Ran into this and it is true:
The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing, the post states. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return 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 presents 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 own 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
I had always found it interesting when I see an abandoned shopping cart to note the location and to see what is around it. In Bellingham, there is one spot I drive by that always has carts piled up and it is right outside a subsidized housing development. Sure, some of the residents have physical issues that preclude walking the five blocks back to the market to return the cart but couldn't they just bring a cart back when they next went shopping.
In my own little rural grocery store, there are some people who will not walk the cart the 20 feet from their car back to the store. Entitled. Maybe their mommies will take care of it for them. Fortunately, those people are not at all common. Most people are good members of society.
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