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What do you think
the future might consider disturbing and immoral about our time period?Our abuse of the
environment.
Jill, 59
Saylorsburg, PA
There are so many things....
the current tax code
the state of public schools
that there aren't subsidized computers
Laura, 35
Lowell, MA
The number of people we have
imprisoned for drug related crimes. Or that we (the USA) or western culture in general
exploit third world countries for cheap labor.
Cindy, 41
Lowell, MA
There are so many things that I
think are immoral at this time that I can't see how future folks wouldn't think so to an
even greater degree. Things like the death penelty, our
treatment of children, animals, the environment, the poor, etc.. How easily we disreguard
life. That our penal system may well be just another more advanced from of slavery.
Yet again, maybe all of this will become so
common place, that there is no sense of morality about, like the bikini and short skirts.
Felicia, 34
Somerville, MA
I guess that I am pessimistic and
don't believe that the future will be morally superior
or less disturbing than the present. I even think people will be less disturbed by the
types of things that occur today because they will be so used to it that they will be
desensitized to it. It's even happening now- with every school that get's shot up, people
are less and less horrified. Except for when that first grader shot the other first grader
in class...I think that shocked people.
Shayna, 28
Somerville, MA
The instances of still-blatant
prejudice.
Karen, 20
Ames/Marshalltown, IA
The fact that we allow hatred of
those who are "different."
Amy, 23
Baton Rouge, LA
I think that they will find our
methods of medicine disturbing. Or maybe the way we treat other cultures and races. Human
cloning will also be a hot topic.
Ray, 17
Toronto CANADA
The rash of school shootings is already
going to go down as one of the worst parts of the last years of the 20th century. Parents
who don't take an active part in their children's lives are more responsible than the
[insert harsh word of your choice here] who actually pull the trigger! Six years old,
premeditating a crime, and knowing how to load the gun is disgusting!
Lindsay, 21
Harrisonburg, VA
The future generations would
probably consider the lack of respect for human life to be the most distrubing and immoral
aspect of our time. Seeing high school kids shoot each
other, office workers go nuts and shoot people, and very young kids killing first graders,
future generations should consider that to be disturbing and immoral.
Ernest, 28
Washington, DC
The hypocrisy, the arrogance, the greed and
politicians who personify these traits by figuring how much money they can get through the
FCC, DEA and NEA among others.
Alias Irrelevante
. . . .a good one. . . .
I hope that "the future" considers the continued stress on material wealth
disturbing and that, even though the wealthiest nations in this world could, practically,
come together to end world hunger permanently, they basically chose to put it off as a
side issue indefinitely. . . .
mothmc, 35
Pensacola, FL
Crimes
against children, random acts of violence, greed, materialism.
Nicole
Elk Grove, CA
What the future will view as most immoral
about our time period is our sympathy for criminals, especially those the commit brutal
crimes. We almost encourages crime and violence in our society, and that is why we have
the hightest crime rate of the free world, even though we have the most ability to prevent
it. We get so caught up in the rights of the criminals that we rarely see the rights of
the victums. We spend more time and energy fighting against cruel and unusual punishment
than we do fighting cruel and unusul crimes.
Socrates One
Lowell, MA
Our
inability to be honest about anything. As a species, we have convinced ourselves that
trite platitudes constitute thought and conversation. We have made ourselves morons in
order to be inoffensive.
Anthony, 24
Baton Rouge, LA
There are
probably too many things to even start listing, but I'll try:treatment of poor people,
corporate greed, hate crimes, lack of legal recognition for same-sex couples, global
warming, and the lack of adequate planning for the future despite our knowledge of
impending doom for future generations.
Eric, 18
Beverly Hills, CA USA
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