When someone says, "Use your common sense", what comes to mind? Is it logical reasoning, your opinion, or is it just something they just want to hear?

Allow me to explain.

In my opinion, "common sense" isn't exactly what it looks like. Common sense isn't always the way to go, nor is it always the wrong answer. The way I see it, common sense is only what people want you to think. Think about it.

If someone told you that you weren't using your "common sense", what would you do then? Would you then change your opinion to suit their "common sense" - or would you follow your own instinct and logical reasoning?

From my point of view, common sense is nothing but a distorted view of popular opinion. Common sense is only what everyone thinks and believes is right, but if someone told you to not to eat that particular fruit because it was common sense not to do so, would you not eat it according to your views or theirs?

There are two ways of reasoning in this world. There's the method of going by common sense - and then there's your own logical, thought-out reasoning - or you could just call it your instincts. Look - common sense is only popular opinion - what everyone thinks is right. Instinct is different - it's your view on a subject, opinion, and/or matter. Just because people claim an action or a thought as "common sense" doesn't mean its instantly the right thing to do.

If someone said, "go with the flow", would you do it? To go with the flow is to simply do what everyone else is doing - probably because they think it's "common sense" to do so. Like jumping on the bandwagon. Back in the '60s, The Beatles popularized the mop-top hair-do - and eventually there were thousands of people that mimiced the hair-do because they liked it - or for whatever reason.

For example, let's say you were a Beatles cover band - you covered their songs because your band liked that kind of music. One of your bandmates want to be just like The Beatles - but if only you didn't use the mop-top hair-do, you wouldn't look like any of The Beatles anymore, would you? Then, your other bandmates say, "dude - aren't you going to use your common sense? The Beatles had mop-top hair-dos, why aren't you using it?"

It eventually narrows down to peer pressure and the fear of popular opinion. Common sense is essentially all of these things - popular opinion, going with the flow, peer pressure, and backing away from your opinion and siding by theirs. But if you use your natural human instinct, you can have your own free will instead of being enslaved by theirs.

If more people used their instinct and if they didn't rely on common sense, there would be less people using illegal drugs, less riots and chaos, and other human-made calamities could be prevented.

In my opinion, common sense is NOTHING - in every shape, size, form, and meaning of the word.

And I'm saying this with my own free will.

Not because saying it is common sense, either.