I want to return to normalcy tonight. There is a strong bias that things that are "normal" are also good, or at least they are acceptable. This bias is, obviously, total bunk. Normalcy is not morality. Even looking backward in time, we see so many atrocities which were then considered normal.
In actuality, normalized atrocities are a distinct horror. They are vile, reprehensible acts, and the people have no emotion toward it. Their acts aren't releasing hatred or bile. They aren't sadness outbursts or anything like that. They are simply concrete truths. And nothing is more horrendous than a person committing despicable acts with no emotion involved whatsoever.
Be sure to understand the two. Normalcy is what we consider standard and usual. Morality is what is right and wrong. A given act exists simultaneously on the normalcy spectrum and the morality spectrum. Because they are not equivalent, this provides many interesting potential combinations. Make a 9-section grid and check out the possibilities between extremes and neutralities within it.
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