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Human: Change my mind: Gun violence, education reform, concussions in American football, the European far right, and the Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be resolved without fixing economic inequality. In recent years, a number of studies have shown that the US in particular has the lowest income equality, among the lo... | "You can fault shitty tackling technique on helmets. If people lead with their head then they will get injured. Is that the fault of the helmet? That's just a guy who is a crappy tackler. "
'So it seems like it would be poor tackling skills and not the helmets. Go figure. '
"No one cheers for injuries in football. Yo... | 64 |
Human: Change my mind: Driving a car is insanely risky and probably the most dangerous thing you do in your everyday life. I find it difficult to understand how so many people enjoy driving a car or can even relax while doing it. I am almost continually tense while on the road thinking about what's at stake (and I've b... | '' "And if we were invulnerable, we'd be even safer. " 'Yes. '
'∆ TBH, the fact that by this metric walking is more dangerous than driving blows my mind. I guess that it depends on where you walk? (Then again, the same is certainly true for driving.) Maybe I feel more in control when walking, so I underestimate... | 15 |
Human: Change my mind: I don't believe inmates should be eligible for organ transplants. Though it has been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court that withholding medical treatment for individuals incarcerated by the justice system is in violation of the 8th amendment. I do not believe this should extend to organ transplan... | '> The punishment of prison is (supposed to be) a loss of freedom. Nothing more, nothing less. Actually, so far, I\'ve seen three vision of what a prison should do. The first one is yours, that prison is there to separate and resctrict freedom for the inmate. This lead to mexican style prison(not official name), in w... | 32 |
Human: Change my mind: I shouldn't get a job in this economic climate because it'll be automated anyway; I should just wait for a post-scarcity utopia. I think the world is automating fast enough that a utopia will arise where no one will have to work anymore. Within the next 2 decades or so, having a job won't mean mu... | 'No, resources would still be consumed, just we would theoretically be so efficient a finite amount of resources is not a problem. I mostly used the term post scarcity because op used it, but in reality the "utopia" to be expected in the short term from automation is just a form a socialism, so nothing to be excited ab... | 0 |
Human: Change my mind: I believe there should be a Death Race-esque Contest for Prisoners I think there should be a system in place similar to what happened in the Movie 'Death Race'. Better yet, something similar to the Hunger Games.
What am I proposing? Get the Prisoners on Death Row to participate in a mandatory co... | 'What could possibly go wrong with that plan?' | 16 |
Human: Change my mind: i have a hard time feeling sympathetic towards ebola aid workers (and feel bad about it) in the uk there's a story going on right now of a nurse who got transferred to a london hospital/isolation ward, and that her condition is deteriorating rapidly.
i don't take death lightly, i try and picture... | "> i dunno, if it happened to your friend i think you'd be more angry than sympathetic, you'd think they were selfish. Am I right that you'd be angry because you feel like they're putting you in a position where you have to worry about their well-being and possibly deal with the fallout resulting from their injury or... | 47 |
Human: Change my mind: Serial killers cannot be rehabilitated. A serial killer, according to Princeton, is typically defined as a person who murders three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a "cooling off" period between each murder, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychologica... | "Depends on the serial killer, I'm guessing. Why not? Plenty of serial killers are probably out on the loose right now. Some get caught years later, some confess years later, some disappear. Just because they did a string of murders, it doesn't mean they'll continue and the ones that continue eventually get caught.... | 82 |
Human: Change my mind : In most cases, the pirates that only download but do not upload copyrighted content are causing no loss to the copyright holder. Think about it. **If they have no means to pay the copyright holder, either because they have the money but not the compatible payment media (for example, Sony doesn't... | 'So in that case, you\'re not concerned with the monetary aspects of pirating at all - you claim they don\'t "deserve to make a profit" and "whether they see money or not is irrelevant." If that\'s the case, then this isn\'t the thread for you - OP is specifically concerned with the loss or lack thereof resulting from ... | 92 |
Human: Change my mind: Female-only gyms and women's shelters are not discriminatory… or are they? Well, while I was discussing the effects of feminism on another CMV post, a reddit user made a very good point in saying that female-only gyms and shelters are discriminatory. That was something I never thought about! I co... | 'Yeah, but not because of some arbitrary shit like race. Because of biological differences.'
"Except that the reason there *aren't* men's shelters is that they're all women's shelters. If you started a trend of creating gender discriminatory soup kitchens you'd see the same pattern. The need is irrelevant, the sexist ... | 98 |
Human: Change my mind: Timed essays like the SAT don't properly measure one's writing skills, nor their critical thinking skills. Timed essays, especially with as little time as the SAT gives, force test takers to come up with a BS answer without really thinking about it. As a result, they are either forced to justify ... | 'This is incorrect. I majored in Englsih Literature in college. All I did was read and write. Nearly every one of my in-major classes, and many of my other classes, had a timed midterm and final that involved writing long essays. Either you knew the material and were able to produce a coherent essay within the time fra... | 79 |
Human: Change my mind: You birth determines the vast majority of success/quality in your life. I believe an upwards of about 90% of your success/quality in life is determined when you are born. You can be born into a rich family in America and have a much better life than someone born to a poor family in the slums of I... | '> If good genes/environment occur, then it\'s highly likely good life choices will occur. Statistically, probably. It\'s theoretically possible, though, for an individual to make optimal or non-optimal decisions or whatever decisions, since there is no obstacle for will. OP\'s saying that, whatever those decisions ar... | 91 |
Human: Change my mind: Police officers should have stricter guidelines on when they can use their firearms or in some cases be disarmed completely of the ability to use lethal force. The stated mission of police is to "serve and protect" the people, and obviously from what we've seen recently in the news this mission i... | 'My title does seem focused on guidelines but my argument takes a much harder stance if you choose to read it. The guidelines part came from seeing countless news videos of situations in which lethal force was used and seeing cops just standing around waving their guns. Drawing your weapon should be an actual last reso... | 22 |
Human: Change my mind: The field of economics is inherently biased against poor people This is a much clearer way to say what I was trying to say:
Market frictions affect poor people more. In fact, at some point, they become the more dominant than the market dynamics themselves.
Every market has infinite frictions... | '>Right, but there are some that are privileged in the field. The market is a concept that is applied in almost every subfield. "The market" is not a singular concept that operates based on one theory. Views on how real-life markets operate are extremely diverse. >Right.. this is how every field works. But the refine... | 85 |
Human: Change my mind: The events in Paris suck...but the comic creator wasn't some great martyr or anything. Please leave the footnote below the following line, but remember to delete this sentence by replacing it with the body of your post. Thank you!
Almost none of his comics were actually relevant or topical in an... | '> random/semi-irrational posts Could you elaborate on this? or at least show some examples. Every comic ive seen by the media (which im sure they have a bias on) as made sense, and been rational. which ones do you refer to?'
'Hm I guess I made the OP incorrectly. The main point was meant to be he created a bunch ... | 2 |
Human: Change my mind: I believe a world government is a good thing I live in Lebanon. We are a small country. And when you live in a small country bigger countries effectively control your policies. In the case of lebanon it is done directly through buying politicians. This is true for Saudi arabia the united states I... | 'Yes 100%. theres a reason why your info is there in the first place. if it was illegal feds could call fraud on those holding financial information of party workers that should be released to the public. '
'The counterside to this is that "bad" things can also move abroad. Your constitution doesn\'t allow spying on... | 51 |
Human: Change my mind: Freedom of speech is being taken too far In the last few weeks we've had two huge events happen in the world, both of which were caused by matters relating to "freedom of speech." The first being the hacking of Sony over The Interview, and today the shooting at the offices of a satirical magazine... | '>What would the reaction from Americans be if someone walked through the streets of a predominantly black neighborhood saying "I hate black people" and was murdered? "What would the likely reaction be?" is not the right question to ask. You should ask "what is the proper reaction?" A person doing that is probably an... | 10 |
Human: Change my mind: I think the Paris shooting makes a good case for culture of responsible gun ownership any carrying. Thinking about today's news: [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-30710777), [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting)
I think France is in a tough spot in how to... | ''
"I really liked your explanation, and OP's non-answer was pretty hilarious. It sounded like a politician dodging a question. I always have a similar sort of critique to anyone arguing for guns as a personal safety/protection tool. Guns escalate situations, and make people more unpredictable. It sounds so silly to... | 7 |
Human: Change my mind: Diet soda is perfectly healthy for you. I drink a lot of diet soda. Like... six to twelve cans per day. I rarely drink any regular soda with calories. In fact, I grew up with diet soda and I tend to prefer the diet soda taste to regular soda. Because of my amount of intake, I've spent a lot o... | "Thanks for a fresh argument! I hadn't considered bone density. I'm going to go so a little research. Do you have a study or anything you could link me to?"
'http://m.ajcn.nutrition.org/content/84/4/936.full http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=349673 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1359/jbm... | 5 |
Human: Change my mind: Whole Brain Emulation is clearly the way the Singularity is coming. [Wikipedia on the (idea of) the Singularity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)
[Wikipedia on (the idea of) whole brain emulation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_brain_emulation)
Strong general artific... | "> and that this plays an important role in the genes that are transferred onto the next generation I've never heard of this, but I'll have to look into it. That said - it doesn't make things easier, if anything, it makes things harder to simulate, no?"
"But once you simulate a human brain, it doesn't need to find o... | 18 |
Human: Change my mind: Wedding ceremonies are a waste of time money, and energy My girlfriend is currently dealing with planning the wedding of an old friend of hers, and it is painful to watch. The amount of excess money going into this one day is absurd; DJs, flowers, photographers, clothes, matching shoes, centerpie... | 'Then it doesnt seem like you think wedding ceremonies are a waste of time, money, and energy, just that one end of the spectrum is. I think most would agree with that. Its pretty subjective on where to draw the line'
"I agree completely. The excessiveness of it all is what's lost on me. I have no problem with the ide... | 42 |
Human: Change my mind: The 99% was people realising they do not matter. And they are still just as not important.
Those 99% what do they achieve for the grand scheme of things?
How many of them were required to do a job vs how many of them actually had that job?
Why the F do we need the opinion of the majority in any p... | '∆ well thought out response. I think your point about the necessity of the 99% is pretty indisputable :)'
'Heartless? That\'s not at all what I was saying. Honestly, it\'s hard not to argue strawmen when you\'re not entirely sure what the other person is trying to communicate. But I was saying that I think yo... | 45 |
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