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Best reasons to agree : +4 Kids remind you what it was like when you were a kid. Kids connect you to the future. Kids get to know what you are really like Kids give you excuses to do stupid stuff. If you didn't have kids, it might be hard to: go sledding.  go swimming. Its hard to play Marco Polo as an adult. Best reasons to disagree : -4  Throw up, crying, and whining are not fun When you go to the museums with kids, you can't take your time, because they have short attention spans.  It is hard to go back-packing in Europe with kids. It is hard to try new food with kids. All they eat is McDonald's.  Score: # of reasons to agree: +4 # of reasons to disagree: -4 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +2 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: +4-4+2/2=1 Videos that agree: Beliefs that support this post: You should back-up family videos to YouTube...

Reasons to agree All happy families have respect and kindness to each other.  Unhappy families can  Reasons to 

Reasons to agree : + 1 There are a lot of Bolingbrook parks. Kids don't need anything special, but each neighborhood should have open places for kids to play soccer, baseball, or swing on a swing-set. Bolingbrook has that. Reasons to disagree : -2 Often Bolingbrook parks are occupied by thuggish territorial teenagers (reason to disagree: this happens everywhere, perhaps). Often Bolingbrook parks have small vandalization.  Bolingbrook doesn't have parking for hardly any of their parks... its mostly just street parking. Very few of Bolingbrook parks are connected with bike paths Score: # of reasons to agree: +2 # of reasons to disagree: -4 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: -2 Century Park Bolingbrook, Illinois View Larger Map Parking: On the street Safety: Parking is an issue, as it gets very congested, and cars are trying to ge...

Background, Context, and Assumptions Jonamac apple farm is a farm-tourism destination outside Chicago. It is located at 19412 Shabbona Rd Malta, IL 60150. Their phone number is (815) 825-2158. Best reasons to agree : +3 Its good for kids to see farms. Kids should learn the science of producing food. It is good for all of us to try to produce food. Joanamac is is a good farm.  They have a:  petting zoo with mules, sheep, chickens, and a Lama apple picking, with a lot of different apple types pumpkin canon,  a big thing like a trampoline.  old-timy-machines slides Kids like to play in the corn silo.  they have an easy corn maze that kids can handle. They have a harder corn maze for adults. they have a place where you can buy food they have live music playing they often have farm equipment on display Joanamac is close to Chicago. It is 70 miles from Downtown Chicago, and less than that from the suburbs Link Best reasons to disagree : -...

Reasons to agree : +7 Their is little risk of falling off a trampoline if you have netting. Trampolines are no more dangerous than football. Trampolines are perhaps no more dangerous than swimming pools, but they are much less expensive, and take less maintenance.  Trampolines with netting on the side are not too dangerous.  Kids jump on beds. You can't stop kids from jumping on stuff. Cars are dangerous, and we aren't going to stop driving cars are we? Obviously its not that simple. For instance, cars are more important than trampolines. But it is not required that you drive to unimportant places. Therefore, you can compare the danger and importance of driving to a park to jumping on the trampoline: both are recreational activities with some risk. The question is how much risk? How important is the activity? Obviously, a trampoline derives its importance as a form of recreation, and so you can't answer the question without first asking yourself ho...

http://www.visualroot.com/ Is a cool website... I think it is very important that we map out how one idea is related to another... It is very important that when we strengthen or weaken an assumption, that it automatically strengthen or weaken conclusions based on those assumptions... I am trying to get an open source project going here: http://code.google.com/p/ideastockexchange/ that outlines the reasons to agree or disagree with each conclusion, and lets you use one conclusion as a reason to agree or disagree with another conclusion...  Obviously a conclusion could be a good one, but still not support another conclusion... for instance "the grass is green" is a good conclusion but could not be used very well as a belief to "increase funding for the poor". So I would like to count the number of reasons to agree or disagree with each belief, and then count the number of reasons to agree or disagree with each linkage...  I like cou...

Integrating ethical considerations into the evaluation of conclusions can significantly enhance the validity and acceptability of those conclusions. By allowing individuals to score the ethicality of various methods and results, we can create a framework where ethical considerations are systematically factored into the final assessment of each conclusion. This approach encourages consistency in reasoning and helps identify any logical fallacies or biases in judgment. Using computational tools in this process enables a more objective and quantifiable assessment of ethicality. By assigning scores to philosophical questions or ethical considerations, a computer algorithm can process these inputs to determine the overall validity of conclusions based on both logical and ethical grounds. This methodological rigor ensures that ethicality is not merely a subjective or secondary consideration but a central criterion in the evaluation process. This approach aligns with the broader objective of ...