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What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense? (lemmy.ml)

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Wikipedia defines common sense as "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument"

Try to avoid using this topic to express niche or unpopular opinions (they're a dime a dozen) but instead consider provable intuitive facts.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

“Survival of the fittest”

bitch explain cows

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Common sense isn't just "not so common," it is a fundamentally broken concept at its core and a crutch that people use to hoist themselves above others they feel they are better than.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I view it as a thought terminating cliché people use when they're too lazy ti fully explain themselves. It can be useful for things that are truly obvious, like if you try touching something fresh out of the stove without protection you'll get burned, it doesn't really add anything to bother explaining it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

the sky is blue
an unbiased perspective

More abstract concepts that generally trouble the intuition of many:
the irrelevance of laminar to turbulent flow
time and gravity are related
magnetism is not magic
entropy precludes perpetual motion

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If "common sense is not very common", why is it called common sense?

Slightly off topic, sorry.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"There's a first time for everything."

No, not if I don't do that thing. I will not have a first time for murder. Getting murdered might be out of my control, but I won't commit one.

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