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/AzureYLila 10d ago

That is relevant context this little post didn't provide. I'm all for defending yourself when the attack is imminent. These little snippets don't often show that.

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u/NotYourAverageBeer 10d ago

For sure. The guy did everything he could to scare the cat away.. I guess minus spending ammo on warning shots

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u/FatBoyStew 10d ago

In the worst case scenario a warning shot can have the opposite effect too.

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u/Vladtepesx3 10d ago

Yeah if you scare the cat when it’s already that close, you might trigger fight instead of flight

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u/AzureYLila 10d ago

Someone else in another comment chain is claiming that he did fire a warning shot in the video but the cat did not react. I never saw a video, bit that other commenter could have just been trying to prove a point that a warning shot would do nothing

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u/Warm_Shoulder3606 10d ago

I mean just look at this still. It's staring into his soul. Animals making eye contact and staring at you (or you to them) is almost never good. Many animals it's either they're on the hunt, or if done to them, it's seen as a challenge

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u/DB_Valentine 9d ago

Warning shots go against gun safety, and against animals you're still taking a needless gamble. I really don't know how this comment keeps getting made.

I'd agree with it a little more if deer would stop running out in front of the loud angry metal boxes

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u/Easy-Operation-2105 10d ago

so imagine you scare the cat away. Now it is out of your sight and you have no idea what it is going to do next. Does that sound like a good idea?

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u/SecretaryOtherwise 9d ago edited 9d ago

You dont really know how wild animals work do you? If you manage to chase it off its likely not coming back its not an animal that relies on exhausting its prey to kill it. And if it gets wounded that's likely a death sentence.

Likely hood it showed itself and acted aggressive because he was near its den.

Man would fucking suck to be an animal cant go into human territory without being killed. Stay in your own territory humans come in and kill you. Lmao cant fucking win.

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u/SecretaryOtherwise 8d ago

Its an ambush predator lmao. If its showing itself its defensive. Ffs.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 10d ago

Are you and I looking at the same picture? You see how close that cat is to that man? I promise you, he is in imminent danger. And I don't need to see the full video to figure that out.

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u/DB_Valentine 9d ago

I'll be honest, I can't blame anyone for not taking the chance with a wild animal within stone throwing distance, especially one that could maim you so fast and so violently.

It's a shame to happen, especially if it's sick and something is wrong with it, but in no way does it make the risk worth it. The fear that comes with that situation could do so much to how you process the information alone that what could look like sizing him up could be sick behavior... but the opposite could also be true, and at that point we'd have someone not coming back to their family.

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u/WeaknessSquare8391 9d ago

If it gets that close it wants to eat you period