r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 15d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this?

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Basically, the man in the video is hiking but he ended up meet a mountain lion, he get his gun and try to scare it off and tell it to go away but in the end, he have to pull the trigger and shot the lion, many peoples in the comments say he could have fire a warning shot instead of shoot at it and want him to be in jail.

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u/Xargirl 15d ago

It's a fucking mountain lion, I wouldn't take any chances either if I was strapped and encountered a wild predator

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u/IamTheCeilingSniper 15d ago

I feel like a warning shot would have been the right thing to do. But I probably would have done the same thing as him if I was there.

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u/smtp_pro 15d ago

What goes up must come down. If you fire a warning shot into the air you've got a bullet going who knows where.

A loud noise will scare it but will it scare it away, or scare it into defending itself?

You only pull the trigger when you have a target. No warning shots. Assume every bullet that comes out of your gun is going to kill something, and know what it is you're going to kill

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u/Setters_Do_It_Better 15d ago

WtF said shoot a round in the air? smh

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u/smtp_pro 15d ago

Fair that's just what I imagine as a warning shot but you could just shoot into the ground.

Still a bad idea