Comments on: What Happened to Common Sense – Are People Really that Clueless? https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/ Wed, 21 May 2025 11:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Roscoe Sandstone https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1088064 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:24:55 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1088064 A lot of the loss of common sense is due to the computerization of our lives. Software engineers strive to make their particular program (or part of a larger program) “bullet proof”. Meaning that the program will never break. However, in SW engineering there is a warning: “You can never make a program ‘foolproof’ because fools are so ingenious”. But that Holy Grail of engineering remains as an ultimate goal. The result is that you, as a user, must turn off your common sense and simply follow the rules precisely or you will experience failure. The failure never being the engineer’s fault, but yours because, for a microsecond, you thought on your own. As prevalent as the computer, and it’s attendant “micro processing”, is in all the things that we use all day everyday, we have been slowly, almost imperceptibly, taught, indoctrinated, not to use our common sense.

]]> By: Karen larker https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1084083 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:09:16 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1084083 In reply to Jamal.

Yes, hot coffee will burn you. Which brings me to the point that in our culture today we do not allow our children to experience the the consequences of their actions or decisions. Now this may seem heartless or cruel, but I’m not suggesting anything extreme. At some point our children must begin making their own decisions as part of the maturing process. I believe, when those decisions result in trouble for them we are far to quick to rush in an fix things. We should let our children figure out how to solve the problems they’ve gotten in to( within reason). Let them sweat a little. We can still be supportive, but let them figure it out. I wager they will, and be wiser and more self assured for the experience.

]]> By: Karen parker https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1084080 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:45:08 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1084080 In reply to Tater.

Yes I believe trying to be politically correct is part of the reason for the loss of common sense. If we would only leave that alone and ask ourselves “does what I’m doing really make sense?”, we would be better off .

]]> By: Moogli https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1081303 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 02:56:41 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1081303 Good lord no matter how you slice it the comments above show just how uneducated this country has become—no basic sense of grammar at all…

]]> By: Jamal https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1080329 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:47:46 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1080329 In reply to Ashley.

Make a pot of coffee and pour it on yourself. Now, was that hot and did it burn you? Yes, of course it did. Seems like spilling coffee causing burns is pretty obvious. I mean, coffee is made by passing BOILING water over ground, roasted coffee beans. I think it is definitely common sense that boiling water burns you.

]]> By: Mt Man https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1080151 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:36:03 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1080151 “Common sense” is the product of Cause and Effect thinking! Learn to do that and you will be amazed at the outcome.

]]> By: Roger Miller https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1074391 Tue, 03 Jan 2023 22:07:17 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1074391 SPELLING is atrocious in the article and in the comments!

]]> By: Sheri https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1073582 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:45:33 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1073582 Living in a young people world where the lack following society rules that govern behavior is I guess no longer a thing it is okay to throw things at others when you don’t get what you think you are entitled to. There is no shortage of book smart people however they are perplexed when faced with filling their car with gas and not even the picture instructions will help them yet they can tell all the atoms that make up the gas they.cant.use.it.

]]> By: Curtis https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1070236 Tue, 30 Aug 2022 07:46:20 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1070236 Honesty, one of the lost arts. Lacking common sense is a sign that life skills are not being taught to the young. School and collages are to busy push their idea of what society should be. I was taught that you integrity was the most important thing that you can have and don’t compromise it for anything or anyone.

]]> By: Ashley https://www.professorshouse.com/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1069241 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:08:10 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/what-happened-to-common-sense/#comment-1069241 We need to get over the hot coffee at McDonald’s thing. The coffee was being kept at an unsafe temperature and she got severe burns all she wanted was an apology but they wouldn’t give it to her so she sued. She wasn’t stupid or lacking common sense.

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