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

There should be a legal abortion option available for men, if women are allowed to terminate a pregnancy because they don't want to have a child a man should be able to do avoid his responsibility if he wants to.

It takes 2 people to create a child so both should have the same options available to them, a man shouldn't have to be lumbered with paying for a child he doesn't want.

It may not be the nice thing or the gentlemanly thing to do but the option should be available to men.

It is.

Men do avoid their responsibility everyday.

Legally they don't though.

I'm sure there are loads of men who've never wanted a child with a woman and have been forced to pay child support for years for a child they never wanted.

Plenty of men walk away from their born children, too.

State pension is OK if you own your own home and have no debts when you retire, a lot of the homes older people live in are very energy inefficient though - but there is now a scheme to get them upgraded - but fear of big winter bills is ingrained. People who are pensioners now remember the energy crises of the 1970s all too well.

Most of us who have a decent standard of living while working would like to retain that when we retire - to be able to travel, have private health insurance, own a car that isn't falling apart, etc. and the state pension doesn't really provide for these things (free travel on the island of Ireland excepted!)

Also, it's understandable to worry about poverty in old age - it seems to be ingrained in us as a people but until at least the 1990s when the country became somewhat richer, it was no joke. Charities like ALONE and VdP would find older people living in the most appalling conditions. Until then it was expected that older people would have support from their children or other family if they fell on hard times. The state pension was greatly increased during the Bertie era, buying votes perhaps but also recognising that the state should no longer permit older people to fall into poverty.

The shít is really going to hit the fan though when the rental generation reach retirement.

If you start a private pension it is of course investing in concrete things. Stocks, property funds, etc. etc. it's important to get in as young as you can as compound interest will magnify the effect of your contributions. If your employer will match your contributions then all the better. The state pension is vulnerable to demographic pressures but private pensions investing in stocks, property etc. are not.

Why didn't they use a condom or have a vasectomy?

There's no child support agency in Ireland. Imagine the uproar if there was.

they didnt choose to be disabled.

the able bodied started out equal, then one of them made a baby, and now theyre more entitled.

even though family status is a category of discrimination. equality is all the bits i like and none of the bits i dont.

Humbly 🤣

Tough shít on Mr B but Mr A could have ended up in exactly the same situation.

If you no want, you no want, you no want, no more pickney then rubber up or get snipped, don't let the woman shoulder the entire responsibility of protecting you from your actions

Isn't it funny how all of these incel types want to be able to shag women bareback without consequences, and then walk away if she gets pregnant.

They have a fúcking shítload of growing up to do.

I suggest that you withold your essence until the law is reformed to your desire.

"I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence."

It's important to protect the integrity of all of our vital bodily fluids.

When a baby is created 2 people are responsible for creating it yet only 1 has the option to remove responsibility for life, they both should have that option.

Nonsense. No one and no law forces any man to be responsible.

My controversial opinion.

Dogs and cats are lovely animals and should be treated well.

However, I'm sick of people saying they love their dog more than any human etc. I'm meeting more and more people who treat people like sh*t, and treat their pets the way they should treat people.

You can have a lovely 'relationship' with a pet, an animal, but it has only a fraction of the possibilities a relationship with a partner, a family member or friend offers.

I'd choose my dog over the vast majority of people on the planet, I know my dog I don't know 99.9% of people on the planet.

Also some people don't need deep and meaningful relationships with many other people just a couple of close friends that you see every now and then and then a dog can provide a basic level of companionship on a day to day basis.

I got to say while I get the standard of life argument, I would just say that if you can afford a private pension that is going to maintain your lifestyle in old age, then the chances are you own your own home.

There are some cases where it would be a good insurance plan for example if an ugly divorce were to happen or whatever.

But insurance and pensions only work because the vast majority of working people buy into them, and in fact it just makes everything they cover more expensive.

If nobody paid insurance or pension plans everything would be cheaper and you'd have more money in the bank for your retirement. Now trusting the bank is another matter.

It just annoys me how it is organised so that it is a good idea for the individual, but a terrible idea for the collective.