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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/
The US population has some messed up opinions
When I'm her death, and suffering intolerably, it's immoral for me to check out 2 weeks early? They'd rather see me continue suffering
A fetus has a genetic abnormality that will ensure the child will suffer for years and then die a horrible death? Sorry, abortion is morally wrong! The baby will have to suffer!
Come to think of it, most of these fucked up opinions are religion driven. Imaginary Jeebus said it was wrong, so that settles it!
Can't afford a baby? Doesn't matter, the baby must be born, it would be immoral to abort. Once the baby is born, though, fuck that baby, we don't care, we won't help you raise it you slut, you should have controlled those sinful urges!
The US is such a fucked up place
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.
lemmy or the chart?
IRL trust fund pretend progressives match up with a lot of lemmy talking points.
but most normal working middle class people i know, are far more moderate and way less angry. because they are mostly focused on problems in their own lives and don't have time for agonizing about federal politics of the issues in other states that don't impact them. they are mostly interested in good economic policy, education, infrastructure, and corruption in their local/state politics because that is what impacts their day to day life.
the hot topics here, like palestine, trans rights, war in iran, are not something they really think about because it has nothing to do with them and is very abstract and distance from them. all the really know about this stuff is that weirdo angry people shout about it a lot on the TV/radio, and they think it's annoying and pointless because it has nothing to do with anything in their life and they are angry that all this nonsense is being shoved down their throats when they just want better schools and roads and job opportunities.
Fuck puritans.
Doggystyle
It makes sense that in the country were Death Penalty is considered less morally wrong than Viewing Pornography or Homosexuality, most people support (or at least don't care about) Israel mass murdering children for the "crime" of being born Palestinian.
That moral priority alone says that for most Americans, life is less sacred than what people do with their sexy bits alone or with consenting adults.
No wonder America keeps making war and killing millions.
Most nuanced take, clearly based upon a deep understanding of American culture and politics. We are all just bad people who love war and genocide. There isnβt one party that gave all the power to check the president away and let him do whatever he wants, and there arenβt protests with millions of people regularly happening because we all love it.
Last I checked Ds and Rs support Israeli genocide. Or if its too recent for you just rewind and you will find obama droning down whole wedding parties because someone didnt support US hegemony (aka was a "terrorist"). Of course Bush committed war crimes all throughout the Middle East too. Voting Blue harder isn't going to fix your problems
Prudism is a blight that rots the fabric of society.
Prudism by itself whilst bad isn't all that bad.
No, the Evil part is the Love For Ending The Life Of Other People.
Prudism alongside this is just hypocrisy - after all, unless one is reading a very, very special Bible, Christ said "Turn the other cheek", not "Hang them by their neck until they're dead".
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.
Mine is based on the consent and consensus of the other sentient beings involved. For example, drinking alcohol around people who are cool with you being intoxicated, or doing it alone, is perfectly fine. Getting blackout drunk around people who do not consent to taking care of you is not.
All forms of hierarchical authority are never moral because they always violate consent and consensus. All governments, corporations, and organized religions are immoral.
Mine is a tad more complicated.
Make a list of all the possible ways to accomplish something that you can think, sort them from the ones that will benefit other living things the most, then the ones that will do the least harm to other living things, and at the bottom, the ones that will do the most harm to other living things.
When the harm is similar, put first within that range the ones that will do the least harm to those who are cloest to you.
Once you have the list, try to do what's at the top of the list. If you can't, move down the list until you can do what you need to do.
Would the most moral way to kill someone I personally don't like involve donating all their organs to hospitals? Would the most moral way to get a billion dollars be counterfeiting?
I think your system fails to address that some things are always immoral.
What does that translate to in English?
Is it deceitful? Left. Otherwise: right
This graph encapsulates precisely why I've always felt disconnected from the culture around me.
More people thinking homosexuality is wrong than the fucking death penalty...
...or eating meat ! it's mindblowing
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
40% is closer to 1/3 than 2/3, but your point still stands. The fact that 40 think homosexuality is morally wrong is nuts. It's that damn religion thing.
I wasn't talking about the "morally wrong" statistic.
Only 37% rightfully think it's not a question of morality at all (because WHY WOULD IT BE? It's not a choice you can make!).
So 63% think it is a question of morals, which is what I meant by "almost 2/3".
Appreciate your clarification, and I probably agree with you.
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.
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.
Iβve felt Americaβs moral bankruptcy my entire life
Murder animals at scale in the most horrid conditions? 4%
Watching consensual videos of naked people? 54%
Truly a moral dystopia
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.
Spanking the monkey is worse than spanking children?