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Going by the answers to other questions, roughly 2/3 of respondents are also not worried about terrorism. Naturally, there's a huge number of permutations ther
by Semiapies 16y ago
Going by the answers to other questions, roughly 2/3 of respondents are also not worried about terrorism.
Naturally, there's a huge number of permutations there, but this boils down to an awful lot of people perfectly willing to be looked at naked or felt up just because someone in charge says it needs to be done.
This is part of why I've gotten into arguments with other libertarians who want to rain abuse on TSA employees simply for working at the TSA. The truth is that the TSA simply isn't doing much that most Americans aren't perfectly happy to let them do.
- derefr 16y agoMaybe 2/3rds of people are just willing to be looked at naked/felt up for no reason whatsoever, not associating it with any sort of internal shame, only external social guilt. As long as they have some sort of social "hallway pass" to escape the repercussions, and thus guilt, of their (in)action (such as "I was drunk" or "he was wearing a lab coat" or "it was for a movie/documentary they're making" or "it will stop terrorists") they'll do whatever depraved things you like, and allow similarly depraved things to be done to them. I call this the "Girls Gone Wild" hypothesis, although it's probably a corollary to Milgram (though one testable with less ethical questionability, certainly.)