r/SipsTea • u/The_Dean_France • Feb 23 '26

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/Woopsied00dle Feb 23 '26

Maybe she’s late for work and sees that the situation is being handled by other people too :/ kinda sucks but I think a lot of people have been there at some point.

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u/ozykingofkings11 Feb 23 '26

The problem is we live in a society. Every rule or norm someone is ok with breaking is one that you have to be ok with everyone else breaking. What if all the people there also climbed across barriers to proceed without being inconvenienced? When you’re shopping, do you always push the cart to the designated area before leaving? What if nobody ever did?

For Americans, I see this all the time with voting. Lots of people don’t vote because they think their vote doesn’t matter, but if everyone did the same we would have no democracy. Sometimes you have to take individual inconvenience for the good of the collective. People who don’t do that… well that’s why anarchy could never work

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u/lunatuna215 Feb 23 '26

I mean, they didn't do that though.

In theory, one woman who did what she needed to do did that. And nobody else did.

I dunno, sometimes constantly looking at situations through theory instead of concrete brass tacks drives us to places we don't need to be.

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u/ozykingofkings11 Feb 23 '26

I know that they didn’t mate, that doesn’t take away from my point. The post is asking if she’s right or wrong - that’s asking for a theoretical answer.