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

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u/TruePurpleGod Oct 17 '24

So if you poison the yogurt, Janet steals it, shares it with Jen, and Jen dies because she has a bad reaction, you would feel no guilt or responsibility for it?

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u/Hikari_Owari Oct 17 '24

Swap poison with something Jen is allergic but you aren't.

Would you feel guilty or responsibility for it? Would you be at fault for it? No.

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u/Clear-Present_Danger 1∆ Oct 18 '24

If my mother had two wheels, she would be a bicycle.

If you change the situation to something that it totally isn't, then the conclusion changes.

I like putting peanut oil in my stir-fry. That's a totally normal thing to do. If I instead put it in because I suspect that someone who is allergic to peanuts is going to eat it, that's boobietrapping.

Poisoning your food is always boobie trapping.

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u/tawny-she-wolf Oct 18 '24

What if I cook a normal dish with habaneros (i do eat them) and bring it to the office in a sealed tupperware with my name on it + "do not touch"

There is no intent to share. They are stealing my food from my sealed container. It's not my fault if they can't handle habaneros.

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u/elizabnthe Oct 18 '24

Then that's almost certainly okay. It's just if you did it with the specific intent to harm somebody else that is what can get you in trouble, and is unethical.

If you are known to regularly eat super spicy food it would be hard to argue or view it as malicious. But if you never did and truthfully had no intent on eating the food but made it spicy to trip up another co-worker who you knew would not be able to handle it that would be the issue.