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I Asked Our Community What They Think Is Not Illegal But Should Be, 45 Responded
There are things that are considered wrong by a lot of people, however, one cannot do anything about them because they don't violate the law. Keeping that in mind, I asked the Bored Panda community to share some examples of what they think should be illegal but is not. Apparently, there are many things!
Here are the responses from our Pandas. What do you think should be illegal but is not? Let me know in the comments!
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#1
Children's beauty pageants - parading kids in lipstick and padded bikinis - is wrong.
Final score:
1Kpoints
#2
Removing puppies' tails or ears for cosmetic purposes. One of the most stupid things ever done to an animal.
Final score:
975points
#3
The Pink Tax and making pads, tampons, and other essential items ridiculously expensive. I recently had to pay 10 dollars for a pack of 24.
Final score:
783points
#4
Politicians voting on their own pay raises.
Final score:
759points
#5
The American Health Care System. And anyone who makes a profit from it.
Final score:
717points
#6
Listening to music or videos on your phone in public without headphones!!
Final score:
710points
#7
Ads that put a fake X in the corner to basically force you into their clickbait.
Final score:
655points
#8
CEOs making billions of dollars while their employees work 2 or more jobs just to keep a roof over their family’s heads.
Final score:
642points
#9
How drug companies make “need to live” medical products cost more than one’s paycheck. Example: insulin, EpiPens, and anti-rejection meds for organ transplant patients.
Final score:
631points
#10
In the U.S., advertising for pharmaceutical drugs. Your healthcare providers should be the ones suggesting what drugs may be beneficial to you, not a bunch of TV commercials.
Final score:
621points
#11
Bullying. Punishments are too light for both child and adult offenders.
Final score:
598points
#12
Gender Reveal Parties (or at least the ones that require explosives)
It's so dumb and people are always getting hurt from these. Popping a balloon is one thing, but firing a cannon? Not okay.
Final score:
554points
#15
Employers not paying a living wage.
Final score:
532points
#16
Plastic clam shell packaging. Especially when it's used for a knife or pair of scissors.
Final score:
517points
#17
For-profit health insurance companies. Another one: for-profit news organizations. I'm tired of "news" being more about evoking a visceral emotional response to get more clicks and money as opposed to thoughtfully laying out facts and reality (appealing to the intellect).
Final score:
498points
#19
Not being paid equally because you're not male. Like, how has this not been written into law!
Final score:
492points
#20
Spam. Junkmail, that is (not the canned meat product).
Final score:
426points
#21
Littering. Whoever gets caught dumping their trash somewhere where it doesn't belong (beach, ocean, streets, parks) should pay a fine or face legal proceedings.
Final score:
418points
#22
I think that child marriage (marriage below 18) should be illegal with NO exceptions. It creates so much trouble for the kids, yet so many states still have many loopholes. Only a few have a strict ban. NO parental consent, NO exceptions, and KEEP it that way. Sometimes it is used to keep a rapist out of jail because the child is pregnant. There was actually a case, by the way, where a girl's father or mother had her married because her boyfriend got her pregnant while drunk. She only consented because she loved him, and she was happy to be a mother. Sadly, the child miscarried during the wedding, but her folks never got punished for this. Instead, they went to a different state to get consent from a judge. Man, life is wrong!
Final score:
417points
#24
Chewing gum and then sticking it on things which are not in a bin should be banished.
Final score:
377points
#25
The gay panic defense (in some states is banned, most not though). Basically, it’s legal for someone to MURDER a gay person if they claim that they had an “uncontrollable reaction” to seeing a gay person. Yeah. I believe the men who murdered Matthew Shephard tried to use this defense.
Should definitely be banned.
Final score:
374points
#26
Overloaded sugar in drinks and snacks.
Final score:
354points
#27
Kissing babies that are not your own!
Final score:
352points
#29
Smoking right at the entrance / exit of a building. I always have to cross a "smoke screen" when I exit the train station or want to enter a hospital. Some hospitals have taken action to create a "smoke area" away from their doors and I think it should be so for every public facility.
Final score:
339points
#31
Doing things to a child because the parent consented. From kissing to ear piercings to stealing. Especially if the child is old enough to tell you if you can or can't.
Final score:
305points
#32
Gerrymandering by sitting politicians
Final score:
298points
#33
Excessive and unnecessary plastic packaging on products.
Final score:
286points
#35
Spreading anti-vax information to any public platform
Final score:
264points
#36
Showing school children in programs as being sexually attractive.
Final score:
257points
#37
Having a system of government that transfers wealth upwards.
Final score:
255points
#39
Over testing in schools. I feel more like a lab rat than a 5th grade kid!
Final score:
206points
#42
Monday's. Nobody likes them so lets ban that day
Final score:
184points
#43
Germany’s age of sexual consent laws: The age of sexual consent in Germany is 14, and it means that a 65 year old man can fully legitimately and legally have sex with a 14 year old girl. How on earth can that be????
Final score:
173points
#44
Cigarettes
What do you think ?
Will Cable 3 years ago
Influencers....as it seems to make so many of them feel they are entitled to 'free' and the people that follow them don't seem to have their own thoughts any more.
Plutarch 2 years ago
I do not recognize "influencing" as a job. I think they are leeches.
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Celeste Grant 3 years ago
The take away from this is that so many things are legal in the USA that are illegal and actively enforced in the U.K. and Europe.
Laya Smith 2 years ago
But, but... It's the greatest country in the world...
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Kabuki Kitsune 2 years ago
Here's one for you: Websites reusing stories from over a year ago, adding one or two new things, and presenting it as an entirely new article.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
BoredPanda has been doing this increasingly now. I responded to a comment from over three years ago that one the BoredPanda "writers" posted today. This site actually (if you can believe it) used to write their own lighthearted articles in the past and focused more artwork. Now it has completely turned into a listicle website a'la Buzzfeed. Why do the employees have "writer" in their description if all they do is repost old articles or post listicles from Reddit/Buzzfeed? It is a shame as this really used to be a fun site. BoredPanda, you have people who are educated to write---USE THEM.
Load More Replies... Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago (edited)
BoredPanda why are you continually recycling and reposting articles from over a year ago? What in the world is happening to this site anymore from the censorship to the constant reposting? You have actual employees who are trained as writers, why in the world aren’t you using them?! I’m sick of lazy reposts and these constant “am I the a*****e” articles? What happened to all the art and fun articles on this site? Do the writers even write anymore?
Ogre Juan Canolli 2 years ago
Maybe BP Got Bought Out And Went "Corporate" ? (Shudder)
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Theodore Triant 3 years ago
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter where. Or who, or who you are with, or where you are going or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.
Ogre Juan Canolli 2 years ago
Downvotes--BP Regards ALL Downvotes As "Offensive" Leading To Suspensions/Banishment--Some Downvotes Are Just "Disagree"
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
Most downvotes are disagreements yet BoredPanda still suspends its good users. They NEVER respond to e-mails anymore asking for trolls that spread hate speech on site to be suspended yet they censor common words like d**k and sex. This has to be one of the most hypocritical websites I have been on and it is a shame to see what was once a really fun lighthearted site has turned into.
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RavenZero (they/them) 2 years ago
Influencers making profit out of ruining some poor grocery worker's day
Mutlut krutnut 3 years ago
Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change!
Maple Porkly 2 years ago (edited)
No one said the big ones huh? Ok, anti-abortion laws, police in schools (they just scare kids no matter what the intent), protesting people trying to get health care (no one needs a sea of a$$holes on their way into a vaccine clinic), continuously paying a small fine vs fixing an environmental problem that's getting worse, supporting a country (like Russia) who started a war for more power (looking at you Nestle), and refusing two people (18+) the right to marry.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
Making things illegal just because they irritate you. We've become such an intolerant, control-freak society with no sense of individual liberty at all. So many people on this thread would make wonderful Nazis or Stalinists. You don't like a gender-reveal party? Don't go to one; I never have. You want to ban them? Screw you and the high horse you rode in on, you hypocritical totalitarian nitwit.
abby smink 2 years ago
Alcohol. I know many won't agree, but I've dealt with too many alcoholics and had to live with one, so I find it way more damaging than weed, for example.
Pantea 3 years ago (edited)
I thought this would be something funny and wholesome, such as "being forced to wake up early in the morning" or "going to work 5 days a week" or "cilantro". Instead, a bunch of so-called woke people try to enforce cancel culture, US Americans wish for things perfectly normal anywhere else and a few spread disinformation. Disappointing.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago
Interesting to read. Although I feel like a lot of this is just people’s pet peeves and not things that should be strictly illegal.
soniacccccccccc 3 years ago
A lot of these are personal pet peeves. Glad someone mentioned it.
Vera Cyning 1 year ago
#20. Pay discrimination is already super illegal but employers will do any kind of shady nonsense to get around it. Know your rights and take those jerks to court. Loudly and publicly.
Hugh Donaldson 2 years ago
Fact Republic that in France child beauty pageants are banned. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24145119
pusheen buttercup 2 years ago
I believe, as a photographer, a certain level of Photoshop on models without a disclaimer should be illegal. It often straddles false advertising
Nadia Dodd 2 years ago
Treating 1st year apprentices like your lacky, tea maid!!! I personally think of this as bullying, they are there to learn a trade, job etc, not be your slave!!!!!
RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago
Some things that should be banned. 0) lists. 1) being repetitive. 2) lists. 3) people who tell you cantaloupe is really musk melon. 4) squishy grapes. 5) zero based indexing. 6) decorative cabbage. 7) the words moist and musk. 8) jokes about lists
Patricia Fonda 2 years ago
Families to poor to send Kids to school. When parents Split up and the mother being a foreigner, forcing the kid to move with them to their country.
Russell Rieckenberg 2 years ago
Political lawn signs. They're an eyesore that has no impact on the outcome of any election.
Alyssa Olivarez 2 years ago
Can I just say I hate when men or women sexualize women's clothes. I mean it's clothes,like one time I was wearing my thigh high boots with long shorts and my Dad said You look like your going to the club. I mean can I not dress in anything that I'm comfortable in?
Arieana Mays 3 years ago
Walking out of the store with out buying nothing they will just stare at me or when my mama is in line then she go somewhere real quick to get something and the employees just be looking at me I have anxiety so
Bryan With A Why 2 years ago
This article is a perfect example of what's wrong with society. Every single law being pushed here is malum prohibitum laws ("illegal because they're currently prohibited") and not malum en se laws ("illegal because it's wrong"). We already have all the malum en se laws we need - laws against murder, theft, rape, etc - so everything here is just subjective ideas that literally will and can never end. There's no quenching the beast and those in power will always use these laws (and the justifications you read in comments) to tyrannize their opponents.
Aaricia 3 years ago
IVF is mostly used for people who are sterile and cannot conceive on their own. But like the octo mom, then yes. It shouldn't be legal after too many kids.
Load More Replies... Will Cable 3 years ago
Influencers....as it seems to make so many of them feel they are entitled to 'free' and the people that follow them don't seem to have their own thoughts any more.
Plutarch 2 years ago
I do not recognize "influencing" as a job. I think they are leeches.
Load More Replies... Celeste Grant 3 years ago
The take away from this is that so many things are legal in the USA that are illegal and actively enforced in the U.K. and Europe.
Laya Smith 2 years ago
But, but... It's the greatest country in the world...
Load More Replies... Kabuki Kitsune 2 years ago
Here's one for you: Websites reusing stories from over a year ago, adding one or two new things, and presenting it as an entirely new article.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
BoredPanda has been doing this increasingly now. I responded to a comment from over three years ago that one the BoredPanda "writers" posted today. This site actually (if you can believe it) used to write their own lighthearted articles in the past and focused more artwork. Now it has completely turned into a listicle website a'la Buzzfeed. Why do the employees have "writer" in their description if all they do is repost old articles or post listicles from Reddit/Buzzfeed? It is a shame as this really used to be a fun site. BoredPanda, you have people who are educated to write---USE THEM.
Load More Replies... Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago (edited)
BoredPanda why are you continually recycling and reposting articles from over a year ago? What in the world is happening to this site anymore from the censorship to the constant reposting? You have actual employees who are trained as writers, why in the world aren’t you using them?! I’m sick of lazy reposts and these constant “am I the a*****e” articles? What happened to all the art and fun articles on this site? Do the writers even write anymore?
Ogre Juan Canolli 2 years ago
Maybe BP Got Bought Out And Went "Corporate" ? (Shudder)
Load More Replies... Theodore Triant 3 years ago
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter where. Or who, or who you are with, or where you are going or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.
Ogre Juan Canolli 2 years ago
Downvotes--BP Regards ALL Downvotes As "Offensive" Leading To Suspensions/Banishment--Some Downvotes Are Just "Disagree"
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
Most downvotes are disagreements yet BoredPanda still suspends its good users. They NEVER respond to e-mails anymore asking for trolls that spread hate speech on site to be suspended yet they censor common words like d**k and sex. This has to be one of the most hypocritical websites I have been on and it is a shame to see what was once a really fun lighthearted site has turned into.
Load More Replies... RavenZero (they/them) 2 years ago
Influencers making profit out of ruining some poor grocery worker's day
Mutlut krutnut 3 years ago
Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change! Climate change!
Maple Porkly 2 years ago (edited)
No one said the big ones huh? Ok, anti-abortion laws, police in schools (they just scare kids no matter what the intent), protesting people trying to get health care (no one needs a sea of a$$holes on their way into a vaccine clinic), continuously paying a small fine vs fixing an environmental problem that's getting worse, supporting a country (like Russia) who started a war for more power (looking at you Nestle), and refusing two people (18+) the right to marry.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
Making things illegal just because they irritate you. We've become such an intolerant, control-freak society with no sense of individual liberty at all. So many people on this thread would make wonderful Nazis or Stalinists. You don't like a gender-reveal party? Don't go to one; I never have. You want to ban them? Screw you and the high horse you rode in on, you hypocritical totalitarian nitwit.
abby smink 2 years ago
Alcohol. I know many won't agree, but I've dealt with too many alcoholics and had to live with one, so I find it way more damaging than weed, for example.
Pantea 3 years ago (edited)
I thought this would be something funny and wholesome, such as "being forced to wake up early in the morning" or "going to work 5 days a week" or "cilantro". Instead, a bunch of so-called woke people try to enforce cancel culture, US Americans wish for things perfectly normal anywhere else and a few spread disinformation. Disappointing.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago
Interesting to read. Although I feel like a lot of this is just people’s pet peeves and not things that should be strictly illegal.
soniacccccccccc 3 years ago
A lot of these are personal pet peeves. Glad someone mentioned it.
Vera Cyning 1 year ago
#20. Pay discrimination is already super illegal but employers will do any kind of shady nonsense to get around it. Know your rights and take those jerks to court. Loudly and publicly.
Hugh Donaldson 2 years ago
Fact Republic that in France child beauty pageants are banned. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24145119
pusheen buttercup 2 years ago
I believe, as a photographer, a certain level of Photoshop on models without a disclaimer should be illegal. It often straddles false advertising
Nadia Dodd 2 years ago
Treating 1st year apprentices like your lacky, tea maid!!! I personally think of this as bullying, they are there to learn a trade, job etc, not be your slave!!!!!
RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago
Some things that should be banned. 0) lists. 1) being repetitive. 2) lists. 3) people who tell you cantaloupe is really musk melon. 4) squishy grapes. 5) zero based indexing. 6) decorative cabbage. 7) the words moist and musk. 8) jokes about lists
Patricia Fonda 2 years ago
Families to poor to send Kids to school. When parents Split up and the mother being a foreigner, forcing the kid to move with them to their country.
Russell Rieckenberg 2 years ago
Political lawn signs. They're an eyesore that has no impact on the outcome of any election.
Alyssa Olivarez 2 years ago
Can I just say I hate when men or women sexualize women's clothes. I mean it's clothes,like one time I was wearing my thigh high boots with long shorts and my Dad said You look like your going to the club. I mean can I not dress in anything that I'm comfortable in?
Arieana Mays 3 years ago
Walking out of the store with out buying nothing they will just stare at me or when my mama is in line then she go somewhere real quick to get something and the employees just be looking at me I have anxiety so
Bryan With A Why 2 years ago
This article is a perfect example of what's wrong with society. Every single law being pushed here is malum prohibitum laws ("illegal because they're currently prohibited") and not malum en se laws ("illegal because it's wrong"). We already have all the malum en se laws we need - laws against murder, theft, rape, etc - so everything here is just subjective ideas that literally will and can never end. There's no quenching the beast and those in power will always use these laws (and the justifications you read in comments) to tyrannize their opponents.
Aaricia 3 years ago
IVF is mostly used for people who are sterile and cannot conceive on their own. But like the octo mom, then yes. It shouldn't be legal after too many kids.
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