@BirchJuice
Honestly I don't really intend to discuss whether it is good or bad, as that lies beyond the scope of the initial point, and in the first place, I do not believe such things can be stated absolutely in either case.
What I was referring to was the particular use of the word "normal", which has little to do with "good" and "bad".
In medieval Europe it would be "normal" to burn a witch. In some parts of the Middle East it would be "normal" to stone a homosexual. In any war killing an enemy soldier would be "normal" *insert token Einstein quote*
And not to fall back to Godwin's Law, but in Nazi Germany it would supposedly be "normal" to want all jews to die.
I'm sure all these things appear amazingly hideous acts to our modern sensibilities, but forgoing their actual moral value, they would indeed have been "normal" in the situations I described.
And just as a last point, let's not act as if we as inhabitants of the modern world are without fault and imperfections. Surely we mostly see ourselves as such, enlightened above others, but the same would be true of most other people living in most other times. Still there are many questionable things going on today that would be considered not only "abnormal", but positively evil in other times and places.