What exactly is "normal" and why?

[devonin]

Re: What exactly is "normal" and why?

This thread isn't even talking about whether people -ought- to try and act according to the societal norms where they live, we're discussing just what the term even -means-

I suspect you'd find an awful lot of people in this forum who find many of the norms of their culture to be distatseful.

[Killler_bunny]

Re: What exactly is "normal" and why?

I believe, and since reading this, believe more firmly, that normal is relative to the individual in question. On a personal level, normality is just basically their routine lifestyle. Take for instance the boy at the icecream stand? He likes chocolate Ice cream, getting it is normal for him, so when he sees someone get vanilla, he wigs out... because that's weird. and from there, there are so many normalitys to different cultures that inevitably, a search for true normality will only lead to chaos....