what would you define as "normal"?

Question

I'm asking your opinion, i asked the same question on ugly it is still open, but i got responses, not stating their opinions. this is soley for debate.

Answer 1

I don't think that I can define normal. Because it is different for everyone. What is normal for one person,can be totally absurd for another.

Answer 2

The definition that is used is based on the average of people, and or things. Popularity votes the norm. Just like the Nielson ratings for TV. But somehow I do not think those things are accurate in our world today, because of commercialism, due to the fact that money is the key figure on forming the normal. And with all the ads and commercials this is brainwashing the average person does not think that viagra is normal? Nor is the cursing on every cable channel. But we are brainwashed into accepting these things. Normal is instinct in reality, Bungy jumping is a sport but dangerous it became a dare, so many did this for peer pressure, but it is not normal to be dared into something because your instincts tell you it is wrong for you. The Nielson rating people for television, has never contacted me for my vote ever, have they contacted you? So there it is the money puts the programming on not the people. Just like the government, it is not our votes it is the electorals, the delegates, and money talks there as well. So in my opinion, the norm of today is a lie.

Answer 3

I've read that the American Psychiatric Association says both heterosexuality and homosexuality are normal, so in a world where polar opposites are both considered normal everything we can imagine must be normal, Therefor, according to simple irrefutable logic,nothing can be called abnormal because that would be pejorative, exclusionary, judgmental, and possible even hate speech. How dare any of us say anything is wrong! Standing up for morality is no longer normal, but all things once considered deviant are now considered normal, and should be celebrated as diversity. All hail diversity, the new god of modern normality.!

Answer 4

Normal for some people is smoking crack all night and fighting about why the bills aren't paid the following day..while the kids look on in horror and cry themselves to sleep because Mommy and Daddy say they want to kill eachother.....Beaver Cleaver Need Not Apply to the McDonalds in that neck of the woods. Yet others who know how abbsolutley repulsive the worst first scenario is...tend to stay up til 9-12 midnight...watching the news as Mommy, Daddy, Crying kids..and exibit A.B.C.D.E.F. are plastered all over the screen after one parent decides they have had enough bickering....and kills the other. It saddens me to know how terrible the world is, and how accepting our culture has become....Think about the kids...Not what time the dealer gets outta work..Or when the liquor store closes.......that...in my opinion..would be a fair shot in the direction of NORMAL.

Answer 5

Normal is....and can be any variant of our large social cacophony.

Barring those that are violently criminal, which makes them completely unacceptable.

Normal is a comfort word.
I am not normal by the standards set by proponents of higher education. I refuse to accept their normal, or be placed in that box.
I have 6 children. And as an uneducated man, I make more money than many over the top degree holders.

I believe in God, and yet also believe in the evolutionary process.

Normal..? Just a box to fit people into, so you don't have to really try to understand one another.

Answer 6

I did answer your question on "ugly" and what I gave was my opinion on its definition.

"Normal" is more difficult to reply to. I guess I would have to say "Normal" Is always walking to the same drum beat as the majority of your peers...whatever group your peers are made up of. It is also my opinion that the younger you are, the more rigid that drum beats.

I believe you are 14 and I'm willing to bet that you do not have to deviate very far from your peers to no longer be "normal" and suddenly become 'weird'. I, on the other hand, being 61 can do almost anything outside of mass murder or running naked in the streets (which, believe me, is an abnormal or weird sight no one wants to see) and be considered normal.

"Normal", like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. and THAT is my opinion. :)

Answer 7

Normal is determined by the majority and by the media. On the individual level, it has little or no meaning. You hear them talk about families with 1.2 children, but no one actually has 1.2 children.

Striving to be "normal" is unhealthy. No one can actually achieve the artificial standard that society terms normal.

Answer 8

Their is no such thing as normal. Everybody is phucked up, in all sorts of different ways. When you run across someone seems normal it just means their repressing memories.

Answer 9

normal , to me is really , a daily thing , like stress, car payments
shopping . etc , sex love ,some coffee i n the morning .thinking great thoughts about people i love ,
if you need more , that would be abnormal to even go there

Answer 10

normal is in the eyes of the beholders
normality is defined by the behaviour of the mayority