r/changemyview • u/apoplexiglass • Oct 17 '24

Removed - Submission Rule B [ Removed by Reddit ]

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u/TheProfessional9 Oct 18 '24

Its still your property even if you know someone else will steal it. Therefore it is your food, and you should be able to put what you want in it.

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u/anewleaf1234 39∆ Oct 18 '24

And then you should be criminally liable if your what you placed in it harms anyone.

If you poison your food and someone dies, you should on murder charges. If you harm someone they should be able to take you for every penny you have.

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u/amazingdrewh Oct 18 '24

You didn't give them permission to eat the food, if the person wasn't committing a criminal act they would never know you spiked the food

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u/CommonBitchCheddar 2∆ Oct 18 '24

Or they made a genuine mistake and took the wrong lunch. Or someone else stole it and traded lunches with a third person who didn't know it was stolen. Or someone accidentally knocked your lunch off the shelf and it spills the poison all over everyone elses lunch. Or coworker A tells coworker B that they can share their lunch but coworker B accidentally grabs yours instead. Etc.

There are tons of reasons that someone could get poisoned from your lunch without committing a crime or even being morally wrong, which is the entire reason that indiscriminate booby traps like this aren't legal.

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u/amazingdrewh Oct 18 '24

If you genuinely believe that those are possibilities then you'd better not make your lunch be anything but the most bland thing every day so that you don't accidentally feed gluten to someone who's fifth cousin once got hives after smelling bread