What on earth has happened to common sense?

[MaidenMotherCrone]

It's late, I'm tired and unwell and need to be up at 4am for work and feeling extremely crabby as I cannot sleep. Please forgive my shortness but....

What the hell happened to bloody common sense? Is it being bred out of us with each passing generation? Are people losing the ability to think for themselves?

Every other thread I click on leaves me thinking 'seriously'! These people are responsible for children ffs. I won't name the threads as that would be mean but is it just me?

Common sense eloped with morals, never to be seen again.

Totally agree.

People are so angry all the time. I despair sometimes when I read threads on here or read the news. It's frightening.

People have always done stupid stuff. I think now we’re just fortunate enough to have a whole heap of inventions and medical advancements which mean we’re rescued or discouraged from our own idiocy more often and therefore live to tell the tale, whereas formerly natural selection would have won out.

Common sense eloped with morals ... People are so angry all the time.

I reckon personally we were more angry and less moralistic when we were living in caves and eating the young of our enemies in war-stricken winters, personally, but each to their own.

I love MN but I think it breeds overthinking and anxiety about the most mundane of occurances

I do sometimes wonder about how needy some people are/how much validation they need from other people. Not just MN - you get people on Facebook asking what sunscreen they should use for running. Erm one that works? That you like the smell of? And then the endless discussions about sunglasses. Just buy a pair you like!

I think on the flip side Mumsnet can also make people feel terribly guilty for perfectly reasonable legitimate things. Eg 'I broke my leg and had to go to A&E in an ambulance' will elicit dozens of responses as to how an ambulance was unnecessary and you should crawl on your hands and knees instead. Completely missing the fact that it's not people with actual broken legs who are bringing the ambulance service to its knees, it's chronic underfunding and people calling an ambulance for a broken fingernail.

I agree that people have always done stupid stuff; the difference is that without the internet/social media, we only heard about the local idiots rather than the global variety.