If a woman carries pepper spray, is she paranoid?
She’ll have it on her keychain or in her purse, and she has it with her every time she leaves the house.
So, is she paranoid for doing so?
If she carried a gun instead of pepper spray, does that change your answer?
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Take it further. Let’s say she adds a vest. And a second handgun and fold-able rifle (sub2k) in her purse. K bar knife to round things out. Make her a house wife in a nice upscale area.
Take it the other way with a easy on the eyes woman wearing revealing clothing in a dive bar in rough area of town at the early hours of the morning. Is she being complacent (assuming this is the opposite of paranoid).
And here begins the heated debate….