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Positivity / Re: Are you a good person? The Shopping Cart Theory
« Last post by Arran on 13 04, 2024, 11:06:44 pm »This seems more like a debate board topic.
Using this logic, people should commit crimes so that police have jobs.
But yes as Ace said it was thought provoking. But surely people bring back their carts back because otherwise they'd be in the way of them driving off? So it's kind of necessary for practical reasons. Here most supermarkets have you put a £1 coin in them to get one so you need to take it back to get your £1 when you reconnect it with another trolley, because the sad truth is there's enough bad people in this world who can't be trusted with basic civil decency.
I don't think if you put the cart back it makes you a good person, because you may do it because of social norms rather than because you're good, I think being good is harder than that. Going against social norms to do what's truly right, like giving up animal products to stop animals from going through unimaginable suffering, this is the real test of character and only a few percent of people are willing to go against society, risk being made fun of, give up food options to do what's truly right. A good person at minimum must 'do no harm' and that shouldn't just be to other humans but to other sentient beings, but I suppose we've all done harm to another sentient being, we could all have been better people, I guess as long as we're a good person in our own eyes, that's what matters in the end. That was definitely thought provoking.
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Some people get hired just to bring back shopping carts, returning them would mean less work for them, eventually leading them to unemployment.
Using this logic, people should commit crimes so that police have jobs.
But yes as Ace said it was thought provoking. But surely people bring back their carts back because otherwise they'd be in the way of them driving off? So it's kind of necessary for practical reasons. Here most supermarkets have you put a £1 coin in them to get one so you need to take it back to get your £1 when you reconnect it with another trolley, because the sad truth is there's enough bad people in this world who can't be trusted with basic civil decency.
I don't think if you put the cart back it makes you a good person, because you may do it because of social norms rather than because you're good, I think being good is harder than that. Going against social norms to do what's truly right, like giving up animal products to stop animals from going through unimaginable suffering, this is the real test of character and only a few percent of people are willing to go against society, risk being made fun of, give up food options to do what's truly right. A good person at minimum must 'do no harm' and that shouldn't just be to other humans but to other sentient beings, but I suppose we've all done harm to another sentient being, we could all have been better people, I guess as long as we're a good person in our own eyes, that's what matters in the end. That was definitely thought provoking.
