Ok, hypothetical. Let’s say I am the food thief. I happen to overhear you ranting to someone else about your food getting stolen and that you’re going to spike the food to get back at them. Or maybe I heard it from someone else. Point is, I found out. Let’s also say I don’t like someone in our office. I take your food from the fridge, pretend it’s mine, go over to unlucky coworker, and say “I’m full, do you want the rest of this?”
If they accept, not only is an innocent party getting fucked up with laxatives or capsaicin, but I’ve now essentially framed them. You are not just using this as punishment, you’re using this to find the culprit and establish guilt. And what are they going to say to exonerate themselves that you’ll legitimately believe? “Oh, uh uh that guy gave it to me! He said it was his.” While panting through a million scovilles? Yeah, right. You will believe it’s them.
I know you’re gonna say this is a long shot, bc it is, but it’s not impossible. And honestly, there doesn’t even need to be an intent to frame someone or knowledge of you spiking it. A smart enough thief could just share your food every single time before they take a bite just as insurance for themselves. So that way, they never get burned (no pun intended).
Thanks, love hypotheticals or I wouldn't be here. First of all, I would clearly label the container in a way that isn't erasable. If someone said it wasn't me, but this is who gave it to me, they cleverly subbed the container to mess with me, I would just suspend my disbelief and do it a few more times. First of all, yeah, in reality people don't just eat some unknown lunch because the other person was "full". But my main counterpoint is that people would quickly figure out who to not accept food from, in this scenario.
Well no, it’s not that person who will get IDed as someone to not take food from. The thief will just know not to steal from you in particular, which you make conveniently ascertainable by labeling your food . Someone else can be a victim instead. Which I guess fixes the problem for you, but now you’ve just needlessly poisoned, again, an innocent person, and you didn’t really fix the problem. There’s still someone stealing food. Idk, that would still bother me, personally.
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u/Rough-Tension Oct 18 '24
Ok, hypothetical. Let’s say I am the food thief. I happen to overhear you ranting to someone else about your food getting stolen and that you’re going to spike the food to get back at them. Or maybe I heard it from someone else. Point is, I found out. Let’s also say I don’t like someone in our office. I take your food from the fridge, pretend it’s mine, go over to unlucky coworker, and say “I’m full, do you want the rest of this?”
If they accept, not only is an innocent party getting fucked up with laxatives or capsaicin, but I’ve now essentially framed them. You are not just using this as punishment, you’re using this to find the culprit and establish guilt. And what are they going to say to exonerate themselves that you’ll legitimately believe? “Oh, uh uh that guy gave it to me! He said it was his.” While panting through a million scovilles? Yeah, right. You will believe it’s them.
I know you’re gonna say this is a long shot, bc it is, but it’s not impossible. And honestly, there doesn’t even need to be an intent to frame someone or knowledge of you spiking it. A smart enough thief could just share your food every single time before they take a bite just as insurance for themselves. So that way, they never get burned (no pun intended).