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What is considered morally acceptable around the world?

Makes perfect sense. The higher the religious zeal, the more strongly people feel about the issues. Europe is relaxed on most of the hotbutton issues here in America.
 
So what I wonder is how "extramarital affair" was defined. Polys would not consider their relationships extramarital (in most cases) but others might. Most polys would classified extramarital affairs as ones that are hidden from their SO's.

I think I would be very interested if the same people who were asked the moral/immoral questions were also asked if such things should be legal or illegal.
 
Wow. I'm glad I don't live in nigeria. wtf is wrong with those people?
 
tacomancer said:
Wow. I'm glad I don't live in nigeria. wtf is wrong with those people?
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"Christianity is a major religion in Nigeria. Christians comprise between 50%[1] and 54.8%[2] of the population. Christians are dominant in the southern and central region in Nigeria. According to the Pew Research Center, Nigeria has the largest Christian population of any country in Africa, with more than 85 million persons in Nigeria belonging to the church with various denominations.[2] The numbers of Christians in Nigeria has grown from 21.4% in 1953 to 52.8% in 2010.[2]

Since the introduction of Sharia penal law in some of the Northern states, violence towards non-Muslims has increased.[3] ..."

Wikipedia.

Religious zeal.
 
joG said:
It was This Pew survey sorprised me somewhat and I now understand better, why questions I thought had been answered years ago are still so much on the table.

What is considered morally acceptable around the world?

Global Views on Morality | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project
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Wow, Canada is about as liberal as you can get...


Global Views on Morality | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project


We, for some reason have no problem with gay marriage, but sex outside of marriage is frowned on.

I'm kind of proud of this
 
Interesting! I was surprised that gambling was rated so highly unacceptable. That would rate pretty low on my list of morally unacceptable things. :shrug:
 
ChrisL said:
Interesting! I was surprised that gambling was rated so highly unacceptable. That would rate pretty low on my list of morally unacceptable things. :shrug:
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The fact that murder isn't even listed and gambling is way up the list should tell you how ridiculous the OP is.
 
maquiscat said:
So what I wonder is how "extramarital affair" was defined. Polys would not consider their relationships extramarital (in most cases) but others might. Most polys would classified extramarital affairs as ones that are hidden from their SO's.

I think I would be very interested if the same people who were asked the moral/immoral questions were also asked if such things should be legal or illegal.
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I have had the same question a number of times wit PEW and other survey institutions. Questions are oft understood differently by different people and between cultures all the more. I did not check this one, but usually PEW is rather straight forward and most institutes will have a questionnaire somewhere on the website.
 
tlmorg02 said:
Makes perfect sense. The higher the religious zeal, the more strongly people feel about the issues. Europe is relaxed on most of the hotbutton issues here in America.
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You are right that Europe has a more relativistic approach to behavioral codes. That does not mean that they don't get very excited about misbehavior. It is just oft different misbehavior than what Americans get excited about.
 
ChrisL said:
Interesting! I was surprised that gambling was rated so highly unacceptable. That would rate pretty low on my list of morally unacceptable things. :shrug:
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People are funny.
 
Manc Skipper said:
"Christianity is a major religion in Nigeria. Christians comprise between 50%[1] and 54.8%[2] of the population. Christians are dominant in the southern and central region in Nigeria. According to the Pew Research Center, Nigeria has the largest Christian population of any country in Africa, with more than 85 million persons in Nigeria belonging to the church with various denominations.[2] The numbers of Christians in Nigeria has grown from 21.4% in 1953 to 52.8% in 2010.[2]

Since the introduction of Sharia penal law in some of the Northern states, violence towards non-Muslims has increased.[3] ..."

Wikipedia.

Religious zeal.
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So much so, that they quite often make martyrs there; both the Christians and the Muslims love that.
 
Muhammed said:
No, just a propaganda article doing cherry picking in order to disingenuously try to make a point.
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Which point? That that the US is usually more worried about the topics than say France? Or that that is the reason gays and there problems are such a frequent discussion point in American fora?
 
joG said:
Which point? That that the US is usually more worried about the topics than say France? Or that that is the reason gays and there problems are such a frequent discussion point in American fora?
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The author of the article selectively left out significant moral issues to try to prove a point that only fools and idiots who cannot think logically would fall for.

It's called confirmation bias, AKA cherry picking.
 
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joG said:
I have had the same question a number of times wit PEW and other survey institutions. Questions are oft understood differently by different people and between cultures all the more. I did not check this one, but usually PEW is rather straight forward and most institutes will have a questionnaire somewhere on the website.
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The questions are given on the PEW website (in the results, but in a structured format that I think is clear was as asked). Of course, this kind of complication is unavoidable in social sciences and really just something that has to be considered. I suspect just the factor of translating the questions in to the various local languages subtly alters the meaning of some of them and even in one language, asking about "homosexuality" could be taken to refer to either orientation or act/lifestyle by different respondents and thus give potentially different results.
 
Muhammed said:
The author of the article selectively left out significant moral issues to try to prove a point. That only fools idiots who cannot think logically.
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Do you mean the Washington Post article or the PEW research? Your initial objection was that murder and rape wasn't included but that was a choice by PEW (and not an unreasonable one I'd suggest - I was about highly disputed moral questions). The Washington Post did pick out a sub-set of the PEW questions but I suspect that was fairly honest, being the most interesting ones in the context of their target audience and they may well have had limited space. You could question that they didn't even mention any of the other questions but they did clearly link directly back to the source material which is better than a lot of mainstream media ever do when reporting research or surveys.

Muhammed said:
It's called confirmation bias, AKA cherry picking.
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Cherry picking possibly but it's not confirmation bias though. Confirmation bias is generally subconscious and I don't see any in this article - it doesn't really present any conclusions to be biased about at all.
 
Muhammed said:
The author of the article selectively left out significant moral issues to try to prove a point that only fools and idiots who cannot think logically would fall for.

It's called confirmation bias, AKA cherry picking.
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Possibly. What issues would you want to have brought forth?
 
HonestJoe said:
The questions are given on the PEW website (in the results, but in a structured format that I think is clear was as asked). Of course, this kind of complication is unavoidable in social sciences and really just something that has to be considered. I suspect just the factor of translating the questions in to the various local languages subtly alters the meaning of some of them and even in one language, asking about "homosexuality" could be taken to refer to either orientation or act/lifestyle by different respondents and thus give potentially different results.
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That is quite true. The problem is basically the same in any sociological questionnaire. And it is especially difficult in cross culture comparisons.
 
Muhammed said:
Murder and rape didn't even get on the charts????
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Muhammed said:
The fact that murder isn't even listed and gambling is way up the list should tell you how ridiculous the OP is.
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Might be due to the fact that murder and rape aren't as subjective as the others, therefore they would be scoring at a statistical 100%, so why bother including them?
 
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