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"Safety" is emotional as well as physical.
by auctiontheory 13y ago
"Safety" is emotional as well as physical.
- bradleyland 13y agoUgh. Ok, so rephrase that as "mitigate credible threats to the physical safety of the occupants". If we expand the role of the TSA at airports to protecting the emotional safety of travelers, we've set ourselves to an impossible task. What comforts one person will disturb another. I think we can all agree that setting off dry ice bombs in airports is not something we should allow. The question is, what measures will we take to prevent it? I'm not sure it warrants a TSA-like response.
- glenra 13y agoIn that case: the current TSA is quite harmful to my emotional safety. Disbanding it and letting me just go to the gate and get on the damn plane unmolested would greatly improve my emotional state. In all honesty, I think a HUGE part of why people think the airport is dangerous is due to the security. People falsely assume that where there's smoke there must be fire. In this case that assumption is wrong. We should replace TSA with prominent signs explaining how unlikely all the movie-plot threats are. At a minimum, we need: (1) a poster explaining that a gun fired on an airplane is highly unlikely to damage the plane at all and - contrary to hollywood myths - can't cause a loss of cabin pressure much less "explosive decompression". (2) a poster explaining why 9/11-type attacks became nearly impossible to repeat shortly after the event became general knowledge.