Originally Posted by
eyecue
Interestingly enough I have spoken to cancer survivors in the last week and they all said that they did not know what the fuss was about. I guess when you are going through a fight for your life, getting through security is the least of your worries. One lady was bald because of chemo and I did not ask her to remove her headwear and she was suprised by that.
Morals are an iteresting topic. I have a job that I have to do to protect something that I believe in. What would be the bigger moral dilemma? not doing your job and risk the consequences OR doing your job to the best of your ability without the mindset that you are doing something that other people dont agree with. IT is opinion I guess and half the fight on here is about whether or not there is a threat. Well just last year someone tried again with an IED in the underwear. You cannot discount that. You cannot discount that if nothing is done to attempt to close that vulnerability it woud not happen again. If your house gets burglarized, you take steps to stop it from happening again. The scope is wide and the issue is diverse and there is no easy answer.
You apparently behave differently than the folks who damaged the gentlemans urine bag or made a breast cancer surviving flight attendant remove a prosthetic breast. I'm very pleased about that. Some of your co-workers do not behave so kindly.
I think anyone with half a brain recognizes that there is a threat. I've never said otherwise here. I don't think anyone wants no security. What I want is more humane security. Security that doesn't stick its hands down my pants or see me naked. This is a violation of my dignity. I don't think you need to get into heavy duty philosphy to recognize the right of a person to control who touches his or her body. This is as basic as it gets. This goes beyond personal opinion.
I think you are setting up a false moral question. Its not a question of do this or do nothing. The question rather becomes: Are you willing in the course of your job to harm and violate innocent people to get to the terrorists? If so the ends justify the means. If the answer is no, then we have to ask ourselves given the threat what can we do to mitigate that threat while still maintaining the dignity of the people.
JBC78