Which is more Important ?

[SilentEyz]

Intelligence or Common Sense?? :confused

 

[memento_mori]

i hate to nitpick, but i need more context to actually argue anything here.

more important to what? society, the individual, comfort, change, global warming?

intelligence is the ability to think for yourself and common sense is what society teaches you?

either way, i'm gonna have to go with intelligence. intelligence places emphasis on new discoveries and individuals changing society. the ability to change is good.

 

[IntruderLS1]

I think you need both to succeed, but common sense is more important for survival.

If Albert Einstein didn't have the common sense to not step in front of a bus, we wouldn't know that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

 

[Mrs Behavin]

Im gonna have to say common sense.

 

[memento_mori]

would you accept the argument that we wouldn't have common sense (society telling us what's right) with out intelligent people to make society?

 

[icecuban]

i would have to run in the same vein as momento, but extend it to saying, perhaps they are both a matter of perception. what is it to be intelligent, or what is common sense? what i find intelligent and what to me is common sense, are not for others. the alogory of the cave shows that the man that gets out has some sort of higher "intelligence", through accumulating more knowledge of his surroundings and such. but it would take more people to have escaped for it to be common sense, though to the escaper, it seems it should be common sense, but is not. i have to go, id say more, sorry

 

[hhayes]

i would have to say common sense...

 

[hhayes]

i would have to say common sense...

the rest can be worked on if needed lol

 

[AUDRAA]

Ive got to go with common sense also I know alot of people that are really book smart but couldnt find their way out of a wet paperbag if they tried

 

[GuesSAngel]

Ive got to go with common sense also I know alot of people that are really book smart but couldnt find their way out of a wet paperbag if they tried

:withstupid:

 

[memento_mori]

with out intelligence and people thinking beyond what everyone is supposed to know, society would go nowhere.

 

[SilentSinz]

momento i would love to stick a knife in you rheart lol

my anser common sence, book smart aka intelligence will hlep you rank in life i guess...but if you dont have common sence then intelligince wont get you anyware!

for example at work or the military is a big big example of men and women going straigt to offcier because of some bachlors degree where if you enlist and rank in and gain the exeirence and "common sene" youll be far off better then just juming right into it because of the book smarts.

 

[IntruderLS1]

would you accept the argument that we wouldn't have common sense (society telling us what's right) with out intelligent people to make society?

Not so much.

I don't think of common sense as something society teaches us. I look at what you're talking about as more Political Correctness.

Society teaches us to not pick up on the big bikers girl friend with him standing next to her because it's rude. Common sense tells us not to do it because we don't like to eat our dinner through a straw for the rest of our lives!! :jk

 

[Maritxu]

I don't think you can do anything with your intelligence without common sense. It is actually the most important quallity I can think of. Totally appealing to me.

 

[dt3]

Without common sense, the intelligent people wouldn't last long enough to use their intelligence.

 

[sharpies]

I do not believe in common sense. Let me try to put that into perspective, all the knowledge we accumulate is as a result of our experiences - people that share those experiences will have a shared knowledge base but it would certainly not be common sense.

Common means that everyone has the same level of experience but people living in the third world have a totally different set of shared knowledge than those of us living in modern first world cities.

When the Europeans first came to Australia, they nearly starved to death, in fact many did, claiming that there was no food here, but aboriginal children could have, & did, survive easily in the same environment.

Intelligence is not always the right answer either because sometimes really bright people cannot see the forest for the trees, they get caught up in the details & sometimes miss the big picture.

The best way to survive would be to have, or obtain, local knowledge - think about how you could survive in the Arctic without Inuit help. Intelligence alone may help you, but probably not in time & the common sense that you have now would not serve you well either.

Allan

 

[sundvlfn88]

I would have to say common sense. If you don't have that you may be considered an idiot in everyday society. Plus without having common sense you could jepardize yourself or others around you.

 

[icecuban]

I do not believe in common sense. Let me try to put that into perspective, all the knowledge we accumulate is as a result of our experiences - people that share those experiences will have a shared knowledge base but it would certainly not be common sense.

Common means that everyone has the same level of experience but people living in the third world have a totally different set of shared knowledge than those of us living in modern first world cities.

When the Europeans first came to Australia, they nearly starved to death, in fact many did, claiming that there was no food here, but aboriginal children could have, & did, survive easily in the same environment.

Intelligence is not always the right answer either because sometimes really bright people cannot see the forest for the trees, they get caught up in the details & sometimes miss the big picture.

The best way to survive would be to have, or obtain, local knowledge - think about how you could survive in the Arctic without Inuit help. Intelligence alone may help you, but probably not in time & the common sense that you have now would not serve you well either.

Allan

to be productive towards the land, even if you have to take from it, food purposes and all, could and should be common knowledge. wiping your ass or cleaning it after probably is.

 

[icecuban]

i like to think we have more things in common, breathing, thinking, feeling....then we dont have

 

[Maritxu]

I couldn't agree more!