Ari Fletcher has gone haywire on social media and put TSA workers on the blast for not doing their job. Ari on Twitter tweeted via Vlad;
“TSA talking about take your bin and put it in the cart. Baby this is your job not mine, once I get my bag I’m leaving. You stack that s**t up, my flight boarding.”
Ari’s followers chimed in with their thoughts, which sparked much debate about what travelers are responsible for upon entering the TSA space.
Have you ever heard of the grocery cart theory? It supposedly can let you know if you are a horrible person like Ari or a good person.
There’s no right or wrong time to have an existential crisis and Twitter has found just the perfect way to go down that classic rabbit hole. A tweet by a user named Jared that describes a supposedly character-defining theory took the microblogging platform by storm as others discussed the nuances of the scenario presented. The viral “shopping cart theory” proposes that an individual’s moral character can be determined by whether they choose to return a shopping cart to its designated spot after use or whether they simply leave it wherever it suits them.
“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.”
The author of The Shopping Cart Theory continues, “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.” The theoretician then goes on to make some rather radical statements about those who do not pass The Shopping Cart test. “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,” they state.
What type of person are you?
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