Quote Originally Posted by kittyboy View Post
Frequent - I take a more charitable view of human beings.
At some level we all have common sense - it we did not we would run out in traffic, be poor after giving our money away in scams, and generally be stupid screw ups all the time.
Most people screw up some of the time..lose focus..and do stupid things in the moment.
IMHO - Common sense is pretty common but when it fails..it sometimes fails in spectacular ways which we remember vividly - we tend to forget the basic common sense that most of us employ to survive in our everyday lives.... Having said that I have met some people who I do wonder how they survive as they do seem basically lacking in common sense...they are just plain stupid.
I agree with most of this but he is would not, necessarily, be stupid. When Einstein was at Princeton students took care to watch out for him. He could not be trustede to cross the street - head in the clouds/