The Glade 4.0

I find the fact that 34% of their respondents answered medical testing on animals is morally unacceptable to be laughable, sad, and ignorant....

/weeps

Interesting that so many people think that having sex out of wedlock is fine but having a baby out of wedlock is not. You can't completely seperate those two without resorting to abortion.

Sometimes Khross, the questions aren't as deep and detailed as you think they are. I don't think anyone believes that these questions are the end all be all answer.

What you are posturing makes no sense. How can a question be an "answer".

I started to answer this and then realized these are all absolutes. Under various circumstances, each becomes either acceptable or wrong. This is a tool to allow the test giver to feel smugly morally superior because they can question every answer with a situational probe to make the test taker feel awkward or wrong. The only way to pass the test is to ignore it as the piece of manipulative trash it is.

Gallup recently released the results of a poll that probed Americans' opinions on the morality of certain behaviors. How do your own views compare? (I've spoilered the actual poll results, so people can answer before seeing what Gallup found.)

Doctor assisted suicide: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable. Very strict conditions, etc, but there are times I believe it to be right.

Gay or lesbian relations: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable.

Abortion: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Harder. Acceptable. But the boundary between cell and being is something I dont claim to know. Even still, there are circumstances where I would say its acceptable no matter where that line is, in the same way as we have moral conundrums that legitimise killing adults.

Having a baby outside of marriage: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable.

Sex between an unmarried man and woman: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable.

Buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Hm. I'd say acceptable, but conditional; on use of the animal, rearing conditions, etc.

Medical testing on animals: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable. As above. Emphasis on medical.

Gambling: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable, but stupid. I guess I might answer differently if you asked about running a gambling company.


Medical research using stem cells obtained from human embryos: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
I dont understand this one. An 'embryo' is a viable fertilised & developing child or just an egg or what?

Cloning animals: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable, but only because I dont understand the details. How does it differ from breeding an animal?

The death penalty: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Wrong. Legal systems falliability too high.

Divorce: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable.

Suicide: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Acceptable.

Cloning humans: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
If my understanding of cloning is correct - that you could, if it worked, grow a genetically identical human, but that it would be a different person, based on experience - then I'd say Acceptable, but I can't think of any circumstances where the expense of doing so would be justified that wasnt reprehensible (i.e. spare parts for rich people).

Polygamy, when one husband has more than one wife at the same time: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Not my cup of tea, but provided all consensual, why not?

Married men and women having an affair: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?
Wrong.

Buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur: Morally Acceptable or Morally Wrong?

Leather is a useful material with good tensile strength, reasonable durability, flexible and protective at the same time. Fur is just vanity, someone wanting to look pretty.

"I love the animals."
Hey, I love the animals too. I love my doggy. He's so cute. My fluffy little dog.. He's so cute-
There's the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don't we?

Yeah. Why don't we just have animal auditions. Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually.
"What are you?"
"I'm an otter."
"And what do you do?" "I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands." "You're free to go." "And what are you?" "I'm a cow." "Get in the **** truck, ok pal!" "But I'm an animal." "You're a baseball glove! Get on that truck!" "I'm an animal, I have rights!" "Yeah, here's yer **** cousin, get on the **** truck, pal!" We kill the cows to make jackets out of them and then we kill each other for the jackets we made out of the cows.