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

“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 Climate change denial

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GaeFrog 3 years ago

Lol good answer

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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 3 years ago

"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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qwerty 3 years ago

Should be intolerable now ffs.

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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 Plastic packaging.

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Wondering Alice 3 years ago

More upvoting here!

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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 SeaWorld

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Stephanie IV 3 years ago

Animal abuse. We’ll end 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 Celebrities being paid so much more than teachers and caregivers

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Yohowhisky

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Mistiekim 2 years ago

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 3 years ago

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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Rokas J.

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Joanna Werman 3 years ago

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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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago

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Karl Geisel 3 years ago

I hope

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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 3 years ago

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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AnnaBanana 3 years ago

Wow, I didn't know this about MRIs. No more helium balloons for 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 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 3 years ago

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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Joanne Fabrick 3 years ago

Good one! I hope so:)

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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 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

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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175points

BravePanda

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Karl Geisel 3 years ago

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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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

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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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago

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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Spikey boi 2 years ago

Hopefully. Im homophobephobic!

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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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148points

Octavi

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loty moty 2 years ago

I hope for the day when the last religion dies off.

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Food wastage

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Heidi Freeman

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Lucky2BAlive 2 years ago

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 3 years ago

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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GaeFrog 3 years ago

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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Nooberton 3 years ago

Yea. They both suck.

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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 Military and weapons.

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Francie Patton 3 years ago

If only human nature wasn't a thing.

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

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Mikayla Lynn 3 years ago

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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Wise beauty 3 years ago

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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J. F. 3 years ago

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

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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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Sheila who?

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Richard Smith 2 years ago

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

13points

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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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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.

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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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M M

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J. F. 3 years ago (edited)

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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What do you think ?

Ashley Lynne 3 years ago

Racism I hope it doesn't take that long

18points

Octavi 3 years ago (edited)

same

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Steve Kenney 3 years ago

This article is not accurate at all. It should be "What do you hope won't be acceptable 100 years from now"

Blarrg 2 years ago

I was thinking that. We have no idea what they'll think or do. And history says that a lot of what we currently believe ferverently, they will find either hilarious or horrifying.

2points

Aleš Kaučič 3 years ago

"but that's the topics for another "Hey Pandas " ""

1point

John Baker 2 years ago

Or "Why do you care when you won't be alive 100 years from now anyway?"

0points

littlesaresare 3 years ago

Seems that people are way too optimistic.

12points

Greta Kolding 2 years ago

I would say incredibly naïve.

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