Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoTheres 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.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 months 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.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 months 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
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’m saying it doesnt rise to the level of determining if someone is a good or bad person. Besides the fact that noone is good or bad.