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I made the mistake of thinking that I answered your question indirectly.
My error included the error of assuming that you would see the indirect answer to your question, and thanks for the persistent effort to remove ambiguity where it exists.
I very much want to be specific with this question.
Here:
Joe, What do the words: "Common Sense in Modern Times" inspire in your thinking?
First the general answer and then the specific answer.
General Answer:
Human beings are generally good, if the measure for goodness is based upon the idea that life is good, and therefore there are many human beings alive, proving the point.
Does that make sense?
Life = good.
No humans alive = no good.
Many humans alive = good.
Many more humans alive = better.
Question:
Joe, What do the words:
"Common Sense in Modern Times"
inspire in your thinking?
The general measure of common sense is the measure of how many people are alive today compared to how many people were alive before human beings ever existed anywhere (assuming that human beings at some point in time did not exist).
Generally speaking, in that frame of reference, common sense in modern times measures human beings as being better today than yesterday.
There is deeper meaning here, and I wish to convey that deeper meaning with one curious illustration called The Jelly Bean Experiment.
Here is a link:
The Wisdom of Crowds
The dots I connect here, bear, has to do with the realization of why the Ancient Greeks in Athens invented, and produced, and maintained government by sortition.
Sortition is the word we found from one of the Daily Paul members.
Sortition is a way of accessing The Wisdom of Crowds.
I can cut this General answer short at this point and move onto the specific point, with one final General statement.
Trial by Jury based upon Sortition is not the same thing as Trial by Jury based upon dictatorship (Legal Crime).
Question:
Joe, What do the words:
"Common Sense in Modern Times"
inspire in your thinking?
Common Sense was a book written by Thomas Paine and in that book there are these words:
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." Tommy 1776
If MODERN MAN keeps on investing in CRIME MADE LEGAL, then we, as a species, will get what we pay for, in spades.
World War III is now on the schedule.
Back to the General Answer:
No Human Beings Alive = Poor Investment = No Sense Whatsoever
Thanks again bear.
Note: Modern Times was a place where Equitable Commerce was proven to be as valuable as the words suggest.