Product: Weapon: Electric Shock
2-Stage Taser Probes   (+1, -1)  [vote for, against]
For targets with protectively thick clothing

A sensor detects how well embedded the probe is in the target's flesh after impact is detected, and if it doesn't have a good bite, a mild burst of compressed gas in the base of the probe drives it in a few mm deeper before discharging.
-- 21 Quest, Nov 26 2022

On self-defense https://plato.stanf...tries/self-defense/
[a1, Nov 26 2022]

If everyone was nice to each other https://www.bing.co...ew=detail&FORM=VIRE
[a1, Nov 26 2022]

Ow.

Does the sensor distinguish between, say, a man in a navy-surplus greatcoat, Nehru jacket, waistcoat, three sweaters, button-down shirt, wetsuit, rash-vest and singlet and, on the other hand, a walrus?
-- pertinax, Nov 26 2022


Just me, but no other being has the right to penetrate my flesh with anything without my consent.

Well not 'just' me, but I'm in that mix somewhere.

Figure out how to electrify from a distance and keep sepsis inducing elements out of non-lethal enforcement of arbitrary rules.

M'kay?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 26 2022


2 fries, this could be used to protect yourself non-lethally FROM those who would seek to so violate your anatomical integrity.
-- 21 Quest, Nov 26 2022


Using violence to prevent violence? If you love all men equally doesn't that defeat the purpose?
-- Voice, Nov 26 2022


// Using violence to prevent violence //

Self defense is a moral primary, as you can’t uphold other ideals if someone kills you.
-- a1, Nov 26 2022


Yeah but they can't uphold their ideals if you kill them.
-- pocmloc, Nov 26 2022


Thank you [pocmloc], I just won a bet with my wife on how quickly someone would point that out. Your check is in the mail.

See link on self defense for a longer discussion, greater and lesser evil, etc. I would write more myself on that theme, but at the moment I’m brewing up another coffee-related half-baked idea.
-- a1, Nov 26 2022


Happy to be of service.

If everyone was nice to each other the world would be a better place.
-- pocmloc, Nov 26 2022


// If everyone was nice to each other the world would be a better place. //

Sure, for a while. Until the alien invasion, and everybody has lost the capacity to fight back.
-- a1, Nov 26 2022


The aliens would be gentle friendly aliens who only want to help and be nice
-- pocmloc, Nov 26 2022


You just believe that because “To Serve Man” was a best-seller on <amazon.co.kanamit>.
-- a1, Nov 26 2022


2 Fries, let me see if I understand you correctly. You support permissive gun ownership laws, because you have the right to not only penetrate the flesh of someone who's attacking you, but their organs and potentially bones as well. But these tiny little Taser probes, that's where you draw the line?
-- 21 Quest, Nov 26 2022


If "electrocute" were cognate with "meet-cute", would that make this idea better, worse or about the same?

Probably worse.
-- pertinax, Nov 26 2022


// If "electrocute" were cognate with "meet-cute” //

Short Circuit (1986 film), the scene where Ally Sheedy’s character meets Number 5. I’ll see if I can find the clip.
-- a1, Nov 26 2022



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