The Ultimate Test Of A Good Person

Tyler Kirkpatrick
2 min readApr 14, 2022

Forget the trolley problem. This is the greatest ethical test ever conceived.

A red shopping cart sits eerily alone in an empty, dimly lit parking lot
Photo by Osarugue Igbinoba on Unsplash

The shopping cart is the ultimate test of human agency.

Returning a shopping cart to the cart corral takes minimal physical, mental, and emotional effort. It is a universally good, correct action across cultures over the decades since its inception.

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Tyler Kirkpatrick

I write about politics, money, and my crippling video game addiction. Email: tkirkpatrick@smu.edu