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“Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time,” wrote Voltaire.

Many institutions, attitudes, actions, etc. that people of previous generations found perfectly acceptable are frowned on today. Racism, child labor, blood sports - all of these are generally unacceptable today. So I asked the Bored Panda community to share their thoughts on what they think will be impermissible 100 years in the future. Here are all the answers!

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Certain cultures being allowed to do bad things because it’s part of their tradition

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Theoretical Empiricist
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Religious exemption of medical care for minors.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Celebrities being paid so much more than teachers and caregivers

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Mistiekim
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Hopefully, sexual harassment and victim blaming

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Wondering Alice
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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'

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community '9-to-5' jobs in offices. Maybe not 'unacceptable' per se, but I expect future generations to focus more on each person's individual productive hours and remote work (even more than now).

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Joanna Werman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely. This whole nine to five is a joke. Do your best work when you're at your best.

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

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Schools punishing kids for getting beat up and trying to fight back.

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Jo FrH
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or just generally schools using punishment for emotional issues at all. Consequences have their place but rewarding positive behaviour works a lot better. We don't teach our kids to negotiate properly either from an authority/ education perspective so the can also ask questions and understand why we are asking for specific behaviour to change, so they can't then do their own thinking and problem solving as well as self risk management (I work with young people in the criminal justice system and the stories I could tell you.. 🙃

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community I really hope it doesn't take anywhere close to 100 years! Wasting precious Helium on stupid inflatable single-use balloons or to make your voice higher. We have a limited supply on Earth that is rapidly running out and once it's gone, it's gone. The only other source is literally the Sun and it's not like we can mine that! And when it goes you can kiss goodbye to MRI machines (which use liquid Helium to work) and our ability to look inside your bodies and diagnose medical problems and save lives without requiring dangerous, time-consuming and often life-limiting or life-threatening invasive exploratory surgeries.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Mass treating mentally ill patients (especially schizophrenia) with dumbing-down medication so they just suffer in silence and not bother "other people" with the "noisy symptoms". I'm a medical student and all antipsychotics have their place and indeed are lifesavers but in my opinion, they are over-used and not ideal for long-term therapy. They do not solve the root of the problem, they just make it temporarily more manageable -which is great but we should not leave behind the end goal. TL;DR: subduing problematic mentally ill patients with medication for decades instead of searching for / researching other options.

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Joanne Fabrick
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a licensed counselor with 25 years of experience, and this is inaccurate. Nobody wants to quiet them or dumb them down,they want them to be as healthy and productive as they can be in life,and that means taking away or muting the voices that tell them to hurt themselves or how awful they are. Would you prefer people suffer from their disorder?

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Medicine not tailored to the person's DNA. Medicine, food, housing, education being a luxury item.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Unhoused individuals. People will be treated with dignity, housed, rehabilitated if it occurred is needed, taught skills, etc.

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Karl Geisel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Their are perfectly fine small housing developments in Seattle I thought they were finally taking care of the HUGE homeless population. Guess what, they were for sale

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Buildings and public places being inaccessible for disabled people.

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Jessica Combrink
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely! There is literally NO excuse for not making buildings and places accessible

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community I very much hope the Prosperity Gospel will be frowned upon in future generations.

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Tami
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do those preachers get away with that? "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." -Matthew 19:21-24

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community The treatment of my neurodivergent learners and students will evolve. In 100 years, forcing neurodiverse children to suffer, struggle, and undergo forced change will be over. We will focus on creating a more equitable school system that asks neurotypical people to support all students, as they are.

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Karl Geisel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes please, I hope everyone can find the same care and learning environment as my brother .

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community "Cancelling" people and ruining their careers based on a rumour or allegation. There's nothing wrong with exposing sexists, rapists, abusers and all that lot, but at least put in some effort to fact-check the allegations and rumours before lynching the "offenders". People put in years of hard work to build a career and it just takes one attention-deficient psychopath to ruin all of their work. Also: ignoring victim statements because of the social position and wealth of the accused person.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually it might become wrong to expose the latter because it comes before a fair trial. Law is law and just because one person does a heinous act against humanity and caught red-handed, the law cannot just be exempted for one person and not another. There's already problems with people wrongly accused for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or mistaken identity or just situations taken out of context. I feel it's going to be unacceptable to stick a camera in a man's face accusing him of preying on children at a park when he's just with his son because some vigilante is itching to catch a predator.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Tolerance of attention-seeking deliberate stupidity (ie. flat-Earthers, anti-vaxxers, etc.) is likely to go down. Real, verifiable and researched information is widely available on these subjects and will only become easier still to access as time goes by. Such mindsets will be seen as intentionally being difficult as the ability to say that you've never had access to said information becomes more and more impossible to claim.

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Miriam Spaulding
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk I mean I sure hope this becomes unacceptable someday but I feel like there will always be someone who has "opinions" like this ya know?

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Absence of universal healthcare and discrimination of people based on nationality, ethnicity, skin color, social status, etc.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel it's getting worse but might level out in 100 years. There may be another major pandemic. Universal healthcare has become threatened in some nations.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Hopefully, homophobia and transphobia won't be socially acceptable. I know so many individuals who have to hide who they are because their parents won't accept them, and could risk being disowned.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community How people twist religion and take it a step too far. I hope that ends

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Food wastage

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Lucky2BAlive
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How in the hell is this not up voted for? There is NOTHING wrong with freeganism. Okay not for he faint of heart but the sheer waste of food from high profile restaurants? There are more than enough persons who could easily be fed.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Personal freedom, free air and water (I'm a pessimist)

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GoddessOdd
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Free water is definitely on the list. Most natural resources are teetering on the brink, and I think water will be the first big divider. I am glad I am old and won't have to be here for the cataclysm. The planet can't go on as it is, and the change will probably only come with violence, and may well be too late even then. I still hold hope that we'll wake up, but then we get the donald trumps of the world...

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Saying Donald Trump's name.

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GaeFrog
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hopefully by then people will have forgotten about him and he will be gone from history forever

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The Republican and Democrat parties.

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HOPEFULLY:
Racism, sexism, sexual assault, abusive relationships and HAVING TO PAY FOR MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS!!!

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Mikayla Lynn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So... what, you want companies to just give you menstrual products for free? You know if they do that they'll go out of business, or just stop making menstrual products altogether. Then what will you do?

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community The glass ceiling. It is still around, although not nearly as obviously as it once was. When I was growing up, women were housewives and mothers. If they HAD to work, they could be teachers, nurses, secretaries, or any of the other 'women's work'. Now, women can choose any career, but in too many institutions, the good ol' boy network is as strong as ever, and actively screening out women and others. There are too many law firms, financial institutions and other corporate structures where promotions are based, not on ability, but on being 'one of the boys'.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandfather didn’t let me open a jar for him because I was “threatening his masculinity.”

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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not unlikely, here in Europe it's banned since decades

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Viv Florini
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weird opinion, but I feel like it should be the criminals choice. Many people would find life in prison much more depressing than dying

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Nicole Weymann
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all prisons are hellholes. Many societies focus on rehabilitation and/or therapy, not punishment and humiliation. And the delinquent's "decision" for the death pelalty already exists. It's called suicide. /S

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El Dee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are a few things denoting how developed a country is eg universal healthcare, free university education and lastly, no death penalty..

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GoddessOdd
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know why that should be controversial. It costs more to execute someone than to keep him locked up for life. Some of the biggest supporters are the anti choice crowd... because only the "life" they choose to care about is precious, the rest of the world is dispensable.

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AnnaBanana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does it really cost more to execute someone than life in jail. How does that happen?

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John Shepard
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pedophiles, groomers, and murderers with clear unquestionable evidence all need to be killed. There is no redemption for them and a drain on the legal and tax systems

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Vix Spiderthrust
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem isn't that the death penalty kills guilty people, Johnny. It's that it kills the innocent right along with them. Or are you so naive that you believe your justice system never errs?

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Claire Bear
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing controversial about that, civilised countries just don’t have it

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm ok with banning the death penalty, but give lifers the option for assisted suicide (1yrs of counseling first).

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Birma Gustafsson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People are innocently put in jail because the judicial system is not fool proof. So if you execute a person for a crime they didn't committ - which has happened and will happen in the future - you the state and government has murdered an innocent, and how can you redeem that? You cannot bring them back to life, and to send money and a "Oooops!" note to their family can't make up for the loss of their loved one. So just don't execute people - you don't want to realise that you made a mistake and not be able to correct it. Besides it's very barbaric and medieval, you know. Ignorant.

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Mary Leverett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's all well-&-good, but - what if someone YOU loved crossed paths with Ted Bundy? John Wayne Gacy? Wayne Williams? Richard Ramirez? Jeffrey Dahmer? I was anti-death penalty, until my daughter was born, and I held her in my arms - THEN, I had an abrupt "come-to-Jesus" moment, at the THOUGHT of someone hurting her - I could throw the switch, drop the trapdoor, shoot the bullets, or administer the lethal drugs.

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Niall Mac Iomera
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's precisely why we shouldn't have the death penalty. I completely understand where the want for vengeance comes from: but justice is supposed to be fair. The death penalty assumes a perfect system, which is just not possible

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René Sauer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*lol* one of germanys states still has the death penalty in its lawbooks. But it is not enforced because country laws always trump state laws

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Lee Kerr
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Capital punishment was abolished in West Germany in 1946, Saarland in in 1956 and in East Germany in 1987. It was removed from Hessel in 2018 though since national laws override state laws, it could not have been used.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why? It doesn't discourage them unfortunately. Their religious beliefs are too twisted and indoctrinated in them to change their minds.

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Mieke
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in South Africa our murder rate is incredibly high (where I live in sa, probably under the 1st 5 highest in the world), and we're so tired of the violence, so a lot of people are asking for it back - we have abolished it many years ago, but our justice system is so broken, by paying the judge another victim would by all probability b killed instead of the murderer. My true wish is a working justice department, with no bribery/corruption, śó murderers can b taken off the streets, and non criminals can live free and not feel jailed in our own homes; I have a wall of 6-8 feet, electrified fence with alarm on fence, house alarm, beams all round my house, camera system. Sad, isn't it? We still live well though It's the poor people who are homeless who are the real victims, and then become criminals as there just is no work available for these poor, hungry souls.

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Jordi Sharpe
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thou shalt not kill gets ignored more than any rule in existence, other than the adultery one.

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Amanda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed. It’s the easy way for these criminals, and most deserve to suffer.

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Valerie Solanas
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually hope the death penalty becomes more common. Murderers and rapists do not deserve to live and have a chance of being released back into society.

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Vix Spiderthrust
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But that's not the point, dear stupid Valerie. The point is that you execute the innocent. One has to be very naive to believe that your system of justice works perfectly to bring the guilty person to book every time.

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Ciara Jane Eynon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women's healthcare you mean. Or you're hoping that in 100 years women still won't be granted bodily autonomy by men!?! The stupidity of your comment is genuinely impressive and depressing all at once.

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Of course these are based in the U.S. because it's where I am. But some are universal
People going hungry,when just down the corner is plenty..
Native American People on reservations or anywhere else they don't want to be.
Education being priced so far out of the range of anyone, that is a basic need to a majority.

The fact that if your grandma's grandpa was very very poor, and then so on, until the most recent generation, one is doomed to have to fight harder, and longer, for everything you get. Rich or even middle class privilege isn't even realized by those who have it, but the lack of it is glaring to those who don't.

Animals being allowed to breed into feral colonies, and go without homes.

Nursing homes that are paid by the state being so substandard.

Female centric birth control

Plastic overused until it comes out everywhere

Oil rigs, and transport ships

Police brutality

And this I hope is no longer tolerated

Hate.

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Richard Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anything that a private company can do, the government can, and will, do worse, and at greater cost.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Media companies asking people to make content for free.

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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Eating meat from dead animals. I bet on artificially grown meal-like substance.

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J. F.
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's maybe not even 100 years away, there are methodes to create muscle tissue in labs to create minced meat and such things

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