Atlas Moral Acceptability Poll

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Sobering numbers on out-of-wedlock births. I

Also, is it just me, or is there something a bit laughable about the fact that a majority of Americans say that it's OK to have children out of wedlock, yet very few who will claim that having an affair is acceptable? I'm not saying that it's incoherent, 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 think that's usually been the case, historically and cross-culturally, that adultery is judged more harshly than having a child outside of marriage.  Marriage typically involves an (often explicit) promise to faithfulness, which also works to safeguard the marriage as stable for any children involved.  It can also be a matter of wanting to show some respect to the parent-child relationship in whatever form it takes, and/or not wanting to judge those who are doing their best to raise a child as a single parent - especially as in the present day when most people know someone in that situation. Plus there are many who do not want to encourage abortion by making it unacceptable to have a child outside of marriage. 

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The idea of the morality of cloning being a matter of consent is a bit humorous. Not sure how a clone would consent to it before they exist.

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I'll repeat this point: why do so many people consider fur to be acceptable? Do you guys know nothing about the process of obtaining it? Because the idea that you do know about it yet simply don't give a sh**t is really too disturbing.

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Hello? 60 (!) people voted that this is acceptable.

I voted acceptable on the assumption that there are probably ethical ways of obtaining fur. This might have been a dumb assumption, and if it is, I'd change my vote to unacceptable.

I'd say that yes, there are morally acceptable ways of obtaining fur, but almost all fur on the market isn't actually produced ethically (as ssuperflash said, the animals are skinned alive), which is why I generally consider buying clothing made of animal fur to be morally unacceptable.

In the same way, I don't think eating meat is necessarily wrong or morally unacceptable, but since nearly all of the meat that's on the market right now has been produced in morally problematic ways, I refrain from eating meat altogether.

Not everyone necesarily believes in the concept of animal rights, either

Who mentioned "rights"?