if the society induced consequences are not in existence, 81% would cheat. I f the poll was taken in an Asian country the results would completely different,
I don't put too much store in these breezy surveys, but I thought the factoid about 81% believing it's OK to cheat IF you know you won't get caught was interesting.
Kind of unsettling in a way too.
Don't see why it would be "unsettling"?
as long as you don't get caught.
There's no morality there, just plain old practicality.
I suppose a realist may say that's the way of the world, but at least people could acknowledge that if something is wrong, then it's wrong, regardless of the circumstances of getting caught or not.
Myself, I don't see sex with someone other than your partner as wrong, but so many people do, apparently.
I wonder how the people polled came to be included. Like the responses you'll get here, the study attracted people with an outlook open to cheating, whether the condoned it or not.
Also, the negative term "cheating" loads questions like, "Are certain kinds of cheating okay?"
Likewise, the response you'll get here seem predictable.
Relating to people outside a relationship sexually seems beyond control, so it becomes a matter of how. Cheating is the breach of an agreement. If two people agree to a monogamous relationship, they know there are clauses to, spoken or unspoken, traditional or not, and so cheating comes to be defined in those terms.
Also, the negative term "cheating" loads questions like, "Are certain kinds of cheating okay?"
Likewise, the response you'll get here seem predictable.
Relating to people outside a relationship sexually seems beyond control, so it becomes a matter of how. Cheating is the breach of an agreement. If two people agree to a monogamous relationship, they know there are clauses to, spoken or unspoken, traditional or not, and so cheating comes to be defined in those terms.
if the society induced consequences are not in existence, 81% would cheat. I f the poll was taken in an Asian country the results would completely different,
but rather for spreading our seed around
monogamy is a construct of culture - but not all cultures.... it is not natural....
I think Americans are a lot less culturally repressed than they used to be (though they are still far behind most of the first world in this respect) and this result is simply an artifact of a certain honesty and maturity or resistance to cultural indoctrination.....
If our skulls weren't so big, gestation might be longer, and the time young are dependent might be shorter. Culture and social would not have "evolved" into the complex civilizations we have unless group interaction sanctioned monogamous pair bonding.
I don't buy monogamy as a personal lifestyle, but not because it's "unnatural." Rather difficult to behave in a way that is not in our nature. Many aspects of our evolution result not only from the individual wanting to spread his DNA, but from group interaction wanting to create safe and secure social systems.
Being a doctor, you should know that.
... with the question, "If there were no chance of getting caught, would you kill someone?"
I don't think I'd like the results of that poll. 
I got to tell you, it's tempting.
I can say right now that I would kill someone, regardless of the chance of being caught.
However the REAL deciding factor here is not whether being caught but whether the individual deserves it.
First and foremost to defend myself and my family yes I would.
Then if it's somebody truly deserving say a serial rapist and killer and I have the chance I just may do it.
Then let say if Osama Bin Laden is still alive and I happen to have a chance as well..
... that I wasn't talking about "justifiable homicide", e.g. killing someone in self defence, whether defending yourself or someone else in mortal danger.