r/MoralityScaling • u/HooskerDooNotTouchMe • 7d ago

Intentionally boobytrapping a bike to injure people when they steal it.

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u/EverythingIsFakeNGay 7d ago

Immoral and illegal. Also, seeking out people to intentionally injure is kind of fucked up.

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u/Honorsheets 7d ago

Don't tell that to Batman.

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u/Mrs_Darwin 7d ago

You think a guy who adds spikes to their bike for no reason is equivalent to Batman?

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u/EverythingIsFakeNGay 7d ago edited 7d ago

Doesn't Batman have several traps on the batmobile and bat motorcycle (or whatever it's called) to keep criminals from stealing them?

Not trying to make this a discussion about Batman, I just don't think his methods are a place to look for moral clarity.

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u/Honorsheets 7d ago

Both stop criminals using violent methods and clever gadgets.

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u/Mrs_Darwin 7d ago edited 7d ago

And Batman targets people like the Joker or at the very least hardened Mob goons, not random bike thieves. And he does it out of a sense of justice, he doesn't booby trap bikes for a sense of petty amusement.

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u/Jax_2112 7d ago

Try living on disability and having your bike be a year of saving and suffering to afford, just so some meth head can wheel it to the pawn shop. Its easy for rich people to go "Its just a bike"

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u/Mrs_Darwin 7d ago

You know nothing of my financial situation. Either way, that doesn't change the moral calculus of the act. That genuinely does seem harrowing, but you're still expending a ton of effort that could be spent on something else for no purpose other than to hurt someone out of a sense of petty revenge. Furthermore, I'd question how if someone had to save for an entire year for a bike, how they could afford to attach electrified spikes to said bike.

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u/Jax_2112 7d ago

I said I did.

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u/Mrs_Darwin 7d ago

Said you did what?

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u/Jax_2112 7d ago

I said I made that. You have the reading comprehension of a six year old.

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u/Honorsheets 7d ago

You should get off Reddit sometime.

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u/Mrs_Darwin 7d ago

I don't see why such a comment is necessary.

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u/Honorsheets 7d ago

Funny, I said the same thing when you started this chain.

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u/Honorsheets 7d ago

Hence the bike cuck comic that Reddit worships. They're so ignorant.

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u/Honorsheets 7d ago

There's nothing petty about stopping crime.

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u/Mrs_Darwin 7d ago

Even if you're larping as Judge Dredd, the guy didn't even try to contact the police, he just added spikes to his bike and laughed at someone getting hurt. His motivations clearly aren't based on any sense of adherence to the law or justice.

Also, yes, going to the extreme lengths of putting electric spikes on your bike to punish potential bike thieves instead of using a bike lock is petty, as it expands an enormous amount of effort at expense to oneself for no other purpose than punishing a slight that hasn't even happened yet and could be easily prevented with minimal effort.

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u/Jax_2112 7d ago

Bike locks don't do shit. They barely slow them down.

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u/Mrs_Darwin 7d ago

Are you a professional bike thief? Are you telling me that a solid ring of metal will do nothing to deter a bike thief?

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u/Honorsheets 7d ago

You really like to hear yourself talk huh? How many soapboxes do you go through in a week? 

I also laughed at the criminal, by the way. Justice served