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One of the first argument I've got myself into was returning the shopping cart to the designated spot. This person was replying to like 5 people at once justifying why they don't always return the cart, because the weather is hot and the corral is far, etc. while we disapproved.
Got some reddit argument PTSD from that lol
I suspect that person would also justify littering in order to "ensure street cleaners don't lose their jobs"
Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is [Pushes glass off table] destroyed…
Robot cleaners move to clean broken glass
Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color.
Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people who'll be able to feed their children tonight so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny weeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain…of life.
I didn't think not returning a trolly was something worth defending 😂.
They weren't defending that, the argument was whether someone who doesnt return a trolley is a bad person or not. Some people argued it was a trivial thing that meant nothing either way, some argued it meant they were evil, and some argued in the middle somewhere.
it's a low stakes indicator.
someone who doesn't return their cart isn't automatically a bad person, but rather is more likely to be a bad person than someone who does return their cart.
people are lazy and in a hurry, so will often not say the full long version, and this applies to many things people often say. People then get "um actually" about it because the short version is technically wrong.
The only defence is "I'm a dickwad". And I'd accept that if they owned it and we could verbally abuse them for being a dick, for only like 10 minutes after every episode.
Maybe if you're severely mobility-impaired, but then you would probably have a device to assist you, so it still shouldn't happen...
I started an argument like that once. I made a joke about how there is literally always at least one person who defends not putting the cart back.
Yeah I think that pretty clearly falls under extenuating circumstances
Only reason to not put it back is when you don’t wanna fight the homeless person bringing it back for you to keep the deposit coin.
Or when you’re drunk, going downhill with friends, crash and total it and take it home to make a grill out of it.
I used to not take my cart in, but I worked at Walmart at the time and pushed carts for them when needed. I didn't mind doing it all, and didn't care where anyone left their carts. Now that I've been at a better job for a while I put them up. Don't want to be out of touch with Cary pushing.
Shopping cart theory strikes again
Skee boo wee CART NARC 🚨
Lmao I think I remember that one! Big Cart has a network of Lemmy shills, trust no one. 🕵♂️
The shopping cart argument is a great place to start managing the human race. And I don’t mean in a binary manner - let’s just start with those who never bother returning the cart. To a startlingly large majority, they tend to demonstrate traits that are wholly incompatible with a polite and empathetic society.