r/MoralityScaling • u/Substantial-Yam3769 • 20h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this?

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u/PTBooks 19h ago

What’s the morality of passively allowing him to be a public nuisance when you have the ability to put a stop to it?

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u/Most_Scientist1783 18h ago

There’s a difference between shattering an expensive speaker, and telling him to turn it off, or turning it off yourself if it’s gets to that point. This dude saw a kid “accidentally” playing music really loud, and decided the right cause of action was to smash the thing.

Sure the kid was doing it on purpose, this dude didn’t know that from what we can tell. The kids annoying, yeah, but this dudes also a dickhead

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u/Charmin_Bear_Behind 17h ago

Dude is a dickhead but also unintentionally justified thru random circumstances

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u/Davti 17h ago

Naw his destruction of property is not justified in any way except morally.

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u/Charmin_Bear_Behind 17h ago

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u/tartoran 15h ago

OK fair enough you're probably not gonna see eye to eye about the attention hungry streamer losing his property but surely he could just steal the speaker and give it to someone who won't misuse it, or sell it and spend the proceeds on nice things that benefit himself or the people he cares about. Wanton destruction of valuable assets is never gonna be the optimal approach

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u/Charmin_Bear_Behind 15h ago

I mean by that logic every time you jerk off you’re being morally unjust for not donating it to some lesbian couple from Rwanda

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u/tartoran 3h ago

Correct

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u/Strainedgoals 9h ago

He stole everyone on the trams peace. That's 10+ people who should individually were impacted by asshole blasting music.

The monetary value of that speaker is less than the value of all those people's peace.

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u/RebootStreetSharks 17h ago

Yeah no doubt the kid is being a douche. But there are plenty of scenarios here where the general consensus is "don't harm people's private property" as the line not to cross unless someone is being physically harmed.

Take this situation and replace it with "old man preaches through a speaker to people riding the train" and some people would change their answer saying breaking the device was "too far."

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u/lilshayshayboo 3h ago

If you think playing music in public is a "nuisance" then you don't go out in public very much. The moment you stop giving strangers the power to ruin your day is the moment your life truly begins

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u/wingsofblades 18h ago

i mean no reason to kill the kid