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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%).

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

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I believe your morals are morally wrong.

As a poly person, lol, and fuck those societal norms. Not to mention, it’s really sad to societally pressure bi people into denying one whole half of their sexual identity :(

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

conservatives speak, all the morals they claim are immoral are exactly what they are hypocritically doing. cheating, pornography specifically gay/trans porn. this all mostly conservative priorities, its all culture wars as it has been. thier current issue is being anti-woke.

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[–] quips@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (34 children)

How is eating meat not morally wrong? Or not a moral issue?

Like genuinely does anyone understand how someone could think that?

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a milk cow and it dies of old age. Would it be morally wrong for me to eat it? Just throwing the meat away is morally right?

It's not a question on how the animals are treated. It's just the morality of eating meat.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Sure but 99.99% of store meat is not this. Its factory farmed animals stacked in pens living in their own piss and shit their entire lives just before they are slaughtered young

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[–] spacesatan@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The downvotes on this are both funny and telling. I like it so its good. Asking if its bad is bad.

I'm actually starting to see the point in a weird way. If they think about as critically as a dog or a cat maybe it doesn't make sense to hold their decisions to a higher moral standard. We don't call it immoral when non-human animals rape other non-human animals because they aren't capable of the level of thought required to conceptualize moral decisions. But, uh, neither are significant amounts of humans apparently.

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[–] nile_istic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Wish these examples had been ranked as well as asked individually. Like "place these in order from most to least morally acceptable". Cuz the death penalty and viewing porn are morally unacceptable to 34% and 52% respectively, but I think if you really wanted to know how cooked we are as a society, you'd wanna know what percentage think the latter is genuinely morally worse than the former.

Still interesting though. And, ya know. Horrifically depressing.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Before you all get up in arms about this, just read the bottom left corner.

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[–] charokol@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What’s the difference between “morally acceptable” and “not a moral issue”?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

A divorce could be seen as not a moral issue, but as bad for the kids for example.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This, on top of many others, shows how mind-bent in a bad way Americans are.

No wonder they have a shithead for "President".

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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Married people having an affair is not morrally wrong for 7% of the people?

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I’m guessing that 7% of people have had an affair.

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[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

These things make me wonder if some sort of bias is clouding my self judgement. Im against the death penalty, think abortions are a medical decision that one should make for themselves and dont think pornography or gambling is a moral issue, but a vice that should be managed carefully.

But apparently there is only a 50/50 chance of me being the above, and it throws me for a loop.

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