Common sense is a rarity in people nowadays. This has created many problems, one of which is that people tend to listen to others’ opinions and accept them as their own thoughts, rather than trusting their own common sense and intuition. For example, they often rely on AI, doctors, celebrities, politicians, or other authority figures more than on themselves, who yes given plenty of incorrect information, allot of times intentionally. They might know something is a lie but ignore their skepticism because “Celebrity A” said it’s true. Sometimes, they even listen to their uninformed neighbors more than to themselves or to people on social media, who, ironically, also don’t listen to their own judgment. It’s a clown world.
Common sense would mean deferring to people who have more experience and/or knowledge than you when possible.
Even in Idiocracy, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho deferred to who he acknowledged to be the smartest person in the world.
That is a movie! Common sense is NOT referring to other people. It’s basically knowledge accumulated through observation, experience and obviousness (a dictionary will help to prove it’s closer to my explanation than yours). Like it’s common sense don’t put your hand in a damn fire. Good God, even you all seem like you are fiending to have others to tell you what to think.
The dictionary definition of common sense just means to have good judgement in practical matters. And it is good judgement to take the advice of others who know more than you do about something.
It doesn’t say the second part lol
Good judgement could have told you that I wasn’t saying the second sentence is part of the definition.