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Wow, so people seriously thing that saying "I am not a terrorist" is reason enough to kick someone out of a plane? I honestly will never understand how a one-t
by Al-Khwarizmi 14y ago
Wow, so people seriously thing that saying "I am not a terrorist" is reason enough to kick someone out of a plane?
I honestly will never understand how a one-time attack carried out a decade ago could throw the American society off its rocker so much.
In my country (Spain) apart from an Islamic terrorism attack we have had local terrorists (ETA) killing people almost every year from the 60's to 2011, and there just aren't such taboos and irrational fear in our society.
NB: I'm not one of those Europeans who bash on Americans, I admire the American society in many aspects... but this one I just can't understand. Ánd I could expect to see this kind of thought among uneducated people, but in HN? Oh wow.
- taligent 14y agoThis has nothing to do with 9/11. It has done with a passenger exhibiting odd behaviour leading to the flight attendant believing that he might cause a disturbance during the flight. People causing problems on planes are a nightmare for airline carriers as it can result in early landings, increased risk of life threatening incidents and subsequent scheduling problems. When it comes to planes better to be safe than sorry.
- eplanit 14y agoIt has everything to do with 9/11, and the subsequent 'promotion' of flight attendants to security guards. If you doubt that, then just try to imagine the same scenario happening in year 2000...it would not have happened. This is also related to human psychology, as shown in the now classic Stanford Prison Experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment