Theorizing the New Common Sense

Today, my dad was angered by a bunch of jaywalkers who emerged from in front of a bus, and he could have knocked into them. He said, "IT'S COMMON SENSE NOT TO DO THIS!"

Apparently, that is NOT the case, as proven by the jaywalkers!

Thus, I have formulated the new way to theorize common sense.

First, let us get a few things clear:

1) Common sense is, in a sense, cultural rules created by specific cultures. Common sense in Singapore (e.g. Queuing up for nothing) will obviously not work elsewhere.

2) Common sense is a general consensus among people and the consensus is based on wide acceptance, regardless of individual circumstance. It does NOT regard logic, rationality, and ironically, "common sense" of the logical realm.

3) As is common sense for the logical realm, common sense in accepted behavior is a majority > minority comparison.

The Empirical Bullshit Study of Jaywalking Beliefs

First, we need to first determine the number of people who support either or of the following two beliefs:
A) It is OKAY to jaywalk.
b) It is NOT OKAY to jaywalk.

The surprising study of 10,000 people shows that...LE GASP, most people believe that it IS okay to jaywalk! By the way, the ratio is 5001 > 4999.

Let us now move on to the next step of the study.

It is now established that it is indeed OKAY to jaywalk.

Now, the new choices:
A) You jaywalk.
B) You don't jaywalk.

LE GASP...MOST PEOPLE DON'T JAYWALK! (Out of the study of 5001, 2546 > 2455 DON'T jaywalk.)

There it is, your new common sense. Common sense is that it is OKAY to jaywalk, but most people don't do it despite the belief. Everybody understands this contradiction almost on a spiritual level on unspoken terms, and you are expected to say that you find jaywalking okay while you don't jaywalk.

Likewise, if you turn it around to the following premise:
A) It is NOT OKAY to jaywalk.
B) But you jaywalk.

THAT is the new common sense.

And this is how we understand reality. ;D

(Meanwhile, I shall proceed to not jaywalk and believe it is wrong to jaywalk, at the peril of moral crusaders telling me how I'm doing it all wrong. I shall now be called the nonconformist, with the knowledge that the next 4998 people are just like me, unique and nonconformist.)