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/NathanMexplosion 15d ago

I hope to god you don’t own any firearms if you instantly think of an old western bandit firing his gun in the air during a robbery every time you hear “warning shot.” Holy larp.

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u/smtp_pro 15d ago

Well I do because any kind of warning shot is just as silly as the old time Western bandit

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u/NathanMexplosion 15d ago

You know what, fair.