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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
"Common sense" has always been an umbrella term people use to vindicate their own personal convictions and quirks. We typically judge others by their actions instead of their intent, whereas we normally do the opposite for ourselves. Common sense isn't a thing people have, but a phrase people use to prop themselves up and put others down
Quizzical · 46-50, M
@TinyViolins I don't agree
wonderland63893 · 26-30, F
@TinyViolins I'm sorry but that is incorrect.
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
@Quizzical @wonderland63893
Since the Age of Enlightenment the term "common sense" has frequently been used for rhetorical effect, sometimes pejorative, and sometimes appealed to positively, as an authority. It can be negatively equated to vulgar prejudice and superstition, it is often positively contrasted to them as a standard for good taste and as the source of the most basic axioms needed for science and logic
Quizzical · 46-50, M
@TinyViolins What a load of tosh
wonderland63893 · 26-30, F
@TinyViolins Common sense is like right and wrong, you know the difference. Its being able to make the decision to a situation and be able to invision the consequence.
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
@wonderland63893 That's the problem. It always boils down to how people think things ought to be done. It's a subjective value. Anybody can make decisions and envision results, but which decisions and which results are valid and which are not always boils down to perspective.