Does it seem that common sense is increasingly uncommon?

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   Express10posted 9 years ago

   Does it seem that common sense is increasingly uncommon?
   
   

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   Jayfortposted 9 years ago

   The short answer is "Yep!" The long answer is "Most definitely!"

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      Express10posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I must agree. I saw someone nearly get hit because they were too busy on their phone while walking ACROSS a busy street. Then I thought about the unfortunate fact that people actually die due to not only walking but also driving while distracted.

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   Tammy L Bondposted 9 years ago

   I totally agree with Jayfort. But I have a question to pose - Is common sense learned? I don't remember "learning" to have common sense so what has happened that it's becoming more and more uncommon? My inquiring mind wants to know.

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      Express10posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Goodness we are on the same wavelength. "I don't remember "learning" to have common sense" either.

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      Jayfortposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      From Wikipedia: "Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by ("common to") nearly all people, and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people without any need for debate."

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      Tammy L Bondposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, Jayfort!

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      Jayfortposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I would say taught by parents and teachers through observation and experience while young  to develop perception, understanding, and judgment. ("Don't touch. It's hot. It'll burn you!") The question is...are parents/teachers taking the time anymore.

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      Tammy L Bondposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Excellent point!

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      tsmogposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting point. I feel that common 'sense' is so diverse today. For instance I have no common sense with a cell phone. I don't own one. Another may be interrupting. It seems it is common sense to interrupt today. Again, look at the cell phone.

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   Penny Gposted 9 years ago

   I posed a simular question. Really I think as a person with a whole lot more common sense than book brains it's just there for the most part, or not there. Just when you think a few hard knocks have made some common sense develop  in someone, they revert back to their old ways. It just doesn't stick. It seems it's never a permanent lesson learned. I see so much at my work as an Officer in Prison. I was a toddler with common sense. I wouldn't trade it for book brains ever.

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   Zaina Starposted 9 years ago

   Common sense is a sense , which is not common.

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      Penny Gposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      So true

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      Jayfortposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell are also senses which relate to how people perceive their surroundings. Enough people have those senses for them to be considered common. Common sense relates to perception, understanding, and judgment.

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