What’s a socially acceptable behavior today that you think will be seen as horrifyingly unethical in 50 years?

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What’s a socially acceptable behavior today that you think will be seen as horrifyingly unethical in 50 years?

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  1. wolfwings1 Avatar

    easy one, trump.

  2. Fresh-Set-4137 Avatar

    The way we continue to overconsume resources, pollute, and contribute to climate change might be viewed with horror by future generations. What seems like a normal part of modern life today, such as driving cars daily, using single-use plastics, or relying on fossil fuels, could be seen as reckless and irresponsible in the future as people look back on the environmental devastation we caused

  3. wontUSEthisMUCHanywy Avatar

    Letting your children drink coffee

    Coffee wasn’t allowed for kids during many years, as it was seen as too strong and kinda harmful

    Imagine what people of that generation would think if they saw just how many energy drinks some kids drink nowadays, it’s even promoted to them by YouTubers and influencers and most parents just accept it

  4. b2q Avatar

    Replacing real human interactions with hostage negotiations through customer service chatbots.

    In 50 years, people will look back and wonder how we normalized typing “agent” like a desperate war prisoner trying to reach the Geneva Convention, while some algorithm named EmpathyBot9000 told us our suffering was very important and to please hold.

    They’ll build monuments to the fallen who perished waiting for a return authorization on defective air fryers. History books will call it The Great Hold Music Betrayal, and honestly, they’ll be right.

  5. cuatrofluoride Avatar

    Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, discriminating against LGBTQ people. (I know it’s not everywhere today. Personally I find it absolutely unacceptable to discriminate against them but there still are places that do it)

  6. hubert_-_cumberdale Avatar

    Eating meat from real animals

  7. IamHeWhoSaysIam Avatar

    Letting pre-pubescent children have unfettered access to screens and the internet.

  8. FosterIssuesJones Avatar

    Eating meat. Maybe more like 80 years, but I can see it happening.

  9. jcashruleseverything Avatar

    Single use plastics

  10. Wildroots-Andrea Avatar

    I think about it like this–hundreds of years ago, it was considered normal to burn people alive, for women to be shamed for showing their ankles, and for people in power to commit horrific acts without consequence. Today, there are things we see as ‘normal’ that I believe will (and should) be seen as horrifyingly unethical in the future.

    For example, the expectation that women should shave their bodies, even though there’s no real hygiene benefit. Or how we’ve normalized overconsumption to the point where people throw out perfectly good clothes just because they’re ‘out of style.’

  11. Uhhyt231 Avatar

    The amount of surveillance people do as civilians. Just posting other people to be investigated or found over small grievances

  12. Bearwhale Avatar

    Transphobia. I think it will be like homophobia, in that everyone (in a first-world society) eventually realizes it has no place in society and is more comfortable calling it out.

  13. Turbulent_General842 Avatar

    People in government with health insurance benefits that’s not available to everyone.

  14. DragonfruitGrand5683 Avatar

    The plastic society

  15. cuntyewest Avatar

    Hopefully it’s rampant, unbridled property investment. Housing is a human right, not something to be hoarded and sold to the highest bidder at the expense of others.

  16. NotherOuthouseFly Avatar

    Male circumcision.

  17. No_Process_173 Avatar

    hookup culture, the overpromotion of sex work, the forcefullness of being lbtq, the overpromotion of satan, the american people jus sitting back and allowing trump to easily become a dictator, the overuse of AI, people declaring that abortion isnt murder, the deliberate lack of intelligence in general lol

    19 and it baffles me every single day how people CHOOSE to be ignorant. It’s not like sum happened and all these people are born stupid, but they’re literally ganging up and CHOOSING to be a crowd of ignorance😭

  18. UniverseBear Avatar

    If things keep going through way they are:

    -being gay
    -being a minority
    -talking bad about our billionaire oligarchy

  19. Tasty-Adhesiveness66 Avatar

    letting kids (5-12) play outside without having a cellphone or an helicopter parent hovering over them

  20. peachysdollies Avatar

    I really HOPE misogyny is more unethical/taken more seriously in 50 years.

  21. PianoPrize5297 Avatar

    Supporting MAGA.

  22. emmalugo2002 Avatar

    Racism and discrimination used to be more common, but not so much anymore. In 50 years, racists are killed

  23. comeagaincharlemagne Avatar

    Hopefully indentured servitude in prisons. State sanctioned slavery is still slavery.

  24. Nihilistic_River4 Avatar

    The 9 to 5 grind… plus the 3 hour commute

  25. MartinFissle Avatar

    Choosing to not vote in elections.

  26. InertialMind Avatar

    Making a living on internet posting content about their kids. That is so messed up!!

  27. paprottka Avatar

    Smoking close to other people…

  28. wonderingpirate Avatar

    Getting in a car with a complete stranger

  29. OutwithaYang Avatar

    Probably letting young children just play with your iPad. It will just as frowned upon as letting them watch TV all day and will be blamed for a lot of chemical changes in the brain and psychological problems when they get older. Just you wait.

    The older generations are gonna need a new scapegoat soon.

  30. BalanceJazzlike5116 Avatar

    Single use plastic
    Factory farming

  31. knl280 Avatar

    OnlyFan models

  32. Thanoslovesyou42 Avatar

    Th e murder of innocent children AKA ABortion

  33. revsamaze Avatar

    The current US healthcare system

  34. scenicroutekate Avatar

    Buying furniture that is made of mainly particle board, sometimes for thousands of dollars.

  35. politerage Avatar

    Mansplaining (finally…please??!)

  36. Elegant_Broccoli_801 Avatar
  37. Wolf_Mommy Avatar

    Overwork and culture hustle. I hope they feel sorry for us.

  38. maybiiiii Avatar

    Adoption as a solution for infertility.

    Society is becoming way more aware of low income families and the need for the government to take responsibility in assisting mothers with having the means to keep their children. Being low income is now viewed as a economic impact of a poor economy and not a personal problem.

    That said I believe it will start to become even more difficult to convince poor individuals that they should rehome their children on the basis of them being poor. There’s going to be a lot more call to action when it comes to assisting poor families in order to keep families together.

    I think this will impact the infertile community because it will hinder the idea that poor people don’t deserve to keep their children and that their children should be adopted out by people in a better financial situation.

    Infertile couples will need to come to terms with the fact that they want a child and cannot have one.

    Infertile couples will need to come to terms with the fact that they have the means to “buy” a child and that they aren’t “saving” child because poverty is not considered a reason someone doesn’t deserve children.

    Poverty will be more socially accepted and normalized. Growing up in poverty will become more normalized. The poverty lines will change and people you would not consider “poor” today, will be considered “poor” 50 years from now.

    Basically, infertile couples will be slapped with the reality that they are getting a child through adoption because they want a child.

    Not because they want to “save” a child. They won’t be able to just adopt a low income newborn and parade the child as if he/she has a clean slate.

    Foster care will be the ultimate place for people to get a child. The people that obtain children through foster care will need to be trauma informed for these adoptions to be successful.

    They will need to actually want children, want to help children that are actually in need of families for reasons beyond poverty (not just poor), and care about the welfare of children…not just adopting because they want a baby.

  39. Wolf_Mommy Avatar

    Car dependency. It contributes to pollution, climate change, social isolation, urban sprawl, and health issues due to lack of physical activity.

  40. Wolf_Mommy Avatar

    Politeness that avoids conflict. It can suppress important conversations, avoid accountability, and allow discrimination or abuse to go unchecked.

  41. Wolf_Mommy Avatar

    Performative patriotism. It can discourage critical thinking, promote exclusion or xenophobia, and mask systemic injustice.

  42. jannw Avatar

    eating meat

  43. Wolf_Mommy Avatar

    Authoritarian Parenting disguised as discipline. It can erode trust, promote fear instead of understanding, and undermine a child’s ability to develop emotional intelligence and autonomy. I feel convinced there’s a correlation between this and the adult relationship to authoritarian governments.

  44. TheeNeilski Avatar

    Speakerphones in public

  45. Vegetable_Vanilla_70 Avatar

    Supporting Trump and republicans

  46. La12071207 Avatar

    The outfits people wore back then vs now. The clothing today in schools would not fly back then. My mom tells me when my sister wore shorts that were above knees & principal called her about it- this was in 80’s.

  47. ponyo_x1 Avatar

    letting kids play tackle football

  48. Rrrrrrrrusty Avatar

    Clinical Psychology as it currently stands.

  49. P1kkie420 Avatar

    Smoking in public

  50. HAT2801 Avatar
  51. HacksawJimDGN Avatar

    War.

    In the future opposing sides will upload info of their real GDP , resources, tactics, plans, etc into a shared computer simulation environment. Rather than bombing cities or sacrificing soliders the simulation will run thousands of times until it eventually spits out an outcome. The parties will then engage in peace talks based on this simulation and eventually form partnerships of understanding. The money and resources that was saved by not going to war would be used for infrastructure and enriching the lives of citizens.

    Only joking, there will still be war and it’ll be awful. We will probably all be mowed down by an army of drones in the near future.

  52. P1kkie420 Avatar

    Driving your car through town

  53. IndividualGrocery984 Avatar

    Family vlogging/ content of children on social media for money and validation via the likes and/or shares and/or saves of strangers. It’s one of the most exploitative and potentially harmful things you can do to your kids, IMO.

  54. RegularImage4664 Avatar

    Exploiting children for views. Especially special needs.

  55. RubberDuck404 Avatar

    We might not still be here to judge those behaviors in 50 years but I’m guessing :

    Pornography consumption

    Single use plastics

    Use of dyes, polish, glitter

    Fast fashion

    Use of harsh chemical for cleaning houses

    Travelling by plane

    Eating meat and animal products

  56. ICUP01 Avatar

    I wonder if our consumption will come back around.

    It’s weird though, our ethical systems really depend on how we are marketed to.

    It’s kinda grandiose to say future generations will say we were unethical due to our consumption. That will have to be born of catastrophe, then marketing.

  57. MaryJanesSister Avatar

    Circumcision, hopefully

  58. nahill Avatar

    Before you all downvote me, at least give me the benefit of the doubt and perhaps abstain on the basis that we should at least be able to talk about this.

    Porn.

    For all its “benefits”, fundamentally it hurts people. Hardly anyone will admit to it, because that would be a difficult pill to swallow. However you feel about it you can’t ignore the mounting evidence that it distorts intimacy, commodifies human connection, and often exploits the vulnerable.

  59. DigDizzler Avatar

    Circumcision

  60. denkmusic Avatar

    Eating meat. Or as it will be seen then: “murdering animals”

  61. AnonymousStranger27 Avatar

    Accepting a luxury palace plane from Qatar as Air Force One. 
    The White House hosting a $1.5M plate dinner. 
    The White House leader board for first family meme coins.

  62. 3Huskiesinasuit Avatar

    There isnt really any way to be sure on this, but we can hope for a lot of things to be seen as unethical in 50 years.

    Personally, i hope that in 50 years, we can stop seeing 40+ year old women, going after boys as young as 10, as being something ‘good’.

    age diff is fine, whatever, but if one party is under the age of 17, then its just disgusting.

    Double standards in general, should be seen as abhorrent.

    I always tell people that if you think something is ok, based on something like the younger person being male, ask yourself if you would be ok if the sexes of the involved parties were swapped.

    People wont flinch at a 35yr old woman teacher sleeping with 12-14 year old boys, but if you make that teacher male, and the students female, but keep the ages the same…