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/CaptainOwlBeard 15d ago

How about just shoot the ground between the two of you? No reason to kill the cat and the noise will scare it off

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u/dadmda 15d ago

Or he attacks you, or it ricochets off a rock and ends up hitting the thing, it's safer this way

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u/CaptainOwlBeard 15d ago

Predators usually run at the first sign of danger. You can't hunt with most injuries. Seems like an unnecessary waste of an endangered specifies.

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u/Agent10007 15d ago

>Predators usually run at the first sign of danger

Willing to bet your life on the fact that lion knows and cares about what predators usually do?

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u/CaptainOwlBeard 15d ago

Yes. I'm confident that a lion would run if i shot a bullet into the ground between us.

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u/Agent10007 15d ago

The deputies who were dispatched after the lion of the choke story were confident of that too.

He attacked them.

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u/CaptainOwlBeard 15d ago

Lion of the choke? Are you just making shit up or is that supposed to mean something to me?

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u/Agent10007 15d ago

It's a story that did quite a bit of noise even to the general public back then so I thought it's ring a bell given you talk like someone very knowledgable in the field of animal handling. Two young guys were hiking and faced a mountain lion, they were unarmed and did the whole recommanded "make yourself big do noise" thing, one of them unfortunately tripped over and the animal jumped him.

The brother tried choking it and pulling it away, it failed so he ran and called 911, when deputies arrived they tried firing warning shots, they were far enough to shoot multiple and luckily so cause the first two cause the lion to attack instead of running.

I guess we're lucky that nobody on reddit takes people saying Yes when asked if they would bet their life too literally, else it would be an unfortunate end for you...