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Cost benefit analysis. The cost is huge, the benefit is negligible. Spend the money on something else: (hello healthcare!) High cost, huge benefit.
by nodata 14y ago
Cost benefit analysis. The cost is huge, the benefit is negligible.
Spend the money on something else: (hello healthcare!) High cost, huge benefit.
- untog 14y agoThe cost is huge, the benefit is negligible. How are you evaluating benefit? We haven't had a major terror attack using planes since the TSA was brought into airports. (yes, I'm playing devil's advocate here, but only because that's exactly what would happen)
- jlgreco 14y agoTiger repellent rocks, etc. Seriously though, consider the false negative rate they have (by some accounts, as high as 70%), and the cost associated with actually being caught (they throw your knife into a bin, then wave you through onto the airplane). It just isn't plausible that the TSA is making terrorists to afraid to try. Either the terrorists just don't care about hijacking the planes anymore (fairly plausible, planting IEDs is probably more fun), or something else is stopping them. Perhaps the thought of being dog-piled the second the passengers figure out what's up...