Comment by JohnHaugeland
5 years ago
Saying "typical" does not normalize something.
By example, if I walk through a maximum security prison with no power, holding ten pounds of cocaine, typically I will get murdered. This doesn't mean that murder is a thing we should consider to be normal.
Typical is about commonality. Normal is about evaluation of decency.
Consider most topics in a theater of war to see the stark difference between what is common and what is decent.
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