Re: accounts and identity

Stanford M. Lyman (slyman@gate.net)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:30:39 -0500

At 05:02 PM 3/6/96 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Jon Epstein wrote:
>
>> While it's fairly obvious (Donna I think it's catchy), I'd like to point out
>> that behaviors which require accounts are generally those
>> behaviors which are considered "deviant." Presumably one does not
>> have to account for "normal" behavior.
>>
>>Jon
>
>Although we don't have to account for normal behaviors, isn't it odd that
>many people (myself included) still feel compelled to account for them?
>
>betz
>
>If you "feel compelled" to account for normal behavior, you must regard
that behavior in some sense as bad, wrong, or inept. Stanford M. Lyman