Things that will no longer be taboo in the US in 20 years

[Theodarzna]

I pray they never make a move towards legal pedophilla because I will kill a man or woman who lay hands on any child I know.

I look at the "Desmond is Amazing" stuff, the whole move to transgender kids, the frightening number of Twitter users who go unband who openly declare their sick fetish, and that at least at the fringes they have their supporters, and my skin crawls.

[Kraenen]

Seems like weed will be very much more accepted in 20 years.

[Kokolums]

When has tattoos ever been tabooin the US?...tats been mainstream in the US since WW2.

the latest data:

20% of the US population has a tattoo.
40% of millennials have a tattoo.
30% of college grads have a tattoo.
60% of blue collar workers have a tattoo.
36% of americans aged 18-25 have a tattoo. (and this number seems remarkably stable over the past 20 years).

Tatoos have slightly fallen out of favor in recent years, but seem mainstream today.

Interestingly, the odds of you graduating from college if you have a tattoo drop considerably. But academic success revolves around resisting impulsive behavior, and tattoos can be a very impulsive behavior, so it kinda makes sense.

[sopeonaroap]

Better not, that's one of the taboos we need to hold up. The effects of child sexual abuse are very real and long-lasting.

within 10 years, the same folks who advocate for every other niche sexuality will do the same for pedophilia since "they're born that way" and honestly, everything you can say for gay people can be said for pedophiles. "it's not a choice", "i have the right to be me", etc

the line will be drawn between fucking child-like dolls/looking at animated child porn and actually doing anything to or with a minor. age of consent will be lower and it won't be frowned upon

it will be fucked up still like most of the other shit that is a mental illness and gets passed of as something else, but you'll get bashed for not accepting pedophilia the same way you get bashed for not believing in more than 2 genders now

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the latest data:

20% of the US population has a tattoo.
40% of millennials have a tattoo.
30% of college grads have a tattoo.
60% of blue collar workers have a tattoo.
36% of americans aged 18-25 have a tattoo. (and this number seems remarkably stable over the past 20 years).

Tatoos have slightly fallen out of favor in recent years, but seem mainstream today.

Interestingly, the odds of you graduating from college if you have a tattoo drop considerably. But academic success revolves around resisting impulsive behavior, and tattoos can be a very impulsive behavior, so it kinda makes sense.

academic success is mostly about how much money your family has, how smart you were born and that's pretty much it. you can be a fuckup who is smart and breeze through college, you can be a dumbass who tries hard but is borderline retarded and has trouble

but if you're poor and dumb the chance of being educated one day is low because colleges are businesses first and foremost, they wanna take your money and if you don't have any and can't ace the SAT/ACT then you just don't have value to them

[Kokolums]

academic success is mostly about how much money your family has, how smart you were born and that's pretty much it. you can be a fuckup who is smart and breeze through college, you can be a dumbass who tries hard but is borderline retarded and has trouble

but if you're poor and dumb the chance of being educated one day is low because colleges are businesses first and foremost, they wanna take your money and if you don't have any and can't ace the SAT/ACT then you just don't have value to them

A KEY part of intelligent is emotional intelligence. If you have control over your emotions, you are emotionally intelligent. If your emotions control you, then you are not emotionally intelligent. Tattoos are often a very emotional thing for people. People with college degrees and especially those with academic awards are much less likely to get tattoos.

[Saucexorzski]

ignore him he just does it to bait people.

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then humanity has failed.

you know one of the earliest records of a fork being used is from a priest that claimed it was an evil tool that took man away from his natrual roots. The tools humans make change the view on what is or isn't evil. If we have the ablity to make a 30,40,50 year old physically identical to a pick your underagedage year old...the question of whether or not they can have sex and with whom will need to be asked and answered. /shug

[Dellis0991]

A KEY part of intelligent is emotional intelligence. If you have control over your emotions, you are emotionally intelligent. If your emotions control you, then you are not emotionally intelligent. Tattoos are often a very emotional thing for people. People with college degrees and especially those with academic awards are much less likely to get tattoos.

Like most of the people I know who graduated college had tattoos before and after college.

[Kokolums]

Like most of the people I know who graduated college had tattoos before and after college.

They've done polls on this and college grads are less likely to have tattoos than the general population. College grads are much less likely to have tattoos compare to people who didn't graduate from college. Anecdotal evidence (which you just used) is the worst form of analysis.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

you know one of the earliest records of a fork being used is from a priest that claimed it was an evil tool that took man away from his natrual roots. The tools humans make change the view on what is or isn't evil. If we have the ablity to make a 30,40,50 year old physically identical to a pick your underagedage year old...the question of whether or not they can have sex and with whom will need to be asked and answered. /shug

It's really amusing the lengths you people will go to to create this slippery slope into legalized pedophilia

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They've done polls on this and college grads are less likely to have tattoos than the general population. College grads are much less likely to have tattoos compare to people who didn't graduate from college. Anecdotal evidence (which you just used) is the worst form of analysis.

But less people in general have tattoos than those that do not. So yes, logically, there will be less college graduates with tattoos than without. Still, an awful lot of college graduates are getting tattooed.


http://www.historyoftattoos.net/tatt...oo-statistics/

30% of all college graduates in United States have tattoos.

[Kokolums]

Still, an awful lot of college graduates are getting tattooed.


http://www.historyoftattoos.net/tatt...oo-statistics/

Your own link says 30%, which is not a lot at all.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Your own link says 30%, which is not a lot at all.

By most sane metrics...30% of any population is a lot. And higher than the percentage of total Americans with tattoos (21% as of 2012)

[Zephi5315]

What's left? What's still taboo?

incest is one taboo i wouldn't want legal. it's just nasty

[Daedius]

Some recreational drugs will be more accepted, such as marijuana. We're already on the way there.

[Masark]

What about Incest?

I would consider that unlikely to move much within 20 years. Extensive advancements in contraceptives and/or genetic screening and repair would probably be needed to make even start at making a logical case for allowing it.

And that's assuming the entire thing isn't hardwired in our brains and thus pretty much immune to logic.

[Cosmic Janitor]

There are some things which are currently taboo that are gaining in acceptance according to polling data:

1. Pornography
2. Polygamy
3. Sex change operations for kids
4. Suicide
5. Guns
6. Fascism
7. Communism
8. Socialism
9. men wearing dresses
10. sex clubs / swinging / orgies
11. nakedness in public
12. home schooling (many view it as taboo and believe it damages social development)
13. gene-editing to create better / healthier babies
14. cashless society
15. alternative news sources

1. will happen definitely. The way the interaction between the sexes get poisoned more an more it will be the main outlet for alot of people in the future.
2. Will still not work out long term for everyone except an infinitessimally small number of people, even in 200 years.
3. If we find a surefire way to diagnose it, and even then it will take alot of unhappy sobs that will regrett it all their lives even after that until it's used properly.
4. That is called euthanasia not suicide.
5. Only in the US
6. Given how everything fits that definition today, I'm not surprised.
7. Lol..
8. Only not in the US, it's the opposite as guns.
9. Doubtfull, it will be a sidesplit fashion trend with their own forms and designs. I doubt it will be acceptable for Bob to wear the flowery dress of aunt millie any time soon (read the next 40+ years)
10. People will still look at you funny because you let your wife get banged by a couple strangers while you sit in the corner fapping to it, because that is what this will be for most of the losers out there. And everyone will know in the back of their minds that neither your kids nor your house will be yours soon . It's essentially #2.
11. Taking at look at europe, well kinda. Maybe titts, but full blown nakedness is very doubtfull within the next 20 years. The sweatting issues alone make this unsanitary and questionable to find wild-spread appeal. Not to mention that no one wants to see old people naked and they are just waiting to drop their cloths.
12. Maybe in the US, at least it might be still legal there, but I doubt it will catch on as trend. People simply can't affort that at all with the saleries in the future.
13. definitely coming, doubt 20 years will see it be common place though.
14. definitely coming. It means more power to the state which is why it will get pushed.
15. Already happened.

Edit: Also I think you guys give the potential of de-aging way too much credit. It won't just turn you into a kid again and halting someones age before puberty would be criminally evil in the first place. After that it's essentially just being honest with our nature that youthfullness is attactive. This wasn't even a question when your average life expectancy was 35 years and you started working in the mines at age 10. It's also not like looking young is the criteria for the law, it's the number down to the second that is in your ID, why would that change?

Like with all science related topics, people absolutely lack scope and frame of reference to the possibilities.

[kail]

Dubstep maybe.

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

Yeah.

All those people whining about "activist judges" are mostly complaining about 2 decisions: abortion and gay marriage. There's still a large number of people who would be very happy to see gay marriage ruling be overturned.

Abortion being legalized entirely in all 50* (Who knows ) states in the next 60 years is possible and homophobia in the next 100 years will be a weakened form of it today.

[JohnBrown1917]

It's very true. Research doesn't give a shit about your feelings. C**ts like you are the reason controversial subjects are not researched well (like racial disparity).

There are other moral reasons not to allow it, but this nonsense of "damaged forever" isn't one of them.

P.s. most adult women also recover completely from rape. Now hide in your safe space.

Ontop of defending pedophilia, you managed to also bring in racism, i'm impressed and disgusted.

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white identity politics

You're trying to hard, mr.Fren.

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The far left: where its morally reprehensible to eat a fish but vacuuming out babies is high priority.

Gives them more sex, of course. The only "freedom" the left cares about.

What are you guys smoking today?

[Carnedge]

Horse love. I can't wait for my neighbors to stop glaring at me through their windows every time I have romantic relation with my horse, Holmes.

[Zantos]

There is just no telling. Look at being gay for example. It was so unacceptable that people had gay camps to straighten people out. It was really bad, beyond merely being taboo I would say. It could have serious consequences if found out. Now, its widely accepted.

Its just not really able to be predicted what is or isn't going to be acceptable. I am sure science and technology will play an important role in furthering our understandings on some things to help out.