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Societies are built on the balance between right and wrong. Cliché as it may be, we all need something more than our personal moral compass to guide us along. After all, we all have different perceptions, but the law—outright and clear—allows us to navigate society.
Every child is taught what's fundamentally good and what isn't. But what happens when people start looking for loopholes? Well, people on Reddit raised an interesting question about what should be considered illegal from their point of view, even if the thing or action is not explicitly forbidden by the law.
People jumped at the chance to criticize anything from laws to societal structures; children's beauty pageants didn't escape without scathing comments thrown their way and the governmental ruling sparked more than one discussion. Someone even raised a very valid question about Naboo's blockade (if you know, you know).
The Reddit thread, started by user Musuhubber, caught the attention of more than 68K redditors, with 36K comments. And the issues that are being discussed are quite valid or, at the very least, the thread is a good place to vent after your day was disturbed by an unasked-for solicitor.
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#1
In the US, people going bankrupt and losing their homes over medical bills.
#2
Dog ear cropping and cat declawing edit I'm in the USA and a registered veterinary nurse. It's brutal
#4
Congress members being able to trade stocks at the same time they are receiving intelligence and passing laws that could effect the performance of said stocks.
#7
The size of the "x" button on pop-up ads
Daria B 3 years ago (edited)
Or fake ones.... Haven't seen this practice for a good while, though. Maybe they banned it.
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Curry on... 3 years ago
And the videos that keep on playing and turning on your volume after you tried to shut it all down.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
And placed way up in a corner where your finger can’t cover it to activate it—-if it responds at all, that is.
Alethia Nyx 3 years ago
Errrmm, pop ups still exsist? Who doesn't have an adblocker these days.
Owen Salmon2028 3 years ago
lets start shootin companyes that do pop up ads and ads on socail media plat forms in genral
mentally unstable frog 3 years ago
There is no way those can be legal it’s crazy how smol they are also the fake ones are ridiculous like how are you even legal
Strahd Ivarius 3 years ago
Wait, you have popup ads? you shouldn't be allowed to use a computer...
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 3 years ago
Oh, look, a CERTIFIED Christian. Is that like Paul Rudd, certified young person?
#8
Marital rape and "honor killings" in countries like the one I live in (generally the middle east). Most of that stuff is in the process of being banned now (thank God)
#9
Sweatshop labor outsourced by tech and Fortune 500 companies. It’s essentially contemporary slavery we collectively allow.
#10
Not the worst thing, but it used to be illegal for commercials on TV to be louder than the actual show but not any longer suddenly.
#12
Conversion therapy. "Hey, let's make children hate themselves so much that they'll either lie about who they are for the smallest crumbs of validation or just commit sucde! Either way that's one less gay to worry about!" Now excuse me as I go throw up.
#15
A parent keeping their kid from the other parent when there’s no good reason to and leveraging the courts to do it.
#18
Being forced to fork up your personal data and access to EVERYTHING in your phone to use a stupid app that makes a picture of your dog sing. It should not be allowed at all
#19
Putting unrelated crap into bills to sneak it into law. I know they're supposed to follow some kind rules related to germaneness, but they clearly don't, and clearly need actual laws with actual punishments for pulling this crap.
#21
College book prices and practices.
Change a few words in a math book, that'll be another $100 please.
Oh you realized that you can use the book from 10 years ago and succeed? Actually we require you get the new book.
Oh you realized you can get the book cheaper from a friend? Actually we're doing online books now and you need the personalized code. We change it every year even though there have been no breakthroughs in this subject!
Knowing the college struggle i have no f****** clue how this is allowed to exist. It should literally be illegal.
#22
Big businesses lobbying politicians in order to get bills passed in their favor.
#23
No-knock warrants. We've seen time and time again where Law Enforcement has the wrong address and some innocent person ends up dead because of a logistical mistake.
#24
I'm just gonna have to say little girl's beauty pageants. It just doesnt sit right with me. And not only because of the fact it's creepy, but I feel like it's stressful on the kid and on their body image.
#25
Being penalized for calling out sick from work. Edit. Even while the whole world is trying to survive this pandemic, we’re still dealing with this major issue by employers. I work in health care, and I feel like I get shamed by my managers and coworkers when you call out. Especially when you work night shift.
#28
Our media driving a wedge between the populace to fuel division in order to satisfy ratings, purely for the purpose of entertainment and profit. Not facts.
#31
The troubled teen industry. Parents pay a company to kidnap kids while they're sleeping and send them off to "therapeutic" boarding schools where they are abused in every conceivable way. It's f******
#33
Marriage. Specifically a 14 y/o getting married to a 40 y/o with the parents constent. Thats just wrong
#37
Scam calls and solicitation calls. I swear they USED to be illegal at one point.
#38
Spice/K2/Synthetic Weed. This may have changed in the last few years but I found it embarrassing that our country locks up thousands for actual marijuana but allowed that s*** to be sold at every gas station and liquor store knowing damn good and well that it was hurting and killing people.
#39
The fact car radio commercials are allowed to have police sirens or car crashes in them as a way to Get your attention
#40
Groom your stepdaughter for over a decade, then when she's 18, divorce her mom and hook up with your stepdaughter.
What do you think ?
Adele Milligan 3 years ago
i think one that should have been in there is that schools charging kids for feild trips think of the kids who cant pay
M O'Connell 3 years ago
I went to a private elementary school (catholic), and I definitely remember them 'overlooking' those students who couldn't pay the fee. It's really the right thing to do.
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Giselle Soler Turner 3 years ago
I hate how a black woman got killed for sleeping but a white old man who buys kidnapped little girls will get 2 year’s jail time
Mumof1 3 years ago
What about Donald Trump? he should never have been president. What about female gential mutilation? What about anti-abortion? What about people like Sir Philip Green who allowed BHS to go bankrupt, stole all the pension fund yet still retains his knighthood? What about bank charges? I could go on....but maybe not.
Rah Soft 3 years ago
What about female genital mutilation? which is illegal, unlike MGM...
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n i k o 3 years ago
Gerrymandering 100% should not be legal. It's just glorified election fraud, IMHO.
Maureen Matthew 2 years ago
City councils creating bylaws for vanity purposes but with no intent on actually enforcing them. Our councils created a bylaw requiring residents shovel snow off their sidewalk, but will rely on neighbours reporting violations. Just what is needed, neighbour against neighbour! Council has been touting the bylaw as their concern for residents using sidewalks. Good idea, but since they are doing nothing proactively to enforce it it is just vanity. We have bylaw officers, easy fir them to cruise down streets and find violators
Robert Catte (It, It's) 3 years ago
How much money do you need to pay to subscribe to Bored Panda?
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Julie C Rose 3 years ago
Can we continue with all the really not that socialist at all awesomeness on BP please
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Depending on which side of the ocean you live, though. The more I learn about how things are and aren't working in the US, the more I love my worriless life in Europe.
Load More Replies... Adele Milligan 3 years ago
i think one that should have been in there is that schools charging kids for feild trips think of the kids who cant pay
M O'Connell 3 years ago
I went to a private elementary school (catholic), and I definitely remember them 'overlooking' those students who couldn't pay the fee. It's really the right thing to do.
Load More Replies... Giselle Soler Turner 3 years ago
I hate how a black woman got killed for sleeping but a white old man who buys kidnapped little girls will get 2 year’s jail time
Mumof1 3 years ago
What about Donald Trump? he should never have been president. What about female gential mutilation? What about anti-abortion? What about people like Sir Philip Green who allowed BHS to go bankrupt, stole all the pension fund yet still retains his knighthood? What about bank charges? I could go on....but maybe not.
Rah Soft 3 years ago
What about female genital mutilation? which is illegal, unlike MGM...
Load More Replies... n i k o 3 years ago
Gerrymandering 100% should not be legal. It's just glorified election fraud, IMHO.
Maureen Matthew 2 years ago
City councils creating bylaws for vanity purposes but with no intent on actually enforcing them. Our councils created a bylaw requiring residents shovel snow off their sidewalk, but will rely on neighbours reporting violations. Just what is needed, neighbour against neighbour! Council has been touting the bylaw as their concern for residents using sidewalks. Good idea, but since they are doing nothing proactively to enforce it it is just vanity. We have bylaw officers, easy fir them to cruise down streets and find violators
Robert Catte (It, It's) 3 years ago
How much money do you need to pay to subscribe to Bored Panda?
Load More Replies... Julie C Rose 3 years ago
Can we continue with all the really not that socialist at all awesomeness on BP please
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Depending on which side of the ocean you live, though. The more I learn about how things are and aren't working in the US, the more I love my worriless life in Europe.
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