Your Opinion of Moral Issues

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Birth Control (91%): Acceptable
Divorce (73%): Unacceptable
Pre-Marital Sex (69%): Unacceptable
Gambling (65%): Acceptable
Gay or Lesbian Relations (63%): Acceptable
Having a Baby out of Marriage (62%): Unacceptable
Human Embryo Stem-Cell Research (61%): Acceptable
The Death Penalty (58%): Acceptable
Doctor-Assisted Suicide (57%): Acceptable
Animal Fur Clothing (57%): Unacceptable
Medical Testing on Animals (51%): Unacceptable
Abortion (43%): Acceptable
Sex Between Teenagers (36%): Unacceptable
Pornography (36%): Unacceptable
Cloning Animals (32%): Acceptable
Suicide (18%): Unacceptable
Polygamy (17%): Unacceptable
Cloning Humans (14%): Unacceptable
Extramartial Affairs (9%): Unacceptable

[Mopsus]

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".

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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.

I thought the point of family was to be a stable port in an unstable world?