"The Country of the Kind" Rating: Five Planets
by Damon Knight  
pub. 1955  
collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I  
   
   
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A society deals with a deviant mutant by refusing to interact with him, by altering him so that an epileptic seizure will prevent him from acting violently, and by altering his body chemistry so that he gives off an offensive odor.

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Atom BulletCompare this story to "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby and "Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson.

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