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In a hundred years what will we look back on as our greatest shame?

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  • 26-03-2016 10:29pm
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    steddyeddy
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    If we look back 200 years ago in the western world we can see segregation based on race, chemical weapons like mustard gas, eugenics, throwing single women into "laundries" and also the last dregs of colonialism and the destruction of indigenous cultures.

    Now all of those things were considered acceptable in their own times and it was often the more radical members of society that rebelled against the status quo

    What about the status quo in our day and age? What do you think people will look back on and wonder how was that acceptable?

    One thing that springs to mind is India's caste system. It's a form of apartheid based solely on prejudice. It has no place in a country with a space program.

    Another is the destruction and near extinction of some of our closest relatives the non human apes such as the orangutan or gorilla.

    Any more?


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    baldbear
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    If we look back 200 years ago in the western world we can see segregation based on race, chemical weapons like mustard gas, eugenics, throwing single women into "laundries" and also the last dregs of colonialism and the destruction of indigenous cultures.

    Now all of those things were considered acceptable in their own times and it was often the more radical members of society that rebelled against the status quo

    What about the status quo in our day and age? What do you think people will look back on and wonder how was that acceptable?

    One thing that springs to mind is India's caste system. It's a form of apartheid based solely on prejudice. It has no place in a country with a space program.

    Another is the destruction and near extinction of some of our closest relatives the non human apes such as the orangutan or gorilla.

    Any more?

    Tayto chocolate bars.


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    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Sciencenerd being made a mod....























    :P


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    MattHelders
    Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭MattHelders


    North Korea


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    SpaceSasqwatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 768 ✭✭✭SpaceSasqwatch


    our ability to stop water charges by protest and our inability to accept refugee's fleeing a warzone....


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    the evasion_kid
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    Climate change


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    somefeen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    If we look back 200 years ago in the western world we can see segregation based on race, chemical weapons like mustard gas, eugenics, throwing single women into "laundries" and also the last dregs of colonialism and the destruction of indigenous cultures.

    Now all of those things were considered acceptable in their own times and it was often the more radical members of society that rebelled against the status quo

    What about the status quo in our day and age? What do you think people will look back on and wonder how was that acceptable?

    One thing that springs to mind is India's caste system. It's a form of apartheid based solely on prejudice. It has no place in a country with a space program.

    Another is the destruction and near extinction of some of our closest relatives the non human apes such as the orangutan or gorilla.

    Any more?

    I'd argue throwing women into laundries is still Ireland's greatest shame since it still exists in living memory and the people responsible are still around.


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    FloatingVoter
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    The amount of time people wasted on the internet.

    Reality TV.

    Assuming monkeys were the dumb relatives. They were...it's the ****ing cats that need watching.

    If only we had elected Trump ...he foresaw all of this.


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    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    somefeen wrote: »
    I'd argue throwing women into laundries is still Ireland's greatest shame since it still exists in living memory and the people responsible are still around.

    Yes I wouldn't disagree with that. I'm ashamed of what some Irish people got away with.


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    Fiery mutant
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    Worldwide we still have much of that going on.

    For me, our greatest shame is that we still can't learn from our mistakes. We still marginalise, we still segregate, we still dehumanise.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



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    wurzlitzer
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭wurzlitzer


    Homelessness


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    LionelNashe
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    I wouldn't assume we'll still be around in 100 years.


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    darkpagandeath
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    Panti Bliss


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    timthumbni
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    Religion though I'm not that hopeful. In the modern world where all information is at the end of your fingertips on the old tinternet I really don't get why people are still religious.


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    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Without this descending into a 'bloody bankers' moanfest - the fact that an almost complete lack of independent regulation allowed the financial sector to bring the world economy to its knees, and then we allowed it to just go back to business with very little change.

    No lessons learned whatsoever, it seems.


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    BlibBlab
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    An obesity epidemic side by side with starvation and malnutrition


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    #17
    cbyrd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭cbyrd


    Burning fossil fuel and not looking after our natural resources and reserves for our own people.
    Homelessness, hopefully this will be a thing of the past...
    FG
    FF
    All the political parties atm
    Mobile phones
    Banks
    ....


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    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Sending Dustin the Turkey as an irish entry to Eurovision.


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    CrabRevolution
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    Probably our utter wrecking of the environment while we have a chance to change.

    The whole "only when the last tree etc. is gone will you realise that you can't eat money" will come painfully true.


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    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 6,757 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    I think it could be our attitude to mental health problems. The fact that there's a hidden epidemic of people on anti-depressants but it was never brought up as an issue in the recent general election. This also ties into the homelessness issue as a lot of the long-term homeless people are people with mental illnesses who have fallen through the cracks. I think the issue is slowly improving though and for that reason in 100 years time it could be a lot better situation.


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    anewme
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    No learnings from the boom to bust of the Celtic Tiger era and history repeating itself now!


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    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Racism


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    Icepick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭Icepick


    Abortion ban


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    KingBrian2
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    A 100 years from now people will look back and see many people cared about the world around them and wanted to change it for the better.


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    One eyed Jack
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    I genuinely think what we think we have to be ashamed of today, will pale in comparison to our lack of humanity in 100 years time.


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    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    Is anyone else sick of hearing about what the 1916 signatories would think of the modern Ireland 'they died for'? They didn't live in this time, who gives a **** what they they'd think. It's not easy living in any era.


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    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Getting sentencing ar5ewars.
    Multiple offenders let out to re-offend.
    Steal big and it isn't a problem.
    Put €100 in the poor box and you can box the head off anyone.


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    Slattsy
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    Jedward


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    #29
    the evasion_kid
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    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    Is anyone else sick of hearing about what the 1916 signatories would think of the modern Ireland 'they died for'? They didn't live in this time, who gives a **** what they they'd think. It's not easy living in any era.

    Probably wouldn't have put their lives on the line if they knew it would end up like this...I wouldnt


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    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Probably wouldn't have put their lives on the line if they knew it would end up like this...I wouldnt

    Of course they would. They fought the imposters. We're a free country now, doing the best we can.


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    Gentleman Off The Pitch
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    Using pieces of paper to clean our arses post defecation


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