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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

“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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RandomBeing

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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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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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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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“What Is Acceptable Today That You Think Won’t Be Acceptable 100 Years From Now?”: 35 Predictions Shared By Our Community Pay differences based on gender, trans/homophobia

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Karl Geisel 3 years ago

I hope

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Bayla 2 years ago

So do I

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Taradactyal 3 years ago

And race, disability, etc etc

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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago

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J P 3 years ago

This is already illegal. If you know anyone breaking the law…say something…don’t just sit and cry.

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ask 2 years ago

I mean speeding is illegal too but everyone does it. Laws do not much.

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Jo Davies 2 years ago

Why we feel the need to put people in boxes and demand to know their s*xual preferences is beyonde. I honestly don't give a damn.

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Kayjunmoon 2 years ago

This is not acceptable today and is, in most countries, legislated against. That doesn’t stop employers getting around said legislation.

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Isaac7lego 3 years ago

I don't know about the homophobia, but isn't the wage gap kinda misleading since men are more likely to work more dangerous jobs which pay more since it is dangerous. I guess ill probably get downvoted for this but just saying

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lizzie lixx 3 years ago

The wage gap refers to women getting paid less for the doing the same work that men do.

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Eden Vowles 3 years ago

The pay gap is also due to people who aren't promoted due to their gender identity or sexual orientation . Even if you don't take this into account, however, studies show that members of the LGBT have an average of a 16% pay gap with their straight counterparts. When you then take into account that 26% of trans people of colour lost their jobs during the covid pandemic so far in comparison to 12% of people in general it shows a clear prejudice. And yes, if you want to read the evidence yourself, I'm happy to link the studies cited

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Taradactyal 3 years ago

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Farid Red 2 years ago

It more to different salary based on race. That's why company told that salary is confidential, so the staff would not know the diff salary they are being paid.

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FrillyDragon 2 years ago

Pay differences based on anything but experience/job*

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El Dee 2 years ago

I always remember how hopeful we were when the Sex Discrimination Act came in. We predicted that women's pay would come up to meet men's pay and thus would make sure that there was more choice over who brought up children. The opposite has happened, employers took advantage and governments looked away when men's pay came DOWN to meet women's and now BOTH parents MUST work to raise a family. Abuse of the legislation has resulted in MORE inequity..

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Bored Birgit 2 years ago

I fear that will last more than 100 years.

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Me myself and I 2 years ago

That's really not acceptable just now

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A. 2 years ago

From your mouth to the Deity's ears! I just hope I live long enough to see it.

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Victoria 2 years ago

If only. How about world peace?

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Seadog 2 years ago

Good luck with that.

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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago

THIS!

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Colin Timp 2 years ago

Right now I'd settle for a limit between a company's highest paid vs. lowest paid workers. Someone making 2,000 times someone else in the same company is disgusting. Especially when the lowest paid need public assistance.

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Thatkamloopsguy 2 years ago

Total Bullsh it

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Istax 2 years ago

Surely this is illegal? how awful if it isn't :(

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Shoe 2 years ago

Judging by the photo I thought this one was going to be "the use of paper money."

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Kostas 2 years ago

it's not acceptable now

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MagicalUnicorn 2 years ago

fingers crossed

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Analee Frolic 2 years ago

How will this be achieved? In America, over half a century of effort has thus far failed.

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Paul Richards 2 years ago

there is no gender pay gap.

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Linziaj 2 years ago

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JustJackie 2 years ago

Where are you getting this info?

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Nooberton 3 years ago

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Firefoxy3121 (Submission author) 3 years ago

What the hell dude. What is wrong with you, are you just trying to troll or something?

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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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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 3 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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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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“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 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.

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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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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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#35

Women not having pockets

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Banda

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Victoria 2 years ago

No kidding. Like we need pockets to escape any unpleasant situation.

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The little privacy we have left

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

People will keep selling their privacy for internet points, one moment of fame or a "free" worthless and useless item they could by for a dime in a shop.

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Hopefully: An education and medical system - or a society - that denies the importance of sexuality for most people's well-being.

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Jon S. 3 years ago

Good call. I often find this in modern society, that sexuality is dismissed as something superfluous, rather than being considered a core part of persons identity and necessary for ordinary mental health. I think there is often a tinge of puritanism to it as well.

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Di*k pix

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Brendan Roberts 3 years ago

They may, however, be replaced with di*k holograms.

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Anti-Vaxxers!

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Victoria 2 years ago

They will all eventually die out. Their choice.

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- Repressing art through outrage of a minority of Social Media users
(due to the current ruining of the western entertainment industry)

- Hydrogen to be considered a good fuel alternative for vehicles (only 40% energy efficiency compared to using electricity right away)

- Using plastic products created from mineral oil

- Blaming anything on race, gender or sexuality (No matter if it's "POC"/whities, Man/Female or Homo/CIS)

- Ignoring violence when it comes from the "correct" side or if it doesn't fit the own view

- Politicians being voted on popularity instead of skills

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Hydrogen. I get all worked up when I hear nitwits waffle about electric busses and trucks when we should just go hydro. We have the pipes and a transport route all ready to go. Maaan. Oh and when building a new house: mandatory solarpanels.

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Ageism

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#42

With our pandemic experience, I expect our current Rube Goldberg-esque just-in-time supply chains will evolve to include more resiliency. We can't keep having this kind of chaos every time a pandemic rolls around. I HOPE also that we stop cancelling people for something stupid they said decades ago and recognize growth and change is possible. I hope in vain that business and economic models that rely on the exploitation of a group of people will be a thing of the past.

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Ann Dennis 3 years ago

Hear, hear! to all.

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Religion, or at least using religion as an excuse for war and division

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Alydia H 2 years ago

I believe I should have a right to my religion, altho I do agree with the seconds part :)

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Short (or entire absence of) paternity leave.

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3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago (edited)

YES. I don’t want kids but if I had a baby - why would you make me raise it without my husband? Cause you might miss out on a few dollars of capital? Go f yourself, don’t forget that this is planet earth - human society rules mean nothing to this planet/universe. We’re just a bunch of naked monkeys on a floating rock in space, and that’s all we’ll be when we die - I would want my husband here to experience our newborn child. F**k your budgets and reports.

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Owning guns without a license. I really, really hope so.

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FrillyDragon 2 years ago

I mean most people who are law abiding citizens do. It's the criminals that don't give a s**t, which is why gun laws only do so much. You aren't going to prevent gangs from getting them, and that's one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, gun death causes in multiple US cities. Not saying no laws, but we need to address the other issues that can influence that sort of thing too. Homelessness, drugs, no family, abuse... so many things can cause people to have the potential to go down a darker path.

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Terms and conditions that take days to read.

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

And that basically give all the rights to the company and make it impossible to object

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Nationalism

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#48

Gas powered anything.

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Francie Patton 3 years ago

You, first.

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Treating pets as property.

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Betty Smith 2 years ago

It’s hard for a pet to self-advocate though. Hoping not to seem like I consider my pets objects and I understand my responsibility to them and their health, but I think I need more clarification. Is this a no one has the right to keep an animal in their home thing?

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Influences.

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Jo Davies (Submission author) 3 years ago

As supposed to say influenceRs! Hopefully in 100 years, my spelling will improve.

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#51

Car commercials that tell you nothing about the car.

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Don't Look 3 years ago

Just limit it to car commercials. Let's be done with those.

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Indian women allowed to live after their husbands die . 100 years ago , if a woman's husband died in India , According to the sati pratha , She was burnt with her husband's body , or she was called devil and mean words and was only allowed to wear white clothes . Widow women ate simple food , No sugary , salty , or spicy foods. They wore white clothes and were totally bald. They weren't allowed to go out of their houses. Nowdays , things are much better in India , But in olden times , Very less people actually helped women

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AnnaBanana 3 years ago

A hell of a lot more than that needs to change about how women are treated in India!

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#53

Shipping food from overseas
In Sweden, we get green beans from Afrika in the stores. So crazy

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IamMe 2 years ago

Yes. Unless it's something that can't be grown in that country it makes no sense, and it's a huge waste of money and fuel.

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Capitalism

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similarly 2 years ago (edited)

Capitalism as it's practiced in the USA is unsustainable. There need to be balances. The income inequality that results from unchecked capitalism can be seen not only today, but in the early days of industrialism, when the rich lived in literal castles (Andrew Carnegie had a 100 room castle shipped to America from Europe) while their workers lived in windowless tenements with no benefits. There has to be a middle ground that encourages individual initiative without sacrificing the safety and well-being of the workers. In America, you currently have a situation where banks are buying up property to drive up property prices so high that middle-class Americans can no longer afford their rent.

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Gasoline powered engines.

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Seedy Vine 2 years ago

Especially in leaf blowers. Must we screech detrius off our sidewalks like cavepeople?

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#56

Circumcision. The barbaric procedure will, one day, be made illegal.

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Ernie Walker 2 years ago

You mean female circumcision?.

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#57

Anonymous social media and coupons. I just have this feeling.

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A. 2 years ago

Never take my coupons away! At least they give me the illusion that I'm paying less for grossly overpriced food!

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#58

That America ever chose an obnoxious, unbridled malignant narcissist to be our 45th President, and that one of two reigning political parties at that time enabled him and sought to destroy any members of that party who had the courage and integrity to stand up against him.

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GoddessOdd 3 years ago

When John McCain died, I believe he took just about the last scrap of integrity that party had left, and sadly, I don't see many rising to try and fill his shoes. A lot seem to prefer to support cheeto to further their careers.

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#59

Being able to breath without paying money. We already have to pay to eat and drink.

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Kevin Ber 2 years ago

This sounds like a breathe vs breath conversation.

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#60

Standing elbow to elbow in the mens' room

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Brendan Roberts 3 years ago

With the ever-expanding human population, men will be sharing urinals in 100 years time.

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#61

Having more than one child. A hundred years from now the world will be so over-populated and habitable areas and resources so reduced, having more than one child will be viewed as an abhorrent felony, twins and such excepted.

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Jon S. 3 years ago

Actually reproduction rates are below replacement rate in most of the world now, only a handful of Asian countries and most of Africa are still growing. The thing that is increasing our overall population is people getting older. The population of the planet was naturally set to increase when the average age leapt from 50 to 80, but that sets a very hard limit on the number of people. Once the baby boomers start dying off, there will be a drop. In fact many western governments are so worried by the low rate of reproduction - there literally won't be enough native workers in the future - they are considering ways to encourage couples to have more children.

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#62

Possibly drag queens, when straight men dress as woman and mock the worst stereotypically negative qualities of woman being vain and bitchy . I think people may view it with the same negativity that blacking up and blackfishing are viewed with today.

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Tyler Bt 3 years ago

As I transgender person I have an issue with drag. I know it's supposed to be fun, and a lot of the queens are quite talented, but I just find it to be mean and misrepresents what it means to be trans. I'm not saying that drag queens are trans, but the popularity of shows like that almost make things tougher for someone trying to transition, as if there is some expectation of how I'm supposed to behave or look. That's not me, but that's what people expect when they find out I'm transgender. It hurts and has honestly really slowed down my transition and shredded my confidence. Even if it doesn't go away I just hope people will start to learn the difference between drag and transgendered people.

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#63

Entering someone else's house with shoes you have worn in the street. It still happens in many countries, but it is unhygienic.

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Heliocracy 3 years ago

Why is it unhygienic? You eating off your floors?

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#64

Writing and cashing checks.

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

I think this is a typical American problem. European countries don't use them anymore, even cash is on the way to extinction.

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#65

Calling First Nation People's "Indians".

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Felix Feline 3 years ago

My wife is half American Indian and she and her relatives all prefer that general term to any other. More specifically, she uses her nation's name.

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#66

In 100 years, all Karens will be banned but if the still tend to exist, the children and teens will turn them to ducks

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Fabulous Pigeon

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similarly 2 years ago

I wish people would stop using the term "Karen". I know some very nice people named Karen, and I hate that their name has been coopted to mean "bad person".

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#67

Eating animals

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Ange Marsden 2 years ago

I hope so, keeping them in crowded feedlots, jamming them full of antibiotics, feeding them food they wouldn't naturally eat. forcing them to lactate for years on end...there's plenty of nutrition to be had elsewhere without torturing the people and animals involved in animal slaughter

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#68

Bras. They should be viewed in the same light as corsets: very unhealthy and uncomfortable.

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IamMe 2 years ago

Some of us need bras to not get back aches.

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Ashley Lynne 3 years ago

Racism I hope it doesn't take that long

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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"

17points

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.

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Aleš Kaučič 3 years ago

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

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John Baker 3 years ago

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

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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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Mer☕️🧭☕️ 2 years ago

People being hungry, homeless, without medical care (including mental health), going without medications because they can't afford them.

3points

K- THULU 2 years ago

The way we're going, I doubt our species will last another hundred years.....

3points

J. Maxx 2 years ago

Circumcision. This should be a grown man's choice. And hopefully organized religion will go away.

3points

Laika-Mutton 2 years ago

I have an ongoing dream that the leaders will say, "We're going to war" and the military will collectively reply, "No." And completely refuse. Don't have any hope that it will happen, just wish it would.

3points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Abusing animals and the planet. Hopefully 100 years from now both will have the same rights as human beings.

2points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Hunting and fishing, especially for sport

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tara 2 years ago (edited)

I hope so too! When I See deer I yell "Trust nothing on two legs!!! Good luck!!" Run bambi run!!!!

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Luis Gomez 2 years ago

Hooters and strip clubs. Hopefully lust would be less socially acceptable, or at least when wouldn't be shamed for it. Either way.

2points

ask 2 years ago

Eating meat. It's barbaric.

2points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Breast and butt implants. Hopefully 100 years from now women will be smarter than that.

1point

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Cruises. They are just garbage dumpsters in our precious oceans.

1point

ejfs 2 years ago

I would add gesture politics to this list (if someone hasn't yet). Doing something because it makes you look good rather than because it's the right thing to do strikes me as narcissistic.

1point

Mieke 2 years ago

I'd love to add to this post: illegal, self proclaimed, informal settlement where people have to try live with no income, most being illiterate as well, śó no prospects for the future.....

1point

Randy Sanders 2 years ago

On more than a few, I say, "be careful what you wish for"......

1point

Sean Sean 2 years ago

Keep in mind everyone, that all these changes we want start right here and now with us. So, put your money where your mouth is and get it done.

1point

Daniel Yamada 2 years ago

Treating cancer patients with chemotherapy and radiation. Future generations will think we were absolutely insane for doing that.

1point

Freya the Wanderer (Post author) 2 years ago

Reminds me of the hospital sequence in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"

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Appalachian Panda 2 years ago

In the US, employees not being guaranteed paid vacations, sick days, and parental leave.

1point

Den Ver 2 years ago (edited)

50 years from now petroleum products will be too scarce and expensive to burn up in personal vehicles. This will change people's world view. Some political/religious ideas will fall out of favour/favor because they were based on never having to adapt.

1point

Gi Devi 2 years ago

the Republican Party in the USA

1point

Stephanie Keith 3 years ago

I think with the way the world is going right now. Anything and everything will be acceptable. It's already happening now we make excuses and justifications for almost everything nowadays. Even if it's wrong people are just constantly making an excuse and justifying stuff that we know deep down is not okay. So I think in the future there won't be anything that's not deemed acceptable somehow. Humanity is already proving what I'm saying. Kind of like a free for all, screw you you can't tell me what to do future. Granted some people will know where to draw the line. But from what I've seen 1st hand, anything goes and there's not much anyone can do about it if we are not all on the same page. The amount of people I've seen justify things that are absolutely horrible is to damn high. It's only getting worse from what I see, very misguided and if you speak up about it all. People will get upset and say chill, it's not that serious, or it's a joke, or any other excuse to get away with whatever it is going on. Kind of sad when you think about it.

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DC 3 years ago

Well ... this is the optimistic part. The pessimist in me says, the minority with bad intentions and/or greed trumping ethical consideration of the results of their doing will get it their ways, as long as the truly caring minority remains a minority. I don't wanna sound like I'm perfect or so ... I'm not. But, it takes effort and belief of a majority, endurance and commitment and tolerance against the frustrating experience that it often not even not pays off, but leaves no other impact than you paying more (be it in time, be it in money, be it in social outcastery) and nobody caring.

1point

keepgoing 3 years ago

Incessant selfies. Checking Instagram, Facebook etc. Just generally being glued to a phone.

1point

Vera Cyning 1 year ago

Unfortunately everything related to in-group/out-group, politics, religion, conspiracies, money and having power over others will never die. It's human nature to judge, hoard, and exclude. Competition is crucial for survival and evolution. It sucks royally but it's not just humans and it's not going to change in any species ever.

0points

PADNA 1 year ago

At this point I hope that humanity survives the next 100 years...

0points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Having more than 2 children

0points

Will Cable 2 years ago (edited)

Hypocrites, especially celebrity ones. Why are they still admired when time after time they get caught out in their lies.

0points

Nadine 2 years ago

Circumsizing boys. Sorry for the spelling.

0points

Danyelka 2 years ago

I am afraid you are all too optimistic. Only way to fulfill part of this forecasts is to destroy all humanity. The other part expects replace people with robots. Only lack of personal freedom, free air and water of said above is very easily possible

0points

lapis lazuli 2 years ago

This is weird but I think tubing like on a lake will be illegal cause two of my cousins have broken their joses

0points

Peign Gaming 2 years ago

The recycling of content is getting worse and worse. Now BP is recycling whole posts. BP was fun while it lasted.

0points

Valerie Young 2 years ago

Sorry, I'm all for change, but most of these have been around for thousands of years. All of humanity. 100 years is a blink of the eye.

0points

Lara Verne 2 years ago

Sounds very optimistic. I want to believe it too, but when I see how it is now, I don't have much faith in humanity.

0points

Elliot Fowler 2 years ago

I know this will probably be disagreeable with a lot of people but being allowed to live an un-healthy life (both physically and mentally). The societal strain cause be people's inability (and freedom) to live unhealthy lives is really starting to show. I hope it becomes socially unacceptable to tolerate such things and have all of society as a whole push to make things better.

0points

similarly 2 years ago

I hope that in the future we will stop treating domestic violence and sexual violence against men as a joke. We have to realize that male rape isn't a joke. Cutting off male genitalia shouldn't be "funny". I see a lot of media that is sensitive to every subject ... except male victims of domestic and sexual violence, and the problem isn't just that men are the victims. It's that ANY time we treat this kind of violence as a joke, it's bad for EVERYBODY.

0points

Jarrod Nichols 3 years ago

The victim mentality!!!

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Aleš Kaučič 3 years ago

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Boodah Jones 3 years ago

Say you're a racist and/or homophobic piece of s**t without saying you're a racist and/or homophobic piece of s**t

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As a black person... it does tho?

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Ashley Lynne 3 years ago

Racism I hope it doesn't take that long

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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"

17points

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.

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Aleš Kaučič 3 years ago

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

1point

John Baker 3 years ago

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

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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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Mer☕️🧭☕️ 2 years ago

People being hungry, homeless, without medical care (including mental health), going without medications because they can't afford them.

3points

K- THULU 2 years ago

The way we're going, I doubt our species will last another hundred years.....

3points

J. Maxx 2 years ago

Circumcision. This should be a grown man's choice. And hopefully organized religion will go away.

3points

Laika-Mutton 2 years ago

3points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Abusing animals and the planet. Hopefully 100 years from now both will have the same rights as human beings.

2points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Hunting and fishing, especially for sport

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tara 2 years ago (edited)

I hope so too! When I See deer I yell "Trust nothing on two legs!!! Good luck!!" Run bambi run!!!!

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Luis Gomez 2 years ago

Hooters and strip clubs. Hopefully lust would be less socially acceptable, or at least when wouldn't be shamed for it. Either way.

2points

ask 2 years ago

Eating meat. It's barbaric.

2points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Breast and butt implants. Hopefully 100 years from now women will be smarter than that.

1point

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Cruises. They are just garbage dumpsters in our precious oceans.

1point

ejfs 2 years ago

I would add gesture politics to this list (if someone hasn't yet). Doing something because it makes you look good rather than because it's the right thing to do strikes me as narcissistic.

1point

Mieke 2 years ago

I'd love to add to this post: illegal, self proclaimed, informal settlement where people have to try live with no income, most being illiterate as well, śó no prospects for the future.....

1point

Randy Sanders 2 years ago

On more than a few, I say, "be careful what you wish for"......

1point

Sean Sean 2 years ago

Keep in mind everyone, that all these changes we want start right here and now with us. So, put your money where your mouth is and get it done.

1point

Daniel Yamada 2 years ago

Treating cancer patients with chemotherapy and radiation. Future generations will think we were absolutely insane for doing that.

1point

Freya the Wanderer (Post author) 2 years ago

Reminds me of the hospital sequence in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"

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Appalachian Panda 2 years ago

In the US, employees not being guaranteed paid vacations, sick days, and parental leave.

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Den Ver 2 years ago (edited)

1point

Gi Devi 2 years ago

the Republican Party in the USA

1point

Stephanie Keith 3 years ago

1point

DC 3 years ago

1point

keepgoing 3 years ago

Incessant selfies. Checking Instagram, Facebook etc. Just generally being glued to a phone.

1point

Vera Cyning 1 year ago

0points

PADNA 1 year ago

At this point I hope that humanity survives the next 100 years...

0points

Leslie-Ann Drummond 2 years ago

Having more than 2 children

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Will Cable 2 years ago (edited)

Hypocrites, especially celebrity ones. Why are they still admired when time after time they get caught out in their lies.

0points

Nadine 2 years ago

Circumsizing boys. Sorry for the spelling.

0points

Danyelka 2 years ago

0points

lapis lazuli 2 years ago

This is weird but I think tubing like on a lake will be illegal cause two of my cousins have broken their joses

0points

Peign Gaming 2 years ago

The recycling of content is getting worse and worse. Now BP is recycling whole posts. BP was fun while it lasted.

0points

Valerie Young 2 years ago

Sorry, I'm all for change, but most of these have been around for thousands of years. All of humanity. 100 years is a blink of the eye.

0points

Lara Verne 2 years ago

Sounds very optimistic. I want to believe it too, but when I see how it is now, I don't have much faith in humanity.

0points

Elliot Fowler 2 years ago

0points

similarly 2 years ago

0points

Jarrod Nichols 3 years ago

The victim mentality!!!

0points

Aleš Kaučič 3 years ago

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Solidhog 3 years ago

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Boodah Jones 3 years ago

Say you're a racist and/or homophobic piece of s**t without saying you're a racist and/or homophobic piece of s**t

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Jarrod Nichols 3 years ago

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Persephone hates Pomegranate 2 years ago

As a black person... it does tho?

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