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#2Forget about being seen naked. The bigger issue is that it's all security theater and does little to actually make us safer, yet it costs us an extraordinary amount in cost and lost time.
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#3I really don't get it. Can someone explain what is wrong with body scanners?
I just see people embarrassed at having body parts, which is absurd. Everyone looks approximately the same, and it's not like photos of your junk are being sent to your coworkers.
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#4Forget about being seen naked. The bigger issue is that it's all security theater and does little to actually make us safer, yet it costs us an extraordinary amount in cost and lost time.
does little to actually make us safer
Evidence? (or reasoning)
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#5I really don't get it. Can someone explain what is wrong with body scanners? I just see people embarrassed at having body parts, which is absurd. Everyone looks approximately the same, and it's not like photos of your junk are being sent to your coworkers.
I get it. You, like too many, think genitals are 'junk'. I am not ashamed of my body. I value my body and want to share it only with those I choose, not indiscriminately, and certainly not as a condition for flying.
Forced or coerced nudity has been used as a weapon because it represents a one-way power transfer.
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#6I really don't get it. Can someone explain what is wrong with body scanners? I just see people embarrassed at having body parts, which is absurd. Everyone looks approximately the same, and it's not like photos of your junk are being sent to your coworkers.
I get it. You, like too many, think genitals are 'junk'. I am not ashamed of my body. I value my body and want to share it only with those I choose, not indiscriminately, and certainly not as a condition for flying. Forced or coerced nudity has been used as a weapon because it represents a one-way power transfer.
Even accepting genitalia as a sacred artifact, I have to raise an eyebrow at your definition of 'sharing'. I regularly have the testicles of my neighbor's dog in my view but I wouldn't say that he's sharing his body with me.
Furthermore I fail to see exactly what concrete harm is being done that justifies your calling body scanners a weapon.
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#7Forget about being seen naked. The bigger issue is that it's all security theater and does little to actually make us safer, yet it costs us an extraordinary amount in cost and lost time.
does little to actually make us safer Evidence? (or reasoning)
In the first millennium there was no airport security and a large number of Viking raids on Britain.
In the second millennium airport security was introduced and many fewer viking raids took place
In this millennium with greatly increased airport security there have been no viking raids on any part of the British isles.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get it. You, like too many, think genitals are 'junk'. I am not ashamed of my body. I value my body and want to share it only with those I choose, not indiscriminately, and certainly not as a condition for flying. Forced or coerced nudity has been used as a weapon because it represents a one-way power transfer.
Even accepting genitalia as a sacred artifact, I have to raise an eyebrow at your definition of 'sharing'. I regularly have the testicles of my neighbor's dog in my view but I wouldn't say that he's sharing his body with me. Furthermore I fail to see exactly what concrete harm is being done that justifies your calling body scanners a weapon.
Would you be okay with strip searches as a requirement for flying, and if not, is it only the time and inconvenience that would bother you, or something else?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even accepting genitalia as a sacred artifact, I have to raise an eyebrow at your definition of 'sharing'. I regularly have the testicles of my neighbor's dog in my view but I wouldn't say that he's sharing his body with me. Furthermore I fail to see exactly what concrete harm is being done that justifies your calling body scanners a weapon.
Would you be okay with strip searches as a requirement for flying, and if not, is it only the time and inconvenience that would bother you, or something else?
The inconvenience of having to undress would annoy me, as do having to take off my shoes and put my luggage through a machine.
I would only be annoyed for reasons other than inconvenience if the contact is unprofessional. Assuming that it's not, and everyone else is doing the same, I wouldn't feel like I was being violated.
My basic point is that the liberty being infringed upon by these scanners (i.e. liberty to hide your genitals from people) is frivolous. So I'm asking for other reasons that these should be disallowed. This seems to be a very unpopular point of view for some reason.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you be okay with strip searches as a requirement for flying, and if not, is it only the time and inconvenience that would bother you, or something else?
The inconvenience of having to undress would annoy me, as do having to take off my shoes and put my luggage through a machine. I would only be annoyed for reasons other than inconvenience if the contact is unprofessional. Assuming that it's not, and everyone else is doing the same, I wouldn't feel like I was being violated. My basic point is that the liberty being infringed upon by these scanners (i.e. liberty to hid…
Now what if they were asking the same of your daughter?