# Common Sense
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652
**Category:** Society, Government, and Economics
**Created:** [January 18, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652 "2008-01-18T19:14:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@davids04](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/davids04)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/1 "2008-01-18T19:14:05Z")
“Science is simply a refinement of ordinary thinking.”
Ordinary thinking is common sense. Common sense says, through science, that the human activity of six billion people is causing climate and environmental change. It’s just common sense.
If it is not common sense or ordinary thinking its ideology. It is ideology and foolishness to think that the activity of six billion is not causing changes in the weather and our environment.
---
### Author:  [@Maytacera](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Maytacera)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/2 "2008-01-18T19:23:28Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Ordinary thinking is common sense. Common sense says, through science, that the human activity of six billion people is causing climate and environmental change. It’s just common sense.
Logical fallacy out the wazooo. This is basically saying “Everyone knows it’s true.”
---
### Author:  [@davids04](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/davids04)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/3 "2008-01-18T19:27:24Z")
The majority knows it’s true!
---
### Author:  [@Impenitent](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Impenitent)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/4 "2008-01-18T19:43:09Z")
and the majority jumps off the cliff…
-Imp
---
### Author:  [@Carleas](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Carleas)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/5 "2008-01-18T19:51:41Z")
Yeah, off the cliff into that horrible pit of cleaner rivers, streams, and oceans. Falling through cleaner skies filled with birds whose diet isn’t toxic, into sludge-free water with fish that aren’t too mercury-laden to eat. What a quagmire of beauty these environmentalists are getting us into, assuming they’re wrong about global warming. Assuming.
---
### Author:  [@Impenitent](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Impenitent)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/6 "2008-01-18T20:30:01Z")
> [@Carleas](#):
>
> Yeah, off the cliff into that horrible pit of cleaner rivers, streams, and oceans. Falling through cleaner skies filled with birds whose diet isn’t toxic, into sludge-free water with fish that aren’t too mercury-laden to eat. What a quagmire of beauty these environmentalists are getting us into, assuming they’re wrong about global warming. Assuming.
that’s right. kill off the humans who do nothing but poison the pristine planet.
-Imp
---
### Author:  [@Cyrene](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Cyrene)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/7 "2008-01-18T20:35:26Z")
> [@Carleas](#):
>
> Yeah, off the cliff into that horrible pit of cleaner rivers, streams, and oceans. Falling through cleaner skies filled with birds whose diet isn’t toxic, into sludge-free water with fish that aren’t too mercury-laden to eat. What a quagmire of beauty these environmentalists are getting us into, assuming they’re wrong about global warming. Assuming.
Yeah because environmentalism has the best track history, it hasn’t been one doomsday claim after another after another after another based on half science.
The global warming claims/doomsday claims are once again exactly, exactly that. Not that global warming isn’t happening but the effects are over-exaggerated and some of the information is drawn from info which doesn’t support the claims. Like talking about ice melting without ever admiting the fact that the ice always goes through cycles of melt/re-frost.
real environmental science without the doomsday claims/groups that fill most environmental circles is obviously important though.
nuclear winter wasn’t that long ago to forget how full of shit they can be t hough.
---
### Author:  [@davids04](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/davids04)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/8 "2008-01-18T21:26:51Z")
Common sense also says that one should not lend money to people who can’t pay it back. Nevertheless, loans were made to these people in order to enhance Bush’s “ownership society”. Now we have the “blowback” of this practice, the sub-rime debacle, with the hallowing out of communities all over America.
Sometimes common sense is not listed to because there are those who think it doesn’t make any sense.
---
### Author:  [@Maytacera](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Maytacera)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/9 "2008-01-18T22:00:29Z")
How that is connected to the original topic, I do not understand.
However, your claim that the majority knows that humans are ruining the earth is false. Yes, the planet is getting warmer. Is that all our fault? No. Our contribution is fairly limited to the overall heating of the earth.
---
### Author:  [@davids04](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/davids04)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/10 "2008-01-18T22:03:58Z")
Maytacera, can’t you get your head around it? The topic is common sense!
---
### Author:  [@Maytacera](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Maytacera)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/11 "2008-01-18T22:08:48Z")
Yes, I know that. However, the first was not an example of common sense, and the second seemed more like a random “Bush is a loony” post than anything else.
You just haven’t presented very much to talk about in the way of common sense.
---
### Author:  [@davids04](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/davids04)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/common-sense/19652/12 "2008-01-18T23:01:21Z")
I can’t help it that you don’t get it or see the core of the post.