Normative safety : its spatial and ethical ramifications in a community living with a mentally ill / Trina G. Listanco

This paper examines the responses, experiences and tensions of a normative member of a community with a mentally ill. The narratives on these normatives responses reveal different strategies employed to exclude the mentally ill in various social and economic spaces. an ethical dilemma emerges when these legitimized normative strategies to pursue the rights of the "normal," invalidate (intentionally or unintentionally) the rights of the mentally ill the threat to "normative safety". Until the normative reflects on how they pursue their rights to safety; and until they start believing that safety is not of zero-sum, the stigma on the people perceived as threats - the mentally ill, the undesirable and the "enemies," will continue to haunt not just the safety of those they "other-ed" but also of themselves.

General Education.