COMMON SENSE HAS NEVER BEEN COMMON

Common sense is a very funny phenomenon. I guess this should be the reason why people like me think that it is not common after all. By stating that we all have somewhat the same capacity to synthesize the various objects of external sense is saying that we are all the same, yet nature as we know it proves otherwise because all of us are unique entities. In this regard then, it is certain that despite this kind of sense, we also have a sense that I will rightly call “faulty common sense.” Examine for example the Karamojong (traditional natives of North-Eastern Uganda) who, because of the extreme hot weather, choose to walk around naked. Is this some kind of common sense? For a normal or rather abnormal person like me touring this region, I’ll definitely feel otherwise. I will stick with my clothes regardless of the weather, no matter how heavy they may be. Then I ask myself, who amongst ourselves has a proper common sense and who is definitely wrong. Their can never be too rights regarding the same situation because in such a case, we’ll be falling into relativism which is not, by any standards, the best way of judgment. It is because of the very same reason that I disagree with Immanuel Kant. By Kant arguing that morality is a duty, he negates the whole essence of free will and categorizes all people as same. This definitely is not just because although some may view it as a sense of duty, it is also out rightly clear that most people’s moral acts are out of a sense of free will. We can never have the same motives, thinking, imaginations or even dreams. We are all unique and a sense of commonality can never arise. I have already, by my own reason, refuted the idea of universal and necessary ideas, but that is for another day. I have lately been following the developments as regards the health-care overhaul in the United States. If there is anything like ‘common sense,’ then any sane normal being would have realized that that bill has more sense than ‘non-sense.’ It is, by our human nature, our responsibility to take care of the not so fortunate in the societies we live in. That would have been some sort of ‘common sense.’ But since it is true that we can never think or act in the same way nor speak the same voice, there is all these nasty bickering and cheap politics that has clouded that part of the world. Should I blame the republicans and their disciples? Not at all! All of us, as I have already stated, are different in our own right and capacity. It is no wonder that all will differ even on a subject ‘so clear’ as the controversial health issue in the USA. Goes without saying; that bill, if passed, will be the best thing that has ever happened to the citizens of united states, of course after the declaration of independence that has eluded them up to now!! It is only through accepting that we all different that we can start living together. Thus, I refute that there is anything like common sense. This is reducing a human being to a pure animal. We will always have opposing views and as such, no objective ideas can ever exist. If at all we want to talk of ‘common sense,’ then lets also accept that their will be a ‘faulty common sense’ along the way. For we will never be the same at any particular point!!