The law is slow to change, but new laws are a sign of progress. Most of the time, anyway.
Cocaine was legal for a long time before it became illegal in the United States in 1914. Smoking cigarettes on airplanes, in doctor’s offices, and restaurants was legal for decades before people realized how dangerous it was. And not too long ago, it was legal for schools, businesses, and employers to treat people a certain way (badly) based on the color of their skin alone.
Earlier this week, Redditor u/alistair2112 asked, “What’s legal now, but probably won’t be in 25 years?” It’s an interesting question because a lot can and should change in a quarter of a decade.
Their question got over 44K upvotes as people voiced their opinions on the barbaric things that aren’t illegal right now…but should be.
1.
Taking out a line of credit in your child’s name—u/PennyPasta87
2.
Excessive plastic packaging. Like how a microSD card is like 1 square cm but comes in a plastic package that is 20 x 20 cm—u/Gastropodius
3.
Hot Singles in my area—u/poisonous_racooon
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MLM’s.—u/joybotttt (multi-level marketing business/pyramid schemes)
Yes!! It’s so nasty. Charge people to start working for you, don’t pay them hourly, give them a tiny cut on a crazy overpriced item after hours of work.—u/albinosquirrel09
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Putting everyone’s personal information on the internet (the stuff thats mined from public records like address, voting party, home sale etc.)—u/groovychick
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Child marriage—u/whole_lot_of_velcro
There are 10 states which have no legal age for marriage and in 2018 there were 4 states that banned it altogether. But statistics show that from 2000 to 2015 there were at least 200,000 minors married. It really needs to go.—u/odagled86
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Planned obsolescence, I hope. Like when phones stop working after 2 years because the company wants you to buy a newer model. There’s no reason my smartphone shouldn’t last half as long as my freakin 3DS—u/SeamonEgo
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Something about the way mobile games operate (for the love of god)—u/TheObserver89
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Privatized prisons. Seriously in what world is it okay to profit off of people’s incarceration?—u/rbranste
10.
Hopefully, Child Beauty Pageants—u/ActualDemon
