# What can the SDMB agree on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459 "2015-12-04T23:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/81 "2015-12-07T16:10:07Z")
One of the few things I’ve noticed the entire board agrees on is paedophilia is really, really, _really_ icky. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/82 "2015-12-07T18:33:15Z")
We’ve had at least one out-and-out paedophile, though I think he was banned. **Cesario** or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/83 "2015-12-07T19:05:49Z")
I think the board members would agree that we are not in agreement about what we do and do not agree about. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/84 "2015-12-07T19:44:30Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I think the board members would agree that we are not in agreement about what we do and do not agree about. I disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/85 "2015-12-07T19:49:29Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > Yeah, but Daffy Duck mops the floor with both those varmints. Until he was turned into an antagonist to Bugs. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/86 "2015-12-07T19:57:08Z")
A Daffy/ Bugs rivalry was a natural development given their respective career paths. The later Daffy vs Speedy Gonzalez stories made no organic sense. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/87 "2015-12-07T20:00:33Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I think the board members would agree that we are not in agreement about what we do and do not agree about. I’m on the fence about this…I think some would agree what we agree or disagree about but others would disagree about what we agree or disagree about and some really annoying people would be on the fence… :eek: …er, that didn’t come out quite right. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/88 "2015-12-07T20:01:56Z")
Regards . . . is . . . . ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/89 "2015-12-15T01:59:41Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Mary Ann is hotter than Ginger > [@Trinopus](#): > > Ginger spikes my punch; Mary Ann just kinda bores me. Ginger is definietly hotter than Mary Ann. But I’d rather live with Mary Ann. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/90 "2015-12-15T02:03:51Z")
> [@Shoujin](#): > > Can we agree that Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” was a letdown? I’m still trying to get over it. I’ll agree provisionally. I reserve the right to change my mind if for some bizarre reason I ever actually watch it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/91 "2015-12-16T12:24:31Z")
We agree on Oreos, but not how to eat them. We agree that it’s best to stop for traffic lights. We agree that Hitler was bad. We agree that Pope Francis is a refreshing change in leadership for the Catholic Church. We agree that it’s best to keep the shower curtain inside the surround while showering. We agree that chimpanzees are not to be trifled with. . . also Gurkhas. We agree that George R. R. Martin needs to hurry the ^\*@($ up with Winds of Winter. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/92 "2015-12-16T17:24:32Z")
Asking for things literally everyone here agrees on is probably only going to yield things like “most people have two hands”. If we lower the bar a bit and ask “What ideas are accepted by 95%+ of regular GD posters, that are not so broadly accepted on a global basis?”, I think we could identify a general agreement that democracy, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state are all good things. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/93 "2015-12-16T17:59:04Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I have to agree with Frank: life has a subjective value. I treasure my life, and pretty much all living things. Extinction is bad. Every man’s death diminishes me. Why is extinction bad? If the vast majority of us agree that we, as a species, evolved from other forms of life, then some life has to die off to let other forms exist. So that we, eventually, could exist and you, subjectively, could treasure your own life. The life forms that can pass, to their offspring, better ways of living to produce more offspring take over the niches of life forms that pass less useful ways of living to those offspring. The inefficient die out – and this is not bad. If no species dies out, then nothing is changing and nothing is evolving – and our species does not exist. It is obvious that I do not treasure all living things. This is because I believe that to make room for more/other/different something has to die. Humans have to die to make room for other humans. Again this is not bad. While there are people that I, subjectively, wish did not die - my father for example - I know his life had a value to me and the people who knew him, but was not of value to humanity as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/94 "2015-12-16T18:04:25Z")
I seem to recall a thread a few years ago about the Mamas and the Papas. There was a universal agreement that the Mamas and the Papas were a good group. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/95 "2015-12-16T18:06:34Z")
> [@Reepicheep](#): > > Why is extinction bad? If the vast majority of us agree that we, as a species, evolved from other forms of life, then some life has to die off to let other forms exist. So that we, eventually, could exist and you, subjectively, could treasure your own life. The life forms that can pass, to their offspring, better ways of living to produce more offspring take over the niches of life forms that pass less useful ways of living to those offspring. The inefficient die out – and this is not bad. If no species dies out, then nothing is changing and nothing is evolving – and our species does not exist. > > It is obvious that I do not treasure all living things. This is because I believe that to make room for more/other/different something has to die. Humans have to die to make room for other humans. Again this is not bad. While there are people that I, subjectively, wish did not die - my father for example - I know his life had a value to me and the people who knew him, but was not of value to humanity as a whole. This is a common misconception of evolution – evolution does not require that ‘precursor species’ go extinct for their forebears to evolve into a new species. For example: suppose some rats are isolated on an island for whatever reason. Those rats may evolve into a new species specialized for the island conditions, while their cousins on the mainland essentially remain the same as the island rats’ ancestors. This sort of speciation has happened (and still is happening) many, many times in Earth’s history. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/96 "2015-12-16T21:33:38Z")
Jar-Jar sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Hector\_St\_Clare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/97 "2015-12-16T21:35:56Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Asking for things literally everyone here agrees on is probably only going to yield things like “most people have two hands”. > > If we lower the bar a bit and ask “What ideas are accepted by 95%+ of regular GD posters, that are not so broadly accepted on a global basis?”, I think we could identify a general agreement that democracy, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state are all good things. I guess I’d count as part of the 5%, then. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/98 "2015-12-16T22:23:49Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Jar-Jar sucks. You have to know that somewhere in our crowd there is _somebody_ who likes Jar-Jar. It’s the law. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/99 "2015-12-16T22:51:41Z")
**Blue Bloods** is smarmy and overrated. **NCIS** ’s credibility is hurt by Abby, but she’s the heart of the show so there’s nothing to be done about it. Chicks dig Tony Stark more than Namor. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/100 "2015-12-16T22:53:05Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > You have to know that somewhere in our crowd there is _somebody_ who likes Jar-Jar. It’s the law. Yeah, but an equal or greater number of people profess that the movies featuring him never happened, so it balances out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459.md?page=6)