In the past, we’ve had issues with women suffrage, slavery, and sanitation, among many other things.
Today we have gun control, AI, intended/unintended false information, vaccines, etc. as consistently hot topics.
In a few decades’ time, what views do you have now that may spark major social debate in the future? What conservative and/or progressive stances do you take today that might be too far on either extreme in the far future?
The right to privacy. Just because I don’t want someone watching me 24/7 doesn’t mean I’m up to no good
Have you started making trouble in your neighborhood?
Well I got into one little fight, and my mom got scared
I’m not a vegan or vegetarian, but I think anything related to animal rights and eating meat will probably be controversial in the future. We can lab grow meat, but you still choose to kill an actual animal for food? Canceled in 2050. Rightfully so I’d even say.
I think most of us meat eaters are in that boat honestly, I like eating it but I’d be much happier if I knew it was cruelty free or outright lab grown. The holdouts are just going to be weirdos and/or rich people.
I agree, and I wonder when stuff like this will begin to happen.
Also, I think that once the average person finds out just how smart aquatic life is, we will look back at stuff like sea world with more disgust than we already do.
I think it will be within a generation or two.
I know, grandpa eats real meat, that’s not nice and i don’t want you to do it, but he grew up in another time, so we have to make allowances.
I had a very awkward moment when I was talking about how intelligent octopus obviously are, and looked down and remembered I was in the middle of eating takoyaki 😓. I just want lab grown meat ASAP.
Hahaha happens to the best of us
It’s really hard to give up meat completely for me so I am trying to at least cut back by eating meat only every other day. Hopefully we can just move to lab grown meat that’s not detrimental to the environment so that I can enjoy meat without guilt again.
A person’s right to assisted suicide.
A few countries have this already, and I think 1 or 2 states may have it decriminalized. But I wish it were less of a taboo subject.
It’s ok and even seen as being responsible when we make these decisions for our pets, yet if you want to make the same decision for yourself, you must not be thinking straight.
I have not had and do not have thoughts of suicide, but I have been caregiver to several family members and been witness to the end of life stage.
We should be able to decide for ourselves at a certain point that it’s time to go.
We have it in Canada. Conservatives hate it and love to point to a small percentage of abuse of the option however it has really helped alleviate stresses for families and people suffering from terminal illness.
The ever encroaching “tough on crime” stance. Politicians push to make more and more things criminal and with worsening penalties. Many punishments seem disproportionately cruel or long for the crime. It’s political suicide to say that we should treat our felons better or to reduce sentencing right now.
Yeah, we can’t even agree to stop torturing inmates with solitary confinement or 110°F temperatures, and whenever I bring this up I always get pushback about how prison isn’t supposed to be fun.
Well, yeah; it’s also not supposed to be torture.
Humans aren’t the only species that have a right to the planet’s resources.
Circumcision is immoral, religion can be a serious social harm, the use of AI in art should be prohibited or at least frowned upon
Disability rights, equal access to nutrition (not just edible items but actually nutritious food), equal access to electricity especially for cooling.
I suspect the resource wars will ramp up with climate change, driving a lot of international conflict of all types.
universal basic income (ubi).
it’s clearly a need and like other clear needs in this country (eg health insurance) it’ll continue to get ignored until it sparks some sort of revolution or our country’s owners figure out to perpetually put it off like health insurance
Religion gas to go. The way we rarm animals is barbaric. People should be able to pull the plug if they don’t want to live anymore.
Once lab grown meat is common, farms will seem even more cruel to people of the future.
I know religion seems like an obvious scapegoat for a lot of problems, but gassing them seems a bit extreme 😜🤣
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I half agree, internet is important to have access to all views available. The problem now is that it’s profitable to keep people in their own bubble as most are to lazy to look at more then 1-2 sources for their info and loads limit themselves to corporation (facebook for one) or government regulated sources (freely in the US or by force in Russia and China).
A lot of people are dissuaded to think for themselves, which is killing for a source with this much info of which a lot is garbage. Internet went downhill when the commoners were given access and thus the corporation found a new place to fleece money from them. (and yes, this could be considered as a garbage opinion as well ;) )
This is an old one for many countries…but I fear a housing crisis in Germany.
Right now it’s not as prevalent as in the us for example but there are no steps taken to prevent it becoming a major social issue.
- Construction industry suffers from high prices and a lack of workforce
- The only housing that is being worked on are luxury properties
- Infrastructure development in rural areas where housing is still affordable is not progressing
- Regulations and hurdles for new buildings are more difficult and complex than anywhere else
- Real estate ownership is often only possible through inheritance/generational wealth, as income is extremely highly taxed
Looks familiar. We already have the same issue in The Netherlands (Hi neighbour).
1st time buyers can’t get a house as they are to expensive, current owners can’t move on as they 1st need to sell before they can buy something (and hope that the selling prize covers the mortgage costs), social letting (entry level) has an issue with availability of houses and most others for the letting market are in the unregulated market and those houses are being sold off as the letting out of houses in that market is being regulated so much that it’s not economical anymore.
On top of that, it’s to expensive to build new houses and the country is already needs 1m houses in the next few years. Due to this the right wing is hammering on stopping refugees entering the country when they are about 5% of the immigration issue. (expats are the other 95%)
My hope is politicians and, overall, rich people and corporations getting away with everything. It’s crazy what money ans influence can do to cover up/minimize the damages that people and corps should receive for doing the shit they do just for profit and personal interests.
Honestly, not that far into the future I think more and more people will be consuming various forms of media acknowledging in very scientific and real terms the end of the human race.
All the attempts at curbing global climate change will finally be acknowledged as being a pipe dream and even the ultra wealthy will come to see that they won’t survive in their bunkers and instead will die like the rest of us.
I also hold a very dark view that the end of human existence is not the end of human suffering, but that’s a tale for another day.
Climate change is real and really fucking shit up (am an Earth Scientist), but I’d be more worried about a global nuclear incident.
Climate change may do us in, but in all likelihood it will just increase the stresses on food and water supplies. Humans are extremely adaptive and will likely persist unless there is a cataclysmic event that kills nearly all food for decades or more. Scarcity of resources will dictate just how populous we will be 20, 10, 1, 0.1, 0.001 billion?
We’ve survived the Pleistocene when the earth was about 6°C cooler. We expanded greatly just after and have continued extremely well through the Holocene, making it our own (now Anthropocene). We’ve inextricably changed the environment for the worse, but it alone will probably not be the action that wipes us out.
This is very good to keep in mind. It doesn’t completely refute my very negative viewpoint, but puts some realistic caveats on it and points out that it is probably unlikely. Thanks.
I also hold a very dark view that the end of human existence is not the end of human suffering, but that’s a tale for another day.
And today’s that day! Go on…
I believe that the suffering you impart on other beings during your lifetime is directly experienced after death.
Oh, so karma, Buddhist style?
More or less, but not so direct. The dark part is that I don’t believe you have to have had a direct involvement with the suffering, it can be very indirect and you’ll still go through the suffering anyways.
Obesity is unhealthy
I love fishing recreationally but I could totally understand if it became totally taboo in the future.
