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 remember reading an article where someone said, in the future people will look back on how we treat animals in much the same way we look back on slavery. By which I think they meant farming for meat etc as well as animal cruelty. I don't agree but it's an interesting idea and has stuck in my mind.

Faith schools!!

Totally overt sexism in adverts, pop videos, films and the fact that a lot of women (celebrities) still feel they need to dress provocatively to be noticed. I do not feel comfortable that my DC are exposed to this on a daily basis. I truly hope that it is something we will be shocked about in a few decades.

I think Virtual Reality will become a big thing. Maybe actually going out to meet up with friends will be a really strange idea :)

I reckon/hope that it will become deeply socially unacceptable to be a petrol-head or drive needlessly when you could walk/take public transport/car share and that driving oneself in one's own car will seem ludicrous. Ditto anything other than an electric car (which will provably drive itself) that we almost unquestioningly put up wilth petroleum/diesel pollution for so long, causing so many deaths.

And I reckon the wheel has already started turning away from home ownership being the thing we all work towards. Reckon it will seem a pipedream for the very rich only. But also maybe unnecessary.

The global population will continue to rise.

Climate will become increasingly extreme.

Sea level rise will dominate issues along coastal areas and in island states.

The above will have a huge impact on farming, food availability and what we eat. It won't be ethics that reduce our meat intake but cost.

Migration will increase.

Water supplies will become very contentious.

Doom. We're all doomed.

Sorry. Obviously feeling it this morning! Everyone else is much more positive and sees cultural shifts. Ongoing cultural shifts to a more liberal and equal society.

Our anti refugee stance, and our lack of any real action to help the many times upwards of 1 million people leaving who've had to leave their homes.

Just reread thread title

Outdated opinions will relate to individual rights. That we each have a right to consume and breed as much we want, can afford or can get the credit to subsidise.

That we are all entitled to free health care . Can't see that lasting much longer and it's not a good thought.

I seriously hope the progress made in equality continues. Looking back 50 years, how people view others has changed massively. Gives me optimism for the future.

Keeping pets - people will wonder why we thought it was ok to steal baby animals from their mothers and effectively imprison them.

Paper thank you letters will be seen as an appalling waste of time.

Sadly I think if the world population continues to grow at this rate then multiple children will be seen as the shocking it will be normal to have one child barely acceptable to have two and seen as utterly selfish to have more. Siblings may well become a thing of the past. That and e cigarettes I think our grandchildren will laugh at the idiocy.

Cars that require an actual person to sit at the controls and steer will be seen as incredibly risky and old fashioned. Imagine cars racing around at 70mph entirely controlled by fallible human beings! People actually died in those vehicles you know!

Agree, wonder how that's going to fit with overseas aid? Whether provisios will be brought in-help only to one parent families etc. But complex as with that obv need education, sex education, contraception widely available and culturally acceptable etc etc. And China has recently turned away from its one-parent family rule as was unworkable/unenforceable in rural areas.

Loads of good ones on here. I think

Our diet
Our access and treatment to healthcare.
Contraception and abortion will be encouraged and even made compulsory as the world population explodes out of control.
Our reliance on oil will change.
Teaching a second language will be compulsory in all schools right from the start.

Vehicles that drive themselves. You will just program the destination in and away you go.

Opinions?
That letting people struggle towards a natural death is right and euthanasia is wrong.
That Keeping animals in a way that goes against their natural tendencies e.g. keeping a single dog as a pet and leaving it alone for long periods is ok.
That leaving childbearing until your late thirties / early forties is a good thing.

I'm not so sure about your last one carabos. While I agree with it now, I think in 40 years time, life expectancy will have greatly increased and fertility treatments will be unrecognisably better to how they are now, so having children in your 30s and 40s might seem relatively young. The disapproval some feel for it now will actually be passe, not the act itself.

I actually think the population will decrease with better access to more reliable contraception.

...in countries where it is currently unavailable.

Building houses on flood plains.
Crap TV shows.
Silly scraps of cloth worn on beaches to emphasise bits of the body that didn't need to be hidden anyway.

I was just away to post Carabos last one. I totally agree that leaving childbearing until your late thirties/forties will become outdated. I dont think increased life expectancy or improved fertility treatment changes the fact that at 40, your still 20 year older than being 20 and your fertility isn't at its prime stage so to speak. I think people will look back and laugh that we though we were superior to nature/evolution, who made us most fertile in our late teens and early twenties for a reason. Living longer isn't making us younger for longer, only (much) older for longer.

people will look back in disgust about how we allowed disabled people to be treated so badly by the government

Allowing companies to export their profits without tax

That we couldn't believe that the food we ate had xyz crap in it which in the future will probably be banned. Similarly food packaging will probably be dramatically reduced as it is environmentally unfriendly, and things like sticky labels you see on fruit and veg removed because we've discovered that the glues used in the labels are toxic.

I also hopefully envision that animals are treated with more respect within food production. Either we go down the route of genetically modified meat because the worlds population is so great that we can not keep up with supply and demand. Or we all incorporate less meat into our diet, I'm afraid I don't think that will happen in my lifetime though.

I don't think we can really envision what it will be like in 40/50 years time because the rate of change nowadays is so fast that it will be so different. Things that we take for granted as being acceptable now will probably just not be in the future. That's quite hard to get your head around but it's nothing really new, with each generation there will always be new ideas and ways of doing things. We will ourselves one day be elderly and moaning about "in my day we didn't do/think that" whilst the younger generation roll their eyes.

I agree with Carabos too.