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What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wikipedia defines common sense as "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument"

Try to avoid using this topic to express niche or unpopular opinions (they're a dime a dozen) but instead consider provable intuitive facts.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Less tax is better.

No saying that taxation as it currently exists it optimal, but any decent assessment of how to improve things requires a lot of nuance that is nearly never considered by most people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I'm mad about what I get in return.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, that's fair, for sure, to some degree. For instance large fractions of policing funding should be redirected into various social services, and military spending can get fuck off all together.

But also, wealthier people paying more than an equal share of tax is a good thing too, and provides lots of intangible benefits (e.g. better education systems and fewer people in extreme poverty and desperation leads to lower crime rates)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Nuance is boring, voting and/or complaining is easy.

I mean, people are right about slimy politicians too, but they never seem to consider that it's them that keeps electing those people.