What are things that are illegal today that could become legal in 50 years?
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There’s money to be made. Profit trumps “morals” in the US.
It's never been about morals. Drug prohibition has always been about legal justification to harass and arrest minorities.
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In my state, it is already legal to buy supplies for growing mushrooms, possess an amount for personal use, and give and recieve them without payment. You just can't sell them for profit.
Growing mushrooms is soooooo fun!
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Many places are legalizing psychedelic mushrooms. MDMA is being used for veteran PTSD, and ibogane is gaining respect for severe addiction
wrote last edited by [email protected]drug laws are going to be drastically different 50 years from now. EITHER people at power are going to be sensible (LOL yeah right) and make the beneficial ones less illegal OR everything will be illegal and testing positive for anything will get you the death penalty or sent to a torture camp.
We might see alcohol banned again, this time with the might of enshitification and modern technology to back it up. It's going to be a lot more ruthless and cutthroat next time around. Boy oh boy I can't wait for the absolute chaos that will unfold when companies start firing people left and right for testing positive for alcohol metabolites after they spend zillions of dollars figuring out how to make unbeatable alcohol drug tests with stupidly long detection windows instead of actually using the technology of modern medicine to do anything useful like cure cancer or help people.
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piggybacking on @[email protected] great post
yesterdayBodily autonomy
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piggybacking on @[email protected] great post
yesterdayConsidering I'll be an old fecker in 50 years, I sure hope euthanasia is legal by then.
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Considering I'll be an old fecker in 50 years, I sure hope euthanasia is legal by then.
It is in some countries already.
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Violating laws.
I mean, as long as you're the POTUS it already is.
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piggybacking on @[email protected] great post
yesterdayWell since we are all sliding into fascism, here's my prediction for 50 years from now:
Slavery and lynch mobs will be legal (provided the targets are the 'correct' ones)
Women's rights will be nonexistent
Military press gangs will be legal
It's really sad how optimistic you all are in light of actual reality happening around you.
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While I get what you're saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime.
See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
Pedantry is the stinkiest of colognes, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist
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Punching Nazis
Haha you think we're actually going to be able to get rid of them?
I wish I had your optimism.
No, in 50 years time America will still be a fascist power, but militarily entrenched and with colonized land
We're already past the time to stop them and unlike shitler, there's no other world power that can even come close to matching us militarily.
So with no coallition allies strong to save the world from the latest eruption of fascism, where the fuck exactly do you think this is going long-term?
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Hopefully, soft cheeses.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The mold that covers brie is dying out because we cloned it too much, we're gonna lose soft cheese.
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Pedantry is the stinkiest of colognes, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist
That's not pedantry, it's being correct. Slavery isn't illegal in the United States. It's used as a punishment for crimes.
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That's not pedantry, it's being correct. Slavery isn't illegal in the United States. It's used as a punishment for crimes.
And yet that little factlet has zero bearing on anything in this discussion, you just saw an opportunity to be snarky and jumped
that's very needy behavior son
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I will bet that a lot of genetic engineering restrictions in Europe will be more relaxed in 50 years than they are today.
The introduction of the car had people who were worried about it passing a lot of restrictions too; these went away over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
Red flag laws were laws in the United Kingdom and the United States enacted in the late 19th century, requiring drivers of early automobiles to take certain safety precautions, including waving a red flag in front of the vehicle as a warning.
In the United Kingdom, the law required self-propelled vehicles to be led by a pedestrian waving a red flag or carrying a lantern to warn bystanders of the vehicle's approach.
In particular the Locomotives Act 1865, also known as Red Flag Act, stated:
- Firstly, at least three persons shall be employed to drive or conduct such locomotive, and if more than two waggons or carriages he attached thereto, an additional person shall be employed, who shall take charge of such waggons or carriages;
- Secondly, one of such persons, while any locomotive is in motion, shall precede such locomotive on foot by not less than sixty yards, and shall carry a red flag constantly displayed, and shall warn the riders and drivers of horses of the approach of such locomotives, and shall signal the driver thereof when it shall be necessary to stop, and shall assist horses, and carriages drawn by horses, passing the same.
The Red Flag Act was repealed in 1896, by which time the internal combustion engine was well into its infancy.[1]
We like to outsource beta testing. /s
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piggybacking on @[email protected] great post
yesterdayLook at Cyberpunk 2077... Take your pick
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piggybacking on @[email protected] great post
yesterdayModifying a 4d hypercube to embed it with perpetual catharsis and spiking someone's drink with it
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The mold that covers brie is dying out because we cloned it too much, we're gonna lose soft cheese.
Welp, better a-brie-cciate it while it's still here.
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Pedantry is the stinkiest of colognes, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist
So when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general).
I don't think it's pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.
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Welp, better a-brie-cciate it while it's still here.
Careful, you could end up with a lot of weight gain, getting feta and feta while you do.
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Careful, you could end up with a lot of weight gain, getting feta and feta while you do.
I camembert these puns!
