The Case For Biden

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I reject "common sense" with every fiber of my being.

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I reject "common sense" with every fiber of my being.

That's obvious.

In other words, you support gun violence and murder. Noted.

Facts and logic ARE common sense. That's why it's common sense.

It never fails that people who hate civil liberties invoke some variant of "common sense".

Facts and logic are so much better than common sense.

Since the Age of Enlightenment the term "common sense" has frequently been used for rhetorical effect, sometimes pejorative, and sometimes appealed to positively, as an authority. It can be negatively equated to vulgar prejudice and superstition, it is often positively contrasted to them as a standard for good taste and as the source of the most basic axioms needed for science and logic. It was at the beginning of the 18th century that this old philosophical term first acquired its modern English meaning: "Those plain, self-evident truths or conventional wisdom that one needed no sophistication to grasp and no proof to accept precisely because they accorded so well with the basic (common sense) intellectual capacities and experiences of the whole social body." (Sofia Rosenfeld)

Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) offered a frank assessment of how Donald Trump’s impeachment is likely to go when the Senate begins the trial on the former president’s incitement of insurrection.

In a broad-range interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Toomey was asked whether he intends to hold Trump accountable for egging on his supporters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unlawful attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Tapper also asked Toomey whether he sees any real possibility that the Senate will see enough votes to successfully impeach Trump.

Toomey answered by rejecting the argument many his GOP colleagues have put forward: that it is unconstitutional to impeach Trump now that he’s out of office (even though the proceedings against him began while he was still president). However, he prefaced this by saying conviction is “very unlikely,” judging by the layout of the Senate’s previous vote on whether to dismiss the trial on procedural grounds.

“You did have 45 Republican senators vote to suggest that they didn’t think it was appropriate to conduct a trial, so you can infer how likely it is that those folks will vote to convict. I disagreed with their assessment. I think it is Constitutional. I think it’s clearly Constitutional to conduct a Senate trial with respect to an impeachment. In this case the impeachment occurred prior to the president leaving office. My job will be to listen to both sides of this, evaluate the arguments and make a decision.”

3) Authoritarians -- the Spanish Inquisitors, Leninists, contemporary dictators -- have been known to invoke racism, nationalism, conformity, and obedience to doctrinal rigidity as justification for repressive actions with no appeal to "common sense".
4) The claim that people who hate civil liberties invariably invoke some variant of common sense in every case -- i.e. "without fail -- is demonstrably incorrect.

They're not mutually exclusive. Nor is one a substitute for the other.

Common sense is nothing else than the average mind of a sane person.

Perhaps. But people who have average minds should not be allowed to think for themselves.

Who does your thinking?