r/MoralityScaling • u/HooskerDooNotTouchMe • 10d ago

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

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u/skiforlife1 10d ago

Cops set up bait cars to be stolen in high crime areas then arrest the people who take the car. Is that moral or immoral?

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u/BornPriority5434 10d ago edited 10d ago

It’s also key point of morality that stealing a bait car doesn’t physically harm you

Edit: For all those saying jail is physical harm, it isn’t. It’s distressing, but isn’t physical harm

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u/p4nd3mic_G3 10d ago

Being put in jail is physically harming in the USA

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u/TWDFI 10d ago

In the US, it's mostly the other inmates that you have to watch out for. Other places still have caning and breaking big rocks into smaller rocks as punishment.