Drugging kids into insensibility due to perceived ‘behavioral problems’. Heck… Overmedication for everything, or at least overmedication with stuff that has side effects that are barely more tolerable than the condition itself.
The war on drugs.
I very much hope that eating tasty animals isn’t viewed as barbaric(to the point its illegal, anyway).
And, of course, how barbaric our kids and grandkids will think these antique computers and games we play now are. 
I agree with a lot that’s been posted, particularly homophobia and animal cruelty (as well as treatment towards intelligent species such as dolphins).
One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is just overall hygienic standards. I’d imagine that sick people in the future (there will ALWAYS be sick people) will have some way of severely reducing the communicability of their diseases (perhaps through unobtrusive filters on various body orifices). Or there may be very subtle sterilization effects at building entrances.
I also suspect that future folks will be appalled at how unbalanced most of our diets are. There will be a societal recognition of the fact that healthy living and prevention is better than the best medical response in the world, and it will be made extremely easy to follow a healthy diet. For example, people will have easy access to devices that calculate nutritional information on the fly and reconcile it with your current intake plan. It may be integrated into an already existing device (like phones). Restaurants and supermarkets will have each food item encoded so that it will beam the nutritional info straight into your device.
There will still be people who choose to eat unhealthily, but it will be a tiny minority, as food providers will respond to strengthening food information laws by finding healthier, yet still tasty, options.
Male circumcision.
Gods, I’d settle for FEMALE circumcision being so horrifying to our later ancestors that it’s completely done away with everywhere…forever!
-XT
I agree with Windwalker that attitudes towards unhealthy foods will grow less tolerant, but I’m less optimistic about freedom of food. Governments are already moving to put restrictions on restraunts and stores. Once it becomes clear that these restrictions are not causing people to make healthier choices, I think they’ll change their tactics and start restricting what each individual can eat. Mandatory exercise for overweight individuals will probably also become the norm. And of course it will all be justified by the fact that the government is in charge of the medical system.
Excellent point.
Another vote for natural childbirth. I think it’s barbaric even now when Caesareans are available (and yes, I am aware of the risks of Caesareans as well, I just think it would be nice if every pregnant woman could choose how she wants to have her baby).
I also think poverty and starvation. I really think that in 100 years or so people are going to look at the fact that there were millions of obese people in Western countries, at the same time other millions were dying from starvation and related illnesses in the third world, as a barbarity the same way we look at slavery today.
To be replaced, of course, by prenatal and infantile genetic modification. No muss, no fuss! Ever wish your overactive kid had an “off” switch? Well, now he can!
Remember the Star Trek TOS when Dr. McCoy gets shot with that mind alterating drugs and goes back to the 20th century, where he derails surgery “cutting and sewing up people like garmets”?
I image in the future all surgeries will be done with lasar and sonor.
The prohibition of numerous drugs.
No, no. “Off” switch is a term with too many negative connotations. Marketing has suggested “Hold Button”. See, it sounds like cuddling.
I suspect radiation therapy and chemotherapy may one day be viewed as a crude, hamfisted way of dealing with cancers. I hope so anyway.
Employers demanding job histories and references from applicants without having to provide any corrollary information of their own.
Just think of how many lousy bosses we could all avoid if they had to supply contact info on the last three people who reported to them in a given position… and how much better bosses and companies would have to act if under this pressure to satisfy the expectations of applicants!
:rolleyes:
How about wishing death on soldiers? Will that be considered barbaric?
I think it would be hilarious if they discovered a plant that had properties that prevented all forms of cancer.
But the only way to extract the active ingredient would be to burn the leaves of the plant and inhale the vapors at least 5 times a day.
Non-smokers would be looked down upon because they didn’t care enough about their body to take measures to maintain their health.
Hardly. Why would it be ?
Well, the whole ‘wishing death’ thingy seems fairly barbarous to me…YMMV however.
-XT