What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807047#Comment_119807047

Doesn’t pretty much any half balanced Irish adult think that show is utter gick, though? And all are not at all reluctant to call it out as utter gick

RickBlaine

I have no problem if people want to transition to another gender. To each his own and all that. But I think there needs to be some controls in place to prevent people abusing society's increasing openness to trans people. I think self-identification without any medical or other professional assessment is too lax and is open to abuse by people with malicious intent. I see it very much like common sense gun control in the US. A vast majority of people wishing to change their gender are normal, law abiding people but stricter policies and procedures need to exist to protect everyone from the small minority with malicious intent.

I've no idea if this labels me as a TERF or whatever, or how members of the trans community feel about this, but I'm unlikely to change my mind.

flazio

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AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058269063/what-s-your-most-controversial-opinion

Here’s mine: The expansion of the EU should’ve stopped in 1995 with Austria, Sweden and Finland.

I DISAGREE.

The 2004 expansion with 10 new countries, (Czechia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Malta, Poland) the 2007 addition of Romania and Bulgaria and 2013 addition of Croatia should never have happened.

ALL THEM COUNTRIES ARE GOOD BAR HUNGARY, ROMANIA AND POLAND.

SO I HAC NO PROBLEM WITH ALL THEM OTHER COUNTRIES JOINING BUT THE WAY THE THREE ABOVE HAVE BEHAVEDI THINK THEY SHOULD BE KICKED OUT AND SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO JOIN IN THE FIRST PLACE.

We should’ve drawn up the ladder after. I NEVER want to see Ukraine as a member.

I am pro EU. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH UKRAINE JOINING.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807418#Comment_119807418

I don’t believe mothers who kill their children are “ evil monsters “ , the worst despots , crime bosses and dictators didn’t murder their children despite thinking nothing of having people killed

psychosis is a real thing , I firmly believe mothers who kill their own children are mentally I’ll who unfortunately due to our overly liberal laws weren’t incarcerated on time , I feel sorry for those ill people

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807441#Comment_119807441

The most over indulged group in society , a life of zero responsibility where their is no impetus to educate oneself, maintain one’s surroundings, treat their animals humanely or even behave in a civilised manner publicly

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119805213#Comment_119805213

If the state provides the education's then that's what we already have. I think you'd need to make an argument why better state education for everyone is undesirable.

I advocate for meritocracy. I asked what you opposed about that and it would be good if you could answer it.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807867#Comment_119807867

I don’t bite when it comes to loaded questions

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807813#Comment_119807813

I feel sorry for the victims they murdered!

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807063#Comment_119807063

Ah everyone is terrified of those with money emigrating. In reality if they like their lives in this country and its where thier family and friends live, then it's unlikely they would leave. If the education is good for everyone then we'd have a far bigger pool of people to pick from to run things. Only the best people would get ahead in society and it would be a well running better place to live for everyone.

As it stands, the beat chances of getting ahead are to be born ahead and inherit ancestors' merit through wealth. They get access to better opportunities, better education, wider range of experience, better expectations and they ultimately end up uch more likely to run things. We ignore the majority by giving them poorer education action and everything mentioned above.

I've yet to hear an argument agaisnt Meritocracy. Do you have a good one and you're keeping it to yourself or do you just not have an argument against it?

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807884#Comment_119807884

Of course but like I said the most genocidal dictators didn’t kill their own children, it’s the act of someone who is psychotic, some people need medication for psychosis

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807813#Comment_119807813

I think the poster was aggrieved that the same compassion is not shown to fathers who murder their children in similar circumstances.

growleaves

'I've yet to hear an argument agaisnt Meritocracy. Do you have a good one and you're keeping it to yourself or do you just not have an argument against it?'

Are you aware that "meritocracy" was originally a satirical term coined by a British socialist?

Given the class rigidity of Britain, as he saw it, the term was a joke on the limitedness of social mobility.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807813#Comment_119807813

...or maybe our mental health departments are just completely fcuked, and require astonishing levels of investment!

Star Bingo

Most foreigners appear to me like generic NPC. I’d struggle with an identity parade

Wanderer2010

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807813#Comment_119807813

What about fathers who suffer from psychosis or some form of mental illness which leads to the killing of their child? Do you feel the same sympathy for them?

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808002#Comment_119808002

Yes , even genocidal dictators don’t kill their own kids , their is no power move at play , it’s severe mental illness gone far beyond self control, years ago people were incarcerated before being such a danger

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807925#Comment_119807925

I don’t know if that’s true , people can usually distinguish between an insane spur of the moment act and something planned , repeated and managed like a father abusing kids , I have zero sympathy for those parents

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808025#Comment_119808025

Not your kids, not your problem. I don’t get the extreme anger aimed at any parents in those circumstances.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807964#Comment_119807964

Yes but they are also ram by ideological liberals who believe sectioning people against their will is evil and thee odd murder is a price worth paying, it was a huge mistake to throw the baby out with the bath water re_ the old institutions, it’s far too difficult to section people against their will , that guard in Castlerea died because a person unfit to be out on their own , was able to walk up and kill him , fifty years ago he would have been sectioned long before hand , he’ll still spend the rest of his days in an asylum but the guard is dead

When Buying Consumer Electronics in Ireland including computers and toys:

Straight after purchase and unpacking check it is

1. Not dead on arrival

2. Works to FULL specification just after buying the thing.

The above is more important to bear in mind than the fact that a new car looses 50% of its value after you drive it out of the showroom.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808042#Comment_119808042

peopl don’t realise how difficult it is to incarcerate people who are completely unable to cope , my uncle in Canada is married to a woman ( she’s Irish ) who’s mother wasn’t able to even rear her own children, that’s how unwell she was , her kids were all raised with aunts and uncles as her mother was permanently incarcerated for the most part, no one thinks this poor lady was a bad person but had she harmed one of her kids , the narrative would be entirely different

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808047#Comment_119808047

...say wha!

i know a couple of mental health professionals, and ive never heard them speak as such, people are sectioned when needed, and when the resources are available, but a lot of the time, the required resources are rarely available to do so, leading to outcomes such as repeated visits to a&e before sectioning occurs, and in some cases, suicide occurs before sectioning can be implemented!

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808071#Comment_119808071

So you don’t accept my view that it’s difficult to section someone against their will in Ireland in 2022 ?

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808089#Comment_119808089

...yes its very difficult to section people in ireland, but this is largely due to the lack of resources required to do so, ive also been told by some that have actually experienced being sectioned, that our care system is beyond inadequate for people struggling with their mental health issues, that a lot of the time, mental health wards are actually filled with people with serious mental health and addiction problems, making it virtually impossible for people to recover from so....

i also know some that have been sectioned against their will, yes it can be done, but yes the criteria for so are actually strict, whereby multiple assessments are required to be met, in order for the action to be taken

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807739#Comment_119807739

It's the logical consequence of such an action though. They need to be rationed and no amount of old sayings changes that.

blueser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119807090#Comment_119807090

Brendan O'Carroll? Easy to watch? On mute, maybe. That voice is genuine "nails down the blackboard" stuff.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808114#Comment_119808114

An involuntary admission in Ireland is based on an application, medical assessment and then a psychiatric assessment , there's no multiple assessments.

It's a last resort event, in 14 years or so working in low threshold homeless services , I've seen about 6 .I have seen many voluntary admissions over the years .

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808170#Comment_119808170

Did you read the rest? All doctors aren't rationing them, some doctors are part of the problem along with people who expect an antibiotic whenever they have any cough or sniffle.

I fully agree they need to be controlled, all medicine does.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119808114#Comment_119808114

“ lack resources “

we had a fraction of the resources sixty years ago yet far more people were sectioned