LOL! I thought it was a horse, too!

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is there one standard whereby anyone who deviates from that standard is 'defective' or 'malfunctioning' or 'disordered' or 'abnormal'?

you think: yes and i think: no.

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Actually, I think Maybe.

Here's the thing: I don't have an interest in thinking this deeply about life. I have so many other things of interest, I'm happy to accept what makes sense to me, and while things will change, I don't care to go to an extent where there is no real answer. There has to be something accepted as a standard, even though I don't think any person or group of person should be "the one" to decide. If we don't have standards, then anything can be acceptable, and that just doesn't work for me.

By your logic, who gets to decide that rapists and murderers are abnormal? Maybe they're here to weed out the weak? There are all kinds of ways to look at it.

I do think we need to fight against some of these definitions and labels, especially when it leads to injustice (although, that, too, can be disputed sometimes), but I don't think there's any way of finding an answer when anything can be anything.