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I'm not sure I would call that "acceptable." I would be more likely to call it "destroying the interesting features of the data."
Acceptable in the statistical sense. Normality is required by a lot of statistical tests, so it's done a lot. There are better ways to do it without losing important insights though, hence what I said later in that paragraph.