Originally Posted by
SFOSpiff
That's a much better response than my usual comeback to a logical fallacy:
Me: <looks at other person's clothes> Do you have the Ebola virus?
Person: Uh, no.
Me: And you're wearing blue jeans. What do you know, blue jeans prevent the Ebola virus!
Actually, here's a way to spin that Christmas Day remark. Under private security, we had 0 underwear bomb plots. Under TSA, we had 1; TSA failed to prevent it and had no hand in stopping it. In other words, we're worse under TSA than private security.
You totally miss the point.
Under the old (private) security system, the private system never stopped a single underwear bomb plot. On the other hand, the TSA has only failed to stop one underwear bomb plot. Likewise, the old security system failed to stop every shoe bomb attempted , unlike the TSA which caught every single shoe bomb plot except one.
Just gotta know how to look at things from the TSA perspective.
