A question of ethics

[HamburgerBoy]

Driving to school on trash day today I noticed the obligatory household in the neighborhood with a pile of a dozen+ assorted cardboard boxes and other miscellanea. As someone that always puts his trash into convenient trashman-pickupable bags so that there are rarely more than a few items on the sidewalk, I went through the usual routine of imagining myself calling out said neighbor for the inconsiderate dickhole he is. For some reason I reconsidered my usual position this morning, however. For me to crush each box of milk or squeeze in an old vacuum bag or whatever else, it takes me considerably more time (an additional ~2 minutes) than it does for the trash guy to just throw the stuff in piecewise (an additional ~15 seconds). From this perspective, it almost seems rational, yet I know that if every neighbor were to do as such, it would be necessary for the city to employ many more trashmen. Is the neighbor still an ass?

 

[SMOGZINN]

What, you don't think trashmen need jobs?
See, 100% of the votes agree with me!

 

[warr666]

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[Squisher]

You don't recycle cardboard? We have to cut ours up into 2' X 2' sections for the recyclers to take it. I'm such a good fucking citizen I bought a second recycling bin and keep a box cutter by the back door. It's a pain, but I have broad shoulders....hahahaha.

 

[jman19]

Most boring poll ever.

 

[lxskllr]

You don't recycle cardboard? We have to cut ours up into 2' X 2' sections for the recyclers to take it. I'm such a good fucking citizen I bought a second recycling bin and keep a box cutter by the back door. It's a pain, but I have broad shoulders....hahahaha.

I use my boxes for recycling. I put the cans and crap in the cardboard box, and they take the whole thing. Very convenient.

 

[nageov3t]

I don't want my garbage men to hate me so they don't report me for throwing my bottles/cans in the trash with the rest of the garbage.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You don't recycle cardboard? We have to cut ours up into 2' X 2' sections for the recyclers to take it. I'm such a good fucking citizen I bought a second recycling bin and keep a box cutter by the back door. It's a pain, but I have broad shoulders....hahahaha.

I'm not even sure how recycling works here. Of the ~100 houses I drive by every day, maybe 10 have the little red, white, and blue baskets out, and there's no dedicated recycling truck.

seems more like a gray area, and more of a question of courtesy, coordination than ethics. maybe in the future, it might step out of the gray.

u can crush ur own boxes for ur own conscience and consideration of mind, and those of empathic mentality can recognize, but maybe in this situation don't fault the guy that doesn't adhere to the same

Not ethics in the sense that killing babies in the name of science becomes an ethical question, but I'm of the belief that if there's something that would harm society if everyone did it, no one should do it. It's literally one house in my neighborhood, so I wondered if this pattern applied to ATOT.

 

[NetWareHead]

I would crush them and stack them into neat piles so the sidewalk/curb in front of my house doesn't look sloppy. That would be my motivation, to keep my property looking nice and orderly