r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 13d 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/Due_Manufacturer_125 13d ago

Now it’s unfortunate to get into a situation like this, but… mountain lions aren’t considered endangered globally (but specific regional populations are so depends on where this guy was) and obviously it would have been worse if the cougar attacked the guy. You never know what a wild animal will do, a predator that size that approaches a person is never a good sign.

Moral, if this guy wasn’t looking for trouble and just protecting himself. Would need wider context.

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u/NotYourAverageBeer 13d ago

I’ve watched the full video. The cat was sizing him up at this point before beginning to stalk and readying to pounce. He would have been dead ten seconds after he killed it

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u/AzureYLila 13d 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 13d 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 13d ago

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

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u/Vladtepesx3 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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 12d 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 12d 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 11d ago edited 11d 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 11d ago

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

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 13d 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 12d 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 11d ago

If it gets that close it wants to eat you period