Unlike you, least I see them as actual people, capable of voluntary agency and responsible for their own choices. Don’t let me get in the way of your smug paternalism.

At some point people have to be held accountable for their personal decision to go work for the Airport Gestapo. They all know about their employer’s and their co-worker’s unconscionable behaviour, and they don’t care (about anyone but themselves). They’re bad people.

We have a big fracking country.  If I have to go to LA, I literally have to take a plane or spend most of my vacation in a car.  And, as others have mentioned, the TSA (and the airlines) won’t give a damn, neither of them have made money in forty years, I’m not sure they’re suddenly going to realize there’s no profit in this.

People these days will fight back, that’s the better security for airplanes (and Times Square).  Not the TSA.  The TSA has been pointless.

On a more personal note, I’ve personally taken car, bus and train instead of flying for the exact reason of avoiding the TSA. All I’ve gotten out of it is car trouble, 7-hour delays, endless transfers, neck cramps, sleep loss, frustration, wasted money, wasted time, and nearly killed once or twice due to icy roads or a Greyhound driver who fell asleep at the wheel. And I’m pretty sure the TSA didn’t notice or care in the slightest.

I think a lot of the security measures are pointless, but I also see that these are obviously ridiculous comparisons.

If somebody tells me that Obama and Romney are married, I’ll have to call bullshit on that, that of course doesn’t mean I like either of them…

None of this is true, remember every time a TSA agent is busted for wrong doing the talking head tells us how it is an isolated incident and not reflective of the whole of the program.  How many iPads does it take before we can call her a liar?

We pick up French words because the French are really quite good at a lot of things.  The same way that painting, sculpture and music are described by Italian words, because Italy dominated those areas for so long.

Personally, I could walk onto a plane openly carrying a bundle of dynamite with an alarm clock wired to it. Nobody will ever ask me any questions, search me, search my luggage or even ask to look at my passport. I don’t delude myself that everyone has this experience.

Vive la différence!

And yes, planes have always been targets.  So?  The only meaningful security improvement is hardening the cockpit doors, and we did that a decade ago.  If this were about security, we’d have stopped there.

I’ve known enough people with names like this that it seems reasonably normal to me.

Theft in the work place is a shame. Theft is rather petty and trivial. A sport for the surreptitiously furtive individual.

Again, don’t blame me for your poor communication skills.

1) You quote my post: “Thieves steal, regardless of accountability, conditions or all the rest.”

2) You then immediately misquote it as you try to thrash your way through the weeds: “This sentence clearly implies that “accountability, conditions or all the rest” have no impact on whether people steal or how much.”

Not only does it not imply that, it actually says something quite different.  I said “thieves steal”, not “people steal.”  There’s a very big difference.  In making this mistake, you mischaracterize my original post, which by defenition is a strawman argument.  

per Wikipedia:
A straw man, known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position.

PER APOLOGY REQUEST:
I’m sorry you don’t get it.
I’m also sorry that you tried to turn what could have been an enjoyable discussion of ideas into a zero-sum game.