TSA debate
That children are now being conditioned to allow strangers to shove hands down their pants, that young women are subjected to genital inspections before being allowed to pursue their careers, that innocent people are adopting poses of humiliation and surrender in response to barked commands, is such a great harm to our society that no one with any sense of history could consider reducing the risk of an astronomically remote adverse event to be justification for TSA’s reprehensible actions. There’s just nothing to balance here. The harms are enormous, the benefits are make-believe. Disband the TSA, now.
An articulate commenter on The Economist’s excellent Bruce Schneier / Kip Hawley TSA debate.
JD on 1 April 2012 at 5:39 am
Umm… yea, until the next crash – then you’ll be begging for them to come back.
Andre on 1 April 2012 at 12:28 pm
Do you seriously think that the violation of human privacy (and let’s make this clear, the TSAs procedures are forced onto free countries outside of the US) has helped to prevent another terror attack? Don’t be delusional. There are far more effective ways of combatting attacks than groping little kids.