Wikipedia defines common sense as “knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument”

Try to avoid using this topic to express niche or unpopular opinions (they’re a dime a dozen) but instead consider provable intuitive facts.

  • comfy@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 hours ago

    Serious question, why? Stress relief of button-pushing? Thinking it might work and that it can’t be slower than doing nothing?

    I just don’t feel any urge to push the button.

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      5 hours ago

      There’s no rationality to it. I don’t get out my calculator and graph paper to plot out the best possible course of action. I just push the button a few times. And sometimes I push it a few more times.

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        4 hours ago

        Surely there’s some reward or motivation, whether it’s rational or not. Would you feel any different if you didn’t do it?

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          4 hours ago

          If I didn’t do it then I’d be thinking about doing it.

          I’ll interrogate my inner experience next time I’m standing at the lights, and I’ll report back if I discover anything interesting (unless it’s really damning information).