It would’ve prevented the guy we’re both talking about from sneaking a bomb on the plane in his shoe.
He would have known they were going to make him take his shoes off and so tried something else instead that would probably have been more likely to work.
I think they’re taking it away because people don’t like doing it.
We can speculate about what could’ve happened instead all day, but that doesn’t change the fact that what he actually did was hide a bomb in his shoe, and this would have prevented that specifically.
I’m actually curious what you think would have been more likely to work?
I don’t think anything is more likely to work. I don’t think they are capable of preventing terrorist attacks on planes directly, just like they aren’t capable of preventing any mass killings. I think TSA procedures are there to serve the purpose of pretending that they can. If it isn’t happening, it’s because no one happens to be trying hard enough. The only thing that could work is creating an overall situation in society where people are less motivated to do it, not preventing specific acts.
It would’ve prevented the guy we’re both talking about from sneaking a bomb on the plane in his shoe.
I don’t think they’re taking it away now because they don’t think it helps. I think they’re taking it away because people don’t like doing it.
Maybe they think the number of people who will try that again is low. Maybe they have other ways of detecting something like that now. Who knows.
He would have known they were going to make him take his shoes off and so tried something else instead that would probably have been more likely to work.
But we’ve never liked doing it
We can speculate about what could’ve happened instead all day, but that doesn’t change the fact that what he actually did was hide a bomb in his shoe, and this would have prevented that specifically.
I’m actually curious what you think would have been more likely to work?
I don’t think anything is more likely to work. I don’t think they are capable of preventing terrorist attacks on planes directly, just like they aren’t capable of preventing any mass killings. I think TSA procedures are there to serve the purpose of pretending that they can. If it isn’t happening, it’s because no one happens to be trying hard enough. The only thing that could work is creating an overall situation in society where people are less motivated to do it, not preventing specific acts.