# CommonSense Centred Thinking - A Challenge

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonsense-centred-thinking-a-challenge/996237>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 17, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonsense-centred-thinking-a-challenge/996237 "2024-01-17T20:12:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Oooklout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@Oooklout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oooklout)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonsense-centred-thinking-a-challenge/996237/21 "2024-01-17T21:06:28Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> In some imaginary future, humans think in an undefined different way, and you want us to tell you something about what their political beliefs are/should be?

No, the humans haven’t changed in this future. They have options on how they behave, and being the ultimate adaptable species, I guess I have faith.  
But we’re human too, so it’s easiest to start by thinking about how that future might go wrong, than decide how to get there.  
I only expect a bit of group back-and-forth on Task(1), say corruption, or personalty clash; we all know the weaknesses, but seeing them in a different light where there is a different, maybe more valuable status quo to defend.  
Task(2) is then hard bit, how to get from here to there, but we now have a list of human political ‘defects’ to counteract and maybe a priority order to tackle them.

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**Author:** ![Oooklout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@Oooklout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oooklout)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonsense-centred-thinking-a-challenge/996237/22 "2024-01-17T21:10:20Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Could you show us an example of what it is you are looking for? If I asked this question of you, how would you respond?

Well, for a starter, I’d say that assuming the CSC was atready set up and running, people’s behaviour would already be slightly different. But, I’d claim, it’s human nature to try to make rivals seem ‘different’ or ‘other’, and that conflict would split the nice CSC right apart. Wouldn’t it?

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonsense-centred-thinking-a-challenge/996237/23 "2024-01-17T21:10:20Z")

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Can you give some examples of current political issues that can be solved with “common sense,” and what that would look like? What’s the “common sense” solution to the abortion debate?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonsense-centred-thinking-a-challenge/996237/24 "2024-01-17T21:12:28Z")

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Is the above an actual example of the responses you are looking for?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonsense-centred-thinking-a-challenge/996237/25 "2024-01-17T21:13:07Z")

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Closed on January 17, 2024, 9:13pm UTC

As the OP makes no sense, never mind CommonSense, I am closing this thread.

If you want to try this again, please do a much better job explaining what you’re looing to talk about here.

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