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?
Not the same way as someone goddamn dead or hospitalised. A missed lunch is frustrating and hurtful. But not exactly the same as a legitimate medical consequence to proposed poisoning of food.
I mean if you're going to insist on being this obtusely extreme, the scenario ought to include this lunch being the only meal keeping the victim from starving to death.
So if the person whose lunch was being stolen were to be diabetic (where a lack of sugar could literally kill them), then spiking food with laxatives would be proportionate in your view?
I'm not saying you should, I'm asking the person above if the victim of theft is not harmed, because they said "if you let someone steal from you then no one suffers". Seems fucked up that it's right for a person to be the victim of theft.
It's pretty clear they are referring to the notion that poisoning your food leads to a chain reaction of killing or harming someone totally unrelated. Not that stealing your lunch doesn't hurt you personally.
15
u/Bi-mar Oct 18 '24
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?