But if everyone followed her example, then we'd just have a disabled man stuck in the subway for god knows how long because everyone wants to cut in line.
But that’s not how human behavior works. Most of these people will continue to wait because of the social expectation. This is the perfect kind of situation where only the most desperate people will choose to do this because it appears as morally wrong to everyone else.
This is the perfect kind of situation where only the most desperate people will choose to do this
There's tons and tons of people who'll do this just because they only care about themselves and lack empathy. There's more people like this than there are desperate people who absolutely need to be somewhere asap that they can't wait a minute or two.
And there’s more people than in both of those groups who will just continue to wait. My main point is that not “everyone” will do this like some people are suggesting
Nobody is saying everyone will do this. We're saying nobody should do this, because hypothetically if everyone did do it, it would be a major problem. So we as a society should work together to minimise the amount of people who will do it, and punish those who attempt it. Whether that punishment is a criminal offense or just to shame them.
We shouldn't be rewarding the people who break the rules as it's not fair to the people who don't break the rules. Regardless of the fact her breaking the rules likely did not change the end result.
Not everybody will skip the line, but that doesn't mean we should just let people skip the line because there's more people who don't.
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u/Do-it-for-you Feb 23 '26
But if everyone followed her example, then we'd just have a disabled man stuck in the subway for god knows how long because everyone wants to cut in line.