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franny | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 Maybe there is just chaos (or we are too human to understand the chaos) and then it’s a matter of perspective. „The average opinion“ is probably considered as normal.
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SGT.FISH | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 personally i think normal is a individuals acceptance of the world Bad or good. 
Thats my best so far
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Sleventy3 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Normal in the abstract cannot exist. 

A paradox. 

Normal contraction material could be defined geographically however.
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Cristalina | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 You touch the point Franny, what is normal to me, might not be for someone else....And what we perceive as normal, has already a social construct also, behind.
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banjo | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 There is no normal--

Normal is defined by others, and if you feel compelled to be judged by others, then you are subject to that normal.

BUT if you don't care about what others think of you, then that normal doesn't matter -- it doesn't exist -- and it has not power over you.