“What's Normal To Us Now, That In 50 Years People Will Look Back On As Barbaric?” (30 Answers)

Forcing terminally ill people in constant pain and discomfort to stay alive without the option to be helped to end their lives peacefully and with dignity.

Women getting procedures on reproductive organs without pain medication.

My votes are:
Countries that lack universal healthcare.
Environmental neglect.

Keeping aquatic mammals in captivity for entertainment.

Holding entertainers as more important than educators.

For-profit prisons and for-profit health insurance hopefully.

The cruelty with which we treat animals.

I think the way we treat the environment will be something future generations look back on and see as barbaric. We’ve been very careless with pollution, waste, and climate change, and in 50 years, they might wonder how we didn’t do more to protect the planet when we knew the damage we were causing.

Hopefully child beauty pageants but especially child marriage.

Letting people die from lack of medical care because they're poor.

Might be too soon, but the goddamn school shootings. There’s got to be a way out of this.

Hopefully, underpaying workers. No one who works full time should only be able to afford a studio apartment and top ramen.

Letting women die from septic and ectopic pregnancies.

Factory farming, fur farms, animal experimentation, animal cruelty--all the horrific things we're doing to nonhuman animals that would get you in jail for life if it were done to a human.

Removing iud without anesthetic

Most uterine medical ‘care’.

Mammography machines. Maybe they'll finally invent an anatomically appropriate machine instead of the torture device?

Horse and dog racing.

The pet industry. Especially the inbreeding.

I wish I had the optimism necessary to believe we'll still have a functioning society in 50 years.

Forcing people whose disabilities prevent them from working to live in poverty--the average amount of a monthly Social Security Disability Insurance benefit check is $1400.