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and using your common sense would have made things better.
I agree with your post, about staying the fuck away from people, but please don't fall into the "use common sense" trap.
Common sense as a concept is pure bollocks. "It's never common and very rarely sense", is my view.
If it were actually a commonly held view then it wouldn't need stating, would it?
A right wing anti-vaxxer will hold a very different definition of "common sense" than I would. Dominic Cummings would hold yet another view.
Deferring to common sense interpretations of vague, poorly implemented guidelines is part of the reason why we are in such a shit position.
Furthermore, I actually think "common sense" as a phrase is very often used perjoratively and passively to criticise other's actions whilst implying that oneself wouldn't be so silly. The total opposite of a "common" position.
"Common sense" is the lingo of Boris and his half witted cabinet who don't have the guts or conviction to actually do the difficult thing at the right time.
Sorry. End of rant.
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Enter the Common Sense Group.
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Common sense as a concept is pure bollocks. "It's never common and very rarely sense", is my view.
Ok - how about"common knowledge" then ?
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You’re right, common sense means something different to everyone.
Everyone’s fear of consequence and death is different.
So if you regularly drink drive without insurance, you’re probably not going to be that fussed about wearing a mask or caring about the welfare of others.I wonder what compliance to covid restrictions are the more ‘risky’ your lifestyle is?
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I think you are right to a point, people's judgement will always be to a certain extent subjective, but I disagree with you ultimately for two reasons.
first I think we can and often do agree on what amounts to sensible or reasonable behaviour. I work in the criminal justice system and we routinely ask juries (a microcosm of society) to consider what is or isn't reasonable behaviour in a given context. and juries are in my experience often good at expressing clear and consistent collective ideas of reasonableness. the concept of un / reasonable behaviour features in a lot in our criminal law, which in itself is simply an expression of a common or joint sense / morality.
secondly, to reject utterly the idea of common sense seems a very dangerous and unattractive thing to do. what does it mean for society? that we have no shared concept of what is sensible, reasonable behaviour? that we are all entirely subjective and relativistic in our outlooks? hyper-individualism and the disintegration of social bonds is a real issue in my view for society...people will always of course disagree, a debate is as much a part of society as anything else. but fundamentally we have to believe that there is more that unites us than divides us, otherwise what are we left with?
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I think if everyone did this, then we would be in a better place right now.
Staying the fuck away from everyone unless you absolutely have to and using your common sense would have made things better.
People blame primary schools for example and how keeping them open has spread it while sat in a pub getting sloshed with mates while going to work with a persistent cough.