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"content": "CMV: Mass Effect 3 would have been a better game if the Geth/Quarian situation had not been peacefully resolvable\nFirst point, not as strong but probably enough reason on it's own: Either of the other choices is more poignant than de-escalating the situation ^((note that I did enjoy that having made all the right decisions in earlier games payed of"
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"content": "The ending doesn't ignore the fact that you made peace between the Geth and the Quarians. It highlights it. Here you have a potential example of biotics and synthetics living side by side in peace. I say potential, because it may only be a temporary peace - perhaps the catalyst might have been right, and the peace may fall apart in the end. Eit"
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"content": "CMV: Why spend money on space exploration when we have so many other issues on Earth?\nHere are some popular counter-arguments that I don't believe hold up very well:\n\n-It's important to keep exploring.\n\nIs it more important than our basic survival?\n\n-It helps avoid asteroids.\n\nThis technology is already well developed and requires minimal funding c"
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"content": "I'll give a different answer from most people. It's important, like sports. Sports really don't have a purpose. People get super excited about their team and we have all these movies glorifying the underdogs winning the championship. But in reality sports are completely meaningless... It's just a game. BUT... Sports inspire people, they promote har"
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"content": "CMV: Parents who want to conceive should have to take the same tests as those who want to adopt.\nMy friend's family recently adopted a young girl in China, but preceding this they had to take a test and go through some background checks to be sure that they were going to be good parents (as one would hope). After he told me about this, I started th"
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"content": "CMV: \"The Hunger Games\" as a story is completely unbelievable\nBefore you jump at the title, lots of stories are unbelievable, but I am able to suspend my disbelief for a great many premises. However, there are several core facets of the story that I am totally unable to suspend my disbelief for, because they fly in the face of how humans would beha"
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"content": "I bet North Korea could pull off a real life hunger games, given time they would have tribute volunteers. \n\n1: You should understand that the tribute system is a system designed to show the outer districts that the central districts/elites can do to them whatever they want. The outer districts aren't happy about this. \n \nThe people"
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"content": "CMV: The United States Post Office Should be Abolished\nThe United States Post Office is an archaic vestige of a bygone era. It is horribly inefficient, unaccountable, and no longer relevant to modern society. For these reasons, it should be abolished in its entirety.\n\nThe Post Office was first envisioned in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress a"
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"content": "Private companies would do it for less by not serving the whole country. As it is, if you send something to remote areas of the country by DHL or UPS or FEDEX, they get it somewhat close, and then have the post office take it the rest of the way. \n\nFurthermore my experiences with the post office have been far better than mine with any private compa"
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"content": "CMV: An entire people can never justifiably be punished for crimes committed by their government\nThis mainly is in response to the fact that many people hold the view that the German people as a whole deserved being raped, having their private property stolen, forced from their homes, firebombed, and being indiscriminately killed during the final y"
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"content": "But what about a country in which everyone supports the government? \n\nWe're speaking in theory here, but if a direct democracy were to take place (as in, where the people *directly* choose what to do) vote to take reprehensible action unanimously. Shouldn't they be held accountable?"
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"content": "CMV:I believe the book \"How to Analyze People on Sight\" is factually true\nI've recently read the book called [\"How to Analyze People on Sight\" by Elsie and Ralph Paine Benedict](http://www.amazon.com/How-Analyze-People-Sight-Analysis/dp/1453756248), and every page in the book feels factually true to me. Since the book is surveyed hundreds of people"
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"content": "CMV: Reddit's circlejerk for rare/medium-rare steak is just people making themselves feel better and has nothing do with quality meat or actual taste of the cut\nI saw a post a little while ago on the different types of steak and how to know how cooked it was. I'd like to say that about 30% of the comments were along the lines of \"They should replac"
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"content": "Ok, let's look at what happens at each level of doneness from a food science perspective:\n\n1. Blue rare--only the outside is seared to allow for some browning. Flavor and aroma compounds develop, but the meat inside has not been cooked at all.\n2. Rare--the outer sides are starting to get cooked, but the inside is still extremely chewy because the c"
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"content": "CMV: The USA spends a ridiculous amount of money on our military.\nCouple things: Yeah, I know this has been posted before, but the people who have posted this before didn't care about other's opinions and were trying to defend their own opinions. This isn't the case for me. I really want to hear other's opinions on this topic. \n\nI love my country ("
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"content": "So are you saying that it's too much compared to what other countries are spending, or just too much period? Because I think the responses to each of those premises may be quite different. \n\nI mean, I just think of the difference in how the US treats its soldiers compared to say, China. I don't know for 100% sure, but I would guess that we spend a "
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"content": "CMV: I don't think everybody should be able to vote in the US without earning it first\nI believe a democracy works best when the people that vote are informed, intelligent, and actively participating in their governments. Allowing anyone to vote, including illegal immigrants, the uninformed, and the uneducated, seems like it would make it easy for "
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"content": "Of course, there is the question of who decides the minimum standards to vote?"
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"content": "CMV: The coming complete automation of unskilled labor in the next 10 years, capitalism, and bell curve intelligence are a completely incompatible combination.\nAnd let me get out of the way when I say \"complete automation\", I really mean 90%+. We may disagree about the time frame, but nearly all unskilled labor will be automated. It may take 20 yea"
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"content": "What technology or collection of technologies do you think will come to fruition in the next several decades that will replace 90% of the labor force? The only thing I can think of that would be *that* capable would be 'strong' artificial general intelligence, AI with capabilities at least approximately equal to a human being.\n\nBut there's no inher"
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"content": "CMV: Child Protective Services (CPS), while a good concept, is virtually useless in practice\nI have had many encounters with CPS (not for me, regarding others) and I am thoroughly and completely unimpressed. Their job is to protect children yet I have never seen them actually do that. Working in a hospital and being married to a nurse, I have had"
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"content": "I've worked as a family therapist, and have had to deal with the CPS on both sides (from clients who wanted to avoid having their kids taken away to kids that really needed to be taken away from their parents), and I think you're explaining exactly why we need MORE of the CPS, not how useless it is.\n\nYou're \"unimpressed\" with them because you think"
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"content": "CMV: Mark Wahlberg doesn't deserve a pardon.\nI was reading the news and came across an article stating that Mark Wahlberg - a very rich actor, producer and model - is seeking out a presidential pardon for a series of crimes he committed in the 1980s.\n\n**Crimes**\n\nFor those of you not familiar with the case: Wahlberg had been in trouble with police"
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"content": "You're getting too caught up in your hatred for the idea of criminals, and not looking at the message that what we do here sends to the impoverished youth of America who are at a high risk for being in gangs (or are already in them); Do we want to say \"If you do these things no matter how much you regret them, you'll have to wear that sin as a badg"
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"content": "CMV: It's no coincidence that states that vote Republican are objectively worse off...\nSo, I want someone to convince me otherwise, but I think it is obvious that right-leaning people generally dislike public investment in social welfare, education, health, science... and as a result, when they get elected, the adopt programs that invest less in th"
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"content": "I looked at some of the lists and it's pretty clear that the \"trend\" you're seeing is being overwhelmingly driven by a New England v Deep South Divide. NE *happens* to vote Democrat and the South *happens* to vote GOP, but these aren't the primary causes of the different outcomes you observe:\n\n* Deep Southern States have really fucked over black pe"
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"content": "CMV: Michael Moore and Seth Rogan's criticisms of the film\"American Sniper\" are valid and the glorification of war is wrong.\nI both comments dealt with the subjectivity of heroism. Michael Moore said that his uncle was killed by a sniper in wwii and that he was raised to think of snipers as cowards that shoot people in the back. That is just his re"
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"content": "I don't understand how so many people are missing the fact that this movie was the FARTHEST thing from glorification of war. It showed a man become completely broken, to the point that he couldn't even face his family or socialize normally in society. On top of that, it showed how the fervor of war can shape and twist people's perceptions and bring"
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"content": "CMV: I think it should be legal for people to change their birthdate.\nI know that your birthdate is the day you were born, but a lot of things are legally one way, but physically another. I would, however, want it to be limited so you can only make yourself 90 days older or 90 days younger, and once every 10 years, so we won't see things like high "
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"content": "This would cost a lot of money and resources, since so many systems will need to be updated to adapt to such a change, and all of them would need to be updated simultaneously.\n\nThe question I have is: What makes it worth the hassle? Can you make a short list? You mentioned getting into school earlier - but I'm not sure that's legit, since there's a"
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"content": "CMV: If the Jenny and Carly story is fake, it should be praised for reinveting mystification, not condemned as deception\nIn the early days of the novel (18th century), a lot of books were written to resemble actual, real documents: \"Dangerous Liaisons\" was purportedly a collection of real letters thrown out of a carriage at the author's feet; \"Gull"
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"content": "Do you have any source to indicate that people really believed that \"Dangerous Liasons\" and \"Gulliver's Travels\" were real accounts? This style of fiction persists to the modern day. \"Lolita,\" written in the '50s, is presented as a real account, and plenty of modern novels still use a format that presents themselves as a \"real\" text without actuall"
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"content": "CMV:/r/thingsjonsnowknows should have precisely one post; one that just says cunniligus.\nThis is fairly self explanatory for fans of the show and books, but since my last attempt got removed for being to short, I'll explain. In the books and show, Jon Snow's love interest constantly tells him \"you know nothing\" which is the joke behind the subredd"
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"content": "The purpose of the sub is to repeat her phrase, not to note what he knows- the phrase is an indicator of general naivety, not actually knowing nothing. She knows he knows some things, but in many issues he knows nothing."
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"content": "CMV: In a couple, I think cunnilingus is more intimate and more bonding than fellatio\nSo I was asking my friends and the problem is that all the girls answered fellatio, few boys answered fellatio and the other answered cunnilingus. I think that the patriarchal view of the society makes the cunnilingus more valuable in a couple because it is the ma"
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"content": "How about both? \"You do for me and I do for you\" is great at bringing people closer."
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"content": "CMV: Holidays should not be named after people, but after the virtue(s) that they represented.\nIt seems like every time a holiday named after a person comes around I see a slew of historical facts about the terrible things that that person did. This is especially relevant to Colombus Day, but even applies to MLK day. Even further, this is sometimes"
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"content": "I think that this argument relates back to your philosophy of history. [The Great Man Theory]( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history#The_validity_of_the_.22Great_man_theory.22_in_historical_studies) suggests that the important historical events are not a result of [The Spirit of the Times]( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist), "
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"content": "CMV: The ongoing TIFU about infidelity should never have been posted and redditors should now downvote it.\nSo as you are probably aware /u/MyLifeSuxNow is getting a ridiculous amount of karma and comments about his post which is continuously ongoing and describes how he is dealing with finding out about his wife cheating on him. \n\nI haven't seen th"
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"content": ">Now I could get the initial post about the TIFU where he said he found out she was cheating, I wouldn't personally share that information but if that's how needs to blow off some steam fine, I'm sure that he can get some relief out of it. But this has gotten out of hand, thousands of people are anxiously awaiting updates to hear about his miser"
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"content": "CMV: I feel that the consequence of infidelity is excessive.\nIn light of the recent TIFU[1] posts[2] , this is something that has been nagging at me for a while. Why do (just about) all romantic relationships imply a sexual monopoly over your partner? And that breaking this, by seeking other partners is grounds for no-questions-asked instant, crush"
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"content": "You have conversations and set the expectation well before marriage. If you're not okay with the terms, then you shouldn't get married. I think a healthy relationship that results in marriage have probably talked a lot about what their plans and expectations are for the marriage and the rest of their lives together. Changing these plans or sayin"
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"content": "CMV: I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age.\nI’ve simply never seen the point in drinking. I’ve been to a few stereotypical high school parties where people have asked me why I don’t drink on several occasions. I really have no specific reasons as to why I choose to abstain: I’m not religious, can’"
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"content": "\nThere is nothing wrong with your goal to remain alcohol-free in your life. You are making the choice consciously and can decide when and under what conditions to drink, and how much you will choose to drink.\n\n> I take pride in having stood up to peer-pressure for so many years and practiced a fair amount of self-discipline.\n\nYou want to be in c"
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"content": "CMV: CGI in movies is not necessarily a bad thing, and the general dislike for it by many Redditors is silly.\nLast night, I was looking at various movie reviews on Reddit, and a lot of people seem to dislike the use of CGI in movies, and they say that it distracts them. I believe that certain scenes/sequences can't possibly be filmed without the us"
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"content": "I don't think anyone believes that CGI is always a bad thing in movies. The issue is the over reliance on it. Movies are going for bigger and \"better\" and that often means CGI rather than live actors. This makes movies even less realistic not just that they look cartoony but that the reason they use CGI is to do stuff that simply isn't realistic. \n"
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"content": "CMV:Eating animals is morally wrong.\nFirst of all, I eat meat. In fact, I eat more meat than most of my friends. I have some friends that are vegetarian and vegan and I admire them for it, but I don't think I could ever do it because 1) I just love the taste of meat too much and 2) I'm already fairly underweight and I worry that I would become dang"
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"content": "Well, first off, no matter what you eat, you're killing something. Plants are living as well. That is how humans have always survived, buy consuming other life.\n\nSecond off, I'm assuming that you mean it's wrong to kill an animal to eat it. It seems like the consuming of the meat isn't the problem, it's ending the life to do so. \n\nNow, most people "
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"content": "CMV: I believe that mainstream Christianity is incompatible with the teachings of Jesus as presented in the bible.\nI recently read through the gospels for the first time. I found that while I have always lived in a Christian society (the United States) and have attended church in the past, there were quite a few places where Christ was advocating a"
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"content": "Without jumping too far into the weeds, Protestants (and particularly Southern Baptists) pretty much follow everything you describe. \n\n1. Most of the time, praying before a meal is done silently or within ones head (all protestants) -when was the last time you actually caught one of us praying openly and out loud before we eat at McDonalds? See,"
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"content": "CMV: Abortion should be mandatory if a fetus is found to have a handicap\nFirst of all, I would like to say that what the Nazis did with their eugenics was horrible. However, I believe this to be quite a different matter. The main difference being that the fetus has no feelings and will not suffer from its abortion. The reason that I wanted to discu"
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"content": "OK, let me start with your reasons for forced abortions:\n\n> Handicapped people will, on average, cost society more money than the average person/contribute less to society.\n\nA baby born to a jobless, single mother will also likely cost society more money than he or she contributes, to name just one example. If this is a valid argument, then a l"
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"content": "CMV: Racism is clearly wrong, but criticism of culture is not wrong if done thoughtfully and in good faith. It should not be equated with racism, and does not make one an asshole.\nTo begin my argument, I need to make sure we are using a common set of definitions. So for clarity in this thread, I would like to use the following definitions:\n\nEthnici"
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"content": "So I think there's 3 elements of your view that rely on invalid (or likely invalid assumptions).\n\n\n>When you start criticizing the common culture of a racial or ethnic group it can lead to racism de facto because of confirmation bias or unintentional stereotyping.\n\n\n>My primary value is truth. If a person understands that confirmation bias an"
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"content": "CMV. Some lives are worth more than others.\nTruth be told, I don't necessarily believe this myself, but it's hard to make what I would consider to be a compelling argument against this. \n\nThe only halfway decent argument is that life in general are an unknown quantity; you never know what someone is going to be in the future. Still, this argument f"
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"content": "By what objective measure can you make this statement? What is it about Life A that makes it worth more than Life B?\n\nWe have trouble evaluating worth when we can put something like money next to it (like is a blanket made from your dead grandmother worth more than a blanket that cost $100?). i kind of question your ability to evaluate lives withou"
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"content": "CMV: I should quit my job to start a business\nHey everyone, \n\nI am 26 and has been working for 3 years now at a large computer services company. I have always had startup ideas like 1 or 2 per year. each time i get so motivated, i plan for it i do the swot analysis and the studies needed. then when it comes to implementation, whether technological "
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"content": "As a person who has done this, it isn't necessarily the best option. It depends on the person, of course, but if you have trouble with distractions I found they only increase when you strike it out on your own. You don't have to quit your job to stop making excuses: you can stop making excuses right now, while still working at your job. Set stri"
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"content": "CMV: World War II Was/Will Be a Good Thing Overall\nRight, first of all, I think that the attempted genocide and all the deaths and things like that that happened were horribe things, I'm not denying that. But, nowadays people (in general) find war totally abhorrent (apart from occasional 'just wars'). I'm not sure, but I think this came from the at"
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"content": ">I'm not sure, but I think this came from the atrocities in WWII\n\nPeople said the same thing about WWI which was, in many ways, a much more brutal conflict. That's why, at the time, it was called 'the war to end all wars'.\n\nThe real reason, IMO, there hasn't been a major war since WWII is the development of nuclear weapons. The major powers are "
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"content": "CMV: Nobody can earn a billion dollars\nHello, I have been thinking about my views on wealth and worth. I have started to belive that is impossible to earn hundreds of millions and billions of dollars(emphasis on earn). While a job can be very valuable I cant see how a single person can be worth $30000+ per day.\n\nI understand the argument that a CEO"
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"content": "Here's a few things you should factor into your view. \n\n**Firstly, *nobody does* 'earn' a billion-dollar salary.** Even CEOs. [The Highest-paid CEOs earn less than $150m per year] (http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eggh45jef/highest-paid-bosses/). Nobody is being paid billions of dollars in salary. They may invest their money and turn it into billions"
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"content": "CMV: Overpopulation is a serious problem and people have yet to have families should think about having smaller families.\nI think the size of the global human population is too large and that overpopulation is getting worse.\n\nThe current global human population is [7.2 billion](http://www.populationconnection.org/site/PageServer). \n\nIt was only [1"
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"content": "> I think the size of the global human population is too large and that overpopulation is getting worse.\n\nIt's not too large. The planet is perfectly capable of supplying everybody with food, water, and a place to live. The only problem is distribution.\n\n> One in eight people is hungry. More than a billion people live in areas where water is "
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"content": "CMV: Living with your significant other is not a good idea.\nI'm pretty liberal with just about all my social views but on this one I'm more conservative. I do not feel this way for religious reasons. Here are my reasons:\n\n**1) It sets a bad frame.** When boyfriends/girlfriends live together, it almost always seems to not end well. Lots of people ju"
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"content": ">It's like you're just seeing if you could cohabitate with a person you LOVE.\n\nI reject this premise that \"love\" is the most important thing. I am married and can tell you, it takes much more than love to make a relationship work. You need to be fundamentally compatible, the best way to do this is to live together.\n\n>2) It makes marriage al"
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"content": "> I am married and can tell you, it takes much more than love to make a relationship work. \n\nI am unmarried and I agree.\n\n> You need to be fundamentally compatible, the best way to do this is to live together.\n\nI disagree that living together is the \"best\" way. I think it's great to spend nights together but I don't feel it's necessary to act"
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"content": "> Yes, you can say this for a lot of relationships. I've just gotten the impression that it's worse if you're living together just because of all the bullshit you put up with, with one person having to move out and sleep in a separate room in the mean time.\n\nThe more involved a relationship is, the more awkward it is to leave it. This is true wh"
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"content": "CMV: Aqua Man's use of his powers are incredibly unethical.\nSo I was watching JL: Throne of Atlantis, and the way that they displayed Aqua Man's power over sentient sea life is pretty unethical. He summoned creatures like whales to do his bidding and in particular he exposed them to danger in such a manner that could threaten their lives. Then it o"
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"content": "There is a period of time in the Aquaman volume 5 (Issue is somewhere in the early 30s as in issue 35 he tries to pair off against Poseidon to regain his title and the trust of sealife) where he loses the trust of sea life and they refuse to follow him. \n\nHe is their king so they are compelled to follow his orders, especially the ones with limited "
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"content": "CMV: I support the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).\nFirst, let me establish that I support the *bill* known as CISPA. Not necessarily any riders that may be tacked on. \n\nSecond, I want to provide the actual content of the bill in its entirety as presented by the House Intelligence Committee [here](http://intelligence.house.gov"
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"content": "For starters: that was quite an interesting read. I read the summary you provided about 4 times (I'm not a native speaker and it's not the most accessible English), and I think I got most of it now.\n\nI stand to be corrected on the point I'm about to make, as I'm by no means an expert and perhaps I just understand it wrong. Disclaimer aside, here's "
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"content": "CMV:I think that all those ideas that are worth the \"free speech protection\" should be consequence free.\nI've read many times on US based forums that \"free speech means that you can say whatever you want, not that you won't suffer any consequence from it\". I'm from Europe, where we have a slightly different approach, and I think it should be the ex"
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"content": "> I think that there should be a limit to what you can say.\n\nWell, in the US there is a limit on what you can say. You can't yell \"bomb\" on a plane or \"fire\" in a crowded theater. You also cannot threatens someone. \n\n> As in nobody could even think about asking the cancellation of a show for a presenter remark, universities should not have sp"
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"content": "CMV: I believe that trigger warnings are unhealthy, and institutions shouldn't tailor their content around them\nEdit: I evidently haven't thought this through very much, and my argument is criticising the wrong group of people. I think the bulk of my argument is a knee-jerk reaction to Tumblr-folk who misuse the term \"trigger\" to mean being offende"
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"content": "> The victim of a trauma is always, eventually, going to come across stimuli that might be \"triggering\", it's not the responsibility of society to avoid giving those stimuli.\n\nSociety is not avoiding giving the stimuli, they are simply providing fair warning that stimuli may be coming. Victim's will always, eventually, come across stimuli that "
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"content": "CMV: Over-moderation of online forums is a lot worse than under-moderation\nI have been a big forum user before forums were even a big thing on the internet (~at least 15 years). And I have seen forums go from virtually unmoderated wild west to the extremely moderated \"sanitized\" forums we have today, reddit included. I have been banned and have thr"
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"content": "First, let me say that inconsistent, biased, poorly explained, seemingly random moderation sucks. And there's no question that some of it exists on reddit.\n\nBut let's consider two people. They both put up a big bulletin board out on their front lawn and invite people to post things. \n\nOne of them has a label that says \"Post anything you want\". "
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"content": "CMV: Nintendo is a badly managed company\nOver the past few years I have come to the conclusion that Nintendo is horribly run company, as a Nintendo fan I would like to be proven wrong as I can't see how this company can possibly survive. There's a few main points to my view that I will try to outline as clearly as possible.\n\n1) Nintendo botched th"
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"content": ">Nintendo has three games that get more attention than the others. Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Mario Party, none of these games existed for the first 18 months of the consoles life.\n\nThere are two big ones missing from this: Zelda and the core Mario games.\n\nWii U did launch with a new Mario: Super Mario Bros U, and a second core Mario, Super Mar"
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"content": "CMV: It should not be a considered rude if someone younger than you does not call you \"Mr\", \"Mrs\", \"Dr\", etc.\nFrom a sociological perspective, the idea of addressing someone older than you as \"Mr. ___\" or \"Mrs. ___\" or \"Dr. ___\" is a fabricated custom. We consider it to be respectful because that's what our elders have told us. I don't really see a"
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"content": "Considering you're in an academic setting (college), calling her \"Jane\" is putting yourself on the same level as her. She just takes exception because you're (I'm guessing) some punk-ass undergrad and she's a professor with a doctorate. She's worked hard for her title, and you calling her \"Jane\" is like you saying \"Hey, we're both at the Universi"
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"content": "CMV:Using crazy parts of the Bible as an argument as to why it bad is a bad argument\n"
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"content": ">The general idea is right but part are way off. Same with the bible. The general idea is right but some part are off.\n\nI think that's the point. It's not necessarily to say \"the bible is bad\" but more as a rebuttal to those bible thumpers that throw down verses like it's a word of god and end of argument. This is especially true of old testam"
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"content": "CMV: Talent isn't needed to excel at something\nThis is my first post here, so I hope I don't violate any rules. Anyway, here goes:\n\nSo I often hear people saying “Oh no, there's no way, I could do this or that. I have no talent at this at all”. In my opinion it's just an excuse to say you're not talented. You should rather say “I have no motivation"
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"content": "that assumes talented people don't practice, they do.\n\nlets say excellent is the top 5% of whatever.\n\nnow someone with talent only needs 3 hours instead of 8 to do the same thing a non talented person does, both practice for 10 years, who will be in the excellent category and who will be in the merely good?"
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"content": "CMV: Like physical sports, I think a portion of video game skill/talent is inherent, rather than all being trained.\nSo I was having a conversation with my friend recently about my poor micro-management skills in video games and I said how that I am just bad at micro-managing and it will always hold me back. He says that if I trained enough at micro"
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"content": "\"Micro-management\" refers to a combination of a lot of different pieces - you need to be able to see what's going on, make a strategic decision about where to spend your energy (moving zealots, blinking stalkers, keeping colossi away from vipers), and then execute on that strategy. Executing involves a combination of pieces of selecting units via m"
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"content": "CMV: Making Third Reich Jokes or Casually Using Master Race Like in, \"PCMasterRace\" Trivializes The Topic.\nWhen you use the term Master Race casually along with Holocaust/Nazi jokes you trivialize what was one of the most cruel and repressive regimes in human history. It makes all of those millions who were tortured and slaughtered, and even more w"
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"content": "Do you think that the people at /r/pcmasterrace actually believe the Nazis were \"a joke\" and \"weren't really that big of a deal\"? \n\nIf so, what makes you think that? I don't see any reason to believe that's the case.\n\nIf not, what precisely do you mean by \"trivializing\"?"
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"content": "CMV: I believe it's wrong to ask someone out if looks/sexual attraction play a bigger role than personality in your desire to date that person.\nGreetings fellow redditors, \n\nI'm conflicted about the morality of attraction. Perhaps due to the inculcation of the seemingly ubiquitous stance that personality traits are far more important than appearanc"
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"content": "> I believe it's wrong to date someone when physical/sexual attraction constitute the majority proportion of the desire to enter into a relationship.\n\nPhysical attraction is easy and instantaneous. Learning about character is harder and requires much more time invested.\n\nThe purpose of dating is to find someone you are attracted to physically, a"
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"content": "CMV:(R) or (D) should not be included anywhere on ballots of any kind. Be it initiatives, local or state government elections, or presidential elections.\nIn a day and age where politics has become more about Republicans beating Democrats and vise versa, I don't think people really research the issues and people they vote on. I, personally, know ma"
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"content": "Many states do have \"nonpartisan\" ballots of the type you describe. [This academic study](http://prq.sagepub.com/content/54/1/7.abstract) concluded from a comparison that:\n\n>We find that nonpartisanship depresses turnout and that in nonpartisan contests voters rely less on party and more on incumbency in their voting decisions. The nonpartisan "
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"content": "CMV: There is no benefit to being an at-will, salaried full time employee.\nThe fact that salaries are based off 40 hour work weeks despite plenty of evidence which suggests salaried employees work more than that is a disappointing norm.\n\nI am a professional in my late twenties with a wife and baby. I often find myself working on W2 contracts at an "
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"content": "Your concerns seem somewhat biased toward immediate gain. What if your health plan still covers you for part or all of your retirement? That'd be pretty significant, especially considering the rising costs of health care and conflicts between inflation and the fixed income of retired seniors. \n \n \nIt also depends on the industry you're in and wha"
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"content": "CMV: Dating someone with kids.\nA little backstory...\nI'm a 22 female which is young for my age and kids, in my opinion. I've always considered, but never wanted kids. I'm also moving across the United states in 3 months. \n\nI recently went on a date with a charming guy (also 22) I met at a social outing with my brother and the date went rather wel"
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"content": "This feels like something that belongs more on /r/AskWomen or /r/AskMen more so than as a CMV; I'm not sure what I'm really meant to \"change\" about your view, you seem to be more asking for advice. \n\nThat said, unless you're planning to have a long long term relationship with this guy, one where you'd have to move in or really interact with the kid"
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"content": "CMV: A National ID Card is a Good Idea\nI'm from the US and I have never experienced anything but frustration in using government issued id. There's also been a push, in my view, to use some people's lack of id as a way to discriminate against lower income people by preventing them from voting. I think the most reasonable solution is to combine th"
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"content": "CMV: Multiculturalism is slowly destroying European cultures\nCountries such as German, France, England, Poland all used to be very unique countries who developed a nationality and identity. Through Multiculturalism we are seeing those unique cultures are customs destroyed. In an attempt to tolerate other cultures and not help them assimilate into o"
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"content": "You see, this is why I dislike the word \"multiculturalism\". People throw it around, but nobody actually has any idea what it is. Let's start with what it is not.\n\n> In an attempt to tolerate other cultures and not help them assimilate into our own, countries are ignoring or leaving behind aspects of what made them unique.\n\nThat's not strictly mu"
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"content": "CMV: \"Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile.\"\nI'm quoting in the title a phrase from an Al Jazeera executive, that succinctly expresses my position on the situation with Charlie Hebdo's comics \n\nI wonder how long it would take if"
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"content": "These cartoons were never about 'randomly poking people' to prove the authors could get away with it. Implying that that was the motivation shows how flawed your perspective is. These cartoons weren't about mocking people for being different, they were exposing objectively harmful parts of different cultures.\n\nOnce again, the satire was not focused"
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"content": "CMV:Most \"Avant-Garde\" music is utterly horrible, and should really be called \"experimental\" music.\nGenres like \"noise and drone\", \"minimal\", and \"garbage\" are, well, garbage to me. I don't understand how anyone can listen to this music for hours on end. Now, before you judge me, know that I understand that music is inherently subjective. I know. H"
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"content": "\"Avant-garde,\" literally translated from French, means \"vanguard.\" The people at the front of the army. The explorers. The scouts. The ones whose job it is to get shot or fall off a cliff in the hopes of finding a safe route, or at the very least in the hopes of limping back and reporting what didn't work and what reactions they saw to their presen"
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"content": "CMV: If religious people truly believed in heaven, they would be happy that they're dying\nEven if they're not necessarily happy about dying, they wouldn't be sad about it. \n\nI can't speak much about Islam, Buddhism, etc, but I know for a fact that Catholics believe that there's a heaven, and that life in heaven is infinitely better than the life we"
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"content": "Even if they think they're going to a better place, you don't think a person might feel sad for leaving loved ones behind, even if they think they'll see them sometime in the future? Or sad that there are so many things they didn't get to do while alive? Or regretting they won't have the time to say the things they left unsaid to the people they "
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"content": "CMV: Conscription is practically enslaving your own people\nYou hear some Tories and UKIP folk saying they want to reintroduce the draft for males under 35 again. \n\nHow would this be a good idea? I am 24 and why should I be forced into the military to flight in some war that politicians would probably be able to wrangle their own kids out of? (Like "
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"content": "> How would this be a good idea? \n\nFor democratic governments, such as the UK and US, this is an excellent idea to solve a very specific problem -- the lack of engagement of the general public around military and foreign affairs. \n\nAt least in the USA, we have developed a military community that is segregated heavily from the general population."
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"content": "CMV: We should mourn those killed in France, but should not be so eager to support Charlie Hebdo\n**EDIT: View Changed by /u/LucyInTheCellar, for [this comment here.](http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/2s38n0/cmv_we_should_mourn_those_killed_in_france_but/cnltsuz)**\n\n*∆ I will admit that as an American this week's attacks have been my fir"
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"content": ">Honestly, Charlie Hebdo's publications about Islam just seem to be promoting continued Islamophobia. Depending on which side of history we come out, those who perpetrate such things could the be anti-semetic nazi analogues of our time.\n\nYou couldn't be farther from the truth. I don't blame you (I'm guessing you don't read french, and you've nev"
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"content": "CMV: No one should be complaining about public schools when alternatives exist that they're not willing to take advantage of.\nPublic schools exist to provide education to poor families that can't afford alternatives. It's a program meant for the less-fortunate, which makes perfect sense considering education for children must be provided under pena"
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"content": "Public schools exist to teach the public, as in the majority of society. As such they should be held to the standards of society. Private schools are for the elite or wealthy and should not be the standard. "
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"content": "CMV: Kids under 18 who have babies should be required to designate a legal guardian for the baby\nMy wife and I have been caring for a teenage foster daughter and her newborn for the past three months. She is not a particularly driven individual, but aside from her baby is a fairly ordinary teenager for her grade, and is probably a better than aver"
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"content": "Okay; I'll shoot. A teen raising a child is legally a child by herself (unless they have been emancipated, in which case a court has already decided that they have a suitable income). That teen's (usually parents) are required to provide food & shelter & such to the teen already. It would be entirely feasible for a teen to earn enough while"
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"content": "CMV: Inspired by the recent Harry Potter post. I believe that the Harry Potter films are examples of a bad adaptation, and that Harry Potter would have been better served adapted into a TV series.\nLong, big book series don't lend themselves well to movie adaptations, because they always have to sacrifice parts of the actual story to make room for b"
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"content": "The movie rights to the series were first sold in 1999. The most successful TV shows of the time were reality shows like Survivor and Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The primary show that kicked off the era of Premium TV, The Sopranos, JUST came out that year, and was still years away from making HBO the power player it is today. \n\nNo studio would t"
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"content": "CMV: As of right now, I don't see anything that can be done to solve the issue of human rights abuses in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.\nI'll preface this by saying I'm not trying to sound defeatist or anything, I just can't really see anything that can be done about the human rights abuses currently taking place in the DPRK (North Korea"
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"content": "If the US was to invade they could solve the current human rights problems. It wouldn't be a hunky dory fix all utopia afterwards by any stretch because rebuilding governments is not an easy feat. But we or any other world power or hell even South Korea could likely invade, liberate camps, and dismantle the current government. It is costly and peop"
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"content": "CMV Qui-Gon Jinn is actual a pretty amoral dude.\nUsing mindcontrol to make someone to accept foreign currency they don't want to accept is evil, right? I'm skimming through a fanedit of the Phantom Menace to see if it fixes everything I don't like about the original and the bit where Qui-Gon tries to mindbend Watto seems blatantly unmoral. The jedi"
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"content": "It's not a question of \"Is attempting to mind control him wrong\" - it is. But the thing a lot of people, I think, forget when they evaluate that is that they're carrying the Queen of Naboo on board, a fact that will eventually get out if they stay too long. Moreover, they're fully aware that the Trade Federation could track them down really easily "
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"content": "> and there was no way for them to pay Watto in a manner that would be acceptable for him\n\nIn the next scene Qui-Gon makes a radio call to find out if they have anything of value they could trade to get the part - they don't, but he didn't know that when he tried to mindcontrol Watto.\n\nYou make a good point that he's on an urgent mission though."
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"content": "We saw Watto's shop - there's no indication that there are any working ships there (or non-working ships that could be duct-taped to work). \n\nThe mind trick might not be the most... tasteful... method, but then when you're tasked with protecting a monarch against hostile capture and forced turnover of her entire government and people by a Federatio"
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"content": "CMV: People who try to differentiate weeaboo, otaku, japanophile, etc. are insecure about their hobby.\nFull disclosure: I am \"weeaboo trash.\" I'll be drawn to some works just because \"woah that's Japanese.\" I watch anime and J-dramas and listen to J-rock and read manga and visual novels. I speak some broken Japanese. It'd be ridiculous to deny that"
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"content": "Otaku and weeaboo are completely different terms that mean different things. I don't see how it's wrong to differentiate them."
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"content": "CMV: Let's talk about the value of a human life please.\nIt bothers me that anytime I wasn't too talk about this in public or with friends, I'm viewed as a monster. I find great value in mankind as a whole but very little value in most of its individual parts. \n\nI know this will be a terrible analogy but it works in my head. Humans are like self awa"
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"content": "> What an I missing?\n\nempathy.\n\nI'm not saying that you are unempathetic, rather that that is why we care so much about human lives. for the sake of consistency, lets use your grapevine analogy:\n\nYou have a vine. You enjoy it's fruits, but it falls ill. You spend time and energy trying to repair it, but it dies off anyway. You feel very sad. The"
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"content": "CMV: it is the duty of privileged people to take advantage of their opportunities.\n"
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"content": "Everyone has advantages and disadvantages in life, some are unethical. If I grow up in an urban drug enviroment and my best way to make money quickly is to sell drugs, should I take up drug dealing? I have the means, motive and opportunity? Why not? \n\nAt the same time if I am in a banker family and I don't like banking but I can make a bigger diffe"
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"content": "CMV: Saying the game isn't worth paying for isn't an excuse for pirating videogames\nLately I have seen people saying they pirated games like Assasin's Creed: Unity or other games made by infamous companies because they are so bad that they're not worth paying for. I find this logic to be extremely flawed, since if someone can make something good en"
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"content": "The reason people hate Unity so much is that it was released without enough bug testing. People want to play the game, but buying it despite the bugs only shows the developers that people don't care about quality and that they can get away with buggy games. By simply refusing to play it, you wouldn't want the sequel(s) because you wouldn't know the"
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"content": "CMV: The pledge of allegiance should be removed from public schools in the US because it violates both freedom *of* and freedom *from* religion.\n#EDIT: View changed.\n\nThe atheist objection to the pledge of allegiance is not new. \"Under God,\" the phrase added in the Red Scare, is promoting a belief in a deity in a government establishment, school. W"
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"content": "From a constitutional perspective, the phrase \"under God\" doesn't violate the establishment clause because it is voluntary to recite the pledge. "
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"content": "CMV: Drug tests for jobs aren't about the drugs, they're about weeding out the losers. For the most part, anyhow.\nNo pun intended on the title. But the idea is that employers don't care about your state of mind on your off days. \n\nIt's my view that a vast majority of drug tests for pending applications aren't there to screen out people that smoke p"
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"content": "Employer drug tests have very little to do with screening employees for *anything*. The only employers that I've ever worked with or for that had a \"drug free workplace policy\" had it for one reason and one reason only: Lower insurance costs."
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"content": "CMV: The rate at which one's income is taxed should be based upon average hourly income rather than annual income\nThe rate at which income is taxed (at least in the United States) [increases with annual income](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Marginal_tax_rates). Although it is convenient for calculation purposes to sim"
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"content": "A couple of things. First, the US uses a graduated income tax, so that the first $25k is at the same rate for both people (ignoring deductions), and only the amount above the cut off is taxed at a higher rate.\n\nSecond, regardless of how many hours worked, the portion of wages above a level is taxed at a higher rate based on the logic that a larger"
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"content": "CMV: Charlie Hebdo is a morally-repulsive, fundamentally racist paper that preys on middle class fear in France (and now abroad), and does not deserve the outpouring of support it is receiving.\nCharlie Hebdo is staffed exclusively by white, non-Muslims. The paper is written for a certain section of the French population, which also happens to be wh"
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"content": "Only going to comment on one part of this... \"...does not deserve the outpouring of support it is receiving.\"\n\nEven if I fundamentally disagree with the views they hold or the manner in which the express them, I will support their right to not be murdered by an angry Islamic terrorist.\n\nJust like I hate everything about the Westboro Baptist Church,"
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"content": "CMV: A normal drawing of Muhammad should not be offensive to Muslims\nMuhammad did not prohibit paintings of him because he was self-conscious or felt too holy to be depicted. He did it so people would first and foremost worship God and not pray to a picture or a statue of him as it was the case in christianity with Jesus and other holy figures. Now"
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"content": "Muslims define the observations and tenants of their faith. Determining that images of Muhammad are blasphemous isn't any different than dietary restrictions, something we easily accept. I think the problem is the way you phrase the concern. It should always be offensive since they have decided to observe that item of faith. Is it reasonable? Eh, a"
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"content": "CMV: School hours should be 9am to 5pm to match office hours in order to facilitate working parents.\nIt seems logical to me that school hours should match those of the typical office working hours in order to facilitate working parents. As it currently stands children are typically in school before 9am and finish rather early in the day (e.g. 3pm) "
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"content": ">The extra hours of school need not be filled with further education but could be used to provide longer breaks/recesses/play-times for children, more physical activities or a \"homework club\" were the day's homework could be completed and thus wouldn't need to be done at home.\n\nThey already have these. Every school in my local school district ha"
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