- Suppose someone's got you cornered and is about to beat you up, and your cellphone rings, and you say "Just a moment, I have to take this call." Would that stop them, at least briefly before they go "Hey, wait a second..."
- Suppose you see someone else being attacked, and you just walk in calmly, completely ignoring the fact that there's an attack going on, and start talking to the victim and take them by the hand and lead them out "Oh, there you are, I thought we were supposed to be meeting over on the corner. Come here for a second, I need you to look at my car, the windshield wipers have been acting funny..." Again, would that throw off the attackers just long enough to make an escape?
- Suppose media coverage of the US elections (aside: are they going to be campaigning straight through until November? or do they get a break?) just didn't mention the fact that Hilary Clinton is female and Barack Obama is black. If the media stopped mentioning it as a factor would it continue to be a factor?
- In places where people like to go around shooting abortion doctors, what if the abortion doctors had extremely elite well-trained pregnant bodyguards? So if you shoot at an abortion doctor, a pregnant woman will jump in and take the bullet. Logistical and ethical issues aside, would that be an effective deterrent to the shooters?
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i dont think so. the person might just take you cell phone away from you and break it or steal it. i dont think thats the best idea
~Issue Zero
I like the pregnant bodyguards. It might be hard to get volunteers, though.
Actually, once word got out and a number of bodyguards had carried their pregnancies to term and been seen with new babies, they wouldn't all have to be pregnant. As long as they weren't too skinny and their clothes weren't too tight, and as long as there was sufficient rotation of staff, I think you could get away with only a token number of visible pregnancies.
I've given this far too much thought.
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