Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread

• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Theres lots of reasons someone might feel or be incapable of following all of the social norms. Good and bad reasons. Since we can’t know which is which at a glance its best to withhold judgment.

  Although some cases are like 99% sure and you can totally judge their pants off all you want.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I feel like this was chosen specifically because it’s one of those cases where it’s easy to tell.

    For instance, there was a Walmart next to a bus stop I used to take. People had to take their groceries to the bus, but Walmart didn’t put a shopping cart corral within like 200 meters of it. I don’t really blame people too harshly for leaving their carts there, if they’re taking a big load of groceries on the bus.

    Fwiw it’s not that it’s a social norm that is important, it’s it’s natural as a social good, and it’s nature as something (typically) trivial to do.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Its neither a good or bad. It could be argued either way, which makes it a matter of opinion.

      You even have cart returners here in this thread arguing to not return them in some cases.

      The real answer is that whether yoy put a CSRT back or not says nothing about someone’s character.

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s absolutely a good.

        The only “cart returner” I saw against it basically just claimed that the people in their town/state/country were too incompetent to operate shopping carts (even if that’s not what they explicitly said) so idk if i really trust them or want to use that as a measure.

        Making work for others to save yourself some trivial amount of work absolutely says something about your character

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