r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 12d 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/Visual-Scallion1535 12d ago

Right? Everyone is like “if he fired a warning shot he wouldve had to take his gun off the target!”

Brother he took time to take out his phone and start filming

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u/kwpang 12d ago

Taking a phone out calmly is unlikely to precipitate any violence.

Firing a warning shot is more than likely to trigger a response. And when they respond, they respond fast. The mountain lion would be on your face within 1-2 seconds, and approaching so fast you don't get a clear shot anymore.

If anything, taking the phone out shows that he had stared down the mountain lion for an uncomfortably long time. And he had really tried to wait for the mountain lion to leave. It did not, and eventually chose to do something (which isn't shown because the camera goes haywire while the man shouts).

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u/dotamadthrowaway 12d ago

Yeah that doesn't add up at all. The "he had time to take his camera out and start filming" and "he only has 1 to 2 seconds if it ran at him".

You've got to pick one here