What’s the most controversial opinion you hold?

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Do you want to share any opinions you have that are (or may be) seen as controversial?

Mine are probably around the severity of criminal punishment the courts should be giving out for certain crimes and what kids should do in the event of physical violence from peers. Both subjects can be quite provoking for others.

What are yours?

Young children need to be cared for - and it is a committed job to do so, whether unpaid (for your own or family children) or paid.

Parents with what you call ACTUAL jobs (assuming you think that people's value is only in what money they earn) are doing the job of looking after their children themselves for some of the time and paying somebody else to do that job for the rest of that time. Or do you not believe that young children need to be actively looked after at all times?

Most people are shitty

That's correct.

There seem to be a number of people in this thread who don't understand the difference between the governments of countries and their populations as a whole.

There are actually some people saying that innocent ordinary people - including children - deserve whatever injury or death that befalls them, because their countries happen to be led by potentially evil people, so it's somehow 'their own fault'.

You will find that is already happening. The prime minister has been calling for the release of prisoners early because there wasn’t enough room in prisons and keir has blamed a lack of prisons for this issue. Clearly the answer is to deport foreign born prisoners who commit crimes in this country 🤷🏻‍♀️

I find it wholly incongruous that many people who (rightly) react with horror and disgust at news reports of a mother (or father) killing their own newborn baby are the same people who would actually campaign for the mother's absolute right to end the life of the same baby a week earlier - and condemn anybody who disagrees with this as a forced birther who 'should trust women'.

Parking on the pavement so people can’t get by makes you a dick.

Driving your kids to school cause you are too lazy to walk. (I know the parents who live close by, don’t work, don’t have other kids to look after, weather isn’t bad, they don’t have ailments etc).

People who call people names and don’t know how to disagree constructively.

Waitrose for cancelling their chocolate and caramel torte are dicks.

That travelling to the US right now and supporting their economy is okay.

Agree, went to the doctors to try and get some anxiety medication to chill me out due to previous pain during smears as they did that last time only to be told by GP they don’t offer that anymore. I keep putting it off due to the fear of the pain so I’m thinking I’m just going to have to get drunk beforehand.My only option from GP was to just put up with it. Women’s health within the NHS is a disgrace.

Woman are human, no less so than men.

Most schools are awful environments to send children. They are noisy, Ill equipped, miserable places with too many children who can be badly behaved and poorly supervised.
The quality of education is often poor and does not prepare them adequately for their future. We use them to baby sit kids so parents can work.

I say this as a teacher who has taught in different schools well over a decade.

Out of interest, what would then happen to those children born into deprivation? Would they all be placed into foster care, left to starve, or go back to children having jobs instead of education?

the writings of john gatto taylor. are intriguing

Blended families rarely work and are really only to the benefit of the adults and not the children stuck in the middle.

Staying at home is valid and I don't doubt it's tough but unless you have an easy PT job in a small company or low-pressure role, staying at home will never be as tough as a FT, fast-paced job with deliverables, deadlines, clients, constant demands and projects and teams and colleagues to juggle, manage, work with or answer to.

I do not object to immigration but I do object to immigrants expecting their new home country to change and adjust to their presence and demands. If you migrate, you should make every attempt to adjust and fit in to your new home.

Breastfeeding beyond the age of 1 is strange and has no additional benefits to the child. It is more for the parent than anything else.

The Royal Family is an anachronism in modern society and the British have a cult-like devotion where they've convinced themselves that elevating one family on the merit of birthright is totally fine because 'tradition'.

So many things over exaggerated. "Bullying" at work seems to be the latest. Sure, it happens but there are also a lot of 'anxious' women on here looking for a reason to leave work.

Or just plain 'anxious' as an avoidance tool. Who then often have 'anxious' children because they are making them anxious

Anyone who starts a post with "I am autistic" Congrats on the late diagnosis that everyone you ever come across must know about. Because it's who you are now and it is your excuse for ever being rude, unreasonable or just plain difficult.
I also think that, as an adult, it is easy to know exactly what to say and do to get the diagnosis you desperately want.

"Accidental" pregnancies? Nah. And anyone stupid enough to fall pregnant after 5 minutes together is not starting their parenting journey thinking of anyone but themselves. And Psssst, no one really believes the 'antibiotic' excuse
Having a baby is not required for each 'relationship' either btw and adding to a family that you already cannot afford does not make one a good mother.

If you want to stay in an abusive shitshow of a relationship, don't make your children. They don't deserve it so don't choose it for them

Biggest controversial opinion of all is that we end up where we end up due to choices that we make. It's not always someone elses fault or societies fault. It is ours. Sometimes that is a really bitter pill to swallow (I know that very well) but nothing is 100% predetermined.

Well done. Good for you. No judgement here.
I bf my dd until she was three and a half.
It’s nobody’s business but our own however long we decide to breastfeed. I thinks it’s good for them in the long run.

I’m shit at parking. Even with cameras. 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

I’m a Zionist, which makes me pretty unpopular in many circles.

I didn’t agree until we had our own dog and saw how disgusting she was 😆 Loved her to pieces but we didn’t get another animal after her. All the faff and money of paying a dog sitter, the expense of vet visits, her hating house guests (she was socialised as a puppy before anyone asks), watching her lick her bum and then lick other things in the house, her pooping inside if it was raining outside (anyone who has this breed could guess it from the description alone I’m sure). Such a character and we adored her, but now she’s passed we have learned our lesson!

My sister hasn’t had another cat since hers passed as she doesn’t miss cleaning up the mess or being woken up at 5am, her cat would bring ‘presents’ of live rodents or half dead birds sometimes too.

I love animals and totally see the appeal but would never have another of my own in my house. Too much responsibility and hard work.

It’s weird to have a royal family and they need to be done away with (I mean titles and land removed by the next generation, not suggesting a French Revolution).

Maybe a strap on? 😅

Or the bolshavics. Nor sure I spelt that right

It’s weird to have a royal family and they need to be done away with (I mean titles and land removed by the next generation, not suggesting a French Revolution).

What exactly is a zionist? Not sure what it means. Can look it up but thought I'd give you the pleasure 🙏

I can't live with them and can't live without them. The hardest thing for me is the heart break when they're gone. For that reason I will never commit to one again. Although I'm 58 nearly and have a three year old cat. So sad I might be gone before her. She didn't ask to be born noose than you or I :-(

Might make them a boob man when they grow up. Nothing wrong with that either