All acceptable except for the death penalty, having an affair, and the three that involve being mean to animals.
Agreed. Obviously, there is more nuance to some of these situations. Gambling can be unethical, but it is the exploitative enabling which is the true culprit. Suicide can be a very selfish act, but it does not follow that every instance is immoral. Even adultery could be acceptable in a scenario where the other partner approves of it, but I assume not for the purpose of this poll.
Animal abuse and capital punishment are always immoral.
Fur used to make clothing is stripped from live animals who spend their lives in confinement, and are left to bleed to death. Experimentation on laboratory animals is a similar exercise in cruelty and acts as an impediment to medical research nearly as often as it aids. It is wholly unnecessary to test frivolous cosmetics on animals. As far as medical research is concerned, results from animal testing always need to be corroborated by human subjects before they can be used to produce pharmaceuticals. This is not to say that some relevant information has not been gleaned from testing on animals, and it puts us in the ambiguous position of utilizing that research while recognizing that it is of increasingly diminishing value. Hopefully, it will be rendered entirely obsolete soon enough, and perhaps all that will be left will be the tobacco companies, still pumping cigarette smoke into the lungs of dogs in their ruthless effort to cast doubt on the link between tobacco and cancer.
I just think that it's telling that more of us are bothered by a betrayal of our romantic ideals about marriage than we are about the failure of marriage as a structure for sustaining stable families.
I'm not so sure I see it in a romantic light so much as it is a violation of trust, a form of corruption on the personal level.
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