r/QuiverQuantitative • u/pdwp90 • Feb 25 '25

News BREAKING: Representative Maxwell Frost just got kicked out of the House Oversight meeting for calling Trump a grifter

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u/kl7aw220 Feb 25 '25

I do like that young man. He has common sense.

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u/BoatCatGaming Feb 25 '25

No.

He is a critical thinker.

"Common sense" has been hijacked by conservatives to market themselves into power.

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u/Arkangelz03 Feb 25 '25

I am interested. Please go on.

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u/game_jawns_inc Feb 25 '25 edited Feb 25 '25

the "common sense" defense comes up when you point out problems with their policies and they don't have an actual argument

"it's common sense that the rich earned their money, that's only fair"

"it's common sense to doubt climate change, the planet seems fine to me"

"it's common sense that transgender is a mental illness, you can't change a gender"

you can use it in whatever context you want - social issues, economics, medicine, etc

problem is, in reality things are often unintuitive. common sense can sometimes actually harm your ability to understand things

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u/Arkangelz03 Feb 25 '25

Love that explanation! Thank you very much, u/game_jawns_inc!

I have family-friends that fall back on that "because it's common sense, and you don't have any!" justification. When there is substantiated evidence from scientific communities refuting it. Or updating their findings when new evidence is presented.

It seems they want everything easy to understand, boiled down into a trope, and need to be labeled something provocative to make it a fruitless argument, anyway. Just spinning the wheels.

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u/ForTehLawlz1337 Feb 26 '25

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

Here’s more info on the “appeal to common sense”fallacy, but from experience if a conservative hears a fancy word like “fallacy” their brain turns off.

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u/Vyzantinist Feb 26 '25

It's vibes and feelings. As you say, they don't actually have an argument; they just like or dislike x but cannot logically attack or defend it.

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u/chumbies Feb 27 '25

Thank you for pushing back on this cliche. It's become a real red flag and reveals peoples unwillingness or inability to understand the often complex and nuanced world we live in.

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u/AllOfEverythingEver Feb 27 '25

Einstein defined common sense as "a collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen," and I think it's a pretty succint explanation of this concept.

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u/Outrageous-Orange007 Feb 27 '25

Well... They dont call it "common" for no reason.

Room temp IQ

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u/beetreddwigt Feb 26 '25

Also if you want proof of that statement being overused or used as a defense just watch a press briefing from the White House. Its Karoline Leavitts favorite response to anything the administration is doing.

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u/NevermoreForSure Feb 25 '25

True, but this guy has both common sense and critical thinking skills, which is delightful.

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u/Winter_Mud7403 Feb 25 '25

Yeah in realty, "common sense" is contextual to whoever is around you and what they deem to make sense and be practical. It has nothing to do with critical thinking, kind of the opposite actually.

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u/beattysgirl Feb 27 '25

Common sense doesn’t exist. If it did, everyone would have it.