Discussion What's something cruel that still happens frequently today?

[Silent_cries]

One thing I find cruel, is how schools in some countries, the us included, calls the police on disbehaving children. And no, I'm not talking about teenagers, but 8-10 year olds! They're fricking children! And if that isn't horrible enough, they'll even do it with special needs children! I even heard that things like disrupting class and even cheating on a test is considered a crime in some countries! It litterary breaks my heart everytime I see or read about this stuff online. Not to talk about a certain tv show that would litterary terrorise children while showing them what prison is like... What on earth is wrong with people???

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Coercive suicide prevention and killing tons of animals in a brutal way to satisfy people's taste buds

 

[Loaf of bread]

Anti-homeless architecture and design in cities

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

The lack of a robust social safety net in the US is inhumane. Hundreds of thousands of people shouldn't be living on the streets in such a wealthy nation, that is cruel.

I would be homeless if I didn't have a family because I can't work anymore due to bipolar disorder. I was working for 15 years before with high salaries, and I paid tons of money into the Social Security Disability Insurance program, but I can't get benefits back from it for at least 2 years because of the rules. Then when the benefits finally become available they still won't be enough to live on, and I'll have to cobble together support from a variety of public and private services just to barely survive.

Other people who never worked are even worse off than I am. It's heartbreaking how much suffering this causes.

 

[WhiteRabbit]

Lack of adequate pain management for people with severe chronic pain.

 

[Always Last]

Bullying and nothing being done about it

 

[shrizoid]

Slavery, both in a figurative and literal sense

 

[Silent_cries]

killing tons of animals in a brutal way to satisfy people's taste buds

That's called nature bro. Most butchers unalive animals in a humane way anyway. How about animals that hunt each other? Do you think getting bit on the neck is comfortable maybe?

Funny how you claim you have no empathy, yet you complain about humans eating animals. You make no sense lmfao

 

[ijustwishtodie]

That's called nature bro. Most butchers unalive animals in a humane way anyway. How about animals that hunt each other? Do you think getting bit on the neck is comfortable maybe?

I think that nature is negative. Also, yeah, you're absolutely right about the issue that happens in the wild as well. I'm also against wild animals killing each other too and I think it would be better if this entire cycle stopped. It's all so bloody and barbaric

Funny how you claim you have no empathy, yet you complain about humans eating animals. You make no sense lmfao

I changed since then

 

[Silent_cries]

I think that nature is negative. Also, yeah, you're absolutely right about the issue that happens in the wild as well. I'm also against wild animals killing each other too and I think it would be better if this entire cycle stopped. It's all so bloody and barbaric

I changed since then

They have to do it for survival bruhh. If animals didn't kill each other all predators would starve, then the herbivores would overpopulate resulting in them eating up all plant life witch would eventually result in them dying out also. So in short summary, it would wipe all life on earth. Does that sounds better to you maybe?

 

[ijustwishtodie]

They have to do it for survival bruhh. If animals didn't kill each other all predators would starve, then the herbivores would overpopulate resulting in them eating up all plant life witch would eventually result in them dying out also.

Precisely, it's a lose-lose situation regardless of what happens.

So in short summary, it would wipe all life on earth. Does that sounds better to you maybe?

Yep, it does although of course I should mention at how this is just philosophical only and how I'm not advocating for all lives to end in reality. It's just that I believe that it would be better if all lives were to go extinct earlier in a painless and immediate way as then there would be no more suffering. In reality though, all I can be is pro choice since extinction isn't something that I can control

 

[SVEN]

Birth.

 

[bleeding_heart_show]

Coercive suicide prevention and killing tons of animals in a brutal way to satisfy people's taste buds

I will never understand how people are comfortable eating the connective tissue of animals massacred in gas chambers or rendered unconscious and exsanguinated.
So many things that do not require it are made with hyperprocessed animal byproducts. Does sugar really need to be refined with bone ash? It is cruel for the sake of convenience.

I do not feel animosity towards people that consume meat as long as it is an informed decision.

Thankfully the world is becoming more accommodating of plant based diets over time. I still find myself frustrated that I needlessly tolerated meat for over a decade after first having these thoughts.