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There's a pretty popular meme about this, actually. Let me dig it up. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 14/09/2023 01:52:34 PM

"The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of serf-governing.

To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. The return of 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 present itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. 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 heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.

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 shopping cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society."

Obviously I think the last bits are absurd, but I do think it's an interesting thing to observe.

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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Here’s something that totally torques me off damookster - 14/09/2023 12:41:00 AM 142 Views
Weird Vodalus - 14/09/2023 03:20:27 AM 75 Views
Maybe it's a Northeast thing damookster - 14/09/2023 01:48:27 PM 60 Views
Weird. I always return the cart. Nobody has ever said anything to me. *NM* Narg - 14/09/2023 04:35:17 AM 40 Views
Mmmm. At first, I read that as "tongues" me off. LiterateDog - 14/09/2023 07:52:28 AM 65 Views
*NM* damookster - 14/09/2023 01:46:01 PM 27 Views
There's a pretty popular meme about this, actually. Let me dig it up. Ghavrel - 14/09/2023 01:52:34 PM 78 Views
Yes, that's the point of the YouTube channel I mentioned. *NM* damookster - 14/09/2023 02:05:21 PM 24 Views
Are shopping carts with a coin slot a thing in the US? Legolas - 14/09/2023 03:21:59 PM 69 Views
They are pretty rare aerocontrols - 14/09/2023 09:25:39 PM 65 Views
Only for luggage carts at airports - no refund *NM* Vodalus - 14/09/2023 09:35:31 PM 30 Views
There is a famous psychological study, correction studies Roland00 - 15/09/2023 02:50:02 AM 73 Views
Sidenote a question from a hot state Roland00 - 15/09/2023 03:12:08 AM 59 Views
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