How do you define common sense?

How do you define common sense? To what group is your sense common to? Who decides what sense is common and who gets to enact it in a complex legal and political landscape rife with alternative truths and polarized partisanship?

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Common sense to me is practical thinking. Does it make sense if we do something a certain way instead of another way. For example. The housing that is being built with no parking. How does that make sense? I understand that the city needs housing, but now they are taking away from people that live in the area because the new housing does not come with parking. Public transportation cannot always be the answer. A 15-minute city cannot be the answer. Common sense would be to in cooperate all of this in the building plans. This is just one example.