In my, and only my opinion (and it's not like it matters, really) this sentence, as it reads, directed at any participant of this discussion:
if you think carts MUST be put into corrals every time, you just don't know what the corrals are for and need to mind your own business.
is no less condescending and offensive than calling someone "lazy and disrespectful".
Fair enough, and I apologize if it was taken that way. I do not mean to offend or condescend. I'm not sure how to say it much differently, but my point is simply: If group A engages in a custom that nobody in that group and nobody that it impacts finds offensive or harmful in any way, shape, or form, then outsiders have no business casting judgment on it. See my noodle slurping example earlier in the thread. That shouldn't be an offensive
concept. But, again, apologies for the wording coming across that way.
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EDIT: I'm bothered by the fact that Evermind, and possibly others, felt that my comment was condescending, so I'm going to offer another example to more clearly illustrate what I meant. Let's take the example of how, in Mexico, everything shuts down for siesta time for a couple of hours in the middle of the afternoon, and then people go back to work. That is culturally agreed-upon, and WIDELY accepted
in that culture. Or, let's take the very laid back attitude toward...well, basically
everything, but especially workplace drive...that is pretty prevalent in Jamaica. Now, let's transplant that to, say, Wall Street. If you have a worker that, against his employer's expectations, decides on his own that he is going to leave his intense, fast-paced office environment for an hour and a half every day and take a nap right during the heart of the work day, his boss is going to be PISSED. He will be called out for being lazy. And, perhaps in that environment, rightly so. Or the guy who, in the same environment, basically takes his time doing "passable" work in "as long as it takes him," and not burying the needle in terms of trying to promote as far and as fast as humanly possible. In that environment, it might be passable to call the person out as not being ambitious. But Wall Street is a different environment than Mexico or Jamaica. So, for a Wall Street manager to call out Mexicans as being lazy
for what they do in Mexico or Jamaicans as being unambitious
for what they do in Jamaica is wrong on so many levels. Said Wall Street Manager needs to mind his own business if he's going to call out other people for not thinking the way he does. It's just not his call to make in singling out a different school of thought as "lazy" or "unambitious." The "mind your own business" isn't meant to be condescending. It's meant to say, "you don't understand, so quit throwing labels around that don't apply, and maybe think about not being so judgmental."
To bring that back to what's being discussed in this thread, again, it isn't necessarily "lazy" or "immoral" or...any of the terms with negative connotations that have been thrown around. Yeah, it
might be in a lot of contexts. But context matters. For it to be "lazy," there has to be an expectation of contrary behavior, and then a blowing off of that expectation because "yeah, I know that's what I
should do, but I can't be bothered." And at least here, in the specific situations I mentioned, it isn't an expectation. Maybe it is where you live. And that's cool. But it's no more "lazy" than taking a nap in the middle of your workday if you live in Mexico where pretty much EVERYBODY does that.