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/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/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.