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Does your need to be technically correct outweigh your need to understand an argument?

• deleted 1y ago
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• Freedom2 1y ago
  To be fair, you are on HackerNews.
• kube-system 1y ago
  The adjective "armed" in my topmost comment wasn't a technicality, it was the entire point of the anecdote. Do you really think I was saying that the TSA never searches luggage? Obviously the TSA searches a lot of luggage, the thing they don't do is carry guns while doing so.
  • freeone3000 1y ago
    Right, they have to call the guy with a gun over. Is the problem the luggage search, as in, the invasion of privacy? The explicit threat of force in the absence of immediate compliance? The assumption of guilt for the general populace? The ever-present security state continually looking to oppress? Or is it “huh europe is weird they give their TSA agents guns instead of having the transport security and also airport police?”
    • kube-system 1y ago
      It's just an anecdote. I wasn't trying to draw any philosophical conclusions from it.
• brewdad 1y ago
  Facts matter and yours are wrong.