The Second Degree

A friend once said to me that if I ever needed access to a gun, despite guns being illegal and pretty tough to find in Australia, I could get one easily. I should just find the dodgiest person I know, and ask them for the dodgiest person they know. That person, without a doubt, could get me a gun. I thought about this briefly and realised that my second degree of dodgy is probably in jail.

It would be pretty fun to make an exercise of going through a few different characteristics, finding the friend-of-a-friend who maximises each one, and interviewing them to find out a bit about what it's like in their life.

A few interesting examples:

• Richest
• Most influential
• Smartest
• Happiest
• Most athletic
• Most friends
• Fewest friends

It would also be a little bit interesting to see how transitive those properties end up being. Does the most interesting person I know have more interesting friends? It'd definitely be interesting to find out.