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Old Aug 18, 2011, 08:11 PM
HairlessPolecat HairlessPolecat is offline
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Originally Posted by mgran View Post
You know, that's true... what is normal anyway?

I saw your comment "What is normal anyway"? I can't help it. An old friend of mine who now teaches at a very large university in Texas told me 20 years ago or more about the word normal. "Normal is a statistical term and not a state of being." And if you put some thought into that, you realize that what the majority considers be normal behavior is what society deems OK. The problem with that is that our society changes over the course of time so what might now be normal may not be normal later or what might not be normal now may very well be very normal later. A rule of majority that is what it takes for something (act, behavior, attitude) to be considered normal. Just a thought.........