• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    people won’t fly if they don’t go through the security theater beforehand. they wildly overestimate the likelihood of terrorism because the impact is very high, so if you don’t make them take their shoes off, throw out their water and do a little security dance they’ll assume they’re going to be murdered.

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      11 months ago

      I have yet to meet someone saying thank you while being asked to walk through the metal detector a second time. I think it’s more along the lines of “this decision was never up to us.”

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        11 months ago

        Eh, maybe you’re right. It’s been a while. Still, hard to overstate the raw terror in the first couple years, maybe now it’s just entrenched bureaucracy

    • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      people won’t fly if they don’t go through the security theater beforehand

      I can’t speak for others, but I would.