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"Deviance Means Harmful"

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Deviance is a relationship to a norm, not a measure of harm: harmless acts are deviant where norms forbid them, and harmful acts are conventional where norms permit them.

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Dyed hair breaks a norm and injures nobody; historically, legal practices caused enormous harm.

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Confusing the two makes it impossible to study how norms themselves change.

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