“Common sense is even a celestial thing. Common sense is not of this world.” — G.K. Chesterton, Common Sense in Politics (1907)
Common sense is Heavenly grace.
Common sense is not the kind of thing you can simply take for granted. It doesn't come pre-loaded. You can appeal to it, but the fact that you have to makes the other person's point: if it really were that obvious and ubiquitous, the other person would already agree with you. You can assume it to be universal, but you cannot then explain why it is currently being ignored. You can decry a lack of it or bemoan its absence, but you can be sure you will not find it everywhere.
Common sense, then, is common enough to show that God is kind, but uncommon enough to reveal that men often aren't. It is given by grace, not fixed by fate.
God have mercy and make common sense common again.
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