These Charts Show How The World Feels About 8 Moral Issues {LARGE IMAGES}

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http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-the-world-feels-about-8-moral-questions-2014-8

What people find morally acceptable and unacceptable depends on where they live in the world.

The charts below from the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project show people's views on eight topics, often considered moral issues: extramarital affairs, gambling, homosexuality, abortion, premarital sex, alcohol consumption, divorce, and contraceptives.

Pew surveyed 40,117 respondents in 40 different countries in 2013 to obtain the data.

The first graphic below gives the median response across the world. People were the most disapproving of extramarital affairs, with 78% calling them morally "unacceptable," while 14% of respondents, the lowest in the survey, felt contraceptive use was "unacceptable." Topics like premarital sex and alcohol use were most the polarizing.

Extramarital affairs


Gambling


Homosexuality

[kelliekat44]

1. Here's a broad brush for 'ya based on those charts.

It appears that the poorest or maybe the least Christian nations are the most moral by western Christian standards.

[Gman]

3. Specifically

Predominantly Islamic counties are more moral than Christian countries.

[leftynyc]

4. Really?

I see every one of them in the 90+ percentage of those who think being gay is immoral.

[A Simple Game]

5. Good point. I would bet that every one of those countries sees homosexuality as a

moral issue vs a human rights issue, and countries like Spain and Germany see it as a human rights issue.

Because we don't agree with a persons or countries stand on an issue doesn't mean it is not a stand on moral grounds.

I would bet that most in this country that are for homosexual rights see it as a human rights issue and most that oppose it see it as a moral or religious issue.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. It's both a moral and a human rights issue.

The moral thing to do is to respect the rights of others, as long their actions aren't materially affecting you.

[A Simple Game]

12. But many tie their moral standards to what religion tells them. n/t

[pampango]

11. The 70%+ "gay is immoral" countries are the Islamic ones, Russia and much of Africa.

Europe, of course, leads the way on tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality but Japan and, surprisingly, the US are quite tolerant (though you might never know it given how much noise the fundamentalist right makes.

Abortion

Half or more of respondents in 26 of the 40 countries believe abortions are morally unacceptable. People in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and mostly Muslim countries in Asia and the Middle East lean more toward calling it immoral, whereas Western Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan feel the opposite or indifferent.

[dbackjon]

7. That is a load of bull

Those countries are repressive and backwards when it comes to reality and are very good about imposing their peculiar views on everyone that lives in that country


The chart proved that the more religious and more fundamental religious you are the more intolerant the more bigoted in the less moral you are

[Gman]

14. Care to explain the difference?

The Islamic countries obviously have the highest rate of moral objections to those issues. What does the government have to do with it? Do you just not like religion? Do you think the people in Islamic countries would have lower moral standards and be atheists but for the government? Please explain. If so , then that's a whole other issue meaning my post is entirely accurate.

[dbackjon]

16. If you consider oppressing gays, women, etc to be moral

Then you are right.


But most of us don't consider hatred and oppression to be moral activities.



The hate and oppression are IMMORAL.

[Laelth]

2. Interesting. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[rgbecker]

8. FRANCE!

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Comments in this thread frightening but easily predictable

Sad stuff.

[riderinthestorm]

10. +1 That countries who find homophobia "morally" unacceptable are seen as MORE "moral"

by DUers is really sad....

[leftynyc]

13. There are only a few posts

I'm one of the posters and I said nothing like that. So tagging "DUers" isn't really fair, is it?

[Gman]

15. The most interesting thing about this thread is

How folks here have their own perception of what is and is not moral and they judge by their own standards. Some refer to human rights issues versus moral issues. Aren't human rights issues moral issues too?

Whether it's in an Islamic country, Christian country or DU and elsewhere. Everyone claims the moral high ground as their own and judges by those standards. The data reflects that too with the results from the European countries.

[MisterP]

17. reminds me of this fun *chart* of world culture and values

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Values_Survey