60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll: August Edition

Welcome to the 60 Minutes/ Vanity Fair Poll for August. Summer is in full swing and while Americans are enjoying some well-earned time off, they can turn their attention to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Since their revival in Athens in 1896, the Olympic Games have grown to become a worldwide extravaganza, a source of national pride and the ultimate opportunity for athletes to compete at the highest level. Despite scandals, politics, commercialism and even terrorism, the Olympic ideal still thrives.

The founder of the International Olympic Committee, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, expressed it this way: "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."

Let the Games begin! And, now the results of our poll...

• What prevents you from behaving badly?

Seventy percent of Americans said that it is their morals and principles that prevent them from behaving badly. Eighteen percent claim that it is their religion that keeps them from behaving in an anti- social manner. Seven percent say it's the fear of being caught that restrains them and two percent just do bad things anyway. Human nature and free will are powerful forces for both good and evil, and despite society's well intentioned laws that attempt to curb bad behavior, it appears that most of the good in people comes from within.

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[breeee]

the heaven or hell question is absurd. there is no heaven or hell.
religion is the cause of fully the majority of violence and death in the world today.
it's othing more than a tool used to control the weak minds of people who insist on not doing even a little critical thinking for themselves.
it's a crutch for those who are continually exploited and used.

as for who is on the fbi's most wanted list? again, it's a lame question. you should have asked who SHOULD be on the fbi's most weanted list.

the answer to that quest would have names like george bush, dick cheney, lloyd blankfein, jamie dimon, donald rumsfeld. those are the likes of the names that should appear on fbi's most wanted list.

thank you for your time.