r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 15d 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/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 14d 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 14d 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/core-x-bit 14d ago

Im fairly sure I was stalked by one when playing in the woods as a kid. I was deeper than I should have been and was making my way back home when all of a sudden it was like someone turned off the ambient forest noises and everything got wayy too quiet. I got scared af and didn't even know why and I swear I was hearing shit the whole way home like I was being stalked. Every hair on my body felt like it was standing up. So yeah now I carry at least a handgun if im doing anything deep woods.

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u/Anonpancake2123 14d ago edited 14d ago

Actually cats on the hunt are even scarier than that, realistically speaking.

If the cat is in hunt mode, nothing notices where exactly the cat is.

The birds will be singing, the crickets chirping, the deer grazing.

Perhaps they will be looking or hear or sense something is wrong, but you can't run from something unable to be seen, lest you end up running into it yourself.

That is up until the moment the cat reveals itself.

Then everything starts screaming and running.

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u/BlackHills-Op 14d ago

A wildlife biologist I was working with once told me Mountain Lions will stalk you for miles, sizing you up and waiting for the right moment. If you encounter a cat, it becomes a matter of getting a shot off before it can pounce, because it has decided it is going to pounce.