My view of abortion is that it should be safe and legal but as rare as possible, as it is always tragic to lose a baby. I have had multiple conversations with friends and family over the years, and seen dozens of posts online, about women (and men) mourning miscarriages. Losing a pregnancy you…
I'm basing this off the ongoing Extinction Rebellion protests and their sister group Insulate Britain here in the UK. My theory is that they would be more effective in their aims were they to compromise infrastructure and inconvenience people related directly to the industries, government…
Let’s establish a baseline. I hold this opinion towards where I currently work, I’m not sure how other employers handle lunch breaks. I understand that employers are required to provide breaks, my opinion is that employees should be free to choose how to use unpaid breaks, depending on the needs of…
My generation (today’s older teenagers and young adults) has for some reason seemed to think communication is not important at all and has forgotten about it. When a girl likes me they usually will “drop hints” instead of saying “I like you.” I know it isn’t easy to say that, but dropping hints…
If we are going to execute someone, we might as well use the guillotine. It is not pretty, but it is far more humane than lethal injection. Lethal injection is expensive, messy, inefficient, and cruel. Problems with lethal injection: -Companies do not want to sell drugs to states for executions,…
Before you get your pitchforks ready, this isn't a thinly-veiled transphobic rant. Gender is something that's come up a lot more in recent discussions(within the last 5 years or so), and a frequent refrain is that gender is a social construct, because different cultures have different…
I could argue all day that rich people don't need more yachts and everybody deserves second chances and all humans should be able to live with dignity. I think all of those are decent arguments for redistribution. But some people will say "it's not your money, you are not entitled to it"…
Pretty simple concept here. I don’t believe semantic change has come so far as to have the term elope change so drastically that it now can be applied to something small and local. Elope, as defined by the Oxford dictionary is: > > run away secretly in order to get married, especially without…
Global warming is a serious threat to the survival of the human species and it's insane we are adding to this problem for no good reason. Currently Bitcoin mining consumes more power per year than the whole country of Argentina. There would be hardly any downsides in banning the mining of crypto…
People shouldn’t be able to charge someone for possession of any drug for personal use. I believe drug dealers and distributors should be held to the full account of the law but by criminalising users you are only contributing to the problem. Most people with substance abuse issues do so so because…
There are some many things with this topic that I don’t understand. For marijuana to be legal in SOME states but not ALL just doesn’t make sense. States are entitled to have their own laws, but my question is why? Why legalize marijuana in only some states? What is the reason it’s not legalized in…
I came across this video: https://youtu.be/UCVCPJqIguU Where a much younger latina student, talks down to her latino teacher, trying to force him to adopt the word latinx. Even ending it by making a false analogy listing bunch of english words that end in "nx" ....which does not detract from the…
The United States needs to set term limits on the basis of age for Congress and the President. 70+ year olds are frequently regarded as unemployable due to mental decline and disconnect with the current times, but a high number of them are serving as politicians in the United States. The oldest…
For this discussion I would like to focus on the matter of men's rights with regard to fatherhood. This is not a discussion about the morality of abortion. In order to stay on topic we'll assume that abortion is morally ethical, safe and accessible for all women regardless of the circumstances of…
What’s the difference between these 2 stories: 1. Person breaks into house, steals car 2. White man breaks into house, steals car Obviously the answer is race and gender. You might say it’s just adding detail but we have to think about how we perceive these details consciously…
To clarify, when I say Latin American, I mean people from Mexico, Central America, and South America, not just Latin people who immigrated to the US. Language is, in my opinion, the most important part of a culture. Second would be traditions/rituals, third would be cooking, fourth would be art.…
before someone can say if something is offensive or racist they need the entire context,otherwise u have an incomplete understanding and aren’t qualified to make a judgment I’ll give an example here to back up my point Imagine to ur left is a group of 3 Jews and u hear someone say “those…
First of all when I say conservative I mean people who hold conservatives views in general, not just people who vote conservatively. But Conservatives often complain that people these days are too sensitive but in reality they are the ones that are so unwilling to change that they are offended by…
Probably going to wish I picked a throwaway for this one, but here we go. For context, I am not American, and American tipping culture is what I'm focused on here. There is a tipping culture here in the UK, but as we receive standard min wage, the 'expected' tip is generally around 10%. I spent 10y…
I think that when YouTubers advertise their sponsors in the video, it is pretty scummy. I understand that creators need monetization. So, I'm not against the 30sec-2min ads that you sometimes can skip. I'm talking about when the creator says "now before we go any further, I'd like to talk about our…