Jan 20, 2021, 5:48 PM

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

A friend of mine posed the following retort:

The true metric is not with the person who used the cart, but the person who sees the cart in the parking lot. Who left the cart there? Why did they not return it? These are pointless questions: the real question is whether you will return it for them.

I would remind your friend that the free rider problem and the tragedy of the commons continue to be relevant. If worldwide voter turnout is anything to judge by, people don't take affirmative duties very seriously even when their are consequences beyond 'socially taboo'.