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You're right. But there's something about standing in a high security area with these serious looking people wearing gloves and swabbing things and big x-ray sc

You're right. But there's something about standing in a high security area with these serious looking people wearing gloves and swabbing things and big x-ray scanners and leading people away in handcuffs and it puts all kinds of ideas in your head. It makes the threat of terrorism seem that much more real and prominent. And my mind says if it's going to happen, it's going to happen right here. Not up there. I was just debating with my wife last weekend about how people are so terrified of guns when cars are so much more dangerous and random and senseless. But it's human nature to worry about danger when someone is actually threatening you with that danger. I worry more about accidents when someone is driving dangerously in front of me. I worry more about terrorism when someone is screaming at me to take my shoes off so they can check for a bomb.

__z 11y ago
You're right, security is a feeling as well as a reality and humans are not rational. I didn't mean to discount your feelings, only add some perspective. I, for example, am scared of stranger violence. I know logically that if I were to be murdered/assaulted it would be much more likely to be someone I know who did it - but I still fear stranger violence more than what is rational. Bruce Schneier (the author of this article) writes a lot about this: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychology_of_se.html https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychol...
simoncion 11y ago
> ...there's something about standing in a high security area... High security areas take security screening seriously. When an intoxicated man in a blue shirt can successfully impersonate a member of your security staff and perform multiple private screenings of (attractive, female) travellers [0], it's clear that you don't take security seriously. [0] http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/07/drunk-gropes-two-posing-tsa.html http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/07/drunk-gropes-two-posin...

__z 11y ago

You're right, security is a feeling as well as a reality and humans are not rational. I didn't mean to discount your feelings, only add some perspective. I, for example, am scared of stranger violence. I know logically that if I were to be murdered/assaulted it would be much more likely to be someone I know who did it - but I still fear stranger violence more than what is rational. Bruce Schneier (the author of this article) writes a lot about this: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychology_of_se.html https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychol...

simoncion 11y ago

> ...there's something about standing in a high security area... High security areas take security screening seriously. When an intoxicated man in a blue shirt can successfully impersonate a member of your security staff and perform multiple private screenings of (attractive, female) travellers [0], it's clear that you don't take security seriously. [0] http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/07/drunk-gropes-two-posing-tsa.html http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/07/drunk-gropes-two-posin...