I remember standing in line at a liquor store, watching a (likely) homeless woman carefully pocket some food item. I said nothing. I talked about it the next day at work. A coworker suggested I'd just passed an "ethics test."

That was many years ago, before I'd established my current worldview. Today, I'd be silently rooting for them. "Get some food!"

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call that necessarily passing an ethics test. You could've wanted to say something, but were too lazy.

Not doing something wrong is different from doing something right.

[–] woodcroft@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gotta have the capacity to do evil in order to do “good”

[–] Getallen@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

So ying yang?

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does your liquor store sell food??? All the ones here sell only liquor.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably like a snack. Like a small bag of chips.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Ah lol I had this magical liquor store that sold like groceries and stuff for BBQ. Get your Jack, a 24 pack and a fresh cut brisket to smoke.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I used to live in a red state and liquor stores there can only sell alcohol. Here (California), they're really just common bodegas. Even BevMo has snacks and party supplies.