Originally Posted by whirledtraveler
Hey at least I admitted it. Why won't the TSA admit that it is doing the same thing? Wasn't there a story about RAND study the other month that said that right now long TSA wait lines are actually a more attractive terrorist target? It appears that the TSA has decided that "passengers should accept the statistical odds that the great majority of them will not be involved in a terrorist incident, making it an acceptable risk at the cost of the relatively few who are victimized by it." How dare the TSA place us at risk like this?
Like I said, I just said made a statement about the risk-calculus out loud. It doesn't go away when people don't talk about it. And worse, it doesn't go away when people don't think about it. My sample of TSA personnel, in this forum, leads me to believe that real reasoning about risk is beyond them. I don't know how far up the department chain it goes, but it is sad.. a complete educational failure.
Thank you for your honesty. Just wanted to keep it all in perspective. There are basically two people who criticize airport security: those who believe there ought to be some measure of security but don't agree with TSA's methodology and those, like you, who believe that any measure of security is not justified. Helps to know these perspectives when reading comments, don't you agree?