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The social contract (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I want others to return their carts so I expect the same from myself. Unironically, we live in a society, so that means cooperation for things to run smoothly

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is Contractualism. If anyone wants to learn more about this moral philosophy, you can read Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other, or for a better time, watch The Good Place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

More generally, this is the philosophy of deontology, or the study of duty/obligations if anyone is interested in seeing the whole eco system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Good Place taught me that the solution to this problem is to let the cart run loose and kill the guy pulling the lever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

BUt It’s soMEONe’s joB tO GeT tHE CARts, i’M jUST CReATING jObS For tHEm

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The cart corral things were invented in my lifetime, before that we were expected to walk that shit all the way back into the store.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And don't forget all the jobs you make at the auto body shops fixing damage from carts! And all the jobs at the shopping cart factories from having to replace broken carts!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is why I always throw my cat into a ravine or pond when I’m done with it.

Reuse would be economically inefficient.

Edit: cart not cat, I do not throw my cat into ravines or ponds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hi there, Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know what this comment means and I’ve been thinking about it all day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

haha! that's Gary Oldman's character in The Fifth Element. One of the best movies and one of his best characters IMO. There is a scene where he's dragged the priest into his office and after being accused by the priest of wanting to destroy life, as a rebuttal he breaks a glass on the floor which sets a flurry of automatic cleaning robots into action and says the destruction he caused creates work for robots which means work for the robot makers and enables them to have children. Something like that. I should have just linked the scene instead of trying to summarize from memory but of course who has time for a video link for everything? destruction creates life