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This has already been done to death on HN. 1) "Doing your job" is never an excuse for doing what is wrong. 2) These pat-downs are wrong. If you agree with t
by demallien 16y ago
This has already been done to death on HN.
1) "Doing your job" is never an excuse for doing what is wrong.
2) These pat-downs are wrong.
If you agree with the first 2 points, it seems to me that making the wrong-doer personally accountable is a reasonable response. Yes, their boss several thousand miles away also needs to be held to account, but so do the people physically executing the searches.
- coconutrandom 16y agoI'm pretty sure that argument should be reserved for possible war crimes and not frisking people.
- isleyaardvark 16y agoThere are plenty of jobs that violate rule #1 above. Spammers, those who take advantage of the economically disadvantaged, et cetera. If groping someone's genitals doesn't cross a line, what does?