To wonder what happens in society now that will be frowned upon by our descendants

[Dylaninthemovies1]

There is lots of things our ancestors did in the past that we quite rightly think are morally reprehensible.

I’m wondering how history will judge us! What things will our descendants judge us for?

I’m thinking:
Destroying the environment
People in 3rd world country making our clothes for peanuts

Fucking up the environment - flying abroad for business or a stag do or a weekend, using things once and chucking them, not reusing bottles, packing everything in umpteen layers of plastic, driving larger and polluting cars than we actually need, ruining our soils due to our reliance on crop monocultures. And not doing enough to humanely limit the expansion of the human population (because that underlies the fucking of the planet).

This thread sounds like the future is going to be some sort of utopia.
I'm not convinced tbh. agree. TBH I think that it’s far more likely that many things will progress further.

The class divide will only increase, surrogacy will become the norm for those who just don’t want to go through pregnancy, the sex trade will become legal, and women will be expected to embrace it rather than be entitled to unemployment benefit.

In fact the benefits system will cease to exist.

And terminating a pregnancy where disability is detected will be compulsory.

That we still havn't accepted the importance of hygiene and cleanliness etc. There've been epidemics, plagues etc throughout history caused by unsanitary conditions, lack of personal hygiene, crowded people in small spaces, etc. And in the supposedly enlighted 21st century, we still seem to have learned nothing.

We've had people still not washing their hands despite knowing the pandemic was on it's way. People going to Cheltenham and Anfield with symptoms when they should have been self isolating. Hospitals where covid has run rampage through the wards due to lack of infection control/hygiene.

Will we ever learn???

People voting Labour. Mind blowing.

Definitely the animal agriculture industry will have changed. The scales will fall from people's eyes regarding the current animal abuse disguised as animal farming.

Zoos will be consigned to history books.

Hopefully the world will be more 'right on'. People won't need to talk about 'black lives matter,' 'feminism,' or 'veganism' because they won't be relevant.

This is not to say that I believe racism, sexism, or carnism won't exist, but that they will be considered extreme and much systemic inequality will have been eradicated.

@WhatWouldDominicDo

Allowing transgender women to use women only spaces

😀 allowing males to wear womanface

They will think of elephants and tigers in the same way that we think of the dodo.

I guess Christianity and Islam will have to be outlawed if people are serious about slavery.

Treatment of mental health.

With apologies to any psychiatrists out there, I hope future generations will look back on our treatment of mental health as we look back on places like Bedlam in the 18th Century. I have several members of my family with serious mental health issues and none of them have really found any of the help available helpful at all. I don´t think we have much of a clue at the moment.

-the treatment of the disabled by the current government

-the treatment of women and children by social services, the police and family courts

-a government body enabling (largely) men to economically abuse their children and that child’s mother and push them into poverty by not using methods of enforcement within their power to ensure that child maintenance is paid.

@Moonmelodies. Curious why you say that?

So many species will have become extinct that they will wonder why the fuck we didn't try and save more of them in captive breeding programmes.

**This thread sounds like the future is going to be some sort of utopia.
I'm not convinced tbh.

Nope. I don’t think it will be. I don’t know if it will be better or worse. But I think
It will be different. I’d love to print the replies off and then look back at them in 40 years time with my family and see what we were right about and what was way off

They will be reaping the penalties of the obesity, and looking back at the fat acceptance movement like we look at footbinding.

That having more than two children is acceptable environmentally and anything other than self indulgence (unless it was a natural multiple birth).

In the future I think that they will look back and be disgusted at:

How we treat women. Women who are so precious. Who create life. Who add so much to society. That we treated women in so many places with utter disrespect and showed them in media as sexual objects whose only value is to serve men. That there is Violent abusive and degrading porn everywhere. That there is so many rapes.

There is so much more they could be doing to help women in each country. I hope we start protesting really seriously. There needs to be a rape task force in every country. Whose aim is to educate about , prevent, and treat rape seriously . Porn needs to be heavily regulated.

I think in the future they will also be disgusted at the mortgage system. That we are told to be a slave our whole lives, to live in one box in this planet.

That we live in houses all our lives like we do now. Is it normal to live in one small box our whole lives, when we have the whole planet?

I think women owning property and going in to male dominated jobs would be frowned upon.

Operations. As lasers and technology becomes more adept there will be less of a need to cut people open

Oops, read thread title wrong

Alcohol and pornography

Denying biological sex.

That we keep voting in governments that make everyone's lives absolutely terrible.

That we have forgotten our own power, and that we keep voting in people to rule over us.

We could easily have a world - where there are no governments at all, and every country takes care of itself, and makes sure that everyone in that country has food and shelter.

That world could very easily exist

Possibly:

Industrial farming - I think that rejecting this will also work against the idea of more people becoming vegan/vegetarian
Regular long-haul travel
Kids and teens using video games and internet social media based on gambling type principles

On a lot of the moral stuff I am of two minds, I think it could go both ways. For example I can see things like assisted death, or surrogacy, becoming so accepted they become normative and industrial, or alternately becoming seen as really not acceptable at all.

Not detoxing, educating and rehabilitating prisoners and then being surprised when they reoffend.

I agree with PPs that the way we treat women and the way people are denying biological sex, will definitely be frowned upon.
The way certain sectors are pushing for paedophilia to be normalised.
The way social media (looking at you Twitter) normalised abusing and threatening women, and allowed posters to try to normalise paedophilia.
The 'cash for supporting surgical and medical transition in children' charity scandal.

The pandemic will be forgotten just like most people have forgotten about the 1918 and 1968 ones. It's significant to us but won't be in history.