Our society is plagued by numerous unspoken yet harmful rules that stifle people and breed resentment. A user asked the forum, “What are the unspoken rules of society that scare you?”. Let’s have a look at the top responses.
JOB INTERVIEWS
“The job interview ones. It’s not like anyone will tell you what they didn’t like about you, so you’re forever guessing. Meanwhile, your entire livelihood is on the line.”
NOT RETESTING SENIOR CITIZENS FOR THEIR DRIVING LICENSE
“Senior citizens don’t have to be retested for their driver’s license. Think of how many of them have issues seeing, hearing, or remembering things. Their reflexes are not what they were, and they’re still operating two thousand-pound machines that can easily kill people.”
WANTING EVERYONE TO FIT IN
“Society is a piece of machinery with most people being a nut/bolt or a screw in it.
If you “don’t fit,” at first, they shall try to forcibly fit you in by “hammering you in.”
If that fails, you shall be “discarded and replaced.”
Society abandons people way too quickly.”
WORLD HYPOTHESIS
“The just-world hypothesis is pretty scary – the belief that karma exists and that you get what you deserve. People literally believe that poor people deserve to be poor.”
PRIORITIZING APPEARANCES
“That even in a warehouse job with no customer interaction at all, your job depends on how “normal” you can appear, not how well you do the work.
The reason for this is that discriminating based on possible mental health problems is the only way employers feel they can prevent a shooting in a country that values guns more than its children.”
DISCRIMINATIONS
“That if you’re rich, you can get away with pretty much anything.”
USING PEOPLE FOR THEIR BENEFIT
“You are only of value to us so long as we can use you to our benefit. Otherwise, you will be tossed aside like trash.”
JUDGING BASED ON THE LOOKS
“You can’t ask a woman their age, but you can’t guess their age based on looks.”
TRUTH
“You don’t have to find the truth and prove it – instead, the “truth” is whatever the majority agrees upon.”
DICTATING THE TYPE OF CLOTHES, YOU MUST WEAR
“When they begin to dictate the rules in choosing clothes and style.”
CRUELTY IN JAIL
“That people in jail don’t deserve happiness or self-expression. I’m not saying they have to have living standards on par with the wealthy, but the jailed do have a right to a purpose, imo.
I don’t understand the concept of the deprivation of happiness as justice. I just view that as the infliction of cruelty.”
PERCEPTION IS IMPORTANT THAN ACTION
“Perception is more important than action. How you’re perceived becomes the ultimate judge; what you do, good or bad, means nothing.”
KICKING SOMEONE WHEN THEY ARE ALREADY DOWN
“Well, these days, it seems to be OK in society to hit, kick, or stomp someone when they are down on the ground. When I grew up, that was unheard of.”
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