What's the biggest problem in today's society?

Answer 1

Too much hate, not enough love.

Answer 2

The lack of compassion for America's working poor. Those the goverment claims make "too much money" (Did you know that it's most people even making 20 and 30 thousand per year) to be eligible for any kind of help but who cannot afford to pay all their bills, healthcare for their families, and still have a hard time putting food on the table.

Answer 3

I think our biggest problem is our legal systems. People are more worried about the rights of criminals and they are not getting sentanced as they should. Personally I don't understand how someone can molest a child and get released, do it again, and be released.

Answer 4

People taking life for granted. Filling there day with so much to do and so little time. You need time to stop and smell the roses in some many words. Life to to short.

Answer 5

Sorry to burst your bubble, but at the rate things are going, we actually have *too many* problems for any one of them to be "the worst", because they all interact with one another. But, in all fairness, we can keep it a bit simple here:

--Quite simply, the old saying has *never* been more true: Money really IS the root of all evil. We *have* seen an age of Robber Barons like this before, back in the mid-to-late 1800s in the United States among other places...and that ended more or less with the Great Depression of the 1930s, courtesy of an "armistice" at the end of World War I that had the effect of bankrupting Germany, and destabilizing Europe as a result.

Of course, the bigger problem back then is the same problem we have now: Too Much Money at the Top and not enough for everyone else. It's been proven over and over again historicially that if the richest 5% or less have too much of the wealth, governments become more corrupt, and eventually, people, yes even working people, either lose their jobs or just plain *run out of ready cash* to spend. It's been proven and yet....we still play the game of "Let's give the CEOs everything and then wonder *why* the whole world is going to crap."

--Governments that shouldn't be corrupted, that *need* to keep their acts together, like the US Federal Government for instance, have been all but sold out to big business. And it isn't just Dubya, ok, this has been going on since *Reagan* at least.

--Pollution and environmental degradation are reaching the point where science is forced to choose between telling the truth as they best know it....and not starting a public panic. Really. Global warming is real. Hurricane Katrina sure as hell was real. Polar bears up north of the Arctic Circle are losing ground, literally as it melts out from under them. And...food and groundwater contamination are in some instances hitting the 100% mark. As in, 100% of the US population has pretty much been determined to have their bloodstream contaminated by PFOAs (teflon-like compounds, found not just in cookware, but in things like microwave popcorn and tomato ketchup). Significant amounts of caffiene, trichloroban, pyrethrins and even *prozac* have been found, not just in urban drinking water, but in brooks and streams out in the countryside.

Point is, we've just about soiled our nests, so to speak, to the point of *saturation* and nobody who cares, is allowed to make any decisions.

--And finally, for whatever reasons, neither our governments nor our media nor our own neighbors see fit to get their *religious fanatics* the hell under control. And I am not just talking about Muslims or Evangelical Christianoids here....*every* major monotheistic faith on the planet has been *hijacked* to some degree by radical, geo-political, if not apocalyptic elements within it. As in, they are ALL screwed up, courtesy of people's not being willing to get the radical, hellbent-for-world-conquest elements under some manner of control.

But...I will say it again, just so we are clear. A LOT of this would either not be happening at all, or would not be as severe as it is, if it weren't for our *money people* being so utterly out of control. Rein in the CEOs and get them doing *useful* things for humanity again, and we *might* have a shot at getting the rest in line. Really. Consider one not so small chain of events, and tell me this isn't right:

Big Oil-->Big Auto Makers-->SUV use and abuse (feeds back into the prior two as well as)-->Big Religion (mostly Wahabbi Islam in this case)-->Big Terror-->Military/industrial Complex (that war machine)-->Bigger Pollution courtesy of both warfare *and* civilian neglect and abuses....

Complicated? Yes, it is. But a LOT of the problem begins and ends with Big Oil. Rein them in and a lot of the other problems lack the "fuel" or the money to get worse and spiral *further* out of control. And this doesn't even *touch* the political influence side of it. :)

Sorry to go on so, but in my humble opinion, this is about as simple as it gets: Follow the MONEY.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

Fundamentalist religions

Answer 7

Pessimism.

Answer 8

People sticking there noses into other people's lives. Talking about them and spreading gossip and lies. Small minds.

Answer 9

Pedophiles, perverts, child molesters, child murderers.

If we could get this problem under control - I would be happy.

Answer 10

Jealousy = hatred
Money = power, control over others
Selfishness = it's all about "ME" attitude

Answer 11

Apathy.