>>But isn't this better that hurting the feelings of people who fit the profile of Muslim terrorists? Isn't it better to be diverse and inclusive and blind to the prejudice that says young Muslim male terrorists are mostly young Muslim males?
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>And wouldn't it better to do it right in the first place by training the security people properly and watching for suspicious behavior. Someone pointed me to this article the other day:
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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother>
>Tamar
I quite agree. i haven't flown El Al since the 70s but I vividly remember being "interviewed" - one on one in a room - as a routine part of getting on a plane. I just remember feeling the person who was interviewing me knew what they were doing.
But remember, if actual professional security were implemented as the article suggests, it would results in statistically non-diverse outcome. Unfortunately our society has become obsessed with the idea that any statistical anomaly in outcome can only be explained by some kind of stacked deck in the process.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
