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Originally Posted by filtherton
Well, if the government was going to stop sponsoring deviant behavior, it would have to stop recognizing successful marriages entirely. A divorce rate of over 50% means that participating in a succesful marriage is a deviant act.
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You just opened yourself a can of worms right there buddy. :P
The flaw of the statistical definition of deviance, which you just stated, is that it labels everyone as deviant, and in multiple different ways. It is actually one of the worst definitions of deviant available.
A better definition, although likely not the best, is that deviance is activity that is labelled as such, and the viewpoint that said activity is deviant is shared by "society", society being the majority of the people within a demographic region.
You made a mistake bringing that up in a thread with someone who just happens to be both semantically inclined, and of high interest in the field of deviance.