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Yeah, sure. It's totally scientific. That's why we were diagnosing people with "female histeria" and perscribing them medical orgasms as recently as WW2.
"Sanity" is about as scientific a definition as "weeds", which isn't strictly defined and describes any plants that grow in a place where a human doesn't want them to. Likewise, sanity is "the abilty to think and behave in a normal manner", with "normal" left for outside observers to define.
Nope, you need the context of a society to define the "normal" bounds of sanity.
Just because you don't like the truth doesn't mean you don't have unexamimed assumptions clouding your judgement.