Spiking your food to stop the lunch thieve, is that morally ok?

Spiking your food to stop the lunch thieve, is that morally ok?

This was a big discussion on reddit and now on social media in general (among oldies ofc)

Here are two scenarios that happened

1. A lady constantly had her lunch stolen and eaten before her lunch break. So she decided to mix ghost pepper with the mayo for her sandwich. The lunch thief ended up having a bad reaction and he was outed.
2. A guy who was diabetic kept gummy bears in his desk for when he needed a sugar boost. Someone unknown kept eating it all(without permission ofc) so he replaced them with laxative gummy bears. The person who munched the whole bag ended up crapping their pants.

One side thinks if you put sth in your food knowingly that someone will eat it, you are legally and morally responsible for what happens to them.

The other side thinks, grown adults are responsible for eating unidentified items themselves. There is always risk there.

What do you guys think?

Quote from selfmate

morally yes

legally I think not since if I remembering reading stories like these on reddit the general consensus is one cannot booby trap one's one food...

What if it's a real simple everyday ingredient you use and unknowingly the thief has allergy to it.

Realistically I can not insure my daily food is safe to consume for all.

Quote from CITY

yeah. it's not food they're being offered or sold and are taking without the owner's consent. it could contain anything and they don't know. that's the risk they actively take by being assholes.

both those things are edible too, so it's not like it's poison.

There was a guy who let ham mold around his house for a week and made a special sandwich for the thief.

In that case, I would say they should slow the fuck down

Rancid ham can kill

Quote from dummi

There was a case where an old man's home kept being broken into by teenagers, and the police couldn't do much for him. He ended up waiting for them in the basement with a shotgun and killed both of them. The man went to jail, and while these teens shouldn't have went into his home he shouldn't have killed them.

You essentially poisoning your food knowing someone is going to be harmed by it is not morally correct.

I don't think both cases are comparable

He actively shot them

In this case, they just leave their food in a place it should not be touched but it is.

Quote from Ves

So let's think about this - I have a peanut butter cookie on my desk. I've done nothing to it. Someone comes and decides to eat it without realizing it contains nuts and it triggers their peanut allergy. Am I responsible?

No if I knew that person had a severe peanut allergy and purposely put the peanut butter cookie out for him to eat, then yes, you are guilty, but that precludes you knowing who is stealing your food and choosing to basically "poison" them instead of just confront them.

These people didn't know who is stealing their food

but they knew someone does and they will get hit

Quote from dummi

But you know that they will eat it, and you poisoned it

Just as the old man knew these teens would walk into his home, waiting to ambush them

So what would you do? Go hungry day after day?

Quote from dummi

No, but you dont poison someone. Wtf?

Well ghost pepper and laxative aren't really poison

Also in both cases the HR didn't do anything for them

So what else could have they done?

The first lady was a nurse who worked 16h shifts and that lunch was the only food she could have eaten all day. She even tried to make two sandwiches and left a letter begging the thieve to only eat one. He ate both. She put a lock on her bag, thieve ripped the bag.

Quote from Ves

They didn't use poison. I'd probably use food coloring or something more inert, but I'm hard pressed to feel sad for the "victim" here

Back in high school days, my manager used to eat minimum wage teenage workers lunches while he ate a comfy 6 figures salary.

If I go back in time, I'm pretty sure I will spike my food for him lmao

Quote from dummi

Spiking food means poisoning it, not making it spicy. If you wanna make it unbearable to eat then go ahead

But you are not really offering a counter solution to those people either

Quote from FeLiNa

this thread is hilarious as a criminal law/psych student

blah blah proof beyond a reasonable doubt something something reckless endangerment beep boop woof bark arf

nothing wrong with some hot peppers though!

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Tell me Felina

Will I be jailed for eating extra spicy food?

Quote from dummi

So to you its either poison someone or nothing? I said peppers are okay, you think spiking food with drugs or something harmful is the solution?

I didn't say drug

I gave two examples

One was pepper the other laxative

there is still a chance someone will have a bad reaction to both

Also idk what I will really do in this case

If I go hungry everyday I might get angry enough to add ghost pepper in my lunch

Quote from Jichu

look at this discourse

I'm bringing in good discussions lmao

Quote from FeLiNa

agreed. also that story of the teens breaking in reminds me of the movie Don't Breathe. if someone broke into my house i would shoot and kill them. no questions asked. i don't know what their intentions are with me or my family and i'm not about to find out, whether i knew they were coming or not. it's moral in my eyes and apparently it is in the eyes of the law too (Castle Doctrine).

obviously it's wrong to kill someone over food but all negative actions have their consequences.

I mean I won't shoot someone but if someone breaks into my house, If I get the chance I will hit them hard enough to knock them out

I don't think I will feel bad about it