Common sense?
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January 30th, 2012
Are we breeding , common sense out of the human race?
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That would presuppose it is entirely a genetic trait. I don’t believe that it is.
Just wondering because of late,most people seem to lack a great deal of it.
@JilltheTooth does it not seem to you that a great deal of people today lack any common sense??
What is common sense? If you define it for us, we could teach it to the world.
Whether or not they lack common sense says nothing of breeding practices. And, BTW, no, most of the people I choose to spend time with don’t lack common sense. Mostly I see that because of technological advances we just see way more of what strangers tell us that they are thinking and feeling. I don’t see that these people necessarily conduct their actual lives in any less sensible a manner than I do, and I’m sure some of them would think that I’m lacking in common sense because I do things differently than someone else would. I find your gross generalization to be just that: a gross generalization.
After reading Predictably Irrational I don’t have a lot of faith in the human mind’s ability to make the best decisions without education and rigorous mental discipline. It turns out that common sense is often wrong about a lot of things in the natural world.
Who’s to say that we had some to begin with. Watch the movie Idiocracy.
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