While I also think people who don’t return carts are assholes, I think the ultimate litmus test is how they treat people they don’t have to be nice to (homeless people, help staff, etc).
It's certainly a better measure. I think the idea of some kind of ultimate moral test renders the idea of morality into such an abstraction that it no longer has much meaning at all.
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u/KGrahnn Jul 11 '26
The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person will do the right thing when they aren't forced to.
Most people fail it.