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/
Gambling at 50% "not a moral issue" is crazy
this is what happens when you dismantle education. good job, conservatives. the collapse can't come fast enough.
this the culture war bs conservatives are indoctrinated to be concerned with. notice how none of them even mentioning tax, public services, insurance , billionaires.
some of these are "it depends". for example, using drugs like marijuana, alcohol, or participating in gambling isn't a moral issue by itself, but the industry that advertises and facilitates it is.
also, porn can be unethically or ethically sourced, so there I would hesitate between "not a moral issue" and "morally wrong"
People will just say whatever they think their peers want to hear. What people say doesn't tell you what they think or do.
Definitely more than 50% of people watch porn, despite this. A significant % of 'homosexuality is immoral' types have grindr accounts. Many women who say abortions are wrong also say their case was special and unique which makes it okay. That using marijuana one would definitely be higher before it become widely legal. Gambling too would've had more disapproval before private gambling rings were allowed to advertise at sport games.
These stats reflect public policy, rather than guide it (to a large extent) is my point.
The morality of consuming marijuana is proportional to its legality though.
I will say that it's highly immoral to consume marijuana of unknown source, or sourced from a drug cartel that assassinates people that get in their way of delivering marihuana to you.
But if the source of marijuana is just some tax paying dude that grows marijuana legally like you would any other crop, I don't see any moral issue.
At most you could argue "the resources to grow it could be spent on food", but that is true for literally every form of entertainment. And "but it is unhealthy, and then we all have to pay for your poor health choices", which is actually fair. But way more moral than the drug-cartel sourced one.
For alcohol is different though, since it directly causes antisocial behavior on the consumer. Consuming alcohol is as immoral as whatever immoral acts you do while drunk.
None of this surprises me. Some of this is probably a uniquely American perspective with shitty American priorities (marijuana, death penalty).
But, without any other data from any other country there isn't any quantifiable context. This gets a good beat on America the nation, from one american to another..... but there's no clue about what priorites here are uniquely American vs just modern society/culture. There's literally no data being presented here to make that comparison. Like, poll a middle east country, and many will say it's immoral to be gay, way more immoral to watch porn. Poll India, and it'll be immoral to eat meat. Poll the UK, they probably have the same opinions on spankings, being rich....
Different countries have different, and arguably equally, stupid/fuckedup priorities. In that vein, anyone looking at this and going "omg, Americans are so dumb" is pretty fucking dumb. For all you know, your modern western country might have the exact same priorites, and be just be just as fucked up. There's no evidence here that proves/disproves that. So stay off the high horse.
Eating a meal is morally wrong!?
*Meat
Eating a meal is morally meat?
That was a typo. I meant “meeting a meal is morally wrong”
75% of Americans think hitting children is chill???
Before you all get up in arms about this, just read the bottom left corner.
Spanking the monkey is worse than spanking children?
this is so fucked
Thanks for sharing, now I really want to go cry. I hate this country.
On the plus side you now share the opinion of the rest of the world, so you have being correct going for you.
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 maybe 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.
What’s the difference between “morally acceptable” and “not a moral issue”?
some decisions do not have moral weight, they are simply preferences that don't reflect on a person's fundamental character. like whether you like spicy food, or the color of shirt you wear
Its completely absur that assisted suicide (35%) is almost the same as the death penalty (34%)
If you support the death penalty, it would be really fucking weird to turn around and oppose assisted suicide.
The Venn diagram of "accepts assisted suicide" should be a circle around "accepts death penalty."
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