Rene Descartes states that ” Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken; the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects”. The main argument there from Rene Descartes text is that good sense is equal amounts all men and so is the ability to judge and the difference in opinion, thoughts and ideas is what makes one persons perception of good sense different from another person. The differences in what we fix our attention to can be different due to of many reasons geography, religion, time and that ties in with the autobiography of Frederick Douglass because reading it, it is easy to say that the injustices committed at the time were inhumane and unjust and I feel that his story supports the idea that our different paths justify out actions and determine what our good sense are. Despite how unfair and unjust the acts were committed to the slaves, the slave masters and plantation owners felt justified in these acts and whether they thought it was a bad idea, that is unlikely because they continued there practices even after all the devastation they committed. The idea that good sense is things among all men may be true, but in what context there applying that idea of good sense too and the morality of the person or the act can make this a more complicated point.