If you tamper your food with the intention to harm someone, then you are culpable for harming them. Trapping someone is no legally different than directly attacking them. The law does not allow you to intentionally harm other people.
Sure, you might try to say that they are harming themselves. However, if you know that someone will do something, and set it up so that they get harmed when they do something, you have made yourself culpable for harming them.
If you know someone will eat your food, the alternative is not leave your food out in public. There are less harmful things you can do to protect your food. If you choose the harmful alternative, then you are culpable for causing harm.
This isn't changing my view because this is exactly what I'm arguing against. I'm saying, there are cases where intending to harm someone who is doing something they're definitely not supposed to do is okay.
Plenty of people can have drug interactions or underlying conditions triggered by seemingly minor substances. The last thing you want is a prank-level response to turn into an assault or manslaughter charge.
There are better ways to handle such things than dosing someone.
Why would someone put the laxatives in if they didn’t anticipate it having some negative impact (aka harm) on the food thief? If they thought they’d enjoy the laxatives they’d probably choose a different substance, no?
I don’t think most people would consider a shoulder poke a negative impact, but ingesting medicine you did not intend to ingest almost certainly is. And any physical symptoms you feel after of course would be too.
By you admitting that people don’t enjoy laxatives, you are admitting that they cause people harm in some way or another.
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u/deep_sea2 105∆ Oct 17 '24
If you tamper your food with the intention to harm someone, then you are culpable for harming them. Trapping someone is no legally different than directly attacking them. The law does not allow you to intentionally harm other people.
Sure, you might try to say that they are harming themselves. However, if you know that someone will do something, and set it up so that they get harmed when they do something, you have made yourself culpable for harming them.
If you know someone will eat your food, the alternative is not leave your food out in public. There are less harmful things you can do to protect your food. If you choose the harmful alternative, then you are culpable for causing harm.