STRONG disagree. I have been pranked many, many times.
People want pranking to be ok because they want to have the license to prank someone.
In my experience, it is the pranksters I have known who have been most easily fooled by scams and misinformation.
Assholes hide behind pranks believing that saying “it’s just a prank, bro” afterwards frees them from the “asshole” label, or that it somehow excuses the whole exercise. It does not. It makes them a coward for trying to hide behind the “harmless prank” label.
Also, you can’t know a prank is harmless until after it has concluded. Any number of unpredictable things can go wrong during a prank that are subtly and unpredictably harmful in ways that the prankster could never know beforehand.
The only good pranks are the ones in which the pranked, after the pranking, wishes it happened more often. Never in my life have I witnessed such a prank, and I spent years in the military: pranksters paradise.
People want pranking to be ok because they want to have the license to prank someone.
In my experience, it is the pranksters I have known who have been most easily fooled by scams and misinformation.
Assholes hide behind pranks believing that saying “it’s just a prank, bro” afterwards frees them from the “asshole” label, or that it somehow excuses the whole exercise. It does not. It makes them a coward for trying to hide behind the “harmless prank” label.
Also, you can’t know a prank is harmless until after it has concluded. Any number of unpredictable things can go wrong during a prank that are subtly and unpredictably harmful in ways that the prankster could never know beforehand.
The only good pranks are the ones in which the pranked, after the pranking, wishes it happened more often. Never in my life have I witnessed such a prank, and I spent years in the military: pranksters paradise.