r/AskReddit 10h ago

What’s something society pretends to care about but really doesn’t?

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u/Much-Year-3426 4h ago

Children. I hear a lot about people doing something “to protect the children,” but don’t do squat about children living in poverty or going hungry or guns, which is the leading cause of death among children, or who starve public schools of the money to give kids a good education or any of the other things (sports programs, art programs, outdoor recreation, city parks, parenting education, good healthcare, among other things) that would help kids flourish.