Hey Pandas, Whats One Thing About Society You Would Change?

It's difficult deciding on just one thing the change. However, if I had to choose, I would choose to change how society has become judgmental and mean towards others. I lump the entitled mean judgmental behavior that I have witnessed, watched videos of and read about these past couple of years in the change. Often, I have found myself asking: "what is wrong with people today?" I miss the days of people being respectful of others. Our society has never been perfect, but things have gotten out of hand lately.

A disinterest in history. Having even the tiniest think about previous societies can tell you so much about your own lived experience. What worked before will work again, what didn't won't.

Sexisim

We should have free health care. Free college. And all empty buildings should be made up for the homeless. Honestly the rich should have to give half of their worth over a certain amount to the state they live in for these things. Free food for kids under 16. Free childcare. These should be given to help society. I know people will argue as there are better things to change but if we could equal out the status quo a bit then a leveler ground could be achieved for all to live in harmony. Vote for me for prez. I want to change this country.

The Internet. What was originally thought to bring the world closer has driven more wedges between societies and cultures since humans invented religion.

in a school society i would change bullying. kids dont need to be bullying one another. Parents/adults should try and lead by example. This may happen at homes, out in public. Adults are the childs first teachers in life. As a teacher I feel for the kids that are being bullied. Racism due to the fact that some have different skin color. This doesnt change the fact that we are ALL still humans. We need to teach the children love for one another. I have had students transfer schools due to bullies interfering with their education. Often times the ones being bullied are the bright, intelligent students.

I would like to see people take responsibility for themselves instead of just doing whatever they 'feel like', then refusing to accept the consequences.

The treatment of animals.

….society…

I would put everyone’s empathy level up by 45%. If that happened, I guarantee you it would solve all world problems.

judgments, people are so busy judging other people stay in your own lane, mine your own busines

From my American perspective, there is far less concern for what is right and just and good (not that it was ever great). Instead the point is to win and to do so at all costs. But I also feels like it goes further. It's not good enough to win, you've got to crush your opponent. Whether in politics or business or matters of faith or education or any number of other things, people are unwilling to accept an outcome other than victory for themselves and their "team."

Shame cruelty

Don't know lots of stuff mentioned already, maybe establishing that smart people are put in charge of a society and not the ones that are popular because they can talk the best?

I would end the tribalism of group identity and us versus them. When you're living in a cave and a bear or another group of 10 people 5 miles away were your greatest threat, it made sense. Now, my best friend can be a gay programmer living in Thailand I met through work and the love of my life can be a black farmer from Norway. I'd like us to stop identifying as gay or straight, American or Chinese, nurse or farmer and just be individuals of one group - the human race. Our biggest threat isn't 10 people a couple valleys over. Its the planet dying because we're worried more about the 20 people we know than the species surviving. We need to start treating everyone as part of that 20 and end all -isms like racism or nationalism because we are all the same - scared souls looking for a fair break.

Before cell phones, if you called someone and they didn't answer, you could say, "he didn't answer, he must not be home," and that was a normal thing to say.

Nowadays, I wish you could say, "he didn't answer, he must be away from his phone," and it would be just as normal. Instead, people seem to think it's strange if you don't answer your phone for whatever reason (let alone turn it off), or don't respond to a text immediately.

I would change it so that the very rich pay genuine taxes to give the poorer people decent education, healthcare and services.

This has likely been said already, but I will say it again - acceptance towards the LGBTQ+ community! It’s hard enough being constantly misgenders - like, we need to normalize pronoun pins, or even just asking/using gender neutral language, as well as PDA between gay couples being as acceptable as such between straight couples.

Ima get downvoted probably but whatever. I’d change the racism and all that stuff. Like the gendered language? What is that? Can’t we al just accept we’re human and Al be in the same category? Doesn’t matter if ur a man or a woman. Like Morgan freeman said “ I’ll top calling you a white man, and you so calling me, a black man.” He’s intelligent cause it’s true. He said the way to stop racism is to stop talking about it. We got Disney channel over there turning Pride Family into a literal trash heap because they are inserting stuff about slaves building America. A black woman reviewed the clip and basically said it was repulsive. The clip is horrible. But does anyone get my point? I went a bit off topic..

How vehemently and aggressively people will be when arguing for their opinions.

Also, shaming people for doing harmless stuff. Neopronouns, furries, role-playing, whatever (yes I recognize some of these are very different). It doesn’t harm anyone and it makes you happy. Just let them do it. Respect them. It’s really not that hard.