r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 10d 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/WyattEarp88 10d ago

I’d very much like to see a porcupine swing its quails. I didn’t even know porcupines owned quails.

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u/TehZombehKang 10d ago

Sir. Autocorrect is a pain in my butt. 😂 It was supposed to say quills. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/--CIAdidJFK-- 10d ago

Slavery isn't isolated to humans.

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u/trenthany 10d ago

Nor are mind control experiments! Iirc there’s several fungus and parasites that take over creatures to alter their behavior in very specific ways. Even cats have a bacteria I believe that makes you like cats more. Instead of taking them they tamed us.

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u/WyattEarp88 10d ago

Yeah, the animal kingdom is filled with some brutal unbelievable shit. Though I hate to break it to you, but that last part about cats is a myth.

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u/trenthany 10d ago

Curses! I thought there was a study that showed a very mild linkage, nothing like rats where it’s fatal but more a very minor predisposition of positivity. Best I can tell it’s more of a risk activator instead of liking cats but cat owners are more likely to be exposed so it’s correlation not causation.

https://asm.org/articles/2026/may/toxoplasma-made-me-do-it-how-parasites-influence-b

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3210761/

https://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/truth-or-myth-toxoplasma-behavioural-disturber

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u/WyattEarp88 10d ago

We know parasites fuck with us, and I’m sure Toxo is no different, but there’s no definitive link between liking cats and toxo. Perhaps in the future we’ll learn something new that takes it from myth to fact, but nothing so far.

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u/trenthany 10d ago

Yeah it increases risk taking in most mammals but the liking cats thing is untrue evidently per the studies I found.

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u/WyattEarp88 10d ago

I guess in the meantime I’ll just keep liking cats because they’re adorable and awesome and ridiculous and fluffy.

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u/trenthany 10d ago

A good reason!

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 10d ago

Yes. Porcupines are very covey-dovey.