The Future of Progress

[Valrifell]

Oh won't somebody think of the children?!

I'll remember this the next time you bring up gun control.

Nobody told me this was a Telltale game.

[Mujahidah]

A thread for your predictions about the the future of progress. Feel free to speculate and debate. Here are mine.

Sexual experimentation will become part of the public school curriculum.

Homosexuals will become increasingly militant, incorporating uniforms into their parades

Everyone will get bored by MLK after the bazillionth time, and so Black History Month will focus instead on celebrating the cultural legacy of twerking. Kanye West will be featured on American currency

HBO's Tits and Blood will be acclaimed by critics as "hip, stylish and sexy." Intended for mature audiences.

In the United States, "living document" judges will rule that the Fourteenth Amendment protects polygamy and mandates all states having polygamous marriage; those who object will be dismissed as "polyphobes". Judges will also rule freedom of speech protects child pornography, and due process protects pederasty.

After realizing space exploration's returns are dwarfed by costs, atheists will cease to support it. Science will instead focus on pony sexbots and making anime real

Euthanasia will be used to treat depression among children.

Islam will become the largest religion in Europe. The Pope will hail this as a "victory against colonialism."

I hope this is a meme, all of this is something Alex Jones would say when drunk

This is why alcohol is bad, people

[The Parkus Empire]

Why not? They can consent to a sex change, no?

A sex change isn't life or death.

Many transfolk would disagree

[Benuty]

A thread for your predictions about the the future of progress. Feel free to speculate and debate. Here are mine.

Sexual experimentation will become part of the public school curriculum.

Homosexuals will become increasingly militant, incorporating uniforms into their parades

Everyone will get bored by MLK after the bazillionth time, and so Black History Month will focus instead on celebrating the cultural legacy of twerking. Kanye West will be featured on American currency

HBO's Tits and Blood will be acclaimed by critics as "hip, stylish and sexy." Intended for mature audiences.

In the United States, "living document" judges will rule that the Fourteenth Amendment protects polygamy and mandates all states having polygamous marriage; those who object will be dismissed as "polyphobes". Judges will also rule freedom of speech protects child pornography, and due process protects pederasty.

After realizing space exploration's returns are dwarfed by costs, atheists will cease to support it. Science will instead focus on pony sexbots and making anime real

Euthanasia will be used to treat depression among children.

Islam will become the largest religion in Europe. The Pope will hail this as a "victory against colonialism."

I hope this is a meme, all of this is something Alex Jones would say when drunk

Anyone who reaches 30,000 or more posts on this site is a living meme.

[Valrifell]

I hope this is a meme, all of this is something Alex Jones would say when drunk

Anyone who reaches 30,000 or more posts on this site is a living meme.

I'm so sorry.

[Hammer Britannia]

I hope this is a meme, all of this is something Alex Jones would say when drunk

Anyone who reaches 30,000 or more posts on this site is a living meme.

I guess that makes me 1/30s of a living meme...

[The Parkus Empire]

Why wouldn't they?

The happy answer is the Hippocratic Oath and that doctors, being healers, will always want to not kill their patients on a whim.

The cynical answer is they make more money that way.

The Hippocratic Oath forbids abortion. Didn't seem to stop doctors

[Mujahidah]

The happy answer is the Hippocratic Oath and that doctors, being healers, will always want to not kill their patients on a whim.

The cynical answer is they make more money that way.

The Hippocratic Oath forbids abortion. Didn't seem to stop doctors

Doctors obviously disagree.

[Jackania yugo]

A response.

Sex education for kids will be banned. Anyone violating this law will be used for target practice.

No, homosexuals will be the first to be converted into human-pokemon hybrids for the military.

MLK will be remembered and both the regressive left and alt-right who spit in his face will be suppressed and/or mass genocided.

There will be a rise in art house, orginal and intelligent movies.

Only single child heterosexual relationships will be allowed (after a period of them being encouraged to give birth to more due to the earlier population control via mass genocide).

Space travel will be become a major focus of human society and atheism will have a major rise.
We will create anime esque robot maids/sexbots.

There will be a lot of that...on 40% of the population.

Ha! Islam...#1 religion. Pope? Don't make me laugh. Religion Will be banned as it counts as pseudoscience and Europe will become a major player in space.

[Valrifell]

The happy answer is the Hippocratic Oath and that doctors, being healers, will always want to not kill their patients on a whim.

The cynical answer is they make more money that way.

The Hippocratic Oath forbids abortion. Didn't seem to stop doctors

The Oath in it's modern form does not include that clause, it seems.

[Valrifell]

A sex change isn't life or death.

Many transfolk would disagree

Presumably it's for a happier life overall going forward, and I'm not sure how common children getting sex-changes done is.

Either way, a sex change is not the same thing as suicide, since one, you know, ends existence.

[Benuty]

I'll remember this the next time you bring up gun control.

Nobody told me this was a Telltale game.

This is, but one with the permadeath challenge on.

[The East Marches II]

I'll remember this the next time you bring up gun control.

Nobody told me this was a Telltale game.

Apparently nobody told you that you shouldn't leave yourself open rhetorically either :^]

[Benuty]

A response.

Sex education for kids will be banned. Anyone violating this law will be used for target practice.

No, homosexuals will be the first to be converted into human-pokemon hybrids for the military.

MLK will be remembered and both the regressive left and alt-right who spit in his face will be suppressed and/or mass genocided.

There will be a rise in art house, orginal and intelligent movies.

Only single child heterosexual relationships will be allowed (after a period of them being encouraged to give birth to more due to the earlier population control via mass genocide).

Space travel will be become a major focus of human society and atheism will have a major rise.
We will create anime esque robot maids/sexbots.

There will be a lot of that...on 40% of the population.

Ha! Islam...#1 religion. Pope? Don't make me laugh. Religion Will be banned as it counts as pseudoscience and Europe will become a major player in space.

Did you repost this?

[The Parkus Empire]

The Hippocratic Oath forbids abortion. Didn't seem to stop doctors

Doctors obviously disagree.

No, they just decided that was wrong.

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

[Valrifell]

Nobody told me this was a Telltale game.

Apparently nobody told you that you shouldn't leave yourself open rhetorically either :^]

This is technically a two-way street, you realize. While I left myself open rhetorically by sarcastically saying that thing I said, you've kind of been caught selectively applying when you think of the children.

So, double edged sword?

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

A sex change isn't life or death.

Many transfolk would disagree

But it isn't?

No human being in the history of the world has died beacuse they got denied a sex change operation.

[The Parkus Empire]

The Hippocratic Oath forbids abortion. Didn't seem to stop doctors

The Oath in it's modern form does not include that clause, it seems.

Correct. Progress happens

[Mujahidah]

The Oath in it's modern form does not include that clause, it seems.

Correct. Progress happens

So therefore doctors aren't forbidden by the Hippocratic Oath to do abortions, because the oath they take doesn't forbid it. Your point was meaningless.

[The Parkus Empire]

Many transfolk would disagree

But it isn't?

No human being in the history of the world has died beacuse they got denied a sex change operation.

In fact suicide among transfolk is a problem. SRS is believed to help

[Valrifell]

The Oath in it's modern form does not include that clause, it seems.

Correct. Progress happens

Okay so this makes your last post a bit pointless.

Also, you can't just amend the Hippocratic Oath to allow for prescribed euthanasia, might as well get rid of the whole thing. Which is terribly unlikely, you realize.

[Mujahidah]

But it isn't?

No human being in the history of the world has died beacuse they got denied a sex change operation.

In fact suicide among transfolk is a problem. SRS is believed to help

That doesn't mean they died for not getting a surgery. They died because they committed suicide.

[The Parkus Empire]

Correct. Progress happens

So therefore doctors aren't forbidden by the Hippocratic Oath to do abortions, because the oath they take doesn't forbid it. Your point was meaningless.

The point is euthanasia violates it as well. But they will just amend it again

[Benuty]

Many transfolk would disagree

But it isn't?

No human being in the history of the world has died beacuse they got denied a sex change operation.

Maybe not because of the denial, but the circumstances surrounding that denial certainly can i.e extremely hostile family. I remember a few years back reading about Leelah Alcorn, and her family was so in denial they practically paraded around the funeral as if she wasn't who she really was. It was some of the most disturbing mental gymnastics I have ever read about.

[Benuty]

In fact suicide among transfolk is a problem. SRS is believed to help

That doesn't mean they died for not getting a surgery. They died because they committed suicide.

I mean the aim of suicide if successful is to die so that is a given.