Atlas Moral Acceptability Poll

[Antonio the Sixth]

Polygamy, cloning, fur, cheating and the death penalty are unacceptable. Abstained on gambling, but if I had to choose I'd say unacceptable as well. Everything else is acceptable.

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.

A stable, committed relationship doesn't require marriage. Indeed, the former without the latter is increasingly common. While this trend might be unfortunate in some respect, calling it "morally unacceptable" strikes me as a bit of a stretch.

[Antonio the Sixth]

And most of all - one cannot say that lack of consent automatically makes something immoral and simultaneously support abortion.

Consent is required for concious, thinking beings. An embryo can't do that.

So if a person is unconscious you can do whatever you want to them? Pretty sure that's the opposite of what the consent movement is arguing for.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Polygamy
Acceptable: 53.0%

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[Antonio the Sixth]

I voted unacceptable on sex between an unmarried man and woman but acceptable on having a baby outside marriage. If non-marital sex happens and pregnancy eventuates from it then the moral thing to do is to bring it safely to term. I see I don't seem to be alone in this.

I took the question as asking whether it's acceptable to deliberately plan on having a baby outside marriage. I'd hope there aren't many people (aside from certain Atlas posters *coughcough*) who would argue that not interrupting a pregnancy is ever unacceptable.