Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
by drstewart on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:11AM
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This is a meme that gets repeated often, always with no source. I bet you heard this from someone repeating it exactly in this same context too, complaining about security theater.
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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners
by mercutio2 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:34AM
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Not everything in life (in fact, almost nothing) can be “proved” by a “source”. Human emergent behavior can be observed and reported on in this way, perhaps.
But questions like “why aren’t more people sacrificing their lives to hijack or destroy airplanes for the last 20 years” are not answerable by “sources”.
Do you have some reason to think a different posture towards hijackers and better security around cockpits didn’t have a strong effect on would-be hijackers’ willingness to give their lives to a violent political statement?