08 June, 2005
There's no such thing as common sense...
...at least not in absolute terms. I get fed up of people who use that term as though 'we' should know what 'they' mean. How can we know what they mean. We're not them. We haven't had their background, their education, their life experiences.
I honestly don't think you can attribute, in absolute terms, common values to any particular subject. If the group you are addressing share, along with yourself, a common frame of reference for discussing a subject then you can construct truths relating to that subject and they could be described as common sense. But those truths only hold for that group and can/should not be forced upon outsiders who may have little or no idea of where you are coming from.
'Common sense', is a term used by people who are too lazy to take the time to understand yet too quick to pass judgment on why someone did something differently to what was expected.
I honestly don't think you can attribute, in absolute terms, common values to any particular subject. If the group you are addressing share, along with yourself, a common frame of reference for discussing a subject then you can construct truths relating to that subject and they could be described as common sense. But those truths only hold for that group and can/should not be forced upon outsiders who may have little or no idea of where you are coming from.
'Common sense', is a term used by people who are too lazy to take the time to understand yet too quick to pass judgment on why someone did something differently to what was expected.
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Yes, nice definition there, Philip, and absolutely true.
People do tend to forget that their views are the centre of their own universe only, and not the point around which the actual universe pivots. But then, so do I at times.
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People do tend to forget that their views are the centre of their own universe only, and not the point around which the actual universe pivots. But then, so do I at times.
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