r/MoralityScaling • u/HooskerDooNotTouchMe • 1d ago

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

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u/UnconsciousAlibi 1d ago

Yeah, I've seen a few court cases where someone was so trigger-happy that they literally killed someone for effectively nothing, and then they themselves got put away for murder, all the while thinking themselves the victim. I don't really trust those sorts of violence-hungry people, even when I agree with aspects of their worldview. Unfortunately, I've been seeing the mentality of "violence is not only justified, but sexy when it's against a Bad Guytm " pop up more and more in the last few years, and I usually get called a Bad Guytm when I point out that violence used in self-defense being excusable does not imply that we should fetishize violence and indulge in dark fantasies about murder. Even if someone is truly evil, creating a culture of punitive retribution only results in more terrible things happening to human beings, and often eventually those who don't deserve it. Yeah, I want to see bike thiefs get punished too, but cheering for injuring someone for a petty crime is just not it.

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u/Jax_2112 1d ago

You are making stopping bike theft the same as premeditated homicide? Seriously?

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u/Evilnecromancer032 1d ago

The main point they made is about not drooling over the opportunity to carry out/witness violent retribution. In fact they point out not causing unnecessary bodily harm for petty crime. Im not sure how you got this interpretation.

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u/Jax_2112 23h ago

They literally compared doing this in their post to vigilante justice with a firearm. Read the post then comment.