To wonder what opinions we have now that will be really unpopular in 40/50 years

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Not a TAAT but triggered by a thread about some elderly people having opinions that we find quite shocking and offensive now.

What opinions do you think we have that will have our grandchildren and great grandchildren gasping and pearl clutching? :)

I hope that medicine will have moved on, so that people will look back with horror that we treated cancer by poisoning, burning and hacking- much the way we look today at mercury treatment for syphilis, or lobotomies for poor mental health.

proton therapy maybe? which is slowly coming in

I agree that disability will increase, but I think the main cause will be greater success at keeping tiny babies and very ill children alive into adulthood. Very premature babies and children with serious health problems, if they survive, can be left with disabilities.

We already treat disabilities that many people simply used to be left to cope with alone. That will also increase.

In my gran's generation, many people with chronic ill health or disability simply died young. These people are increasingly living to a good age, which means more healthcare.

I think that alcohol use will be increasingly unacceptable, and that refined sugars like sucrose and insulin-disrupting sweeteners will be reclassified as a drug rather than a foodstuff. People will be horrified that we ever gave sweets to young children.

Chocolate will be as rare as truffles, as the cocoa bean plant will be under threat due to habitat destruction.

Immunotherapy for cancer treatment.

Wannabe, maybe we'll be able to repair genetic mutations in utero.

Dowager, if humans were true omnivores, these images wouldn't make you stop and think.

Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.
Worth a quick read: meatyourfuture.com/2015/09/herbivores-carnivores/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

And do look up this good doctor's videos on diet and health: nutritionfacts.org/. I'll sum up though: meat and dairy are NOT good for human health. Plant-based wholefood diet is.

I eat meat and vegetables, therefore like many other people, I am an omnivore.

That article is interesting reading, but is it suggesting that prehistoric men and women aren't hunter(-gatherers), who ate meat? Intriguing, if so.

Humams don't need to catch food with their mouths or bare hands - unlike most animals, we're able to build and use tools.

Humans have been eating meat - and therefore behaving as omnivores - for millennia (and we're still here, living longer than ever - not because of that necessarily, but nonetheless). While there is no doubt that there is very strong case for far more ethical sources of animal food products (and yes, we are now very far removed from the source of a lot of our food), too many humans enjoy the taste of meat for it to be dying out of our diets any time soon. Certainly not in 40-50 years' time.

Alcohol isn't good for us, or in any way beneficial for optimum health, either - but a lot of people still drink it, because they enjoy it.

Some of these posts are clearly what people want to happen rather than what will be likely to happen. Some things people have predicted will be gone will.only be 10 x bigger or worse e.g. crap diets and Facebook lives.

I thought of another one - sugary/artificially sweetened drinks eg coke/fanta etc. I think they're on the way out and future generations will wonder why we ever gave them to children.