TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found

OverTheGeicoE writes "A group of students and a professor were detained by TSA at Dallas' Love Field. Several of them were led away in handcuffs. What did they do wrong? One of them left a robotic science experiment behind on an aircraft, which panicked a boarding flight crew. The experiment 'looked like a cell phone attached to a remote control car with some exposed wires protruding.' Of course, the false alarm inconvenienced more than the traveling academics. The airport was temporarily shut down and multiple gates were evacuated, causing flight delays and diversions."

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Re:You're looking in the wrong place

[DoofusOfDeath]

The terrorists aren't trying to get on our airplanes. The terrorists are blowing up Planned Parenthood clinics.

No, they're murdering infants by the hundreds of thousands.

Now here's the fun part (probably): Watch my post get modded into oblivion, while the parent stays at "5".

"Differing Values"

[gd2shoe]

That's not even hyperbole, just a basic opinion on when "personhood" begins that differs from the majority opinion. If you share that opinion, it would be hard not to be appalled by the rampant infanticide.

It's sad that geeks are, on the whole, so quick to just dismiss someone with differing values. When someone comes to a very diferent conclusion, we shouldn't be so quick to assume they're stupid, instead ask whther they're starting from different assumptions (certainly 90% of design arguments at work could be avoided by this practice).

*Sigh*

Ok, I'll bite. What "different assumptions" lead to the conclusion that abortion isn't rampant infanticide?

The only two I can find are:

"I want sex without consequences."
"This piece of tissue isn't cute yet, so I don't need to formally recognize it as human."

The former is part of our zeitgiest. That doesn't make it sound reasoning*, but it is conceivably worth addressing. The latter is just an ugly excuse driven by the former. We really could just as easily and capriciously set the age to six months, or potty training.

For the record, the general public is stupid, and the most vocal proponents of abortion are after political power or money. That's not to say that everyone who believes in abortion is stupid, but it's really hard to wrap my mind around. I have not come across a logically sound rationale in favor of it. (at least one that isn't easily applied to genocide or some types of serial murder)

*(I'm NOT addressing sin here. That's a whole different topic.)