Use Your Common Sense Day 2024 is on Monday, November 4, 2024: common sense?

Monday, November 4, 2024 is Use Your Common Sense Day 2024. For Any Eyes: "Use Your Common Sense" Day "Use Your Common Sense" Day

Many thanks to Bud Bilanich for producing Use Your Common Sense Day on the childbirth day of Will Rogers, which encourages us to make use of applied sound judgment-- considering that "common sense ain't that common".

no common sense is a result of one or more of the following:

poor parenting

lack of education

not thinking

being ignorant

someone cut me off in traffic the other day when it was obvious i was comming. it was common sense to wait, but because they weren't thinking and obviously weren't taught right and show ignorance, they almost caused a wreck.

people would have common sense if someone would teach them, they'd figure it out (because it's, well, common sense) and if they wernt morons.

what does " common sense" really mean?

Common sense just means the ability to solve simple day-to-day challenges without repeatedly making the same mistakes or losing your cool. People who have no common sense screw up over and over and never seem to learn how to get along in the world. And I think it will ALWAYS serve the people who have it, because it evolves to fit a given situation.

Examples: Common sense says that if your computer acts oddly, chances are it has nothing to do with your car that happens to be parked in the garage next to your home office.

Common sense says that sugar is not the cause of your child's current behavioral problems if he hasn't had anything with sugar in it for weeks.

Common sense says that if you car is leaking fuel onto the engine block, it's not a good idea to take it out for a drive just to "see how it runs".

Define "common sense"?

"Common sense" means not over-intellectualizing situations and giving credit (or taking away credit) where credit's due.

For example, should Coca-Cola be liable for someone who takes a 2-liter bottle of their product, unscrews the cap, superglues the mouth of the bottle to their lips, shakes it up and then suffers sinus damage as a result of high pressure, carbonated cola being shot into their nasal cavity and out their nose? Or should this individual be awarded the "Stupidest Person on the Planet" trophy and put in remedial drinking/eating classes? Common sense tells us: this person is an idiot and a legal audience should not be granted for doing something so completely stupid.

The news of misplaced justice fills the media these days. Punishing bartenders for serving some jerk who consistently drinks too much and then finally runs over someone disabling them for life? Who's REALLY at fault here? Let's blame the pedestrian because if he HADN'T been in the crosswalk, he never would have been hit by El Drunko, right?

I think our national sense of "entitlement" has gotten in the way of common sense. We're so focused on "what I want, what I deserve, what I'm owed, what I have the right to do and say" that we often fail to recognize the impact our selfish behavior has on others.