Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
Logically, common sense would dictate that one would take steps, for example, to survive a plague, one of those basic need, but instead people are protesting "common sense" measures like masks, vaccines and social distancing in favor of esteem or more esoteric issues. Other than "crazy", I don't know how to describe these people. Is this an indication that common sense is dead, or on vacation, or what?
I suspect that ‘common sense’ has always been less widespread than common delusion. Note that it is generally delusional in itself!