Posted on 03/22/2023 5:42:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
What is the making of a "good person?" Different people use different scales to determine who is good and who is not. Over the years, there have been many factors that have been used to categorize people. And the internet keeps providing more updated benchmarks for us to measure people by. The latest theory that has been making rounds on the internet is the "Shopping Cart Theory" and it can perfectly define a person's character. It is a modern-day take on the trolley problem with a more real-life application and implication.
Depending on how you answer the following question, you are either a good or a terrible person. Would you return a shopping cart to its designated spot after use or would you simply leave it wherever you want? Of course, this is provided that there is no dire emergency. The theory was picked up from a Reddit forum and was posted by a Twitter user for further discourse. Now, let's see what it indicates.
there is no dire emergency. Do you accept your duty to return the cart even though you gain nothing?
"The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing," the post explains. "To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it." So if you chose to return the cart, then you are a good person. At least according to this theory.
The theory further states: "No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you, or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct." The theory then goes on to make some extreme declarations. It reads, "A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it."
The theory then concludes by stating, "The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society." While the original trolley problem was also an exercise to determine a person's ethics, the modern version is less violent while also being more apparent.
Doesn’t matter. I don’t even need to provide such a veneer of an argument to point out the flaw in this scenario. All I need to do is say four words: “I don’t believe that”, and their assertion is proven false.
“There is an art to the shopping cart return: you must stand at the end of the cart return area and push the cart so it nests perfectly with the other carts in the rack.”
It is fun to shoot in the cart from ten or fifteen feet away and get a bowling strike!
Their carts are in better shape, too. The cart wranglers tend to damage them when they take in 40-50 at a time.
The real question in this thread is — who still ‘rides’ the cart to the car? Our Sam’s Club is on a slight hill, I have ridden the cart a good 200 ft when the wind is right.
I’m pretty sure. 😏
It all depends on the store and the circumstances.
If possible, I take it to one of the corrals. I don’t have a car, so I’ve sometimes had to skip doing so in order to catch a bus. But I always try to make sure it’s out of the way and not going anywhere.
The other day, I did cross a busy road to pull an abandoned one out of said road. Its front wheels were off the curb, and the wheels weren’t locked, so I felt it was a Christian’s duty to get it out of the way.
Where I live in Texas almost everyone, I’d estimate over 99%, return shopping carts they have used to the store’s cart corral. And I and I suspect many others, will return the rare wayward cart someone else has left loose. Do you have any idea how much damage a wayward cart can do to a person or vehicle in Texas winds? Not too long ago I saw three or four carts together blown backwards out of the corral. Forty mph winds will do that. Yep, I got out of my car and wedged the carts safely in place.
Wrong. I help myself with self-checkout. I'm faster and more accurate than the people at the registers. Also, I usually don't have to wait in a long line.
Ah, I take it you don't do that.
They were healthy enough for all that but not healthy enough to walk a few extra steps to put the cart into the corral.
OK then!
Some stores do not have any or enough shopping cart corrals.
That is why the carts end up in the planters.
It is not you are not a good person it is the company is cheap and they know the carts will end up in the planters or an empty parking space.
The customer is trying to send a message to the store owners!
We are cart returners - 100%. If I’m ever made king I will declare not returning the cart to be a felony, punishable by 500 hours of community service in the local Wally World parking lot.
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