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Your friends can tell you how well their LASIK worked, and how much it cost, as soon as their eyes heal. This allows market forces to do what they do pretty we
by khafra 15y ago
Your friends can tell you how well their LASIK worked, and how much it cost, as soon as their eyes heal. This allows market forces to do what they do pretty well.
Anti-terrorist security measures have neither of these advantages. It's very difficult to find out how much they cost; especially if you include indirect costs to travelers. It's also very difficult to determine how effective they are since, to a first approximation, terrorists attacks don't happen even with lowered security.
- bdunbar 15y agoIt's also very difficult to determine how effective they are since, to a first approximation, terrorists attacks don't happen even with lowered security. This is also a problem with TSA. And we can calculate - roughly - the cost of TSA in delays, wages, missed flights. A good argument just popped into my brain: we used to run security at airports with either local cops or private companies. This worked, pretty well, except for 9/11. But everyone was taken by surprise, then.
- thesteamboat 15y agoWe've made effective changes since then -- they just haven't been at screening. Passenger awareness that they should resist and reinforcing cockpit doors have greatly increased security. The TSA? Not so much. See http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/7057/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-thin...