or as Yoda would say…
A sheep with a suit and title does a leader make?
If elected…can a sheep effectively lead and protect the other sheep in the flock?
I want to be a shepherd when I grow up…
Any tips on how to be the best one I can?
Would Goliath teach David how to use a computer mouse for a slingshot?
Any thoughts?
The artsiness makes it hard for me to analyze.
What kind of a shepard do you want to be? Are you a sheep? There are many kinds of shepards-- if you mean it to be people whom delegate to groups of other people.
A foreman hardly needs any understanding of social behaviour. Just has to yell at someone to get out of the way when something’s unsafe.
A congressman just has to avoid the wrong people and look good at the meetings appointed.
A team leader for technicians doesn’t have to design anything himself, just has to recognize a stupid idea.
A candidate for an election basically has another brain behind his puppet strings.
A chief of a squad can sit behind a computer and request backup.
All people whom grow in ranks of power seem to have one thing in common- they’re consistent at what they do. Even if that consistency is to suddenly change. But they also glare at their superiors with a sort of expectation that they will be moving up within a given deadline.
Leaders are not necessarily smart, but they are specialized. Rather than try to absorb the entire universe, they just get good at one thing. And their jobs tend to be comfortable and show low demand because you don’t want to give people a lot of stress when you rely on them for a specific important responsability.
If this is what you want to achieve, I suggest you not at first jump into trying to do one thing consistently. Instead- get someone professional to think up a list of what will break your patterns. Do something you can’t imagine yourself getting tired of.
In my opinion, Einstein was Einstein because his parents had lots of puzzles in the house and he just took them all, insisting “give me more.” It seems to ruin everything when we can’t be that simplistic.
can the flock elect one of it’s own and give him a title and expect to be protected and led correctly?
is that possible?
looks at human history
ummm… What do you think? I think it’s not-so-great, but humans have done surprisingly well considering how disfunctional they also tend to be.
I can’t believe it’s not Dan90210! 
No. The hungry lion is too dumb to control; made too crazed by his hunger to ever know intimidation.
The sheep should just shoot the hungry lion. By killing it, it will survive.
If you want to be a shephard of men, you must be equipped with almost preternatural powers to keep the peace, for the sheep over which you would watch are still primitives in a very early stage of moral, spiritual, and intellectual evolution.
(Fighting and killing–for any reason–in the name of a Loving God are sure signs of primitive civilization.)
-GuyNamedJohn-
I’d (sort of) throw in with GNJ…don’t know if the intellectual capacity is there for a sheep with a gun to actually control and/or intimidate a lion, but if the sheep could be taught to aim and pull the trigger it could sure as heck have a great lion barbecue with its sheep friends and a keg of beer.
Like as not a sheep with a gun would be in a ba- a- a- a- d mood. :D/
what does a lion get when he screws a sheep without a condom?
Any idea?
Sadly no material species on earth is omnisemenal and for this reason they cannot hibred their genetic codes with all of the other species to form an eventual super-species.
It would appear the jocularity of Dragon’s post is lost on brother Dan.
I also fail to see the lugubriousness of our inability to cross-breed or even synthesize a superspecies (as yet! anyway). Hey, it is the way of the natural world in which we live, right? shrug
DNA is meant to do a certain set of things, but that paradigm does not include the act of sorting through and learning from other DNA. Our digestion of biomatter is very simplistic, in that it only has to do with obtaining RESOURCE, not INFORMATION from what has been injested into our bodies. Our bodies do not have molecular decryptic assimilation protocol. 
And that makes me cry…
“Molecular decryptic assimilation protocol.” 
For a moment I thought I was reading a Terminator script Dan ya had me fooled!
Dude! Don’t cry. As deoxyribonucleic acid discretely encodes genetic information, it determines the structure and function of the cell. DNA exists quite literally to preserve and define individuality.
As this metaphor might translate to human experience the answer is clearly no. After all we here in the U.S. are “sheep” with very big guns and we can’t seem to get those pesky lions across the ocean to behave. The lion must possess the ability to fear. Assuming one can scare the lion, in order to be successful one must know what it is that scares the lion. If the lion’s goal is death, than the gun isn’t going to do the trick. If, on the other hand the lion’s great fear is eternal damnation, than you must somehow convince the lion that by eating you (the sheep ) he is acting immorally. Then you can get him to behave. Otherwise, if you can’t convince the lion by using his fear, I hope you are a fast sheep.
a sheep lacks the gumption to pull the trigger.
the big stick is worthless if you don’t use it.
-Imp
Hopefully it isn’t a baaaad case of sheepese or an end to his supply of virgin wool. 
Ahh but the whimsical hypothetical is "Can a sheep with a gun…"–not whether he has the moral character.
So that you may disagree with the premise off which this hypothetic is launched, but once having entertained the question posited, you must assume the gumption exists.
-GNJ-
answer:
A SERIOUS conflict of interest.
How do you turn a destroyer, killer into a bad ass protector?
Make your enemies look more nutritious then yourself?