On his WORST day the 'decline' is all yours 'squeeze of 2'.
You must know by now that the claims of common sense come from those who have shit educations and who don't understand that common sense is insufficient in a complex world.
Why is common sense insufficient?
ChatGPT said:
Good question. "Common sense" feels like it should be enough, but it often isn’t, for several reasons:
1. It’s limited by experience.
What feels like “obvious truth” usually comes from personal habits, culture, and upbringing. Someone raised in another environment might have very different “common sense.”
2. It relies on intuition, not evidence.
Common sense is quick and intuitive, but it often misleads us when problems are complex. For example, common sense once suggested the sun goes around the Earth, heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, or disease was caused by “bad air.” Careful science overturned all of these.
3. It struggles with scale and abstraction.
Our intuitions evolved for everyday life—throwing stones, avoiding predators, navigating social groups—not for reasoning about probability, statistics, quantum physics, or economics. That’s why “common sense” fails with things like compounding interest, climate change, or randomness.
4. It’s prone to bias.
We confuse familiar with true. “Common sense” often reinforces stereotypes, traditions, and social norms rather than objective truth.
5. It can conflict.
What is “common sense” to one group may be nonsense to another. For example: “Spare the rod, spoil the child” was once common sense parenting, while today many see it as harmful.
👉 In short: common sense is a good starting point for everyday living, but it’s insufficient for complex, unfamiliar, or high-stakes problems. That’s why we need systematic reasoning, evidence, and critical thinking.
Regarding those 3 traits you are as Commodus....
The famous line from Gladiator where the son says he had none of his father's virtues is spoken by Commodus to his father, Marcus Aurelius.
In the scene, Commodus tells his father that he once wrote to him listing the four chief virtues: wisdom, justice, fortitude, and temperance. Commodus says that upon reading the list, he knew he had none of them.
Would you like me to give you a few real-world examples where common sense failed badly (medicine, economics, technology, etc.)?
Well, WOULD you like to see that. If so apply some lubricant back there.