Your unpopular opinions

A lot of athetists/agnostics/non-religious folk are only that not because they have sat down and thought out the metaphysical ramifications of their believes but because they think they are "cool" for being so, and thus are, in my eyes, equally as idiotic as hardcore religious folk.


Eduction is severly underappreciated in this country which has also widely contributed to Ireland's problems.

Teachers are constantly attacked on a variety of issues despite having one of the most important jobs; they should be paid far more than they are since they are supposed to be educating our children to get them prepared for life after school. Teachers shape the countries future yet are looked down on and attacked. If you cut money, you lower the standard of educated person you get into the position, which hurts education as a whole. (that said, teachers should be under constant reviews on many levels and should only keep their jobs if they are good at it).

College is seen as a drink and party fest and not as an important step towards getting a job. Considering how awesome Ireland is with regards its grants and fees, people should be thrilled to get the opportunity to go to third level. Instead, many feel entitled to it and thus piss their education away.

Finally, its the well educated which we are kicking out of our country, despite the fact those are the people we need to get it back in shape. A time will come in ten years where all our most important positions are either not filled or filled by foreginers and people will complain about how shoddy services are, unwilling to accept it was their attitudes towards emigration that caused those problems. We live in a society where the educated are mocked and punished for working hard, while those who never work are rewarded expotentially, and then we wonder why out government and public systems are in disaray.