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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%).
🤡 country
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/
Wow people don’t realize how morally wrong it is to have billionaires. I guess we’re surrounded by morons
My family's from the South. I have seen some shit you wouldn't believe.
But 4-in-10 finding homosexuality "morally wrong" is jaw dropping, to me. Another 23%, just "acceptable." In 2026?
WTF.
I thought homophobes were dying out, but apparently not.
"Morally acceptable" and "not a moral issue" combine into the greater "not morally wrong" category. Personally I'd put it in "not moral issue," but I don't assume any I'll will on the part of people saying it's "acceptable"
You should look at the 2024 California same sex referendum. Lots of counties voted no, including Merced and Fresno.
Americans are staggeringly conservative
sadly thanks to the pedophile-in-chief... homophobia has made a resurgence in vocal hate groups.
Yup. It was slowly going away and being ostracized by the wider society. Companies never truly supported LGBT+ but at least, due to the social pressure, they were acquiescing to demands to respect their right to exist and have representation in society.
Then Pedo in Chief comes along, starts saying the quiet part out loud, and every cockroach in this country who was being rightfully shamed into silence was given newfound confidence to openly be the hateful, narrow-minded bigot they always were behind closed doors. The social pressure was gone and with it the levees broke.
As a dane, this explains a lot with all the weird stuff you hear about the US these days.
US society is fundamentally broken and has been for a long time.
I honestly didn't realize that beating children was still so popular.
I believe your morals are morally wrong.
I would love to see how the abortion and death penalty categories overlap.
Very little. (Unless you mean anti abortion and pro death penalty, that Venn diagram is a circle)
America is a fascinating place to me
Less people think being gay is wrong than having an abortion?
How progressive
I think I’m heading back toward gambling being morally wrong. I mean, it’s not, but it can be self-destructive, and willingly work with immoral entities - most companies that profit from gambling are exploiting people’s weaknesses to harm them. That’s a whole lot of immoral all over a mildly amusing activity
Gambling in the micro is not morally wrong. Games between friends with stakes and the like is perfectly fine.
Running a casino or sportsbook is almost certainly exploiting problem gamblers in a way that is unequivocally morally wrong.
It's not just damage. It seeds corruption, as is plain as day with Polymarket now.
I do believe it has crossed the line to "public hazard"
Imagine bankrupting a casino when most of your customers are addicts 👀
The only thing worse than legal gambling is illegal gambling.
Addicts are addicts, they can't be helped and must help themselves. We all must learn to control our dopamine receptors, they are batshit crazy.
I don’t even know if that’s true in the same way that it is for a drug user. Making drugs legal and safe is a good for society. Making gambling legal has made society worse in terms of bankruptcies and financial stress.
Gambling addicts definitely need support but allowing problem gamblers to be taken advantage of is something that legal gambling does that legal recreational drug use does not
I really don't understand how people can reconcile this kind of data with a positive opinion of humanity
40% of people saying 'spanking children is not a moral issue' is probably the worst datapoint here. At least 4 in 10 people are fully just animals blundering around operating on instinct and following what feels good. And that's not even counting the other people whose idea of morality is just 'what is my visceral reaction' who had a visceral reaction.
"Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans." - (Fallout quote)
The submission says that this is a list of moral priorities, like it’s 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.
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