Reply #27: Every standard requires common sense be applied when enforcing it. [View All]

For example, that's why Zero Tolerance Rules have created so many stupid decisions, like students suspended because of an aspirin or properly proscribed medication. People don't stop and think that maybe the rule isn't absolute and sometimes common sense needs to prevail.

In cases like OBL, I think we all can agree he was a very exceptional situation. Those that blindly say "He should have been brought back for trial as all other criminals" are like the school principle not applying common sense to an exceptional situation. Common sense says a trial wasn't practical nor safe for Americans.

The world isn't black and white, and while some rules (like trials) require very extreme situations to grant exceptions, sometimes in those situations those exceptions are the only common sense decision.