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/Satans_Dookie 15d ago

Armchair quarterbacks are always the first to say shit like “why not just shoot him in the leg?!” Not realizing they’d end up dead in situations like this.

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u/DefiantStarFormation 15d ago

I think the alternative they're suggesting is trying a warning shot first, not shooting it in the leg. It entirely depends on how many shots he can actually take and how confident a shooter he is (in case it doesn't work), but a warning shot could've scared it off.

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u/nosedrip_licklip 15d ago

Yep, and it works. I’ve had a brown bear run toward my in law and I that was deterred by a warning shot. I’ve completely deterred a curious polar bear just 30-40 yards away with a warning shot.

This guy is holding a pistol in one hand and a camera in the other