Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Normal, Healthy _____

statement:

if everyone does it, it must be normal.



assumption:

what is normal is therefore healthy.



problem:

everyone lies, but lying is not healthy.

everyone steals (in some fashion), but stealing is not healthy.

everyone says unkind things, but saying unkind things is not healthy.

everyone has premarital sex . . .



yet the justification remains "it's perfectly healthy - everyone does it."





-->does not compute<--




1 Comments:

At 10:41 PM, Blogger Carter said...

Too true, too true. Very fallacious assumptions. What is true of the whole may not be true of the individual. Food for thought. Good post.

 

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