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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/
More people thinking homosexuality is wrong than the fucking death penalty...
ITT a good reminder that Lemmy is an echo chamber
I dunno it seems to match up with what most of my IRL friends believe in.
I get porn might not be healthy, especially porn addiction. But I do not get why it is morally wrong.
The industry is exploitative.
It's a good argument but somehow I suspect Americans find it morally wrong for other, less logical reasons such as religion or prudishness.
How is eating meat not morally wrong? Or not a moral issue?
Like genuinely does anyone understand how someone could think that?
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.
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.
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
Yes, and we can argue all day long about the morality of that specific way of raising animals for meat, but that doesn't touch the question of whether or not it's moral to eat meat in general.
The submission says that this is a list of moral priorities, like itβs a list of what the American people think is most immoral to least immoral.
But it sounds like the data is listing what things are most widely agreed on to be immoral, to least agreed upon. Which is not the same thing.
75% of Americans think hitting children is chill???
A ton of cultures do, unfortunately. That said, it's also just bad parenting because (1) kids model behavior, so they will "punish" other kids physically and (2) punishment is one of the least effective forms of power, often producing public compliance but not private acceptance.
Just an fyi in case you need that in you back pocket when someone tries to argue in favor of hitting kids.
This graph encapsulates precisely why I've always felt disconnected from the culture around me.
I am very interested as to how they make these decisions. What framework leads them to believe these things? What is their reasoning here? I understand that it might not be reasoned, but if it is reasoned then it may be fascinating to know how these conclusions were reached.
2/3 think being extremely rich is not a moral issue,
and almost 2/3 think homosexuality is.
This stood out to me as well. We might be fucked
Murder animals at scale in the most horrid conditions? 4%
Watching consensual videos of naked people? 54%
Truly a moral dystopia
It's almost as if the country that was settled by all the outcast religious weirdos from Europe, somehow ended up with twisted religious morals.
Ok so a third of people think voluntary assisted dying is wrong but two thirds of people think the death penalty is totally fine.
The fuck is wrong with people?
Alternate headline: "Americans objectively bad at morality across the board"
Bonus headline: "Don't spank it, hit your kids instead"
What about spanking my mistress?
Is she taking birth control? That's the more objectionable part to some people.
Would be interesting to see a comparison with other countries. Here in Sweden, it's illegal to spank children, and most people are OK with that, AFAIK. Abortion is also not frowned upon in any way. We would have wildly different results on this chart.
Wow. Does this really wanna tell me that roughly every 2nd US-american I would in the US of A is a cult-loving, children-spanking, homophobic, misogynistic silly shitstick of an excuse for a decent human being? Explains the "president".
Did I mention: wow?
Can only hope this is some totally stupid agenda-pushing crap, and only 20 people were interviewed. In front of some church or so.
I can guarantee you the people who voted these things as being "morally wrong" only believe it's wrong if someone else is doing it
Here's the functional basis of my system of morality:
isDeceitful() ? immoral : moral;
Try viewing that list through this lens. I don't give a shit about peoples' choices if they don't have an appreciable halo effect.
Iβve felt Americaβs moral bankruptcy my entire life