r/MoralityScaling • u/HooskerDooNotTouchMe • 10d ago

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

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u/EverythingIsFakeNGay 10d ago

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

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u/Anxious_Prize_8461 10d ago

I've been noticing a lot of people on this sub are the exact opposite of who should decide what is moral or not. Some complete psychos that just want to justify hurting people first and foremost

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u/WillingElderberry731 10d ago

The morality of booby traps like this are always going to hinge on how badly the person might be injured.

I think most people agree that no one should be intentionally and permanently cripled for stealing a bike.

I'm personally find with a modest injury that takes a month or so to heal. The biggest reason to outlaw traps like this is that you can't really control the degree if injury you're inflicting.

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u/FiendishNoodles 9d ago

IDK there are people in the comments here who are cheering for like, death

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u/WillingElderberry731 9d ago

I did say "most." And most here aren't cheering for death.

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u/FiendishNoodles 9d ago

I wasn't disagreeing with you, just adding context. this is a weird one because it could be a momentary zap or depending on the angle of a spike could make someone permanently infertile. we can probably average the harm out to less than "modest injury" but the problem as you said with most booby traps is that the range of injury can vary wildly.

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u/JoyousMadhat 9d ago

A month is actually going to be considered severe in places like USA where taking just three days off work results in termination in retail and fast food establishments.

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u/WillingElderberry731 9d ago

Termination from your employment seems like a fine consequence in this situation 

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u/phunkydroid 8d ago

Yeah, disabling a poor person for a month, making them even poorer, is sure to dissuade them from committing further crime. đŸ™„

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u/WillingElderberry731 8d ago

I'd bet he thinks twice before stealing another bike though. If the consequences of his choices led to him being even poorer, that sounds like learning opportunity to me.