Originally Posted by
kb9522
When someone in a position of authority (like it or not TSA employees have authority at a checkpoint) instructs you to do something... you listen carefully and do it. Again, not rocket science.
That's submission. You, of course, can do what you want, but I most certainly will not automatically defer to "someone in a position of authority," if I know them to be wrong, or if I even have any questions about their "orders." TSOs aren't the Gestapo (though many of them seem to wish that they were) and airline employees are just that: employees of the airline.
Blind submission to authority is fundamentally un-American.