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 Gloves need to come off for common sense. 
 Think of a pair of gloves. If you found a right glove alone in your drawer, you can be certain the missing glove would fit your left hand. The two gloves could be described as entangled, as knowing something about one would tell you something important about the other that isn't a random feature.

source : https://www.sciencealert.com/entanglement 
 Back in Philosophy Class at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia we discussed how there's an opposition between Common Sense Realism and Phenomenalism. This was in 1988. The extreme of Phenomenalism was Solipsism. 

In some ways common sense realism was considered knuckle dragging theory. 

The school has changed it's name because Thomas Jefferson was a racist due to the peaceful protests of 2020/21 where minority businesses were destroyed by minority protesters. 

We always called the school, "Harvard by the Highway" because an education from community college was considered working class getting uppity by trying to be smarter. When I went to school there I had dropped out of school. I got an Adult Education Equivalent High School diploma. I lived in a trailer park. I was white trash. 

So that's where common sense takes the gloves off.

To this day I've met a lot of people and very successful people have very good common and phenomenal sense. A hybrid. Phenomenal means "measurable". So there is this, too.

As Mises points out in Human Action. All people are rational in action because they think they will get a result. No matter how crazy we may see their action, to them it is rational because it has value. 

Thank you for your courage.