One aspect of being normal is believing in the common good, that the two are somehow synonymous in many if not most people’s minds. If one simply strives to be normal, one will automatically and simultaneously be considered to be a good person. And to challenge a person’s normality is to simultaneously challenge their goodness. What is Creator’s perspective?

This is putting your finger on the pulse quite accurately, that the idea of normalcy is considered to be positive and worthy, so when there are differences of opinion, an often effective line of attack to defend one's own views is to cast aspersions on the other party's thinking and interpretation. Because it is seen as a threat to personal integrity and stability, having one's beliefs challenged can be quite threatening if done in earnest, and it quickly can become intensified and elevated to a higher threat level when it begins to raise questions of power and control. There is a difference between an argument, from a difference of opinion, between good friends and having a difference of opinion with your boss at work or others who you simply want to accept you and like you as a person. When differences of opinion are perceived as a threat of some kind, that creates a dangerous spiraling of emotion that will intensify the responses on both sides and escalate the rhetoric, and its heated nature will get out of hand at some point, and may even lead to violence if there is a sufficient motivation within to win the contest at all costs and to overpower one's opponent rather than simply let it go and walk away if one is not getting anywhere. Those reactions and decision points are the stock in trade of the propaganda artists wanting to shape public opinion, and the political operatives wanting to destroy their opposition by playing on emotion and fear among members of the public, to use smear tactics that tar their opponents holding opposing views. This scenario has been enacted over and over and over again at all levels of society and brought to you courtesy of the media. This serves as a template and role model for human conduct across the board. People do learn from what they observe, and will model their own behavior after others they see in action, and will adopt similar tone and tactics to handle the affairs in their personal life where they are confronted with someone they perceive as an obstacle, who holds differing views and challenges them. This might include family members. It can get in the way of marital harmony and even lead to divorce. It is an important distinction, to separate truth and falsehood, and to be quite careful about linking things that happen and personal characteristics as being inevitably good or bad or somewhere in between. Those are always personal judgments and, in that respect, unfair. Someone you have an intense dislike of might be deeply loved by someone else, so what then is the truth about their worth, how normal they are, and how good they might be? Goodness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder as much as definable in an absolute sense. The act of striving to be normal is a healthy response to the recognition one needs friends and companions and must go along to get along, to some degree at least, to fit in and gain acceptance. Most would consider this a good thing and because it is a yearning of the soul and important to human happiness, to not be alone, there is a virtue in accommodating oneself to the needs, expectations, and even demands of others at times. That is an aspect of sharing and being dutifully respectful to the views and needs of others because, after all, they might be quite different from yours, and if they are tolerating you, what gives you the right to not tolerate them if there is no true harm involved but only the issue of differing perceptions and assumptions based on individual impressions and beliefs. Ultimately, the ability to tolerate others different than the self will be shown to represent a measure of inner strength and integrity developed from being in a state of completeness, at least significantly so, so as to not be threatened in the presence of others who might be quite different and uncertain about their willingness to see you as an equal. A person who is truly strong and self-confident will find a way to meet the challenge without it becoming a clash, to meet them halfway at least, and make some kind of offering that might be tentative, but at least a positive step towards mutual acceptance, to see what will happen. The biggest challenge people face is not truly knowing what is expected of them because they have a distorted view of what is "normal" and what will be considered "abnormal." This is the biggest obstacle people face in finding acceptance and fitting into society because they are personally distorted in their thinking and have too many conflicting negative inner beliefs in their way.