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/
It makes me so mad how much worse alcohol is than weed and yet people think weed is morally worse, fml
Imprisoning, torturing, and killing animals = A-OK
2 consenting adults of the same gender having sex = whoa, too far!
Its completely absur that assisted suicide (35%) is almost the same as the death penalty (34%)
Some of these percentages are really depressing.
this the culture war bs conservatives are indoctrinated to be concerned with. notice how none of them even mentioning tax, public services, insurance , billionaires.
This, on top of many others, shows how mind-bent in a bad way Americans are.
No wonder they have a shithead for “President”.
From what I understand watching pornography is a more complex issue, and it depends on a number of factors.
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.
As a dane, this explains a lot with all the weird stuff you hear about the US these days.
I honestly didn’t realize that beating children was still so popular.
2/3rds of Americans supported a child rapist becoming President.
Twice.
As a parent of two very strong willed kids, I will say that spanking (distinct from beating) has to be at least on the table. It’s not the go-to, but the fallback if all else fails, and it does represent my failure to reach them, but sometimes it’s the only thing that gets them to understand how serious something is.
In contrast, their (ultra Christian) grandma would call me soft, she used to go straight to spanking without warning, she felt that you shouldn’t threaten, just do, and they’d learn soon enough. I would much rather threaten a spanking than actually do it… And it works, at this point I haven’t spanked either kid in a couple years, though I have threatened it maybe twice in the last year.
Yes, CPS? This person right here.
Spanking doesn’t work, and it’s actively bad for your kids
I cannot fathom wanting your kid to be worried that you might ever hurt them
Sincerely, fuck you. As a person who experienced beating (and other physical and psychological abuse by multiple family members).
Even if you (in your subjective opinion) beat your child just the right amount, you will probably overstep the boundary at some point. My dad used to occasionally beat me, sometimes he had a reason (which I figured out from context or was told from someone else, I was never explained what I did wrong) and sometimes, I feel like he didn’t. He once tried to suffocate me with the sofa cuishoning (the only reason I survived was because I tilted my head enough I was able to breathe), and I still don’t know why he chose to do that.
I also had to come to school with a visible bruise around my eye (and was afraid the social services would be alerted, as at 13 I already knew that, as an Autistic, I wouldn’t be treated well).
There was also some psychological abuse from my mother, which I won’t write about here because this is turning into a disorganized rant (but I feel like she enjoyed my pain, while my dad didn’t).
I don’t think I learned anything from being abused, apart from being quiet and avoiding confrontation whenever possible.
Also, “bare ass” spanking (which I haven’t experienced) is sexual abuse and no one could convince me otherwise.
YOU are normalizing even worse types of abuse, but somehow people are fine with it.
it’s the only thing that gets them to understand how serious something is
No, also spanking is child abuse (for all the people upvoting this shit).
Or you know, you could break the generational trauma. Just cuz you don’t do it as much as me ma did doesn’t make it right.
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
At minimum online gambling should be outlawed. That whole industry seems to make the issue so much worse compared to how it was historically.
Gambling is a scam, but I wouldn’t trust my government to ban it. The way governments see these things, they may as well as ban Fallout: New Vegas for having gambling-related minigames. Or chance-based videogames. Good luck reasoning with your government on how these things are different. You’ll be hit back with countless arguments on how you are wrong.
Also, when gambling is legal, it’s taxed and regulated. When it’s illegal, it still happens but now the government has to spend money to stop it. Lose-lose situation.
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
Gambling is addictive and can ruin lives.
Addiction ruins lives, like practically everything that triggers dopamine, gambling can be very addictive.
Addicts are going to find an addiction, it’s part of their wiring. You can change your addiction to another less harmful addiction, or rewire yourself with a lot of work.
That’s not really true. Anyone can become addicted to something. There’s not some “addict wiring” that some people are born with and some aren’t. Obviously some things increase your risk factor for addiction, like having ADHD or a traumatic childhood, but even those are correlations, not causation.
America is a fascinating place to me
Less people think being gay is wrong than having an abortion?
How progressive
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)
probably meant anti-abortion. conservatives are obsessed with death penalty, they never question it all, ever notice they never do it any platform either social media or the MSMs. they also fantasized like a fetish about using thier “guns” as self-defense to shoot people.
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)
This is why when people talk about AI not really being intelligent, but just glorified word association, I say, is that really any different from the average person?
