Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right…
Have you ever heard that expression before? I’m sure you have, because it’s true!
And we’re about to hear a whole lot of examples from regular folks out there.
What’s the worst thing that is legal?
Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about this.
1. Drives me nuts.
“The fact car radio commercials are allowed to have police sirens or car crashes in them as a way to get your attention.”
2. Detrimental.
“You can look up where any one lives because it’s public record. But can we please not have entire websites with data bases full of every person in the country??
I mean think about people who get denied restraining orders and try to move away from their abuser. Six months later and their abuser can just look up their name and find them all over again.
This could be detrimental for spouse abuse victims, stalking victims, etc. something should be done about them. It’s terrifying”
3. Blocked!
“Robo Calls.
Bothering someone with something THEY paid for.
And now I’m getting Robo TEXTS several times a day. I really have to get around to buying that extended car warranty.”
4. Yeah, that’s weird.
“Spice/K2/Synthetic Weed.
This may have changed in the last few years but I found it embarrassing that our country locks up thousands for actual marijuana but allowed that sh*t to be sold at every gas station and liquor store knowing d*mn good and well that it was hurting and killing people.”
5. Awful.
“Puppy mills.
Yes, in some states, they’re still legal.
And where they’re illegal, irresponsible backyard breeders are legal.”
6. Scary stuff.
“Marital r*pe and “honor killings” in countries like the one I live in (generally the middle east).
Most of that stuff is in the process of being banned now.”
7. MLM.
“Multi level marketing.
I just got “reached out to” yesterday by a friend from college who I really respected. I’m so darned disappointed.
You went to school to be a teacher and critical thinker, and now you’re going to save me from my depression with your CBD? So disappointing.”
8. Shady.
“Sweatshop labor outsourced by tech and Fortune 500 companies.
It’s essentially contemporary slavery we collectively allow.”
9. Caught in the middle.
“A parent keeping their kid from the other parent when there’s no good reason to and leveraging the courts to do it.
This enrages me so much. How many parents have practically lost their children to narcissists and psychopaths because of this.
And because the kids get brainwashed out of a relationship, it’s hard to ever get in touch again, even when they have grown out of the other ones reach…”
10. This stuff is weird.
“The troubled teen industry.
Parents pay a company to kidnap kids while they’re sleeping and send them off to “therapeutic” boarding schools where they are abused in every conceivable way.
It’s f*cked.”
11. This is crazy.
“Congress members being able to trade stocks at the same time they are receiving intelligence and passing laws that could effect the performance of said stocks.”
12. Very dangerous.
“Old legally blind folks driving cars!
There was a resident in my old condo building that had some sort of restriction on his license that he couldn’t drive more than a certain distance from the condo.
He’d pull out in front of people, he’d stop in the middle of the road, he was way past needing to not be allowed to drive.
I don’t get how they allowed him to drive within that distance, it takes more than knowing where the roads are too be able to drive.”
13. Scandalous.
“For profit prisons.
I used to lobby at the state level. For profit prisons would literally lobby against things like early child education and paid family leave because, well….it’s bad for business.
And to be clear, I did not lobby for private prisons (but did lobby for things like paid family leave and early childhood education).”
What do you think is the worst thing you can do that is still legal?
Talk to us in the comments.
Please and thank you!
