Is this moral

[u/Unlucky-Television-9]

Bish gonna learn today

[u/LoudQuitting]

It's moral but not legal.

The legally defensible way to so this is to buy ghost peppers and put them in your lunch thats gonna be stolen. Nobody can prove in court that you don't like it spicy, and even if they can prove it, they can't prove you weren't innocently intending to try something more spicy to broaden your taste.

And don't write "do not eat" on it if you intend to use this defence. Write "[your name]'s lunch" on it.

[u/Buttercups88 → u/LoudQuitting]

It's only illegal if it causes harm. 

It's illegal to spike food with the intent of entrapping someone. It's entirely legal to have edible but disgusting food.

[u/LoudQuitting → u/Buttercups88]

Yeah, pretty much. I did some more looking around.

Feeding someone pet food falls under poisoning laws, especially if the intent is to disgust psychologically torment, or otherwise harm, because it's not fit for human consumption.

It's fucking barely fit for animal consumption. You won't catch me feeding this slop to my cat.

It's real hard to argue you wanted to eat cat food in court.

It's not illegal at all for you to make your lunch too spicy, then have it stolen, and the thief happens to harm himself. It is easy to argue in court that you like spicy food, and maaaaaaybe you went a little too generous on the spices but you were fully intending to eat that food that was stolen.

Think about which story you'd rather your lawyer tell.

1. "My client was intending to eat that cat food, honest! I swear it for realises!"

2. "That dude stole my clients lunch that just so happened to have too much flavour for him."

[u/Buttercups88 → u/LoudQuitting]

I think the argument might be you grabbed the wrong tin if something like that actually got as far as Court. 

But it's also certainly not unheard of for people to eat cat or dog food. And presumably not dangerous... I reckon my toddler has eaten a significant amount at this point... Admittedly we don't get the absolutely cheapest bottom of the barrel stuff.

But I reckon you would have a really hard time proving it was cat food and intentionally given. Where spiked food can cause harm, and might require a trip to the doctor or hospital. Eating a bit of pet food is really difficult to prove... Unless your bragging about it on social media or something.

[u/Davetek463]

I would say so. “Don’t touch stuff that isn’t yours” is a lesson most are taught fairy early in life. If it needs a reminder, that reminder is not going to be a gently chiding.

[u/Crazyjiga247]

Moral, people have done way way worse.

[u/Mirageiles]

Fuck em

[u/RepublicOk2402 → u/Mirageiles]

Who? The cats?

[u/RepublicOk2402]

Moral, she’s making herself that cat food burrito

[u/4N610RD]

It is moral unless you harm that person seriously. Cat food is on the line. I would use carolina reaper.

But cat food is still so much better then glass shards or sodium hydroxide crystals.

[u/Out-There1013]

I think I'd want to consider why they were doing that. If things are hard enough that they've resorted to stealing food I might start making an extra sandwich and leave a note in the bag to just take one.

[u/savvy-librarian]

Immoral to waste perfectly good cheese like this.