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Americans Find Wearing Fur More Morally Objectionable Than The Death Penalty

Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology Editor in Society.
Jul 7th, 2009 | Comments

US News:

35: Percentage who consider buying and wearing fur wrong
30: Percentage who consider the death penalty wrong
30: Percentage who consider divorce wrong
36: Percentage who consider medical testing on animals wrong
36: Percentage who consider human embryonic stem cell research wrong
36: Percentage who consider gambling wrong

Data drawn from Gallup: Extramarital Affairs, Like Sanford’s, Morally Taboo

Via Jezebel, “Even worse: Having a baby outside of marriage (45% opposed), homosexual relations (47%), and abortion (56%).”

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DrToast

The anti-fur people have better PR.

Leonidas

Americans are more sympathetic towards the innocent.

What do you like better rabbits or serial killers and rapists? I mean no surprise here.

tidbits

45% oppose having a child out of wedlock and 56% oppose abortion. That's 101%. Not statistically significant, given the many ways to aviod out of wedlock child bearing, but still interesting.

casualobserver

Why do you assume these are additive? More likely there is a lot of overlap.

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