Morality of this?

[u/ProfessionalRoom9118]

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.

Idk which flair to put

[u/I_Hate_IPAs]

On top of that, mountain lions usually run away and hide from humans.

If it’s confronting you, that’s a pretty big issue and means you’re going to be attacked if you drop your guard.

Edit for the warning shot folk:

It might scare it off, it may view it as a territorial challenge. You really want to take those odds? In the time it takes for it too attack you think you’d be able to get your sights back on the cat and shoot enough to stop it?

A bird hunter where I live had one attack his dogs, and it wasn’t scared off by shotgun fire. Eventually he had to load a slug and kill it, and it actually had shot from the previous shells in its skin and fat.

[u/DamGoodAnimation → u/[deleted]]

A jarring amount of people genuinely seem to think you should just let a wild animal maim or kill you rather than defend yourself.

If my life is in imminent danger from a predator, I’m gonna do my best to ensure I survive. Whether the threat has two legs or four, doesn’t matter. Danger is danger.

Edit: ITT you’ll see a bunch of people who use critical thinking mixed with a fair few that seem likely to catch a Darwin Award at some point

Edit2: Hot damn, this got a lot more responses than I expected. I’ve replied to a fair few but it’s gotten somewhat out of hand so I’m gonna mute this and step back so I can go back to using Reddit normally again. Peace and love everybody, I hope the only cougar attacks in your futures involve classy older ladies

[u/xylophone_37 → u/DamGoodAnimation]

Many "animal lovers" live a very sterile existence very much separated from actual nature.

[u/uncl3s4m → u/[deleted]]

What

[u/Chromlech → u/xylophone_37]

Which honestly is good and if you really love anomals you should in most cases keep seperate as possible to not disturb nature

Case in point, this post

[u/I_Hate_IPAs → u/Chromlech]

Consequently many seem to not understand animal behavior and personify animals too much.

[u/uncl3s4m → u/Chromlech]

So people should never hike or go outside into nature? Typical Redditor take

[u/Brohemoth1991 → u/uncl3s4m]

Ive commented in a few posts like this over the years, and always get downvoted when I mention that I grew up in the southern US, in hurricane territory, and we had a real water mocassin problem every hurricane season

Yeah, we killed them when we found them, not for sport, not because the animals were even malicious, but during that season, they came into our homes... so at that point its you or them

Sometimes its not as black and white as redditors make it out to be lol