Originally Posted by
Verboten
irishguy28 was explaining how these rules are intended to be enforced (by size of container, not by amount of liquid actually in the container as you somehow expected). His discussion regarding various sizes of bottles was, I guess, merely an unsolicited attempt to "ratify" these rules on behalf of those people who made these rules.

I'm sure
irishguy28 was not in any way defending these rules.
My point was that the size of the container wasn't what the security screener was interested in. It was the size that was written on the side of the container and nothing else.
Had I sufficient motivation I could have easily doctored the label on my wifes 120ml moisturiser to read 100ml.