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

[bumbleymummy]

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? :)

that we ever let donald trump get this far in a presidential election

on a side note , i saw this morning on bbc breakfast how insurance companies would start using fitbit data and other data to give us high or low life insurance, so i think we will start being abit more clever with our personal data , or i hope so

Clash unfortunately I agree that we will see less tolerance driven largely by the media pitting different parts of society against each other. In particular causing resentment among those that work, pay tax at to those that can't work. It's happening already.

I hope I'm wrong.

I think we will have reached peak-social relativism in 10 years.
And less resources, jobs, no more Chinese growth supporting the economy will bred inverted nationalism. I expect scientific progress for sure, not inclusive society. Actually the contrary. People and nations are in truth selfish and self-serving, and that's normal, this is animal behaviour. We live in a positive society because we can afford to, but give it a real shock and we will go back to culling socially the less able, the weak, or leave them on the side.

So actually, I think that in 40/50 years, we will not live in the nice utopia some posters think we will have. I sadly do not think that the wish lists seen above will be accurate.

We will be high-tech barbarians.

bumbleymummy i actually do agree, i think we could find the genetics that make us go grey and reverse it, and in the same way we'll have figured out how to grow another set of adult teeth after we have lost our adult teeth

I don't agree that abortion will be viewed as a second holocaust or whatever PP said. I actually think it will be much more widely spoken about and accepted and that we will have abortion on demand without the shaming of women's mental health that surrounds it.

We will be having a little more serious concern about the environment and the use of plastic will have diminished. Smoking will be most unusual.
Television will be unfashionable as will sugar.

This from ZedWoman totally....

It's not really an opinion, but our readiness as parents to sacrifice our children's privacy and anonymity by putting loads of stuff about and photos of them on social media without their consent may not be considered 'acceptable' in years to come.

More enlightened views from the govt and legal establishment around the right to die.

Kids encouraged to think more seriously about what they want to do with their lives, rather than being shepherded into higher education at 18.

Apprenticeships and vocational courses being seen as a viable, workable alternative to higher education.

Renting to be a viable alternative to property ownership: long term leases, protection from sudden eviction and rent increases, rent controls and rent caps, landlords subject to much stricter regulations.

Food banks to be a distant, hard-to-believe memory.

LivinLaVidaLoki

The delusion that putting babies in nursery for 10 hours a day is a good thing

How about, changing that to maybe in the future we will have more flexible working practices to allow us to spend more time with our children, as some people do not have the choice but to put their babies into nursery for long stretches.

I think that's what I meant really. I'm just not great with words! But I also hate that the government seems to be trying to convince us that this is a good thing. I've heard things about them bring to force single parents back into full time work earlier and earlier and I think that's really crap. (I use childcare BTW - 30 hours a week of it unfortunately. Much more than I would like.)

I think a lot of overweight/obese adults will blame their parents for constantly taking snacks everywhere for them during their childhood, so they never learned that hunger is a normal feeling.

In much the same way that this generation often blames the last generation for their weight issues, because they were made to clear their plates at meal times.

Food banks to be a distant, hard-to-believe memory.

i hope

You know how it is difficult for the average person to understand how dictators manage to get into power and do so many terrible things while the vast majority of the population just try and get on with their lives instead of overthrowing them?

People will have the same difficulty understanding how people could vote in this government.

I do think it's bad to suggest that we are currently under some sort of delusion that putting children in nurseries for 10 hours is a good thing - and I don't think that because nurseries are terrible per se, but because it (and many other similar "purchase of care" arrangements) really don't support us in building communities in ways that are pretty devastating to mental health (and I don't necessarily mean the baby's mental health).

Great - so our kids can attach to people at nursery. Wonderful - human beings do this... but many of our kids are not going to have long-term relationships either with the carers at nursery or any of the kids - and arrangements are constantly having to be remade and there is huge stress attached.

I hope the solution would be more flexible working and shared parental care, but who knows how it will pan out?

I think people will look back and laugh at us for being too squeamish to eat insects.
It's going to happen, I swear. Prawns are just sea-roaches anyway, aren't they?

*don't

The right to die with dignity and respect for your choice HAS to happen in the next twenty years.

I'm pro-right to die...however I suspect it will come in around the time where society is struggling to cope with the needs of ageing population and having a managed death will be seen as The Right Thing To Do regardless of the desires of the individual.

I mean, I don't think people will be forced to choose to die, but that societal pressure may influence the decision.

meat from much more ethical sources

www.thegoodfoodinstitute.org/memphis-meats-cultured-meat-company-profiled

While generating one calorie from beef requires 23 calories in feed, Memphis Meats plans to produce a calorie of meat from just three calories in inputs. The company’s products will be free of antibiotics, fecal matter, pathogens, and other contaminants found in conventional meat

having a managed death will be seen as The Right Thing To Do regardless of the desires of the individual

mainstream acceptance of the after life and classes in exactly how to recognise and follow 'the white light' etc etc

I hope people will be appalled that access to justice, when we all live under the same laws, was ever dependant on being able to pay, and that the rich and powerful could evade justice by making it too expensive to prosecute them.

That telling someone what to do with their face - 'Smile, love.' - was in any way OK.

'That telling someone what to do with their face - 'Smile, love.' - was in any way OK.'

Really?

As long as there are humans there will be annoying humans.

I would say meat-eating and I am and glad I won't see it. I don't think we will stop consuming milk or eggs or honey. And if we eat more vegetable food we will need to kill more pests (the wrong animals in the wrong place) to grow enough crops to feed ourselves, so there's no need for all you vegetarians and vegans out there to feel smug.

And of course we will have stopped keeping dogs as "companions"