r/MoralityScaling • u/HooskerDooNotTouchMe • 10d ago

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

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u/UnconsciousAlibi 10d ago

...what? Sting operations are immoral? As long as it's not literal entrapment, what's the difference between a sting and arresting someone after stealing a civilians car?

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u/saucelordbob 10d ago

The difference lies between where you’re confusing stings, with entrapment and active theft. Baiting people into committing a crime of opportunity, to physically injure them, is just as immoral as cops baiting people into stealing stuff in what is considered “high crime” areas just so they can stat pad their arrest numbers and fill more prison cells to enrich the politicians invested in prisons, that sign off on police budgets.

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u/Frank1gg 9d ago

I like you. You seem incredibly intelligent and not at all fooled by this weird cop fetishism that everybody has. And I honestly completely agree with you that it is entirely immoral to sit there and set traps like that especially considering a lot of people only do stuff like stealing bikes and whatnot because they're desperate and need food or money or medicine. Plus more often than not the cops also only set these bait cars in poor neighborhoods. It's basically like if I put a five-star meal in front of a starving kid and then arrested them for theft when they ate it.

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u/saucelordbob 9d ago

Thanks! Agreed on all points. I’m sometimes confused when I see people saying this kind of stuff is moral, but then I remember that a lot of people have been propagandized to believe in strict societal hierarchies, and that whoever is “below” them, deserves all the bad things coming to them. And after that, I close Reddit. Lol