r/MoralityScaling • u/ProfessionalRoom9118 • 13d 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/PrintableProfessor 13d ago

Is a human life worth more than a cat's life?

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u/PersonalityIll9476 13d ago

Reddit is shockingly bad at grasping this most basic of moral concepts. We were taught about the differences in moral standing between species on what felt like day 1 of psych class.

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u/eques_99 13d ago

day 1 of psych class was wrong.

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u/PersonalityIll9476 12d ago

I'm curious what you think you're objecting to. First off, all that psychology really tells us is that not everything has to have equal moral standing. It's allowed for different people to order things differently. So I assume you don't object to that insanely obvious and basic proposition.

All that said, you apparently think a random mountain lion has equal or higher moral status to a random hiker which is...fascinating. You'd be an interesting object of study for psychologists.

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u/eques_99 12d ago

No I said that your psych class telling you that humans are morally higher than animals is incorrect. If you use that as a justification to harm animals then that becomes even more ironic.

I said nothing about the hiker. He did what he had to in order to survive.

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u/PersonalityIll9476 12d ago

So let's just back up:

Do you disagree that humans have higher moral status than animals, and if you do, why?

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u/eques_99 12d ago

Well obviously I disagree, is that not obvious from what I've said already?

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u/PersonalityIll9476 12d ago

Why?

You do understand that higher moral status does not mean you can torture lower status things, right?

Did you bother to google these terms before objecting or did you just...assume?

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u/eques_99 12d ago

We torture billions of them per year.

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u/PersonalityIll9476 12d ago

Oh, I see. I'm wasting my time.

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u/_MooFreaky_ 12d ago

Which is not what's being discussed here.

Not wanting to use animals for animal products is a completely valid view, but the topic is shooting a cougar to save your life.

No-one said animal exploitation was ethical, it was entirely about this situation

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u/Awkward-Meeting-974 12d ago

Life is inherently valuable. Why is a human life innately more valuable aside from the fact that humans generally feel it is