Who cares? The chances of being blown up by a terrorist are so minuscule that I believe no one in their right minds should even give it a thought. What's important is freedom, and if your efforts to keep us safe violate that freedom, it's not worth it.
With that said, we have reinforced cockpit doors and the citizenry is willing to fight back now; we don't need anything more than that.
I was using it to mean something like 'something all reasonable, reasonably civilized people, appropriately socialized to know how to behave in our common western/American culture, should agree constituted thoughtless douchebaggery.'
But what is reasonable, civilized, or appropriate is also subjective.
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Yes, it would be. That would be far better than reacting to the possibility of people getting hurt every single time.
How did we end up as a society that puts safety above all else?
Ok, fine, I get that.
I don't. That makes no sense. Zero tolerance is nonsense.
When you did into the details, having a mass of jobless people cannot work with our current economic system.
Which is presumably why it would have to undergo massive changes.
This sounds similar to, "You'll understand when you're older." Guess what? It's just as idiotic.
Life is less pleasant without music
That depends on the person.
No. They ask it because you are literally a freak if you don't like any kind of music.
I suppose it is probably unusual, but there's absolutely nothing objectively wrong with not liking any sort of music.
Still much better than the warmongering.
No, I do not. I'd be very happy if all paedophiles were rounded up tomorrow and executed. Yes, executed.
PROVIDED you do not TRAMPLE ALL OVER *EVERYONE'S* RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, TO DO SO.
Then you do not care about freedom at all.
Would you do an ass dance in a juicy graveyard? Inquiring minds want to know...
everyone complains how government is so dumb in how they build out the wrong infrastructure in the wrong place
Which is exactly what's happening with this. If they can't do something without violating people's privacy and rights en masse, then don't do it.
I have a better idea: Get rid of the TSA completely and stop harassing people. There, done; problem solved.
Airlines would RELISH the thought of being given the discretion and freedom to lose a few hundred passengers once in a while
Good, because that's not even a big deal.
Who cares? The chances of being blown up by a terrorist are so minuscule that I believe no one in their right minds should even give it a thought. What's important is freedom, and if your efforts to keep us safe violate that freedom, it's not worth it.
With that said, we have reinforced cockpit doors and the citizenry is willing to fight back now; we don't need anything more than that.
Why not just get rid of the TSA? People shouldn't be harassed just because they want to get on a plane; screw profiling and screw the TSA.
Or we could just get rid of the TSA; that would solve the problem quite nicely.
Not really. It's also not a good policy to have in a free country.
Your security theater is not a reason. There's nothing more to the issue; it's just a violate of people's rights.
That still doesn't explain why only dinosaurs remain.
I don't know the statistics, but it does seem we have plenty of puritans running about...
So... what do you think of the quantum foam that makes up the fabric of spacetime? The scientificness of such a thing is astounding, yes?
Well, it's true that I am bootyass process.
I was using it to mean something like 'something all reasonable, reasonably civilized people, appropriately socialized to know how to behave in our common western/American culture, should agree constituted thoughtless douchebaggery.'
But what is reasonable, civilized, or appropriate is also subjective.
Of course, any such system would also need to have real checks and balances in place to prevent abuse.
There can't be any effective checks and balances to such a system. In fact, such a system shouldn't exist at all.
So no one is ever allowed to be offended?
They're allowed to be offended just as people are allowed to call them imbeciles for being offended.