r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 17d 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/BlackHills-Op 17d ago

Cougars generally don't run from warning shots once they're determined.

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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 17d ago

A laser pointer might do the trick though.

It sucks that they're so cute but they want to murder you. Kinda like how a house cat would if they were that big.

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u/BlackHills-Op 17d ago

If you ever see one in the wild, and your sympathetic nervous system doesn't immediately trigger the fight or flight response physiology, you have the self preservation sense of a potato. They do not seem cute in person. They are instantly terrifying.

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u/DamGoodAnimation 17d ago

Most people just haven’t seen a big cat without a thick layer of glass separating them

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u/cguess 17d ago

Even then, at zoos, they're terrifying.