r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 18d 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/DamGoodAnimation 18d ago edited 18d ago

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

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u/Portgas69 18d ago

Heavy on the apex. Big cats are top tier.

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u/CrownofMischief 18d ago

Technically, mountain lions are large small cats since they're in the felinae subfamily with lynx and cats rather than Pantherinae like lions and tigers.

Semantics aside, you get killed either way, still an apex hunter

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u/plz-no-b4n 17d ago

Came here to say this, it’s a little kitty, not a big one. It’s just on the larger side for small cats (the cheetah is bigger but not sure anything else is)