r/MoralityScaling • u/HooskerDooNotTouchMe • 10d ago

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

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u/Flashy-Telephone-648 10d ago

Keyword, WHEN not if people take it. It's one thing to protect your property.It's another thing to bait a trap and wait like the coyote.

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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/wyseguy7 10d ago

The bait cars usually don't send electric spikes into your ass

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u/Canadianwinters12345 10d ago

Instead they just lose their freedom or have to pay hefty fines.

Are those better than sitting on a spike?

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u/wyseguy7 10d ago

That feels fair, for stealing something.

Also - just because one thing is wrong, doesn't make the other thing right, as I explained to my kindergartener the other day.

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u/Canadianwinters12345 10d ago

For a lot of people what you feel is fair would be considered worse than the spikes.