i do not agree with the idea of bodyguards. the only reason to get one implies a situation wherein there is reason for a person to expect the threat of death or kidnapping. the bodyguard is therefore paid to prevent these things from happening. the person as well as the bodyguard must know that any attempt will be premeditated, with ample consideration for bodyguards if the premeditator be competent. it will also be for a specific reason that, if it is not money outright, can be made to equate to a dollar amount, as in how much it is worth for party A to target party B, which in turn should be enough to warrant such an enterprise and thus allegedly necessitating a bodyguard. it occurs to me that any bodyguard does their job at their own bodily risk for a dollar amount as well. i assume there is no amount of money worth more to a bodyguard, (or anyone for that matter), than his own life. i am also under the impression that bodyguards do their job for money. this leads me to imagine a sort of situation where someone says to a bodyguard,"hi there. i stand to profit one million dollars from the death/kidnapping of the guy who is paying you to stop this from happening. how much is he paying you, by the way? because in addition to that amount, which you will keep either way, i am willing to pay you half of one million dollars in order to obtain that one million and i thought i would ask you first; you see, the motivational amount i offer you is twice that of what i could offer the next guy if you turn me down because if you turn me down i would only be offering my next choice the same amount only he'd probably have to kill you too, since by turning me down you are asserting that you would rather guard your client than kill him, which technically shows up on his invoice as a quarter of a million for you and a quarter of a million for your client." i do not know how much a bodyguard is paid, nor if there exists an amount that he can be paid so that he would not rather kill his client and save his own ass, even though this would probably violate many clauses in the contractual agreement between the bodyguard and the client. so maybe that is why i do not think that bodyguards are a reasonable option.