Comment by username332211
7 months ago
And the rejection of common sense is often used to defend ideas so bad that one has to put serious intellectual effort to create arguments for them.
A lot more "intellectuals" defended Pol Pot and Milosevic compared to ordinary chums. The denial of the Cambodian genocide was known as the "Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia".
There's some truth to that, but I'm not sure it's an argument for the phrase 'common sense'.
I can't think of a position on anything that someone couldn't twist into an appeal to 'common sense'
There are different cheap rhetorical devices that some intellectuals use. I don't like that either.