What is the biggest taboo topic in modern society?

Toss up between agalmatophilia, rubberists, and dollification.

Captain Obvious wrote: »

Anything transgender related.

Well Duh! Who are you, like captain obvious or someone?

In Ireland, I'd say it's the lack of willingness for public debate on scroungers, social welfare lifers, and those who irresponsibly have families with no intention of supporting themselves and their offspring by actually working for a living.

Another way of saying this is that there does not seem to be much talk about whether we can afford our social welfare bill, which is going to sky rocket as these families have more and more kids who are born with their hands out. Our social welfare bill is €20+ billion.

One attempted segway into this area was Varadkar, like him or not, when he had his "welfare cheats cheat us all" thing there a while ago and was lambasted for what was, objectively, a very clear and sensible message.

I'm not talking about everyone who benefits from social welfare payments of course, but there are more than a few wasters out there, and policy seems to be to placate them quickly before the media turns on the government.

Somewhere along the way, these people starting using the phrase "forever home". I have a mortgage like most of the country, and I work to maintain it. But it is not a forever home. If I stop working, I'll eventually be turfed out. The mindset that, without working hard to maintain it, you can have a "forever home" is as depressing as it is infuriating.

We may be undermining our entire society with the way we are handling this stuff. It's become more difficult to see why, other than maintaining your moral self, one would choose to actually work. Many might be only slightly worse off if they went down the welfare route, and this gap is narrowing.

myshirt wrote: »

Toss up between agalmatophilia, rubberists, and dollification.

i have no intention of googling that first one.

taboo [təˈbuː/]
noun

a social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.

Just thought I'd put that here, as many people seem to not be entirely clear on what a taboo is. Individuals not liking something does not make a taboo.

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Who gets to decide who lives and dies?

Who gets to decide who procreates and how often?

Nobody, Like I said its a taboo subject because you can't just make laws to stop breeding without the enormous repercussions years later or reduce population like they do for example to the Phonenix park deer when there are too much.

Over population is a very complicated issue. Right now Dublin is over populated so rent is sky high, not enough houses, people can't get jobs, public transport is just about coping, big drug and homeless problems, lots of petty crime, roads clogged up at peak traffic times, many people commuting large distances and all of these are only getting worse. There isn't really anything that can be done, at least not with our government our culture. Compared to some Indian cities Dublin is a utopia but that doesn't change whats happening.

When resources become scarce it will lead to war.
When food becomes scarce that will lead to famine.
When people are crammed together into cities unable to cope with that kind of population that will lead to all manners of disease.

Thats what will combat overpopulation.