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On the other hand, if somebody said "I'm here for terrorism" and the immigration officer laughed that off, imagine the shitstorm if that person turns out to be
by wongarsu 9mo ago
On the other hand, if somebody said "I'm here for terrorism" and the immigration officer laughed that off, imagine the shitstorm if that person turns out to be a terrorist.
For the individual employee the cost of wasting someone's time by escalating the case and detaining them is zero, the potential cost of letting someone slip by is realistically tiny but potentially huge
- xeyownt 9mo agoThe point is that the situation must be really crazy if we reach a point where someone (mostly foreigner) saying "tourist" is being confused as to saying "terrorist". Airport are full of tourists, and exactly 0 person on the planet would reply with "terrorist".
- pixl97 9mo ago>and exactly 0 person on the planet would reply with "terrorist". Unfortunately you give your fellow humans way too much credit. Much like the people that rob a bank by writing a note saying to hand over all the money... on the back of their own deposit slip.
- jancsika 9mo agoSo when an immigration officer makes an error parsing the tourist's words, you think the security protocol ought to be to let the tourist pass through the gate?