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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/22/2008 9:02:11 PM |
- Legalize prostitution and regulate it. Severely crack down on the johns who frequent illegal prostitution operations as well as the pimps.
- Abolish the IRS and replace it with a flat tax.
- No one on government assistance should be allowed to vote while on that assistance. They should not have a say in how much of other people's money they receive.
I forgot these. I agree with them, assuming by "flat tax" you mean a flat percentage, not an actual flat tax.
I think that if you turn 18 during the time a President is in office, you should have been able to vote in the election that elected that person.
 I don't know how I feel about 14 year olds voting for president. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/22/2008 10:04:09 PM | Most controversial opinions?
- Canada should use capital punishment for any person who has intentionally murdered another .. especially when the murder involves robbery or rape. Exceptions made for crimes of passion or self defence.
- Forced sterilization of certain individuals ... {drug addicts, those unable to care for a child on their own, girls who have already have over 2 abortions}.
- Any person in Canada should have the full right to defend their family and home (with a gun or any means)... any injury or death to an intruder should not be punishable by law.
- Abolish young offenders act and treat criminals of any age HARSHLY.
- Decriminalize marijuana, and focus on the dangerous chemical drugs.
- Allow mercy killings (with the consultation of doctors/priests/families) | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/22/2008 10:14:05 PM |
People who are on welfare..should have a limit of how long they can be on it...
That reminds me of another one... people who look down on people on welfare should be forced to live on welfare themselves for at least a year, just to see what it's like. Nobody who knows what that life is like thinks that anybody really wants to spend their lives on welfare. To put it another way, ignorant attacks on the poor should be punished by a year (or more) of poverty. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/23/2008 9:36:24 AM | MY 2 main ones are related to parenting/children
1. Circumcision is a cruel and barbaric mutilation that should not be done for cosmetic purposes. It should only be done when there is proof of medical necessity not for prophylactically because in 80 years he might get penile cancer. The excuse, "he will look different than other boys in the changeroom" is bogus, men tell the truth how often do you compare penis' in the changeroom.
2. Breastfeeding past the 2 years recommended by the WHO is wrong. I know someone who is still breastfeeding her almost 5 year old( though she admits to not having milk anymore because she is pregnant). That should be classified as sexual abuse and should not be allowed to continue. Children that age receive nourishment from their diets and need to learn other comfort methods that don't involve sucking on boobs. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/23/2008 9:47:48 AM |
People who are on welfare..should have a limit of how long they can be on it...
That reminds me of another one... people who look down on people on welfare should be forced to live on welfare themselves for at least a year, just to see what it's like. Nobody who knows what that life is like thinks that anybody really wants to spend their lives on welfare. To put it another way, ignorant attacks on the poor should be punished by a year (or more) of poverty.
When i was younger, I actually lived on welfare...after my mom left my abusive alcoholic 'father' she had to raise 2 young children, so we were on welfare and medicaid for about 8 months, untill she found a very good job...so yeah i know what is like, and it was in frank terms..a very crappy time in our lives...so I know what its like growing up poor...was poor most of our young child hood...and it sickens me..people who sit on their ass day in and day out not wiling to look for a job...and collect welfare and food stamps, etc....if there is a legitmate need to be on welfare..yes thats why its there..but to be on it year after year after year...no thank you!! | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/23/2008 1:15:31 PM | tpnw says:
Some of you people are seriously ****ed up.
You KNEW there would be ****ed up opinions in here - no one made you look.
Posting insults on a thread that ADMITS to being about controversial subjects, and WILL contain controversial and unpopular opinions should be punishable by a week in the stocks or having the violator wear a clue-by-four for a hat. Repeat offenders get the forehead tattoo of a crimson "L".
What is ***ed up is that I'm finding some of the opinions being expressed ones that I agree with, and others as things to seriously consider. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/23/2008 3:28:37 PM | Well I'm finding a lot of these opinions rather PC (both politically correct and popularly coddled) and extremely conservatively based actually, but perhaps that's just my perception.
I think all drugs should be legalized. Every single one. If you want to finish yourself off on a coke binge, please do.
I think all prisoners should perform a job that contributes back into the society they affected. The reward for their labor is everything they already have, plus protection from violence in prison. There should be mandatory education that all should participate in, that reminds them or teaches them for the first time about the joys of being a good human being. Due process has already happened. They are in prison. Just turn it back into a place of rehabilitation and a contributor, not a money pit.
University should be free. You should also have to do somewhere around 500 hours of community service for every year of education you take or you can't pass/graduate. This should start in kindergarten.
Recycling should be mandatory. Everywhere, anywhere, all the time, every time and facilities should be in place to make it very easy and accessible.
Cars should have their ignition attached to a breathalyzer.
People should be able to vote on their country's participation in a war, and only the ones for the war should fight in it. Yea that's right.
There are others, but last and certainly more important, this was the first strong opinion I ever posted on the forums probably somewhere around 3 years ago. It started quite the uproar, and I still stand behind it. The parents/guardians/caregivers of any person who ever commits a crime should be held responsible for the outcome of that persons crime. It's an all encompassing umbrella that makes every person accountable, and though it would be met with great resistance, would sure make you want to learn how to love your children, help them, protect them, and raise them right. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/23/2008 8:24:50 PM | There have been a few more points raised that relate to more of my views, and I can't resist commenting.
all prisoners should perform a job that contributes back into the society they affected
I've believed for a while in replacing most prison sentences with community service sentences. But I advocate more work-oriented service than the charity tasks usually assigned today. Sure, charities need help in the mail room, but we also need somebody out there clearing up litter and shoveling snow.
University should be free. You should also have to do somewhere around 500 hours of community service for every year of education
I agree to a point. I believe in practical free education. If you want to study science, engineering, or something else useful, do it on the government dime, but if you want a degree in ceramics, you're on your own. Graduation (or flunking out) would be followed by two years mandatory government service, as a sort of repayment. That's government service, not necessarily military service, so you might spend the two years, teaching, stamping passports, carrying mail, or whatever.
People should be able to vote on their country's participation in a war, and only the ones for the war should fight in it
You're including M.P.s, right? I wouldn't mind seeing Harper on patrol in Afghanistan - and lots of Americans would love to see Bush on the front lines in Iraq. I'm definitely in favour of putting politicians into combat; if they're ready to start a war, they should be ready to fight a war. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 9:20:19 AM | Alright, fair enough, I don't know if I was clear enough though. I'm not talking about community service by inmates. I'm talking actual jobs, and perhaps factories joined to prisons. Real work, quality control, manufacturing, etc. Something that actually affects the economy and saves money in the state/province that the prison is in. Obviously it would have to be in it's own bubble, something completely away from the average citizen.
I don't think you can win saying some people get university free and others don't. To say a person has to pay for a ceramics course but not for engineering is to say that one thing is more important in our culture than the other (plugs her ears while you all say IT IS) because it isn't. I worked for a non profit art based organization for nearly 2 years and met a lot of hard working sincere people who worked their butts off for every gov. dollar they were given towards their work, and they earned it, and THEN they spent it well. There is no culture without the arts. What good is any accomplishment if there's no free expression to mirror it?
Obviously, some applications are more practical than others. I as much as the next person baffles at how someone thinks they're going to get somewhere with 2 years textiles and 4 years of tap, but hey, that's their issue not mine.
I think it's always very dangerous territory when you start telling people how they should live their lives, what they should like, what they should do, and all the rest. Which of course, is not what your implying, but to say that some vocations have more merit than others is like tax breaks for the rich! Don't make me say the 4 letter word that came up with that gem.
How about I meet you half way and there can be tiers that courses and degrees are categorized into, going from free, material costs, to extra expenditures based on an economy based need for every given year, deal?
I'm with you on the gov. service provided it isn't military based unless there's a box you can check if you want to do that, fine. I think the best contribution back into free education would ideally be followed with 2 years of teaching at the university you graduated from. That way it would be on an endless loop, saving loads of money.
Oh yea I meant everyone when I said everyone when it comes to a vote on war, no exceptions, if you vote yes, have your bags packed, otherwise, shut up. It would sure bring about a new era of talking our problems out, when you have to put your money where your mouth is. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 10:48:22 AM |
there can be tiers that courses and degrees are categorized into, going from free, material costs, to extra expenditures based on an economy based need for every given year
I hadn't thought of this; I love it! OK, when we rule the world, that's what we'll do. (Softly humming the "Pinky and the Brain" theme...)
Speaking of tiers, I know it's supposed to be a dirty word when it comes to health care, but I just can't accept that billionaires need the same coverage as the impoverished. I do advocate a tiered system, with full coverage (including dental, optometry and pharmaceutical) for the poor, including single people living on less than, say, $30K, adjusted higher for families, adjusted annually for inflation, etc., and gradually phasing up to those with incomes over, let's say $200K, paying their own way. This would not involve prioritizing patients; everybody gets the same treatment, all waiting in the same lines to see the same doctors, but the rich would get bills the next month. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 11:22:01 AM | Mxyzptlk, good idea on health care. Good point
Politically active churches should lose their tax exempt status. I hate going to Mass and hearing political gibberish especially about the abortion issue (I am so SICK of that issue that I don't give a rat's behind about it!). At one Mass they even had petitions to a local politician to vote a certain way on gay marriage. That is SO wrong in so many ways!
Service in exchange for college education is a great idea that is overdue for action: college tuitions are skyrocketing to the point that college is becoming unaffordable. People have different talents, and artists are needed in a practical sense: advertising agencies and the like just for starters. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 12:00:34 PM | - I am vehemently pro-choice and feel abortion should be/remain legal at every stage of gestation. I think abortion is a *good* thing and should be utilised more, as there are too many f*uckwits giving birth.
- I think the death penalty should be brought back here in Canada, and apply to child molesters and rapists as well as murderers. However, before they are executed, they should be used in medical research. Let them contribute something positive to society, and let medical research intended to benefit humans be used on humans instead of animals (many times, research that went well on animals was disastrous on humans)
- I am against school lunch/breakfast programs. If parents cannot afford or refuse to feed their children properly, the children should be removed from the home and placed with people who will (feed them properly).
- Building permits should be eliminated - why should I have to pay the municipality a fee to build on land that *I* own???
- Illegals should be deported on sight - no hearing, no appeals, just a one way ticket back home.
- We should stop allowing immigration from countries from which a high number of immigrants commit crimes. Upon being found guilty, immigrants should be deported back home instead of us paying for their incarceration. (hey, you *did* ask for controversial opinions lol)
- Religious institutions should not be tax exempt. Neither should Indians.
- The strap should be brought back to schools. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 12:10:15 PM | We should give texas back to mexico.
We should surrender to the confederacy.
This way, we could unchain ourselves from the crippling effects of the right wing bible belt, create a progressive country, and start all getting along.
There should be IQ standards and history tests for qualifying people to run for public office
The government should seize control of the energy industry and put oil company execs on the most wanted list
We should focus on creating a democracy in the US instead of Iraq
Teachers, health care workers, police and firefighters should be paid more than the white collar parasites raping the country
companies that move their operations off shore should be banned from selling their goods in the states.
Walmart should be forced to change their slogan to "all of dante's plains of hell wrapped into 1 shopping experience. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 1:24:56 PM | All laws against alcoholism dismissed. We need more highway deaths to catch up to the increased birth rate.
Abortion required for all females with their first pregnancy to help off set increased birth rate. A reward of $5000. for each voluntary abortion there after.
All laws against smoking done a way with. (See alcoholism reasoning).
All laws against weed done away with, we need less thinking when it comes to politicians, judges and lawyers.
Scientific test....40 gay couples on one island and 40 hetro couples on another island. Lets see which perpetuates the species better.
Any one with two or more crimes to be commuted to specific islands for criminal mentalities. If a prisoner has been found trying to escape their island or has escaped, automatic death by any means and a $5000 dollar reward to the person killing them. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 2:29:37 PM | - I am vehemently pro-choice and feel abortion should be/remain legal at every stage of gestation. I think abortion is a *good* thing and should be utilised more, as there are too many f*uckwits giving birth.
- I think the death penalty should be brought back here in Canada, and apply to child molesters and rapists as well as murderers. However, before they are executed, they should be used in medical research. Let them contribute something positive to society, and let medical research intended to benefit humans be used on humans instead of animals (many times, research that went well on animals was disastrous on humans)
- I am against school lunch/breakfast programs. If parents cannot afford or refuse to feed their children properly, the children should be removed from the home and placed with people who will (feed them properly).
- Building permits should be eliminated - why should I have to pay the municipality a fee to build on land that *I* own???
- Illegals should be deported on sight - no hearing, no appeals, just a one way ticket back home.
- We should stop allowing immigration from countries from which a high number of immigrants commit crimes. Upon being found guilty, immigrants should be deported back home instead of us paying for their incarceration. (hey, you *did* ask for controversial opinions lol)
- Religious institutions should not be tax exempt. Neither should Indians.
- The strap should be brought back to schools. I think I love you in a non-lesbian way. 
Except for that last one. If parents did their jobs there'd be no need for straps.
A reward of $5000 for each voluntary abortion there after. OMG I laughed.
Although prevention is worth a pound of cure ;) We don't need more of those people purposely getting knocked up so we can reward them for it. ;)
Some of you people are seriously ****ed up. Do you need a hug? | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 3:35:11 PM | | I believe in the death penality, and I'm pro choice a womans right to choose as long as she isn't being a serial killer about it..I believe in medical marijuana, I hate sex offenders and child molesters should be ran through a woodchipper and used as fertlizer but not in my backyard...I believe that if a person desires to sleep outside under the stars it's their choice...I believe if someone is a police officer sworn to protect and serve it's everyone else not themselves..As long as people are not hurting anyone else let them do what they want..Not just legalizing medical pot but for everyone over the age of 21 if kids need it for medication I think their parents ought to get it for them.. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 4:03:48 PM | I'm Catholic. Born and raised, 13 years of Catholic school, still go to church.
I'm also pro-choice, pro-birth control, have no problems with pre-marital sex, and don't consider homosexuality or bi-sexuality "un-natural."
Oh, and I don't think that people who aren't Christian are going to hell.
And I'm for legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes.
So I guess I'm screwed.
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 4:33:50 PM | What a great thread. Here is mine:
All of a person's assets should be confiscated at the time of their death and evenly redistributed to everyone else, worldwide.
Um, I guess that's all I've got. It would solve every other problem. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 7:20:34 PM | Gay Marriage. Why shouldn't they have the right to be just as miserable as the rest of the population?
Abortion. I'm pro choice but that doesn't mean I'm anti life.
Rapists and child molesters should get the death penalty. | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 7:28:19 PM | Why shouldn't they have the right to be just as miserable as the rest of the population?
I heard that somewhere before
Abortion. I'm pro choice but that doesn't mean I'm anti life
Im pro choice and it does mean im pro-death
Rapists and child molesters should get the death penalty
That's a bit harsh.... i'd go as far as castration | |
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| What are some of your most controversial opinions?
Posted: 3/24/2008 7:45:46 PM | Anti-choicers aren't pro-life, they're pro-birth. That's it. They look no further than the pregnancy.
I have a bumper sticker that says "If the fetus you save is gay will you still fight for its rights?" | |
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