Originally Posted by Bart
when you have a point, please let me know
The point also being that I'm not the topic.
Originally Posted by Bart
To say that airport security is not as effective as it could be is one thing; to say that it is a complete waste of time and not provide any specifics is to poo-poo the idea just because it causes inconveniences or violates a naive interpretation of civil liberties.
We get it all in this forum. Agreed?
Well, I'll state the point again, but only a bit more bluntly.
"No; by your own admission above, we don't get it all in this forum." Why is that? Because as your own example shows with
A. "airport security is not as effective as it could be is one thing"
and
B. "it is a complete waste of time and not provide any specifics is to poo-poo the idea just because it causes inconveniences or violates a naive interpretation of civil liberties"
there's little qualitative difference between the two except that the TSA-is-mostly-good crowd finds A to be a more substantive point while a good size of the TSA-is-mostly-a-waste crowd finds B to be a more substantive point. Of course disparaging the position of "the enemy" by seeing one as more substantive than the other thing is telling enough.
So we don't get it all, at least not all of the time.