To have ‘defaced’ this photograph??

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We have lockers at work, in our break room where everyone goes and one co-worker,
Jim, has a photo of a famous, topless page 3 girl on the inside of his door.
the girl in the photo was 16 when it was taken, and he’s had it since around the same age - he wrote into The Sun and got a signed one sent- so it’s very precious to him.

several women have mentioned to Jim that they’d rather he didn’t have it there as the locker door is often left open and we can see it. Jim thinks we’re prudes, because it’s famous page 3 girls, and IN his locker it’s not an issue.

Anyway, cut to last week. I was alone in break room. Locker door was open so I’m looking at this picture. There were Sharpie pens sitting on the table. So I gave the child in the photo quite a substantial bikini top with the permanent marker.

shit has hit the fan! Management don’t quite know what to do. Jim is furious, and the workforce divided into those who think it’s funny and those who think it was wrong.
no-one know who did it… Jim
his suspicions …

So MN, was AIBU??

And? Yes, 16 year olds are allowed to have sex with whoever they like, even if it's a creepy old man. The fact remains that it is still illegal to possess indecent pictures of them, even if those pictures were created before 2003.

Eating meat is not illegal.

If it’s illegal, the OP should have contacted the police.

@Thereisnolight no I've just said I don't. I'm a vegan. But eating meat isn't illegal.

I'm talking of illegal plants and bending the rules. Ie going against a governments judgment of a plant's legal status for the greater good of providing pain relief.

Oh come on, you can't even get an officer out if you've been burgled these days.

But it is unethical.

And the point posters are making is that we shouldn’t wait for incompetent authorities. We should bend the rules and take action by damaging property if we disagree with something.

So if I personally disagree with eating meat can I damage the property of a meat eater?

Or since using illegal plants IS illegal, can I damage the property of someone who uses illegal plants?

Yes taking matters into your own hands is always the best course of action, never ever go through the normal channels.

Where does it end?

It's unethical in your view. That view is not shared by lawmakers, nor my most of society.

Possessing indecent images of children is both unethical (in the view of most of society and illegal.

That's for you to decide. It would be a strange moral code to risk being charged for but again, I'd rather live in a society like that than one where no-one ever dares to take a stand. I guess I'm saying we are in danger as a nation of being too compliant. All this 'be kind' be quiet, don't speak out. I think it's dangerous long term and the worlds going to face some major problems in the coming years. We need to be ready to take a stand!

So if you disagree with something it’s ok to damage property? But if someone else disagrees with something it’s not ok? Who gets to decide what’s ok?

With ridiculous false equivalences.

If you were to destroy someone's cannabis factory, I can imagine that any complaint of criminal damage that they make to the police should give the cops a good laugh.

Hardly ridiculous.
Lots of animal rights activists have been arrested for damaging the property of people who slaughter animals

Well the law makes a few judgements on what property it is illegal to possess.

Drugs = No
Indecent images of children = No
Bacon sandwiches = Yes

So you’re saying let the law deal with it?

No people taking matters into their own hands to damage property then?

or not? Which is it?

Because slaughtering animals (assuming that it's done in accordance with the law) is not illegal.

By the way, trying to pretend that meat eaters are equivalent to paedophiles is the sort of thing that gives vegans such a bad name.

I'm saying that if someone's stash of drugs ended up down the drain, or someone's wank bank found its way into the shredder, I wouldn't lose any sleep. And nor would the police.

Well done! It should have been taken down ages ago.

We are in 2022. A workplace is no longer the place for any topless photos, regardless of the age of the model!

@Thereisnolight in your world there would not have been any suffragettes.

And tell him to report it to HR.

For some reason, I doubt he will!

I was objecting to the point some posters made that regardless of what the authorities think, if you disapprove of something you should take action and destroy property. According to them, whether or not the activity is illegal doesn’t matter.

My point is that you shouldn’t do that. Your own disapproval of something doesn’t entitle you to destroy property. Otherwise everyone who disagreed with something (illegal or not) would go around destroying property.

Spelling it out as clearly as I can.

They would have achieved their aims without damaging things.

Haha!

No "shame" march for objecting to child pornography then.

Good!

Management should have dealt with it when staff first raised the issue. Or, if they were competent, noticed and dealt with it themselves before staff had to raise it.

Let's hope Jim rethinks his perspectives and stops perving on teenagers' bodies. Yuk.