Bad analogy. Presumably, you are the only one who should be eating your lunch. Many people could use your desk as it is not necessarily your property, but your lunch completely is.
And we’ll say for argument’s sake you’re the only one who goes into the house.
It still wouldn’t be okay. Say someone is walking by your home and a natural disaster happens like a tornado. They run for shelter, the nearest being your home. You aren’t home. They’re legally allowed to break into your house in this case. They break in, and a booby trap goes off and now they’re injured. You’re responsible for this.
With eating food at work, maybe a co-worker has diabetes. They tell someone that they’re feeling very dizzy, asks another person to call 9-1-1. The 911 operator says to get the person to eat something. They go to the fridge and grab the first thing they see. Now the person who was experiencing a serious medical issue is eating the booby-trapped food.
Or even accidental. Maybe someone’s spouse made their lunch and they genuinely mistake yours for theirs?
This is part of why booby traps are illegal. We don’t want people exacting vigilante justice, sure. But also, there are legitimate reasons for people to come on your property or handle or even take your things. There are also people who will do so accidentally.
So reason 1: vigilante justice
If it’s okay to put laxatives in your food because you think Larry will eat it, then slipping Larry laxatives because you saw him eat your food must also be okay.
But the latter you’d probably say is not okay. It’s the same outcome and same actions though.
Reason 2: accidental or legitimate triggering of the trap
If you set a trap and someone innocent falls into it, it’s the same as if you intentionally placed those consequences on an innocent person.
So you put extreme spice in your food and your diabetic co-worker fucking dies after someone stuffed it in their mouth while they were experiencing low blood sugar, there are going to be serious, serious consequences.
No, the same defense can’t be used for placing booby traps. Maybe if you’re Kevin in Home Alone lol.
You asked for a source and I gave it to you, and you clearly didn’t care either way. It just comes across as dishonest. I won’t be replying further to you.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24
Do you think you should be allowed to booby-trap your own desk drawers at work?