So I was driving home from work at 4am and found a row of bins which had been knocked over. It'd say about six or seven bins spread over half a block which had all been tipped forward off the pavement into the street.
My initial thought was 'Well if it takes one jackass to knock over some bins, I guess it only takes one random to fix them', and promptly pulled a u-turn, threw my indicator on and hoisted them back onto the sidewalk.
Great stuff: My car wasn't stolen while I was doing this.
But now I've got a vague moral conundrum: Trolley-problem wise.
See, I left some trash piles on the road from where the bins fell. I'm all for lifting wheelie bins, but I'm not about to go handling random people's trash.
Thing is, these piles contain glass and whatnot. So I'm in a situation where I could have potentially made the road more dangerous for whatever half-asleep people would swerve around a fallen bin but will unintentionally blow through a trash pile and potentially blow a tyre.
So I guess the question is whether a half-measure of goodness is really a good thing at all.
Also brings up utilitarianism vs deontology etc.
Every year is born in darkness.
Fuck that we birth the new year in gigantic fantastic fireworks. That's being born in a
ton of colourful light.
Brilliant and fleeting, just like my hope for the new year.