Morality Poll

[Thomas R.]

Originally Posted by tvdxer

I'm already surprised at the results: 19% of people DON'T think murder is unethical, almost 70% think it's okay to insult God, and less than 20% think that a minor disobeying his parents is ethically perfectly OK. What is this world coming to?

I was surprised by that too. I think some people might not know they can choose more than one or miss one. However the one for "murder" is right next to the one for "rape" so I guess two people are strongly against rape, but not so much against murder. That's a bit odd, but I suppose I can almost see that. I can maybe imagine a situation where a murder would appear to save lives, but I can't imagine a situation where a rape would do anything positive in any sense.

On the minor disobeying parents I didn't select that as immoral because I know of too many situations where a parent wants their kid to do something immoral or dangerous. I knew a kid whose mother taught him to steal things. Although I suppose if you take that out of the equation, and the parent is basically good, than okay.

[Spotted1]

Murder, rape, and assault were the three that stood out as being generally wrong. I missed petty theft somehow when I was going over the list but on considering it after the fact, I probably would've checked it, too. I also selected abortion, although I'm only opposed to elective abortions.