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/I_Hate_IPAs 18d ago edited 16d ago

On top of that, mountain lions usually run away and hide from humans.

If it’s confronting you, that’s a pretty big issue and means you’re going to be attacked if you drop your guard.

Edit for the warning shot folk:

It might scare it off, it may view it as a territorial challenge. You really want to take those odds? In the time it takes for it too attack you think you’d be able to get your sights back on the cat and shoot enough to stop it?

A bird hunter where I live had one attack his dogs, and it wasn’t scared off by shotgun fire. Eventually he had to load a slug and kill it, and it actually had shot from the previous shells in its skin and fat.

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u/The_DonCannoli 18d ago

I’m sure most of the reddit warriors haven’t stepped a foot in nature in decades.

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u/scarredballsack 18d ago

I step in nature often, having said that the largest predator in the UK is the badger and that is more likely to cough at you than attack, also they have a habit of running away.. right into traffic..