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? :)

People will view the consumption of animal flesh and their bodily secretions (dairy, eggs, honey) as ludicrous - much like we now view smoking. The information is already out there that animal products do more harm than good. Why this is being so wilfully ignored for so long will have our future generations shocked.

add,

smoking

recreational drugs

I reckon laptops will be a hipster novelty item like penny farthings.

The people who are applauded for dissecting living babies in the womb.

ODFOD

Prolonging life no matter what.

Low fat foods.

Petrol.

'their bodily secretions (dairy, eggs, honey) '

And I'm done with the cottage cheese!

I suspect the privacy issue won't be as we envisage it now. I think that the notions of "self" and "privacy" are going to radically change if the world survives killing itself between now and then and frankly people aren't going to be that interested in anyone's facebook baby photos unless they are really outrageous in some way.

For a start, we'll be lucky if we have electricity as we have now - and if we do, I think the sheer number of facebook sharings will make them boring and/or servers etc will be replaced/updated and these things will be lost, just as photographs were many years ago.

I hope we will be both more tolerant of sexual fluidity AND a little aghast how willing we were to believe that young children of six were "trans" every time they mentioned liking a certain kind of toy.

What will we actually regret? This: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/90/e8/ff/90e8ffff8d58ea884bd87f7cb760670d.jpg

'I get the feeling abortion will be seen like a second holocaust by then'

It won't.

Reality shows as a form of entertainment

'Playing outdoors' will be dismissed as a faddish, hippyish lentil-weaving fad.

Larger houses shared with multiple generations will become the norm with care homes being the preserve of the very wealthy as will youngsters getting on the property ladder. And I hope to be around for the AIBU threads where the 80 year old mother, her sixty year old son and daughter in law, their grown kids and the first great grandkids are arguing over who left the toilet seat up.

Unemployment will be higher; people will need to work longer and I suspect the thirty/forty year retirements of yesteryear will be viewed as ridulously decadent.

Having more than one or two kids will be seen as socially irresponsible.

I don't think people will be any more or less appalled at eating meat than they are now, although I think they will become more concerned about where the meat is sourced from.

billsykes I caught my dn furiously tapping the screen of my laptop the other day wondering why it wasn't working.

I feel the same way, Claudia

Treatment of the mentally ill including things like 'oh I'm so ocd' tinklynlaugh being unacceptable.

completely agree and hope that the full understanding of mental illness in society could come sooner.

I especially find ocd comments so hard when people have no idea how devastating this mental condition is.

I also agree that preserving life at any cost will become a thing of the past.

I also think medical research will swing from curing disease to improving quality of life with the disease.

Our overuse of antibiotics

People fancying Benedict Cumberbatch.

Our ability to waste water. I think an increasing population, increased building and lack of investment in water infrastructure means that water will become increasingly expensive. Our love of daily showers and frequently washed clothes may, in time, be seen as ridiculously wasteful.

We won't be able to rely on China to supply us with an endless supply of underpriced crap. 'Stuff' will become increasingly expensive. We will, in general, be viewed as a very wasteful society.

We may even have to re-learn the art of darning socks! My mum still has one of those wooden mushroom things.

Eating animals

Piles and piles of cheap plastic stuff and other junk that ends up being thrown out onto huge garbage dumps.

Stuff that can't be recycled.

Agree on the overly used antibiotics and other drugs that are overprescribed that turn out to do more harm than good.

Definitely eating animals.
www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-stevens/predicting-a-vegan-america_b_4905691.html

People honestly think eating meat will be really unpopular in 40 years time?

I seriously doubt it. I'm sure people were saying the same thing in the 1970's.

I agree Mitzy.

Alcohol - reckon it will be viewed as badly as cigarettes are now. (I love a drink personally though - just think attitudes will change.)

I hope that people will look at the current fad of claiming children as young as three are 'transgender' and think

But I think it's more likely that people will look back on the relative outspokenness of people today and be shocked that anyone was ever allowed to say anything offensive to anyone. It will be perfectly acceptable to arrest and imprison someone for their opinions.