People appear to be standing on principle more than anything else. If you are at the airport you will see that the overwhelming majority of people have no issue

People appear to be standing on principle more than anything else. If you are at the airport you will see that the overwhelming majority of people have no issues going through the scanners. People from all walks of life with all sorts of jobs and intelligence. Curious also how many of these people who are standing on principle (or fringe science) smoke cigarettes or do other harmful activities (climb mountains or use power tools without eye protection). "I hate being ordered around by flunkies who can't get any other job every time I go to the airport" Well do you think they should merely raise the wage in order to attract higher qualified people that would normally go into other careers? You can get frustrated because when you get served in a restaurant they get the order wrong or you can realize that the rocket scientists are not holding jobs serving you in a restaurant and realize things are the way they are for a reason. Are you interested in giving up whatever job you have and working at the TSA (or any lower level government job say a postal carrier?) I'm not so I've learned to accept these things as necessary economically.