>Civil liberties should not hinge on looking just like everyone else, following the herd, never daring to be creative, etc.

You even explicitly went out of your way to ignore what I said.

>Now before anyone tries to wage some sort of moral war against me for stating how things are. I don't pass any judgement on if this is "good" or "bad" behavior.

Take your moral war elsewhere, because I'm not interested in this discussion. I'm stating how things are. Not how they "should" be. Not how you want them to be. Not how I want them to be. How they currently are. "What they are" and "what they should be" are not the same thing. Am I being patronizing enough to make my point crystal clear?

>never daring to be creative

This is a strawman. Dare to be creative at hackathons and art conventions - not an airport. Ever heard the phrase "time and place"?