The term common sense is neither common nor it sense, it doesn’t relate to sound judgment. If sound judgement was so common then people wouldn’t smoke cigarettes, gamble, take illicit drugs, eat junk food and allow themselves to become obese or an alcoholic. Let’s not even talk about booking stuff we don’t need on our credit cards, then there are impulse purchases at supermarkets.

I cringe every time I hear this term, people magically expect others to adhere to some unwritten term that they should be aware of without ever having been explained to them. So, common sense is considered some arbitrary set of rules that is unwritten and unspoken. How do we learn these rules? I have heard common sense defined as sound judgement derived from experience and not study.

Apparently, you just know. Let’s not bring personal political views into this discussion, on a two party preferred vote, normally just half the country gets the vote wrong. In what could be considered a 50/50 contest, pretty much half the country gets that wrong, so if they display common sense, surely a rational person wouldn’t vote for losing political party.