(If you see a large blank area above, then either the demonstration is still downloading, or your browser is not set up to run java applets.) 		What does it mean to be normal? 

If you look at the "normal curve" (or "bell curve"), you will see that most of the balls, like most people, will fall into a neat pile near the center. The power structure loves this. It make most people predictable and easy to mold. Let the demo run a little longer and see how these people also get the most stuff dumped on them.

What Legally Defective Means

A person cannot be defective.

For a thing to be defective it must be a thing – a commodity, a utility, a product. At the very least, it must be a sprocket or cog indented to fit into a machine. When a human being is called “defective,” two serious dilemmas are raised: 

1) For an individual to be defective, they must first be regarded as a commodity, utility, product, or at least a cog that does not fit the machine. 

2) For an individual to be seen as a defective cog, commodity, or product, one must assume that society is a kind of machine or product line.


Are we cogs?

For a citizen to be deemed a defective part, one must assume that society is an otherwise functional machine – a gear is not really defective unless it was meant to be part of a functioning machine. For a human being to be regarded as a commodity or product, society must be regarded as an otherwise satisfied customer. A product without a hungry customer is not really a product.

My point is simply that a society cannot have defective members unless it has a valid purpose for them to begin with. If society is screwed up, dysfunctional, corrupt, ineffective, and riddled with bizarre superstition and the intentional proliferation of ignorance, then how can it single out any one member as defective? How can a part be defective when the machine was already broken?


Witch trial: Who, In This Picture, Is Crazy?

One historical example comes to mind, that of Sarah Good. Sarah Good was a deluded, mentally ill 62 year-old woman whose bouts with bipolar disorder had cost her a husband and her family fortune. Finally homeless, she started going door to door babbling incoherently and upsetting the neighbors. She was tried as a witch and hanged.

Was she defective? Imagine an objective observer witnessing the humiliating trial in which an obviously mentally ill senior citizen was found guilty of having evil powers and hanged.

If the moment of her hanging could be frozen in time like a snapshot, who could to point to the 62 year-old woman dangling from the rope and say, “Yeah, she’s the defective one in this picture.”

This may be an extreme and antiquated example, but it illustrates that when people are called defective, it is often society that is a little bit off.