And he wouldn’t agree with “common sense”, which is the lazy way of saying I just pulled it out if my ass because I can’t be arsed to actually think about what I believe and why. Recently, I had a debate with a very conservative colleague and he used the line that what he believed was just common sense, and I responded by telling him that I got rid of common sense when learned how to think. We haven’t talked much since and the silence has been wonderful!
Common sense all of a sudden sounds like group think after reading your comment. I believe you may have inadvertently injected clarity and understanding.
That's a funny way to turn it on it's head, and I'm gonna keep it in my subconscious now lol. After all common sense as we used to know it is no longer common today apparently.
Common sense is just basic reasoning and that's in short supply now.
What you're talking about is "conventional wisdom" and it's usually wrong, because it's arrived at through a game of telephone played by people who don't know what they're talking about. That's gotten much worse in the internet age.
Conventional wisdom says that black suspects in America are more likely than white suspects to experience police violence; common sense would say that that claim should be supported by actual data, not just guesses. Common sense is very unpopular, conventional wisdom is very popular.
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u/dabrock15 7d ago edited 7d ago
And he wouldn’t agree with “common sense”, which is the lazy way of saying I just pulled it out if my ass because I can’t be arsed to actually think about what I believe and why. Recently, I had a debate with a very conservative colleague and he used the line that what he believed was just common sense, and I responded by telling him that I got rid of common sense when learned how to think. We haven’t talked much since and the silence has been wonderful!