Common sense, defined as "sound judgment derived from experience rather than study," is one of the most revered qualities in America. It evokes images of early and simpler times in which industrious men and women built our country into what it is today. People with common sense are seen as reasonable, down to earth, reliable, and practical.
However, here's the trick. Sound
judgment is neither normal nor sense. There's not an entire of savvy instinct
going on nowadays (however regardless of whether it is more awful than before,
I can't be certain), so it's not normal. Assuming sound judgment was normal, a
great many people wouldn't settle on the sorts of choices they do each day.
Individuals wouldn't accepting stuff they can't bear. They wouldn't smoke
cigarettes or eat lousy nourishment. They wouldn't bet. What's more, assuming
you need to get truly explicit and ideal, government officials wouldn't tweet
photos of their reproductive organs to outsiders. Individuals wouldn't do the
large number of things that are obviously not bravo.
And common sense isn't real sense if we define sense as being sound judgment because relying on experience alone doesn't usually offer enough information to draw reliable conclusions. Heck, I think common sense is a contradiction in terms. Real sense can rarely be derived from experience alone because most people's experiences are limited.
Purported good judgment is a misrepresentation that has been foisted on us by our way of life of belief system (any philosophy that needs to mention to us our opinion and do) that inclines toward us to be moronic, not well educated, and helpless chiefs. Presence of mind is even utilized as a philosophical bludgeon by moderates in which alleged beach front elites need sense and, subsequently, are withdrawn from "genuine Americans" who evidently have a wealth of sound judgment. However, in the event that we utilize our chosen delegates as specific illustrations (however I can't vouch for how agent they really are), I believe it's protected to say that shaky judgment, that is, the shortfall of presence of mind doesn't separate dependent on political belief system.
The word common, by definition, suggests that common sense is held by a large number of people. But the idea that if most people think something makes sense, then it must be sound judgment has been disproven time and time again. Further, it is often people who might be accused of not having common sense who prove that what is common sense is not only not sense, but also completely wrong.
The unfortunate reality is that trusting common sense, in point of fact, causes us to make poor rather than sound judgments. Perhaps the biggest problem with common sense is that it falls prey to the clear limits of personal experience. Or, we don't even have any actual experience in the matter and rely simply on what we believe to be true or have been told is true, what we might label "faith-based sense" (in the broadest sense of the word faith).
