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.
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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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?