Common Sense

[$uperman]

for you yes..

But I think that they're also objectively better.

 

[Alphaboy]

The debt epidemic.

Don't get in debt.

If you're in debt, pay it off as fast as possible.

See, you're complaining about common sense, then make asinine statements like this.

 

[Nimrod]

But I think that they're also objectively better.

in your opinion

 

[$uperman]

See, you're complaining about common sense, then make asinine statements like this.

Debt is bad.

That is common sense to me.

Do you want to be in debt or without of debt?

Do you want a company with debt or without debt?

Do you want your government in debt or without debt?

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

Like the obesity epidemic.

Just eat less, eat healthily and exercise more.

The debt epidemic.

Don't get in debt.

If you're in debt, pay it off as fast as possible.

I am obese and in debt...................meh......

 

[Alphaboy]

I don't mean myself, but more like society.

Like in bad neighborhoods. They eat more fast food. They smoke more. They don't put an effort in school. They do more crime. Of course, their results gone be bad.

I'm thinking why do does people not use common sense.

Thinly veiled racism thread.

You are not educated, I can tell.

These things have nothing to do with "common sense". In fact, there are things called "risk" and "protective" factors that increase the likelihood of things like crime, drug use, health, etc.

So when you say things like "durrrr why can't they just like eat healthy and stuff" it completely dismisses epidemiological studies that correlate poor nutrition with low socioeconomic standing. Healthy foods are more expensive and in less abundance than bad food. Furthermore, these poor people do not necessarily have access to healthy options due to geography (no whole foods in the hood) and usually have less time for food prep (in the case of those working several low paying jobs to make ends meet).

Why do I feel like I just wasted my time answering this question though?

 

[Nimrod]

Debt is bad.



Do you want to be in debt or without of debt?

Do you want a company with debt or without debt?

Do you want your government in debt or without debt?

These could be seen as false dichotomy's .. meaning they may be more than one answer to each of these questions...

 

[Alphaboy]

Debt is bad.

That is common sense to me.

Do you want to be in debt or without of debt?

Do you want a company with debt or without debt?

Do you want your government in debt or without debt?

No it is nonsensical.

If it were simply a case of people on food stamps buying Mercedes Benzes I'd agree with you.

People go to debt because they are pursuing an education and college tuition raised by like 1000% in the past few decades.

Sometimes because a Hospital bill is absurd because one pill and simple procedure costs $3,000 in the ER and someone is uninsured.

In fact, the entire reason a lot of people are in debt is because banks and financial institutions feed off of desperation and charge absurd interest rates.

People aren't always going into debt to buy fancy stuff, it's sometimes just the cost of living. So to answer your question of "why can't they just pay it off", many times because they dont have the money.

 

[$uperman]

Thinly veiled racism thread.

You are not educated, I can tell.

These things have nothing to do with "common sense". In fact, there are things called "risk" and "protective" factors that increase the likelihood of things like crime, drug use, health, etc.

So when you say things like "durrrr why can't they just like eat healthy and stuff" it completely dismisses epidemiological studies that correlate poor nutrition with low socioeconomic standing. Healthy foods are more expensive and in less abundance than bad food. Furthermore, these poor people do not necessarily have access to healthy options due to geography (no whole foods in the hood) and usually have less time for food prep (in the case of those working several low paying jobs to make ends meet).

Why do I feel like I just wasted my time answering this question though?

This was definitely not a racist post.

Low-income white neighborhoods also eat more fast food, smoke more, put less effort into education and are more involved in crime.

To improve society, we need to think about how people can make better decisions that improve their lives and society.

 

[$uperman]

So when you say things like "durrrr why can't they just like eat healthy and stuff" it completely dismisses epidemiological studies that correlate poor nutrition with low socioeconomic standing. Healthy foods are more expensive and in less abundance than bad food. Furthermore, these poor people do not necessarily have access to healthy options due to geography (no whole foods in the hood) and usually have less time for food prep (in the case of those working several low paying jobs to make ends meet).

I'm from the Netherlands and everybody has access to healthy food and they also work fewer hours.

But still, low-income groups eat more fast food and smoke more.

 

[MidgardSerpent]

Probably has at least in part to do with short term vs long term thinking. People that are able to hold off on getting an award tend to be more successful in life than people that always need instant gratification. Being able to sacrifice the present for the future requires a fairly high amount of self-control.

 

[$uperman]

Probably has at least in part to do with short term vs long term thinking. People that are able to hold off on getting an award tend to be more successful in life than people that always need instant gratification. Being able to sacrifice the present for the future requires a fairly high amount of self-control.

"The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford University. In these studies, a child was offered a choice between one small reward provided immediately or two small rewards if they waited for a short period, approximately 15 minutes, during which the tester left the room and then returned. (The reward was sometimes a marshmallow, but often a cookie or a pretzel.) In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes, as measured by SAT scores, educational attainment, body mass index (BMI), and other life measures."

"In follow-up studies, Mischel found unexpected correlations between the results of the marshmallow test and the success of the children many years later. The first follow-up study, in 1988, showed that "preschool children who delayed gratification longer in the self-imposed delay paradigm, were described more than 10 years later by their parents as adolescents who were significantly more competent."

A second follow-up study, in 1990, showed that the ability to delay gratification also correlated with higher SAT scores"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment

 

[Van_Damage]

Like the obesity epidemic.

Just eat less, eat healthily and exercise more.

that's more like being lazy, not common sense.

 

[Bullitt68]

Why is common sense not common?

In 523-524 AD, while awaiting execution as a political prisoner of Theoderic the Great, the Roman philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, in which he offered the following observation: "There are certain common conceptions of the mind which are self-evident only to the wise."

A millennium and a half later, the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, in his book Must We Mean What We Say?, offered as his conceptualization of philosophy the concern with "those necessities we cannot, being human, fail to know...except that nothing is more human than to deny them."

So, if you're looking for an answer to the question of why common sense doesn't seem to be shared in common, I think the philosophical answer would be: Because people either aren't smart enough or strong enough to actually acknowledge that which they know.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I don't mean myself, but more like society.

Like in bad neighborhoods. They eat more fast food. They smoke more. They don't put an effort in school. They do more crime. Of course, their results gone be bad.

I'm thinking why do those people not use common sense.

That’s not lack of common sense so much as it is universally human behavior to seek instant gratification. Now that is just common sense.

 

[Iroh]

Common sense in actuality is what makes the most sense to a significant number of, if not the majority of, the people at a certain designation. That doesn't make it correct, nor incorrect for that matter. Yet it is often regarded as correct because it's a shared sentiment.

Often what people regard as common sense is not always actually a shared sentiment among many, thus not really common sense. But they assume it is because the principle is likely deeply ingrained in them or ingrained within their narrow scope of reference.

 

[$uperman]

that's more like being lazy, not common sense.

Good point.

According to Larry Winget, people are unsuccessful because of 10 things.

1. They are ignorant
2. They are stupid.
3. They are lazy.
4. They don't care.
5. They lack vision.
6. They have low expectations.
7. They don't recognize the consequences of their actions.
8. They have bad habits.
9. They have bad role models.
10. They have no plan.

 

[JSN]

Little known fact: Voltair stole that quote. It was originally Kenny Florian.