Step 1: Want to be good, always see your mistakes.
Step 2: Improve a life long, but be happy of your life.
You can’t do better than that. Anything in that direction is good.
Just in general. I don’t even know if a god exists. Nor should it change my behavior.But deep down, I want people to see me returning the cart. My motivations were never entirely pure.
I was a volunteer EMT for the longest time, and I’d always tell people I did it for my own selfish reasons, kinda tongue in cheek like you here, but at the end of the day it always is. I did it because I liked the feeling of helping people. I liked the feeling of giving my time to my community. It just happens it was good selfish and not bad selfish.
I do it for “selfish” reasons, but not those. I want the carts in their corrals so they don’t damage my car and are in a well-known location when I want/need to use them. So, I do the work needed to make that world, and not just the minimum.
I also have to recognize that not everyone has the ability to return the cart, and so while/when I have that ability, I should return at least a few carts that aren’t “mine”.
Interesting philosophical question there. Do we ever do good deeds for selfless reasons? Or do we do it for the satisfaction, recognition, or sense of self?
It’s essentially for selfish reasons, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t putting ourselves second or even third. You won’t be doing stuff your brain doesn’t tell you to do and your motivator is called dopamine. Where that comes from is irrelevant. But when you have a good heart you will tend to want to make the world a better place. And you will live knowing that you did. However, it is possible to have a bad day and still have the enforced neural pathways that got trained because the dopamine has made your brains remember the last time you did that. At the moment you might not even like doing it but you do it anyway. Because it’s “the right thing to do” or so your brain says. When you have felt a hardship you may also feel compassion with someone and do not want them to feel what you felt. But the essential reason is the same.
So it’s absolutely possible to be selfless, just not for selfless reasons. Doesn’t mean we’re all selfish assholes. On the contrary. We get happy in groups, so we want the groups to be happy. We do everything for that. If we don’t then we tend to not really be there anymore. And we’re not required to, but we do. That’s the selfless part.
Idk, the other day I saw someone had parked one of those pay to ride scoots in the middle of a walking path. It was not necessarily on my way the way I was coming from, but it annoyed me enough that I moved it to the side of the road. Was it a good deed? I mean it no longer obstructed the path, and someone probably had an easier time due to it. I gained nothing by doing it, nor was it ever implied by any public norm I should do it. Although I guess it could just be an upbringing thing.
One might argue that you saw it as a good thing to do and you see yourself as a person who does good things. You might behave in ways that seem altruistic but are really acting to avoid cognitive dissonance. That said, I’m just thinking out loud here, I don’t have the answers.
Can any deeds even be evaluated as good or bad without the context of satisfaction, recognition, or sense of self???
Right? People don’t exist in vacuums, we all rely on each other and the relationships we maintain.
Tell that to the eternal accountants. -400 points for buying a tomato. No wonder we’re all going to the bad place.
What if it’s common in my country to put a euro into it and you get it back when you put the cart back? I have never even seen carts left on the parking lot.
We have those in Canada… At least in my province. They also sell special 3d printed coins that are large enough to unlock the cart, but thin enough that it can’t trap the “coin” inside. It stays on my keychain. we have one for quarters ($0.25) and one for dollars ($1) different chains require different coin deposits.
First I thought how would you use a cart that unlocks with a Euro in Canada now I’m thinking how are they gonna unlock it with a dollar bill.
Conclusion: I have absolutely no idea about the fiancial system in Canada.
Canada stopped using bills for $1 in like the 80s, then dropped the $2 bill in the 90’s. We have the “loonie” which is a $1 coin, and “toonie” which is the $2 coin.
Carts depending on how premium the chain is, will either use a quarter coin ($0.25) or a loonie ($1.00).
A few years ago we dropped the Penny, our 1 cent coin ($0.01). All purchases are rounded to the nearest 5 cents.
I still don’t really understand the obsession by people who spend all their time on the internet with whether the cart return kid had to return their personal cart along with the 200 other carts.
When losers sucked so much and managed to even get rejected from being a cop, but they still wanna play cop. They wanna feel the power but can’t even do the bare minimal 3 week training.
Maybe because in many other countries this just isn’t an issue and everyone returns their cart. Even when they don’t have a deposit (though most do)
Seems unlikely: if the non-return behavior isn’t a thing in other countries why would they have a lively internet vendetta, mostly in English, against anyone who has committed the eternally-punishable crime of leaving their cart to the cart guy (who doesn’t exist in those countries). Just seems pretty implausible.
Look at it from this angle:
The carts are personal property. When you don’t return them, that’s theft. When you don’t return them properly, that’s miscoduct.Americans have been doing this for an eternity, so they just hired a cart guy and called it a day. You can’t put the entire country in the courts. It’s culture at that point.
Englishpeople didn’t and so it became reasonable to just make it a law for the few idiots who think they can do what they want. No cart guy required. This is how most laws are made. Traffic laws were once a good example.
Found the asshole who doesn’t return their cart.
If the possibilities after death actually were heaven or hell, the bar to get into heaven would have to be pretty low. You’re going to torture someone for eternity because someone pirated Game of Thrones a few times? That couldn’t possibly be a moral way of running the universe.
Consider this: God is a dick. The bible is full of him acting like a complete asshole.
For example, the Bible documents far more kills by God than kills by Satan: https://reasonsjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/thou-shalt-kill.html
Remember that young boy you run over because you were in a hurry to get Bieber tickets? Turns out he was destined to become megahitler so thats worth like a billion goodguy points.
oh man if that’s all it takes, I’m golden!
“Oh wait. You put a large cart in the small cart section.”
Not being a huge dick is a low bar that way too many people don’t clear.
The rules for me to like you are quite simple:
- having a huge dick is optional
- not being one isn’t
Is having a huge dick optional, tho?
Like how do I opt in?
well first you buy some flour, then some rubber bands, then some magnum condoms
Flour?
it goes inside the condom
I see…
Tiny check box during character creation, most people miss it
most people miss it
Well… shit. Can I reroll?
Rerolling is a feature exclusive to certain religions
No, not like that.
IMO if we’re talking about sexual compatibility, a huge dick is a detriment. Everything over “a bit larger than average” is literally a pain in the ass - you can make it work with some effort, but if the dick was just average-sized you wouldn’t need to put in any additional effort in the first place. Though of course, some people also have larger-than-average holes. And some big dick havers are pure bottoms, anyway.
some people also have larger-than-average holes
Like sleeve of wizard.
I like a challenge.
Well, I’ve got one for you…
Not THAT much of a challenge tyvm.
Let’s just stick with dicks.
My girlfriend returns other people’s stray carts when she sees them. I guess she’s getting into super heaven.
Oh, she’s actually going to hell for freeing up more parking spaces. The guy upstairs doesn’t like it when people make life easier for car drivers
stray carts
This would be a good name for a rockabilly remix band.
When she gets to heaven, she’ll have carte blanche!
Unfortunately there is no super heaven, but she is earning credits for any scenario where she’d go to hell.
“sweet, i’ve saved up enough points to get a pass on either one murder or showing vacation pictures to coworkers for ten minutes”
Ohhh gotta go with vacation pics. You gotta see this closeup of the sunset I took while standing on a stone column in Paris. Let me find it… it’s here somewhere… was that 2018?.. hold on… oh here is a weird thing on my ankle last summer… hold on I’ll find the sunset…no…no…hmmm… it’s here somewhere…hmm… hold on…
There is in Islam, there are in fact 7 levels
Oh neat. Maybe she can get some Hell swag.
If you’re lucky, she’ll give you her extra points, like using frequent flier miles to get your a ticket.
Eh, the points redemption is kinda rigged because it requires a virgin sacrifice. Puts a damper on that “thou shall not kill” thing.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One time she accidentally stole someone’s cart, which is q straight ticket to hell unfortunately
Only seven souls have gotten into heaven. The most recent one was Fred Rogers. The one before that was over 700 years ago. The rule is to get into heaven, you need to be judged better than the previous one let in.
See you in hell.
Sooooooooo…Dolly Parton has a 50/50 chance.
Fuck life!
At least the people I hate won’t get in.
That’s a victory on its own.
That means Bob Ross didn’t get in 😭
Little acts of kindness add up so keep doing them!
That way when they find the body, you can still get into heaven!
(That’s a joke obv. Please do not murder.)
Duck St. Peter: And now, let me show you to your new life in Heaven. *winks*
Green duck: Oh, goody, goody!
DSP: Ah, here we are…
GD: But, but… that’s just what I was doing in the flashback!
DSP: That’s right. :D
GD: D:
DSP and Satan, later that night, after their shifts are done, sitting around the poker table, drinking their Bloody Marys: Wah-hah-hah-hah, “Christians!”
Goose, not duck.
I’ve seen green ducks before. Never a green goose. Is he a member of the Green Lanterns?
Only anthropomorphic ones with no pupils can be green, I guess.
Goose, not duck.
In which case, everything I said above is a total lie.
Heaven is run by the Cart Narc
Killed a guy this morning, don’t regret it, in fact I enjoyed it would do it again, probably will, and your gonna give me angel super powers?
What? Murder isn’t a sin.
No?
Of course not, only leaving out your shopping cart.
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What about rap…
