harm, Fairness/cheating, Liberty/oppression, Loyalty/betrayal, Authority/subversion, and Sanctity/degradation and found... | [
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"content": "CMV: Relationships are pointless since I can find everything in one elsewhere.\nTo give a little bit of background of myself, I'm currently a 21 year old male and a senior in college, looking to get my degree in Computer Science next year. About 2 years ago, I exited an abusive... | [
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"content": "CMV: It is extremely unlikely I will be \"successful\" in life without going into a lot of debt.\nI am 32M with an Associates Degree. I have no debt currently. \n\nI work as a server in an upscale restaurant. I am learning computer programming on my own to try to create a bette... | [
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"content": "CMV: I should have gone to Space Camp when I was a kid.\nBack in the late 90s and early 2000s I always wanted to go to Space Camp (the official NASA one in Mobile, Alabama). I used to see commercials for it on TV and they made it look like the coolest, most fun thing ever. Howe... | [
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"content": "hello friend, i went to nasa camp.\n\nIt was based in florida, it occured in the 1980's\n\ni do not now recall if it was an official nasa thing, dad is dead, mom would say it was official no matter what.\n\nwe did a lot of space things, we did see some official rockets, we... | true |
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"content": "CMV:Immigrants who are illegal and/or do not pay taxes, should not get any public service that come from tax money\nThis includes any sort of welfare assistance, health care, etc. I honestly don't care if they come to America or not. They do some good, and they do some bad. But... | [
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"content": "Are you talking about income taxes, or all taxes? For example, everyone pays sales taxes when they purchase almost anything. If an illegal immigrant purchases alcohol or tobacco they are paying taxes. If they buy gas then they are paying taxes. If they own property they pa... | false |
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"content": "CMV: Waffle House does not actually sell waffles, and they are only trying to deceive you.\nWhile I was growing up, I had never eaten at a Waffle House, so I had grown up on Cracker Barrel, IHOP and Denny's, all respectable breakfast eateries. Now, I'm not arguing here that Waf... | [
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"content": "You're limiting waffles to just Belgian style waffles which are puffy in the middle and crisp on the outside. But there are lots of other traditional waffles that aren't thick.\n\nBy far the most prominent is the [pizelle waffle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzelle). T... | true |
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