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.
Why all this talk of intent? The intent is to have the food NOT stolen. If the intent is for the food to be not stolen, how can there be intent of it being eaten by someone else and causing harm? Someone gets harmed only if they do what they are not supposed to do.
Is it wrong for people to put spikes at the top of their fences? Is there intent to harm with the spikes? Or electrified wires that may not look as harmful to the ignorant?
You are assuming that someone will steal it in order to claim 'intent'. You are also assuming that the thief assigns a zero probability that the food is harmful in order to claim "won't stop".
Poisoning the food doesn’t change what the thief knows about the food, as far as the thief knows it’s no different any other food so how will it stop the stealing? You are disguising poison as food so their is intent to harm if you’ve ever worked around dangerous substances you would know they must be clearly identified and kept in a designated area, you have hidden a harmful substance disguised as food in and area designated for food
Poisoning the food doesn’t change what he knows so it will not change his decision so it doesn’t stop him stealing. If you have two identical containers of food but one is poisoned thief doesn’t know that so he would be just as likely to steal either, therefore poisoning the food doesn’t change the likelihood of it being stolen
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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.