I believe "damaged goods" occurs at birth. There are no perfect humans.

Everyone has to get burned at least once before they learn fire is hot, everyone skins thier knee before they learn to watch where they are going.

It is the damaging process that molds us into the people we are.
Some who skin thier knees get up and keep going, some will walk with a limp and yet others become crippled. Because we are all different both physically and mentally , we are all going to react different to the very same damage.

Damaged Goods seems to imply that one looses value as the damage occurs. There are flip sides of that as well. The younger you are the less damage , youth is seen as beauty, but also very fragile. The older, more damaged you see strength and knowledge and that can be just as beautiful.

In a world full of damaged goods, just how does one define 'normal'? What is acceptable in some countries/cultures is not only unacceptable in others but illegal. Imagine the earth being a huge snow globe that was shaken and everyone landing in a different spot.

Have you ever thought that "normal" may just be the judgemental ? The ones who are so damaged themselves the only thing they know to do is point fingers and say YOU are not right YOU dont belong . The ones who hide behind a mask that they see as perfection, yet those who look at them only see fake and phony ?

Those normal people scare me the most. They are so concerned with hiding thier "damage" that when those loose screws start popping out they have no clue how to do damage control.
How many times have you seen a news reporter talking to friends/neighbors of serial killers, rapists.....and heard the simple statement....."They seemed so normal" ?