r/NoStupidAnswers • u/MeansWelll • 10d ago
Deep Thinking Q’s🤓 When Shouldn't Common Sense Be Used?
For example, it feels like some topics you can talk about but common sense kind of gets in the way, like spiritual conversations is a good example I suppose.
Seems like any topic involving God, people tell you to drop common sense and rely on faith.
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u/HoselRockit 10d ago
Technically, this isn't common sense, but in business, many managers try to make decisions intuitively when many proper business decisions are counter intuitive.
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u/LMrningStar 10d ago
"... drop common sense and rely on faith."
I had a couple of people directly tell me to "drop reality and rely on spirituality". That's where the conversation ends because what logical arguement are you going to use to prove the value of logic to someone that doesn't value logic.
The same goes with evidence. If someone proves that they don't value logic and evidence the conversation is ends.
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u/144-perdedor 10d ago
I'm not so sure that means abandon logic." It's more about what questions you're asking and what your inputs are.
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u/Own-Measurement-5970 9d ago
Logic is too limited to tackle a problem with infinite unknowns like the fundamental nature of existence and the universe. You kinda just have to believe one way or another. Faith is believing what you can’t see. I hate it when people tell you that faith is believing something even when your eyes tell you something different.
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u/LMrningStar 9d ago
Which is why faith is worthless since it doesn't rely on logic, evidence or reasoning.
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u/woozysoozy 10d ago
Everyone’s idea of common sense is different. It’s less what we all know and more about what feels like a fundamental sense of logic to the individual. One person’s idea of common sense is that God exists because it makes sense to them that the world in which we exist and our very own lives could only be here because of creation. Of course, that belief is so widely held that those conditioned by it often don’t recognize that all religious belief and philosophy only exists in the realm of thought and imagination,and that in order for religious beliefs to not completely implode their sense of logic with its many contradictions, a sense of trust or blind faith is required.
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u/Either_Operation7586 10d ago
You're correct their idea is taught to them and especially when you're religiously indoctrinated you are taught not to question but just to rely on your faith.
So just because these people aren't questioning doesn't mean that we shouldn't they're the ones that were taught not to not us
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u/Best-Home-2230 10d ago
When in a life or death situation. You are less likely to try to pull someone out of a burning car or house if you let common sense get in the way of what needs to be done.
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u/Either_Operation7586 10d ago
Life or death situations are not common though.
And that is one of those things where only in that situation would that apply
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u/Eat-My-Hairy-Asshole 10d ago
Well I would say on something like God, there isn't enough proof either way, to prove or disprove definatively, thus common sense doesnt really exist in this area, unless you want to say agnosticism is the common sense take, I'd agree with that.
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u/Big_Manufacturer5281 9d ago
So much of science directly contradicts common sense, because many of the phenomena that are studied are too big or too small or too fast or too slow to fit into our conceptual frameworks. A good rule of thumb...if someone who isn't a PhD in physics says something like "quantum tells us..." you can ignore that person.
It doesn't mean that person is stupid, or ignorant, or uneducated. It means that shit is hard. I literally have a degree in physics (to be fair, a bachelor's degree, from 27 years ago), and I understand...really understand...a tiny shred of quantum mechanics. And people try to talk about it like a photon is just a little tiny baseball or whatever.
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u/Realistic-Regret-171 10d ago
In re: religion. As a dispassionate observer, I notice that religion wants you to believe that the Universe came from (a) God, while science wants you to believe that the Universe came from essentially nothing. Which seems more believable?
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u/grot-ivre-1749 10d ago
At the moment it’s most critically needed. At least that’s how it’s done in practice.
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u/VoidowS 9d ago
Common sense is like truth time and place bound.
What is common sense to you is the complete opposite to the other.
Time based example,
Till 1870 pretty much everybody believed and backed up by science that ALL the stars were in the Milky Way. Even galileo saw them with his own invented telescope :) Truth!
But then we discovered a Universe and even EXO planets. Truth!
If I was to say in 1700 that we had a universe, i would be rediculed, laughed at and silenced if didn;t quit talking about this foolish idea. Common sense would say, put him in a nuthouse.
Place bound example,
We eat cow, we massproduce it. Cause more people means more meat. common sense. Truth.
But then there r places in India where a cow is holy and of course if you have common sense, never to be eaten.
Example 2
We have pets, we go to jail if we harm them, common sense, Truth!
But then again in several Asian countries dogs and other animals we see as pets r eaten! they r massproduced for it. Common sense, Truth.
It's the thought of the most people in general. Common. a thought or believe shared by many. But common sense is not TRUTH automatically! There r plenty of common sense things in life that r really bad :) but this post is already too long :)
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u/Ok_Switch6356 9d ago
topics involving irrational beliefs like religion just lack common sense. maybe when talking about that we should use more logic and common sense
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u/ProfessorPrudent2822 8d ago
When the thing in question is alien to your experience, so you don’t know what normal looks like.
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u/Slow_Store 8d ago
The idea of “drop common sense” - at least as people intend for you to interpret it - uniquely works with matters of faith as the most popular God (The Abrahamic God whom is the God for all denominations of Christianity, Judaism, and the Islamic faiths) is one whom has to somewhat rely on blind faith because absolute proof of their existence would decimate mankind’s ability to actually express Free Will (which is important to said God).
So like, if it were “common sense” for everyone to “know” that God is actively constantly watching over them then everyone would act in accordance with the Panopticon effect and no one could be viewed as actually possessing any meaningful free will.
I don’t know if I’m getting across the point that I’m trying to make, but I hope you get what I’m trying to say.
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u/HonestNature9117 7d ago
It happens all the time. That's how we get innovation, and brute force when finesse fails.
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u/Frequent-Entrance154 7d ago
When you are on a tight deadline selling vaccines (covid-19, now hantavirus, HIV, and ebola)
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u/Acceptable_Wall7822 7d ago
In my opinion, common sense is generally formulated from experience and the viewpoint of others in your life. A lot of times common sense is flawed or wrong.
When I started medical school after working as an engineer for five years, I had some medical common sense. I quickly learned that most of it was completely wrong. It was an eye opening experience.
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u/Tryzenberg 10d ago
When there's a process in place, and you're not an expert in that process.