Of the roughly 750 million people who caught a plane in the US in the 12 months to April 2014[1], many of them will have paid a driver to get them to and from t

Of the roughly 750 million people who caught a plane in the US in the 12 months to April 2014[1], many of them will have paid a driver to get them to and from the airport. Arguing that they shouldn't complain about crappy service or being harassed by authorities, because billions of others can't even afford a taxi is a pretty bad argument. Person A: "We should be demanding that our authorities look more closely at the quality of water in our town. Having it contain high amounts of flammable gasses is not ok." Person B: "But there's billions of people in the world who don't even have clean drinking water" It doesn't invalidate person A's argument - yes, there's lots of people without drinking water or without the $100 to spend on two taxis. Yes, we need to do something about it. We don't, however, need to completely disregard everything else until that problem is fixed. We're capable, as a society, of dealing with multiple issues concurrently. [1] = http://apps.bts.gov/xml/air_traffic/src/index.xml http://apps.bts.gov/xml/air_traffic/src/index.xml