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Age and morality: What would you have done? (NOT a discussion topic)

posted 15 years ago by Mister_Strife
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As Morgan Freeman says to Casey in the movie:

"You walk away from it, you may not regret it when you get home. You may not regret it for a year, but when you get to where I am, I promise you, you will."

I'm curious to see if there IS, in fact, a correlation between age and agreeing/disagreeing with Casey.

So, the point of this topic is simply to state your age and to state whether you agree or disagree with the following statement (again, this is NOT a discussion topic):

"Casey Affleck was right in returning the child to her biological mother."

(Disagreeing means you think he should have left the child with Morgan Freeman; no other options are considered).

Anyway:

20
Agree

[–] Paparazzo-1 15 years ago

31. Totally agree

[–] maebefunke 15 years ago

Disagree
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[–] Mister_Strife 15 years ago

Josh, I counted yours as a disagree.

Agree: 46.67% (7/15)
Disagree: 53.33% (8/15)

Surprised to see disagree winning this, so far.

Average age:

Agree: 32.71
Disagree: 26

[–] russianroulette15 15 years ago

I'm 19.
i would say agree, but it would hard to do if you're losing the one you lovein return.

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[–] stella-71 15 years ago

Disagree
39.

Not all people are fit to be parents. The biological family is not always the best option. Anyway, your real parents are the ones that bring you up not the ones that give birth to you.

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[–] stevewilliams-80679 8 years ago

Hear, hear.

[–] Hylton-Stark 15 years ago

DISAGREE...45

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[–] Flibbling_82 15 years ago

24, Agree

You're a f*ing ugly b*ch.I want to stab you to death,&then play around with your blood.

[–] shivans 15 years ago

31

Disagree, but understand his reasons.

Great topic, I've just seen the film and wondered how others would react in that situation.

[–] thelorax654 15 years ago

17

Disagree disagree disagree

my mom is 54 and disagrees too

[–] liamtoh55 15 years ago

Agree

26

[–] syd_tf 13 years ago

23 disagree

[–] danny6094 13 years ago

20 Disagree

[–] tuffysmom 13 years ago

48, Agree.

[–] zakaria-t 13 years ago

This is exactly why this movie is so great, people are really on both side of the fence here.

Agree

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[–] Mister_Strife 13 years ago

I did not realize this topic had so many replies. A little update on the statistics:

56% (107/190) disagree with the statement, 44% (83/190) agree.

The average age of the respondent who agrees is 28,46
The average age of the respondent who disagrees is 29,79

A marginal difference, however the disagreers ARE a bit older!

One last interesting little tidbit: 100% of 60+ people disagree! Only 4 in this age category have replied so far though. On the other extreme of the age spectrum, only 43% of 18- respondents disagree with the statement (6/14).

Some minor signs that old age does in fact lead to a higher propensity to disagree?

If anyone wants to know something else I'll be glad to answer any questions.

[–] Mister_Strife 13 years ago

56.5% disagree with the statement (117 out of 207 respondents)
43.5% agree with the statement (90 out of 207 respondents)

The average disagreer is 29.75 years old
The average agreer is 28.31 years old.

Although the disagreers are older on average, this difference is NOT statistically significant.

Essentially you can say that thus far, there is NO age difference between people who agree and people who disagree with Casey's actions.