which is why asking people to display common sense regarding all manner of civil requests might not be followed, what is common sense for me is not necessarily common sense
for the person sat next to me, and vice versa, here is an explanation by
Michelle van Dellen in her article at Psychology Today, photograph by Andreas Fickl on Unsplash,from
the article,
Common sense has the same two problems as moderation.
First, common sense is ambiguous. Without clear guidelines about how to behave,
common sense leaves too much open to interpretation and will be difficult to
enforce.
Second, common sense is not really common at
all. No one is likely to agree about what common sense is. Sometimes these
differences will be reasonable—what’s common sense in a city is not the same as
what’s common sense in a small town. But other times these differences could be
problematic, especially because people are likely to be biased by what they
want to do. The more people want to do something, the more they are going to
think it fits into the category of common sense, just the way our participants
who liked gummy snacks were more generous in their beliefs about how many fruit-shaped
treats could count as moderation. We aren’t going to agree about what’s right
when it’s influenced by our beliefs.
so asking the public to use their 'common sense' in these trying times might not be the best idea of the day!
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