Your Opinion of Moral Issues

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Birth Control (91%): Acceptable
Divorce (73%): Acceptable
Pre-Marital Sex (69%): Acceptable
Gambling (65%): Acceptable
Gay or Lesbian Relations (63%): Acceptable
Having a Baby out of Marriage (62%): Acceptable (though not desirable)
Human Embryo Stem-Cell Research (61%): Acceptable
The Death Penalty (58%): Unacceptable
Doctor-Assisted Suicide (57%): Acceptable
Animal Fur Clothing (57%): Unacceptable
Medical Testing on Animals (51%): Acceptable
Abortion (43%): Acceptable
Sex Between Teenagers (36%): Acceptable
Pornography (36%): Acceptable
Cloning Animals (32%): Unacceptable
Suicide (18%): Unacceptable
Polygamy (17%): Unacceptable
Cloning Humans (14%): Unacceptable
Extramartial Affairs (9%): Unacceptable
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I'm not sure why people are so upset that divorce is widely accepted. It's absolutely necessary for relationships that end up being abusive. Even in relationships that aren't abusive, though, sometimes people grow apart. There's no way to predict that, and relationships that feel as though they will last forever can change, since people change. People should try to marry someone that they do feel as though they could spend their life with, but it's really impossible to predict what will happen in the distant future.

Using marijuana: Acceptable, though I don't use it.
Drinking alcohol: Acceptable, but being violent/harmful while drunk certainly isn't.
Tattoos: Acceptable, but not something I'm into.
Piercings (apart from female earlobes): Acceptable, though again, I'm not really into it.
Cursing: Acceptable
Transgenderism: Acceptable, but it's really not a moral issue.
Prostitution: Acceptable, but potentially problematic.
Casual/meaningless sex (not necessarily the same thing as sex outside marriage): Acceptable
Kissing outside of a relationship*: Acceptable
Using hard drugs: Unacceptable, though addiction is complicated, and I'm not sure we can really make this a moral issue.

* - Seriously? Even if two people are dating, but not yet in a relationship?

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I'm not sure why people are so upset that divorce is widely accepted. It's absolutely necessary for relationships that end up being abusive. Even in relationships that aren't abusive, though, sometimes people grow apart. There's no way to predict that, and relationships that feel as though they will last forever can change, since people change. People should try to marry someone that they do feel as though they could spend their life with, but it's really impossible to predict what will happen in the distant future.

Define "grow apart". Does it just mean losing the intense attraction one feels when one is in a young relationship? If so, that can absolutely be predicted, and shouldn't necessarily be fought against: "comfortable" can sometimes be better than "exciting".

I was talking more about the fact that values can change, experiences change people in unpredictable ways. Comfort is a good thing in a relationship, but since life can change people, sometimes two people feel increasingly less comfortable with one another, and might even feel as though they don't know each other anymore.

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* - Seriously? Even if two people are dating, but not yet in a relationship?

Isn't the definition of dating someone being in a relationship with that person?

I'm talking about dating someone before starting a relationship with them, i.e. getting to know them, and seeing if a relationship is what both of you want.