What is Common Sense?

The word ‘deluded’ comes to mind every time I hear someone say that fused phrase of snapping acknowledgement.   

“Its common sense”.

Is it really?

How can you categorise something that can not be measured?  The spectrum of life can be so different to a particular person in comparison to another. Many variables also need to be taken into consideration. Example:

Culture, religion, race, country, education, employment or hobbies,

All these different aspects of a person’s life can contribute to a number of learned experiences. A skill or a particular ability used in a given situation can’t really contribute to a common sense.  

Lets look at it from a different angle. What has the word ‘Common’ got to do with the word ‘Sense’? It is commonly known that if you were to meet a person from the other side of the planet. They would share many things in common. But what common sense tells us is that they can smell, see, touch, taste and hear. Hence the five senses. It’s common that you share those five senses.

What about the evolved inner self of genetic sense? This can be seen in scenarios like a moment of danger, fear, anxiety, love, happiness or being sad. These emotions can be seen as a common sense.

So why would a highly skilled electrician say to a plumber on his dinner break. “Its common sense to re-wire a plug you know”.

If a particular person has never had the opportunity to re-wire a plug. How can it be common sense? In fact it makes no sense at all.

The people of this technological age tend to use phrases without the correct understanding. Life experience gives a person general knowledge. If a particular individual has taken up many trades within a life time, or maybe travelled around the world. what if a person sought out a wider range of education? Perhaps then, that person would be able to have a wider understanding thus, developed a wiser state of life skills.

So what is common sense?

A physical or emotional state that one human shares with another.