Guy Across the Street

violent aggressive

Unnamed man C.J. invokes during a tense debate at Club Iota. She pictures him beating a pregnant woman across the street to press Toby on personal intervention as a model for military action. Toby concedes he would stop an assault on anyone but resists extending the analogy to deploying troops. The figure anchors the staff's raw clash over moral duty, human costs, and political risks in foreign policy.

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Also known as: guy across the street

Guy Across …'s Journey

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S4E15 · Inauguration Part II: Over There

Club Iota: 'Somebody's Kids' — Moral Clash in Plain Sight

Not present; depicted as aggressive in the hypothetical.

The 'Guy Across the Street' is invoked by C.J. as the immediate aggressor in a hypothetical assault, serving as a rhetorical device to force a moral response about intervening in …

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S4E15 · Inauguration Part II: Over There

Someone's Kids: The Moral Argument for Intervention

Implied violent and impulsive in the analogy.

The 'guy across the street' is invoked as the aggressor in C.J.'s hypothetical — a rhetorical foil that forces the group to contrast proximate intervention with distant military commitments.

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