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Is it everyone's belief who reads hacker news that the number of successful terrorism attacks would not go up if we eliminated all airport security? It seems o
by wtvanhest 15y ago
Is it everyone's belief who reads hacker news that the number of successful terrorism attacks would not go up if we eliminated all airport security?
It seems obvious to me that the following would occur more:
1) Mentally impaired people would attempt to hijack, bomb, or otherwise cause problems on planes with weapons.
2) Drunk or impaired by drugs (meth, coke, etc.) would attempt to hijack, bomb, or otherwise cause problems on planes.
3) Rouge individual terrorists would target planes rather than simply shoot up an office etc.
4) Organized terrorist organizations would target planes more often.
With the level of security we have today, it is still important to report what could be a terrorist attack in process. The person who reported the shoe bomber saved an entire plane full of people.
It is terrible that we live in a world where terrorism exists, but it does exist, and it will exist forever. The examples the author gave are described to make incidents involved seem ridiculous, but maybe there were other factors at play.
If you see something suspicious and you do nothing and a terrorist attack occurs that you could have prevented you are a coward who is responsible for the death of whatever number of people died in that attack.
You keep terrorists from winning by preventing successful implantation of their plans.
- jamieb 15y agoIs it everyone's belief who reads hacker news that the number of successful terrorism attacks would not go up if we eliminated all airport security? Yes! You are very astute! Everyone here believes that we should eliminate all airport security (even though none of us were brazen enough to actually write it)! Now that you have identified that fact, you may write 200 words arguing against it and proving how silly we all are.