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The paper was titled “Common Sense”. What is “common sense” though? Is it something we assume everybody knows? If it is, then this view is very skewed and hypocritical. It should be obvious that the only appropriate common sense would be the common sense that everyone has their own common sense. Making a claim that something is common sense really means, that thing makes sense in your head and that everybody else should think the same way about said subject.
One could say that common sense stems from religion. Behind it, groups hold a basis for how they interact and govern themselves. History has shown that, because their morals are “common sense”, they usually battle groups, with different beliefs. They did so because they felt justified through their deity. Overtime humanity has come to this sense that different does not necessarily mean different. Stretch forward to today’s generation, and although humans still lack the common sense of individual “common sense”, there is a drastic shift in their reasoning. Some hate still stems from religion, but technological advances have made it easier for humans with different ideals to gain exposure among each other and to come to common grounds on subjects. There is a line that exists in each individual though. A line where all things exceeding it go beyond their acceptable “sense”. It has proven tedious if at all possible to remove that divide within people, forcing them to see the right in “wrong” action.
With that history it is time humanity redefine “common sense”. Common sense does not mean an understanding that everyone holds; it means an understanding that everyone is expected to hold. Common sense does not mean using good judgment; it means acting in a way where others cannot criticize your judgment. It would be hypocritical to say that the only acceptable common sense is that “common sense” varies from person to person. In such a case, it easier to describe it as: an overused phrase that describes one’s frustration about another’s action.