Would you trust someone who told you to discard your common sense?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[JustAnotherGen]

1. ONLY

If I fell down the rabbit hole and a hat maker invited me to tea. And a hookah smoking caterpillar asked me Whoooo are youuuuuuuuu.

Other than that - nope. Not gonna do it!

[pipi_k]

2. In favor of...

what...

their common sense?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."

Who is O'Mara suggesting is the Lord in this scenario, Zimmerman or him?

[Myrina]

12. I think he's saying "Admit you ladies aren't smart enough to render a verdict, so acquit."

Condescending jackass.

[bunnies]

16. Did he actually say that?

Bible speak?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. No

[pipi_k]

20. I must have been

busy with other things when he said that, but I did just hear him say a few minutes ago, something about people using their common sense with regards to certain events.

OK...so we have the prosecution telling jurors to trust their common sense, and we have the defense saying the same thing.

Two versions of common sense.

Which version are people supposed to "trust"?

Common sense often just boils down to what someone wants to believe.

[RC]

3. There are many right here on DU that try, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Everything from guns to government hoovering of our digital communications.

[NightWatcher]

4. What did Obama do now?

Cue sitcom theme music...

[bunnies]

17. ...

[NightWatcher]

22. Holy shit I almost spewed tea all over the screen

Thanks Obama

That's a good one

[Cleita]

6. Depends on what you define as common sense. A lot of people who preach about common sense

don't seem to have any. A commentator of the past once said,

"Common sense is often very uncommon."

[LuvNewcastle]

13. That's very true.

Also, what might seem like common sense or conventional wisdom to some people is often demonstrably false.

[aikoaiko]

7. I ask students to do that everyday when I present science that contradicts their common sense.

[geek tragedy]

8. 'Common sense' told a lot of people that Saddam had WMD, so we should always

listen to what someone challenging "common sense" has to say--if their argument sucks, it sucks. If their argument holds water, maybe it's time to re-evaluate common sense.

[el_bryanto]

9. Of course not. I am always right. I don't know why the rest of you persist in disagreeing with me.

Obviously you are wrong. In any event that you find yourself disagreeing with El Bryanto i think it's pretty evident to all that you are in the wrong and I am in the right. Its just common sense.

Bryant

[galileoreloaded]

15. Lol

[Fearless]

10. My common sense suggests that there's an ulterior motive behind this post

And that perhaps it is the exception to the rule or the poster is simply trying to making a point. Either way, there isn't enough information in this instance as to whether I would forgo my common sense in lieu of something else.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. It's a Zimmerman thread.

And yes, where the law is involved, "common" sense doesn't always prevail.

In other words, "he must be guilty of SOMETHING" shouldn't fly in a court of law.

[Douglas Carpenter]

14. I can remember when "common sense" said that homosexuality was an illness that should be treated.

And that was the liberal take on common sense as opposed to the more conventional take that homosexuality was criminal behavior that must be punished. I remember when I was in 9th grade and the Kent State massacre had happened. It was common sense that the national guard had done the right thing and perhaps were even far too lenient. That was common sense then. I'm sure there was a time when it was almost universal common sense that slavery was the natural order of things. No doubt less than a hundred years ago - the overwhelming majority of Americans and Europeans believed that it was common sense that black people and other peoples of color where not as smart as white people and certainly not as moral. Just as it would have been common sense one hundred years ago that Jews and Muslims tended toward dishonesty and should not be lightly trusted. So common sense is is something in a constant state of volatility.

[Sheepshank]

19. I think the defense has reason to push leaving behind common sense.

The jurors impressions, their gut feeling everything about the case is bad for Zimmy. The Defense was never able to create compelling evedence that pushed aside the jurors impressions created by the prosecution. They are mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends. Trayvon was a minor, Zimmie was armed with bad intentions, Skittles and iced tea are so more on the child side of a 7-11 purchase than what a teen/adult would buy. "Common sense" was never redirected to "guilty" and the defense knows it.

[markiv]

21. yes, the media told me that the zimmerman case is more important than

the immigration bill, and that's why i'm following one intensivly, but not the other