Thread: Is sanity/logic truly defined by the majority?

Couldn't be f'd reading these posts coz I need to LD soon. But yes, crazy is majority rules.

I read an article in Skeptic magazine I think it was and it highlighted some of the most outrageous things about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV). I can't remember exact examples the writer gave but it was 'disorders' to the equivalent of not liking bananas. And according to DSM IV 41% of the worlds population has a mental disorder. So technically if they keep adding more and it becomes 51%, then the other 49% percent will be 'crazy'.

Take germs for example.

In the 18th century there was no such thing! Nobody'd ever imagined such a thing -- no sane person anyway. Along comes this doctor...Semmelweiss, I think. He tries to convince people... other doctors mostly...that there are these teeny tiny invisible "bad things" called germs that get into your body and make you...sick! He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy...crazy? Teeny tiny invisible whaddayou call 'em?..."germs"!

Watch the movie 12 Monkeys, or if you cbf the main scene which outlines this is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB0dvgCZ4Q0