dpardo
In a 1997 Gallup Poll, 79% of Americans when asked: "What is your opinion about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than his or her spouse?", said: "always wrong"
According to studies by The National Institute of Mental Health, children of divorced parents have higher incidences of crime, drug abuse, suicide, and behavioral problems.
In the first sentence would it be prudent to ask how many of those surveyed were asked the question in front of their spouses and also if those who answered in the negative may have done so out of social pressure?
In the second sentence I am wondering if there is some reason you connect this to the first by implication without wondering how this implicates more people who
do not engage in extramarital sex as being the ones who divorce and cause the higher incidences of drug abuse, suicide, and behavioral problems?{since
they are in the 80% majority}
[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together
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