"Common sense ain't common."
Will Rogers
"Common Sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
And most assuredly appropriate in Judge Greer's example and those legal types who don't see the fallacy in using an oral declaration in cases such as Terri Schiavo:
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Not soon after I posted Finding a bit more Crystal Clear Clarity on How Terri and All of Us Ended Up Here , I realized when I referred to common sense and gut instincts, I may not have been Crystal Clear enough with how I, I guess as a psychotherapist and mom, connected enough dots to get to my conclusion this Judge and those who think oral declarations in situations like Terri's should be enough to end life, are void of common sense and dangerous when they sit in a position to enforce their own idiocy.
Not that there aren't enough things to fisk in his order,I am right now as I am procrastinating taking on some more housework, going to write as briefly as possible about the stupidity in using "oral declarations allegedly made to parties and non-parties as to her feelings on this subject". In Terri's situation he based it on oral declarations to 5 people: Michael, Michael's brother and sister, her Mother, and her friend. He himself writes the Guardian Ad Litem felt Michael's testimony would not be enough clear and convincing evidence alone to determine Terri's intent. However having taxed and I guess overwhelmed his very little bit of common sense, he completely discredits Terri's own mother and long time friend. However, he takes Michael's brother and sister's testimony as creditable and reliable. Huh? I am not saying the brother and sister in law are not creditable or reliable, I don't even need to hint they aren't. Just think about what he did and where he seemed to want to go...
Perhaps the short hand way of showing my position as regarding common sense in this situation is to ask or put it this way:
Can you imagine Terri, yourself, or anyone saying with regards to watching a loved one suffering (wasn't it both her grandmother and Michael's grandmother??) : Oh yes please keep me hooked up to tubes and respirators on life support as long as you can. I don't care if I am a vegetable or you think I am a vegetable. You must simply keep me alive.
Crystal Clear this is where I see complete lunacy and stupidity. Even though there might be some whacked out people out there who would utter those phrases, I think most of us , especially a young person who has yet to have her own children, would SAY something like "Please don't keep me alive like that" or "I wouldn't want to live like that". It bucks common sense to think otherwise.
What kind of shrewd legal mind would expect a young woman to express to other young people in a time of distress OR any other time that she wants to be kept alive via a feeding tube for the rest of her natural life?
As we helplessly watch someone we love suffering or in a difficult time feeling powerless and helpless or in watching a husband and his siblings facing the death of a loved one (who might even have had a written directive) and being uncomfortable in a situation not knowing how to express our profound discomfort at such an excruciatingly painful time ...we very well might say something that SHOULD NOT COME TO LATER DETERMINE whether we ourselves should live or die.
Please read the PDF and connect more of the dots as I don't know how to copy and paste PDF into my browser.
Judge Greer's record of words and actions show us he is void of both common sense and moral integrity in any real if not practical sense when dealing with matters this consequential. Frightening to realize he has a lot of company up there on the bench who are just as puerile. I hope perhaps more are beginning realize Judge Greer is void of these capacities and there are those of us who want to help him out of the indefensible situation he has created for Terri and her family.
The St. Petersburg Rag of a newspaper I wouldn't line a cat box with if I had a cat, opines Jeb Bush, and it is insinuated the rest of us as well who recognize Terri Schiavo as having been murdered should: 
