this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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A Boring Dystopia
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None of this surprises me. Some of this is probably a uniquely American perspective with shitty American priorities (marijuana, death penalty).
But, without any other data from any other country there isn't any quantifiable context. This gets a good beat on America the nation, from one american to another..... but there's no clue about what priorites here are uniquely American vs just modern society/culture. There's literally no data being presented here to make that comparison. Like, poll a middle east country, and many will say it's immoral to be gay, way more immoral to watch porn. Poll India, and it'll be immoral to eat meat. Poll the UK, they probably have the same opinions on spankings, being rich....
Different countries have different, and arguably equally, stupid/fuckedup priorities. In that vein, anyone looking at this and going "omg, Americans are so dumb" is pretty fucking dumb. For all you know, your modern western country might have the exact same priorites, and be just be just as fucked up. There's no evidence here that proves/disproves that. So stay off the high horse.
The studie in ops link touches on that extensivly.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/
It goes into great detail and is worth reading, It sets the topics from the picture into the context you are asking for. Two examples: