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Best reasons to agree : +4  You can take pictures of your kids in a pretty places. For the cost of going to a professional studio, your kids can walk around and you can take pictures of them. You can people watch at the gardens, which you can't do in the wilderness.  You can get gardening ideas, and find plants you want in your yard at the botanic garden. They have paths, which is good if you have kids in strollers.  Best reasons to disagree : -2 You can walk around and look at nature for free. You don't have to be around people if you just go out into nature.  Score: # of reasons to agree: +4 # of reasons to disagree: -2 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: +2 Videos that agree:

Reasons to Agree : +3 It is worth it to have animals be part of your life You should take your kids outside where they can walk around, see different people, and explore their surroundings. Kids get to see all different types of people at the zoo. You should teach your kids about Animals. Kids learn about Animals by going to the zoo. You can't learn to appreciate animals unless you see them. When kids learn about animals, they learn about biology which may result in medical interest. Medical interest can result in an interest in many different jobs, from pharmacy to being a doctor. Learning about animals also teaches about geography. At least it did for our kid, as he learned what animals lived where.  Reasons to disagree : -2 Usually people don't spend much time studying animals at the zoo. People tend to look at the animal, watch it for a few minutes, and move on...  Kids will learn more about animals by having a pet than going to a zoo. Letting your kids have a ...

Best Videos that agree : + Best reasons to agree : + Kids come into this world knowing nothing. Without knowing any rules, just hearing other people speak, they are able to learn perhaps one of the most complex things they will ever do, in only a few years... Watching kids learn to speak, can remind you of your kids when they were doing that.  Just because you understand how mankind was able to learn how to speak, doesn't mean that it is less amazing, interesting, or that you should appreciate the miracle of life, and knowledge, and the ability to communicate less.  in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court Mark Twain spoke of the "darling mispronunciations of childhood". Best reasons to disagree : - Animals don't have really complex words, but they are able to make noises, and have the begining of languages... Give them a few million years, and this could develop in non-spectacular ways, if you watched the slow progress.   ...

Best Videos that agree : +2   Best reasons to agree : + Kids eat things they should not eat.  Kids lick bird poop off sliding glass windows.  When you find brown stuff in their bed, and say it looks like poop, they just might tell you, "Don't worry, it doesn't taste like poop." When you ask why they tested it, they might say, "don't worry I didn't eat it, I just put my teeth on it". PS: it was, against all assurances, poop. We told her she needs to wash her hands, because she might get sick, she tells us, "I'm already sick" (she had a runny nose). Kids eat dirt. Kids eat rolly pollies (not ours, yet) Kids eat things that shouldn't be eaten, but won't eat anything you try to feed them.  It is funny seeing a little brain that has not yet learned that it is impolite to suck your toes in public... Score: # of reasons to agree: +3 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with re...

Best Videos that agree : + http://youtu.be/2gNrvIQARc8    Best reasons to agree : +3 Kids love to explore new places they go to. Kids don't enjoy talking, and so they entertain them selves by messing around with stuff. Kids can't hold still very well. Best reasons to disagree : -3 When they are really young they mostly just sleep If you bring stuff for kids to play with, they are OK.  Most restaurants accommodate kids.  Score: # of reasons to agree: +3 # of reasons to disagree: -3 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: +0

Reasons to agree : +6 All hard drives crash unexpectedly. You can trust that YouTube will not delete  you videos. If you put you videos on YouTube grandparents and other relatives could watch them. Google search now includes personalized search, which means that potentially if any of your relatives are searching for "Yellowstone" because they want to use a video of Yellowstone in their school project, Google will tell show them your video of Yellowstone, with their grandparents in it... In other words Google has made it very easy for related people and friends to automatically find interesting stuff from each other... It might be boring now, but ever little thing your kid did when they were babies will be interesting when they have moved out. If you don't remember much from your childhood, videos can be a great way to jog your memory. If you don't put names and locations and other private information in the video, there shoul...

Best reasons to agree : + The government has to keep people from feeding bears, to prevent bears from becoming dependent on people.  Best reasons to disagree : - There is no reason to have government owned gas stations within the park.  More buildings could be built within the state park in such a way that doesn't detract from the natural features  You could require the buildings be LEED certified, to appease the environmentalist. The could be designed so as not to interfere  with wildlife.  The government should be more  capitalistic  with our state parks, in a smart way. When I say  capitalism   you think Wal-Mart. Don't. Think Apple, Whole Food, Trader Joe, or Costco. We can  combine  the best of  capitalism  and scientific preservation of a wildlife.  Charging rich people to have a premium experience can fund wildlife preservation, and fund improvements that poor people can also experience...

Reasons to agree:  2 He recovered from knee and brain surgery, never complaining, and remaining cheerful and up-beat. He worked hard his whole life. Even at 79 years old he is still working, giving drivers training tests (Its not dangerous. These kids are already driving with their parents for a few months. My dad drives safe places with them, and gives them all very straight forward exams). He raised 5 kids, without ever really freaking out. You have to endure a lot of stuff to do that, and he did it with great strength. Images that agree:  2 My Dad, being tough My dad ruff-housing with his kids (I'm the baby).

Best reasons to agree : + It is safe to bring your kids, as long as you watch them. Its a pretty good water fall. Upper Mesa Falls is roughly 114 feet high and 200 feet wide. Our daughter really liked learning about the animals, going around and touching all the different furs... Maybe she will be a fashion designer some day? Best reasons to disagree : - They should put a zip line across the canyon and charge people to go across. They should build a safe way to talk down to the river. They are overly protective of kids picking flowers... This lady yelled at us when our 2 year old picked a wild flower. If flowers are going extentct we should use money to grow them. We should also sell them as extremely rare items, and and use the money we make to farm them. It is nice to have stuff growing in the wild but first we need to ensure their survival. If they are not endangered, and these government-types just like the feeling of power of yelling at parents for allowing ...

Background, Context, and Assumptions Of course people can judge music by whatever criteria you want. How do you judge good music (don't just say you just like it!). For instance you can judge music by these criteria: How hard it is to play. For me this is not an important criteria. I guess if you play an instrument, you could enjoy a solo artist really push themselves. Craftsman ship is important. But at the end of the day, you can punch notes into a computer, and a computer could replace Eddie Van Halen's finger, but I hope it could not replace his best lyrics. Lavish craftsmanship looses most all of its appeal when not used to support an important truth. How innovative it is. Creativity is a great way to decorate music, but you have to have the substance of good music, and a good melody. I have read some great criticisms of experimental a-tonal college music.  Good songs can just be songs that capture a feeling really well, but in order for a song to...