A Comment About

The Ethics of Profiling

January 3, 2010 - 12:00 am - by N.M. Guariglia
Moho
2010-01-05 22:52:53

And still an asinine tool. You said that you’d be hours ahead joining the non-profile line. And you ended with “I’ll be on the other side of the country by the time you’re buckling your safety belt, sucker.” It’s an idiotic and ignorant statement and completely in sync with your usual vapidity.

Well, you’ve repeated yourself, but you haven’t supported your statement. A real profile line, like the ones in Israel, where nearly everyone is subject to the process of profiling would double the time you spend in the airport, not reduce it. Is this where you’re getting caught up? Do you think being an Islamic terrorist is the only kind of danger? And do you think that its somehow self evident? Israelis have to worry just as much about crazed American anti-semites as they do Islamic terrorists, that’s why they profile everyone, you knonb. I’m actually sighing aloud here. As I noted, air travel is about as safe from terrorism as is physically possible, there’s no evidence that adding yet another layer of security—one aimed at foiling unfeasible plots relying on incompetent terrorists using historically unsuccessful tools—will do anything to make anyone safer. As I noted, I responded to the commenter’s silly comment that those of us who feel that airport security is as safe as is humanly possible while retaining some level of self-respect and dignity for our country, should be in a non-profile line and suffer the dangers of such. As I’ve noted, and as history and statistics bear out, I’ll take that action given the insurmountable odds in my favor.