• balderdash@lemmy.zip
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      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?

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        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.

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        Can any deeds even be evaluated as good or bad without the context of satisfaction, recognition, or sense of self???

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          Right? People don’t exist in vacuums, we all rely on each other and the relationships we maintain.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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)

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    My girlfriend returns other people’s stray carts when she sees them. I guess she’s getting into super heaven.

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      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

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      Unfortunately there is no super heaven, but she is earning credits for any scenario where she’d go to hell.

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        “sweet, i’ve saved up enough points to get a pass on either one murder or showing vacation pictures to coworkers for ten minutes”

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          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…

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          If you’re lucky, she’ll give you her extra points, like using frequent flier miles to get your a ticket.

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          Eh, the points redemption is kinda rigged because it requires a virgin sacrifice. Puts a damper on that “thou shall not kill” thing.

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      One time she accidentally stole someone’s cart, which is q straight ticket to hell unfortunately

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    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.

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    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.)

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    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!”

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    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.

    What about rap…