So has common sense shifted to the extent that the previously unthinkable was now possible: a comprehensive museum of the Spanish civil war?
They are changed when society comes to regard these singular actions as the rule rather than the exception, when common sense shifts on to the side of the erstwhile heretic".
Only a petition by twelve-thousand St.Petersburg citizens, questions in the city's legislative assembly and major concerns from Baltic Sea countries about transporting two reactors filled with irradiated fuel, without its own propulsion, along their rocky coasts, caused Rosatom to use some common sense and shift loading plans to a less densely populated area.
With climate change models predicting increased episodes of extreme drought such as California is experiencing, it's good common sense to shift to water-wise yards and native plants.
This measures just three indicators: longevity, subjective feelings of wellbeing and ecological footprint, so setting up an altogether more useful and insightful question; namely, "how much natural resource do we need to consume to live long and happy lives?" There is something deliciously subversive in this radical, yet common sense-based shifting of the frame.
Orwellian efforts to brand those who seek to be paid for a nightshift in Tesco's as marginal leftwing "snobs" have met with rightful scepticism, and this is itself a measure of how far common sense has already shifted in our direction.
These obstacles prevent the shift from common sense and lay knowledge to scientific understanding.
The Tories' message has thus abruptly shifted from "common sense" to "compassion".Mr Eves has shelved promised tax cuts, rather than take the axe again to public spending.
If the supreme court were to uphold the high court's verdict, India will look the same the morning after, but the common sense of the republic will have shifted.
So what's happening instead, says Farago, is a shift to a more common sense type of marketing.
