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"?

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.

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,

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.

but rather for spreading our seed around

... with the question, "If there were no chance of getting caught, would you kill someone?"

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.

... that I wasn't talking about "justifiable homicide", e.g. killing someone in self defence, whether defending yourself or someone else in mortal danger.

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.