The recent internet kerfluffle over body-scanners and molester-guards has raised once again the question of racial profiling. I say "internet kerfluffle" because that is exactly what it was. Internet junkies and activists worked up the froth and bubble and... and then nothing. This is because we tend to get confused between The Internets and Real
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Or just admit that we're being arbitrary, and that our position is staked only on the perceived acceptability or severity of our stance.
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It wouldn't be effective at all, since there would be no flying. If we want to remain flying, and remain flying with the cheapest, most effective and least hassle-inducing policies, we simply have to use racial profiling to prevent people from ever entering an airport.
Arbitrary how so?
In that the only objection to preventing Muslims from flying is simply a less nurtured sense of fairness than those who would otherwise oppose ethnic profiling. People are drawing lines, not out of any sense of rationality, but simply out of what they feel comfortable with doing.
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Externalities? Externalities? Externalities to the issue of flight security? Are you daft? That's not an externality. That's the very ground of the issue. Jesus H. Christ. This is the best entertainment I've had in a while! Aside from World of Warcraft I mean.
But hey, you keep feinting at all these other arguments. Like I said to another poster in another post. There are about 5 million arguments I haven't addressed.
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