Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Common sense
Unfortunately common sense is becoming less and less common nowadays. Yes this is a generalization, and a rather negative one at that but I honest feel it is the truth. People let the internet do their thinking for them; there is no critical thinking or decision making. Often people will be content with the answer "someone on the internet said so" when asked why they believe certain things. This is often due to shortsightedness, they can only see how something affects them and not that it might be affecting others, and that the others effected might be getting the short end of the stick due to their actions. For instances anyone with two brain cells to rub together would realize that the people in line behind them in a line for food are just as hungry as they are, if not more so because there are more than one person behind them versus just himself. Yet today I encountered a person who decided he were going to take ten minutes to order his food and another five minutes arguing over how much it costs, delaying everyone and even the productiveness of the food establishment, then he actually became angry when his food wasn't instantly ready for him the second he purchased his meal. The place is a grill, yet he expected instant gratification while simultaneously denying all those behind him the right to even get timely gratification. This shows a complete lack of common sense, and as I stated earlier, attitudes like this are becoming more common every day.
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I would have to agree with you. I work in retail so I see so many different trypss of personalities everyday. And just as you said people see what things are and how much they cost, but then the sit there and argue about a price with thy had seen before they got to the register. Or when people hold up lines common sense would say maybe you should step aside be polite and let someone else be helped. No everyone has common sense. We don't see how much things affect people if we don't have common sense it's a big virtue in our society that is needed, but not everyone cares to Make a effort to posses it.
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