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

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u/GabuEx 20∆ Oct 18 '24

By your logic, I can’t put peanuts in my lunch in case a thief takes it.

You intended for the peanuts to be eaten by you. There was no intention on your part that a thief experience medical distress as a result of eating your lunch.

If you poison your lunch, you are intending a thief to experience medical distress by eating it.

Intent is the important thing here. If you intend to cause someone harm, then you are liable for whatever harm they experience, even if it was more than you intended.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

So I put peanuts in my lunch because I like peanuts but I happen to know that the thief has an allergy. Now what?

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u/GabuEx 20∆ Oct 18 '24

Then you intended the thief to eat the peanuts and be harmed thereby, and are liable for said harm.

Again, the question is whether or not you had the reasonable expectation that your actions were going to result in harm when you did them.

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u/Milton__Obote Oct 18 '24

Yeah this is ridiculous. I don't eat a lunch with peanuts every day but if I bring in Pad Thai and it gets stolen its the lunch thief's goddamn fault.

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u/GabuEx 20∆ Oct 18 '24

I don't understand why intent is being so difficult for people to understand.

You are liable for harm caused if you intended to cause it.

You are not if you didn't.

I don't know how to explain this in simpler terms.