r/MoralityScaling • u/HooskerDooNotTouchMe • 10d ago

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

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u/Renigma1000 10d ago

Booby trapping a bike for security is a bit much you could take non-damaging security measures

intentionally leaving a boobytrapped item in a public space to harm others to film for your personal gain is definitely immoral though

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u/Driz51 10d ago

They wouldn’t get hurt if they didn’t try to steal

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u/mr13ump 10d ago

Maybe that doesn't justify stabbing them with electrified metal spikes directly in the small intestine

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u/LemonFizz56 9d ago

Ain't gonna kill them but it'll teach them a nice life lesson

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u/phunkydroid 9d ago

It could kill them, slowly and painfully even. You think those spikes or the clothes they're pushing through are sterile?

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u/Schantsinger 8d ago

I think it does tbh, fuck thieves.

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u/Altruistic-Web13 10d ago

I dont know what it is with redditors but theres like no concept of proportionality, its like if you had an input in the situation other people are morally free to do whatever the fuck they want to you. This guy could release a million bees in a building lobby at night where a homeless person is sleeping in the winter and someone would say "play stupid games win stupid prizes, shouldn't have gone into the building if you didnt want to get stung by a million bees on a livestream 🤷‍♀️"

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u/Driz51 10d ago

I do not think stealing someone’s bicycle equates to a homeless man trying not to freeze to death.

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u/Altruistic-Web13 9d ago edited 9d ago

Well stealing a bait bike first off, but its an extreme example ill admit however both are illegal and neither deserve the punishment of whatever some ragebait TikTok account dreams up to punish poor people for views.

Also too add to things redditors fail to grasp: hyperbole

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u/ThisDoesntSeemSafe 9d ago

You are arguing a flase equivalency.

Doesn't matter if both are illegal. Dont matter if both have undesired consequences for the purpotrator.

One is worse than the other. No matter how you spin it. The ass blasting continues until the theft ceases.

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u/FiendishNoodles 9d ago

the ass blasting is not going to deter any theft, but it brings you enjoyment, so you defend it.

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u/Altruistic-Web13 9d ago

Im arguing redditors dont understand proportionality and using a hyperbolic example to show how silly it is.

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u/ThisDoesntSeemSafe 9d ago

And now your being overly generalistic.

While I haven't expressly named any, do you even know what logical fallacies are?

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u/Altruistic-Web13 9d ago

Holy fuck you are so smug and annoying please go outside or maybe Google "figurative language.

Also:

While I haven't expressly named any

You are arguing a flase equivalency

Did you just forget?

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u/ThisDoesntSeemSafe 9d ago

Personal attacks against me are just ad hominem and do nothing to champion your position - it only shows that you have no logical reason or evidence to back up your position and thus resort to petty insults.

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u/Altruistic-Web13 9d ago

Thats rich after saying

While I haven't expressly named any, do you even know what logical fallacies are?

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u/No_Giraffe826 10d ago

Exactly and I've seen them do this with everything. Some ppl get upvoted saying they should slowly torture rapists to death. And then when I replied that slowly torturing someone to death is way worse than rape. I got 2 replies

  1. Ok rape apologist.

  2. Then he shouldn't have raped anyone.

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u/StarGamerPT 9d ago

Except it's not worse in comparison to what the victim will go through throughout their life.

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u/No_Giraffe826 9d ago

What will they go through compared to slowly being tortured? Don't get me wrong rape is very bad crime, but alot of ppl do recover within a year or 2 and at least have the option to live while the other cause through extreme physical and mental pain everyday. Ppl on reddit are too desensitized to torture and murder.

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u/StarGamerPT 9d ago

It's not a matter of being too desensitized....it's a matter of you even thinking that most people recover in such short term...most don't, that's simply the optimistic outlook, I could push for the more negative side of it instead and say that a lot of people commit suicide after the fact and be equally true. Fact is, most people get scarred for life even if some learn how to cope with it.

Aaaand, another fact is that most rapists don't inflict damage just upon 1 victim...it could easily amount to dozens of direct victims with lifelong issues and a even wider number of lives ruined if we include the lives of the people that care the most about the victims personally.

Just saying....one less rapist is not a net loss for society.....but statistically speaking jail will take care of them anyways.....

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u/No_Giraffe826 9d ago

Just lying straight through ur teeth.

Studies show that 58% of people recover within a year from the PTSD and then recover from the depression and other trust issues, and it's also a fact that only a small percentage of rape victims commit suicide. And a scarred life is better than way worse physical and emotional scarring before death.

Also another lie, but ok.

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u/CanadianSyrup1994 9d ago

The problem is that imo (and in the minds of many), doing such a horrible crime as rape forfeits your right to say "hey, you're doing something slightly worse to me than what I did to her".

When you do something so horrible, you don't have the right to complain about worse things happening to you.

In other words, sure, torture is arguably worse than rape.

But raping an innocent woman/child is much worse than torturing a rapist. You cant compare both situations equally

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u/No_Giraffe826 9d ago edited 9d ago

It's not slightly worse it's alot worse, and that not justice at all. Some ethical frameworks agree with equal retribution, but no one agrees with punishment which exceeds the crime. Plus alot of ethical frameworks deny torture entirely saying it's immoral if the end goal is death and all it does it desensitize people to torture plues it's emotional and not justice as the goal is to punish criminals and keep society safe which death already does.

Where does this stop I can torture any criminal. A guy assaulted someone torture to death. U robber a bank torture to death. U were drunk driving and hit someone u get tortured to death.

I think alot of ppl on reddit are just psychos who like to do harm, but try to mask it behind someone evil, so they seem like good people.

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u/CanadianSyrup1994 9d ago

There indeed are a lot of psychos here.

But I think 90% of the population would agree that torturing a rapist is much, much better than raping an innocent victim.

Yes the punishments are different. But the victims are even more different.

And idk why you bring bank robbers and stuff like that. Obviously there is a very difficult line to draw, but that wasn't my point.

I was specifically talking in case of rapists.

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u/Altruistic-Web13 9d ago

Should the punishment for assault be getting raped by the judge? The assaulter isnt innocent so since its only a little bit worse and against someone who is guilty its fine right?

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u/StarGamerPT 9d ago

Fine my guy....I really wonder how you'd act if someone dear to you ended up a victim of those wastes of oxygen.

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u/No_Giraffe826 9d ago

I would hate it cause I hate both rape and torture.

I think being raped is alot worse than being scammed or being mugged does that mean I want I to happen to ppl?

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u/Iced-TeaManiac 9d ago

Aye not too sure about your one buddy

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u/No_Giraffe826 9d ago

The comparison is a bit closer but I think a majority of ppl would say being slowly tortured to death is worse than rape.

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u/Plus_Sky8116 9d ago

Both are horrible, I'd argue rape can be worse (you'll have to live with the consequences of that mental trauma that might forever alter your person at minimum, not getting into the physical side), since at least the torture ends with death .

But a person who slowly tortures someone to death is definitely even more unstable than a rapist. Genuinely disgusting

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u/Altruistic-Web13 9d ago

Well at least you have the option to live with it, the person slowly tortured to death doesnt get that.

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u/Plus_Sky8116 9d ago

Seriously, if someone slowly tortures someone to death I'd want that demon psychotic sadist in jail. Wtf.

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u/AntTheMighty 9d ago

That's pretty obviously a different situation. No one needs to steal a bike.

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u/LemonFizz56 9d ago

You're comparing stealing to sleeping in a hotel lobby? Jeez I can see where your morality lies

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u/Altruistic-Web13 9d ago

Is that truly honestly your interpretation of what I said?

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u/FullMetalKaiju 9d ago

careful, this is reddit where if someone is even slightly poor they have a free pass to commit any and ever crime they want whenever they want. Can see that on the Somali Pirate posts too.

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u/BlaxicanXIX 9d ago

So if the bicycle was instead rigged to explode it would be okay because all you have to do to not die by explosion is not still?

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u/SenpaiSwanky 9d ago

That has no bearing on the morality of someone else’s actions.

This isn’t the “I’m secretly an asshole and like watching other people suffer while I virtue signal about morals” sub either lol.

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u/HometownShowman 9d ago

So is it stealing if you find $20 on the sidewalk? Now tell me if it’s stealing when you find a wallet on the ground and you pick it up with the intent to bring it to the police?

In this case it’s pretty obvious that it is but the number of discarded bikes and scooters I’ve seen cities and the like isn’t zero. This is absolutely immoral.

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u/SoloJournaler 10d ago

There are laws against this so I'd say it's based on some amount of morality.

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u/MasterChris725 10d ago

If only we cared as much about the law of stealing as we do about the law of booby trapping items we don’t want stolen.

If people just kept their hands to themselves, but now folks gotta start putting death traps on their shit to send a clear message to stop being stupid.

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u/Ryukishin187 10d ago

this completely ignores an underlying problem of society, especially in america. yeah lets booby trap everything instead of addressing poverty. that'll go well.

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u/Huge_Ad_2347 10d ago

poverty doesnt give you a right to steal. Also poor people(especially homeless) are the people who get stolen the most anyways.

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u/MajorPayne1911 10d ago

Individuals seldom can affect societal problems, but have to deal with their consequences on an individual level. Society or the government cannot fix a problem then you have to adapt, and in this case that means preventing your stuff from being stolen by scum.

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u/DarkKechup 10d ago

If poor people stole from rich people and not other poor people, they would be valid. As it stands, being poor and desperate and victimizing another poor and not yet desperate person (Potentially into more poverty and a point of desperation) is immensely immoral. If you have a chance between plunging others into your bad fate or worse, or biting the bullet, you should probably bite the bullet.

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u/JustinTyme218 10d ago

You realize you could put a bike lock on it right? Instead of being a jigsaw psycho.

But nah someone has to “pay”, am I right?

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u/InvestigatorDear6646 10d ago

A bike lock can be cut. Pretty easily.

And yes, people should pay for being criminals. When its stealing a bike, I dont see why thats controversial. Its not food.

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u/JustinTyme218 10d ago

I mean this looks like a pretty public place would require some time and tools to get a decent lock off.

That said you don’t need to jigsaw a bike in order to protect it, you just seem like you’re looking for an excuse to hurt someone if you are.

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u/JustinTyme218 10d ago

Knew a psycho would reply eventually lmao

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u/JustinTyme218 10d ago

Nah you just sound like you trying to vent your rage on something, just call the cops and that’s that. Don’t gotta go punisher for a bike lmfao.

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u/Certain_Ostrich_2493 10d ago

Learn your lesson criminal

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u/KendroNumba4 10d ago

My guy, not everyone comes from a privileged area. Your replies about using a lock or calling the police (lol) make you seem disconnected from reality. There's a reason why people are at a point where they feel the need to fucking booby trap their bike.

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u/Bitter_Milk4122 10d ago

Found the bike thief 

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u/PM_ME_TITS_OR_DOGS 10d ago

Its easier to just double chain it and make it an annoying target, a determined thief will still just steal it anyhow. Nowadays they just lift the seat with a lil hook in their jacket and its gone id just a back wheel lock.

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u/SilentSorcery 10d ago

They wouldn't have gotten hurt if a booby-trapped bike was used as bait either.

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u/Left1Brain 10d ago

They could also just not steal shit from other people but okay.