• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I used to believe that common sense existed. You know, the usual stuff, like water is hot and fire is wet…

    But then it occurred to me a few years ago, that what people believe to be ‘common sense’ are actually the things that nobody bothers to teach the next generation.

    Meaning that common sense is only as common as one’s elders teach you. So when the elders assume that you automatically know certain things, they won’t bother teaching you.

    Hence, common sense does not exist.

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      8 months ago

      Would you say that common sense changes with the generations? What was once common is no longer, and what was uncommon becomes common?

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        8 months ago

        Once upon a time, it was considered common sense to tie your shoes. Then Velcro came along…

        Wait, you weren’t born knowing how to tie your shoes?

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          I guess about everyone (kids/teens) know how to tie their shoes, but something I saw in the last 10 years or so, kids, especially in big towns, does not how to ride a bike. I’ve seen teens who never rode a bike and don’t know how.

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            8 months ago

            Damn, really?

            I almost wanted to comment about how cursive writing is getting lost these days instead, but damn, bicycles?!

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                8 months ago

                LOL, I actually learned how to read analog clocks at age 9, by myself, just by watching the hands tick for like 5 minutes.

                Still though, even that isn’t common sense, I had to refer to prior education to know to associate the position of the hands with the hours, minutes and seconds numbers I had previously been taught.

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                  Oh, yeah… I forgot about the common sense part. I was just thinking about changing skills.

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                    8 months ago

                    I just figured out that nobody gives a flying fuck.

                    Matter of fact, how many ducks does it take to fuck a flying duck?

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      Besides all of what you said being wrong…

      You think “a few years ago” is recent?

      “Common sense” literally just means stuff most people are likely to know.

      It used to be common sense to not sneak up behind a horse in the dark. But most people today have no idea why that could literally cost you your life, unless if they watched GoT or something and remember what happened to Hodor.

      If horses were still everywhere, it would still be common sense. Because common sense stuff didn’t need to be taught. An average person would have learned that by a certain age regardless of if anyone ever tried to teach them.

      Either they’d have been kicked by a horse, or they’d have seen/heard of a person being kicked.

      Most of the time when I see people make the complaint you just did, it’s because they’re older and don’t understand information that was important for them, is no longer important for the next generation.

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        8 months ago

        Cute argument. Love it!

        I was actually kicked twice by horses when I was a child. Maybe you should pass that information along to the newer generations…

        You know, actually teach what you believe should be common sense…

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          You know, actually teach what you believe should be common sense

          You completely and utterly missed every point I was making if you still think that’s common sense.

          Here’s an example of common sense in 2024, that’s actually relevant to “newer generations” tho:

          When someone is that incapable of understanding something, blocking them is better than wasting time repeating yourself.

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            8 months ago

            Again, that’s not common sense. There is no such thing as common sense.

            You had to be educated to learn to use digital technology in the first place.

            But maybe, just maybe you can listen to your own supposed ‘common sense’, and just drop your argument and go touch some grass or something.

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            But by creating isolated communities, the common sense will be isolated alongside into clusters of uncommon common senses which will make them not common at all.