2007-05-19 14:29:57 · 28 answers · asked by tom 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i was just thinking the same thing
2007-05-19 14:32:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because technology has made more of us lazy... we don't need to use common sense when it's always given to us. Take for example, a plastic storage tote. One with common sense would think... if I put a toddler into this tote and close the lid he will not be able to breathe because air cannot be circulated... nowadays, we need a big label on the tote to TELL us not to put a toddler in a tote because it may be harmful. Same with poison.. label says.. harmful if swallowed.. really? no sh*t! that's why you're buying poison right... to harm something? UGH!!! The lamest is direction on shampoo... if you can't determine that you need to wet your hair, put some shampoo in your hair, move it around and rinse it... you probably shouldn't be living unassisted.
People need to think and stop being so lawsuit happy about certain things.
2007-05-19 21:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because everything is handed to them on a plate and they aren't required to think for themselves. We call them sheeple.
IE...tag on a hairdryer "don't use in water" DUH. Hemmorhoid gel, "don't use in the eyes"---All it takes is a little common sense, but so much has become ruled by stupidity that what people might ordinarily have to have considered for themselves has already been thought through. It's a part of the get rich quick, sue everybody generation. People aren't required to THINK anymore.
I have friends that have done really stupid things and then were shocked by the results. I always shake my head and wonder what on earth they were thinking. It's like people cannot deduce a final result or reaction ahead of time. I don't get it either...Makes no sense that people aren't smart enough to take preventative measures on their own.
2007-05-19 21:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by pintobns 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anymore? No. Sorry, but the human race never had much common sense to begin with.
2007-05-19 21:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by Shipp 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Common sense is something you pick up early in life.Most people i talk to have to many other things on there minds to even know if they have any common sense.Must be the reason you see so little of it in every day life.
2007-05-19 21:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by HyperGforce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people have it and some people dont. Common sense can not be taught
2007-05-19 21:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
experience is the mother of common sense, the more you have to do things for your self the more common sense you have
2007-05-19 22:40:59 · answer #7 · answered by richard l 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The government has had a plan in play for over 30 years called the dumbing down of America. The rich want to control us and are dumbing us down with sex, drugs and laziness.
2007-05-19 21:33:57 · answer #8 · answered by brent m 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think people are taught the importance of thinking things through. I'll have what seems at the first look, a good idea, but after thinking it though, it's not. So many people don't stop to think. They just act.
2007-05-19 21:34:28 · answer #9 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What a great Q. The best I can figure is that we don't need it. Stupid people take up a larger %. It has become acceptable for people to be stupid. All we can do is adapt or start waisting em. pintobns said it. Thinking has become unnecessary.
2007-05-19 21:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by moekeyloke 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A- we believe everything the media and educators tell us and don't think for ourselves.
B- our society excuses bad behavior saying it's a disease or someone else's fault... if there are no, or at least few, consequences, why should i care?
2007-05-19 21:35:45 · answer #11 · answered by Misty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋