I'm one of those. Fortunately, I've never been selected for a sexual assault, and I will refuse to submit to it if it ever happens to me. I'll go home and not fly that day, but I won't submit.

I am fully aware that you can be selected for a random sexual assault even if you choose the NoS. But the way I figure it - if you go through the NoS, your chances of sexual assault are a small percentage, perhaps 15-20%. But if you opt out, you are 100% guaranteed to get the sexual assault.

I'll take SOME chance of avoiding it over NO chance of avoiding it, any day.

That may be your friends' philosophy, but it's not mine.

My rights are being violated, no matter what. Either I surrender my 4th Amenedment rights, or I surrender my freedom of movement by choosing not to fly. I've chosen to have my 4th Amendment rights violated in order to maintain my freedom of movement.

Likewise, I have some limited control over the degree of violation of my 4th Amendment rights. I can submit to the NoS, or I can submit to the sexual assault. I consider the NoS to be the lesser of two evils, a less invasive, less traumatic, less physically painful/uncomfortable violation of my 4th Amendment rights than the sexual assault. Hence, I choose the NoS (though I SDOO whenever possible).

I understand that choosing the NoS doesn't guarantee that I won't be selected for a sexual assault, but if I am ever selected, I will walk away. I consider the sexual assault a far more grevious violation than the loss of my freedom of movement, so at that point, when and if it comes, I will surrender my freedom of movement to avoid the sexual assault.

My choices differ from yours. But don't make the mistake of believing that anyone who chooses differently from you does so out of ignorance or apathy. I am well informed and I make my choices based on my own personal evaluation of the consequenses.

Some of your friends may be doing the same thing.