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That's a weird analogy. TSA "opt out" is basically impossible. Have you ever tried it? It's not shame. The agents simply don't allow you to. Changing your
by ken 6y ago
That's a weird analogy. TSA "opt out" is basically impossible. Have you ever tried it? It's not shame. The agents simply don't allow you to. Changing your organ donation status is not just possible, but easy.
In the organ donation case, who do you think would "shame you into compliance"? How would anyone else even know? I don't know the organ donation status of anyone else in the world, even my family and close friends, and even those who have died.
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- jkaplowitz 6y agoYes, every time I've opted out with TSA (which I do most of the times I'm required to go through the full-body scanners in the US rather than the TSA Pre metal detector) I've been allowed to do so. It's often meant a long wait for an agent to become available, but I've never been refused. I admit to being a white male US citizen who politely requests it using the words "I'd like to opt out" (rather than some vaguer objection) and then waits patiently, not someone who gets angry at the officers. The ground rules aren't the fault of the workers, only any individual bad behavior.
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- caseysoftware 6y agoI've traveled close to 100k miles/year for ~8 years and have opted out successfully hundreds of times. When they ask why, I just stand quietly. I used to explain the legal and moral implications but the mall cops - I mean TSA - don't care. And for a fun alternate strategy: instead of opting out, if you just say "I can't raise my arms above my head," you can skip all of it. You don't even have to explain why because they're not supposed to ask. You'll go through the metal detector and get a hand swab and you're done. Most of the time, I get through to the other side before my bags.