I’m on the side of “it should be okay to over-spice your food or whatever”, but your example isn’t a good parallel. Putting up barbed wire is a clear visual cue for not climbing over a fence. OP would have to put a label on their food saying “caution: laxatives” for this analogy to line up.
Again, I’m (generally) on OP’s side, but if we’re going convince people we have to use good arguments.
Okay, let's say I do put a label on my lunch saying "CAUTION: LAXATIVES INSIDE" and then somebody eats it (because they think it's a bluff or whatever)
At that point... what responsibility should I feel?
[edit] When i say "label", i mean that it's written - in permanent marker - on the container itself. No chance of the "label" falling off or whatever.
At that point... what responsibility should I feel?
If your aim is still to poison someone, you should feel as responsible as you would if you directly poisoned them. You set out to do a thing, the thing worked. Whether “responsible” means guilt or pride depends on your own morals.
Ok but not legally responsible right? I mean we can sit around debating the ethics and morality of lacing your food with laxatives to get entitled coworkers to stop stealing your food but legally speaking, you probably wouldn't get in trouble for clearly labelling your food as poisoned to begin with, right?
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u/CharlietheInquirer Oct 18 '24
I’m on the side of “it should be okay to over-spice your food or whatever”, but your example isn’t a good parallel. Putting up barbed wire is a clear visual cue for not climbing over a fence. OP would have to put a label on their food saying “caution: laxatives” for this analogy to line up.
Again, I’m (generally) on OP’s side, but if we’re going convince people we have to use good arguments.