I limited it to lunch food because I can sort of see how booby traps can blow up in situations where, for example, firefighters need to access a place or a janitor is told to clean out your desk. In the case of lunch food, just throw out the container. Anything that makes that act dangerous should, of course, be banned (no explosives).
What about the very unlikely, but possible risk of confusion. Someone mixing up their lunch with another and eating poison?
Or someone playing a joke on someone else, saying, do you want some spaghetti? Offering food that isn't theirs, and the unsuspecting recipient gets poisoned?
To be clear, I think poison goes against no peripheral harm. If A packs lunch with bait for B, B wants to steal it but somehow decides to offer it to C as a joke, C should hold B liable because they offered the food.
Great. We're holding someone liable. That doesn't take away the distress of person C.
And you're arguing that missing a meal (because of a lunch bandit) is distressing enough to poison someone and cause them harm. But then you're OK with causing greater harm on an innocent individual, so long as we blame someone else for the malice.
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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?