Originally Posted by
PoliceStateSurvivor
I think most of are objecting not to the science itself, but to the way how it is being used to harrass innocent people.
I don’t see any harassment from BDO’s. They watch. No harassment there. They refer passengers for secondary screening. No more a form of harassment than the rest of the screening process. They ask questions. Could be harassment, depends on how its used.
I think most of us believe in the subject of psychology, but strongly object when it it becomes a tool of harrassment and oppression in the form of BDOs in airports.
Ok, now your just being silly. Oppression? Hardly. I admit it is a tool, just like the WTMD and the X-Ray, except that this one focus’s on the individuals who may cause harm rather than the devices of harm. Ever hear the term “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”? Watching the people is just as if not more important than the devices.
Let me give a more extreme example: psychiatry. Few would dispute its value. But in the USSR it was used as tool to suppress any form of free thought. For instance, people who believed in God were often declared insane and locked up in mental institutions where they were "treated" with powerful mind-altering drugs.
Extreme is right. Very. And explosives are a tool, useful in many things in the construction industry. They can also be used for….
OTOH, I have not seen either mathematics or astrophysics used in this manner. BTW, I have a Ph.D. in both physics and math.
I think I made my point.
OK Doc, here is another, point that is. Mathematics: Without which the Atomic Bomb could not have been built. Nothing throughout the history of mankind has oppressed more people than that one invention, and continues to. Anything can be used for purposes other than peaceful. ANYTHING. And it’s the people who control its use, which is why it is just as important to bring the people into the whole checkpoint equation, and the BDO's are doing just that.