Originally Posted by
dand99
One in a thousand (or fewer) false alarms may lead to bad things happening to good people. What about the times when wary (or nosy...) civilians saved the day ? I'm sure there are just as many of those.
I doubt it, and am surprised anyone could believe what you just conjectured - that there are just as many captures as there are false alarms? I might be misunderstanding what you mean. Anyway, based on my personal experience as someone who fits the stereotype of someone who likes to blow stuff up, I can categorically state that 100% of all pant wetters have been incorrect 100% of the time - an astoundingly poor record.
Originally Posted by
dand99
Advising people to do this is irresponsible at best.
No it isn't!
Originally Posted by
dand99
Unless you're absolutely sure that there really are no terrorists, at all (yep, terrorists are a myth), or that flight security are so good that they'll get them all and there's no chance, absolutely none, you'll spot something they won't which could lead to lives saved.
I'm quite happy with the odds that there are virtually no mischief makers attempting to do what most people think they are going to do, and if they do attempt to do it, I am perfectly content knowing that most of the time (but not all of the time), they will be smashed to a pulp by other passengers before completing what they set out to do. I don't really care about the 0.0000001% chance that they might be successful. I have a life to live.