The Shopping Trolley Test

Never thought about it this way but it makes total sense! 

“ The shopping trolley is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping trolley is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping trolley is objectively right.

There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their trolley. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping trolley. Therefore the shopping trolley presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping trolley, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping trolley, you gain nothing by returning the shopping trolley.

You must return the shopping trolley out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping trolley because it is the right thing to do.

Because it is correct.

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 law and the force that stands behind it. The shopping trolley is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society. “