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The ‘Delete one thing in the world’ AskReddit thread is somewhat a reflection of all the things wrong with our society. Not to say that we all live in darkness and despair, but there are definitely some very bad things happening which people would love to get rid of to see us off better. And we bet that all of these submissions will ring true to anyone - serious or funny, they are very relatable to any human being. So, ready to check out some of the most interesting and revealing things people had to say in this Reddit thread? 

But, before you skip to the submissions, know this - while this list might not be a very pleasurable read, seeing that it holds some very despicable things, there are always some lessons to learn, even from the worst things in the world. Meaning some of these submissions might inspire you to take action in solving some of these problems or, at the very least, think about what could be done. And if there’s seemingly nothing to be done when it comes to global problems, bear in mind that any small action can change the course of things or get the ball rolling. 

So, are you ready to check out things to get rid of to make our societies better? If so, scroll on down below until you reach the submissions. Rate these bad things, so the worst of the worst find their way on top of this list and are seen by as many people as possible - these are the problems we should all be aware of! 

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#2

"Animal abuse."

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

Isn't it telling...that the number 1 thing is don't f**k with animals...above child rape, abuse and the other f****d up s**t on this list... and yes I upvoted, but I also upvoted everything else

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#5

"The norm of a 40+ hour work-week."

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

The 40 hour workweek was started in the era when one person's income could support a family.

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#6

"Racism."

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#8

"The act of brainwashing/propaganda. I wish for a rational, educated world."

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#9

"Animal cruelty."

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#11

"Child abuse of any kind. Kids deserve to grow up happy and healthy in an environment around people that nurture and love them."

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#13

"Child suffering."

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#14

"Mental illness. Too many lives are affected by good intentions coming to support someone but it turns out to be an abusive power dynamic. Too many lives lost to a very worrying level of apathy. Imagine the life that so many people could have and be happy in but their natural brain chemicals are just like nah."

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

I think about how different i would be if i didn't have depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder. The amount of energy spent on the battles in my head is huge. I don't know what it feels like to truly be happy... Like actually happy. The song "way less sad" pretty much sums it up for me

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#15

"Fascists."

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#17

"Celebrity/influencer culture."

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#18

"World Hunger."

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

Again, greed is the problem. Too few with too much leaving too many without.

#19

"The Q conspiracy. It took away my family. My dad and stepmom completely went no-contact and broke my kids' hearts almost a year ago, and his whole side of the family followed suit. I miss my dad, stepmom, and sisters. My baby sister had her first baby last year, named him after Ted Cruz, and I have never gotten to meet him. I've seen 2 pictures of him."

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#20

"Corruption."

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

Again I think greed is the problem. Corruption is a consequence.

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#21

"Nuclear weapons."

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

ALL weapons. Guns. Bombs. Missiles. The whole friggin lot

#22

"War."

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

In we removed the following "Narcissistic, power-hungry, mean people" and "crappy abusive people" (other answers) then we wouldn't have wars

#23

"Hate. We just need to remove the hate and we will achieve so much more in every aspect of our society."

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#24

"For-profit prisons."

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#25

"Bullying..."

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#26

"Depression."

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#27

"Bedbugs."

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

Well if we are going with bugs lets throw in disease spreading mosquitoes!

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#28

"Addiction."

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#29

"Guns."

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#30

"Diabetes."

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#31

"Evil people."

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

Congratulations you deleted almost everyone on Earth. "Evil people" don't exist because it is all perspective. What one person considers evil another considers normal or necessary vice versa. We're all heros of all own stories after all.

#32

"Obesity."

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#33

"Extremists of all kinds. Cannot have a balanced, peaceful, or truly civilized society with crackpots."

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#35

"Ignorance/Lack of Education. It would solve a ludicrous number of other issues like crime, poverty, and racism, and would put us on a much better footing to solve issues like climate change because people would stop voting from ignorance."

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No Name
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ignorance isn't the problem. We all start out ignorant, and most people will try to fill any salient gaps they discover in their knowledge. The problem is mis- and disinformation. Nobody fights to stay uninformed, but millions will fight to defend wrong "knowledge" if it's sufficiently important to their identity and worldview.

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#37

"Chronic back pain. Not only is it debilitating but it is also the cause of plenty of negative downsides. Misery, anger, you name it. I reckon if I wasn’t in so much pain all the time from an early age then a lot of my issues wouldn’t exist. They can all be traced to back-to-back problems. As strange as it sounds. For me anyway!"

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#38

"Mosquitoes."

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#39

"Tinnitus. That damn loud beeping. (Luckily mine isn’t all the time and is usually easy to ignore)."

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#40

"Light pollution. The unpolluted night sky has been a source of inspiration to our species since the time before the historic record. Our unpolluted night sky is an indirect source of everything man has accomplished. And without it, we have stagnated as a species. For everyone to be able to stare at our unpolluted night sky would bring inspiration back to our species and allow us to move forward again. I believe removing light pollution would solve many of the problems we have today, at least indirectly."

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James016
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our local council has replaced the street lights in our road with LED ones that are more directional so even with them on we can see the night sky a lot better then we used to with the old lights. They turn them off about 11pm which is a cause for some debate

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#41

"Mobile Game ads that are completely irrelevant to the game itself."

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#42

"Poverty."

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#43

"Narcissistic, power-hungry, mean people."

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#44

"Entitled people."

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#45

"The third law of thermodynamics, or the law that matter cannot travel faster than light. I'm playing the long game."

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#46

"Stupidity, there is nothing redeeming about it. Even other negative elements of society have silver linings, but not stupidity."

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

Stupidity can lead to positive surprises and happy accidents as long as people are kind and have decent intentions. Wilful ignorance is much worse than stupidity.

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#47

"Child labor."

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#48

"Politics."

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#49

"TikTok."

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#50

"Migraines."

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#51

"Factory farming."

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#52

"The ability for a human to kill another human."

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

I'd suggest an exception for assisted suicide for terminally ill people. In that case, suffering is reduced.

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#53

"Facebook."

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#54

"Any form of extremism."

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#55

"Twitter!"

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#56

"Landlords that don't fix anything."

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#58

"Scams."

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#59

"Organized religion."

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#60

"Covid."

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#61

"All Immune diseases( like cholinergic urticaria... I am suffering from it so annoying)."

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#62

"Climate change."

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#63

"Dating apps. They ruined actual dating. People don’t approach anyone anymore. Always swiping for the next best thing instead of nurturing a connection. Makes it easier to cheat. The list of why it needs to be deleted is endless."

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#64

"Personality worship and ideological indoctrination. Plenty of charismatic and likable people are great at attracting supporters and building coalitions but make terrible decisions about governance and policy. Plenty of belief systems appear beneficial or positive in theory, but have unpredicted destructive consequences when implemented in the real world. If people were willing to honestly review empirical evidence and alter their approach, and cared less about reinforcing their own beliefs, then government, religion, and commerce could be more effective and beneficial for everyone."

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#65

"Disabilities. So many people are hindered by their disabilities and people often overlook the issues that reside with having disabilities."

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#66

"Irresponsible parenting."

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#67

"My 75k student loan debt."

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

That's...actually a fairly low number in student debt-land

#68

"The act of Adultery: I have seen so many Kids grow up messed up because of broken families and adulterous parents. I have seen literally hundreds of them. I have seen Men who thought everything was fine and who loved their wives suffer PTSD after finding their wives cheated.

I have seen women with the same issues but much less of them. 80% of divorces are initiated by women and according to studies, 60% are because the wife cheated. It was the U.K .study.

Adultery is the breakdown of the family (It also affects all families LGBTQ and traditional."

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#70

"Headaches."

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#71

"Lying. I genuinely wonder what society would look like if lying wasn't an option."

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

Lies can be beneficial to keep peace or staying save in different situations.

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#72

"Infertility."

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

While it can surely be a huge issue for people who want to become parents, all in all just about the least thing this planet needs is more humans. Not to mention all those children who are born into families unequipped to properly raise them (not enough money to even buy food, heavy drug users, abusive people, to name but three) - there are people you seriously would wish infertility on, even for their own good (like r@pe victims)

#73

"Panic attacks."

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#74

"Hangovers."

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#75

"Humans. We're bad."

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

We're not all bad but unfortunately there are a lot of crappy people which should be removed

#76

"So many options. Cigarettes, plastic bags, and so on. But I would go with political bribery."

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#77

"NFTs."

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#78

"Having to diet."

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

No one needs to diet except for medical reasons..... embrace my fat a*s as I don't care about anything dumbass related to my weight..I'm big, I'm healthy and I don't give a f**k

#79

"Social Media."

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#80

"Money."

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#81

"Victim mentality."

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#82

"I would give anything just to delete my trashy past and restart over."

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#83

"All the embarrassing memories everybody has that keep them awake at night."

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#84

"Pain for women while giving birth to their child. After having seen the difficulty of my wife and my sister when they gave birth to my son and nephew respectively I will never understand why God made it so difficult to bring new life into the world."

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#85

"Toxic Femininity."

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#86

"The internet. I'm sure that a lot of people who are old enough to remember life before the internet will agree."

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

I upvoted because honestly the internet killed what it was meant to be. Imagine not having to read through the entire encyclopedia Britannica page by page.. internet came along and you can now search everything known.....but then social media and b******t sites..u can find 100 sites that say vaccine good, 1000 sites that say vaccine bad

#87

"The most commonly used word in each language. Watch the chaos."

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#88

"Extreme anything really. Why don’t we all just get along."

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#89

"Bad Faith."

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

I'd need more input on this one. Is it about misinterpreting the bible (torah/Qur'an/...), abusing it to influence others to do bad things, or is it about not believing enough in god (or whoever) to be sure everything will work out somehow, or belonging to the wrong religion, or what?

#91

"Dirt in my fingernails."

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#93

"Wasps. Sorry, I’m selfish. I hate having to give myself a 20-minute pep talk to let the dogs outside. I would love to live in a world without being afraid of going outside."

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#94

"Laws of physic, just want to see the chaos that follows."

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#95

"Dogs that bark unnecessarily."

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#96

"People who seek to force others to conform to their own internal worldview. Nobody but gods is entitled to have others define themselves in servitude. And no humans are gods."

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#97

"Alcohol."

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