A new Pew Research Center study found 53% of U.S. adults rated Americans’ morals and ethics as “bad,” making the U.S. the only country surveyed where that view prevailed.
Trust in other people underpins everything from civic life to everyday cooperation, so broad skepticism about neighbors’ character can shape politics, institutions and social cohesion.
Pew’s findings add an international benchmark to a long-running American debate about polarization and whether people see opponents—and even fellow citizens—as acting in good faith.
When your absolve yourself on any moral judgement and follow a divine command ethics you have no morals, just unquestionable commands from an authority. When you absolve yourself on any moral judgement because you’re a maga cult member getting your motivations from a political authority and the people giving those commands are nihilists who refuse to engage in ethics because their philosophy hasn’t developed past childish egocentrism you don’t just have bad morals, you have no morals. And the rest have compromised morals by their inaction to remove unethical violent children from positions of power within communities and government.