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Date: 2012-02-06 01:24 am (UTC)"Curmudgeon" is an ambiguous term. First, it's awful fun to say. Second, it can be a badge of hard-earned wisdom. Third, it can herald rigid thinking and obstinacy.
When I'm feeling curmudgeonly, I often find the phrase "why can't they just use common sense?" ready to trip off my lips. Because curmudgeonhood generally follows many years' experience with the issue to hand, and because "common sense" is an effective way to package my point-of-view. Calling on common sense asserts that anyone would share my value or goal or path or whatevs.
I was involved in the production of con-wide publication on the topic of Good Behavior, and I was in a curmudgeon-rich room. "Common sense" was called on many times, and that's when I understood the wisdom Sparky had shared earlier that day: "common sense" as a working benchmark requires homogenous groups with similar experiences.