Post Philosophical Debate
Post Philosophical Debate
Is there such thing as too much common sense?
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How would you be able to tell if someone has too much common sense? Is there even a way to measure such a thing? I think this would always be related to where you stand yourself in certain matters. So at best it would be a subjective opinion on how such a person behaves
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Re: Post Philosophical Debate
If there is I have never seen it.Liniah wrote:Is there such thing as too much common sense?
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You could only have too much common sense if acting on said common sense was against common sense, but by that token you should have too much common sense to act against common sense. Unless, of course, it is common sense to act in such a way.
Fun with words besides, if you develop an overabundance of common sense you are more than likely going to tend to begin doing things a little strangely as you think about what will happen, the consequences of your actions, etc. Go far enough down this path and what seems common sense to you will no longer seem like common sense to everyone else. You will be in two completely different frames of reference for common sense, which perhaps graduates to the term uncommon sense.
Which would make a neat super-power, if you think of it.
"Why did you move like that?"
"To avoid the bullets. It's just common sense."
Fun with words besides, if you develop an overabundance of common sense you are more than likely going to tend to begin doing things a little strangely as you think about what will happen, the consequences of your actions, etc. Go far enough down this path and what seems common sense to you will no longer seem like common sense to everyone else. You will be in two completely different frames of reference for common sense, which perhaps graduates to the term uncommon sense.
Which would make a neat super-power, if you think of it.
"Why did you move like that?"
"To avoid the bullets. It's just common sense."
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Re: Post Philosophical Debate
It depends on the definition of common sense. My mother has plenty of common sense. Common sense dictates that one should never invest in the stock market, that term deposits are the only worthwhile investment other than the 'safe as houses' real estate market (which in reality is more volatile than the stock market). For most people, like dear old mum, common sense is a means of justifying not doing things that are too difficult to understand or execute. In that case, fuck common sense in the eye.Liniah wrote:Is there such thing as too much common sense?
But, if interpreted like CE, then he is right. You can't have too much common sense.
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