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It is not the act itself that is wrong. It is what society makes of this act that renders it a crime. Discuss.
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It is not the act itself that is wrong. It is what society makes of this act that renders it a crime. Discuss. We all know who and what deviants are or at least we know how to recognise one when we've seen one. Deviants are those people who rebel against the norms of human society and refuse to live within the stifling rules that human being within a certain society would usually follow. These people would be drug abusers, violent thieves, or those people whom people would consider as excessively eccentric and would not be credible to the general standards of the society's "acceptability". We know that certain laws and unofficial rules, in other words, the "norms" or "sanctions", manage human social life. However we all fail to see that at some point in our lives we all tend to be deviant or adverse to certain laws or rules. Of course...
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