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Oh, my, we have been here before, haven't we? The real difficulty is that "common sense" subsumes how people actually behave despite how they want to make you think that they think, which is ideology. An example - hold a 20-lb rock over your bare foot. Now, certainly one can imagine circumstances under which dropping the rock won't hurt. But common sense tells you it will. So go ahead, drop the rock.

Ah! Yes, I should think the visit to the emergency room might imply to the intelligent that there's a flaw in the theory that everything is subjective. The world is replete with lessons such as that. Are there, then, no facts? Well, no facts that one can deny, if one is capable of ignoring the cast on one's foot. No undeniable facts - but then that is a function of the denier, not the facts. In that sense, subjectivity reigns, but then it hurts like a bitch, doesn't it? And that's a fact.

Really, in a less pampered time this discussion wouldn't merit the time taken to type it. It is not "feelings" that are intended to trump fact, but fantasies. We all have them. Some of them are fatal.