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Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by marshallp »

jpatte wrote: post #14

Am I the only one thinking "the hell with privacy"? I understand the need for a certain level of privacy. However people watching these monitors see hundreds if not thousands of people a day... Do you think they care a second about who wears a pacemaker, or a gastric ring? They might notice it, but they will forget it the second after, and most certainly never meet the person again. So tell me, how is it a privacy vi…

Do you want some random dude looking at your adult daughter trhough one of these.

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by jpatte »

marshallp wrote: post #21
jpatte wrote: post #14

Am I the only one thinking "the hell with privacy"? I understand the need for a certain level of privacy. However people watching these monitors see hundreds if not thousands of people a day... Do you think they care a second about who wears a pacemaker, or a gastric ring? They might notice it, but they will forget it the second after, and most certainly never meet the person again. So tell me, how is it a privacy vi…

Do you want some random dude looking at your adult daughter trhough one of these.

As long as this random dude never meets my daughter again, I don't give a damn.

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by yalurker »

jpatte wrote: post #20
jpatte wrote: post #14

Am I the only one thinking "the hell with privacy"? I understand the need for a certain level of privacy. However people watching these monitors see hundreds if not thousands of people a day... Do you think they care a second about who wears a pacemaker, or a gastric ring? They might notice it, but they will forget it the second after, and most certainly never meet the person again. So tell me, how is it a privacy vi…

?! Not exactly sure why I was down-voted... This was a sincere question. Did I miss something obvious?

Your post is self-contradictory and illogical. You say to forget about privacy, then acknowledge that some privacy is important, then suggest that privacy invasions don't matter as long as they happen to a lot of people.

Most of us recognize we're more likely to get hit by lightning while winning the lottery than be saved by one of these machines, and as such oppose their use.

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by Esspe »

jpatte wrote: post #20
jpatte wrote: post #14

Am I the only one thinking "the hell with privacy"? I understand the need for a certain level of privacy. However people watching these monitors see hundreds if not thousands of people a day... Do you think they care a second about who wears a pacemaker, or a gastric ring? They might notice it, but they will forget it the second after, and most certainly never meet the person again. So tell me, how is it a privacy vi…

?! Not exactly sure why I was down-voted... This was a sincere question. Did I miss something obvious?

Almost nobody likes Big Brother (even if it supposedly doing something for our own good).

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by asyazwan »

jpatte wrote: post #22
marshallp wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you want some random dude looking at your adult daughter trhough one of these.

As long as this random dude never meets my daughter again, I don't give a damn.

You are assuming the random dude to be purely random which may not be the case...

Plus using your logic you will not mind your daughter strip in a room full of random guys, hoping that will be the first and last encounter.

Meh, adult daughters can decide on their own anyway up to what levels they are willing to make themselves seen.

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by jpatte »

yalurker wrote: post #23
jpatte wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

?! Not exactly sure why I was down-voted... This was a sincere question. Did I miss something obvious?

Your post is self-contradictory and illogical. You say to forget about privacy, then acknowledge that some privacy is important, then suggest that privacy invasions don't matter as long as they happen to a lot of people. Most of us recognize we're more likely to get hit by lightning while winning the lottery than be saved by one of these machines, and as such oppose their use.

Maybe "the hell with privacy" was too strong. I reacted this way because my feeling is privacy is often an over-used excuse not to comply to a security measure.

And actually my point was not that these invasions should happen to a lot of people, but that they are fine as long as the collected information are immediately disposed and have no consequence in the future.

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by jpatte »

asyazwan wrote: post #25
jpatte wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as this random dude never meets my daughter again, I don't give a damn.

You are assuming the random dude to be purely random which may not be the case... Plus using your logic you will not mind your daughter strip in a room full of random guys, hoping that will be the first and last encounter. Meh, adult daughters can decide on their own anyway up to what levels they are willing to make themselves seen.

I'm assuming the dude is a professional and is merely doing his job, like any woman shall assume her gynecologist is a professional doctor and not a peeping tom.

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by DougWebb »

marshallp wrote: post #21
jpatte wrote: post #14

Am I the only one thinking "the hell with privacy"? I understand the need for a certain level of privacy. However people watching these monitors see hundreds if not thousands of people a day... Do you think they care a second about who wears a pacemaker, or a gastric ring? They might notice it, but they will forget it the second after, and most certainly never meet the person again. So tell me, how is it a privacy vi…

Do you want some random dude looking at your adult daughter trhough one of these.

Forget about the adult daughters; what about children? Aren't these machines generating child porn every time a child walks through it, and turning the viewers into criminals as soon as they see the image of a child walking through it?

Or do children get to bypass the scanner, giving the terrorists useful mules for carrying forbidden objects onto the plane?

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by jpatte »

DougWebb wrote: post #28
marshallp wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you want some random dude looking at your adult daughter trhough one of these.

Forget about the adult daughters; what about children? Aren't these machines generating child porn every time a child walks through it, and turning the viewers into criminals as soon as they see the image of a child walking through it? Or do children get to bypass the scanner, giving the terrorists useful mules for carrying forbidden objects onto the plane?

I don't see how this is different from medical school examination. Should we prosecute all "child doctors" (don't know the exact english term) as criminal as well for seeing naked children every day?

Re: Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

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Post by [deleted] »

marshallp wrote: post #13
btilly wrote: post #8

Let me get this straight. Muslims have religious objections to going through machines that were supposed to catch Islamic terrorists? Yes, I understand and agree with the objections. But I'm still amused.

I don't think the majority of muslims like to be associated with islamic terrorists just as germans don't like their association with hitler, or we white americans like our association with past slavery.

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