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Because the Standard Model doesn't explain particle mass, scientists rely on other measurements and mathematical equations to do so, which come with a level of uncertainty
| Missing components of the Standard Model has lead to the impossibility of it being able to predict particle masses accurately.
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The London Legacy Development Corporation the LLDC, in charge of overseeing the Olympic development and its future was given a target to be self-sustaining as soon as possible and before 2020. However, the corporation and its associated assets - such as the Olympic Park - are operating at a significant loss with expenditure still exceeding incoming revenue.
| The conversion of the Olympic stadium into a multi-purpose venue is said to be costing the UK taxpayer £20m per year.
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Many of our achievements as a civilization have relied on controlling our violent and destructive tendencies and being compassionate instead. Choosing non-violence or minimal violence when it comes to our food is the next logical step in the development of a civilized population that grows beyond its biological instincts.
| A world of veganism would be a more ethical world: its morals would bring benefits to human society.
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Most religions spread and are still existing because of social pressure like in Islamic cultures, indoctrination like Christening in Christianity or even violence.
| Religiosity is currently a sign of societies' failure: the least religious societies tend to be the most successful.
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An unstable and fragile porn industry often does not respect performers rights and health protections.
| Watching free porn will harm the industry, by taking away from direct profit.
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Socialist arg: UBI is a clever way of dealing with poverty as it will provide a base level of income security to the economically weakest individuals in a society.
| UBI could be a fix for when robots take over a big chunk of our jobs and cause mass unemployment
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David L. Phillips. "Turkey's Dreams of Accession". Foreign Affairs. Sept/Oct. 2004 - "Turkey is a secular Muslim democracy and a crucial ally for the West. The eastern flank of NATO, straddling Europe and Asia, it played a critical role in containing the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In the 1990s, it helped monitor Saddam Hussein and protect Iraqi Kurds by permitting U.S. warplanes to use its bases. After the September 11, 2001, attacks, it became a staging area for coalition forces in Afghanistan, where Turkish forces eventually assumed overall command of the International Stabilization Force. Turkey continues to be a pivotal partner in the fight against al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, despite attacks by radical Islamists at home."
| Turkey's EU membership would help the fight against terrorism
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Rules of organized religions are methodically made so adherents cannot live without sin thought sins etc., forcing the adherents into constant guilt and they don't have internalized morals, since they rely on fear of God rather than really thinking something is immoral.
| Much of the practices of religion are conducive towards good mental health. It is therefore likely that religion has been a good mediator of mental health for humans.
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While speaking to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Obama said that he would “consider it a personal insult" to his "legacy" if the African American community failed to vote, while encouraging them to vote for Hillary.
| According to many reports, Obama felt that Hillary Clinton's Presidency would further his own policy agenda, and hence solidify and advance his legacy.
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Campaigning by elected politicians makes heavy use of emotionalising mass manipulation through propaganda, and in this way also campaigning on political topics is driven by re-election considerations. In Austria, we saw parties switching their programmatic position to the exact opposite, even multiple times, when a political opponent party switched theirs e.g. on CETA Agreement, on compulsory military service
| The focus of politics is often not on governing, but on getting re-elected.
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So, I'm sure you all know that depression is an awful, debilitating disease that in 99 of cases prevents the afflicted from living a normal, productive life. We also know that medication, ECT and therapy don't work for everyone the so called treatment resistant ones, who can't get any relief from their symptoms. We also know that even depressed people sometimes raise children. The depressed often feel suicidal, and it's often only the efforts of others that actually stops them from going through with it. I say we stop this. I say we should legalise euthanasia for this purpouse, the more depressed people decided to give up and kick the bucket the better it will be for society. I would actually argue it's in fact immoral for those with severe, treatment resistant depression to bring children into the world not only would they not be able to care for them properly and give them the attention and love they deserve depression is indeed a very selfish illness but they'd be passing on their defective genes, and potentailly dooming their children and their children's children to a life of suffering and misery. It only makes rational sense to encourage these no hopers to take their own lives. Thoughts?
| Should we encourage people with severe depression to kill themselves to remove their defective genes from the gene pool?
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Alyssa Milano is often credited with starting the Me Too movement when it was in fact a woman of colour, Tarana Burke who really started the movement.
| The #MeToo movement has received wide criticism for its emphasis on white women's narratives as opposed to women of colour.
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The government cannot shut down opinions, just because some people disagree. Shutting down protests in front of abortion clinics would create a precedent to shut down common protests against banking sector, death penalty, the oil lobby etc. as well.
| Banning people from protesting at abortion clinics represents a violation of their right to free speech.
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It seems that sometimes we are “forced” to stay with someone we don’t find all that attractive because it’s said that “looks don’t matter” and “it’s the personality that really counts”. I think that’s the wrong way of thinking. I believe that if you want to start a relationship with someone, you should do so on your own terms, let that be looks, personality, charisma or even weight, height or race. You should not be judged by your criteria when it comes to dating. Im not saying you can’t give your opinion when asked for it or anything, but I just think that our current culture tries to make everybody great and special when, in reality, you might just not be the truth all the time. All I’m saying is, you should make your decisions because it’s your life and future and nobody else’s business.
| Physical attributes should be a valid reason to start, stay in or leave a relationship.
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I understand this is very childish to get angry about and I know that it's all about synchronization but for someone who's just getting into the workforce, it doesn't make any sense. We are all not morning people. I myself am naturally nocturnal when I leave my sleep schedule unattended and know I'm not the only one. And now half or a good portion of us are forcing our bodies to act in an unnatural state via alarms and addictive caffeine to barely get any work done for a couple hours in the morning. It's not even just morning people and night people, everyone has different times of day where their productivity peaks, and not working at those times is wasteful. Maybe it worked in the past where everyone has to work together at the exact same time but what if I want to see a doctor or dentist during my free time? I have to use up extra time and resources to go during work even though there's plenty of time in the rest of the day to get it done. There are more than enough people to split up the day. It doesn't even have to be around midnight, all I'm really asking for are just 2 3 hours of variation 9am 5pm, 12pm 8pm . Even then, you're still getting more than half of your hours in the same cooperation. With those extra three hours, you can prepare for the day ahead tomorrow. Even if you don't take that, I find it hard to believe that out of the 8 hours, you are constantly working with someone else without 1 3 hours of time working by yourself. And it's not like you're missing out on Friday night considering the night usually begins after 9 10. What about everyone meeting for dinner? That dream has been long gone for years. Why? Cause it wasn't productive. Everyone has and should have their own schedules and modern technology allows them to synchronize at times when necessary. And don't say dinner is the biggest meal of the day that you can't have it at work. Breakfast should be that meal of the day, instead of having the excess energy gets turned into fat as we sleep. In algorithm form, it's insane. Now I know using a computer metaphor is not the best considering most of us leave the computer off or sleeping through most of the day and then use it for many different functions all at once. But if we could instead spread those processes out over all different times of the day, the same amount of work will get done with less congestion. That really is the better example, network systems. Instead of allowing only a specific time frame to have data transfer causing massive congestion, allowing constant minimal access would make things easier. Again, I understand how childish this all sounds childish and I really appreciate it if you have read this far through my rant and I know there are many people with night jobs but it drives me crazy that my best argument for why it's still the system is that people are lazy with scheduling so everyone must have the same schedule as the morning people. It also explains why most people in the workforce are depressed we have to force our bodies to this unnatural situation for inefficient purposes.
| I believe having mostly everyone working 9am-5pm is an inefficient system
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Some evidence suggests that implementing such a technology could result in droughts in India and increased rainfall in China, possibly incentivizing unilateral implementation Keith.
| This technology could be unilaterally distributed by a nation that may believe they'll benefit from it.
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By the same logic, the estimated 5% of China's population that are Christians would not face many problems. Yet more than half of them are organized in semi-legal underground churches, which exemplifies the difficulties they face.
| These numbers tell us very little about the circumstances and difficulties these non-meat eaters face.
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7. Tourism Gets a Push Tourism featured prominently in the government’s action plan. Its prime target has been to make India a world class travel destination. In last one year, the visa system underwent a major revamp. Introduction of visa-on-arrival service for all leading nations was a key step in this direction. Moreover, growth has been reportedly observed in the number of foreign tourist arrivals after the Modi government came to power.
| Modi-led government is clocking over a year at the wheel. 1. Make in India To facilitate investment, boost research & development R&D, ensure product originality and create skill-based jobs by establishing industrial sector; major national programme was started by Narendra Modi. Modi has reached out to the world with his idea of ‘Make in India’ and it has generated positive response from foreign companies.
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Argentina has only ever achieved effective control of the islands, as invaders, for 2 months in 1832 and 2 months in 1982. On each occassion they were ejected by the rightful owners. There has never been a population of 'Argentines' on the islands, nor was there any indigineous indians there before the British claimed the islands in 1765. The islanders are therefore the rightful people of the islands and their rights of self determination are fully protected under the UN Charters and Resolutions.
| Argentina's historical and territorial/geographical claims to the islands are spurious.
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The virus may enter the target organ by diffusing through gaps in the capillaries or by hitching a ride on a migrating white blood cell.
| Inside a body, viruses depend on existing channels of movement to move from one place or cell to another.
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Cape Town's townships have a high level of vigilantism due to the police force not responding to events in a suitable time frame, or not at all.
| South Africa is an excellent example of this cause of vigilantism.
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The police and military in El Salvador regularly and violently target those in the LGBTQ community, including such offenses as rape.
| Police regularly targets members of the LGBTQ community, particularly queers of color.
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Shamir's Secret Sharing allows multiple people to own a "share" of the recovery phrase, requiring a minimum threshold of people to access the wallet.
| Using Shamir's secret sharing, it can be broken into an m of n recovery scheme. iancoleman.io
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The projected lifespan of uranium must be compared to that of oil, gas and coal which are irrefutably running out. Uranium supply is expected to last for over 200 years, which could be extended to 30,000 with modern technologies. There has not been sufficient research undertaken to explore new potential sites, new forms or ways of prolonging the life of that which we already have access to. For example, it has been claimed recently that there are potential alternatives to uranium which could be used in the nuclear process: "There is also almost always thorium, a lightly radioactive metal, in the same ores, and it has to be disposed of." This disposal would create the same amount of energy as nuclear fission. The USA and Australia have potentially very big mines for rare earths and they are going to be producing Thorium as a waste product anyway, what better way to dispose of it than by creating energy?1 1Tim Worstall, You Don't Bring a Praseodymium Knife to a Gunfight, Foreign Policy, 29/9/10, See also:
| The supply of uranium needed for nuclear power is not actually unlimited, renewable or sustainable
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There is already a strain on the current UK curriculum, with 54% of parents wanting more time to be devoted to teaching their children personal finance skills Adding this to the curriculum should be prioritised over coding.
| Adding coding to the school curriculum means that something else must be left out.
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Non-monogamous lifestyles lead to personal growth because one has several partners to get feedback from.
| Sex without emotional attachment allows one the freedom to find other people.
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I just got Arby’s and realized they serve all their sauces in packets, whereas a restaurant like Chick fil a serves all their sauces in dipping cups. My argument has one main point packet sauces are only advantageous if you’re putting the contents onto the entree. If you’re dipping, they’re objectively worse because you need another surface to put your sauce on and dip. So, to be clear. Something like mayonnaise is fine in packet form because people in the US rarely dip into mayo. The common sauces and condiments should be in dipping cup form because they serve a wider set of purposes better. Yes I am fat, and yes I am stoned.
| Sauces at fast food restaurants should always be served in dipping cup style
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Often times I'll see friends family complaining about how they were stiffed by a particularly rude customer, and then they'll launch into a rant about proper tipping etiquette which will normally say something like ALWAYS tip 20 , and even consider tipping 25 30 if the service is good. Remember we are only paid minimum tipping wage, we rely on these tips to survive If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to go out 1 There is no mandatory set rate for what we should tip. Demanding 20 is a bit ironic when tipping is literally an optional thing. 2 You are being shafted by your management not the customers. Management is who pays you 3.40 an hour they've made it the customer's responsibility to pay you, which is systematically broken. Your managers are also the ones who make you split your tips with the bussers and cookstaff. Not the customers. 3 If you don't like the system, go get another job that does pay a set rate. 4 The reason you don't leave your current job is because, with tipping, you're usually making well above the normal minimum wage rate. You're just pissed that you didn't make well above that rate on this particular table that you're posting to social media about. 5 Don't forget that you operate like an independent contractor, but you're NOT an independent contractor. You're saving 7.8 of income by working through an employer. Many waiters will also only report the default in my state 1 an hour for tips when they make well over that amount, saving much more on federal state income tax than the average worker. So in conclusion, my view is tipping is a system that has been exploited by American employers to make paying their employees their customers' problem. As a member of waitstaff it is entitled to demand that the broken system works for you by shifting the blame to your customers. If you hate it so much, find another job in the food service that will pay better without becoming a chef or managing a restaurant, there isn't one . Disclaimers I've spent 4 years in food service, this is not totally foreign to me. I understand that the system will not change overnight, so I never stiff a waiter. I will always pay a bare minimum of 10 if the service was awful and 20 if the service was wonderful. I just can't stand the rants. gt This is a footnote from the moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please read through our rules If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which, downvotes don't change views Any questions or concerns? Feel free to message us Happy ing
| Demanding that customers always tip 20% is an entitled viewpoint.
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Without physical strength, women can be more prone to injury. If women gets injured more easily, they can become a burden for themselves less future job prospects and society more disability claims and payouts.
| Women do not have the physical strength to do this work.
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In light of last year's NSA controversy, Americans can have no reasonable expectation that anything that they enter into a personal device that is connected to the Internet is truly private. This means that anyone using a biometric fingerprint scanner must assume that they have willingly and knowingly uploaded at least one fingerprint to a government database, as it is not unreasonable to assume so and it cannot be proven otherwise. The only purpose that such a database serves is to aid law enforcement in arresting and convicting individuals of crimes, meaning that is against the best interests of any individual guilty or wrongly accused to be in such a database if avoiding it is reasonably possible. Many new smartphones have included biometric fingerprint scanners under their control buttons, most notably the Apple iPhone 5S and 5C, and the Samsung S5. Due to the location of these scanners under primary function keys , using the device without accessing the scanner is impossible. Source after source have shown that biometric scanners are roughly equivalent to locking your front door and hiding the key under the doormat they will protect you only from thieves who have no idea what they are doing. In addition, they create a false sense of security that may lead users to establish bad security habits like leaving themselves logged in to services like Paypal, iTunes, or the email account used to recover their password for the same. In the end, a biometric scanner is less protective than a simple password lock, encourages bad habits, and potentially puts the user into a government database without their knowledge This is less relevant for countries that require fingerprinting for the issuing renewal of state IDs . In exchange, they offer a tiny amount of convenience in unlocking the phone and only the most basic prevention of data theft. To me, this seems like a losing proposition by a wide margin. Change my view.
| Buying a smartphone or other device with a fingerprint scanner is an unnecessary compromise of one's personal security.
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A nationally representative survey conducted in March 2017 found that 61% of US voters opposed religious exemption laws. The survey was conducted on behalf of the National Women’s Law Center.
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I hate it when I see an advert telling Americans to ask their doctor about X drug. It’s your doctors job to prescribe you the drug, and a patient asking for a drug is just going to be an inconvenience at best. The government should step in and stop this firms trying to advertise drugs as if they were candy, a citizen with no medical knowledge should not be asking for a possibly harmful drug because the tv “told him so”. The fact is, people are dumb, medical experts are not. The use of a drug should come from a medical expert verifying its usefulness and suitability, not from a person that may not even know what a kidney is. These people put pressure on their doctors to do a bad job and it’s all because these goddamn companies want to earn a profit at their expense.
| The government should ban advertisements for drugs
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Especially with regard to the negative moral implications nearly all determinists make even as they deny it the burden lies at the feet of science to prove free will wrong, not at free will to prove it exists.
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I'm not talking about whether or not someone who was innocent is wrongly convicted of murder. I'm talking about someone who admits to killing someone and has plenty of evidence of doing so should be executed. When I was a kid, my friend and his pregnant mother were killed. The murderer was caught shortly after and is currently on death row. Now, several years later, I'm a Buddhist and I'm wanting to forgive him. My issue is that I can't just say I forgive you and end it. I want to move on but I just can't look past someone doing such a heinous crime. Any help from here would be greatly appreciated. I've always looked at murder as eye for an eye. You killed someone, so you deserve to die. You are no longer fit to live in a society since you can't stop yourself from killing people. I know that killing them doesn't fix the problem, but by that logic, they shouldn't be punished at all since no punishment would ever fix the problem. I've always thought that my friend's murderer's death would help bring closure. I'm not sure if it actually will since he hasn't been executed yet, but I do know that I haven't really had much closure on it. EDIT a lot of you are saying stuff about whether or not they're innocent or not. That's not the post. My view is that if you were to somehow know 100 killed someone, that person deserves to be killed.
| People who commit murder deserve to be killed.
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Companies in the United States that manufacture, distribute, and sell firearms, ammunition, and hunting equipment employ as many as 149,146 people in the country and generate an additional 162,845 jobs in supplier and ancillary industries.
| Decreasing the demand for guns could lead to massive lay offs in the gun sector which employs a significant number of Americans.
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I've been thinking about this for about a month now and can't find a way to crown the flour tortilla as king. The corn tortilla not only is traditional, but it provides a more complex taste and texture to anything it's served with in comparison to a flour tortilla . The flour tortilla is doughy, stinks up any room that it's steamed in, and provides inferior tortilla chips. Granted, the only arena where flour is king is burritos. The elasticity of the flour make it a better vessel to carry loads of filling. There's no way a corn tortilla can be a part of a great burrito. But is that enough to label the flour as superior? Not even close.
| The corn tortilla is vastly superior to the flour tortilla
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Churches who suffer from a lack of funds are vulnerable to influence by wealthy special interests.
| The loss of existing tax exemptions will place a substantial financial burden on religious organisations.
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Self-determination does not always mean independence, in Gibraltar the people are campaigning for the autonomy and authority to elect to remain British and not to rejoin with Spain. Self-determination is about representation and identity and choice.
| Self-determination does not always mean independence, in Gibraltar the people are campaigning for th...
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Edit view changed, I might not reply to your stuff any more Part of the reasoning behind the existence of criminal records is that they prevent known criminals from being able to enter positions of trust with vulnerable people a sex offender on the sex offender's registry won't be allowed to work with children, and a person can find out that someone they're dating has a history of domestic violence, for example. In essence being a criminal doesn't just mean you have wronged the victim, you've also wronged society, and if you aren't charged with that then there's no record of it and there's no reason not to do it again.
| Victims of crime shouldn't get to choose to drop the charges.
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You can test drive a car, and if you don't like the car, you don't buy it. Why should it be any different for video games, movies, or software? If you want someone to buy your product, make a product worth buying. If I buy a 60 video game and it ends up being horrible, I've effectively wasted 60 because I now have a product that I won't use, and can't return. I have pirated products before. Mostly video games, but movies as well. Many of them I ended up buying because they were good, but there have been a few that I didn't buy because they were mediocre. This also pushes these industries to release better content. If they know that some people will only buy it after pirating it and testing it, they're more likely to produce quality products.
| Pirating games for the sole purpose of "try before you buy" is morally acceptable.
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Here's what I believe We landed on the Moon. 9 11 was an unfortunate tragedy that happened because we didn't think anything like that could ever happen in America and we got careless. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener and nothing more. It may be harmful in large doses, but in moderation it's nothing that's going to hurt you. Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK. Whether there was more to it behind the scenes, no one knows, and so we shouldn't make any assumptions. The Illuminati were a liberal Deist organization that simply wanted to discuss politics and spirituality without the Church breathing down their necks, and they were vilified because of it. The propaganda of the Church during that time lasted through the years and it's why people are afraid of them now. Same goes for the Freemasons. The Illuminati no longer exists as an organization, though there are many who espouse their beliefs. Some people may have allergic reactions to vaccines, but on the whole, the only thing they cause are immunities to horrible diseases not autism. There's no effort to create a one world government. It's just that in this day and age, governments are working together a little better with one another. I don't think aliens ever visited Earth. If ancient humans drew pictures or made sculptures of strange creatures back in the day, maybe that was their version of science fiction. As for stuff like artifacts from one civilization being found halfway across the world where they couldn't have possibly been traded due to the isolation of ancient cultures maybe we're not giving ancient humans enough credit. The thing that crashed at Roswell was most likely an experimental aircraft. Look at the crazy aircraft we have these days. They had to have been tested somewhere, and where better than the middle of nowhere in the New Mexico desert?
| I don't believe in any popular conspiracy theories.
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For this post, I will be using the Django Unchained as my example. Now, don't get me wrong, Django Unchained is a great movie, well written and acted. However, when I'm watching it, I'm not really seeing the characters of Dr. King Schultz, Django Freeman, and Calvin Candy, but rather Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, and Leonardo DiCaprio. All of these men are great actors, but their presence in the movie takes away from the realism of the picture by taking me out of the world of the movie even though Django Unchained isn't supposed to be realistic, still the point stands . I find this effect is heightened when the actor, or more often voice actor, is someone that I vaguely recognize, in which case I spend much of my time watching trying to figure out if I know the actor and where I recognize them from. It might be cool to have a great, well known actor in your movie, and of course directors want the best actors for their films, but I think that overall, it tends up being distracting, and thereby, taking away from the movie as a whole. gt This is a footnote from the moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please read through our rules If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which, downvotes don't change views Any questions or concerns? Feel free to message us Happy ing
| Famous actors in movies break immersion and detract from the movie as a whole.
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Many smart and many not so smart people believe that the self is an illusion. I don't, however I can sort of see how one might arrive at the view, but I remain unconvinced by it. I think we have pretty much the same reasons to believe that the self is a metaphysically real entity that we have to believe that any other thing in the world is a real entity. Namely, we have experience of it. When we experience a table or an electric shock or a math theorem, there is some phenomenal aspect to that experience. There is something that it is like to be a part of a causal chain that starts with the thing in question and ends in some set of qualia. The content of our intentionality includes that thing. Similarly with the self. Although as Hume famously pointed out we have no direct, individuated impression of the self, as we do say of a chair in an empty room or a red dot on a white wall, the self still inescapably colors the unified field of our conscious experience. Just as we intuit that a chair exists as a thing in the world because we experience some chair qualia, similarly I think we can intuit the self as a thing in the world in our experience of its phenomenal character coloring our experience. On my view, the character of the self includes experience of control cognition conation affect locus 1 4 should be fairly self explanatory, but 5 I think is much more difficult. What I mean by locus is that there is something that is like to be situated at the locus of our particular experiences. There is some phenomenal character to being centrally located within this swirling painting that is our own unified conscious field, as opposed to someone else's or even no one at all's. Happy to hear more from anyone with thoughts on this. And just to be clear, I am not arguing about free will here. On my view the self can still exist regardless of whether free will is an illusion or not. gt This is a footnote from the moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please read through our rules If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which, downvotes don't change views Any questions or concerns? Feel free to message us Happy ing
| The self is not an illusion
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In an ideal world, automation would lead to people needing to work less hours while still being able to make ends meet. In the actual world, we see people worried about losing their jobs altogether. All this shows is that the gains from automation are going overwhelmingly to business owners and stockholders, while not going to people. Automation should be a first step towards a society in which nobody needs to work, while what we see in the world as it is, is that automation is a first step towards a society where people will be stuck in poverty due to being automated out of their careers. gt This is a footnote from the moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please read through our rules If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which, downvotes don't change views Any questions or concerns? Feel free to message us Happy ing
| We should be excited about automation. The fact that we aren't betrays a toxic relationship between labor, capital, and the social values of work.
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I believe that drugs should be legal. Many people disagree with me, but I like to look at the Prohibition era. When alcohol was outlawed, much of the gang violence spiked. Not only did other types of crime rise, but people started drinking even more. This is the main issue with outlawing drugs, and that is that it resorts in more violence as well as a black market. Also, people steal or find other illegal ways to obtain money to pay for said drugs. If they were legal and regulated, however, people would not be stealing or breaking into cars to steal a stereo system to pay for their drugs, as they would cost less. Now, there is more gang violence to due illegal drugs, than there would be if drugs were legal. Furthermore, America incarcerates proportionally more citizens than any other country in the world. We spend 60 billion per year on all expenditures regarding prisons. Drug related crimes accounted for more than half of all incarcerations in 2010. Imagine if we had used that money for something productive, such as providing the poor with money to get back on their feet. We can also build homes, because if we can provide shelter and food and water for people who commit crimes, then surely we can for those who are homeless that haven’t committed a crime. I basically believe that as long as someone is inflicting no harm on another, including physical, emotional or financial harm, then whatever they are doing should be legal. Let me know what you think, I am very open to debate. EDIT This is my first post on reddit. This community is great. I appreciate all of the arguments for and against the legalization of drugs. FAQ New information the OP The danger of bacteria mutating more rapidly due to the overuse of antibiotics makes me take off the list of drugs that would be easily obtainable. This is because it accelerates a life risk to humans outside of drug user. Prescriptions would no longer be what DOESN'T restrict you from getting drugs for medicinal purposes, but rather SECURING that you will get your drugs before someone can acquire them for recreational purposes. Ignore the fact that I said people would no longer break into cars to steal radios, as this comes from no factual base and provides very little for my argument. Thank you everyone for your replies so far let the discussion continue
| All drugs should be legal
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Recent 's have complained about the policy of multiculturalism and how it is bad for their own societies and is destroying their culture. I in fact think, as a non White person from what could be termed the Global South, that this is an entirely justified experience and should result in colonies being formed from the Western countries as a method and taste of what happened when the West started colonizing the East. The fact is no one invited them to rule so long in India, China, the Middle East, Central Asia and other places but used force of arms to destroy their military capabilities and then enforce their entire culture, removing parts of a culture which they thought barbaric in their eyes, their religion, Christianity in a majority parts of Africa at the expense of their own native religions, and sometime enforce their drug culture on the people such as opium in China. I believe that with the immigration policies and cultural leanings of these people these Western countries should experience what it felt like to have your own culture changed to accommodate the others. Colonialism is bad everyone admits that but because these Western countries think that they have since built their own countries on the back of the exploited that they can just apologize and everything will be hunky dorry. I think its high time that a more serious influx of immigration like what happened with the Indians and the British and some 100 odd years under the boot of an oppressive culture should really open the eyes of these countries and how they effectively destroyed entire cultures, races and continents in their desire for wealth and now I believe that an eye for an eye should apply. Change my view please.
| I believe reverse colonialism is entirely a vaild and extremely important issue.
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Ecotourism can act as a powerful tool for economic, social, and environmental development The influx of foreign cash to local areas supports local businesses and boosts the local economy.
| Ecotourism can help promote the economic growth of a country.
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League of Legends is infamous for its toxic community that thrives on humiliation and pressure - neither of which is generally associated with teamwork.
| Many online gaming communities are notoriously toxic and infamous for the anti-social atmosphere.
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The Book of Mormon predicted that a secret society aims to create a world government in Ether 8:25 "For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies." Today, evil powers are on the verge of accomplishing this, according to author and WWII commander William Guy Carr
| References to secret combinations that do exist makes the book more authentic, not less. The insinuation here seems to be that because some of the words relate to Joseph Smith's era, the entire book is inauthentic. This is a huge leap of logic.
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Machines computers, robots, drones, automatic vehicles are out there producing economy, services and goods, and are not paid for it. Sure, companies invest to buy and maintain them, but it's an investment, not a salary. Machines are assets, not labor force. They, themselves are goods and even services. Machines don't consume goods, nor they pay taxes. Sure, they need technicians and spare pieces to fix them, and sometimes an operator, but in the end of the day they substitute an amount of workers with a smaller amount of workers. Taxpaying and consuming workers substituted with productive systems that don't. Some could say those workers that operate or fix machines are more qualified and earn more money, so they'll pay more taxes and consume more But there's no way a skilled worker earns as much as all those substituted by the machine. Some could say this has happened for more than a century and workers always find new markets to work in as society evolves But there's a limit to this, we can't keep doing this forever, and it has not even worked that fine, if we look at how it has affected our economy in the past. Some could say it only means that the moment to shrink the government and cut spending is now, to help people save and spend their money as they want, instead of continuously rising taxes to fund government spendings to fill the gaps. But trying to say this is only a problem of the workers, the poor or the government doesn't take into account that as less people has less income and pay less taxes, the companies will have less markets to sell their goods and products to, meaning they'll sink. Productive machines are a threat not only to workers or the government's taxes, but to the whole economy and to every company out there, since they don't consume and our system is based on it. We need to pay taxes per productivity unit, either produced by a human, a machine or whatever mean. This way the government will be able to fund a salary to every citizen closing all other ineffective social spendings , thus ending poverty and allowing every citizen to consume even if unemployed. Obviously it would be only enough not to fall into poverty and just survive in the environment the citizen lives in valued differently for every town, age, family size, medical situation, special personal needs, etc , so virtually everyone will try to get a job and climb to a higher income level, meaning more consume and tax paying. But nobody will starve or go homeless because of unemployment.
| Owning productive machines should mean tax-paying
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here's an article about it, there are countless others tl dr legal immigrants who receive any significant form of Welfare or public benefits are given a large black mark on their record that is heavily factored in should they attempt to apply for a green card. I cannot help but feel this is an ethically repulsive policy. The people primarily hit by this are people here legally, who have gone through the process exactly as they're told to. This same demographic often labors productively in order to provide for themselves and their family. They pay similar taxes as natives in the same pay bracket. These are people who have settled down here, built a family, usually work, and are almost entirely productive members of society striving for citizenship. This is not at all consistent with the GOP's rhetoric of legal good, illegal bad it just looks anti immigrant to me. The GOP argues that it will encourage self sufficiency within the immigrant community, but I do not understand why these people are being held to higher standards, and forced to endanger their dependents, any moreso than the average American. This policy will force the working immigrant poor to make very difficult choices that put them in a bad spot. Food stamps or green card? These people did nothing wrong it is absolutely unfair to make them come to such a difficult and hurtful decision purely on the basis of being immigrants. The majority of these people are here because their children are citizens, and most immigrant families are fairly poor and have large families. Mere talk of this policy has already led to large amounts of immigrants denying baby formula over fears of potentially being deported in the future. The main victims of this policy, as usual, will be children who had no choice regarding their immigration or location of birth. It would be one thing entirely if it was a general shrinking of the welfare state, but the fact that this policy zeroes out immigrants specifically should make it utterly unpalatable to the public. This is not a principled act of fiscal conservatism, but by all looks, and attack on the foreign born working poor. edit it'd be awesome if we could chill with the downvotes please gt This is a footnote from the moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please read through our rules If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which, downvotes don't change views Any questions or concerns? Feel free to message us Happy ing
| The Presidents new plan to restrict Welfare beneficiaries from obtaining a green card is a bad policy.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't want these things outlawed or banned or for the government to go all Australia on us, liberty is one of the greatest assets we have but I think that media that encourages a culture of crime and violence does have a small part in the violence we see in the US. Shitty parenting is a larger factor, and a vast majority of us are unaffected by a marathon of GTA4 and listening to Snoop Lion, but for a select few, they're completely desensitized to the notion that violence is usually wrong, and that crime actually hurts people. How many fuck the police tags have popped up on walls? Its far too many artists have taken the fuck the police mentality and put it into their music. Some tests have already shown that violent video games increase aggression and angry feelings. When you live in a world where your entire culture is telling you that stealing a car is ok, its hard not to think that people won't start doing that edit I've been at work all day and didn't really give each comment the attention it deserves, but some good points have been made, I'm sorry if I couldn't reply directly to each of you.
| I think that violent video games, violent music, and other forms of media that glorify violence DO contribute to real world violence.
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Exodus 21 1-11 and Leviticus 25 39-55 give explicit rules to allow slavery. The new testament also confirms this in Ephesians 6:5-8 and 1 Timothy 6:1-2 stating that slaves should obey their masters, even if they are cruel.
| Parts of the moral code and laws presented in many religious texts are entirely immoral by modern standards.
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If there were threats to the lives of both babies and women, the fact that the government might first focus on protecting babies for a variety of reasons, but neglect protecting women, does not make it any less necessary to protect babies.
| Every threat to public safety and people's lives needs to be assessed on its own merits. If white supremacists pose a threat to the public, this threat needs to be addressed, regardless of what else is out there.
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Plenty of other fantasy series have characters developing substantial proficiency with a sword around a similar age - for example, Rand al'Thor in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, or Garion in David Eddings' Belgariad.
| Daenerys is around 22 in the show at this point - hardly too old to pick up a new skill.
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Where one's attention is directed is a fundamental component of thought; freedom to direct one's attention where one wishes is therefore a necessary component of the fundamental right of freedom of thought.
| People have no right to demand my attention, attention is something we can give, but not something others can take.
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The EC was established prior to the advent of mass media. Nowadays, this argument is obsolete. Nowadays the populace has access to plenty of information through mass media and is incredibly informed relative to back then.
| The electoral college no longer works as it was intended by the founding fathers. The fact that it no longer serves this purpose suggests that it is no longer necessary.
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The amount of time and information that people need to go through to understand what they need to work on would take so long that most people cannot even participate in citizen science to begin with. Only experts can work on these complex issues due their background, as they realize early on/ahead of time what is needed to solve them and devote the necessary time to study it rigorously.
| When we look at where the majority of innovation in science, we see extremely complex prerequisite knowledge. Quantum computing, genetic engineering, these things are necessarily not for everyone due to the level of complexity and prior knowledge they require.
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A person concerned for their life will kill if it's in their power if that means living another a day.
| Humans do what they think is in their best interests, even if it's bad.
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Quick summary of what happened Zac Efron, in celebration of both Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and him reaching 10 million follower around the same time, posted this I'm grateful for a couple things today Martin Luther King Jr 10 million followers on IG insert black people emoji MLKDay This resulted in a lot of backlash, saying it's insensitive, saying he should delete the post and apologize, and a few even saying he should delete his account. This made the news. I think we all agree Efron included that the civil rights movement is orders of magnitude more important than him getting 10 million followers. However, the backlash he got from the post was an overreaction. If he had said something along the lines of MLK was great and all, but you know what's even better? I got 10 million followers then the backlash would be called for. But seeing how he's simply celebrating two things of varying importance at the same time, without stating the importance of either, why is it a big deal? Are we so stuck up that we can't handle when someone celebrates something that is important to them while the rest of us are celebrating something that's important in general ? People perceive things that are personal to them to be greater than everything else. Zac Efron was not alive during the civil rights movement, he simply learned about it in school. He learned how important it was in shaping America, and all that, but he never saw it happen. It is intangible knowledge to him and likely many of us. We can all agree it was a vital movement, but none of us at least, those of us who weren't around then have seen or felt what it was like before then directly. Black people being equal is the norm now, and it's hard for us to think of that differently. Contrastly, Efron's follower count is very tangible to him. He can see the number go up, and he has felt what it was like before having a follower base with that many people. He feels accomplished for reaching octuple digits, and this is very important to him. Going on a pure intuition from Zac Efron's point of view , these effects add up, leaving his follower count on par with MLK in a I should celebrate this sense. However, if someone goes up to him and asks you think your follower count is more important than MLK? he'll obviously say no. From a cognitive perspective, this is obvious, but from an intuitive sense, it may not be. So again I state, I believe this whole thing was an overreaction. It shouldn't have made the news. It should have gotten a chuckle at most, followed by a congrats and happy MLK day . Obviously people disagree with me, considering the outcome, so I ask, why am I wrong?
| Zac Efron's MLK post isn't that big of a deal.
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I think the size of the global human population is too large and that overpopulation is getting worse. The current global human population is 7.2 billion It was only 1.6 billion in the year. 1900. The United Nations projects that world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050, and nearly 11 billion by 2100. From the last link gt One in eight people is hungry. More than a billion people live in areas where water is already scarce. High fertility leads to poor health outcomes for mothers and their children. Rapidly expanding populations can keep nations mired in a cycle of poverty and contribute to social and political unrest. And biodiversity is lost when plants and animals are crowded out to make room for more development.
| Overpopulation is a serious problem and people have yet to have families should think about having smaller families.
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There are front page headline articles right now about how the FBI and other agencies need a backdoor into encryption software that tech companies produce in order to keep us safe from terrorists. Ironically, the first assertion they make before saying this is that the encryption terrorists are currently using is unbreakable presumably unbreakable without a back door since they want tech companies to create one for them in their software. If the tech companies provide the government a back door into the encryption software they produce, ignoring the gaping security holes it would create for every industry that uses encryption banks, hospitals, trade secrets, etc , it would only allow the government to spy on the average Joe citizen who isn't sophisticated enough to code their own encryption software. By the government's admission, encryption that is uncrackable exists which is why they need a backdoor. Therefore, if they do obtain a backdoor, nothing is stopping a well funded group from just coding their own encryption software to which no backdoor exists. So as it stands, I do not see how having a backdoor into encryption would benefit the government at all in fighting terrorism, it would only make every critical business in the world more insecure, as well as rendering any companies that sell encryption software useless since if the government has a backdoor, so do potentially any bad actors.
| The government lobbying to get backdoors in encryption software from tech companies is pointless because terrorists would just develop their own encryption software. It would only impact the average Joe citizen who doesn't have that capability
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I've never really believed in chemtrails, and I actually heard and read all the explanations that it's nothing but water damp. Recently, however, I'm meeting a lot of people because of the politic situation here in the south of Europe, and there are many of them that do believe in chemtrails. Now, I've always considered these people as hippies that are completely nuts, but lately I've seen different conspiracies turning to be not such conspiracies, and also, I start to see serious sane people, that are also convinced about chemtrails, but they're very reluctant to talk about it, as you know, there's some stigma about it. Then I bumped into I still don't believe in chemtrails, but I'm not absolutely sure anymore, so .
| I don't believe in chemtrails.
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I believe in cultural relativism and that you can't judge one cultural practice as being superior or inferior to another. However, I do believe that the exception to this rule is that some practices, such as the ones I've mentioned above, can be judged as morally wrong. This includes my own society slavery was made illegal in Canada in 1833, at which point, Canadian society didn't just become different it actually became better. And, while this form of slavery may not exist in most parts of the world, I think societies that trample on women's rights, gay rights, or any other minority right can be judged, or at least the aspects of their societies that allow these things can be. Prove me wrong.
| While I feel that no one society is better than another, I do believe societies that have traditions that harm or degrade the rights of other members of that society ie. female circumcision, death penalty for homosexuality, not allowing women to drive can be considered worse than others.
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As the title says, I feel that anyone who goes around having sex when ever they damn well please, even if they use preventative measures, shouldn't be allowed to do so. Also, if they are unable to support a family should not have sex. Condoms, contraceptives, and the like, all have a possibility of failure. Because of this, people shouldn't take the risk of sexual activity. Additionally, Sexually transmitted diseases should be taken into consideration, and the risk of contracting one should not be taken unless both parties involved are willing to take the risk. None of what I am saying, is refering to same sex couples. EDIT All right all of you pointing out the reliability of contraceptives made me check my sources, maybe that argument is null. however I stick to the financial argument, because I know people who regret having children before financial security.
| I think that people who have sex without the intent of reproduction, and with out the ability to support a child, are a waste of oxygen.
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If a price of a good is fixed below its production costs, it will not be produced any more.
| There is the potential to run out of supply to meet the demand.
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It's more complicated than I could put in a title. I mean in specific situations. I saw a post describing a couple that had a baby together and their journey. The woman had met her now husband after having slept with a different man. She found out she was pregnant from that encounter, the couple married and the husband treats the baby as if it were his biologically. There were so many butthurt comments asking if the couple had ever told the biological father about the baby, asking if he had a say in the matter, etc. The mother actually had told the bio dad that she had gotten pregnant, apparently he wasn't a great person. What I don't understand is why being biologically related entitles a person to a child's life. If the argument is You did it, your responsibility , there shouldn't be a problem because there's already a father willing to take the responsibility. I'm not talking about sperm donors, because it goes with being a donor that your involvement includes sperm and nothing else. I mean, if the man had wanted children, there are a lot of ways he could have them naturally, adopting, surrogates, etc. He didn't have sex with the woman with the intention of having a baby, so why should he be considered as anything but a genetic relative? If I sneezed on a stranger and found out a year later they had somehow had a baby from my sneeze cells, what right would I have to get angry and demand involvement and power over decisions in its life? The thing that's most confusing is that the people getting angry over biological rights are mostly people without religious or supernatural beliefs, so why are they under the impression that sharing DNA creates an emotional bond? I understand there are holes in my stance, and I have nothing against biological parents or any kind of surrogacy, step parent, foster situation. I just genuinely don't understand what reason people have for believing this way. Afterthought Perhaps a clearer title would be Being biologically related shouldn't grant any parental or family rights involvement. As far as I know, I can't edit the title.
| Being biologically related is no more than that, there's no emotional bond.
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Just to put it out there and get it out of everyone's system I'm eighteen. Brand spanking new to the world. My background is eclectic My mother is a crazy, mental illness riddled flower child, and my dad is a rigid block of seriousness and furrowed, disapproving eyebrows. I was raised by my ma. As an aspiring cartoonist, I learned about the eugenics program in the 1930s. My idea was in a world that was approaching apocalyptic type conditions, and people were trying to cope with that. I started to really try to inform myself about it around 14. The more I mulled over how societal conditions had evolved in 500 years, the more Eugenics appeared as a good idea. Of course, Hitler took that idea and applied it in a different avenue, but if it were intelligently controlled who knows? Basically, I believe breeding of the human species, in countries that can afford it, should be controlled. People who have diseases that hinder human life, illnesses that can't be treated with medication those people should not have children. Natural selection and all of that. If that were put in place, maybe, people could live even longer and have a full life, whatever definition of full there is. I want to learn. I want to be educated as to why that idea is looked down upon. People talk about doing it with animals all the time why not us? edit A lot of posts here really challenged the way I thought about about eugenics in the real world. Fantasy is fine, but there's something inherently wrong about taking away people's choices, even if its under the guise of trying to end suffering. Fantastic discussion, and I'm really glad I made this post.
| I believe Eugenics should be put in place in First world countries.
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Motorists bang on about how they pay for the roads, yet have to share them with cyclists, who pay relatively little. They ignore the fact that most of the maintenance done on roads is caused by their motor car use. They also ignore the cost in accidents caused by motorists every year. USA 36166 Deaths in a year UK 2175 Deaths in a year In 2011, 2,412 children aged 0 15 years were killed or seriously injuried on Britain's roads – that's 7 every day. This includes 60 child fatalities. Among pedestrians who were killed or seriously injured in 2011, 27 were under 16 years old. The overall annual cost of road accident fatalities and serious injuries among children stands at £547 million. In 2005, traffic deaths wound up costing just over 41 billion in medical bills and work lost. Yes, that's billion with a B. According to the CDC, 10 states stood head and shoulders above the rest in monetary losses. Those were California, at 4.16 billion, Texas, at 3.50 billion, Florida, at 3.16 billion, Georgia, at 1.55 billion, Pennsylvania, at 1.52 billion, North Carolina, at 1.50 billion, New York, at 1.33 billion, Illinois, at 1.32 billion, Ohio, at 1.23 billion and Tennessee, at 1.15 billion. This is all before we look at how many people are put off cycling and the health benefits this brings by irresposible or aggressive drivers, and how car culture has destroyed our citices and green spaces with car parks. Rather than bemoaning the minor taxes they pay in petrol and road duty constant road users should probably take a long look in the mirror and figure out how to cycle or get the bus to work instead and stop expecting the rest of society to pander to them. EDIT I'm not from the states, your country sounds so incredibly fucked when it comes to transport it is unreal, sorry. I would still say you are probably heavily subsidized by non motorists, but the point about being able to use other options doesn't stand. EDIT I've not clearly defined or understood my view well enough to really change it. I think I've rather selfishly used this as a space to vent rather then genuinely change my view. I've found the discussions interesting though. I'll try and more clearly define my position and come back, or maybe post a new , I'm not sure which would be best, as I'm guessing by the time my lazy ass does this the thread will be cold
| I think motorists are heavily subsiized by the state, rather than heavily taxed.
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Such an expense. It would take money in our economy and direct into the hands of the few. It would be like welfare but with limited benefits. Until some other propulsion system is discovered which is less expensive and more efficient, traveling great distances at those costs make these projects almost useless.
| Mars colonization may benefit Martians, but at the expense of Earthlings' money and may not be profitable. Today we are able to send people on Mars with the technology but it could be an unproductive investment, making it an unworthy sacrifice,
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Sociopaths or Psychopaths rarely have their judgment clouded by emotional attachment. This makes them superior to the average person since they will be able to chose the best course of action regardless of if it is distasteful. One example would be a group of people are stuck in a lifeboat there's only enough food and water to make it to the nearest shore for 3. If everyone eats and drinks the rations, they all die. If the excess people are killed then the remaining 3 will almost surely survive. A psychopath would have very little trouble making the choice to kill the excess, whereas your average person will probably hesitate or not be able to do so at all.
| Sociopaths are evolutionarily superior to those with highly accessible emotions.
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Every time I see the Reddit hivemind complain about pharmaceutical companies, I have to bite my tongue. x200B Drugs are expensive to buy, but they are even more expensive to make. A 2013 study published in the Journal of Health Economics found the cost to bring ONE DRUG from conception to market was 2.9 BILLION. The drug is generally awarded a patent for only 10 20 years, in which time, they must recoup that entire investment. Not only that, the drug can't just break even, it must make a lot more money in order to fund R D for future drugs, drive revenue and profits for shareholders, pay salaries benefits for employees, etc. AND, if the disease being cured is the common cold that hundreds of millions of people suffer from, it can be affordable due to the volume of sales. But, for exceedingly rare diseases that only affect a handful of people worldwide each year, how else can a company recoup their loses if they don't charge an enormous amount? x200B After the patent expires, generic drug companies jump in to reverse engineer the drug and this drives the cost down. At this time, the drug becomes incredibly cheap and accessible. Ultimately, this is still a huge net gain for humanity as a whole, because a previously untreatable condition disease now has an affordable cure although it may have been inaccessible to some people for the first 10 20 years .
| Pharmaceutical companies have the right to charge what they want for proprietary meds/drugs
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I'm posting this now because of another post I've seen that really irked me, something along the lines of rethink your vote if you're voting based on gender . I wholeheartedly disagree with this. First of all, how come because I'd like to have a beer with him or because he has a D R next to his name are valid reasons to vote for someone, but saying I think it would mean a lot for social progress suddenly means you're an ignorant low information voter. When you say the latter, the immediate response is Well did you look at both candidates fairly and equally? , while with the former it's more like I disagree with your reason but it's your right to vote for who you want . The last time I checked this was a democracy, and in a democracy people don't have to justify who they vote for. But even beside all that, let's just look at the idea of a woman voting for a woman over a man. If you are a woman, you've spent your entire life living under leaders who just aren't like you and don't fully understand your problems simply because they are not women. It's not like that makes them inherently bad, but there's an advantage to having an actual woman that does not exist with men. Is it really a radical idea to want to vote for someone who understands your problems like no one else does? Let me conclude by clearing up a few things. First of all, I'm not a Clinton supporter. I just think it's incredibly condescending and wrong to constantly attack people over the reason they vote for someone, especially when there are much stupider reasons that aren't as aggressively questioned. I'm also not a woman and I don't think Hillary should be elected just because she's a woman. But if you've been following even the smallest amount of her campaign, the woman thing is in no way, shape, or form at the center. As for voters, they have the fundamental right to vote for the candidate they think has their best interests at heart, and part of that could very well include the candidate being the only one, and the only one this qualified, to share your gender.
| It's perfectly fine to vote for Hillary Clinton because she's a woman.
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When we look at what exists, there are two ways something can inhabit the universe. First, there is the abstract form of existing such as Santa Claus and Pokémon. They exist in the real world. You can ask Santa for gifts and buy a Pokémon game. However, the second form of existing is anything that isn't physically in the universe. Pokemon and Santa would fall under this category. Santa does not exist and you cannot go out and catch Pokemon they do not exist. You cannot physically go out and catch a real Pikachu in a real Pokeball. Of course there are things in the universe that we don't know for sure if they exist or not, like aliens, so they might be the second form of existing but they are not the first form of existing. Some subjects like love and language can be both depending on how you argue it.
| There are two types of existing.
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Very often, we hear people saying that we should be doing things like reading books, learning trades, learning a language, etc instead of playing video games or watching TV with our free time. Why should this be the case? The reason I hold this belief is because we've only got one life. We should be free to live it however we want, so long as our activities don't negatively impact another person's rights. Some people even go as far as valuing a person's value based on how much they contribute to society. Does it really matter in the end? When we talk about productivity, we normally think about the end results. Video games, movies, etc are more about the journey. If one is paying his her bills and doing his her job properly, where is the problem? I understand time draining hobbies are usually associated with lazy bums, but I believe that's a different matter altogether. Thinking about all of this reminds of the movie Fight Club . One of the characters said, “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don't need.” I've tried looking at this issue from different perspectives but I feel like my brain hit a brick wall. Change my view, please, and thanks for reading.
| I think that people's hobbies don't necessarily have to be productive.
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Hamas have, at times justified a disregard for civilian immunity due to the belief that under Israel's universal conscription policy, all civilians are either potential, current or past soldiers. p.304
| Conscription could blur the lines between civilians and military targets.
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If they do this, the only cost to them is the need to head to the nearest voting booth, which is only a marginal impact on their freedom, especially as it only occurs very infrequently.
| Individuals can still choose not to vote by submitting a protest or informal vote which is then not counted.
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Having a clear quota system may stop some EU countries from feeling they are alone in handling the refugee crisis.
| A refugee relocation scheme could promote solidarity between EU member states at a time when European solidarity is lacking.
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My wife says I am xenophobic, because I think that arranged marriages are wrong. I think they violate the people who are too young to decide for themselves rights by determining the person who they will spend the rest of their lives with. Also I know arranged marriages happen in places where underage people are basically sold off to older men. This is just abhorrent, and I know it does not reflect all arranged marriages. I also am aware that arranged marriages can often work out for the people involved, but I think that the fact that the decision was basically made for them under threat of being disowned by their family or worse is basically coercion that leaves a young person who does not necessarily have any other support system with no other choice.
| Arranged Marriages are a violation of human rights.
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At least in the past 30 years or so it seems that Democratic Presidents do more good for the world than their Republican counterparts. Jimmy Carter is 90 years old and still campaigning for women's rights around the world, and founded the program that effectively eradicated the Guinea worm infestation Bill Clinton started the Clinton Foundation, a major platform for innovative ideas to combat world hunger, human rights, education, etc Have Reagan, George HW Bush, or George W Bush done anything like that that doesn't get as much publicity?
| Democratic Presidents contribute much more to society after their presidency.
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Nipple stimulation is also a common sexual practice and is most of the time followed by sex or genital contact, which can't be said of kissing or caressing the neck/feet/bellybutton/earlobes which can be considered acceptable forms of public display of affection.
| Stimulation of the nipples creates a similar neurological response to vaginal stimulation.
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Having an education in humanities can give a leg up to richer people. Their education helps them to become politicians and legislators and in turn to further entrench their privilege.
| Government funding liberal arts degrees is regressive; it forces poorer people to pay for richer people's education.
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The military will not be able to hide behind the fact that there are 'fewer women in the military' as a justification for having fewer female officers.
| When the proportion of women in the military drastically increases, it will be difficult for this situation to be perpetuated.
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The presence of corporate money and lobbying is a "key factor" in explaining why members of congress are so ignorant of the average political preferences of their constituents.
| The presence of corporate money in politics leads to corporate lobbying and a decrease in the democratic nature of government.
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EDIT 8710 awarded to u qazwsx17 after carefully rechecking the OED definition of the word British. Just to be clear I'm in no way an imperialist 'little Englander' type. A personal mantra is 'one race, the human race'. IMHO nationalism is a scourge on society perhaps we'd better save that for a future . I'm English but feel as close kinship to Irish people as I do with Scottish Welsh people. Looking at my own family tree you don't have to go too far back to find plenty of Irish, Scottish Welsh relatives amongst the English. Many thanks to everyone for the carefully considered and thought provoking responses. Peace love upon you whether you happen to be British or Irish or anything else for that matter Change my view Irish people are British Background A dear friend of mine is Irish, I’m English. Last year in a conversation relating to the broad differences between Irish English people I made the following remark ‘we’re both British’ the reply I got was ‘you can call me a cunt but don’t call me a Brit’. This is the only time I’ve heard her use the word cunt. I’m aware there is a lot of controversy around this issue in Ireland, and have read about it fairly extensively, but I cannot accept the factual premise that Irish people are not British. To me, to be British you have to be a citizen or native of a country within the British Isles. The island of Ireland is one of the British Isles and has been so since before the notion, never mind the nations, of England or Ireland even existed. There does appear to be widespread ignorance that somehow confuses the term ‘British’ with the term ‘English’ or the island of Great Britain. It seems very odd to me that Irish people would rather be identified by the English word ‘Irish’ than the ancient word ‘British’. To some there seems to be a political meaning to the term ‘British’, whereas in my eyes it’s a geographical term like ‘European’. I’m fully aware that people are entitled to their own view on whether they are British or not, what they're not entitled to are their own facts.
| Irish people are British
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As Tim Cook argued in a similar situation in 2016, ''the government suggest this tool could only be used once, on one phone. but that's simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.''
| Apple has argued that breaking into a phone to obtain such data would require it to build a backdoor, which it said would set a dangerous precedent for user privacy and cybersecurity.
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I was reading through the front page and saw the IAMA of Daniel Ellsberg. I really don’t believe in whistle blowers and what they do, however I have noticed that many people are quick to denounce the government because they invade our privacy, and they could be looking into what we do, even if it’s bad things. However I feel that this is a gross double standard, if we expect our government to not look into the bad things we do why should we look into what bad things our government may or may not do and then idolize someone who invades the government’s privacy? True the average person doesn’t start wars or maintain large amounts of infrastructure etc, but I believe that the principle is the same. .
| I believe that if the people have a right to privacy so should the government.
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Enforcing calorie count laws will be very expensive, as it requires that the government test and re-test each restaurant's foods to ensure that they continue to live up to the calorie counts they have provided on their menu. Because there is often a very clear incentive to under-record the calorie count, enforcement could be very difficult and require significant staffing and funding on the part of the government.
| Enforcing calorie counts laws will be expensive for the state.
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The broadened definition under the ADA amendment, means employees can now get protection simply by proving that their employer could perceive them as having such an impairment, even if the impairment doesn't substantially limits a major life activity. So getting rights after disclosing is easier now.
| The ADA amendment significantly broadenes the definition and scope of "disability" which means millions of individuals having mental illnesses that were not previously covered and may not have wanted to disclose because of that, now have protection as employee and can disclose easily.
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“Thus Joshua struck all the land, the hill country and the Negev and the lowland and the slopes and all their kings. He left no survivor, but he utterly destroyed all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.” Joshua. 10:40, 11:15 - God commanded genocide
| God's racism contradicts his justice in that he will allow his chosen race to massacre other races but condemn other races from massacring his chosen race.
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The United States adhered to a policy of isolationism for the first 150 or so years of its existence. After WWI, the Allies formed the League of Nations. The United States refused to join this organization and more or less returned to its isolationist ways. When WWII came around, the United States had the freedom to stay out of direct conflict until it was attacked by Japan. Had the United States also refused UN membership when that organization was created, it could have perhaps returned to the policy that had served it well for nearly two centuries and avoided the current system of alliances that draws it into nearly every major conflict that arises anywhere on Earth.
| The United States should have refused to join the UN when it was founded, just like it refused the League of Nations
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The Smith family spent much of their time in the Manchester, New York area in treasure-hunting and other magical pursuits.
| Joseph Smith and his family lack credibility because they were practitioners of occultism and folk magic
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I assume that information obtained by spies, secret police and courts, large scale warrantless wiretapping and so on is effective in preventing most politically inspired violence. I also assume that any security organisation in possession of such information has huge power for blackmail, extortion and general prevention of lawful behaviour not in their interests, over the rest of us. So freedom is not compatible with truly effective security services. A society in which there is politically inspired violence is a free society. One that lacks it is not.
| I think politically inspired violence 'terrorism' is a price we should pay for a free society.
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Movements like this that encourage people to contact legislators en masse are rarely, if ever, impactful. The political wheels will keep turning and there will be hardly a hiccup in the system. Most legislators want to appeal to their benefactors and donors moreso than their constituents. In addition, the government wants this power why else would they allow it to grow to this extent. And while some may pretend they are fighting against it they know that the changes that people want take forever to happen, if they even happen at all. Our government had to shut down last year because they couldn't balance their budget, one of the most essential functions. Why do you think they will put so much more effort into curbing the NSA?
| I believe that the "Today We Fight Back" movement will prove futile in reigning in the powers of the NSA.
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People have an innate bias to believe that they're better at operating a firearm than they actually are; it's just like the standard bias that one is smarter or a better driver than one really is.
| Unless extensively trained like law enforcement, trying to use a gun as a defense during an attack is more likely to get you killed than if you did nothing.
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There are many reasons as to why I believe a minimum wage hike is not a good idea, especially to an outstanding 15 wage hike, I think, if anything, the whole thing should be abolished altogether minimum wage or keep it the way it is. Here's why Raising the minimum wage will not guarantee jobs, it will only guarantee that those WHO DO have jobs, will get a minimum wage increase. Now picture this, you are a teenager and you don't need anything more than a 7 per hour wage, you go to a business, and they ask you how much should we pay you? you answer I think my job will amount to 7 per hour your boss will say Okay, you got your first job . With a minimum wage hike, this teenager, despite wanting AND accepting a 7 per hour job, will not get it because the government required that the least a boss can pay you is 15 . Now that teenager won't get work experience such as dealing with a boss, dealing with his coworkers, dealing with customers, and the lot. And let's not forget the jobs that will be lost in a minimum wage hike. If you honestly do believe we should do the best for society, then you should believe that unemployment should be kept at a low percentage, and that teenagers and the lot should get a good amount of work experience before climbing the corporate ladder. What good does it do if people who have little or no experience not get a job? There's a common rhetoric ammongst redditors trying to find a job and say How on earth can I get experience if EVERY job demands 3 to 4 years of experience? Well, I know it's terrible, but it's because businesses can't afford having no experience. Now a simple business 101 book will tell you that you should give your workers motivation Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a good example to be productive. Now what will happen if a boss pays his workers a higher wage NOT because workers have become more productive, NOT because businesses should pay higher wages to hold onto valuable employees, but simply because the government requires it. When a minimum wage rises, employers WILL adjust through firing employees or cut back on their hours, they will raise prices for their goods, only to adjust their profits. Businesses are not the devil like how redditors often describes them to be, good businessmen will give their workers a good job, otherwise workers won't be productive. And adding to the cut back their hours point , if a business can pay more per hour BUT NOT more per week, then what's the good that a minimum wage hike will do aside from giving workers more free time? Businesses compete with each other, and so it's not a surprise that you see a product that is unbelievably amazing for a low price. If you gave ALL the businesses minimum wage hikes, then what will stop businesses to adjusting by increasing the prices of goods and services? Won't that create workers demanding higher wages again? perhaps to a new more shiny 20 per hour? AND SINCE businesses compete with each other, wouldn't a worker who gets, say, 6 an hour, quit his job because he found another business who are willing to pay him her 12 per hour? And then a huge influx of workers quitting their job from said business 1 to said business 2, business 1 will have little to no workers, and business 2 have now got a huge lot of workers. Now if you think it through, which business will be more productive? and so which business will get more profits? Any business book will tell you business 2 obviously. A good economy requires a huge number of people to be aspiring entrepreneurs. Now if you're an aspiring entrepreneur, shouldn't the government make it easier for you to start your own business instead of adding a lot more responsibilities that you personally think that it's a great risk to take and decide not to and work as an employee? That'll be terrible, businesses starting anew should be easy to start, not be a huge liability to go for. It can go easy through MANY different means, interest free loans, making it nice and easy instead of adding so many restrictions to demotivate an aspiring entrepreneur to start his own business. As Frank Sinatra once put it Nice and easy does it, every time~ . Now picture this, you are a businessman, you are giving your employees a 10 per hour wage and they're happy with it, they're university students working part time or people who really don't care and just want to survive. You are thinking of opening a second joint That's great maximizing profits, giving people jobs, all is nice and dandy. But then the government shows up and says PAY THOSE WORKERS A 15 PER HOUR JOB . The whole idea is thrown out the window. You could have given them a 15 per hour job AFTER you open a second joint and maximise profit, but no. Because it became too huge a risk to take. So now you'll hear people saying well small businesses shouldn't adhere to those responsibilities. and I agree, maybe a 15 wage hike should go to big businesses, but then again, please read all the above to understand why it might be a bad idea^ So yeah REDDIT, CHANGE MY VIEW.
| I don't think a minimum wage hike is a good idea.
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As once said by clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson: "In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive Political correctness is a direct attack on free speech, and you should only get in trouble for saying something offensive if it's meant as a threat or a vast public denigration to the person or group in case.
| PC stifles discourse by social sanctions that encourage individuals and institutions to self-censor speech and thought.
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In taking the course that it has taken, the government, with the support of parliament has presumed the electorate to be gullible and ignorant. The electorate knew the referendum was advisory and treated it as such: the only thing that can be derived with certainty from the result is that parliament is seriously out of touch. Another vote on the EU ignores that information & proves parliament as not fit for purpose, but without acknowledging either fact.
| There shouldn't be a second vote because whatever the outcome, a second vote will legitimize the fact that the government is ignoring the result of the first vote.
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Forza Horizon 4 has been dubbed as one of the best car racing experiences of all time
| Exclusives from the Forza series offers the best car racing experience on console.
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College is nominally the final stage of training people undergo before entering their professional careers. To normalise affirmative action there is the closest it can get to being normalised in the workforce.
| Affirmative action in college admissions normalizes affirmative action in the workplace.
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