illiter-it•

Reddit loves violent, disproportionate responses to personal slights

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tslimeOP•

Apparently if you don't think tearing someone's insides up is a good idea you're some kind of proponent for bike theft.

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tslimeOP•

The amount of force going down it could rip plenty, look at the video where did that rebar go?

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cowtow•

Either way, there's a reason that setting booby traps is highly illegal.

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Latyon•

Did you see that story from a few days ago where some woman lured some other woman into a basement, and then left and locked her in without her knowing, and then set the house on fire and pulled up a lawn chair to sit on her front lawn and listen to her scream?

Thank god for the neighbors. That story fucked me up.

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pedrosauce•

You have to link that. wtf

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Latyon•
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pedrosauce•

Unavailable in my country. Hang on a sec

Edit: I reiterate my wtf

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warconz•

Video in the op is obviously fucked up but I wouldn't downplay bike theft as a "slight"

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cowtow•

In terms of the assets that the average adult owns, it's fairly minor. Obviously serious if you depend on the bike to get around, no doubt.

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FTLdangerzone•

Thinking of that video where some girl slaps a guy's back and he literally chokeslams her onto linoleum tile. "Equal rights, equal lefts" doesn't seem so equal to me.

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ppp475•

"Equal rights, equal lefts" doesn't seem so equal to me.

Well yeah, since that was a disproportionate response. The proportionate response would be a slap back. Not advocating for any sort of violence personally, but that's what that phrase means.

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FTLdangerzone•

Obviously, but my point was that the people who use that phrase don't give a damn and just wanna see women get hurt, proportionate or not.

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Drag0nV3n0m231•

Yeah, I wouldn’t say stealing personal transportation as a “personal slight”. A personal slight is fucking farting as your passing someone, or calling them an idiot. Don’t steal expensive products from people, it’s not hard.

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illiter-it•

Would you consider my original comment a personal slight

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Drag0nV3n0m231•

If it was towards someone yeah, a small personal insult or otherwise that’s taken as insulting

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TK464•

All the "justice" subreddits devolved into hot garbage exponentially faster than most.

I was banned for "sympathizing with a murdering piece of shit", paraphrased, because I made a comment to the tune of "Hey guys don't you think it's kind of fucked up that this entire comment section is cheering on the possibility of a teenager being violently raped in prison by adult men?". Ironically it was the very same day I was seriously considering never coming back, nice of the mod to give me that extra push I guess.

It wasn't even an extreme crime for that kind of subreddit, home invasion and the elderly owner was shot. But you know, the murderer was urban so uh, that might have something to do with the comments.

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tslimeOP•

Sounds pretty extreme to me but nobody should be raping anybody that's for sure.

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TK464•

Don't get me wrong, it's some messed up shit. But compared to a lot of the stuff there it's not quite "Mother burns her 3 children alive" type stuff.

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tslimeOP•

It's much more commonplace than that I grant you, things get very, very fucked up.

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lyzedekiel•

Guy in the comments thinks the booby trap is a bad idea because a policeman could get hurt too

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tslimeOP•

Gotta remember that blue lives matter

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KodiakPL•

But it's okay to booby trap your house even though firefighters, paramedics and literally anybody else, including your neighbours and family and people that will buy the house, could get hurt.

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ppp475•

But it's not, legally.

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KodiakPL•

Did you miss my point?

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TheColor0fMoney•

Going to be tough explaining to Mom why your draws have a blood spot on them

not so tough.

"Mom, I was raped by a homeless guy with a broom handle after trying to buy crack."

Gotta love reddit. Something clearly happens in south/central America, but they draw on racist black usa stereotypes

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tslimeOP•

It's a shitty thing to say but what's the USA stereotype you're seeing I'm a bit confused?

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CosmicHamsterBoo•

Well its either explaining bloody asshole to your mom or getting broom raped by a homeless guy while looking for crack. Would any of those work?

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tslimeOP•

Is that common in the US?

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Drag0nV3n0m231•

I mean look, it’s fatal. Even if you’re plopping down with all your weight on it, I doubt it would rip your pants, let alone actually do serious damage, maybe bruise. It will only most likely scare you.

Personally, as long as nobody is being seriously harmed, don’t do stupid shit like steal personal property. At the very least steal from a store, because fuck them.

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tslimeOP•

You don't know the guy wasn't seriously harmed.

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Drag0nV3n0m231•

Neither do you.

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tslimeOP•

Meaning you'd prefer somebody to die from internal injury rather than not have a prank played on him. Whereas I'd rather people don't bait others with booby traps even if they are bike thieves.

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Drag0nV3n0m231•

LMFAO jumping to some mighty big conclusions there huh? How much effort did it take to make that big of a leap

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TheKingJest•

Its NSFW, is it gorey?

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tslimeOP•

Nah there's no blood or anything

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ValerianKeyblade•

ITT: an op who has clearly never sat on something unexpected before

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lordofpersia•

This doesn't happen if they didn't steal... If you walk right by that bike and ignore it because it doesn't belong to you. Then it doesn't happen to you....

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AchromaticSky•

There's this concept called disproportionate retribution. If you were to place land mines in such a way that you would only trigger them by jaywalking, would that be justified because they only kill jaywalkers?

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frotc914•

Ok but this is obviously not even remotely close to anything like a landmine. It doesn't even appear to injure anyone. Seems like at most it causes some temporary mild pain or discomfort. OP claims it "could cause fatal injury" but I'm having a hard time imagining how.

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tslimeOP•

Depending on how hard you sit down it could penetrate cloth and as such could penetrate ass. This guy thought he was resting his ass on something solid that's like swinging yourself like a hammer. Solid metal like that having a person heave themself onto it could cause all kind of damage.

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lordofpersia•

Apples and oranges.... its not like this was the set punishment for stealing. It was some random vigilante justice. Also jaywalking is illegal for safety reasons. When you break that law you run the risk of being hit by a car and killed... not saying that's what should happen. But that's the risk.

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AchromaticSky•

Well in this case that's equivalent to programming a self-driving car to hit jaywalkers.

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Undeadman141•

Apples and oranges

No, they're extremely comparable. He just exaggerated it to make a point.

It was some random vigilante justice.

Which is fucking illegal in most places because it's almost always extremely unjust, punishes disproportionately and hurts innocents (i know this one doesn't but it was your argument.)

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tslimeOP•

What doesn't happen to you in this case?

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lordofpersia•

Nothing because if you don't steal people's shit then you won't have to worry if someone bobby traps it..... its not hard don't steal.

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tslimeOP•

Nothing doesn't happen?

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