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Old 10-16-2004, 05:50 PM   #278 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Suave
Like I said, it's not the best definition, but it came to mind, and it's a damn sight better than the statistical definition. Anyways, depending which definition you use (and there are some that are more widely-used, speaking in academic circles), deviance can mean a lot of things. Despite this, just because behaviour is weird to you, it doesn't make it deviant. So you don't have to be a robot to be a non-deviant (although I'd classify myself as deviant with most definitions), just good at following rules.

Also, the robot thing is, again, dependent on who you talk to. There are a number of people who consider human beings to be simply biological robots.

I hear you. It's just that so often, especially in arguments against homosexuality, certain words are used by people who haven't thought about the words enough to know that they aren't really saying what they think they are saying.
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