What is something that’s normal today that will be barbaric in 50 years? – 17 things time will not be kind to
9.
‘Hopefully child beauty pageants but especially child marriage.’
-OhTheHueManatee
10.
‘The way those with suicidal ideation are treated.
‘I am a suicide researcher and the current laws and systems we have set up to treat suicide are archaic. Many of our laws that dictate how we treat these individuals are from the 70s and treatments for suicidality really only started catching on in the last 10-20 years.
‘However, the most common action for clinicians to take still is to hospitalize these folks even though this can be extremely detrimental. We will view current systems in the way we look back at insane asylums.’
-vigilanterepoman
11.
‘Forcing people whose disabilities prevent them from working to live in poverty–the average amount of a monthly Social Security Disability Insurance benefit check is $1400.’
-writeyourwayout
12.
‘Dentistry in it’s current form. I hope, anyway. I keep hearing things about being able to regrow teeth or enamel and I hope they’re true.
‘I want fixing teeth in the future to be so quick and painless that we look back at how things are now the same way we look back at surgery pre-anesthetic. Like “I know it was the best option at the time but holy shit that’s horrifying. You had to just yank them out? And live like that? And they used a needle in your mouth to make your face numb?”’
-HalcyonSix
13.
‘40 hr work week’
-According_Smoke1385
14.
‘People dying at the whim of an insurance company because of greed.’
-GenericBatmanVillain
15.
‘Sweatshop labour. It’s basically modern slavery.’
-captaintrips_1980
16.
‘The pet industry. Especially the inbreeding.’
-Sheilahasaname
17.
‘Nothing. If you think the world is evolving towards decency you haven’t been paying attention. There are things we consider barbaric that in 50 years will be considered normal.’
-Bubudel
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