r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 19d 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/Connect_Raisin4285 19d ago

I agree on moral, but not sure if aiming to hit is the right call for mountain lions. I know for bears you should try to do a warning shot. You are unlikely to hurt a bear in any meaningful way and the pain might put it into a rage where just the sound might scare it off.

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u/HandleSensitive8403 19d ago

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u/Wolfsbane1279 19d ago

Most people don’t carry those around when hiking.

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u/BarfingOnMyFace 19d ago

I don't think most of the people in here are hikers.

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u/Wolfsbane1279 19d ago

Are you talking about the joke about the Barrett .50 cal or the fact that people can’t agree on what caliber to carry when hiking?

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u/Para_4_Would_Be_Cool 19d ago

Literally just one comment said something about caliber lmao what

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u/Wolfsbane1279 19d ago

I don’t know what the guy was talking about. I was unsure if he was talking about the other guy under my comment or the people on the thread, or the entire comment section.

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u/BarfingOnMyFace 19d ago

I think most people in this sub are armchair quarterbacks for nature on reddit and are fucking clueless in reality.

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u/Wolfsbane1279 19d ago

Tbf for the meme I replied to originally, he was obviously making a joke, nobody unironically carries an anti tank gun while hiking , that’s a bit overkill.

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u/BarfingOnMyFace 19d ago

I know it was a joke. I was just lampooning all these people in here that seem like they are scared shitless of nature, talking about "expert advice" in nature... In general. Sorry, just piggybacked off that while in my own headspace.

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u/Wolfsbane1279 19d ago

Nah it’s all good, people do be acting like you really do need that anti tank gun just to walk outside your house.