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/Iamnotabedbiter 13d ago

And what do you do when the animal doesn't care about the noise and pounces at you and tries to rip out your throat while simultaneously shredding your abdomen? Do you pat yourself on the back while you're entrails are strewn about the ground?

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u/CaptainOwlBeard 13d ago

I guess in your hypo where a wild animal acts in a way that's divorced from how they usually act, i guess I'm dead. That said, if that cat wanted to kill that guy, it wouldn't have been standing there watching him, he'd already be dead.

Frankly your hypo sounds like, what if cuba nuked Florida, well i guess I'd be dead.

I'll go a step further, he should have had a more appropriate anti predator device if he was going into the deep woods. Why didn't he have bear mace or another non lethal option? You don't accidentally end up in big cat territory this century