An example of conservative " common sense "

   Here is what I mean by conservative " common sense ". A comfortable middle class person encounters an unpleasant looking homeless man -just plain unpresentable for job hunting or even successful begging. He blames the victim-perhaps a drunk and ex-prisoner. Does it not seem that the homeless man is " responsible " for his own choices ?

    What is ignored by this philistine common sense is the whole science of sociology.
Yet no thinking person would suggest that people everywhere are the complete victims of circumstances.

    Often  individuals do reform themselves. But poverty, homelessness, crime , economic injustice remain -not even ameliorated by the mere good will of the solidly middle class " liberal ".