I know that Everything noders will vote for your plan to legalize drug use and ban censorship, but we have to think about how John Q. Public will see it.

The imaginary average member of the populace; the proverbial "man on the street." I don't know whether the expression is used outside the USA.

(update: campion reports that it's also used in Canada)
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