Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
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