A Boring Dystopia

this is so fucked

I don't think this is a list of priorities like the title claims, it appears to be ordered by disapproval, unless I'm missing something.

Wow. Does this really wanna tell me that roughly every 2nd US-american I would in the US of A is a cult-loving, children-spanking, homophobic, misogynistic silly shitstick of an excuse for a decent human being? Explains the "president".

Did I mention: wow?

Can only hope this is some totally stupid agenda-pushing crap, and only 20 people were interviewed. In front of some church or so.

75% of Americans think hitting children is chill???

Ok so a third of people think voluntary assisted dying is wrong but two thirds of people think the death penalty is totally fine.

The fuck is wrong with people?

Murder animals at scale in the most horrid conditions? 4%

Watching consensual videos of naked people? 54%

Truly a moral dystopia

I've actually heard several different women try to argue that if a man even just looks at pornography it somehow counts as "cheating". They were all quite upset when no one agreed with them but seemed unwilling to change their opinion. They did not appreciate my laughter but in all fairness I genuinely thought they were trying to make a joke

More people thinking homosexuality is wrong than the fucking death penalty...

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.

2/3 think being extremely rich is not a moral issue,
and almost 2/3 think homosexuality is.

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.

Porn ranks higher than abortion? What?

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

I honestly didn't realize that beating children was still so popular.

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.

I realized some years ago that most Americans view "morality" as almost exclusively being about sex. Raising moral concerns about things like having a job where you build missiles to be dropped on schools is likely to be met not so much with disagreement as confusion, about how that could possibly be a moral issue if it's both legal and doesn't involve your genitals.

This graph encapsulates precisely why I've always felt disconnected from the culture around me.

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’ve felt America’s moral bankruptcy my entire life

More people think it's morally wrong to get a divorce than to have a billion dollars. Fuck me we're screwed.

this is what happens when you dismantle education. good job, conservatives. the collapse can't come fast enough.

Wow people don’t realize how morally wrong it is to have billionaires. I guess we’re surrounded by morons

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

We really are a failed society aren't we?

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.