[300winmag]

This tired, overused, meaningless phrase about “common sense” is routinely offered by people who haven’t got enough sense to come in out of the rain.

So how much have all their other "basic common sense" laws improved things?

[Stormdog]

“So how much have all their other “basic common sense” laws improved things?”

That’s the point. Common sense was a one size fits all set of ideas that we all shared. Today, common sense is relative, so, common non-sense is a more appropriate term. But to answer your question, I can’t think of any “basic common sense” laws that have done any good, other than to make some people feel good because they got to give them really good names.