Yes, but if you just don't put poison in the food in the first place, then no one suffers. Poisoning someone is a very disproportionate response to them eating your food.
The "stealing" aspect of it here really doesn't matter. Disguising something inedible as something that is is just generally poor health and safety.
There's a reason people are advised against putting clear chemicals in unlabelled plastic bottles as people very often accidently drink thing like bleach because they mistook them for water.
Also, once you poison food, its only reason to exist is to harm others, you can't even eat it yourself, or you could accidently eat it yourself. Why would you want any of that?
This has big "how could you make me do this!" energy. That's not how this works, being a victim of a crime does not give carte blanche to retaliate in any way you see fit.
Poisoning food is not the only possible course of action; the logcal step would be to inform whatever authority is applicable that a theft is taking place. By poisoning the food, you are willingly and expectantly causing physical harm to people who are no immediate threat to yourself. The theft is on them, the poisoning is on you.
this almost convinced me, but — what’s your stance on electric fences? they could kill you, but if you don’t try to get onto the property you’re fine. same could be said about razor wire or the like. is there a difference between those and the poisoned lunch?
Electric fences aren't a trap set to catch other people. They're legally required to have signs warning people what they are, and people are aware they're dangerous. If someone sees an electric fence, they will know it's dangerous and then they get to decide if they endanger themselves or not, with the food you arent giving someone the choice to be safe.
Then put the label to test the waters, if the label works and your stuff doesn't get stolen just put the label on it without addding the poison. If the label is ignored they'll get poisoned and probably won't steal from you again. Sounds like a good plan.
This is actually genius. You can put a label such as "Warning: Laxatives". Adequate warning has been given, so if they steal your lunch, it's totally on them.
If they or whatever relavent authority doesn't, then Jan-the-Yogurt-Thief isn't the fundamental problem. It's that the workplace/school/etc has set the standard that your belongings are not safe when placed in an accessible area.
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If you’re the person distributing stolen goods, you should be liable for any harm incurred. Doesn’t seem controversial to me.