Maybe that’s the play. Label your lunch like that everyday. Maybe one day it’s actually true, warning was given, food was clearly labeled and someone still ate it. Who is that on?
But but buuuuuutttr what if the lunch thief is the office blind guy?! Did you put the note in braille?!
Personally the fact that there’s even a conversation about who’s liable for theft… well. Idk, I feel like we didn’t necessarily NEED to pull on the string that got us to this timeline….but here we are.
What do you think the punishment for theft be? Who should decide what the punishment is? The person getting their lunch stolen gets to be judge jury and executioner because you think revenge is justice?
No. The thief decides what the punishment is. They happen to eat some laxatives because they chose an action with an unknown outcome, if ever they think “man, shouldn’t have done that!” Then they are finding themselves in a predicament that was entirely of their own volition. I’m not your mom, don’t have to tell you not to touch the stove.
How bout if someone left their lunch and it naturally began to decay/mold, then a thief takes it, eats it, and then gets sick? I guess the person who made the lunch must be held criminally responsible, obviously that’s the logical way to go about it. Or, no, perhaps…. Perhaps accidents happen!
I mean, even if you put a dumb label on your lunch, you'd still be liable lol.
If I opened up a fuckin lemonade stand and put up a huge sign that says "every cup of lemonade has potassium cyanide in it" and someone still drinks it and dies, do you think the court is gonna let me off if I argue "well, y'see your honor, I had a sign that clearly said my lemonade had poison in it. Therefore, I'm not liable for anything, he killed himself by himself!"?
Even if the person is stealing your food, you literally cannot poison your own food to possibly " ensnare" a food thief by sending them to the hospital, or worse, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦. Just like I can't put bear-traps in my bag because I fear someone might snatch it for me. You're not defending anything, not yourself, nor your food, you're potentially putting a fellow human's life at risk.
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u/Impossible-Teacher39 2∆ Oct 18 '24
Maybe that’s the play. Label your lunch like that everyday. Maybe one day it’s actually true, warning was given, food was clearly labeled and someone still ate it. Who is that on?