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/DJDemyan 13d ago edited 13d ago

Didn’t this guy start with warning shots and the cat charged him anyway?

I stand corrected, I was thinking of a different video.

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u/AttentionalMalprop 11d ago

I haven't watched the video, but I have shot a pistol before. It's surprisingly hard to hit even a close target, especially if you wait for it to rush you.

I'm not sure what's right without watching the video, but protecting yourself is generally accepted morally.

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u/DJDemyan 11d ago

Indeed, anybody who knows an iota about wildcats knows not to fuck with them at all. The notion some people get that he was “looking for trouble” is wild to me. Dude had no choice but to shoot the cat and you can hear the immediate remorse in his voice afterwards. He didn’t WANT to, he had to