“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community

Lol good answer

How is this acceptable today?!

Yes but considering that people still think covid is a hoax I'm not so sure

Only 200 years too late...

What people don't get is that it will take us about a hundred years to switch over from oil and gas unless a REAL new energy is discovered that can effectively power the world. Right now a machine has to move 500 tonnes of earth to make one lithium battery for a car, and that machine is powered by diesel. Think about that...

"Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid." -despair.com

The word ‘tradition’ is always a red flag for me. It is used as an excuse to keep sections of the population ‘in their place’.

"Tradition is dead people's baggage. Stop carrying it." -Doug Stanhope

Who decides which traditions are bad?

One of my classes is a discussion class about various issues - health, social, etc.. There is a particular practice that continues to this day that is basically seen as not acceptable throughout the rest of the world. The main argument that they come up with in favour of this activity is "it's part of our country's tradition". Ultimately, my goal is to foster their English skills, not teach them right from wrong, but I do tell them that, for me, "tradition" is not a valid argument. There are many countries throughout the world that had barbaric traditions in the past, and they are no longer practiced because they were, well, barbaric. I ask them why this particular tradition is good for their country, and why is it important to keep the tradition alive. At the very least, it makes them think more deeply about the topic, as opposed to giving the automatic "tradition" response.

Should be intolerable now ffs.

Any form of influence by a religion regarding medical care should not be tolerated.

How bout religious anything? Lol

Religion, in the U.S., is one of the most steadfast buckets of political ammunition to draw from. Children only offer political ammunition in the form of abortion rights and, because of this, are only politically valuable at the major election points. Care of religion will always trump care of the children.

Families who use religion to justify not vaccinating their children or denying their children needed medical attention should be flagged for abuse. I had an acquaintance is secondary school who parents were radically religious and refused medical care that was prayer. This young girl ended up taking her own life because she was in such pain for not being able to receive life changing surgery.

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I think this one depends. Bio friendly plastic isn't exactly a super niche research topic so who knows what will be found in the next hundred years. (To be clear i do believe plastic in its current form is unsustainable and dangerous, just saying that there are people smarter than me who are looking for solutions that are not "just replace it with paper")

I disagree. We have today fully biodegradable plastics made from organic materials. I am very supportive of those, because they bring the benefits of plastic, but in less than a year are compost soil. Plastic is very important for many things, especially food safety in packeging

I doubt it. Unless they find something that works as well as plastic while being biodegradable and not costing more. Same reason why most plastic doesn't get recycled; it costs more than new plastic.

Want to upvote this a million times.

Animal abuse. We’ll end it.

On the other hand it is quite possible that Marine parks and zoos and wildlife parks will be the last bastion of our planets biodiversity and the last habitat of entire species. I think that in the future these institutions will be seen as a godsend.

wait what? I've never been to this place. whats wrong with it?

I really hope so. I'm not religious but a friend of mine and I were talking about how if there is a hell, I don't think we're going there for how we treat each other, but for how we treat animals. I look at a dog who wants nothing more than to love you. That's it. And some jerk beats and starves it and it's abused so badly they have to euthanize it because there's no hope for recovery. I just don't understand how anyone can do that. But... I eat some meats. Not a lot but I do occasionally have a burger. So is that hypocrisy? I don't know. I feel just instinctually that these are different things. I'm all for ethically treatment of the animals who are our food sources but being truly ethical would mean not being able to keep up with demand. Ans what about medical testing? I've certainly benefited from the advances that have been made with animal testing. I really hate myself for it. I just feel like we should at least START with purposeful and degrading animal abuse.

Already getting there in some places

Pro athletes too. Getting millions of dollars to play a game seems ridiculous to me.

Actors only make that much because of how much the movie makes. It's literally the governments funding policies that are killing education. You know how to tell if a country doesn't care? Look at education, and how much your government wants you to be educated.

guys, pls don't downvote me, but I see @Teresa Yeates's point. while @Eliza isn't wrong, I still see both people's points.

I think the media industry in general is going to change. With so many people using apps and pirating, I feel like the era of the 'movie star' is just about over. Already we're seeing it fade. I can't name a single current younger actor who is on par with Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Meryl Streep or Angelina Jolie... even if you think of older actors like Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Katheryn Hepburn, etc, the "movie star" worship is fading because our ability to know the celebrities because of social media and having access to celebs in a way we never have before. They're more human and therefore we worship them less. And also because the studios can't afford the same type of movies- and paychecks- since less people are going to theaters less.

AND FOOTBALL-PLAYERS...:0(((((((((((((((((((( REDICILOUS...

And stop excusing 'historic sex crimes' with - it was a different time. No it wasn't wrong was wrong. Just because there was a lack of prosecution years ago, that didn't make it OK. Prosecution is still far from good enough, and 20 years from now todays offenders might get tried and they will all cry and say 'but every one was doing it'