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xiphiasIn your opinion, which is more damaging to freedom?
1) A terrorist hijacking a plane and killing everyone on board.
2) A population getting used to the idea that going through a security checkpoint is a normal, unobjectionable part of daily life, and it is a reasonable expectation when traveling that government agents will search your belongings and person.
1) A terrorist hijacking a plane and killing everyone on board.
2) A population getting used to the idea that going through a security checkpoint is a normal, unobjectionable part of daily life, and it is a reasonable expectation when traveling that government agents will search your belongings and person.
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Date: 2005-04-30 04:05 am (UTC)I mean, I know what I believe. But, well, clearly a lot of other people -- sensible, intelligent people -- disagree.
Yeah -- to me, airport security screening feels like a calculated insult, because they don't let me go armed. (And, see, if you prevent someone from carrying his or her weapons, you are thereby refusing their parole, which means that you are saying that they have no honor.) But I suspect that the MAJORITY of people around me would rather not let people just carry weapons onto airplanes.