I remember as a kid when people could smoke on airlines and in stores. I feel so old. My school even had a designated "smokers corner" where students could smoke between classes. That was in the 80s.
When I was growing up in NYC, it was kind of an unwritten rule on the train that if you smoked, you did it in the last car of the train...That was maaaany moons ago,LOL.
Have you heard the story of Hansel and Gretel? The mother literally sent her kids out into the forest in hopes that they would get lost and die because she couldn't feed them. This was a common practice in many countries all over the world and it wasn't just children either, they would do the same thing with old people once they became a burden. The idea of loving your family and children no matter what is kind of a new philosophy.
Used to be able to drive around in the back of pickup trucks. My grandfather did that when he took us kids for ice cream, in the 70s. Can't do that anymore, without getting pulled over by the police. Dangerous.
I remember when there were smoking sections at restaurants. It’s so weird that once upon a time when you went to go eat the hostess always asked “smoking or non smoking section?”
with #3 growing up on a farm back in the 80's i remember our neighbor always had a beer with him in his car everywhere he went. many times we went somewhere with him and he'd be sipping his can of beer driving down the road. of course now he'd get in trouble for doing that. and i was driving farm vehicles by 12-13 and on the road at 14 years old
I'm surprised these were not on the list. - Child Labor. - Unregulated Jobs & Work Environments (back before OASHA came into fruition). - Unregulated Food & Beverages (back before the FDA came into fruition). - Jim Crow Laws, Redlining, or other discriminatory/segregative laws. - Extrajudicial Lynchings. - No Same-Sex Marriage.
#8 should be a mandatory punishment for serial rapists. This punishment is way better than life or death. #4 is not that bad as well. They go through the same pain as the women he assaulted.
During the 1970’s I recall my Dad almost driving with a beer nearby. We didn’t think twice about it. Forced castration ought to an automatic for sexual predators.
I can agree no one should be forced to stop smoking but at the same time in my personal opinion they made the right call by banning it in buildings full of people cause everyone doesn't smoke and second hand smoke can be just as bad for people than the ones who do the smoking.. I use to be a former smoker and I agree no one should not be forced out of a legal habit unless they want to stop doing it themselves..
There are still legal things out there today that freak me the fuck out (like artificial scarcity, wealthy tax evation, the sale of automatic weapons, nicotine, etc.)
All those drugs that are “illegal” you can still get with a prescription, what makes illegal drugs so dangerous is the fact they are illegal. The black market causes inconsistency in products which result in overdoses, people being introduced to harder drugs because of proximity, no monitoring of the drug user and no education of drugs
I do not know if I am right but back on that time when people could drink and drive I do not remember people being part of car accidents like now, It seems like the past 15 years it got very bad. And I feel that they should have areas for people that smoke. As long as they do not bother people that do not smoke.
Just a Friendly Hooman im fine with execution by beheading, but with the guillotine. A lot better, and quicker than pumping a death row inmate full of chemicals and watching them die for a few hours because something went wrong.
Nicholas Stavinoha I rather for them die a slow painful death cause the victims died a painful death.. they should as well.. so I'm fine with botched lethal injections.. that need to happen more..
When I was a teen in the early 80's I was pulled over by a police officer while I was intoxicated, he asked for my ID and mentioned that I was close to home and that I should make a bee line... This happened to many of my friends at the time also. That would NEVER happen today, I don't care who you are. The rich, politicians kids, hell even the police chiefs kid would find themselves in hot water!
I'd replace beheading with executions in general, as a large number of countries have either gotten rid of it entirely or still have it for very limited crimes (like killing the monarch or something), as it's a bit hard to go back on the sentence if it's later found that the person was not guilty and the moral problems that come with the practice itself.
charles townsend yea but theres been many examples of people executed by lethal injection where they've lingered on for hours even after being injected. Ive never heard if any suffering when you slice a head off
Bestiality? How is smoking in public considered crazier than that? Even marriage at a younger age was a product of its time. Bestiality is STILL legal in quite a few states I think.
A few of these should still be legal. When you put yourself in a public space you should be accepting that others have differing beliefs including ideas of acceptable behaviors than you. You create risk to yourself and others by simply existing let alone smoking or driving a car or texting while walking or drinking too much coffee or as far as taking out uncertain loans/making uncertain investments... well you get the point. You can't expect that others are like you. That's naive. That said, please don't marry little girls or castrate little boys. That's super uncool.
"10 things that used to be legal." Half these things are legal in CERTAIN countries. Of course, they're really really low on the happiness scale over there.
Seatbelts should still be optional. If you want to bet your own life on whether you will die in a car wreck, you should be allowed to do so. But as long as the government can make money off those people who get caught driving without a seatbelt, doing so will always be illegal. Seatbelt laws are like pot laws, the government makes a lot of money off the people they bust violating both.
My Psychiatrist suggested that I should consider a Lobotomy to help with my Depression because the pills made me sick. I live in Canada. This is what free Healthcare buys you
I’ve read that during the medieval times in Italy, sometimes they would castrate young boys, so that when they grew up into men, they had the most beautiful singing voices, and would be very popular in the churches. To me, that sounds awful/terrifying
What age is "underage"? Isn't that a legal definition? What I'm getting at is, 18 is legal age in the U.S. because it's what we have collectively agreed upon but it may be totally different in another country. Are we so arrogant as to say that our definition trumps another sovereign country's definition? What if it's 21 in another country?
