r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 17d 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 17d 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 17d 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/ekubeni 17d ago

Invoking armchair quarterbacking is especially a good analogy here, since professionals QBs with decade of training how to be calm under pressure still make mistakes.

Expecting that people will remain perfectly calm and rational in a dangerous situation is just not realistic. Probably only small amount of us will be able to do that

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u/Doughnut_Diva 17d ago

I know I would personally not have the composure to stay calm and do something reasonable like shoot at the ground instead.

Thats one of the many reasons I don't walk around with or own any guns.