Is there any such thing as common sense?
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In a way, yes. It is the wisdom of your experiences. If someone doesn't act in their own best interest, or if they don't understand the simplest wisdom, we say they don't have "common sense". Another way of putting it is "They just don't know stuff that normal people should know." The more that you communicate with your local community, the more common wisdom you will have and spread around. As we get more isolated behind books and computers, we lose a lot of our 'common' sense of things that even "common people" would know.
357567
No. It shows that as messed up as you may think you are, that you still have a certain basic amount of common sense.
1053435
Common sense isnt that common.
635357
No, its not wise, but that never stopped our politicans from doing what ever they want. Most have their own agenda and pay little attention to what the people who elected them want.
489321
Common sense, since you cannot learn it from a book.
686325
Common sense is the ability to make a decision without requiring measurable thought, and that decision being the same as what anyone else would likey make. For example, if there is a pitcher and a glass on the table. It is common sense to pour the water in the glass and then drink from the glass.
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It sounds like it means don't overexamine things (level downward to our dullest perception) and use common sense.  Something like that.\n\nEverybody does need common sense though, if you think about it.  No matter how much higher education you have, if you don't have any common sense, you might be worse off than an auto mechanic who has common sense.  A business man with all of these degrees making choices without using common sense is a disaster waiting to happen.
645838
I don't really think it's comparable because what may seem like common sense in one culture isn't in another, so to say one culture has more common sense than another is pretty much a biased point of view either way.
1147090
Because common sense isn't common.\nAND not everyones version of it is the same.
438434
It's possible to be so smart that simple things become difficult.  It's possible to be brilliant and have no common sense.  It's possible that ignorance is bliss.\n\nSide note:  God takes the simple things of this world to confound the wise, the Bible says. . .if that's true. . .wise people often make mountains out of molehills. . .or try.
441446
more are just "common" than with sense
943236
perhaps. live and let live should be the standard. somehow people forget all about it though.
964835
NO.  All voter guides will be biased to a greater or lesser degree.  There is no substitute for keeping informed on an ongoing basis.  You cheat yourself by cramming at the last minute.
323519
I would disagree with common sense\nunfortunately common sense is NOT common
704022
I think it would take a lack of common sense to vote conservative..
904612
That's a good question.\n\nBecause I'm sitting here reading this stuff wondering how kids could be so stupid in this "age of information."  Where did common sense go?
414332
no.. its easy to be ignorant.\nput some effort into things, rock the boat and change the world.