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A Boring Dystopia

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Most noteworthy for me is the fact that more Americans think that porn (52%) and homosexuality (39%) are wrong than spanking children (23%) and being ultra wealthy (18%).

๐Ÿคก country

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/

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[โ€“] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Gambling at 50% "not a moral issue" is crazy

[โ€“] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

this is what happens when you dismantle education. good job, conservatives. the collapse can't come fast enough.

[โ€“] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

When it's not working, it's working.

[โ€“] GhostFace@lemmy.today 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Thanks for sharing, now I really want to go cry. I hate this country.

[โ€“] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 19 minutes ago

On the plus side you now share the opinion of the rest of the world, so you have being correct going for you.

[โ€“] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 minutes ago

How would it vary in other countries?

[โ€“] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How about all of it is none of your fucking business?

[โ€“] Tetragrade@leminal.space 8 points 1 hour ago

Half of these explicitly affect multiple people.

[โ€“] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It makes me so mad how much worse alcohol is than weed and yet people think weed is morally worse, fml

[โ€“] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I always take the line of its the amount. Like I could have a few drinks once or twice a year, and some dude could smoke weed everyday. Which one is worse?

I have seen peoples lives destroyed by both alcohol and weed. It always comes down to how much of drug X are you using and how is it affecting your overall self, surroundings and circles.

[โ€“] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Eh, I would argue weed doesn't destroy people's lives. Not to say it's helping but it's never the root cause. If they stopped smoking weed, their lives would probably get better, but again probably a lot of underlying issues that also need to be addressed.

Alcohol 100% the root cause of peoples fucked up lives. If they stopped drinking, most of their problems would disappear overnight (until the DTs hit...), and their lives would get better from that point.

Maybe I am an asshole, but that's how I see it and watching three wasted fucked heads get hauled off in cuffs (one because they swung on staff) from a concert this week isn't helping while I was standing their stoned out of my gourd laughing my ass off at them getting manhandled because of their own idiotic decisions. Then I went back to vibing out to metal, and ate a burger after.

Alcohol is literally the second worst substance we mass produce only behind petrochemicals.

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 6 minutes ago

I didn't realize how much weed warped my thinking, until I'd been clean a few months.

[โ€“] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I saw it first hand. Friend lost his wife and house to weed. Two other people in our circles had weed psychosis. Thankfully early intervention helped them recover. But we also know one person that went into it never recovered. And became a danger to those around him. Now he's in jail.

It happens with alcohol too, but not the everlasting schizo issues

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 3 minutes ago

Eh, I'd bet alcohol is more on the everlasting schizophrenia risk side. But weed really does fuck up your thinking.

Like every occasional sixth month or year in a conducive environment, yes, it may enhance thinking outside the box for an insight or few. Daily would be like a milder version of dropping hallucinogens.

[โ€“] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Propaganda's a helluva drug.

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